J
Jah.
God as present tense: indwelling, spoken to and from in the same breath — I and I.
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H
Haile Selassie I.
The Ethiopian emperor read through scripture as the returned king: divine to many Rastafari, God's anointed to others — the reading is the movement's live wire.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Jah lives in every person.
I and I: the divine is not out there but in here — the phrase collapses the distance between God, self, and other.
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Babylon must be resisted.
The systems of oppression — colonial, commercial, mental — are named Babylon, and livity is lived against them.
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Held by most — broad, but not universal
Haile Selassie I is divinity crowned.
The 1930 coronation read through scripture: King of Kings, Lion of Judah — held by many as God incarnate, by others as Jah's chosen king.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathAfter death
Life everlasting — death is not dwelt upon; Babylon's funerals refused