The Emperor's Soul: Haile Selassie's Mind Crowned by Substance Dualism and Intelligent Design Theory
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| "Respect everyone and show special love for God's people. Honor God and respect the Emperor." Holy Bible, Contemporary English Version, 1 Peter 2:17. |
God is an eternal and immaterial mind that transcends space, matter, time and energy.¹ This mind was the necessary cosmic observer responsible for collapsing the superposition of the quantum wave packet; through the means of observation, God's mind caused the Big Bang to occur as according to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.² This same divine mind is the required author that impressed the functionally specified information contained in the genetic code into matter using the mind-body problem mechanism, at various points in time throughout history, and is thus the creator of all life on earth.³ This mind also created the laws of physics which are based upon mathematics. The fact that mathematics are merely a construct of our minds further attests to the fact that God is a mind that operates in the mental realm.⁴
"The author of a work of the mind shall have on the work he created, by the mere fact of his creation, an incorporeal right of ownership. He shall have such right regardless of the nature, form of expression, merit or purpose of the work."⁵
In creationist substance dualism (i.e., soul-creationism, not to be confused with biblical creationism), God creates each soul at conception with an inherent mind—a finite, human faculty for intellect and will. Accordingly, the fertilization of the egg, the creation of the soul and its ensoulment into the zygote all happen simultaneously.⁶ Unitarian Rastafarianism posits that the Bible is poetry written in parables, allegories and prophecies. The extent to which the scriptures are literal is dictated by the life and times of Emperor Haile Selassie the First of Ethiopia and his prophet exclusively.
The Bible describes God to be a literal political sovereign (Isaiah 9:6–7) born in modern-day Ethiopia (Psalm 87:4) who rules the nation for "about the time of forty years" (Acts 13:17–18) with both titles King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16). Thus, the infinite mind of God localized itself into the newly created soul of Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael (later Emperor Haile Selassie I) at the moment of his conception in one divine act, sometime around October 1891. Since conception is rarely ever calculated to an exact day, this date is an estimate because it not only depends on ovulation and fertilization timing, which can vary, but also the technology to record this event didn't even exist during that time.
His Majesty's Lack of Self-awareness
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892–1975) was the physical manifestation of God in the flesh on earth but he was unaware of this fact himself due to natural human constraints. His political titles are the evidence of his divinity, not his self-awareness or self-proclamation.⁷
Knowing that His Majesty stated, "That education which ignores man's intrinsic nature, and neglects his intellect and reasoning power cannot be considered true education."⁸
And since, "Matter is not that which produces Consciousness, but that which limits it, and confines its intensity within certain limits."⁹
We can extrapolate that the human brain limiting the mind's consciousness is part of the intrinsic nature of man which classifies this theory as "true education" according to the Emperor's own philosophy. Consequently, we can logically conclude that His Majesty's infinite God mind/consciousness was limited by his physical brain thus preventing him from even realizing that he was God in the flesh during his time on earth. This explains why he was a devout Orthodox Christian who always spoke about God as a separate entity from himself.
