Category: Natural Health

Every nation has its share of “good, bad and ugly”  persons. So do Nigeria’s  nationalities. Sometimes, we do not know who is what until the wind has blown, and the feathers have flown, revealing the  anus of the hen. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the  Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), wanted to be President of Nigeria on  May 29, 2023. But  he  was told he could not run in the Presidential Primary poll of his party, the APC, because the  CBN Governor couldn’t  be a politician.  He became aggrieved, fought  his  party  and its Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu,  as election approached,  to  make the voters hate them and to vote Labour  Party and its candidate, fellow Ibo Peter Obi. The project  would seem to be part of an Ibo strategy to make Gbadebo Rhodes LP Governor of Lagos State.  Ordinarily, there ought to be nothing wrong with Gbadebo Rhodes becoming Governor of Lagos State, except for the misgivings of Yorubas’ strategist who investigated his antecedents and parenthood. They came up with the following findings which neither Gbadebo Rhodes nor LP has denied.

a. His father is Yoruba, mother an Igbo from Anambra State. They did not marry. He is estranged from his father. He attended Christland Primary School in Lagos and Nottingham and Paris Plus University Lagos. His wife, Nkechi,is from Abia State

b.  Personally, Peter Obi choose him as LP candidate over four  full blooded Yoruba contestants from Lagos Island

3. He is said to have been an IPOB commander in Onitsha and an article of trade between IPOB and Peter Obi: if Obi choose Gbadebo Rhodes,  IPOB would cease fire in the South East during the election and give him massive votes. It is also alleged  that IPOB  members are among  his personal security, and that he once twitted:

Fear that what? IPOB will come  and seal  up their  shops…Even when Oba of  Lagos threatened  to  drown or NURTW and thugs us to  close market, Igbo  people resisted… Biafra Day to be acknowledged and respected.

That day is unimaginable to traditionalist and moderates in Lagos when the government and the civil service  could become ethnicised, the chieftaincy law amended to officially make an IGWE to head Ibo communities in each of the five divisions( IBILE) of Lagos State… Ikorodu, Badagry, Ikeja, Lagos Island and Epe. At present, the  IGWE is not a legal traditional ruler in Lagos.

It is in this scenario that suspicions of Emefele’s support for Peter Obi make some sense. He hatched  a grand plan to fight banditry and to demonitise the elections.  President  Mohammedu Buhari fell for the plan,which may have suited his own game plans and, together, they put Nigerians under a cash squeeze  never seen in the history of their country. Nigerians who had money in the banks could not withdraw it. As of March 2, 2023, when the Supreme Court freed Nigeria from  Emefiele’s cash squeeze or stranglehold or suffocation, it took an average of eight hours every day for poor ordinary folks to draw N3,000  for daily upkeep and business income. Businesses slowed down. Many poor citizens depended on whatever income they made in the morning for lunch and from lunch for dinner. But how much income could they  make in one day when much of the day is spent on long bank queues? Many children ate once daily.  Many children missed school or walked down to find no teacher.

Some people died in hospital because doctors would not attend to patients who did not prepay for treatment.One man’s pregnant wife was bleeding. The POS operators Emefiele referred every-one to were  charging about N1,500  on every  N5000 withdrawn. They,too, were buying money! . This harassed husband bought money to  pay for the  treatment of his bleeding wife.  But  the hospital said he had to make another  payment for blood transfusion.  By the time  he  bought money for that, his wife was gone!. Imagine  what Emefele’s election period cash suffocation turned Nigerian  doctors into… ugly cash sucking doctors !.  As for me,  I sent my small  business on  holiday and had one meals daily.  I refused to buy money with my hard earn money. So, I couldn’t buy  pharmceutical eye drops to lower my eye pressure. I am lucky to not need drugs for blood pressure,  prostate gland or bone joint challenges. I had no  bath soap. I borrowed N4,500 from a young man for a small radio to follow the news.The networks are not transferring money well and if your transfer gets stuck and your money is  hanging in the air somehere , you would  need about 10 work days  to recover it.

Emefiele’s  Game

I struggled to deduce if, deliberately, he was  working  for Peter Obi, or  if it  was a coincidence that Obi’s supporters saw  him as doing so, since he and Obi are Ibos and since the majority of Obi’s fellowers are Ibos and  have ethnicised LP.  Ibos gave  the world the impression of this synergy all  over the internet. As business suffered, including  Ibo businesses, Ibos kept advising themselves on the internet to ignore the pain and joyfully weather the season beasuse  “it is going to be in  our faviour”. I wondered how the pains would be in their favour if it would  not make the electorate to despise the APC and its Presidential candidate, Tinubu. Everyone  heard Tinubu loud and clear at his Abeokuta campaign rally, when he said  the cash squeeze , like the petrol shortage and price hike, amid a large stock of petrol supply in the country, was  a stud  stacked on his path to impeed his success.

Supreme  Court

There are two ways  I see the Supreme Court judgement of March 2,2023. It rejected Emefele’s cash squeeze. The CBN was established to fight neither bandity nor votes buying. These were jobs of  other government agencies. This was a disgrace for Emefiele, the  CBN and  political actors, including Peter Obi and the LP,  who did not criticise Emefiele and failed, thereby,  to support Nigerian people against their tormentors.  We do not know as yet when Emefiele will implement the unanimous  judgement  of their Lordships.  I suspect he would wait  for the Supreme Court to give him  a satisfied true copy of the judgement. Thereafter,  he will send it  to President Buhari for further instructions. This way, he would transfer blame for their iniquitous blunder to Buhari.  Meanwhile, the Anttorney-General and justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, said, after the Supreme Court judgement, he knew nothing about this project. At the start of the myahem, Finance Minister Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed said Buhari and Emefiele did not consult her. Even the National Council of States distanced itself from the plot, telling Buhari what the Supreme Court has  just told him and the CBN. The court noted in particular that they did not obey its earlier judgement  before the presidential election that all parties to the dispute maintain  status quo ante. Emefiele would boastfully tell the nation the CBN had destroyed the old notes in its custody!. Why the hurry, or is it treachery, if there were no game plan, and if this plan was to not favour a  fellow Ibo man, Peter Obi? It is note worthy that Peter Obi neither criticised nor condemned the cash squeeze while Nigerians were suffering, since  public anger was directed at the APC and Tinubu whose electoral fortunes he wished to inherit.Emotion tilted, favorably,  towards Obi,in the Emefele’s game plan. Ibos must have been deligently discussing this game plan at their village meetings nation wide because  their internet messages kept saying something like” it is Goingto be in our favour”. The long and short of it is that Emefiele may have  abused his office. Had their Lordhips acted earlier than the February 25 Presidential polls, Emefiele and Obi’s Fellowers may have said they took  side with APC and Tinubu. All Ibo election literature on the internet soiled the personality of Tinubu as a vote buyer.   Ibos never saw Atiku as a vote buyer. They never saw Abacha’s son in Kano as a vote buyer. They saw only Obi as a saint! Yet, Adams Oshiomole posted on the tik talk a video of LP agent who was got red handed buying vote!

Thankfully, Tinubu won the election while Atiku and Obi lost. My elementary understanding of Nigerian politics taught me what happened .

Obi’s Strategies

The LP had no tested structure. Obi  relied on  herd instinct of the Ibos in the South-east and of the Ibos in Nigeria diaspora. Since the end of the  1967 – 70 Biafran war, the Ibos had been seeking Ibo Presidency. If an election didn’t bring it, they considered themselves  marginalised. It didn’t matter to them that they flowered under  President Shehu Shagari when Dr Alex Ekwueme was Vice-president, under  President Olusegun Obasanjo,President Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan and under incumbent President Buhari who gave them the long desired second Niger Bridge. They turn their hate for Buhari to love, believing the cash squeeze will give Peter Obi the Presidency. Thus, a  Peter Obi Presidency became an Ibo movement. Losing the Presidency to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it did matter to Ibos that Obi defeated Tinubu, a Yoruba, by 16,000 votes in his Yoruba home best while Tinubu did not pick up to 10,000 votes in each of the five Ibo states against about 400,0000 for Obi  in some.

In Delta State, with a visible Ibo population, Ibo rejected  PDP Vice Presidential candidate Ifeayi Okowa, an Ibo,  for Peter Obi,who  dealt Edo  State an unexpected blow.  The PDP and his Governor  Godwin Obaseki, supported Emefiele at the Supreme Court, forgetting the Ibo population back home and that, during the Biafran war, Ibos overran Mid-west Region in only a few days to declare it the Republic of Benin, on their way to Lagos. The Mid-West Region was created out of Western Region and comprise today’s Delta State, Edo State and part of Bayelsa State. In the Presidential election, Ibos  again ran over  the “Mid-West Region”. But they have  made  a grave mistake by ethnicising LP and, thereby, placing other nationalities on their toes.

 Peter Obi  also counted on the cash squeeze bitterness and on young persons who were too immature to recognise that, at 61, Obi was not one of them. They were also too immature to ask about which  opportunities he created in Anambra for young persons to keep them busy at home and not hunt for opportunities in Port Harcourt, Lagos and several places in South -western Nigeria which were greener pastures for them. Finally, Obi did not reckon with the fact that Northern Nigeria had not forgiven the Ibos for the killing of the Sarduna of Sokoto in 1966 and denigrating remarks about his elimination by some irresponsible Ibos which,  unfortunately, led to the  unpardonable and unacceptable killing of Ibos in the North and in the civil war which followed. Unlike Yorubas who are careless with history, Ibos and Hausa/ Funlanis tell their children their versions of Nigerian history. Personally, I believe that, to resolve these  disputes, Ibos need to apologise  to the nation for the selective killings in 1966 while the Hausa/ Fulani need to apologise as well to the Ibos for their over-reaction . Yoruba political leaders and military officers were killed in 1966 but Yorubas did not kill Ibos in retaliation. When Col. Banjo refused Lt. Col. Odumegwu- Ojukwu’s  order to march Biafran troops from the conquered “Mid-West Region” to Lagos to capture the South-West for him  and to post an Ibo military governor over Yoruba nation,( Republic of Oduduwa) did  he not execute Banjo for  treason against  Biafra?

Did Yorubas fight Ibos? Even when Biafra bombed Lagos, during the Biafran war, killing, maiming and damaging property, did Yorubas kill a single Ibo? Did Yorubas not instead protect  Ibo property in their region and hand them  over with accrud rent  when the Ibo landlords re-appeared? What could be greater affection, love, and accommodation beyond this? Where Ibo property in Rivers, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and in the north not confiscated by the aborigenes( the natives) from the Ibos as “Abandoned  Property” without compensation?

Questions

 There are many  unanswered questions ….

1. Many people advised  against completely relying on machines, but the noise makers had their way and President Buhari incorporated it into a new electoral law. If he failed to , he would be misunderstood.  Now, the machines have shown  machines are no more than machines. The breaking system of a brand new car may fail..  On February 25, 2023, many of them failed to work. Could electoral officers have sent home voters not captured in the machines?There had to be a fall back position to avoid chaos. I thought I heard the INEC chairman meticulously explained this fall back position at one of his press briefings.  So, why all the fuss now?

2. When Peter Obi and the  LP swept through Lagos, gladdening the egos of his supporters, was the foregoing not the mode of voting? Did they complain about other states which LP won?

3. In the South-eastern states,there were videos of the voting which showed  clear breaches of the electoral law. Many people did not vote in the booths for privacy, but right on the desks of the electoral officers where party agents held their hands to thumb print LP.. For me, even if the electoral law criminalises this mode of voting , I would say the law is made for man and not man for the law. This is because those voters were old  people. .  Peter Obi won the biggest landside victories in those states.

If those votes are thrown away,would there be peace in the South-east?

4. During one of his press briefings, the INEC chairman acknowledged  the possibility that INEC servers may be hacked but said they  were taking precautions.. Long before then, the  video of a dinner some of  his supporters  in Canada gave him showed  some of them  appealing to him to hire their services to hack into INEC servers,should the need arise. I expected Peter Obi, as a future President of Nigeria, to politely reject  the offer, even if it was no more than emotional outburst. He did not.

5. I knew in 2019  Peter Obi couldn’t penetrate the North. That region has not forgottten about Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduna of Sokoto, and the manner in which a soldier from the South-east killed him. In 2019 and by late last year, a radio clip of an interview he gave before the January 1966  coup was circulated.. What he said about Ibos I cannot repeat here. The bottom line was:  Northerners, Protect the North. The North has added to that speech messages on circulation of Tramadol, Codeine and similar drugs  in its environment.  I have been wondering why the North and the South- east have not forgotten events  of old. It is  true Sarduna died. But didn’t hundreds of thousands of Ibos die on that account in the North and in the aftermath civil war? Both regions, and other Nigerian regions  need to talk things over. It is not,in my view, the  machines which caused Obi’s failure in the north but old wounds which have not healed and,the assumption by Obi that he could snatch the young northerners  and join them to  Ibos Northerner population.

6. Atiku Abubakar thought he could secure the North, snatch South -south and scrape some grounds in the South- West. He miscalculated

7. Bola Tinubu probably didn’t expect Lagos could yield more ground to LP as it did, the through prostest Yoruba votes. He did not bank too much on Ibos of the South- East. He counted on neutralising their votes with South -West votes and securing a lead over Atiku in the North Central Region while both of them alone would slug it out in the North- East and the North-West, after critically confining Peter Obi to the South -east and remnant Ibo population elsewhere. So, what is all the fuss and ethnic hate all about?

Governors

The governorship and state houses of assembly elections on Saturday will probably be hotter than the Presidential election of two weeks ago. Emboldened by its sixteen thousand votes win in Lagos, LP will make  a bolder attempt on this state and others. Some Ibos have pledged their vote for  Governor Sanwo Olu. The governor has been warned by his party men to beware of a Trojan Horse and a Greek  gift. President Buhari  has rushed to Kaduna State to campiagn for the APC. In Kaduna State, LP candidate Donatus Mathew Kuzalio, 34,  an “Okada” rider, surprisingly won a House of Representatives seat by a margin of less than 400 votes against the incumbent  PDP candidate.

