TANATA:

by Randall Carter Gray

JULY 4, 2008 —What do Solomon and the Queen of Sheba have to do with the United States, more specifically Washington, D.C.? It was the offspring from their reported sexual union — a son, Menelik I — who gave rise to the prophecy that their son would initiate a line of Ethiopian kings which would result one day in a “Lion of Judah,” a messiah reserved only for Ethiopia. But that did not happen. Ethiopia, despite the prophetic material in the Kebra Negast (the Book of the Glory of Kings), which was found and translated questionably by an English translator of Egyptian and Coptic languages in 1920, would not have a parallel messiah, one to rival Jesus.

Where do people get this stuff? Why did this messianic prophecy come from England, apart from the fact that the Kebra Negast fell into English hands? Why did the Ethiopians themselves have no such accounts and prophecies supplemental to the Kebra Negast? And what is it about Ethiopia, from whence came the Queen of Sheba, presumably Bathsheeba, the mother of Solomon, the Ethiopian eunuch whom Philip evangelized, before departing in a cloud (yes, a cloud, but hold on), and the Presbyter John, or Prester John, a mystical, mythical king with magical powers who ruled over a type of Eden in Ethiopia?

And, lest we forget, there’s a place in Ethiopia where its stolen archive and treasures were once housed (stolen by the English and Scots in 1868), which bears the name of Magdala — or did, before somebody changed it.

Meanwhile, the scientific evidence is continuing to build that Ethiopia, which is the source of the Nile River, while Ethiopia itself is parched by drought, is in fact the locale of something resembling Eden if not Eden. Geneticists, archaeologists, paleographers, linguists and migration scientists all continue to point to Ethiopia, the most ancient nation in Africa, the only Christian nation in Africa, and second only to Egypt in the number of times Ethiopia is mentioned in the Bible.

Furthermore, the Ark of the Covenant is alleged to be resting in Aksum (Axum) in the Ethiopian Highlands, not far from where I was stationed to perform intelligence work for the U.S Navy in the mid-70s. I knew Ethiopia, though dreadfully impoverished, was a special place while I was there, but it was only after 9/11 that I returned to my military years and my African home and began to research the significance of Ethiopia. I discovered that Abrahamic passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls suggest it was here, in Ethiopia, along the Red Sea, that Abraham began a trip around Eden, and it is from ancient Ethiopia that some believe the first Hebrews came, not Babylonia, and not Sumeria, which have not panned out as likely candidates at all for Eden. Let’s be reasonable, if mankind originated in Ethiopia, it only stands to reason that the first Hebrews would have come from there. So, is the Bible in error? In edit … is a better way of saying it, we contend.

Why have we ever considered Babylonia and Sumeria to be the cradle of human civilization, when it is Ethiopia which increasingly is being singled out in so many ways as a place of human origins, from which scientists are confident the first homo sapiens sapiens went on the populate the rest of the earth? If Babylonia and Sumeria have been wrongly and deceitfully imposed on us as the location for Eden, who made the determination, and when, to tout the far southeastern portion of the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, as the originating garden of God (or rather gods)? And why? To distract us from Ethiopia … to the Persian Gulf, where these “gods” may wish for us to think it is they who created us. They taught us time in increments of 60, math, how to keep the books, but that’s it, I suspect; and I say time, because time equals aging and death — and it may very well be that our so-called creators by imposing time upon the earth … became our killers and not our creators by any stretch of the word.

Do heaven and hell and life on earth exist all in the same space, but only in different dimensions? Different frequencies? The presence of ghosts or watchers would seem to suggest this. Have you ever seen a watcher watching you? It’s cool, they watch me all the time. But I’ve been seeing them since I was a small child, including the bad ones. Resist them, however, and they will flee. They don’t possess us, but they telepathically communicate to us, they and other sources. Just a hunch.

If Eden is in Ethiopia, if humanity began there, we’re not all Ethiopians, so from whence came all the races? Where did all the races of mankind come from? A geneticist working for National Geographic, his name escapes me, but I’ll get it (Fletcher?), says … from just one man. And from him just one tribe in Ethiopia, which still exists, by the way.

