To
solve the problem of world chaos is no longer a matter
of pious resolutions and declaration of fine principles.
We have come to the point when we should proceed at
once to reorganize the world and give it new philosophies,
new ideologies, new systems in religion, economics
and politics, which can compromise conflicts and gather
the minds of humanity into one united front of universal
unity if we must attain the goal of a disarmed one
world based on justice and security.
For
instance, a world government can be developed based
on Peerism, the Age Group System of Africa's traditional
democracy of communalism, which compromises into harmony
the hitherto mutually antagonistic and gun-running
capitalist and communist democracies. While the proposal
is made with the Nigerian and African context in mind,
its principles are capable of universal application.
The
Second World Conference on Religion and Peace which
in 1974 brought dedicated leaders of world's major
religions together in a dialogue at the Catholic University
of Louvain, Belguim, on religion and world peace,
was one of the greatest developments of history with
its 'Louvain Declaration' which said in paragraph
4 of its page 1 that "the era of prideful, and
even prejudiced, isolation of the religions of humanity
is, we hope, now gone for ever. We are resolved henceforth
to serve humanity together, each in the way most in
keeping with the convictions of its spiritual family
and local circumstances".
Because
this declaration is a long stride in the evolution
of the human mind from the woods of religious prejudices,
it must be given the mind possessing and symbolic
knotting of Chiism
(Godianism), if the spirit of the declaration
was to be something lived, and something bequeathed
to later generations.
That
the first of this World Conference on Religion and
Peace was held in 1970 makes 1970 the greatest year
of the 20th century, in relation to which
we should begin to date other events. That is the
philosophy of dating. Events in Africa, in Rome and
all over the world were dated in relation to major
events. The Romans dated events in relation to the
founding of the city of Rome in 753 B.C.-A.U.C., Anno
Urbis Condita. Christians started dating events in
relation to the birth of Jesus from 533 A.D. Muslims
and other religions and nations have their own calendars
based on various major events in their histories.
And
so even in the matter of calendar the world is not
in harmony.
Taking
the coming together of world's major religions at
Kyoto, Japan, in 1970 as a very great event which
marks the beginning of a great new religious civilization
of spiritual balance, we suggest that all the world
should now start dating events in relation to 1970.
The wheel of the zodiac rolls on. The Piscean Age
has passed away and the Aquarian Age has turned up.
We cannot see its being convenient for humanity to
continue to date events in the Aquarian Age in relation
to the birth of Joshua, the son of Joseph the Jewish
carpenter, whom the Greeks called Jesus. How inconvenient
and obtuse would it be to talk of 2004 A.D. within
the Aquarian Age. The Christian era belongs to the
Piscean Age. Its system of dating events should pass
away with the chaos that the Piscean Age has been.
The Aquarian Age is an age of peace that has come,
and should have its own basis for dating events.
The
coming together of the leaders of the world's major
religions in 1970 is a heralding of the human accord
and peace that would characterize the Aquarian Age,
which nominates 1970 as a very important year in the
evolution of the human mind towards harmony, in relation
to which the dating of events for the Aquarian Age
should be made. Till 1970, the human mind had, like
a child in guardianship, remained in immaturity, full
of prejudices, which kept religions apart in such
violent mutual antagonisms as refused to create or
meet on a common religious platform to talk peace.
The Year 1970 therefore mark the beginning of a break
from the chains of ancient prejudices. The heart full
of hate is the heart in the tutelage of prejudice.
So that we
can record 1970 as 30 D.T., 'D.T.' meaning During
Tutelage.
The
Aquarian Age promises peace on Earth and love among
humanity. So that the period between 1970 and 2004
will be regarded, as a period During Tutelage, while
the dawn of the Aquarian Age in 2004 will be dated
as 1 A.T.,
'A.T.' meaning 'After Tutelage', when the human
heart must have been evolved out of the woods of the
Piscean prejudices.
In
this vision, 1970 becomes 30 D.T., which means 30
years to the dawn of the Aquarian Age of World Peace
in 2004. 1971 becomes 29 D, T.; 1972 becomes 28 D.T.;
1973 becomes 27 D.T.; 1974 becomes 26 D.T., and so
on in diminishing progression till 1999 becomes 1
D.T. and 2004 becomes 1 A.T., to slip humanity into
the Aquarian Age. We shall then continue to date 2
A.T. for the second year of the Aquarian Age, 3 A,
T. for the third year and so on till 2004 A.T., when
the wheel of Zodiac shall sweep humanity into a new
sign and a new Age. Godianism has already adopted
this basis for its calendar.
My
ideas may have altogether seem fantastic. Call them
heretic. In human experience we have seen the heresy
of today become the orthodoxy of tomorrow. But I hold
them as sounding the keynotes of the new civilization
of world peace, which the Aquarian Age is bringing.
I hold they will play their part in developing those
human attitudes, which are needed to give humanity
a conceptual and realistic approach to world disarmament.
Let
us then call on the United Nations to start work along
these lines of compromising the minds of humanity
from conflicting ideologies which breed the armament
race, into these new concepts and systems with a view
to evolving a world government which will attain the
goal of a disarmed world based on justice. Yagazie.
-------Ahanyi,
Kama Onu Kama Onyioha.
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