The Presidential election has been won and lost in an overheated polity. For the sake of peace, it is better for disputants to go to court rather than further overheat the system. So far, President-elect Tinubu, the Governor of Lagos State, the Oba of Lagos and  the leaders of an Igbo traders group in Lagos have ably put out the fire of Obi’s supporters that Yorubas have reason against Igbo because of LP 16,000 votes victory in Lagos.We cannot afford a blow out. Nationwide, it may lead us back to 1966.

As we approached 25 February 2023, the season of political lightening, thunder and rain in Nigeria after the respite of 2019, I checked my food supplements wardrobe for plant medicines relevant to the occasion. Some of them were Kyolic Stress and Fatigue, Hawthorn berries, Ubiquinol or Co-Enzyme Q10(CoQ10) of high dosage, ISK clear, Vida Max, Cardiotonic Pills, Magnesium, Choleduze (Omega-3 oil and Vitamin E), among others.

 This wardrobe is in one corner of my bedroom. In it, I stock some of the plant medicines of food supplements often requested by members of the KUSA GREEN PASTURES chat group. In my health care review as the 2023 Presidential and general elections approached, I sighted, also, other important food supplements as Kyolic Blood Sugar, Kyolic Immune, Maria Treben Bitters, Curcumin 2000X, Jobelyn, Amazon Prostate Support, Prosta Plus,  Prostate Easy Flow Tea, Amazon Liver Balance, Healthy Liver, Liver Balance and a lot more.

The first group of food supplements are HEART specific. Many of us are not aware that our hearts are weak, and that the Presidential election results can trigger certain events in the blood circulation system of the heart and blood vessels which, in turn, may cause what doctors call “cardiovascular accidents” and, in some cases, death. One such death was the one I was informed of last week by one of my cousins. The gentleman was an acquaintance of both of us. He arrived from work and settled into a settee, waiting to be invited to table for dinner. When his wife came to call him over, he was gone!. He  had a heart attack!

I knew joy on 25 February 2023 as I was walked down about one kilometer of road by Good Samaritan, Mr ALABA FADOLA,l from around my house to my polling station. He was voting for the first time, he told me. I could not remember for how long I had been voting. In 2011, I voted Jonathan, but went for Buhari in 2015 and 2019. I did not think I would vote this year until the election landscape began to get messier, and I did not wish, through inaction, to fuel lethargy against the fortunes of my preferred candidate. This is a serious matter. If everyone pulls back from inconvenience, believing someone else would do it anyway, no one or many persons may not do it in the end. That is what we often experience in low voter turnout. Yet many of us have learned from the Biblical story of the TALENTS that the talents not used and hidden are taken away and given to those who use their own talents properly. From this, we come face-to-face with the Justice in taking (something) away from him who hath not and giving it to the one who already has a-plenty. Nothing must be wasted!. If some persons are DETERMINED and others are LETHARGIC, who would the elections favour?

Mr Alaba Fadola was DETERMINED. At about 50 or something like that( I couldn’t determine his age because I am vision challenged), he was determined, as I was. But we never spoke about our preferred candidates. What I meant by the walk giving me joy was that, because I hardly had  time and opportunity for physical exercises nowadays, a walk such as that afforded some of  the opportunity to stretch my muscles and check how my heart may be working under a little more exertion. Mr Fadola didnt know what was going on in my head.  That walk was a small “do”. For readers of this column who are familiar with Ikeja area of Lagos, I have been walked a few times from UNDER BRIDGE to Alausa Secretariat by JOY JOHN, who assisted with the typing for this column before she went to her nursing school. She was about 22, about 50 years younger then. One or more times, she would request we stop to board a bus. I would object and tell her she was experiencing results of a diet of white bread, soft drinks, sugar and shawarma. I never, as also happened last week, experienced breathlessness, chest pains, exhaustion and my joints did not give way.

In this election season, many persons challenged with cardiovascular ailments may not be lucky with their systems as the results come in, and after. So, it is a wise decision to boost the health of the cardiovascular system with plant medicines at this time. Such persons are hypertensive. Hypertension connotes the image of blood vessels(arteries, veins and capillaries), which have hardened (ARTERIOSCLEROSIS) because excess blood CALCIUM has settled in their soft muscles, or become blocked (ATHERIOSCElEROSIS) by cholesterol and other fatty plaque. That is not to mention blood vessels in which the NON-RETURN VALVES have been weakend or damaged. All these conditions cause the heart to pump blood harder through obstructions or over-resistant vessels, weakening it and, sometimes, causing it to enlarge. It is worse for the heart when the arteries which supply it with blood are hardened and blocked, and it is expected, in this condition, to work harder. That is when a simple task such as climbing staircases of taking short walks becomes huge tasks for the heart. It is not getting enough blood and oxygen(petrol) for the task, and it’s muscle fibers are dying instalmentally. Some people are likely to have an early warning signal in ANGINA PECTORIS, a pain in the chest which may radiate to the left shoulder blade(scapula) and down the left arm. Some persons may not be so lucky with early warning system.

Fear, anxiety and stress

Fear and anxiety, like stress, are inescapable in every day activities. Who has not experienced all three in Nigeria’s ongoing cash shorty? Where is that parent who does not encounter them in the upbringing of children?. I am yet to learn of courtships and even settled marriages which did not wade through them. Since the political campaigns for the 2023 elections began last year, we have had them a-plenty. I recall that this column advised in a series of articles then that everyone guard his or her health against the swirling storms. Here we are at last, those storms are breaking over the landscape, not swirling over it any longer. As the election results are being announced, lightening is flashing, thunder is roaring and rain is pouring down. Mother Nature equips our bodies to withstand these pressures, although not in perpetuity. When a cat and a dog square up for a fight, the hairs of the cat stand on end. This means it is preparing for a fight and stress hormones, especially CORTISOL and ADRENALIN are building up in it. Once the danger or need for a fight or flight is over, the body “calms down”,as we say, and the hairs fall back “at ease”.

When the election results do not go our way, and we constantly realise we may not like the faces and the activities of the new President or Governor over the next four years, there is a tendency for us to weather the unpleasant situation and thought of it in fear, anxiety, if not grieving and even sliding into depression, all of which subject us to STRESS, especially PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS. The danger in this is that stress hormones will build up in the body and their accumulation can cause dangerous health problems, including CHOLESTEROL BuILD UP iN THE CIRCULATION, HiGH BLOOD TRIGLYCERIDES LEVRLS, AGGLUTINATING BLOOD PLATLETS, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, HEART DISEASE, HEART ATTACK and STROKE.

In fact, several studies now suggest the possibility of a heart attack occuring even in the absence of hypertension and such other   well-known risk factors such as diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle of smoking, once cortisol blood or tissue or urinary cortisol levels are high. That is why it is important at this time to support the body’s efforts to overcome effects of fear, anxiety, grief and stress with plants medicines or nutritional supplements. Over about 40 years, I have studied some literature on many of the ones I suggested above for improving the health of the blood vessels and the heart(the cardiovascular system) to prevent the risks of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, heart attack and stroke. The summary below on some of them is a summary as the word implies…

Kyolic stress and fatige

Kyolic is garlic aged for about  20 months to make the extracts 50 times more potent than farm garlic extracts.  It was developed  by the WAKANUGA company of Japan and now  produced  and marketed in the United States. Wherever recalls that the Children of Israel, as slaves in Egypt, were fed garlic rations with their meals to make them healthy and energetic fit for manual  labour may appreciate its impact on the cardiovascular system, bones, nerves and muscles. We learn, also, that  what may have amounted to the first recorded labour dispute in history occured in the desert when the children of Israel rebelled against Moses in the desert because they had no garlic rations for them. The angry, wandering people actually asked that he lead them back to Egypt!

 Modern studies of garlic extol its health virtues for such effects as normalising blood cholesterol levels,raising the counts of the good cholesterol (HDL), lowering the bad cholesterol ( LDL), killing bacteria,viruses and fungi, improving endurance,fighting cold and some throat ( remember Garlic perles!), improving blood circulation and strengthening the heart, culting blood sugar, aiding digestion and doing much, much more. There are about 20 versions of Kyolic Garlic. Each one has,complexed to this aged garlic, certain plant or nutritional factors specific to certain conditions to give it a special  KYOLIC brand name. Accordingly, KYOLIC STRESS and FATIGUE combined 600mg of Kyolic Garlic with THIAMINE(VitaminB1) Vitamin of nerves and muscles, VitaminB6, Vitamin B12 and GABA, an anti-stress and anti-fatigue substance which naturally occurs in human bodies but is rapidly consumed in stressful condition.

Hawthorn berries

Persons who are  challenged with hypertension, rapid heart beat ( thachicardia), palpitation and perhaps, angina PECTORIS and who have been trying Hawthorn berries where prescription medication seemed to not  have been much helpful,should give a salute to this herb. It is sold some timed as Hawthorn berries only or as  the berries combined with the seeds or flowers or all three together. The more comprehensive it is, the costier,though. In many human and animal  experiments, Hawthorn has been reported to dialate arteries of the heart, Thus,expanding their internal passages for blood  flow, making  more blood to flow to the heart and increasing oxygen and other nutrient supplies and saving the delicate muscle fibers from starvation, stress and instalmental death. Additionally, Hawthorn is reported to  improve the mechanical pump action of the  heart muscles in hypertension and in normal circumstances without necessarily causing it more stress and threatening its health. On  secondary hypertension, some  organs, apart from the blood vessels,  may have been  calcifying, and resisting blood flow through them. Such organs may include the liver, kidneys, spleen e.t.c. This causeds   the heart to pump harder to drive blood circulation through. Doing  so without assistance may cause the heart to weaken or begin to enlarge.  Such a heart may be on its way out and eventually give way in “congestive heart failure”. Prescriptions drugs slow down the heart, rather than energise it to do the work for which it was created. Slowing down the heart worsen blood, oxygen and nutrient supplies to all parts of the body and  slows waste and poison removal, thereby predisposing the cells,tissues and organs to premature aging and in  inefficiency or subnormal functioning. One of the order well known side effect of anti Hypertensive drugs is  ERECTILE disfunction.  A penil shaft  not well supplied with blood finds turgidity difficult to achieve or to maintain. In an old, old book titled MIRACLE MEDICINE FOODS , Rex Adams suggests that Vitamin B1 ( thiamine),combined with Garlic and Hawthorne helps to revive an enlarged heart.

COQ10 ( Ubiquinol)

I advise you  read as much as you can  about  DR. KARL FOLKERS on the internet. He has been researching this energy- producing substance since about1952 and is nicknamed by many  researchers in this field as”the father of CQ10 research”. It is erroneous to assume this substance works only for the  heart simply because many studied have  established it as  indispensable for heart health. Primarily, CoQ10 is found in the mitochondrium of the cell, the energy factory where  energy is produced. The more the CoQ10 a cell has,the more the  number of mitochondium( mitochondria…pl) that is present in it,and the more the energy output of that  cell. Thus, it has been theorised that cells may be  unable to successfully fight diseases because they do not have enough CoQ10, mitchondria and energy. Really, what can a weak( and lazy) person do?  Dr Folkers emphasises  CoQ10 for the heart because he found that heart diseases occur when CoQ10 content of the heart fall below a certain  level. The heart is an organ which works right  from the womb, non- stop,day and night,all the years of one’s life. It requires alot of energy to do its work, and it is said to have the largest stock of  CoQ10 among all the organs. This is why it has plenty of mitochondria and other energy  producing materials for its work.

Europe cheated Nigeria in the 1980s when the knowledge of the  importance of CoQ10 reached Nigeria. The dosages per capsule or softgel we sold in those days hovered  between five and 10mg. Now,we know that in the processing of CoQ10 by the body,some of it is lost. The body processes  CoQ10 to UBIQUINOL before it can use it.  Thus, today,we know the healthy heart requires atleast  300mg of CoQ10 every day or about100mg of UBIQUINOL. Today, UBIQUINOL is sarce and expensive in Nigeria.

There are three more points I would like to make in this summary. The first is that Dr Folkers, working with some medical doctors, carried out a”landmark” study in the Netherlands in which UBIQUINOL reportedly helped to reverse about 30 cases of terminal breast cancer. He prescribed UBIQUINOL at about 90mg daily along with some other nutritional supplements in a study to determine if nutritional supplements have any impact on breast cancer management or cure. Nothing seemed to  happen for three-months until one of the patients unilaterally raised the dosage to 290mg. Other women in the clinical trial did the same and achieved the  same results.  The  researchers concluded that the cell differentiation or cancer reversal may have been achieved when the cells acquired more energy to offset their trouble. The second point is that the lion, an energy burstling animal,goes first for the heart of its prey. If this is so, is it  because the heart has the largest concentration of CoQ10 in the body?. Thirdly,the heart is the only organs meat I eat   nowadays, because of Ubiquinol, of course! Sometimes,though, I  yield to”goat head” which is the preference of Udeme Edet James And who fixes meals in our household. For this week-end, if her  preferred Presidential  candidate,,becomes President-elect, there would be goat head and cow heart on the table!

Vida Maxx

This product came to  Nigeria 11 years ago.  It has two components…(a) fruitflow and(b) Resvida. Fruitflow is made from an extract of tomato which normalises platelet and triglyceride situations, preventing clumping. Resvida brings along Resveratol which dilates arteries. In eight human Clinical trials, one capsule starts to work within one hour of being injected and is active for the  next 12 hours. Since many cardiovascular accidents occur at night, this product may be good as a  night cap for persons who are prone to risk factors of hypertension,heart attack and stroke. In deed,does any -one have to wait to be prone to them?

ISK clear

ISK Is a code for ischemia, which relates to health accidents in the heart. The product is about two years old in Nigeria. Sunflower oil, Vitamin E and Vitamin B6 (pyrodoxine). Vitamin B6 remove excess water from the blood water volume, thereby acting like a diuretic, to reduce work load of the heart. Vitamin E is a blood thinner and a friend of muscles and the heart, which is a bundle of muscles.  Sunflower oil brings essential fatty acids which are good, also, for preventing  blood clots and protecting heart health.

