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We point our lesson here today to the realm of philosophy. And what is philosophy? Is going to be our first question. I put this, this, this picture up here because, you know, they say a picture speaks a thousand words. But this is a famous, uh, uh, picture. It's a famous drawing that philosophers, uh, when you're first putting your foot on the path of philosophy, these are some of the drawings that you're shown because this is the point to philosophy in and of itself.
You'll notice that the gentleman is within a reality, but then he is somehow able to poke his head out of what we call physical reality and see an entirely different reality. Something dealing with the universe, other planets, and so on. This has been a long, this is an ancient, ancient technique that you could be on Earth and somehow figure out how to get to the universe from where you stand. Now, a lot of this was done with medicinal herbs and plants. That's why you see this down here. These represent like these are mushrooms, and these represent medicinal plants. Same thing with the, uh, the rainbow. All of this represents medicinal enlightenment. Uh, you, you know, those that, uh, those that take mushrooms, maybe, uh, ayahuasca, um, even back in the days, LSD, those who take hallucinogenics is what they're called, usually have this kind of experience.
This is a drawing, but the philosopher tries to achieve this experience without an artificial, uh, uh, means of doing so. You can always sip something, drink something, smoke something, and achieve this right here. But the object of philosophy is for you to achieve this level of mind, being able to peer into the deeper parts of reality without drugs, without medicinal plants, with, with, with, without it altering your physical body. You're supposed to be able to do this through knowledge in and of itself.
Here's another p, a part of that as well, a different picture, but the same concept. You'll notice that this theme, when you are studying philosophy, you'll see this theme a lot. And notice the reality in which we're in. This, the regular reality, sun, stars, and a tree. But he's peering out into another reality. And this is the point. Can you, can you move your mind outside of the material world and into a world of possibility, imagination, but based on truth? The intangibles, not the material world, but the intangibles like love, peace, forgiveness, mercy. You can't touch these things, but we know they exist. We feel them. We communicate with these forces in other ways. When you're feeling stuff, you're, you're on this particular path. This is, this could be called the emotions, and this could be called the intellect. You know, to peer deeper into reality is what these pictures are showing.
So now we come to our first question: What is philosophy? And I should have had a piece on here that said, "And how does it relate to Hip Hop?" But that's, that's a given in this particular course. All of this is related to Hip Hop. All of it.
What is philosophy? First, "filo" is the word we need to look at. "Filo" means love. "Equals" or "is" wisdom. "Feel Sophie." "Felo," love. "Sophie," wisdom. Now, these are Greek terms. "Filo," Greek term. "Sophie," Greek term. And what we deal with is love, love, love wisdom. Like, what is it? Love wisdom? Love wisdom? Okay, love of wisdom. It's also philosophy. Lover of wisdom. Also philosophy. As a matter of fact, "lover of wisdom" would be called the philosopher.
Here, here's the compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. You know, we always pull that up in our lessons because we go right to the original definitions with the etymology so that we clearly understand what's going on here. We are, philosophy, right here. Definition one. In the original and wider sense, the love, study, and pursuit of wisdom. We just saw that. Or of knowledge of things and their causes. Is love a love or desire of wisdom? But "philosophia" is a love or desire of wisdom. Or otherwise, it is a profession, study, and exercise of that wisdom. And know, look how he's spelling wisdom, which is the knowledge of divine and human, or here it says, humane things.
Now, we always play games with this word here, "divine." Okay? Because we're always tying it when we think of the word "divine," we think of what Hollywood's interpretation of divine is. We're not looking literally at divine. Like, imagine in the definition of philosophy, "divine" is part of its definition. "Humane" or "human" is part of its definition. We usually exaggerate these words. God, evil, good, bad, uh, we exaggerate these words. We use these words culturally. But philosophy, the, the reason why it clears your mind is because it deals with words literally. This would not be in the definition if "divine" was not a real thing. This, the, the Oxford English Dictionary is not dealing with fantasy. It's a dictionary. It has to document fact of language.