"'I pardon you,' said Haile Selassie, 'but I do not know if God will.'"¹⁰
"Despite the hero worship accorded him on his visit, it is reported that the Emperor said: 'Do not worship me: I am not God. He alone is worthy of worship.'"¹¹
"He was asking the Rastafarians, to use his words, 'desist from their belief that he was God.' He said 'I'm not God, there is one God and it's not me.'"¹²
"He directly told them that he wasn't God."¹³
So when His Imperial Majesty visited Jamaica and I had the honour of speaking to him, I asked him what he thought of his being worshipped as a God. He told me that he was not a God and indeed, he was a devout Christian. I gathered from what he said that any attempt to worship him as a God was an embarassment to him.¹⁴
Multiple corroborating sources demonstrate a pattern in the Emperor's thinking:
Finally, Haile Selassie met a delegation of Rastafarians in the King's House, the governor-general of Jamaica's residence in the capital. He gave them gold medallions as gifts, but above all he tried to impress upon them that he was not the Messiah: "We are not God. We are not a prophet. We are a slave of God", he told them. He expressly proclaimed his devotion to the Christian faith, and to underline this he founded two churches — one on Jamaica and the other on Trinidad — and sent an Ethiopian bishop and several priests to work in the Caribbean.¹⁵
"I didn't want to go. But the emperor said, 'I want you to help these people. My heart is broken because of the situation of these people. Help them find the true God. Teach them.' It was the emperor's order and I could not refuse."¹⁶
His Imperial Majesty even said, "The power to decide what happens belongs to my Creator, and I am not even important enough to be called His slave."¹⁷
The fact that Emperor Haile Selassie did not know that he was God on earth takes nothing away from his divinity however. As Rastafarians, we acknowledge that he's God because he's the only person attested in history in the Common Era to simultaneously hold both political titles "King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords" as according to Psalm 87:4 and Revelation 19:16.¹⁸ His titles are the source of his spiritual authority and therefore his words, laws, political dispositions, morals and philosophies have the weight of God behind them and must be followed by all of humanity for we will be judged by him in the afterlife.
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"RAS TAFARI ELEVATED TO MIGHTY RULER: Proclaim Coronation in 70 Languages." Chicago Defender, 20 Oct. 1928, p. A1. |
The Emperor's character, humility, his genuine struggle—unscripted by human ego—allows us to verify his divinity. During his time, humanity saw a man, not a self-proclaimed deity, fulfilling prophecy (i.e., a prediction of sacred authority that assumes cosmic inevitability) through deeds (e.g., ascending the throne, inspiring Rastafarians, etc.). In retrospect, this exposed the hypocrisy of those abusing scripture for power and control. God localized into Haile Selassie's soul, and let his body fulfill the prophecies naturally, without him needing to grasp the entire cosmic scope while he was living on earth.
This ensoulment wasn't a random act but a deliberate and intentional intervention. Scripture, in this view, isn't a hazy oracle but a set of forecasts—promises of a figure who'll realign humanity's moral compass. God, observing humanity's tendency to twist religious texts for ungodly behavior (slavery, colonialism, oppression, etc.), engineered a living rebuttal: a ruler whose life will match the prophecy's criteria so precisely that it forces a reckoning. Haile Selassie's birth into Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty, his resistance to fascism, and his global stature as a symbol of justice become the fulfillment—not through magic, but through a calculated alignment of genetics, history, and circumstance.
Although his genetics are contested as being of mythological origins (the Solomonic Dynasty), mere speculation about them was one of the main causes for the Rastafarians to begin to worship him in the late 1920s and early 1930s (at least one western newspaper mistakenly proclaimed Ras Tafari as Emperor and King of Kings as early as 1928). In this regard, the Rastafarians themselves fulfilled the scriptures pertaining to the nation of Israel (Jeremiah 3:19–20, Zechariah 7:5–6, Matthew 15:8–9, Romans 9:4–6, Hebrews 3:8–10). His Majesty's limited consciousness doesn't negate his role; it enhances it—his unwitting fulfillment forces humanity to confront the scriptures' true intent and shun the common distorted misuses. The mind of God didn't need Haile Selassie's brain to agree; it just needed his life to speak.
The Late Industrial Revolution
God's physical manifestation occurred during a time known as the late industrial revolution when steam engines, steel production, and railroads crescendoed multiplying human power. Modern weapons such as explosives, machine guns, Tesla's long-distance potential of AC, Edison's bulbs, Hertz's waves, cameras, phonographs, and film all culminated to invoke God's physical manifestation on earth. These tools and technological breakthroughs weren't progress alone—they were the power to record, to destroy and to create on a mass scale. Thus humanity's rapid technological developments of weapons, energy distribution, travel, recording and communications placed God's emergence at the cusp of modernity's technological leap.
God entered the zygote of the Emperor at this specific time in order to face the horrors of the 20th century—WWI, WWII, and beyond. This ensured he'd be seen and heard: humanity's rapid and exponential advancement to destroy called him forth; its power to preserve proved he came. In hindsight, God was present in the flesh with humanity on earth during its darkest hours.
