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  This Msn group is monitored and Managed by IRASCOM Co-op (The InIversal RasTafarI Community Cooperative) which is an organization geared towards the development of the "Inified Sovereign Nation of RasTafarI" the economic and social development of our people, the re-education of Rastas and the public, Repatriation and Reparations and the academic and technical progression of our people. When this group was created, it was not intended for Rastafari debate, doctrinal discussions or simply to feed the interest and curiosity of non-Rastas. Yet from time to time, we may see such here on this site. This group was created as a central point of Online Information, international communications and to organize and facilitate the efforts and projects of IRASCOM Inc. Its BECAUSE of our purpose, that we have attracted most of the most "conscious, serious-minded, cultural, spiritual, educated and self-taught" Rastafarians from AROUND THE WORLD....Rastas who are not concerned with idle talks and petty debates, but progression, upward and forward actions. Many Rastas find IRASCOM to be a "breath of fresh air" as Jamaican Elders called it, and a haven away from the unproductive online Rasta forums.
The Rastafari movement grew out of the darkest depression that the descendants of African slaves in Jamaica have ever lived in -- the stink and crumbling shacks of zinc and cardboard that the tattered remnants of humanity built on the rotting garbage of the dreadful Jungle on Kingston's waterfront. Out of this filth and slime arose a sentiment so pure, so without anger, so full of love, the Philosophy of the Rastafari faith. Freedom of Spirit, Freedom from Slavery, and Freedom of Africa, was its cry. Selassie was much more than just a political leader; Rasta theology centered on the divinity of Selassie as a living manifestation of Jah, the all-knowing and all-loving God." The story told by the Old Testament pertains to black Africans who descend from Abraham and Jacob. But white Christians altered this fact to keep Africans in a substandard position. Rastafarians refer to this oppression as "Babylon", with obvious references to a state of slavery and cultural tyranny that all blacks must overcome. The books of Revelation and Psalms reveal that identity to the brethren;
"Glorious things are spoken of thee, oh City of God, I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: Behold Philistia, and Tyre; with Ethiopia; this man was born there." Psalms 87:3-4
"And he hath on the vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords." Rev. 19:16
"And I saw an angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much .... and one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David had prevailed to open the book and to loose the seals thereof." Rev. 5:2-5
H.I.M.'s lineage to the throne of Solomon makes him a descendant of the root of David. It is the same root that produced Jesus Christ who, the brethren say, was one and the same with Selassie but of" an earlier dispensation." Psalm 68:4,"Sing unto God... extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH." "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair on his head like pure wool." Daniel 7:9 "For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am Black; astonishment hath taken hold of me."- Jer. 8:21  |
