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"The Promise Key is a Rastafari movement tract by Leonard P. Howell, a Jamaican preacher. Published around 1935 under Howell's Hindu pen name G.G. [for Gangun Guru] Maragh, meaning "teacher of famed wisdom", the tract bears some similarities to the Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, without the stream-of-consciousness language, long opaque abbreviations, and repetition. Most significantly, the identities of 'King Alpha and Queen Omega' were transposed from Fitz Balintine Pettersburg and his wife as in the Royal Parchment Scroll, to Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw. This was one of the key innovations of the Howellites, and is today an article of faith of Rastafari." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
Table of Contents:
Publisher’s Preface; The Mystery Country; The False Religion; The Promised Key; Ethiopia's Kingdom; The Healing; Balm Yard; Royal Notice; How To Fast; Department; Government; Eternal Law Office; Eve The Mother Of Evil; The Rapers; Ethiopian Question; The First And The Last; Matrimonial Affidavit; Black People Black People Arise And Shine; "forward To The King Of Kings"
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Dr. W. Gabriel Selassie I is the Ralph Bunche Professor of Comparative Religion, African American Studies, and U.S. History. Dr. Selassie I earned a doctorate in history from the Claremont Graduate School. He studied under Robert Hill, the foremost scholar of Marcus Garvey at UCLA. He continued his education in theology at the University of Notre Dame and African politics at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the early books of Rastafari religion including an analysis of The Holy Piby by Robert Athlyi Rogers.
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