So, what we have to over understand as hip-hoppers in a philosophical sense is that we are divine. Divinity is a real thing to achieve, and it feels good when you do. But divinity is a real thing to achieve, and that's why we bring this up at the top of philosophy. We're dealing with knowledge of the divine here. And the way you get to that knowledge of divinity is not by adding more knowledge onto yourself, but by stripping away useless knowledge until all that is left is your true self. It's a different kind of learning. True philosophy is about unlearning. You know, you've been taught so much nonsense. We all have been exposed to such propaganda. Philosophy, as with the original definition, seeks to know what's real, what's true, what's the actual cause of this. Is this a fact or is this fantasy? Well, we bring up the definition and we want you to see this right up at the top. What is philosophy? Love of wisdom. What is philosophy? Knowledge of divine and humane things, human things. The wise dome, the home of wise. Okay, this is, this is the relation of philosophy. You know, and I, and I'm emphasizing this because people have all kinds of expectations about philosophy as well. We hype that word up too to mean all kinds of other things that it doesn't really mean. That's why I'm spending this time on it right at the beginning. "Felo," "Sophie," love, wisdom, lover of wisdom, seeker, desirer of wisdom. You'll notice that this is not a study. This is a character.
Let's go forward. Philosophy, definition two. That more advanced knowledge or study to which the medieval universities, the Seven Liberal Arts, were recognized as introductory. This was the introductory course. Was philosophy. And here's how they did you. It included the three branches of natural, moral, and metaphysical philosophy, commonly called the three philosophies. Hence the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. So, we're going to focus on these three. That's why I bring this up. I'm going to bring a few more in, uh, like psychology. Theology is also part of philosophy. But we're dealing straight. We're going to start with the ABCs first. And the ABCs of philosophy is natural, moral, and metaphysical philosophy. This natural science. This is science. Morality, ethics. And metaphysics.
Let's go forward. His natural philosophy. The third definition of philosophy. The knowledge of, I'm sorry, not the knowledge or study of nature or of natural objects and phenomena. Natural knowledge. Now, usually called science. Because at one time, to be a philosopher or a philosophy itself encompassed religion and science at the same time. In fact, it encompassed all of the sciences and all of that which was spiritual. Because ancient people used to teach like that. There was this, there was no separation between science and religion. In the original sense, in the original sense, all of these were one thing. You could not know science without knowing God. You could not know God without knowing science. In fact, God and science were the same things. God is just the flip side of science. Or should I say, the spirit and spiritual was just the flip side of the natural. So, we study science to know God, and study God to know science. Or should I say, we study spirit to know science, and study science to know spirit.
So, here's science. We just saw that. I just wanted to pull up science real quick so you can take a look at its definition. What is science? The state or fact of knowing. Knowledge or cognizance of something specified or implied. Also, with a wider reference, knowledge more or less extensive as a personal act, attribute. Okay, knowledge has a personal attribute. I want you to see this because what we're going to get into is the fact that when you're dealing with philosophy and you're dealing with wisdom, you're not really dealing with a study. You're dealing with an attitude. You're dealing with a character. You're dealing with a way to be.
Person are now only theological in the rendering of Scholastic terms. See quote, D.D.A. And, okay. Philosophy in the sense of knowledge as opposed to belief or opinion. That's the piece right there. What is philosophy? Knowledge as opposed to belief or opinion. This is why we say the Temple of Hip Hop is not necessarily a religious organization. And I say necessarily because your culture is your religion, and your religion is your culture. But as you can see, we are philosophers first. We don't need to find the difference and distinction between these two. When you really deal with philosophy and its original sense, what are we dealing with? Knowledge. We want to know what is real, not belief or opinion. This is not faith. This is knowledge.
