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Sami_RaMaati said:Thank you for your intelligent & thoughtful questions. It's obvious that you have done your homework.
It's not that those civilizations fell despite the practice of those systems of spiritual cultivation, it's that those civilizations fell because of a failure to adhere to those spiritual practices which made them great in the first place.
Elder James' is on the money. Music Producer's explanation is just plain Ludacris. God does not reward or punish. Whatever consequences befall a people come as a direct result of whether or not they adhere to certain divine laws. Disobey those laws and cause an imbalance and Herukhuti, in the process of restoring things to they way they were meant to be, will kick your butt. It's nothing personal really; it's the law, and every person and civilization is subject to it, no matter how goody two shoes they are. This butt kicking is what has been misinterpreted by the sahu religions (Christianity, Islam, & Judaism) as punishment from God.
All civilizations are subject to the law of cycles which have 4 phases: birth, growth, decline, and death. No civilization has ever been exempt from this law, not Kemetic, not other Afrikan civilizations, nor American, which is currently in the stage of decline. The priests of Kemet knew in advance that their civilization was going to fall. They were able to foretell this decline and fall as evidenced by an excerpt from "Ancient Future" by Wayne Chandler which I'll post later on.
The rise or fall of civilizations does not occur irrespective of what people do, but occurs because of what people do--or fail to do. Kemetic civilization will not rise again if we all sit on the couch and do nothing but watch Jerry Springer reruns and booty shaking videos for the next thousand years. It will take study and practice of the ancestral ways in order to bring it back. That's related to another law: cause & effect.
The point is that the Law of Cycles is just as predictable and immutable as the law of gravity.
That has already been done. Now all we have to do is reacquaint ourselves with the knowledge and "just do it."
Hey sam,
If you were instructing a beginner as myself what would be first on the list to do?
Btw I've been working six days a week.
I'll try to visit AAS again soon!