Ptah.
sounds strange, i know. unfamiliar to many of us, Ptah represents the power of The Creator in speaking Creation into existence. all Religions have some form of Ptah. in Genesis, God spoke the world into existence; in the Qur'an, Allah did the same. in Kemet, Ptah did just that, chronologically several thousand years before what many of us have come to understand in our chosen spiritual pathways.
i'm not going to spend a lot of time bullshitting back and forth, bickering over names. i prefer to be amazed by the power in the ESSENCE of Creation, and how we are "gods,all of us, children of the most high" (psalms 82:6). we are created in the image and likeness of a grand Creator and Architect of the Universe.
and we're wasting our divine power.
we spend time speaking a lot of garbage into the world. we fight over meaningless, small things. we refuse to listen to one another in conversations. what does that mean? well, if you're ever talking with someone, and you find yourself going over the points you want to remember when they are talking, then you're not LISTENING.
the power of Ptah comes from measured thought. Ptah, as representative energy of the Grand Architect, conceived of the world to be wrought. once this conception was clear, he spoke it, then watched as chaos ensued, the darkness churned with the light, the earth moved with the water, and when all was said and done, there stood an amazing entity we are still pondering: Creation.
the birds, the bees, the forests and trees, woman and man-kind, our complex minds--all sprang from that Essence. that same power we have.
and how do we use it?
do we spend time meditating about the things we want to see manifest? or do we just speak things into our world without realizing that most of what we are manifesting in our lives we spoke it ourselves? i meet people on this journey who are so friggin' negative, when you speak to them, it draws you down:
obafemi: hey there!
x: hey.
obafemi: how ya doin' today
x: hell. strugglin'. just tryin' to make it.
obafemi: oh...okay.
what do you say to that? have you ever encountered that? now i know there is something to being real and honest, but hell, when you run into people who are consistently stuck in that space, you have to feel for them, because they have locked themselves into a perpetual state of struggle, or sickness, or depression, or stagnation.
SPEAK UP OUTTA THAT THANG!
i've been penning notes for another book, even as i re-commit to blogging and finishing a screenplay and other work, that deals with how we sit still, order our thoughts, speak them clearly, then work to make our own Creations manifest. we have a lot of power that goes wasted.
so as i see this beautiful day unfolding, i'm going to remember Ptah by sticking a necklace with his image on and focusing on speaking good in my own life and the lives of others around me and see what happens.
i know it'll be something special.
Labels: jeff obafemi carr, spoken word