Cardiotonic pills 

This was a rave of the 1990s. The experiment which sold it out then was that of a man whose hand was frozen and given  CARDIOTONIC pills after. In no time, the frozen hands regained its blood circulation and its life. The secret was one percent camphor added to the other ingredients.

I love to write about food supplements or plant medicines and about how they may positively impact health in health care or sick care. In other words, I like to chew salacious meat for long but for the hungry throat… so, more about food supplements and plant medcines summary very soon.

When shall we all meet again? If you caught me red handed, and on the wrist for that  matter,  my imagination was with the three wierd sisters or witches in William Shakes Peare’s “Macbeth”. Either providentially or by the diabolical design of witches,the “three weird sisters” were on the homeward  route of Macbeth and his cousin, Banquo, from a  battle field. They had  gone to  wage war against a noble man of Scotland, the Thane of Cawdor, who rebelled against King Duncan. Macebeth and Banquo were victorious, and were to meet in the camp on the way with King Duncan, who was with his eldest son, Malcolm.

 One of the  weird sisters asked the others:

“When  shall  we three meet again? “

The second witch replied: ” in Thunder, lightening (and) rain, when the hourly bourly is done (and)the battle ( is) lost (and) won”.

 The English Literature teacher who prepared my class at Olivet -Baptist High School, OYo, in 1967-1968 for “O” Level examination 45 years ago, taught us of the diabolism, vaulting ambitions, lust for power,bloody abuse of power, treachery,tragedy and the triumph of good over evil in Scotland of those days which Shakespeare tried to encapsulate in  Macbeth, mingling some fiction with reality. 

 Those witches gave Macbeth assurances that he would become the Thane of Cawdor and, later, the king of Scotland. Already,Macebeth was Thane of Glamis. A Thane was a royal title of a noble man with vast land ownership in exchange for loyal military service to the King.  Macbeth’s  first cousin,  Duncan, was the King of Scotland. Duncan succeded his grandfather, Malcolm the II (1005-1034),  a very weak king under whose rule the Vikings,a sea fearing people from Scandinavia, raided and ravaged the four kingdoms which made up Scotland of those days. Macbeth, alone, would meet with the witches again during which they would promise him that  no man born of a woman would ever defeat him in battle until the woods of Birnam moved to Dunsinane. Birnam was a forest near the castle of Dunsinane where Macbeth lived.  But they told him too, that he had to be wary of Macduff,a Thane completely loyal to Duncan and his son Malcolm. During  Macbeth and Banquo’s encounter with the witches, these women told Banquo, to MacBeth’s hearing,that the children of Banquo will become Kings in Scotland. These prophecies set up confusion in the souls of two cousins. Meanwhile,Duncan,their blood relation, was the king of Scotland. This made the confusion even more riotus, especially after Duncan,happy with the victory of Macbeth, made him the Thane of Cawdor and named his own son, Malcolm, as the heir apparent to the throne of Scotland.

Macbeth was destablised. The witches said he would be thane of cowdor and that the sons of Banquo would be king.  Now, King Duncan has made him thane of cawdor and announced Malcolm as successor to the throne. Did this mean Macbeth will no longer be king as the witches prophesied? Did this mean Malcolm   would be king in his place? Did this  mean the sons of Banquo, and not him or Malcolm will succeed King Duncan?. It is this  confusion which led Macbeth, thane of  Glamis and now thane of cawdor, back to the three witches.

To help us understand this play better, our English Literature teacher took my class  100s of years back in history to  when Scotland of today was a group of four communities constantly raided and ravenged by the VikingsI. The Vikings were a sea fearing people from Scandinavia. Duncan was a very effective king who not only united the four kingdoms and chased away the Vikings, but became so confident of the security of the nation and his monarch that he even undertook a State visit to Rome. Macbeth was a thane filled with respect and gratitude for the State and Monarch until King Duncan announced him as the thane of Cawdor  after the incumbent thane was arrested and executed for treason. Macbeth remembered the witches has said he would become thane of cawdor, and, later,King of Scotland. Vaulting ambition errupted in Macbeth. He began to dream of becoming the King.

The opportunity came when King Duncan visited Macbeth and his Dunsinane Cattle. Lady Macbeth encourage her husband to murder the king. Macbeth gave the King and his Entourage a grand dinner. Lady Macbeth makes sure the king’s own guards drank themselves to stupor. That night, lady Macbeth pushed a hesitant Macbeth to   murder  King Duncan in his sleep. Macbeth was timid. He brought to their bedroom the blood- soaked dagger he plunged into King Duncan. Lady Macbeth thought this was a stupid thing to do because it could make the murder traceable to them. So, she collected the dagger from Macbeth and took it to where the drunken  guards of King Duncan stupidly lay fast asleep to implicate them with the King’s murder.

 In the morning, Macduff, a thane loyal to King Duncan and his son, Malcolm, accompanied by  a young thane, Lennox, came to visit the king at Macbeth’s  Dunsinane Cattle. Macduff was the thane the witches told Macbeth to beware of. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth pretended to still be asleep when the visitor came.Lennox  blamed the murder on the druken sleeping gaurds who were covered with blood and found with blood stained dagger.  Beholding the murder, Macduff rushed back to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth who both pretended shocked. Macbeth executed the guards, pretending love for King Duncan.Suppecting evil drama, Duncan’s sons Malcolm and Donalbian, fleed to England, paving way for Macduff, their father’s loyal thane, to suspect them of the murder.

In a series of rapidly unfolding events, Macbeth became King of Scotland. Macbeth murdered Banquo. Banquo’s ghost appeared to Macbeth at State dinners, causing Macbeth to behave unusually. Lady Macbeth would make other excuses for Macbeth’s behaviour imbalance and dismiss the gathering. Later,  Lady Macbeth became insane and died. Macduff found Scotland unsafe and flee to England. Macbeth ordered the murder of his household in Scotland.  Before Macbeth could kill  Banquo, Banquo asked his son to flee as well.

 The fufilment of the witches prophecies that  Macbeth would be Thane of cawdor, and later King of Scotland, was causing confusion  in the royalty.  Macbeth wondered if Duncan’s son, Maclcolm, will fight back to reclaim the throne, and if Banquo’s sons would supplant him. Meanwhile, the sons of Duncan, supported by Macduff, decided in England to raise an army and fight back.

Macbeth went  back to the witches. They gave him two assurances. One was that no man born of a woman would ever defeat him in battle. The other was that he would come to no harm until the woods of Birnam moved to Dunsinane. Despite these assurances, the witches warned Macbeth to beware of  Macduff.  Macbeth was confident he had secured the throne. How would the forest of  Birnam  ever move and come to Dunsinane? Would the trees uproot themselves and walk, or would they fly like birds? And where is that man not born of a woman?

But soldiers of the resistance army did move through Birnam forest, cutting tree branches which they used as  comonflags. This gave the impression of the forest  moving towards Dunsinane Cattle. Macbeth, alarmed, felt deceived and betrayed!. Why where they not straight forward? He still trusted, though,that there was no man a woman didn’t give bath to. The battle raged on. Soldiers from Birnam forest entered Dunsinane Cattle. Macbeth’s guards were killed. Finally, Macbeth stood  face-to-face before Macduff. The witches had warned him to beware of Macduff, the thane loyal to Duncan and his son, the heir apparent, Malcolm. Macbeth told Macduff to not waste his time because no man born of a woman could kill him. Macduff shocked Macbeth with the revelation that he was not naturally delivered of his mother but taken out of her womb through ceasarian surgery. Macduff killed Macbeth, and Malcolm, the heir apparent, became the King of Scotland in the triumph of good over evil, and of Light over Darkness. Banquo’s son did not become a king in the play.

Oh! Witches!

Men have not stopped being men, nor have women stoppe4d being women since the days of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the struggle for power. Murder still takes place, although not always in the physical sense. Men still bridge agreements and dash hopes. These are forms of murder. But, everywhere, the universal law of good always overtaking evil has never changed. We learned in Macbeth that men need to be wary of women and of diabolism which always double speaks.  Duncan was too trusting. He ought to have slept in his strange castle with one eye open. It is not wrong to trust. Trustworthiness is an ideal quality every human being should struggle to possess and adorn his or her soul with. The trouble is that it may be foolish to absolutely trust in a world where majority of mankind is not delibrately striving towards Trustworthiness. His personal guards were gluttonous. Did no one brief them to not touch alcohol in a foreign Castle? The sons of Duncan were wise to flee Scotland. A Yoruba adage says a wise child does not asked the elders about who killed his father until his hands are firm on the handle of a sword. Babquo was foolish. Another Yoruba adage says:  Iku t’on pa ojugba eni, owe lo n pa f’eni ( The death is killing our mates is speaking in parable to us). Who in the Nigeria of 2020 and 2021 visit a Vivid 19 patient at home?

Health

While I was contemplating a column for today, I did not know how and why my thought kept wondering  to the opening question of the three witches in Macbeth… When Shall We Three Meet Again.., in Thunder, lightening or rain?, and the reply of one of them… When the hourly burly is done and the battle is won and lost. I remembered that the 2023 election campaigns have pitched friends against friends. So, I wondered: when shall we all meet again as friends? I know that the next date for this column is next  Thursday March 2, 2023, by which time we should have known which battle has been won and which one have been lost, and who the incoming President of Nigeria is. The various consultant groups of the various candidates would by then have amounted to nothing more than the three weird sisters and their prophecies which have taken out health through catastrophic storms  of  “thunder, lightening and rain” in our heart and souls. The dust will not settle so soon and so easily, and that is why this column suggests  recipes for health in thunder, lightening and rain. For, like the weird sisters, that is where we all shall meet for some time, learning to peacefully co-exist again for all time.

Poll effects

The battle will be “won” and “lost”. Greeners will rejoice. Loser are  likely to be depressed. But joy also does kill. So, this is a dangerous season for health. The man or woman going into depression self-detect the slide. It all usually starts with disappoinment followed by grief, anxiety, sadness, withdrawal, insomnia, inferiority complex, hatred for the victor,  dysperception ( deconstruction of positive values always into negative values,expressing no gratitude for good turns, hating those who love them, taking from their environment and giving nothing back in return etc), hallucinating and soliloquizing.  Soliloquizing, talking to oneself, is an interesting feature. The person who locks himself or herself up within himself or herself soon built up powerful pressure within enough to blast the mind. Soliloquizing helps to reduce some pressure and prevents emotional, mental, psychic or spiritual blast and damage. These attitudes may suggest that the mind is becoming  congested with negative values and becoming sick. It is not wrong at this stage to seek the help of a psychiatrist or a clinical  psychologist. What be wrong is an absolute belief that these health specialists  and others have all  the magic  wands  in their practice.  Hospital medications does not always effectively affect the mind, if it does at all. They treat the body and not the soul or spirit, which many people erroneously call the mind. Thus, hospital medications treatteout side, the body, and not the spirit, the man or woman who owns that body. The inner man or woman may profit, however, if the body is made unusable to those entities which possess it  on account of poor blood radiation and lock out the rightful owner of that body from the brain. In order words, depression may devolve into possession or occupation by a soul which is not the original owner of that body. The answer to this problem is consumption of the right  kinds of foods and drinks and being in the right frame of mind, always. The clinical  psychologist and the psychiatrist nurse may  help if he or she is armed with the knowledge of who or what man is, the coming into being, of man on earth, man in relation to the Universe in which he exists and of which he  is a part, the various  spheres of existence in the Universe, particularly the Power  Centres, some of which  Christians call the principalities.

Power  Centre

These are locations in the universe where human beings congregate after earth- life if they are heading homeward to Paradise or descending into the abyss, depending on their nature. Thus,  there are  uplifting power centres and there are dark, depressing ones. They are all like “broadcasting stations” sending signals to the earth. On earth, humans also transmit signals (telepathy, for example) and receive signals.  Like receiving ” radio or television sets” each one of us receives signals from the power centre he or she tunes to. If the election rigger seeks ideas from within himself for his occupation, he will receive “broadcasts” from a power centre of the nature of his activity where like souls congregate. Persons who are always afraid are made more  afraid likewise, whereas  courageous persons are made more  courageous by the power centres of courage which feed their souls with courage. Thus, the persons who feels the world is after him will find no peace in his mind whereas  the man who believes he can storm the mountains will never be deterred even if all men on earth confront him.

Lesser Ills

This column is not concerned about the psychiatric aspects of post-election traumas. It wishes to address only some of those much simpler conditions which nutritional food supplements may resolve.

This include:

•Stress

•insomnia

•elevated blood  pressure

•Indigestion.

•Anxiety

•Nervousness

•elevated blood cholesterol

To be continued…

MANY Nigerians play the blame game. They blame other people for any negative turn of events in their lives, including poverty and hunger. For them, their enemies are at work against them. These enemies include their siblings neighbours, co-workers and relations in their villages, among others. They do not think of themselves being the ones who formed their environment, or of how to escape from undesired environments.

In the first part of this series last Thursday ( 09/02/ 2023),I presented farming in my home garden by Udeme Edet James and of how,small as these flower beds are in land area, they give us enough pepper, cocoyam, yam, bananas, vegetables, plantains, herbs and snails, among others. It was an answer by me to the forecast by International Organisation that 25 million Nigerian will be hungry this year.

There are many people like me, who do not routinely blame the government or any one else for the challenges of the existence. One of such person that I am featuring today is Mrs Evelyn Obiku who comes from Obudu but who lives in Calabar. Please read a story of her home garden below as told by her…

“1. Cement bags were used.

2. Chicken droppings were mixed with the soil before planting and retouched around June

3. Top soil was used

4. The farm is located in my house. We have 100-50 plots of land in which we were trying to build.I consciously accompanied my husband to the site to ensure I have a space in front for flowers and behind for edibles.

5. It is mainly for eating but I have shared with friends and family.

6. Cement bags were used but I intend to used bigger bags like flour/feeds bag next year.

7. The best time to plant is January because yam matures from nine months. This was planted between March and April. Next year, I will plant before the end of February because I just harvested. So, there is need for the sett to stay for up to a month before it can be replanted”.

I doff my heart for Action People such as Mrs Evelyn Obiku. They do not grumble or gossip about “Hard Time”. They turn supposed hard times to good time. I will like to encourage friends and family who have been enjoying the harvests from Mrs Obiku’s gardens to not remain dependent or parasitic this year and to begin their own farms immediately.

