Tag: messiah

• On Emperor Haile Sellassie I as the Living God

  

  The doctrine that Ras Tafari known to the world as the Emperor Haile Sellassie I of Ethiopia, is the Living God, was developed by several persons independently. Of these Mr. Leonard P. Howell is genuinely regarded as being the first to preach the divinity of Ras Tafari in Kingston. Howell is said to have fought […]

  Jah Billah

  April 23, 2019

  Higher Learning

  1940, 1967, accra, Ancient Mystic Order of Ethiopia, Archibald Dunkley, Caribbean Quarterly, costa rica, doctrine, Ethiopia, ghana, GOD, HAILE SELASSIE, ISRAEL, JAMAICA, joseph nathaniel hibbert, King of Kings, kingston, Leonard P. Howell, M. G. SMITH, Masonic, Master Mason, messiah, panama, Ras Tafari, rastafari, redemption market, REX NETTLEFORD, Robert Hinds, ROY AUGIER, The Promised Key, The Rastafari Movement In Kingston

• On eating with Christ

  

  On Friday, March 16, 1934, Leonard Howell and Robert Hinds, founding evangelists of the Rastafari gospel, were in the fourth day of their trial for sedition in a Jamaican court. They were on trial because they promoted a message that threatened Jamaica’s colonial status quo: Black Jamaicans should transfer their loyalty from Britain’s King George […]

  Jah Billah

  March 29, 2019

  Babylon Report, Higher Learning

  1934, 2014, Black Messiah, Charles Price, Christ, court, Daily Gleaner, Ethiopianism, Journal of Africana Religions, Leonard Howell, messiah, rastafari