The Imperial Office as the Divine Conduit
In order for God to establish his morality on Earth he required a legal infrastructure. Once the Emperor exercised his official authority under the titles King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords, he was no longer acting as a private individual; he was acting as the Sovereign. Therefore his Imperial Office was the authoritative cosmic medium which God used to manifest his divine order.
While his subjective mind was localized within a human consciousness—sincerely practicing the traditions of Ethiopian Orthodoxy—his official acts as the head of state possessed an absolute weight that existed independently of his conscious self-awareness. When the Emperor signed a proclamation or enacted a code as the Sovereign, he was not merely a man expressing a personal opinion; he was the functional vessel using the legal instrument of the Crown through which the omniscient mind of God codified universal morality into the material world.
This objective authority is most evident in his systematic distancing of religion from government, effectively redefining the age-old closeness between Church and State. By refusing to codify sectarian rules into his national laws, he established a universal morality that transcended his personal religious beliefs. For instance, while the Emperor personally adhered to Orthodox dietary and fasting laws, he pointedly omitted them from the Penal Code to ensure the law remained a secular instrument. Even more significantly, his 1944 Kadis and Naiba Councils Proclamation legally recognized the authority of Islamic courts to govern marriage and polygamy for Muslim subjects, while the 1960 Civil Code introduced civil marriage and divorce. His laws even regulated prostitution for example—concepts fundamentally at odds with strict Orthodox dogma. These were not the acts of a "Christian King" imposing his will, but the authoritative judgments of a Sovereign ensuring that no single denomination could dominate the affairs of the state.
For the inaugural ceremonies he presided over, we had to submit in advance drafts of the speeches to be made. He meticulously revised his speeches personally. They were adapted to the circumstances of the occasion. He "combined Christian piety with politics" and invoked often God's name in his speeches and public actions. His speeches were solemn and uniform in style. There was never such levity as humor, irony or polemic to lower the imperial dignity. To my mind, there was always majesty and greatness in his public utterances made in clear and measured Amharic. Linguists like Ullendorff say that "Amharic was used by him with consummate skill."²⁰
The Emperor's authority was channeled through his meticulous natural approach to his duties. Because he approached the office with such gravity, he created a psychological space where his personal beliefs (such as his private Trinitarian faith) would not interfere with the universality of the law.
The Emperor's religious values were tested daily in many ways, one of which was approving death sentences. Those who advised him on cases attest that he "agonized" in deciding on death sentences because the teaching of his faith for mercy weighed heavily on him. As Head of State, he was duty-bound to sign off on death sentences after they have been processed through the judicial process. He often and repeatedly asked involved officials to assure him that the trial was fair and thoroughly conducted to justify so final an action. He struggled between his duty to sanction such recommendations and his own concern about reaching just decisions.²¹
When the late Abune Yoseph warned him that he had "abandoned God's country" and would be killed by his own army, the Emperor's response was to walk away angrily without comment as he firmly believed that the ancient relationship between church and state had to be redefined to avoid religious conflict in a nation that was both Christian and Muslim:
The Emperor is deservedly credited for significantly and gradually distancing religion from government. He reduced the church's influence in state affairs while, at the same time, giving it considerable internal autonomy. He was strong enough to take drastic measures that countered the church's traditions. Among these measures were allowing foreign missionaries to operate and run schools in the country, employing educators such as the Jesuits in government schools and colleges, and encouraging tolerance and freedom of religion. The Jesuits did not wear their religious costumes while teaching or at work to avoid touching on sensitive cords. He is remembered for taking the unequivocal stand espoused in his well-known public pronouncement that "religion is individual. The country belongs to all." Not happy with his relatively liberal approach to church and state relations, influential members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo faith clergy have pointed out to him that the policies he has adopted undermined the Church and its efforts. Some even warned him that his stand would bring about