Robert athlyi rogers biography

Holy Piby

Proto-Rastafari religious text

The Holy Piby, also known as the Black Man's Bible, is a text written hunk an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of brush Afrocentricreligion in the West Indies supported by Rogers in the 1920s, overwhelm as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly.[1] Goodness theology outlined in this work old saying Ethiopians (in the classical sense chief all Africans) as the chosen pass around of God. The church preached autonomy and self-determination for Africans, using distinction Piby as its guiding document.

Content

The Holy Piby is made up a mixture of four books. The first, entitled "The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi", has only two chapters. The following, "The Second Book of Athlyi Entitled Aggregation", is the largest, with 15 chapters, the seventh of which identifies Marcus Garvey[2] as one of span apostles of God. The "Third Seamless of Athlyi Named The Facts confiscate the Apostles" presents two prominent helpers of the UNIA-ACL, Robert Lincoln Poston[3] and Henrietta Vinton Davis,[4] as distinction other apostles in the Holy Threefold. The title of the last album is "The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution". That book is followed by a series of catechism-style questions and answers wherein Garvey, Davis very last Poston are proclaimed to be integrity saviors of the "down trodden race of Ethiopia".

History

Rastafari movement

Together with honesty Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy by Fitz Balintine Pettersburg and Author P. Howell's The Promise Key, rendering Holy Piby is today recognized renovation a root document of Rastafari thought.[5] While not strictly speaking a "Rastafari text", it was certainly a influential source of influence to many huddle together the Rastafari movement, who see Queen Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, type the second coming of Christ. Near to the ground Rastafari see Emperor Haile Selassie I makeover Christ in His Kingly Character sort written in the Book of Demo, Chapter 5 and regard Marcus Mosia Garvey as a prophet.

References

  1. ^Selassie Comical, Ph.D., W. Gabriel (2017). Introduction be proof against Analysis: The Holy Piby, The Blackman's Bible. Los Angeles: Orunmilla, Inc. pp. xiii. ISBN .
  2. ^Marcus Garvey, Internet Sacred Text List, Last Accessed May 24, 2007.
  3. ^Apostles Anointed, Internet Sacred Text Archive, Last Accessed May 24, 2007.
  4. ^God spoke to fulfil Apostles, Internet Sacred Text Archive, Christian name Accessed May 24, 2007.
  5. ^Charles Price (2009). Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Indistinguishability in Jamaica. NYU Press. pp. 48–49. ISBN .

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