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Journey
Of The Prince, Part 2 (The Return)
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Oliver Mbamara
After many years, when the second-son (one of the three sons of King
Etern) have increased, multiplied, and spread out over the surface of the earth, the world became a place greatly populated by men and women of different physical make up and attributes depending on which areas they settled and to what elements they exposed themselves. Basically, they sought to survive, against the elements and threats of wild animals and monsters of the time, all around the wild forests, the sea, and the land. Some traveled away by land, some by sea, and yet others through the jungles and the wild forests and deserts.
Those who ended up in the tropical environments and around the equator, where exposed to tropical elements such as the sun, and they turned out to be dark skinned. Those who became nomads or settled around the deserts turned out to be skinny with a body system that could withstand the demands of the hot and humid desert with little water available. Along the same line, they made the camel their closest animal companion. Some of those who traveled towards the northern pole met with colder whether and less sun. They maintained a pale skin with a body make-up that could tolerate the cold temperature of the area. All around, men and women scattered and traveled from one place to the other, seeking for a better atmosphere, better land for food, or cattle, and so on. In the process, the people forgot who they were, where they came from, and where they would be going. They lost memory or recognition of the their royal origin, identity, and the qualities which the King had said were bestowed on them by inheritance.
The first son of the King who had earlier set up his own kingdom in order to rule the earth and all those who sojourned on it, did not make things any easier for those who went ahead to follow the second-son to sojourn on earth as ‘inhabitants of the earth.’ ‘Negati Fuss’ (as the first son was otherwise called) made the earth a place of violence, where power and brute ruled, while the law of the jungle reigned. Survival of the fittest was the order of the day. It was an era of primitive culture and barbarism.
Sympathetically, the King therefore sent a manifestation of his Third-Son who came to earth as the Nameless-Teacher. He did not have to come, but due to his love for the King, he decided to live amongst men. His duty was to teach and show those who cared to listen, how to return home by overcoming the travails of the place called earth, by the use of their gifts as princes and princesses of the great King
Etern. As the King said, “You will represent me, you will go forth into the universes as the Highest Consciousness to bring back those who are ready to come back to my kingdom.” However, by then, as a result of necessity, and the instinct to survive, men were already setting up society and societal institutions and authorities to guide and protect them.
Propelled by the machinations of Negati Fuss, many inhabitants of the earth found more comfort in the limited protection afforded by society and societal authorities rather than in the tools latent in them as princes and princesses of the great King
Etern. They either ignored the lessons of the Nameless-Teacher, or misused the sacred gifts he gave them. They were unable to notice the game plan of Negati Fuss in the whole setup. A few men benefited from the laws of society and some became corrupt by power. Those who became corrupt by power did every thing they could to have the loyalty of the people within their society. They went as far as lying to the people or preventing them from having any knowledge or recognition that would reveal their royal qualities and abilities. Instigated by Negati Fuss, these dictators of earthly societies sought to eliminate the manifestation of the Third-Son, anytime they had the chance. In place, these dictators set up schools to feed the people with dogmas, illusion, and half-truths.
But The Manteacher (as the Third-Son was called) was not to be outdone. He knew that it took a living mother to breast feed a living child, so it was essential for him to be present on earth to continue providing the help that many needed on earth in other to move on in life, and to return to the Kingdom of the King. The
Manteacher, came back incarnation after incarnation to reveal the truth of life to those who were ready. However, as generations passed, more schools of thought sprouted on earth, all under the machinations of Negati Fuss. The earth was filled with so many schools of thought about life that it was confusing. The people were gullible but as time passed, the consciousness of the people grew to a level where they became more open to hints of some knowledge that have been considered heresy, and forbidden before. Through the manipulation of the authorities, Negati Fuss went about setting up schools to force the knowledge (illusion) he preferred on the people, because by doing that he hoped to keep the people trapped in ignorance while securing and assuring his helpers - the authorities - of their grip on power.
