The Case for Black Maria

1.    In the first instance the Synod should not be about Amazon, it should be about Africa. To win the Cosmos, your starting point should be Africa. Africa is the Mother!

2.    There are 3 forms of Motherhood: Your land of birth, your Biological mother and your Point of Connection with the Divine. And the origin of all this is the land. Don’t mess with the land. Even though we would all end in Jerusalem, the starting point is Africa!

3.    Science, Religion and History may look at ethics but there is a grand Reason behind Amazon (South America) drifting from Mother Africa (some said it was during the Flood, but I believe in the continental drift theory) and why the land calls back her children with 400 years of Slave trade. Let’s watch how history would unfolds. Seize not in thanking your star you are Black!

4.    In Revelation (Rev:12), we saw a woman clothed with the sun, the moon was under her feet and she was adorned with a crown of 12 stars. Sun, moon, stars: a depiction of the entire cosmos. But where is the earth in this? Because, this woman herself is the Earth!

5.    Why do we think the cult of Black Madonna is coming back strong?

6.    There is a spiritual woman at the heart of creation. Some devotees of the earth find that solace as Pachamama, I have realised that reality as Mary.

7.    Authentic spirituality cannot just explain reality out, it must journey through the darkness of the vague to arrive at clarity. Mother nature is not an allegory, it is a reality.

8.    It may not be Oya, Olokun, Osun or Pachamama, but excuse me, you cannot just ignore this out. Pantheism is coming back with a venom because we dismiss it rather than engage it.

9.    This engagement will be an experiential journey to reality, and many will be lost, die and condemned in the process, but it is the path through which the Church can be purified and where Reality can be discovered.

10.    Ninu ikoko dudu ni eko funfun ti n jade! Ancient gates do not rise with fun. We cannot just throw away the baby of truth away with the water of superstition. The easier bit is to throw Pachamama into River Thebes. The harder part is that she is coming with a venom until we engage. Haha!