Mrs Obiku has made videos of her enterprise which she is willing to share with you if you call her on +2347089724850. This year, hunger will not be our portion…Amen

We do not need crystal  ball gazers  or the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) or the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund ( UNICEF) to tell us that about 25 million Nigerians may be hungry this year. Everywhere, food prices, like those of plant medicines and other goods and services,are already dangerously high,and may keep rising. The war between Russia  and Ukraine may not help matters.  Europe and the United States, previously green pastures for Nigerians fleeing from home, are themselves now migrating to Canada, where Nigerian university graduates are ending up in factory or care giver  jobs. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates(UAE) are no safe havens either. Recently, some Nigerians in Dubai over reached themselves, literally climbing the tree beyond its branches and leaves. They protested in the streets of Dubai, claiming the government did not provide them jobs. Promptly, the authorities arrested and handcuffed them ahead of their deportation  home. 

   Back home, there are several testimonials that  prospects of the FAO and UNICEF hunger predictions are real, especially in the year of a general election and a new government… but the problems  are surmountable. Nigeria defeated COVID-19 better than the giant nations. Nigeria has risen from importing almost  all the  rice its consumes to producing  about 90 percent of its. In Imota, Lagos State, it has now the third  biggest rice mill in the world and Africa’s biggest. All we need to do more  to beat hunger among 25 million Nigerians is to return to farming, however low the scale, begining with homestead farming to flower beds.

    I would like to start with my own example, my widow’s mite contribution to this proposed national effort.  I  little realised what great food treasure  lay in the flower gardens of my house until Udeme Edet James, who looks after my business and  and house, sought my permission to convert the flower beds to a farm. She  wished to run a small poultry, but I objected. She wished  to rear rabbits. Again, I objected .  I had the cages but I thought the odour may disturb our neighbours. She often do pick snails in the flower beds, which helped  us as replacement for beef and Titus fish. In the housing estate in which I live, half kilogramme of Titus  fish now goes for #1,500. Additionally, you will pay #50 in bank charge for electronics transfer of the money. The fish will hardly provide  the household with four  tiny pieces. So, how much of it  can we consume in one day? That was what led us to crayfish, which now costs #6,000 per standard custard plastic bucket, and Periwinkles at about # 200 or #300 per small  De Ricca. So, picking or farming  snails is a  sensible ideaI at this time.

I regularly  wrote about snail farming in the 1980s and 1990s, enriching my ideas from a pamphlet titled: Heliculture in Great Britain. It was all about indoor snail farming in shelved cages under air-conditioned environment. I practised outdoor snails farming when I lived in Obanikoro in the 1980s and on  Ajanaku Street, Awuse Estate, both in Lagos, in the late 1990s. So when Udeme began experimental farming in a metal  drum, I suggested we did it in a cage for healthier snails . That gave  rise to about  2.4384m( 8ft long,and 1.2192m(4ft wide and high  galvanised iron cage  shown on this page.

     Today, we eat alot of cocoyam . A recent harvest shown on this page is 33cm( 12.9inches) long and 22cm (8.6inches)  round.  It took a lot of physical effort to exhume, and came with many babies. We add tender leaves of cocoyam to water leaf from cement bags, and add  edible mushrooms, Iyana Ipaja leaves, scent leaves and Oregano leaves for vegetable soup. So, while many people are complaining that vegetables and peppers are expensive, we cannot figure what they are saying. Only tomato has failed to grow. What about yam? Its grows in cement bags and in the flower beds. So is potato. Sometimes, we get tired of plantain. We have about four of them . She feeds them with compost. Their  yields are large and plentiful. We eat  them unripened, grated with the peels into porridge to maximize the nutrition and the consumption period. With the peel  you do not need more than two or three of them for a family of five. Check the internet. The peel is more nutritious than the fruit. Yet we throw it away, or give it to the animals. In 2023, we should stop being food wasters! Waste not, want not is the golden rule. What about banana? We have it as well, and dice the peel into rice or beans or Yam to parboil with it. Sweet yam and water yam from Akwa Ibom State are taking root. So is a specie of cocoyam said to be good for prostate gland health. Akwa Ibom people are known to successfully treat MUMPS with it.

What about paw-paw( papaya)? Mrs Florence Fusi, one of my clients, planted about 30 of them before she passed. Unfortunately, this was in a dry season . About four survived, one of them female. I learned that pawpaw’s from the same seeds hardly pollinate one another. May be that is incest in the plant family. So, when the rain come again,we will obtain seeds  from different sources. Meanwhile, we enjoy pawpaw fruits and seeds. But we have  to be smarter than the bird to pick them one or two days before they show outer signs of ripening, otherwise the birds would eat them, fruits and seeds.

  We have Bitter leaf aplenty. Coming up in this small garden is garlic, ginger, tumeric,  lime and spring onions. When we harvest the next plantain and cut the trunk to a  stump, we would implant one or two pawpaw seeds at the top of the stump. I am told the seed will grow on it, using as cheap food  nutrients which  the roots are still conducting upwards.  There is more to say than space permits.My regret is that I do not have land bigger than I have on which to build a  house. Otherwise, for me, the home garden would have been enough for me to retire into, growing my own food crops and some to sell at cheaper prices to my neighbours. If we  all, who are priviledged to own our own houses, can do this, Nigeria should solve some of its foods problems. If every household grows no fewer than two paw-paw, and each one produces about 25 fruits a year, this means 50 fruits per household in  a year. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria had 43 million household in 2020 that means the possibility of  2,150,000,000 pawpaw fruits in one year. If the planting trend continues every year for five years, that is a lot of food for everyone.Unfortunately, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has become inactive and wealthy Nigerians do not seem to realise that  they can prevent a war of the hungry poor breaking over their heads by encouraging homestead food crop farming. That was why I prayed that Hunger Will Not  Be Our Portion This Year! For  what hunger can cause

In the Spirit Age in which humanity now lives, there will be no hiding places for any of us.  Almost effortlessly, our neighbours will see through us and we, too, will see through them as we all see ourselves in mirrors.Whatever is false  about us and  about them, which one party is trying to hide from the other, will be forced out into the open from their hiding places. It will not matter if these attributes  of the soul previously lay dormant or seemingly lay lifeless deep within us, and we did not know  they existed. Already, we are lit up or fired up, without associating what is going on in a  larger quantum and incredible velocity to the penetrating powers of The Great  Comet. Tarry a little… and reflect on how men are now raping women all over Nigeria. We have heard of how men in their 70s rape girls of about 10 years. We say it is madness. The men say it is the devil. Last year, we  heard of a Lagos government bus driver who raped and killed his last passenger on a late night bus. She was 22 and a virgin. Last year, we heard of a  night duty security man who  raped a nurse on duty with him at a Lagos clinic. Last week, arm robbers invaded the women’s hostel of a university and raped 10 of the students. In its Valentine’s Day article last year, this column reported the cases of four Lagos  teenagers who would drop out of school. One was pregnant for her father. They lived in a single room tenancy in Lagos. He did not marry her mother. In the single-room tenancy with them were  his wife and  three children. This victim of her father’s defilement  three months ago had a baby  boy, a carbon copy of his grandfather and father . Not too long ago, we heard the news of an electrician who was invited home by a single mother to fix an electrical fault. He ended up raping her under- aged daughter. What about the motor-cyclist in  Ondo State  who raped his pregnant client in a bush? She was a trader who periodically went to sell her wares at a big market some kilometres from  home. He often took her to the market  and back home. One day on  the way back home, he diverted from the road, pretending to want to ease his bladder. She disembarked,  and he stood the motor cycle. Then, sprightly and violently, he  pounced on her, raped her, and after, as she struggled to figure out what had just happened to her, he started the machine and rode off, hardly remembering she could easily identify him. 

Several such  cases nation-wide, many of them  unreported, show that, sexually, many men are under pressure nowadays and cannot control themselves when they find themselves alone with women. Women, too, are no  less sexually depraved. The dressing of many today is terribly suggestive and their bodies have become cheap game. Around an uncompleted building in a housing estate I heard of, groups of young school boys and girls gather in the evenings. You’d think it is an innocent gathering of young ones who had escaped from boredom  at home. They take turns to enter the building to do whatever they are there for on a cartons-covered floor while their mates keep the watch for them. The same goes on  in a reputable boarding  school nearby. Wherever you turn, it is evident something is firing a weakness in men and women, boys and girls, old and young, against which they cannot hold themselves.

So wide spread is rape in Nigeria of today that society has become anguished. Fathers are worried. Mothers can hardly trust father with their daughters. In many police stations, a Family Support Unit has been created to investigate and prosecute rape and related  cases. In Lagos State, conviction is now life imprisonment with no option of fine. The government  has also provided a toll-free telephone number ( 082200-333-333) for rescue and emergency calls. To help rape victims recover from shock, the government pays for a victim to  have six therapeutic sessions  with a psychologist at a cost of N20,000 per session. Additionally, if a victim is underaged,  funding is provided for  rehabilitation. One female Peace and Conflict Resolution consultant  lamented:” The brains of many men have migrated  to the tips of their organs”.

There is no  doubt that something unsual is overcoming  Nigerian men. That “something”is well explained in a lecture of The Grail Message  titled All That is dead in creation shall be awakened so that it may pass judgement upon  itself.

We are informed that human soul have adorned themselves with many qualities over millenia. Some of  these qualities are natural, which means they are in tune with laws of Creation, while others are unnatural or opposed to these laws. They are the proverbial” wheat” and “chaff” which have been allowed to grow together but which must be separated some day, in the harvest of souls. We are told the season of harvest has come. Radiations more powerful than man has ever encountered are penetrating the universe to the earth. On earth, meanwhile, the qualities or adornments of the human souls are either dormant or inactive,  or sprouting and active. That is why  many people sometimes do not know they are capable of certain deeds untill they have taken the actions. The power which is steaming down and encircling the earth “wakes up” or activates all dormant and inactive attributes or adornments of the human soul, as well as I figurate or energises sprouting and  active ones, so that they may be strengthened to blossom more if they are natural or annihilated, if they are not. This awakening of dormant and inactive qualities may also be viewed  as everyone of us been  ” Dragged before The Light”, and forcibly denied the opportunity to hide anywhere.

Today, in Nigeria, how many men  can conduct themselves like the Biblical Joseph in the  bedroom of Portiphar’s wife, all alone with her, and fleeing from her entreaties? Their knees will shake and bend! The dormant  and inactive sexual instinct, as well as the sprouting and active sexual instinct, had been awakened and strengthened in many men and women by the penetrating Power of God  in the precints of the purification often described by many religions as un-coming.

Unfortunately,prophesies about  “All  That is dead  in creation  …”  have  mutated to “…All The Dead…”.  The mutation now gives the erroneous  notion of all skeletons in graves, wherever they  may now be,  assembled and, re-united with other bodily tissues and the departed souls, for a rapture or consignment to Hell Fire. This  error has made many persons to not seriously or critically monitor every thought and action they are to take.

As already stated, there is nothing , no human quality, that will not be Lit up  and Come to Light on its own in the time in which we stand. Coming to the judgement, for the wrong qualities to  be burnt out and  the natural ones to blossom.

Upheavals

  Prophesies of The  Great Comet all speaks about on coming upheavals at personal, family, social, national and international levels. For is not only in sexual dormain that everything has gone wrong  with mankind. Other equally unnatural or false attributes mankind  include vanity, cuning,  avarice, thieving, greed, envy, hate, gossip , carelessness, carefreeness, spiritual indolence , untrustworthiness, impatience, aloofness, verbal irresponsibility,shallowness , phychic, physical abuse,idolatry ,  especially worship of money etc”. There are many more vices or perversions of a beautiful human nature than I can mention here. We only need to follow Nigeria’s 2023general elections to see as many of them as possible at play. Old emotional injuries have refused to heal and, slumbering or previously inactive or dormant, have been awakened and flaring up. It does not matter if this is between individuals and  national groups.  It does not matter if the combatants are, before men, deeply religious persons who have been  taught to forgive their enemies seven x seven x seven times in one day or to simply” turn the other cheek always, or if they are believers which must  never allow the  sunset of any day to find animosities in their souls!

Sexual scourge

Please permit me to return  to the sexual ravages of our  time. Many young and older men are going to jail for  life for daring  irreverently to touch women with dirty fingers and hands. Women themselves appear to have forgotten why they are women and what ought to be their vocation. From my understanding of how The Grail Message, one of the resource works of this series, explains it, I offer the following  suggestions.

Sex

Sex is nothing to be afraid or flee from. It is a natural instinct engrained in the physical body for certain purposes, otherwise the All- Wise Creator would not have permitted its existence. It is not a spiritual quality  but an animal instinct resident in the animal- derived physical human body, although, if unchecked, it may enslave the soul, and , the human spirit. This instinct is not for progression alone. It all serves the purpose of an exchange of radiations, under  specific circumstances. Like every gift of the Creator, there are laws of  nature which govern everything. Sexual incontinence, that  is refusal to have sex, does not necessarily further spiritual growth or maturation, but may, indeed, become a hindrance when abused and drains the Spirit of generative power. Incontinence may be counter productive because it may create pressure and counter pressure and explosions. Like food, drink, fresh air, rest,sleep and healthy exercise, sex is a natural requirement of a healthy, adult human body, the nerves of  which  have not been artificially stimulated and become overwrought by pornography, reading and exposure of the female body through conquetry and other seductive forms. Even then, there are rules of engagement. Before two consenting adults engage in it, there must have, prior to this, such  Spiritual  Harmony which may sometimes lead them to physical union on earth.Thus, a legally married couple who are not spiritually harmonious infringe the rules of engagement if they stretch out their hands. For them, it may be no more  than picking their mates from brothels!

Many people believe sex is a cul-de-sac. It  is not. We all have  several escape routes from it if only  we would apply our free will as did the Biblical Joseph. We are aided in this through a simple formula or equation in The Grail Message. The Work says

1. Instinct of the flesh is reacted upon  by Thought. Note:a reaction between the sexual instinct and thought produces feelings. We all know when sexual feelings come upon us. We can abort the equation like a chemical  equation and return to Status quo ante if we have the will. Take thought out of sexual instinct, and you have no sexual feeling . You can do this by moving away from the “stressors” and keeping hands and thought busy with something loftier!