If there was an Adam, then there must have been an Eve, made from a rib bone … which would make her white, which would fill all the racial gaps, if Adam possessed a composite blood type or DNA pool within himself. That’s where we believe all the many races came from, over time. If this is correct, then so is Genesis … and evolution was never in effect, only the evolution of races, as successive generations were born. Hmmm. Well, the jury is still out for us, there’s a lot of work yet to do. But Ethiopia is obviously a good starting point to answer the question we have posed … what do Solomon and a queen from Ethiopia have to do with the United States via Freemasonry, apart from a silly story about Hiram Abiff?

We believe all of this is subterfuge … meant to hide the truth about Jesus.

So what about a key of Solomon, by Solomon, found by Solomon, proclaimed by Solomon? Is the key that he was dark-skinned, a mixed-race son of David, since Bathsheba, which means “daughter of Sheba,” was an ebony-skinned beauty? Is there perhaps a key to be found in this false claim, the fact that this prophecy was not fulfilled, as I witnessed first hand during a year’s tour in East Africa from 1973 to ‘74?

Perhaps the key of Solomon is the intent to hide the fact that Solomon, a son of David, the king of wisdom who built the Temple of God, had an Ethiopian mother, which made Solomon dark skinned. Perhaps that needed to be covered up … and the best way to do that, is to fabricate a story that Ethiopian kings came from Solomon and a Queen with no first name from Sheba, or Saba, i.e. ancient Abyssinia, which today is Ethiopia. Perhaps it was important to obscure the fact that Solomon was dark skinned because of his Ethiopian mother, because the messianic son of David would also be dark … like Solomon, like Adam. And, we have to ask, if Bathsheba means “daughter of Sheba,” if Solomon slept with the Queen of Sheba, was he sleeping with his grandmother? Doubtful. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba mean nothing to the Freemasons, except it is a nice story to detract away from Jesus, a racist story, a story of deceit and trickery, as is the Kebra Negast.

Though July the Fourth was mentioned as a possible release date for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, which has or had the working title of The Solomon Key, that day has come and gone, now, with no book, as did the original release date set in 2006, with nothing tangible to help us understand what this unusual connection might there be to the United States, which TDVC sequel will focus upon, apart from a cockamamie story that the Freemasons tell, which seemingly has nothing to do with anything but building stuff.

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Glibness, as I define it, is how a person speaks when that person is discussing a serious subject or matter in a very inappropiately casual way. All of us have been glib — intentionally nonchalant, saying that something doesn’t hurt, when it really does. To be glib was to joke over the notion that the Soviet Union led by former Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev might decide to hit all the major cities on the eastern seaboard with atomic warheads. Where there is glibness, sarcasm and cynicism, there is repressed anger, fear and pain.

“Ah,we ain’t scared of him,” someone might have said in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, “we got us a little spot down in the basement where we’ll be just fine. Took my checkerboard down there. Good time to get a little revenge.”

I tried to be glib and accept the destruction of the planet, which appeared to be inevitable, though I could not, and I imagined that as I ducked and covered in my third-grade classroom beneath my desk that all I was accomplishing was pulling myself into a tight little ball which would make cleaning up my charred ashes a little bit easier. I had seen the footage of the atomic blast on a big projector in school, which was of course a brilliant way to settle down the kiddies. Life seemed hellish for a time, and I was not surprised when JFK backed Khrushchev and Castro down, because he seem resolute and intelligent. Although years later, 46 years later, still today, I wonder why the Soviet Union had gone to all that trouble to bring 75 nuclear warheads and launchers to Cuba … only to have the Soviet Union and Cuba completely lose face.

I suspect that though it could have been disastrous and treasonous, there were people on the inside who hated Kennedy so much … that they hoped he’d make a mistake and ruin himself in the eyes of those who adored him along with his princess bride. But it didn’t happen. And when it didn’t the greenlight must have been given to end Kennedy’s presidency because it appeared he was headed for a second term … and that did not sit well with the cabal of elite military industrialists, which has been reported to exist, and which we can’t argue with or confirm.