his downfall. The late Abune Yoseph who was apparently opposed to the separation of church and state, reportedly told the Emperor that "because Your Majesty had voluntarily and in pursuance of political benefit abandoned God's country that was preserved by our gallant forefathers and adopted the policy that religion is private while the country is for all, you and the country will be destroyed. I see you being brutally killed by your own army." The Emperor's response was to walk away angrily without any comment. The Emperor believed that the age-old closeness between the church and the state had to be redefined, if Ethiopia, both a Christian and Moslem nation, was to avoid religious conflicts and tensions. Teferra Haile Selassie aptly assesses the importance of the need for a realistic policy when he wrote, "The emerging reality, in post-war Ethiopia, was the secular nature of the state, where members of one denomination and/or ethnic origin were not allowed to dominate the affairs of the state." The Emperor and his associates had not only recognized this reality but carefully and gradually worked to bring about the realization of the transition to a secular state.²²
The depth of this objective authority was proven during the legal quandary of the 1960 Civil Code. Although the Code appeared to technically abrogate Sharia rules by failing to include a saving clause, the Emperor personally intervened. When Muslim dignitaries sought his audience, his assurance that "nobody shall interfere with the work of the Sharia courts" became the functional law of the land.²³
The Emperor's separation of the Church and the State highlights the universality of Imperial Ethiopian law. Although His Imperial Majesty's subjective experience was rooted in a faith that views marriage as a strictly monogamous Christian sacrament for instance, his objective office recognized the Islamic tradition of polygamy as a valid moral usage for a significant portion of his subjects. By protecting the Sharia Courts through a sovereign circular (bypassing the plain language of the Civil Code) he ensured that the law was applied with realistic equity rather than sectarian rigidity.
This meticulous balancing of secular modernization and religious pluralism was the result of the Emperor's natural approach to his duties: a serious, agonizing commitment to justice that allowed him to maintain a secular nature of the state amidst a deeply religious population. In this framework, the Emperor was the unwitting architect for the establishment of God's Kingdom on earth—a Sovereign whose legal mandates were the authoritative expression of God's will, regardless of the natural biologically constrained consciousness that held the pen.
70 Years Accomplished
On Thursday, April 3, 1930, His Majesty King Tafari Makonnen was proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia. Seven months later, on November 2, 1930, he was officially crowned Emperor.²⁴ Thus he became the only person to ever ascend the throne with both titles "King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords" ("Negusa Negast ze Itiyopiya ina yeGetawochi Geta"); the title "Lord of Lords" being a linguistically accurate Rastafarian interpolation of his title "Le'ul-Ras" which he acquired in 1916.
As according to biblical prophecy, seventy years, one month and sixteen days after April 3, 1930, a thirty-three year and three month old Rastafarian preacher named Kenyatta Felix (his Catholic baptismal name being Primus Saint Croix) was arrested in New York for desecrating at least eleven different Roman Catholic Church's statues with a sledgehammer around the Brooklyn area in New York (biblical Babylon) from September 26, 1999 to March 15, 2000 with twelve of his accomplices (disciples).²⁵
Primus wrote theological letters which he left behind at every crime scene and sent copies to the Vatican in the hopes that their congregation would repent from their sins.²⁶ Primus denounced graven images citing scripture and testified to the authorities that His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the First of Ethiopia is the God and Father of Jesus Christ whose laws, principles and policies must be adhered to.²⁷
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| Rayman, Graham and English, Merle. "Preacher Charged in Statue Attacks: Police say he admitted role in five." Newsday, Thursday, May 18, 2000, New York, pp. A5, A33. |
According to the Unitarian Rastafarian interpretation of the Bible, Primus St. Croix is Jesus Christ and Christ is not part of the Godhead. He is the messiah and prophet, and only Emperor Haile Selassie is God.²⁸ The biblical descriptions of Christ correlate with the life and actions of Primus St. Croix; the parallels are mathematically improbable attestations rather than mere coincidences.²⁹ To be clear, Primus St. Croix does not preach nor does he personally accept his own messiahship as he also unwittingly fulfilled biblical prophecy in accordance with Exodus 34:13, Deuteronomy 12:3, Jeremiah 29:10, John 5:19–22, John 7:16–18, John 12:49 and Revelation 5:5.