2. Feelings reacted upon by thoughts produce  imagination. Note again the common denominator, thought. It is always occuring  from the empty mind. The state of imagination magi is a dangerous, virulent stage. All it requires before a sexual end-point is an opportunity.

3. Opportunity. This is the state in which a man and a woman are alone, one or both parties drunk with Iimmaginatio. Avoidance of  oppotunity aborts opportunity. .

2. All that is false will collapse.

Whenever I remember this prophesy in respect of some of the impacts of The Great Comet on earthy life, I remember the small and great conceptions of man.  The conception is a frame work of ideas held out to be the truth. The political, economic and other social systems are conceptions. So are religion and the congregation of human beings into nations. We are informed any conceptionon outside the Will oF  God is Falsehood and must collapse, and that Everything Must Become New in the new Age, The Spirit  Age when   spiritual knowledge will  expand  through intensification of Power mightier than man. In the 1970s, I battled persistently with the notion of ” everything” becoming “new” until, finally,I became persuaded it must. It will not be a question of the renovation or reformation of the old ways of doing things. Everything must be in accordance with The  Creation Plan which mankind tossed aside to implant their own will as though they are architects  and Creator of the universe.    One of the human conceptions I consider false is Democracy. It is a long history of  how humanity came into it. In higher spheres of existence, existence of which man denies because he cannot experience them with his earthly senses, democracy is not the process by which leaders are made. The angels and spirit beings who accompanied the Lord Jesus to the earth were not democratically elected. Nor was His forerunner, John the Baptist. We pray that God ” Kingdom”  come and thy “Will be Done on Earth” but we do not pattern our ways after Heavenly Archytypes. Moses was not elected to lead Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. He was called, anointed and prepared for his mission. In “Democratic elections”, the “blind” elect the “blind” as leaders. And that is why all nations keep groping in darkness. It is possible, though, that democracy may be a necessary stage in the growth of humanity until a mightier Hand helps them out of their self-inflicted entanglements.

Many nations are misconstituted by man. Mother Nature  fellows the law of homogeneity in Language, inner maturity, anthropology etc, whereas mankind prefers heterogeneity in many forms.

We speak of homogeneity when we say Birds of a  feather flock togehter. Our physical body is a perfect  example of  homogeneity. Cells of the eye  are not on the tongue, and  bones celled  are not in the liver. Yet 100 trillions of them in average  adult  body  started life as one cell fertilising the other,producing all other cells and differentiating them into locations and functions. In homogeneity lie harmony and beauty. Conflicts arise in several nation states today because the “elephants” have been mixed up with the “lions” as the “salmons” have been place in whale colonies, architectures we do not find in the forests or in the oceans. Any wonder that, at great cost, Pakistan and Bangladesh broke free of India, and Eritrea and Tigris have their own battles with Ethiopia? The Chez and the Slovaks had a peaceful  divorce in Chechoslovakia. Scotland has tried but failed two times to quit the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Northern Ireland fought its way out of the Union. Russia and Ukraine are at war which is paralysing global business and threatening its peace. No one as yet knows where the enforcement of Law of Nature will take place next, and in what dimensions.

At the level of religion,  the conception of God in Nigeria is that of a servant of His creatures. His  Holy Name is invoked in altars and religiuosns houses for Him to do everything, including making the congregations wealthy, destroying their opponents and enemies with Holy wrath free them from self woven entanglements of fate. Prayer, which ought to be thanksgiving for all He has endowed man with, has become begging for  everything He is  thought to not have  done. No one thinks of His Will and of the need to learn and fulfil it. Some people even has the audacity to tell Him that they “bless” His Name!. When I hear this, I shiver. A man  who cannot make a grain of sand or a strand of hair on his head saying he is “blessing” the Owner of the Universe and the Angelic hosts above that Universe!. Ridiculous to say the least. In the fulness of time we all would learn, all over, that if each one had a thousand tongues, they would be incompetent to praise Him, left alone to bless Him. Space does not permit mention of conceptions such as marriage, education, parenting, death, hell fire, the Millennium and many more.

It is important in conclusion to know, though, that the coming of The Great Comet, which will close the cycle of The  Star of  Bethlehem and, hence, The Age of The love of God, will open the cycle of The Holy  Spirit, The World Judge. In this cycle or Age, every-one who in one way or the another made the Mission of Jesus a difficult one will be afforded an opportunity to redeem the guilt. The same goes for every-one who has been involved  in distorting His Pure Teachings and the teaching of various prophets willed from on High and sent to mankind. The growing number of stigmata cases deserve serious attention in this regard. Stigmata are  wound marks of  Jesus on the Cross which  some persons now find on their  bodies during the season of Easter.

                                                                                                     •Concluded.

In our generation, will the sunken  Continent of Atlantis arise from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, displace huge amount of ocean water on many coastal towns and cities, submerge them  and then sink  some Island nation? Will our generation witness The Northpole of the earth changing location with the South Pole, and thereby bring such weather and climatic disruptions that may terminate today’s civilisation? Many prophesies linked these possibilities to the coming of the Great Comet to the earth. The coming of The Great  Comet, as has been shown in earlier part of this series, is connected to  three  cosmic events to which the earth is related at this time.

 One of these events is the astrological Age called Acquarius(Acquarian Age or Age of Water), the second is the Spirit Age. This is when  spiritual knowledge or knowledge of Paradise, home of the Spirit species of Creation, is to be extended for mankind. Evidence of this in Nigeria is the hunger and taste for spiritual information and knowledge which has witnessed the unprecedented  appearance of religious institutions almost everywhere. Finally,is the cosmic Turning -Point. This is the completion, in our time, of the gigantic cycle of revolution of the great universe. Two of the prophesies related to this time are discussed below…

 1. When the Rays of The Great Comet hit the earth, it would “suck up high” its waters.

 No details accompany this prophesy in The Grail Message . For me, this is another frightening signal of the approach of The Great Comet. The planets are made of underground and surface water to make them habitable. Surface earth water is  about 75 percent of the earth’s surface. The human body, depending on age, is between 70 and 75 percent water.  The blood has a higher water content. To kill bacteria, viruses and other microforms in any material, we dehydrate them. The moon probably is unable to support human life today because it no longer has surface water, although there seems to be some evidence that it once had rivers and streams, even if it had no seas and oceans. So, the sucking up  high of the earth’s water bodies should be of concern to every-one. Have we not seen that even sun stroke does kill when the temperature is so high that it sucks a lot of water out of human and animal bodies. We humans cannot hide ourselves in the soil  like snails during such encounters. Now, we are talking about a spiritually powerful and mighty star, The Great Comet, which  will outshine our own sun several times over even when it is far, far away from i

 Tom Kay,  the American journalist, an  author of When The Comet Runs gives us some insights to what may happen. He drew inferences from the prophesies of such persons as Edgar Caycee. I juxtapose these with stories of the destruction of Atlantis the great civilisation, and of spiritual promises that, in this age, the earth would yield great treasures it entombed long ago, to preserve them, in testimonies that the earth, like other parts of creation, is no happenstance as many people think.

 I learned about  Atlantis and Atlanteans during spiritual retreat in Europe. Hitherto, I had learnt that it was a great civilisation in which  motor vehicles and  aeroplanes were not needed for road and air  travel. I learned then that transportation was carryout by  Levitation, what the Yoruba call egbe( r:m). If you live in Kano and wished to attend the wedding of your friend in Lagos,  you only had to wish it with the right words which impacted the wish on your environment and you were there within a few eye blinks. The Atlanteans also rode on dragons, a well developed flight bird which,like horses on the land, placed themselves at the disposal of mankind for air flights. The Chinese still remember the Dragon till this day. One of  the months in the year calendar of the Chinese is named after the Dragon. So unassuming were the Chinese in their respect for the Dragon that the photograph of this bird appeared about two decades ago in the packaging of a product they  introduced to Nigerian herbal medicines market. Religious- minded Nigerians  distanced themselves from this product untill the meaning behind  the dragon in Chinese folklore medicines was thoroughly explained to them. 

 Atlantis was a single land masss globally, according to Atlantis stories. The seas and the oceans were on the other side, as the Bible’s creation story inform us in Genesis. The Atlanteans over-reached themselves, shutting out the Almighty Creator from their thoughts and replacing Him, with their rulers, who were two brothers.

 During the last visit to the earth of Haley’s Comet,in 1986(so called because it was first sighted by Haley), I wrote every Thursday about it in The Guardian newspaper and even ventured  to assume that Bermuda Triangle was a force area in the earth’s atmosphere generated from the bowels of the earth where a nuclear power plant of Atlantis may have been buried when the continent was sunk. When a knowing one  knowledgeable in this  matter learned I was traveling to Europe on a spiritual retreat,he gave me a note to someone who, I later realised, was to educate me more about Atlantis. In that sanctuary, I learned the names of the two Atlanteans kings. They were Africans, signifying the role Africa may play in the unfolding Spirit Age. The moon was actually brought down nearer to the earth to purify it of all false thinking and lifestyle. And that was why in the earlier articles, I said that the stars and other bodies in the sky wre not mere decorations.

As the moon came nearer to the earth, after 49 years in which Atlanteans were warned  every seven years by special messengers, the water levels rose, the earth quaked in several places, many parts of Atlantis sank, covered by  water, particularly the Atlantic Ocean. Many oceanographers still wonder today why some parts of West Africa, fit, as in a jigsaw puzzle, with certain parts of America. Of  course, the land is not different from a bone. When a bone fracture and the parts  drift apart,  the broken ends may still fit!

 What makes the Atlantean story relevant today is the promise that, towards the end- time, the earth would release what it once swallowed.

 Nostradamus informs us that some of the events which would accompany the appearance of a huge fireball in the sky  mightier than the sun is the rising of underground water in  several parts of the earth. As the underground water rises( sucked up high, it would push up land once sunken, and the rising land would displace surface water ( oceans and seas and lagoons) over coastal lands. Followers of Nostradamus thought a country like Japan could disappear ( we have seen how tsunamis eradicated whole Islands). Nostradamus also thought parts of Britain would go. He said an Island would  rise from the bottom of the Atlantic sea, over running coastal areas below sea level and eating them up ( will parts of Lagos and other coastal regions of Nigeria disappear?). Nostradamus also said a huge lake  would appear in the Sahara desert of all places. But  doubts about this was quelled by  just the discovering of what scientists say is the second biggest aquifer( underground water) in the region !. He suggested,  as well, that religious differences globally would hit their Zenith( remember the Jihadists in almost every African country, and in Nigeria especially. Then he said, a twist would come when the Arabs raise a huge  army to invade America and finally settle scores of religion. But as  the army  would land in Western America, the land would impart them in a huge earth quake which would swallow every-one. Edgar Caycee long ago mentioned a land fault in the depths which many Americans could not agree existed until modern cameras plotted it. If the earthquake occurs and the Americans and Arabs become technologically and otherwise devitalised, if Japan goes, if Britain is shocked, if western Europe becomes comatose, would  we have cars, aeroplanes, television, water purifying chemicals for the water works, imported second hand clothes from Europe? Would life in Nigeria not be drastically re-defined?

 Nostradamus said the new land that would rise from the Atlantic ocean would be a  new haven of existence for those escapees from America who will make the journey there. New vegetation would flourish every where, he said. But, first, the nose of mankind would first have  been rubed in the dust. Every-one would quake within, would be shattered, would seek God, would recognise that their conceptions of Him had been built on false interpretations of the messages He once sent,  His servants and, later,  His  Envoys to bring to humanity. The  messages, after the departure of these faithful servants and envoys, were adulterated to sut the whims  and caprices, under the guidance of Lucifer, of religious leaders who used them as platforms for influence and power.

 Weather Changes…

 The Great Comet will bring weather  catastrophies. This prediction is in all the prophesies about the age in which we now are, The Spirit Age. When we hear them, the tendency is for us to think only of floods and draught, poor food crop harvests and pestilences associated with weather changes. I believe it was  Nostradamus who  provided some details. He said the  poles of the earth would reverse themselves. From elementary geography, we learn of the North Pole and The  South Pole.  They are two ends of a giant magnet, one end pointing northward, the other southward. Both poles generate strong magnetic fields. Together with the constituents of the earth atmosphere, these magnetic fields protect the earth against solar radiations and some other radiations from outer space dangerous  to plant, animal and human life.

 In high school geography, we learned about True North. The true north is the northern end of the giant magnet. It hardly shifts. Its shift may be calamitous. What many scientists believe is shifting is not the True North or Geographic Pole but the poles of these magnetic field or force emanating from the True North and South Poles. The Magnetic Fields and the Atmosphere bounce away from  the earth those harmful solar radiations and other radiations that may cause genetic and other damage in plants, animals and humans on earth. The shifts in  these magnetic field poles may have disastrous ends. If Nostradamus says the poles of the True or Geographic Poles would reverse and scientists, using mathematical computer simulations to test his hypothesis doubt him, it is possible they  have no  idea  of what “catastrophies climatic changes”  The Great Comet may bring.

 In the article titled When North Goes South and published by  Christ Holt on  September 14, 2021, he says:

 “Something odd is happening to Earth’s magnetic field. Over the last 200 years, it’s been slowly weakening and shifting its magnetic north pole (where a compass points, not to be confused with the geographic north pole) from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia. In recent decades, however, that slow shift south has quickened — reaching speeds upwards of 30 miles per year (48 kilometers per year). Could we be on the brink of a geomagnetic reversal, in which the magnetic north and south poles swap places?

 “Magnetic field came into existence at least 4 billion years ago, and earth’s magnetic poles have reversed many times since then. Over the last 2.6 million years alone, the magnetic field switched 10  times and, because the most recent occurred a whopping 780,000 years ago, some scientists believe we are overdue for another”.