Let's go forward. Here we have, well, let me just bring it up. This is, this is the full page, of course. I'm blowing you up right here. We're reading this here. Contrasted or coupled with conscience. How you feel. Your sense of right and wrong. Conscience, emphasizing the distinction to be drawn between theoretical perception of a truth and moral conviction. This is you. I'm not going to get into this, but I want you to just pay attention to this real quick because this is one of the Western problems in philosophy. Eastern philosophers don't have this problem. But Western philosophers have this problem. Distinction to be drawn between theoretical perception of a truth and moral conviction. The West, Western philosophers always had a problem with their morals versus their perception of truth. And that's because you're dealing with a colonial culture. I don't want to have to bring the slave trade and invasions and colonialism and imperialism and all of that into this conversation. You could study that on your own time. But imperialism, colonialism, invasion, robbery, all of that makes this problem where you have a theoretical perception of a truth. I know I'm not supposed to steal, but you did. So now you got moral. Now your moral convictions are messed up because you know you're not supposed to be in this country, but you're here. And you still want to be a philosopher. You still want to say, "I'm studying truth." You still want to say, "I'm a lover of wisdom," while you're robbing, raping, kidnapping, and enslaving people. That's why the West has a problem. And this is why we have to look at this problem as, as hip-hoppers. We can't adopt imperialism and colonialism and call it philosophy.
Philosophy is about knowledge acquired by study, acquaintance with, or mastery of any department of learning. Also, a person's various kinds of knowledge. This is a mastery of any department of learning. This is why Hip Hop is a philosophy. And this is why I hold myself out as a Hip Hop philosopher because I've mastered my department of study. My department of study is Hip Hop and its culture. I've mastered my study. I can be called a philosopher. Why? Because I've mastered my department of learning, which is Hip Hop. Now, when you master your department of learning, you too will be a Hip Hop philosopher. But to be a Hip Hop philosopher, words like knowledge, mastery, okay, science, uh, perception, truth, moral conviction, conscience. These are the words. Now, we're going to focus in on. These are the words that clear out the evil, clear out the, the lie, clear out the confusion. These are the words we're focusing on.
Train. I'm down here. Be here. Trained skill. What is your philosophy? Your trained skill. What you do, not just talk. Your skill. Mcing is a philosophy. DJing is a philosophy. Breaking is not just dance. It's a philosophy. Three, a particular branch of knowledge or study. A recognized department of learning. Read it again. A particular branch of knowledge. Hip Hop. Or study. Hip Hop. A recognized department of learning. Hip Hop. Hip Hop's culture is a recognized department of learning. Universities are studying it right now. I am called constantly to speak on Hip Hop, to teach it at university level. Recognize. That's the word. We went over this last, well, maybe two weeks ago when we was talking about Hip Hop and its cultural, its legal authority as a culture. And I was saying that you have to be recognized. At least in a Western perspective, you have to be recognized. So here they're saying a recognized department of learning is a philosophy.
In a more restricted sense, a branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified or more or less coagulated, uh, uh, cated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain. This is Hip Hop. Knowing what is permitted and knowing what is forbidden. Is right. Knowledge of knowing what's wrong. What is permitted, should say, and what is forbidden. This is the beginning of what is right. Two. Notice the cross still there. That which is proper for or incumbent upon one to do. One's duty. But it's obsolete now. They don't use that. Look how far back it goes. To 897. Okay. Here, year 1,000. Here, year 20, 1225. Okay. What is it? Two. Okay. That which is proper for or incumbent on one to do. One's duty. That's right. If you ever want to know, "What am I? How do I get right?" What's your duty? What are you supposed to do? What what are you supposed to be doing? What were you born to do? What you charged to do? That's your duty. That which is proper for or incumbent on one to do. One's duty. Now, what if your duty is to enslave young men and women and turn them into work dogs? That would be right if it's your duty. This is why the argument of morality is so crazy. Because again, one man's devil is another man's angel. So who's to say what right and wrong is? And this is the struggle of Western philosophy. Because we could say right away, we know what right is. Right is, leave me alone. Right is, you're not robbing me. Right is love. Right is friendship. We know what right is. But in a Western situation where you have imperialists and colonists, and out of that society, they form their philosophy, then the, the questions become twisted. And as a philosopher seeking truth, you got to know the difference between that colonial thought influencing philosophy and philosophy itself. In other words, you have to apply philosophy to philosophy.