With the loosening of the people’s consciousness The Manteacher was able to set up an Institution-of-Life to teach the people about who they were, where they came from, and where they would be going after their life on earth is done. However, by the time The Manteacher set up the Institution-of-Life, Negati Fuss had succeeded in setting up innumerable number of other institutions to teach and misguide the people on the subject of life. Negati Fuss’s schools misinformed the people about the King, although in some cases, there were remnants of the truth due to the fact that the Schools were offshoots of the original Institution-of-Life set up by the Nameless-Teacher, in the beginning of time. Negati Fuss always allowed a little bit of such remnants in every school, but not enough to help the students wake up from their slumber and recognize their place in the Kingdom of the King. In some instances, Negati Fuss set up the schools to contradict each other and fight over which one has the better teaching or could relate with life than others. In other instances, some of these schools claimed exclusive right to the knowledge of life, and insisted that others should be eliminated for having opposing ideas. Negati Fuss always sat back and enjoyed it all.
On the other hand, The Manteacher never forced anyone to join his own Institution-of-Life. He simply laid down the rules and took upon students who came to join his institution on their own volition. He made sure he was there as soon as the student was ready. As always said, “When the student is ready, the Master will appear.” The Manteacher knew that regardless of the school or institution attended, one day, the student would progress to the level where he would ask for admission to the Institution-of-Life. He also maintained that every school on earth was doing the same job of educating the student, and a child must go through the primary level before going into the secondary level of education, before proceeding into the University Institution, and before eventually graduating. Therefore, he always made it clear that it was useless to discriminate or speak evil of another school or institution. In the same vein, he never stopped any student from leaving if such student wanted to leave. He was always sure that the student who leaves would always come back some day when that student is actually ready.
The Manteacher tried to deliver the lessons of his Institution on a need-to-know basis, rather than force it down the student. He allowed the student to progress in class at his own pace and to graduate when he is ready. The Manteacher always related to every student on a one-on-one basis through out the course study, although at some point, he would enlist the assistance of some older students and/or some previous graduates who have become Masters in the courses, to help out here and there. As a matter of fact helping new students realize the essentials about the lessons of the Institution earned a student or graduate of the Institution very high credits that helped in his continued education and progress. Yet, simply for love, and without caring for reward, the graduates as well the older students were always willing to volunteer their service to help the new students or those seeking admission into the Institution, but they never forced the applicant or the new student to accept the essentials of the Institution’s curriculum. The Manteacher had made it clear that to force any lesson or the Institution’s essential courses on another constituted an offence of invading the space and consciousness of that other person.
Regardless of the effort to be open and to accommodate all who stepped to its door, many of those who never even gave themselves a chance to apply for admission into the Institution-of-Life, always accused the Institution of being discriminatory and very secretive. Negati Fuss encouraged this. He was never happy with the effort of the Institution-of-Life to provide revelation of the essential courses that enabled the students to graduate at very minimal effort, so he always wanted to pull down the Institution, and would splash mud on the name of the Institution and The
Manteacher. He would go as far as motivating his own helpers and teachers in his own Negati Fuss schools, to condemn The Manteacher’s Institution-of-Life. Unfortunately, the King never took it lightly each time The Manteacher was abused or insulted. The punishment for such offence was always quick and severe, whether the culprit knew it or not, and even though The Manteacher never sought to avenge the attack or abuse.
Negati Fuss continued to feed people with the pleasures and satisfaction of material life, so they would choose life on earth over the teachings of The
Manteacher, which dwelt on knowing oneself as the prince of the King, with a better mansion in the King’s kingdom. Negati Fuss worked to keep people trapped in the school system. He made them drop out from one school, get into another, drop out, join another, and again drop out without ever completing the school’s curriculum or ever graduating (just like the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth). However, every once in a while, a student or two from any of Negati Fuss’s schools would come to recognize the essential curriculum of the Institution-of-Life, and the freedom it offered with the assured graduation that it brought about. Such student would apply for admission to the Institution-of-Life by simply approaching the Institution-of-Life, where the Chancellor, The
Manteacher, would always be waiting to welcome the new student. The Manteacher would then take up the student’s necessary courses, and offer them to the student bit by bit as the student was able to take at a time, in order to provide the student with the shortest route towards graduation, so that the student would obtain the certificate needed to return to the King’s Kingdom.
That is the way it has continued to be.
©Oliver
O. Mbamara, 2007
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Mbamara is an Administrative Law Judge
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