 Some scientists say, there have been 183 pole reversal in 83 million years  and several hundred times in the last 160 million years. The time intervals are irregular they say, with all events averaging 300,000 years. The last pole reversal was about 780,000 years ago. During magnetic pole reversal, the magnetic field weakens but does not disappear. Scientists believe, too, that multiple polar shift  may occur, causing about nine percent weakening in the magnetic force in the average in the last 200 years. It is also speculated that the magnetic forces weakend significantly about 41,500 years ago but the shifted poles reversed  themselves about 500 years late. They reckon that, nevertheless, the magnetic poles may “decay” in about 1,300 years. While we continued to witness increased frequency and magnitude of floods, air, storms, earth quaked and fires in many countries which may be signals that something more stupendous may be in the offing for  humanity, of more immediate concern to governments and scientists is the The North Atlantic Anomaly. This is the weakest point of earth magnetic pole field which has exposed about 20.3 per cent of the earth surface to infiltration of dangerous radiations from  space.

 Consequences

 There are several serious consequences of the time in which  we stand for humanity.  One American study shows that solar storms are  beginning to affect sensitive business equipment and may make flying unsafe. It suggests they can cause the united states 41.5 USD every day.  If America shuts down on account of this, so many countries which depend on American civilisation information Technology (IT), Artificial Intelligence(AI) and the liked of them  may go, paralysing banking, national citizen identification and technology driven business and lifestyles, among others.

 lauren Fuge says, in  Cosmos magazine under the  title Magnetic  Reversal Caused  Massive  Clamatic Shift :

 “About 42,000 years ago, a reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles triggered massive climate shifts and caused environmental changes to sweep across the globe, according to new Australian-led research.

 Scientists have long known that the planet’s magnetic field periodically flips, with the north and south poles switching places. The last known reversal – which were temporary and technically known as the “Laschamps excursion” – occurred 41,000–42,000 years ago. If such an event happened today, it would wreak havoc on satellites and electrical grids, but its environmental impact is less well understood.

 “This new study, published in Science, suggests that the Laschamps excursion coincides with significant environmental and ecological changes, including growing ice sheets, mass extinctions, and even the rise of cave art.

 “To learn this, the researchers built a precisely dated atmospheric radiocarbon record using the tree rings of massive subfossil New Zealand kauri trees (Agathis australis) that were alive during this period. Not only did the trees record changes in radiocarbon levels during the pole reversal, but the growth rings also acted as a natural timestamp.

 “For the first time ever, we have been able to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch,” says Chris Turney, co-lead author of the study from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

 “Using the ancient trees we could measure, and date, the spike in atmospheric radiocarbon levels caused by the collapse of Earth’s magnetic field.”

 This allowed the researchers to build a detailed timeline of how Earth’s atmosphere changed, showing there was a significant increase of radiocarbon during the Laschamps excursion. They compared this with other records of environmental changes from caves, ice cores and peat bogs, and then incorporated it into global climate models to look at the environmental impacts.

 “Most previous research had focused on what happened during the reversal, when the magnetic field was reduced to 28percent of its current strength. But this study reveals the most dramatic impacts occurred into the lead-up to the reversal, when the field dropped to 0–6 per cent of its current strength.

 “Unfiltered radiation from space ripped apart air particles in earth’s atmosphere, separating electrons and emitting light – a process called ionisation,” Turney explains. “The ionised air ‘fried’ the ozone layer, triggering a ripple of climate change across the globe.”

 ” Several other major events also occurred around 42,000 years ago, including the disappearance of Australian megafauna and the extinction of the Neanderthals. Both could be linked to these widespread environmental changes, perhaps partially due to an inability to adapt.

 “Over the past 170 years, the earth’s magnetic field has weakened by around nine per cent, leading scientists to speculate that a reversal might be imminent. Increased exposure to solar storms and other cosmic radiation could be devastating to our satellites and electrical infrastructure – and Turney warns it could be devastating to the climate, too.

 “Our atmosphere is already filled with carbon at levels never seen by humanity before,” he says. “A magnetic pole reversal or extreme change in Sun activity would be unprecedented climate change accelerants.”…

•To be continued

Awesome is the picture of our immediate environment in the world or creation,  as shown in the second part of this series. The star of Bethlehem or the Radiant Star, a greeting from the Almighty Father to the love of God, Jesus, when He was born in Bethlehem, probably  took  thousands of years travelling at unimaginable speed from paradise  to our earth. We learn from revealed knowledge today that The Great Comet, from the origin of the Radiant Star but coming to fulfill the Justice of God, was probably released thousands of  years ago to arrive on earth in our time, which  is the  Age of spiritual Enlightenment. I am still enthralled by the size of the world which keeps expanding as  I am amazed by the outcome of the visitation of the Great Comet.  Please permit me a brief reminder of some of the images of Christmas memorial which I said  make the season a contemplative one for me, rather than a holiday season spent in revelry on  dance floors or at banquets.

The first part of the series is about my understanding developed from about 1977, that is over  45 years, of Biblical stories of the birth and  earth- life of Jesus. It mentioned, also, revelations or prophesies of the coming of a star mightier than all known stars which, on its way to the earth,would create significant  changes in the environment It passes through, and on earth where it would outshine our sun even from far, far away from it! As I said, I first learned of The Great Comet in the 1970s from The Grail Message and from interpretations of the predictions of Nostradamus. Tom Kay, an American Journalist, did a great  job in my view of stringing together in his book, When The Comet runs, prophesies of a possible End Time which he believed were related. These prophesies included those of The Bible’s Prophet Ezekiel, Mother Shipton, EdarCaycee, Nostrasdamus and The  Grail Message. I had the priviledge of reviewing the first edition of this book for a newspaper.

For the second part of this series, I was encouraged by my small understanding of the cubical space in Creation in which everything which exists has its allotted space, to contemplate the space allotted to the stars which,  in our own part of the World, is called Coarse Gross Matter. Gross Matter is all we  can see, touch, feel and investigate with scientific tools. Above it is  Medium  Gross  Matter, which is the domain of the non physical forms  of the spoken word. Many people do not know that there are beings who mould our words and thought into non physical forms which are commensurate with their nature.  Thus,  evil words like evil thoughts, may be moulded into those phantoms and demons which some times torment us in our dreams, affect our daily activities or await us in the so-called beyond to deal with us when we leave the earth. Above Medium  Gross Matter is Fine Gross Matter ,where our   thoughts are woven into Thought Forms. Many of us believe thought are free because neither us nor our neighbours, except they are clairvoyant, can see them. Yet, they are  woven into tangible forms which, like those of the spoken word, are attached to us. They torment or assault us or support our existence, depending on our nature and theirs which they swirl around us. Ugly thought forms are frightening things to imagine in their activities when they  are ignited into fairy by such a powerful visitor to our environment as The Great Comet. Above Gross Matter is Etheral Matter and above Etheral matter is the Anismistic realms, or origins of the souls of animals, Nature beings, Elemental  beings and their leaders, including the giants. Many pure children still see the gnomes, elves and salamanders.They work in the soil,  in  gardens and in the fields. Another group, the elemental beings, shape matter into different forms such as plants, trees, rocks, planets, the material stars, streams and rivers, oceans and seas, water, air, fire and earth.

Some Nigerians still  worship  water spirits. The Egyptians recognised there were beings in the sun, and worship them. Back home, our fore fathers recognised that some beings live in rocks or big trees such as the Iroko tree. Some Nigerian villagers worship beings in their streams. Some people are called rain doctors. They know about the beings which make rain to fall and work with them. How does the cock know it is 4.am, 12 noon or 4.pm and unfailingly crows by the hour? The Yoruba knew there are beings that move about at such times which, on unknown to us humans any more, cause changes in the colour and sound of particular times of the day. They believe it is to these changes in colours and sounds that the cock crows. 

How would the Egyptians, without building machinery, have built their Pyramids without the help of elemental being. Who taught our ancestors to differentiate edible food crops and medicinal herbs from poisonous ones? There is a ” powerful” popular Yoruba tree which is widely believed to keep witches away from  wherever it is planted. There are herbs with specific healing powers. They lie within the province of the animistic forces. Just  think about fish, creyfish    and periwinkles in the streams. Why are they still abundant despite human feasting on them everyday  for hundreds, if not thousands of years?

Finally, above the animistic realm are the seven spheres of Lower paradise and, above them, the seven spheres of Upper Paradise. It is against this background that the coming of the Great Comet to the earth is situated in as far as these pages may permit space. To recall how expansive or huge Coarse Gross Matter alone can be, here is an exerpt from the second part of this series…

Star Size

“I would like to mention the sizes of some stars and our earth to invite attention to the wonderous nature of our universe through which The Great Comet is travelling towards us. They are gigantic and moving on their courses, guided by invisible and invincible forces which do not make them collide. What may happen if these forces are disarranged may be unimaginable. Yet, it may happen”.

“The diameter of the earth is…12, 742 kilometers…the diameter of the sun is 1.3927 million kilometers. This makes it 109 times wider than the earth… Uy scuti… said to be the widest among the stars, is about 1,700 times as wide as our sun…”

The Great Comet

The Grail  Message mentions some of the impacts it would make, and these validate some of the old prophesies and emerging scientific probabilities. Among these are

1. Blood diseases will plaque the earth.( The  World Health organisation (WHO) and Bill Gates have suggested another pandemic would hit the earth in 2025),

2. It would suck earth water high up ( this may cause loss of coastal towns  and rise of land in the Atlantic Ocean),

3. The earth would quake when encircled by its rays,

4. It would bring weather catastrophies,

5. All that is dead in creation will be awakened to pass judgement upon itself,

6. It would sweep away all unnaturalness,

7. It would provide  opportunities for attornment for sins to  those persons  who made the Mission of Jesus traumatic or inconclusive,

8. Knowing persons who look upon the Almighty Creator in calm confidence in the midst of these harrowing events would have restful respite.

 Blood Diseases

These would be a signal that The Great Comet is on the way. Recently, there has been global alerts of the resurgence of diseases previously thought had been conquered. There has been a resistance of several others. These observations are attributed to resistance of bacterial and viruses to antibiotics and antiviral medications. Hardly are they linked to possible effects of The Great Comet. Not even  COVID-19 was linked to  the possible effects of any event in the Comos, although an Indian youth suggested the probability of a new star constellation.  The stars are not mere decorations in the sky, as stated in the second part of this series. When they form a family group, this is called a constellation. The constellation produces a mixture of radiations which produce certain effects not only in space but also wherever they impact on earth.

Towards the end of 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Bill  Gates predicted another pandemic for 2025, three years from now.  In the 1920s, when the earth slipped into the piecints of a new Astrological Age that would run for about 2,156 years, according to many astrologers, the Grail Message advised that the Great  Comet was on the way and would bring weather caterstrophies.

Today, about 100 years after, humanity lives in fearof Climate Change. Incidentally, the universe itself, comprising the spheres of matters, was concluding in gigantic circle which Astrologers  say may have taken  about 30 million years. In revealed knowledge, there is as yet no time line for this great circle. Any one who remembers Carl Sagan, that great American Astrophysicist, Astronumer, University teacher and much more should remember that equally great controversy of the 1970, 80s and 90s regarding whether fish fall with rain.

I join the controversy in Nigeria with news paper articles on genesis, Biogenesis, abiogenesis and spontaneous generation of life. There were reports in many parts of the earth, including Australia, India, Sri Lankan,  Thailand and the United States, among others, of fish dropping with rain during thunderstorms.  Many scientists thought the thunderstorms carried the small specie of fish into the clouds which brought them back to the earth! There were counter arguments, too, that  the fish could be signals to mankind that the earth had come under the influence of a new Astrological Age, Aquarius. If this was the case, the relevant Cosmic Radiations may have produced the fish as a sign of the new time.

When we consider radiations of the new age with those of the  Great Comet and those of the Cosmic Turning Point, we may see the earth swirling in a sea of radiations.  In this new Age, spiritual knowledge is to be expanded for humanity on earth, which is a school for their spiritual development.

Every new Astrological Age, say Astrologers, brings significant changes in the development of inhabitants of the earth, especially in their culture, society and politics. We are  said to be  now  in the Aquarian Age. Blood Diseases have been growing in proportion for some time. More and more people in Nigeria, young or old, men or women, are coming now with cancer of all sorts. We may not rule out the possibility  of new radiations in COVID-19 pandemics  and the one Bill Gates and WHO say may come in 2025. Ebola, too, is knocking at the door like Monkey Pox while COVID-19 is still trying to raise its heads. 

For as The Great Comet streams towards us, it would exert influences on the  stars which, in turn, will exert influences on the earth.  The Radiations of The Great Comet will strike the earth in many places and eventually encompass it. These influences will be through the processes of radiations. It is becoming clear  nowadays that everything is Radiation at the end of the day.

Radiations are only covered with material substance in the  material spheres of existence to make  them physically tangible. That is why the human Spirit who inhabits an earth body is not that body and that body falls apart  from it in death when the spirit steps  away for whatever reason(s). If you rear rabbits and you dare to pick rabbits babies with your bare hands, the mother rabbit would reject them thereafter, because it would smell your hands (oh, your Radiations) on them. If you wear second hand clothes, you may connect  with the owner of those clothes through a dual carriageway of Radiations (the owner to the clothes, and the clothes you… and you to the clothes and the clothes to the owner… remember that the Radiations of Jesus pass through His garment and from His garment to the woman with the issue of blood who touched it… remember also , that Jesus asked “who touch me, for I perceived power come out of me”.

Remember, also that Elisha asked for the garment of Elijah). Who knows what disseases both of you owner and wearer of used clothes  would be transmitting to each other? If you leave one of the rooms in your house uninhabited for long,  you would notice it would begin to go stale, not necessarily from dust or cobwebs but more because of a lack or abscence of human radiations to maintain it. Haven’t we noticed that village mud houses built over 100 years ago and inhabited still stand whereas their uninhabited counterparts are collapsing? More about radiations in future.

Meanwhile, as The Great Comet pursues its straight-line course towards us, it is not impossible  that many relationships among the stars would  be adjusted, leading to new brands of radiations. Together with the awesome radiations of The Great Comet,these would intensify the energy content around the earth, in its atmosphere and around it. Afterall, the earth itself is a product of  these and other radiations and must respond or adjust to them.