What changed the minds of our arch enemies during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Fear that we would bomb their cities? Khrushchev must have known that was an option as soon as troops began loading up Russia’s atomic weaponry and heading for Cuba … if Russia in fact ever went to all that trouble. What?! you might be saying, why would you be so glib about that; it was a crisis that very nearly resulted in thermo nuclear war?

Was it? Just as the Bay of Pigs was legitimate, when what it very much appears to have been was a botched effort planned by renegades within the government to embarrass Kennedy and make him a one-term president or less.

Because of the failed Bay of Pigs, which was doomed from the beginning thanks to U.S. operatives who planned and staged the embarrassing rout. I believe the Bay of Pigs may have been orchestrated, so a certain future president with a piece of Zapata Oil in Cuba might protect his interests and those of those people who were backing him, including his father, Plus, gambling in Havana was a money maker presumably for some Americans, the very rich and powerful ones who dreamed about getting rid of a president who was too soft on communism, his enemies said, too good-looking, too much of a playboy, and who was also soft on the idea of the military-industrial complex forming, the fraternal secrecy it involved, and against withholding information about UFOs from the American people.

He was not in the pockets of these military-industrialists, who reportedly wanted the war in Vietnam for no other reason than social engineering, fear mongering, thinning out a generation of young American men and making a profit. If the conflict in Vietnam, which was never sanctioned by Congress, was to hold off a Chinese-driven domino theory as one nation in Southeast Asia after another was expect to fall, how do we now account for the war which may have been foisted upon us by elite Americans upon their own American countrymen, the depleting of a “dangerous” new youth movement on the horizon, being led by former beatniks who now called themselves hippies.

Some parents, adults could do that, and did, and it always made me angry as a child, when I was having nightmarish images of mushroom clouds in my dreams, glowing orange as they rose over my mother’s rose garden in the back yard where Ilived on the coast in Virginia with my family. I was a kid, and so I couldn’t at all process the sort of anger which turned a whole nation of people against the United States of America. We were who they wanted to be, and they couldn’t be it. Richard Nixon very adroitly pointed this out in his famed “Kitchen Debate” at an industrial expo with Khrushchev in which the smooth one only poured salt in the wounds by drawing comparisons and mocking the Russians approach to washing clothes and entertaining themselves without washing machines and TV sets.

Statesmanship by making fun of a nation of people and its leader, with your middle finger in their faces. Such cockiness brought disaster to the Kennedy administration when the Bay of Pigs, launched clandestinely in part by operatives of the United States who were possibly more interested in embarrassing JFK than cleaning of Havana’s gambling which was funding Castro. The names Khrushchev, Russia, Cuba and Castro struck terror in our hearts, speaking for the kids. Watching commercials on TV for U.S. Bonds, depicting Khrushchev on film as he banged his shoe on his desk at the United Nations, while the action faded to black and the words in reversed white appeared: “We will bury you.”

I’m a kid throwing water balloons and playing baseball, for crying out loud, why would you bury me? Why would you scare the hell out of me, you crazy man. Because Khrushchev seemed to be every bit as crazy as he was angry, especially in this one TV spot that sent shivers up my spine every time I saw it, I believe it was only a matter of time before the angry crazy man pushed the button. But that never happened. Instead, President Johnson pressed the button, for no good reason, via the Tonkin Resolution, which launched Vietnam, Profits in the Pacific. Or almost.

Something doesn’t seem right about all of this. And there’s more. It is wrong, perhaps, to be so glib about these things, which might cause some people to have nightmares, especially children. But we could become light-hearted to the point of being absurd, or we could get angry that evil has egged on probably all the wars, appearing only to those people with the power to wage them, those people willing to keep secrets. If ill Uminotty did order the Vietnam and Iraqi wars, for which there was no provocation,which makes them bogus wars, did they err, since we have lost so much, or is the killing just about what evil was expecting?

And where does B.O., Sen. Obama, fit into all of this? If he would oppose Jesus, if he would declare himself to be a messiah, on what grounds would he or could he make such a claim? He’s the right color … and he’s in their pockets. And they must know Jesus is coming.

— rcg … to be continued