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Another viewpoint...
Here is one of the unheard of masters in Africa, I always wonder why most of these people have to leave away from society for a number of months or years, does everyday life distract us from our spiritual ascension?
The Togolaise masters are clear about the progress of their students because "by their works they will know them." Thus, Akuete, the Togolaise healer returned to his traditional heritage, entered the sacred forests set aside for the training in spiritual disciplines, and learned the age-old secrets of handling fire. For seven years Akuete forsook the comforts of the Western world and subjected himself to becoming a friend and master of fire. That he had learned his lessons well was evident. Before our eyes he aided a group of fire dancers in calling forth the fire spirit to consume a pile of green wood cut that day for this demonstration. He stood in the fire and neither his body nor his clothes were harmed. Before our eyes Akuete reenacted the Biblical stories of Elijah calling down Jehovah to consume the wet wood before the priests of Baal and of the three Hebrews who were cast into the fiery furnace and who came out unscathed. One could not help but wonder how many Christian bishops would come out looking like the priests of Baal if sent into confrontation with Akuete. Fire, water and earth are the basic forms for divine manifestation.
Akuete is a master of fire. Others in West Africa are masters of water. They would not be surprised to learn that Jesus stilled the waves and walked upon their surface. They would embrace him as one of their own and would wonder why the missionaries demanded that they give up what they already knew about how to act like Jesus. Still others have mastered control of the earth and can request the spirit of the sand to change its nature and cool a fevered body like fresh water, or ask granite and marble to become fluid and flow into the perfect wave patterns that baffle archeologists studying the lintels of certain Egyptian temple doors. No one in West Africa at present can claim mastery over all three basic elements: fire, water and earth. There are many, however, who can control lesser manifestations of the divine life force as it appears in a snake, a wild animal or a bird, or who can call fish to the nets by conversing with the spirit that enlivens their form.
Here is one of the unheard of masters in Africa, I always wonder why most of these people have to leave away from society for a number of months or years, does everyday life distract us from our spiritual ascension?
The Togolaise masters are clear about the progress of their students because "by their works they will know them." Thus, Akuete, the Togolaise healer returned to his traditional heritage, entered the sacred forests set aside for the training in spiritual disciplines, and learned the age-old secrets of handling fire. For seven years Akuete forsook the comforts of the Western world and subjected himself to becoming a friend and master of fire. That he had learned his lessons well was evident. Before our eyes he aided a group of fire dancers in calling forth the fire spirit to consume a pile of green wood cut that day for this demonstration. He stood in the fire and neither his body nor his clothes were harmed. Before our eyes Akuete reenacted the Biblical stories of Elijah calling down Jehovah to consume the wet wood before the priests of Baal and of the three Hebrews who were cast into the fiery furnace and who came out unscathed. One could not help but wonder how many Christian bishops would come out looking like the priests of Baal if sent into confrontation with Akuete. Fire, water and earth are the basic forms for divine manifestation.
Akuete is a master of fire. Others in West Africa are masters of water. They would not be surprised to learn that Jesus stilled the waves and walked upon their surface. They would embrace him as one of their own and would wonder why the missionaries demanded that they give up what they already knew about how to act like Jesus. Still others have mastered control of the earth and can request the spirit of the sand to change its nature and cool a fevered body like fresh water, or ask granite and marble to become fluid and flow into the perfect wave patterns that baffle archeologists studying the lintels of certain Egyptian temple doors. No one in West Africa at present can claim mastery over all three basic elements: fire, water and earth. There are many, however, who can control lesser manifestations of the divine life force as it appears in a snake, a wild animal or a bird, or who can call fish to the nets by conversing with the spirit that enlivens their form.