So must the human and other inhabitants  and material converings. Elsewhere in this series, it was suggested that  the  giant Dinosaur, a member of the reptile family, disappeared from the earth where stellar radiations which maintained  them disappeared. That is a hint that the human species, too, may disappear someday if it becomes no longer worthy of radiations to maintain it. We all speak of and look forward to the Millienium, a thousand earth years of peace, when  the will of man would be bound and only The Will of God would  prevail. We little understanding, though,that the Will of God is the Holy Spirit Who does not forgive our sins like the “Father” and Son” and that, we are in the  Age of the Holy Spirit. We little understand,too, that, should the human species fail again after the Millienium it  could be annihilated. We look into the staring night and observe “Work Tools” of the Millienium or an annihilation but, alas, do not recognise them for what they are!

As The Great Comet streams towards us,and its energy energises our sphere of existence the more,there would be some of us human spirits who would be able to bear the intensified radiations. But there will also be many  of  us who would be unable to stand them. We are all human spirit sparks from out of the radiations of God,that “breath of Life” breathed into mud bodies to give them a semblance of life. These sparks are meant to glow and bloom into a flame strong enough in energy terms to withstand the energy of Lower Paradise. That is why we  have spent thousands of years in the material spheres, transversing  one astrological  Age and another, but failing to grow and  mature.

One of the consequences of this failure is  that , with the coming of a new Age and higher energy outpouring commensurate with that higher Age, human  spirits immature for that Age would  be scorched,if not burnt out, and strong ones able to survive in the new energy regime would be strengthened by it. This  is in keeping with the  natural law under which energy is withdrawn from the one who fails to use it and giving to the one who has more  need for it.  And since the human spirit is responsible for the formation of the human body  with which it covers itself, and the formation of the blood through  which it controls its body through  weaves of radiations, a sickly  or scorched spirit will produce sickly and weak blood which, in turn, will  produce a sicky and weak human body.

That is why, except in emergencies, we should not rush into blood transfusions! I am not a Jehovah Witness. I do not know how Witnesses came  by the knowledge to avoid blood transfusions. I come from the knowledge that no two persons are the same, that each person produces his or her  blood for himself or herself, and that, therefore, one person’s blood may temporarily sustain physical health in one person but may affect -effective spiritual activity in the recipient. How to help such recipients regain balance as quickly as possible is another  subject altogether. 

Meanwhile,we should take blood and strange diseases far more seriously. For they may be a matter of spiritual life or death. We are in a New Age. Star specialists call  it  The Acquarian Age. Last century, we saw fish fall with rain in different parts of the earth but soon forgot  about it. Today, we are like primary school children who went through secondary school ( the different Ages) and ended up before professors in the university, having added no academic values beyond primary education. Isnt  that the way we stand today in the wonderful  School of Life that Creation  Is?

• To be continued

When we hear of the star of Bethlehem and of the great comet, one simple way of understanding what they are is to look at our childhood “twinkle,twinkle little stars” on a starry night. Always, there is an uncountable number of them blinking or twinkling and appearing to be no bigger than a pin head or a ball pen point. They are so small only because they are far, far away. Actually, our sun, scorching and dangerous to view with an unaided eye, is a star! It appears so big and easily visible only because it is just 93 million miles (146.6 kilometers) away.

The nearest star from our sun is called Proxima Centauri. But it is not a distinctive star as such. It belongs to a company of three related stars.The other two stars, called Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri     B, are closely related although 23 times the distance between the sun and the earth i.e 23 x 14. 6 million kilometers. In mathematical terms which my brain cannot catch, this is a whooping 40, 208, 000,000,000. Isn’t that 146 trillion kilometers?

I do not intend to bore you with mathematics. I never liked the subject at school. Infact, it wasn’t among my  “O” level subjects because mathematics was not a compulsory subject in 1968!. I am only trying to show how expensive our universe can be and how more mature we can be on earth in everything we do if only we pay a little more attention to what is going on beyond our noses on this lowly planet.

In August 2016, NASA scientists discovered a planet around Centauri B which is believed to be rocky, 1.3 times the size of the earth and habitable if its atmosphere permits water to run on the surface. The planet is 4.5 million miles (about 7.3km) away from the planet which it orbits in every 11.2 earth days. If we recall that the earth orbits our sun in 365 or 366 earth days, life on this planet must be extremely fast at an orbit time of 11.2 earth days. Scientists have discovered what they say may be a second planet orbiting Centauri B and are working to establish if it, too, can support life.

Star Sizes

I would like to mention the sizes of some stars and our earth to invite attention to the wonderous nature of our universe through which The Great Comet is travelling towards us. They are gigantic and moving on their courses, guided by invisible and invincible forces which do not make them collide. What may happen if these forces are disarranged may be unimaginable. Yet, it may happen.

The diameter of the earth is…12, 742 kilometers. That is what you will measure if you run a tape rule from one point round the spherical globe and back, as in running the Tailor’s tape round the waist from the navel, round the body and back to the navel.

The diameter of the sun is 1.3927 million kilometers. This makes it 109 times wider than the earth. Thus, if the power which puts it up there asks the sun to fall upon the earth, where shall we all be?

Now, let us see how wide the largest star may be. uy scuti, the star, thought to be the widest among the stars, is about 1,700 times as wide as our sun. What commotion may arise in the universe if the star loses balance?

Ladies and gentlemen, finally in this introduction to The Great Comet, as this  huge star and more powerful star outside our universe, is on its way to visit us, I wondered about which star could be farthest from our earth and how long it may take us to reach it. This star, say astronomers, is called…ICARUS.

It is an enormous blue star said to be between and 500 times more massive than our sun. This star is about 12.9 billion years old and millions of times as bright as our sun. Even this star is a baby star when The Great Comet stands beside it.

If you are to travel from the earth to icarus, it will take you nine billion years at the speed of light which is 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,000 miles per square second. Poor you, the fastest commercial jet liner will crawl like a snail at 2,180 kilometers per hour. Even a space craft may be of no use, flying at about 40,000 kilometers an hour or 25,000 miles an hour. The light we see from the “twinkle Little stars” comes from the burning of hydrogen and helium gases inside them. Like all things, stars also die. That is when the spiritual forces which hold their material parts together (the breath of life) is withdrawn. Dead stars become black holes.

Black Holes

The Grail Message describes them as “funnels of disintegration”. When a material planet such as the earth is due for its Final Judgement and is, therefore, literally speaking, to “die”, a black hole will suck it in  from one end and spew it out at the other end in the form of gases and dust, which will be reformed into new celestial forms by the forces of nature. Human beings who are still existing on such a planet at that time will also suffer disintegration of their physical bodies and spiritual egos. This amounts to spiritual death or final death. It was to prevent spiritual death for earth men and women that the Divine Mission of Jesus to the earth, for which Christmas is a warning memorial, was set up as an emergency act of Grace. The star of Bethlehem accompanied Him on that mission from paradise as a greeting from the Father. The Great Comet which The Grail Message says is on the way is coming to spiritually purify the earth for the promised Millenium before The Last Judgement

Scientists say some black holes, the size of an atom, may harbour the mass or content of many mountains. This makes them very dense. One hypothesis says that if the match box size of a black hole is placed on the soil in any part of the earth, it will automatically bore its way through the earth crust and come out at the other end, leaving a channel hole behind. There are also stellar black holes. These are black holes made of dead suns. Some stellar black holes may contain the mass or content of 20 suns. In every galaxy in the universe, there are many black holes. A galaxy is a collection of many solar systems. The earth belongs to the Galaxy called The Milky Way, because it looks milky when observed from the earth. Scientists say that there are many stellar black holes in the galaxies, and that every galaxy has a super massive black hole formed at the same time the Galaxy was formed. The super massive black hole in our galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It is said to have capacity to store the mass or content of four million suns or several million Earths. It is around Sagittarius A that the entire Milky Way galaxy revolves as our solar system revolves around the sun.

Stars are, therefore, not decorations in the sky. Everything which exists has a purpose for coming into being. When a group of stars relate, as in a constellation (family), they produce unique radiations (emanations) which affect us on Earth. Certain radiations of the constellations produce certain plant or animal species on earth or support their well-being. The dinosaur, a group of reptiles, some dimunitive, others fearsome giants, and dominated several parts of the earth for between 140 to 160 million years or more before the stellar radiations which supported their existence disappeared because the stars which form them no longer worked together for that purpose. We humans have different skin complexions because we are meant to experience existence in different parts of the earth bathed with different stellar radiations! It should be obvious from the foregoing that, when The Great Comet enters the community of the stars, it would cause such changes in their arrangements which would bring about new constellations and, with them, new radiations hitting the earth which the souls of humans, like their earth bodies, may have not prepared for.

The World

Before I come to possible effect of The Great Comet on the earth, I would like to quickly relate it with the structure of The World. The world is not the earth as we erroneously call it in our earthly vocabulary. It is like a grain of sand in The World. The world is the gigantic, ever expanding structure known ascreation, from paradise where The  Great Comet coming from, to the Earth, it’s outpost. Since the stars are what  I have been looking at, I would begin the survey from below up, as man always does, and later from the above down, as revealed knowledge educates us. It is  important to note that a significant star always appears on Earth when spiritual knowledge is about to be expanded or is being expanded in this great school.

Bottom, UP…

The earth and the stars belong to the world of Gross Matter, that is all material or physically tangible things which exist and we can see or touch or detect using aids such as microscopes.

Gross matter has three major divisions…(a) Coarse gross matter b)medium gross matter and (c)Fine gross matter. We live in coarse gross matter. The forms created by our spoken words await us in medium gross matter, on our way, upwards, to paradise. Our thoughts are converted into forms (beautiful or demonic) in fine gross matter.

Above the gross material spheres of existence lies ethereal matter with its various gradations as well. Above ethereal matter lies the animistic spheres. The souls of animals originate here and will return there  after they become fully developed on Earth and elsewhere. Nature beings and elemental beings, such as the ones seen by Balaam in the old testament like Giants and their leaders come from here. They formed the material spheres, including the stars, over millennia.

Paradise, the eternal realms of the human spirit, lie above the animistic spheres. It has two broad divisions, each with seven realms of existence. The upper division, as stated in the first part of this series, is the world of human spirits created by God in his image. The beings here have no need to come to the earth. The Great Comet is coming from this realm, like the Star of Bethlehem, The Radiant Star,to visit to the earth, though for a different purpose from the former.

The second or bottom realm is part of paradise. Human spirit seed germs who could not develop in upper paradise and who had to journey to the earth for this purpose will eventually return to lower paradise, if they successfully develop themselves in the world of matter, gross or ethereal. For want of the right expression, I sometimes imagine  that  we earth men and earth women are “premature babies” from paradise who exist in “incubators” on earth. In the final analysis in our home or the bottom portion of paradise, we cannot be anything beyond Shadows of the Created Images, for we are merely developed or evolved beings!. Yet we make so much fuss about Jesus coming to personally lead us home to sit on the right hand of his father!

World Events

These are not necessarily earth events but, as explained, events within the structure of creation. This comprises

1) upper paradise

2) lower paradise

3) animistic realms

4) ethereal spheres

5)material Spheres.

Everything which exist above is replicated below though in less beautiful terms. Thus, as there are stars in gross matter the sizes and brightness of which amaze us, there are stars, also, in upper paradise. The Book of Revelations in the Bible gives a hint of this in the story of a pregnant woman in the birthing process who was attacked by the dragon and whose son was rescued and taken before the throne of God. The Dragon’s tail dragged a third of the stars to the “earth”. These events did not take place in paradise or our earth, but in the Divine world which also has a tangible land surface of divine material. The woman was not Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus on Earth.  She is a Divine personality known  as Elizabeth or the queen of Heaven, or Primordial Mother a prototype of what every woman in  creation, including the earth, should be, tending and caring. The Divine child, queen Elizabeth was reported to be heavy with was not Jesus.  Jesus had left our earth upon his murder on the cross. For his murder, the Lamb,  one of the four animal beings at the foot of God’s throne, bore testimony with a bleeding wound. This was because it was the One among the Animal Beings most spiritually inclined to humanity,  to the spiritual specie of Creation. The Wound and the Blood are testimonies at the foot of God’s throne of the failure of humanity on earth and in the other material spheres. So, when we speak of “the lamb which beareth the sins” of the world, this is the meaning, the accusation of ingratitude against humanity. In the child that will rule the earth with the “rod of iron”, we are allegorically presented with the preparation of the mission of The Holy Spirit in its infancy  of which Jesus spoke (please see the first part of this series). He was “caught” to the throne of God, we are told. Only from this height could anyone come who could overcome Lucifer, the Anti Christ bind him for the millennium of a thousand years and “restore the power of God’s Christ”. Lucifer knew the mission would terminate his unlawful activities, and power and influence over mankind, so he tried to destroy the woman and the child (The Mission, in its infancy).

The Guardian

Three journalists in Nigeria were first among their professional peers to come to these recognitions. Their insights prepared them to position the newspapers on which they worked to enlighten their readers of these events when time was ripe. Prince Tony Momoh, as editor of the Daily Times, was the first. In 1978, Femi Kusa, one of the newspaper’s sub editors , walked into Prince Momoh’s office to wish him a beautiful  Festival of The Radiant  Star. . Prince Momoh was startled but rejoiced. As Oyinlde Bonuola (aka Ladbone) was Kusa’s closest colleauge, it was only natural that, in time, Bonuola’s insights expanded as well. When the Daily Times appeared politically handicapped for this task, The Guardian opened its portals. Anyone who still wonders why Bonuola and Kusa literally worked their hearts out on this newspaper, did not abuse their offices and had no more than N5000 at part in their bank accounts when they had to set off from The Guardian, despite being the two most senior powerful editorial helmsmen, may now see that matters other than pecuniary benefits engaged their vision. Thanks to Barrister Kierian Enechi, who lent them money to register The Comet, their own newspaper.