Sunday, November 2, 1930 is the true Sabbath according to the Bible.³⁰ The Emperor's laws also observed the coronation date as a national holiday.³¹ Yet April 3rd commenced the seventy year prophecy, November 2nd sanctified and celebrated it and May 18, 2000 was the day Christ "returned," his true identity revealed through the time-stamped fulfillment of prophecy.
God (Emperor Haile Selassie I) sent forth his only begotten son (by posthumously inspiring Primus St. Croix) to save the world by declaring his heavenly Father's true name so that the masses can repent accurately (Ezekiel 36:26–28, John 3:16, John 17:26).
The Eyes are the Windows to the Soul
"Emperor Haile Selassie squares his shoulders and his black eyes flash fire."³²
"His eyes were very powerful and very dark, but very truthful, there was a sense of truth, honesty, perfection."³³
"Haile Selassie's solemn demeanor and magnetic dark eyes complemented his titled, mythological descent from Solomon and Sheba, and his rule of a nation of Christians was another positive factor in his reception."³⁴
"He looked tired from his long vigil, yet in his eyes was a burning sincerity of purpose and the poise of his body suggested not so much triumph as spiritual exaltation."³⁵
There was at that time little reason to think that this young nobleman would ever ascend the ancient throne of Ethiopia, yet anyone who studies the photograph, even with no knowledge of subsequent events, will assume that the boy with the delicate features, slender build, beautiful hands, and those extraordinarily penetrating—indeed imperious—eyes is the Emperor, accompanied in this picture by an elderly retainer. It is that overpowering personality contained in so small a physical frame and prominently manifest from early childhood to great old age, that has been the key to Haile Sellassie's success and international stature.³⁶
"'In those irresistible eyes', wrote Sylvia, 'burns the quenchless fire of the hero who never fails his cause.'"³⁷
"But the moment one looks into his eyes, and from 1960 onward I had many opportunities of doing so, one instantly forgets his air of frailty and realizes that the man one is confronting, the man seated on the edge of the great, gilded bed-throne, has a will of iron, an acute and alert mind, and the strength of purpose to move mountains."³⁸
There was a fugitive smile of greeting and the dark eyes flashed briefly as long slim fingers somewhat limply reached out to grasp my hand followed by a quick downward thrust in the handshake. There I noticed for the first of many times that despite his short stature, even when standing, he never directed his gaze upwards towards the taller interlocutor. Unless inspecting a building or following birds or aircraft in flight, he invariably looked out upon the world as from an inner eminence.³⁹
"He was short, broad-shouldered, big-skulled and broad faced with an aquiline nose, deep penetrating eyes and a straight set of snow-white teeth."⁴⁰
"He had dark-brown eyes with a silver circle around his pupils, and his steel, piercing gaze made you feel like he knew exactly what you were thinking!"⁴¹
"Tafari Makonnen had always been small, with delicate hands and striking eyes."⁴²
"He struck me at the time as being a man of retiring and shy disposition, with delicately moulded features, and keen, piercing eyes."⁴³
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7. Tobijah, Omar. Seventy Years Accomplished: The Second Coming, Divine Child Publications, U.S.A., 2013, pp. 20–26.
9. James, William. Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1898, p. 67.
10. Mockler, Anthony. Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign 1935–1941, Random House, New York, 1984, p. 391.
19. Fallaci, oriana. "Journey into the Private Universe of Haile Selassie." Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 24, 1973, p. 2.
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His Eminence Liqa Wambar Petar Vukotic is the Archbishop of the Zufan Chilot Church and the Secretary for the Global Alliance of Justice for the Ethiopian Cause (GAJEC), he's a member of the International Society for the Imperial Ethiopian Orders and is the world's leading authority for interpreting Imperial Ethiopian case law. He's also Moa Anbessa's Imperial Ethiopian Constitutional Law Expert.
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