If I may drop other clues…. The name the comet was Bonuola’s idea. Jossy Ajiboye, the popular Daily Times cartoonist, designed the logo. Bonuola, a conservative journalist, wanted the typography so conservative it would have the effect of leading the readers back to the good, old days, away from the ruinous contemporary lifestyles. The insignia of the comet could not be placed before the logo, the name plate, because it would not flow well into it. So, Kusa placed it after the logo. This way, insignia of The Great Comet, flowed into the name plate or logo from the East. Actually, The Great Comet to come to our world in a straight line from the East!

Back to The Guardian newspaper… thanks for the  contributions of Dr Okey Ikechukwu, a philosophy  lecturer from  the University of  Lagos,and Mr Jacob Akindele, an economist,the Editorial Opinion ( OPED) pages provided insights   into transcendental  or Spirit Age enlightenment.  Dr Stanley Macebuh was a thorough intellectual  from the background of the History of ideas. By intellectual,I mean he  believed only in what he could see,hear or touch,all within the bounds of time and space.  But he nevertheless, bowed to superior opinion which, of course, transcends time and space. Dr Tunji Dare who succeeded him as Editorial page Editor was no less  broad minded and a fervent defender of truth. And the Publisher,Mr Alex Urueme Ibru? Innner struggles for spiritual enlightenment led him back to school in a Bible College in the Middle- East, the insights of which he brought to bear on the Ibru Centre Bible College he founded in his home town Agbhara- Otor on his return.

Alas, as  with  everything and everywhere on Earth where the darkness still  has a powerful foothold because of the foibles, spiritual indolence and inevitable narrow mindedness of mankind, the  darkness hissed, evoking and provoking conflicts which confronted The Guardian dream!.

•Next  week: The Spirit age.

If you have to access a man or a woman for his or her networth, ignore the sounding brass and noise maker. Humility and unassumedness is the off shoot of greatness! Imagine what would have happened in Bethlehem on the night Baby Jesus was born if the wife of the governor of Judea had a baby in the town that night. Sirens may have been blaring and many soldiers would have barricaded several streets adjourning the hospital for security purposes. The nation’s best doctors, nurses and facilities would have been in attendance. On that day, One that one may call a co-owner of our gigantic universe, for want of the right expression, had to be born in a manger where shepherd kept and fed their sheep! Even the only signs which marked Him out as a stranger in our world remained invisible to the high and mighty of that time, including the leaders of religion who fastidiously awaited His arrival as prophesised. There was the dove, spiritually visible sign of the Holy Spirit, above the Head. The cross of Truth, the sign of God, stood behind him. Above the manger stood the star that became known as the star of Bethlehem. It was the Radiant star, which detached itself from its orign in the spiritual realms, paradise , to accompany Jesus on His mission to our earth, as a greeting from the father. Only few men on earth were called to recognise it and what it represented in the Divine Mission to the earth. The cycle of the AGE OF THE Father was closing. In its place, the cycle of the AGE OF THE SON was opening. Some day, this age, too, would close its cycle and usher in the AGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which, as Jesus would speak about in the course of His earth Mission, would proclaim the judgement or END TIME.  Didn’t Jesus instruct that whenever he went away, the spirit of Truth would come to remind humanity of His Message, reprove the world of sin and then proclaim the judgement?                          

   In the age of the Holy Spirit, another Spiritual star would detach from the spiritual world in support of the Anchorage on Earth of the WILL OF GOD or justice of God, the holy spirit.  What a semblance it would be with the time of Jesus. Only a wonder in the sky when it probably would have been too late would suggest to humanity that something stupendous is going on. That wonder in the sky is the Great Comet, of which several predictions have been made, including those by Tomkay, in his wonderful book, When The Comet Runs, Prophet Ezekiel,  the Bible’s book of revelations, and in the Grail message In the Light of Truth by Abd-ru-shin.  All these revelations speak of the great star as coming from the abode of the star of Bethlehem, but much, much larger than it, standing by our sun when it enters our world, outshine our sun several times day and night and cause gravitational and other changes in the universe which would have serious influence on the earth.

  Meanwhile, surrounding Baby Jesus in that manger in Bethlehem on Holy night was an Heavenly Host who accompanied Him to the earth for His mission.  Seen  by  the three wise men, what does the scenario teach us?  The “heavenly host”, comprising angels and other non-angelic beings dwelling in “heaven”, were temporarily on earth to which they accompanied Baby Jesus for a purpose.

Bible Stories

Every Christmas season, such as this one, I loosen myself into Bible stories for whatever new deep recognitions of them I may have. This time, I return to my story of creation and the purpose of earthly existence which makes the most logical sense to me. In this story, the Creator of creation predated creation. No one has ever seen him nor will ever do. Thus, he is unsubstantiate in human understanding. From splittings of messages or knowledge passed down to the earth from the “heavens”, we can gleam the following…

1) As the starting point of existence stands the Almighty Creator. He is divine and exists in a divine world in which the Angels also exist. It does not need anyone or anything to exist. Everyone and everything which exists needs the Creator to be. For the Creator is LIFE. No one in existence, including the angels,  has ever seen him or will ever do. Therefore, he is UNSUBSTANTIATE. The Creator dwells in the unsubstantiate part of the Divine world,  separated by a surging ocean of fire from the substantiate part where angels dwell .This ocean of fire spans distances which human understanding cannot fathom.  Angels  existed before THE FIRST creation  came into being. Logically, they were not part of creation.

2)  Angels are Beings who could stand the pressure of the Power of the Creator only far, far from the surging oceans of fire,  where their world exists. Beings who could not withstand the pressure and the power were, literally speaking, like icecream or  ice block in the scorching tropical African sun or in a sauce pan on gas fire. They would be unconscious and exist only in seed germ status. Even the Angels cannot cross the surging ocean of fire without losing consciousness. It is all a question of energy voltage or capacity. A lower energy cannot resist a higher energy, just as the energy of a human body cannot resist high voltage electricity.

3) We humans belong to the “SPIRIT” species in the radiations of the unsubstantiate core of the Almighty Creator. The Angels dwell in the world above ours, paradise, and belong to the Divine substantiate specie of divinity and  consciously exist where they are because they can withstand the unsubstantiate power and pressure there. Humans, too, that is the spiritual species, have the capacity for conscious existence, but only farther away from the substantiate Angels. In the process of their development in the vicinity of the Almighty Creator, they develop the longing for it.

4)  This longing of the spiritual specie  led to the allegorical statement…”Let us Create Man In Our Own Image”…It is unfathomable that this invitation went to the Angels,  for they have nothing to do with The Will Of  God,  Who carries out His will and is known as the Holy Spirit. That is why, in the Creation story, we learn that ” the spirit of God” hovered over the land.

 Sometime between the 1980s and the 1990s, the leader of one of the most popular christian sects in Nigeria announced in a front page advertisment in The Guardian newspaper that the holy spirit, and not Jesus , created the world and would come to judge it. This fits the alert of The Book of Revelations about Him “…who was, who is, and who is to come, of whom Jesus was a “Faithful Witness”. Jesus himself had suggested that “when the spirit of Truth is come, he would reprove the world of sin and proclaim the judgement.”

5)We learn the command Let There Be Light went out before the creation of man ” in the Image Of God”. The light and power of God shot through a dark and cold void  below the world of the angels to energise and warm it and bring about existence. That was the First Creation. This is the Creation of man and of paradise often spoken about.

6)Thus, in paradise, the pressure of the power of God had been sufficiently stepped down to create a kingdom or world for the spiritual specie longing for consciousness. But not all members of this spiritual specie could exist in the new kingdom given to their specie to experience life. Thus, we earth men and earth women are not the images of God in the first creation. At best, we would become, in our highest blooms, Shadows of  The  Images of God. For it was to these images that the Grace was granted to bring about the huge material worlds, Subsequent Creation, as a soil in which to sow us earthmen and women as human spirit seed germs. Why have we not wondered: Would God’s direct creation be impacted as our material world and we ourselves earth men and earth women? He is Perfection. So is the Paradise he created in which we aspire to spend eternity when we become perfect human spirits. In the state of highest perfection for our species, we would never be able to exist or to “live” in the realms of the images. Their realms are far, far above the realms we aspire to. And that was why Jesus said  that no man born of woman however great he may be, was greater than John the Baptist, an image of God called to be his Forerunner. Whenever I remember this statement, I wonder how Salome who caused the beheading of John the Baptist, and the king who ordered it to please her, would feel in the knowledge of their smallness and abuse of earthly political authority!

Earthman

The material world  is like a soil for the planting of immature spiritual seed germs. So, we earth men and women were planted there to germinate, flower and bear  fruit. Like everything which exists, this soil has a time it came into being, a lifespan and a time it would pass away. The law of the cycle ensures that every beginning flows to an end, which is the beginning. Thus, evaporated water returns as rain, inhailed air is exhaled, blood flows from the heart and returns there. Food and water intakes, return to the soil, and night and day, like the seasons, follow this path, all driven by The Law of Motion which compels everything, even the clouds, air, sea waves etc, to be on the move. For the earth, the End Time is when its cycle would close, and it would be disintegrated, “pass away” as Jesus said, for  its primeval materials to be reconfigured into a new stronger planet.

7) Meanwhile, the spiritual seed germs sown in the soil of matter were not maturing as planned, and the time allotted for this, was running out. They risked disintegration (spiritual or final death) in the disintegration of the earth. Lucifer, stately  and powerful archangel appointed to guide them, had caused many  to “fall” by not tending them with supporting or helpful love as commanded by the Creator, but had introduced the Principle of Temptation. This was a wrong “gardening technique” which despised the weak ones and left them to their fate in an evil sifting of the strong from the weak instead of supporting them all in Helpful  Love. Time was running out. Some souls who did not wish to perish in the oncoming disintegration beseeched the Creator for His help. Granting this prayer, the mission to the earth of the love of God was set up.

8) All realms of existence Jubilated. A heavenly host  chosen to accompany baby Jesus to the earth was sighted by The Three Wise Men On Holy Night. They, like John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus,, arrived ahead of him. So did his disciples and other mission members such as virgin Mary, who would be his earthly mother, Pontius Pilate, who would be helped to earthly authority to protect him. The three wise men were blessed with the knowledge of astrology, which made them respectable, and they were endowed, also, with material wherewithal as shepherd. Actually, there were four of them, each representing one of the Four Pillars  of Creation. One had difficulty linking up with the three for their journey to Bethlehem. He arrived  after Joseph and Mary had fled to Egypt with  baby Jesus. In the fufillment of spiritual calls, no excuse such as waiting for others is a tenable excuse if failure occurs at one’s duty post. The three others made a mistake of revealing a prized creation secret, though in ignorance and joy, to King Herod, a minion of Lucifer who sought at every opportunity to abort the mission of Jesus. The early life of Jesus bore no special testimonial of his high mission, to carry the word of God among men,  to shine light  into the darkness spurned by men into the material world in order to help them find their way back home to paradise before the disintegration. Jesus would later find His disciples who, in the higher spheres of existence,  vowed to serve him on earth and, for this purpose had been annointed and prepared for the mission. He linked up with John the Baptist. The Jesus story will continue into the easter memorial all with reminisces of the snares luifer placed in the way to abort it.

Meanwhile, the story of the birth of Jesus affords us the opportunity to review our standing in Subsequent Creation  as we journey into the Age of the holy spirit, the herald of which is the great comet, and of which Jesus forewarned…” Sins against the father and the son will be forgiven, but sins against the holy spirit will not be forgiven.” Does this mean the Holy Spirit is superior to the father and to Jesus? Oh no! . In my view, it only means the Holy Spirit is the Will of God through whom he brought creation to being, administers it and will judge it. Jesus, the love of God, only came to warn us as an emergency act of Grace that danger was impending sooner than thought in the material spheres.

The Great Comet

Memories of the radiant star should be reminders that the Great Comet is on the way. We can also call this comet the star of Bethlehem. They have the same orign, in the spiritual world, and the same content, spiritual essence, but serve different purposes. The star of Bethlehem accompanied the love of God, Jesus, to the earth as a greeting from the father, to open the cycle of the Age of the son. The great comet is coming, to close that cycle and open that of the age of the Holy Spirit, the justice of God, and usher in the millennium during which the free will of man will be  bound and only the will of God will prevail on earth. Jesus foretold it when he said, in reference to the Holy Spirit… When he, the spirit of Truth is come, he will rebuke the world of sin and proclaim the judgement.

   In the book, when the comet runs, American journalist Tomkay pooled biblical and other prophesies of this comet, to which Nostradamus, too, must have made references in his predictions.

 My first encounter with  The Great  Comet was In The Grail Message.  It will come to our world in a straight line from the spiritual world. Closing the cycle of the Age of The Son Of God, it would offer help for repentance and forgiveness to no fewer than three major sets of persons…those, such as in Christian churches, who have distorted the pure and true teaching of Jesus to serve their cravings for earthly power and influence ;those who made the mission of Jesus not only traumatic for him but, also, inconclusive , and those called ones who pledged loyalty to the mission in the higher realms but, on earth, forgot their callings. Such groups included the four wise men, Judas Is Cariot and Pontius Pilate whose wife warned him three times to let Jesus go but feared for his job as Governor of Judea. There are predictions, too, that, before it arrives in our atmosphere, the Great Comet will hold the earth in its grip, suck up the waters and cause several earthquakes. I always remember the warning that All That is dead in Creation will be awakened to pass judgement on themselves. By this is meant that none of us would be able to hide from the judgement radiations of The Great Comet. It will be all about human nature, even those weaknesses or strengths we may no longer remember are part of our make up…envy, adultery, fornication, murder, intimidation, greed etc. They will be roused and energised so we can impact them and, in doing so, encounter persons more destructive than we are. When I hear of man aged 75 or older defiling girls aged 10 or younger, this is the picture I remember. When Russia and Ukraine are at war and the United States is backing Ukraine, that, also, is the picture. When we are hungry and cannot feed ourselves despite endowment with huge, rich arable land, that is the picture. When the world’s economy goes down, that is it. We are told all that is false in creation will inevitably collapse as the free will of man comes under bound. In this light, are not more marriages crashing than before? Is it easier today to find the right spouse? Where are jobs? What about security?  Which government worldwide is solving problems? Didn’t Isaiah say take counsel together, and the world will not stand for God is with us?