Number three. That which is constant with equity or light of, or the light of nature. That which is morally just or due. So, here's wisdom. And what's interesting within the definition of wisdom is [Music]. Wizard, witchcraft. Okay. This is in the etymology of wisdom. Okay. Here's wisdom. Okay. And we're going to get back to those in a minute. I'm going to run through this wisdom. Here's all it is. Okay. Now, come on down here. Matter of fact, well, let me read this piece first, and then, and then I'll flip it over here. Okay. Wise and dome. The quality or character of being wise. It didn't say the study. It said the quality or character of being wise. What is wisdom? Wisdom is the character of being wise. So, in other words, the person who is being wise is actually being wisdom. One. What is wisdom? Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct. Soundness of judgment in the choice of means and ends. Sometimes less, less strictly, sound sense, especially in practical affairs. The opposite to folly, stupidity. When you turn on the TV and you see rappers acting unwise, you see, and keep in mind, this is surface. Okay. Some of you may be listening to me right now, say, "I learned this in college." And the reason I bring this up is because the executives at these, at these corporations, they know this. They know this. They know what is good and what is evil. They know what is unwise. So they allow us to act this way while they take advantage of wisdom. Unity. Good. Hand us bad. Evil. Telling us us, encouraging us to be evil, to step outside of what our ancestors already put on us, to step outside of our Hip Hop culture, to step outside of what we know is good. They're encouraging us and encouraging our young people to act like this, to act unwise. And when you act unwise, you can't make the right choices.
What is wisdom? Making the right choices. What is wisdom? Soundness of judgment in the choice of means and ends. Will you know, if I do this, I'm going to be hurt. Let's not do it. If I do this, I'm going to be right. I'm going to be good. Let's do it. Can you make the right choices? This is wisdom. This is what wisdom is. It's not about some, "I'm wise because, uh, I don't know, think wise is, you know, I'm, I'm wise because I'm experienced." Uh, no, that's not what wisdom is. Wisdom is all about making the right decisions. And if you're not wise, you can't make the right decisions. Or if you don't make the right decisions, you're not being wise. Here, wise. Wise. Okay. This is wise. Here's a definition: Having or exercising sound judgment or discernment. Capable of judging truth concerning what is right or fitting. And disposed to act accordingly. Okay. I'm going to read that one again. Having the ability to perceive and adopt the best means for accomplishing an end. Characterized by good sense and prudence. The opposite to foolish. The opposite to foolish. So, when our children are being portrayed on television every day, opposite to making the right decision, they're making us look like fools. They're making us foolish. They're making Hip Hop look foolish, like as if Hip Hop can't make the right choices. We'd rather be hoes and [ __ ] than queens and princesses. We'd rather be criminals and gangsters rather than teachers and philosophers. And they don't want you to hear the teacher. They don't want you to hear the philosopher because the philosopher and the teacher don't make money for them. Make money for ourselves, but not for them. What makes money for them is young black, Latino, and what really, just youth acting foolish. And that's what we see. People with stacks of money to their ear. Okay, it's entertainment, but it's foolish if, if you really just want to look at what it is in truth, is foolish. They're not making the right decision. They're not making the right decision for Hip Hop, and they're not making the right decision for themselves. They're being foolish. This is not a criticism. This is not me dissing somebody's style or saying I'm, I'm all this and they nothing. Nope. Maintain your maturity. We're dealing with real knowledge here. We're dealing with real knowledge. And you got to know what is right and what is wrong. You got to know what is wise and what is foolish.
Now, I want to bring you back over here real quick. Having or exercising sound judgment or discernment. Capable of judging truly concerning what is right or fitting. And here's the, here's the big piece. And disposed to act accordingly. Okay? You know what's right. You know what's fitting. And you are disposed. You are, you got, I know it's right, so I got to act accordingly. Not just know it, but it is wise to act on what you know is right. That's wise. Having the ability to perceive and adopt the best means for accomplishing an end. That's what it means to be wise. At the bottom, it says, "See wise man." Uh, this is a blow-up of it real quick. We just saw this. We just read through all of this. I'm bringing you here now. See wise man. Matter of fact, let me leave this up for those that want to get that definition of wisdom. Take a shot of the screen. Okay. Wise man. Formerly, often as one word or with hyphen, confers a surname. Wisan. One, a man who is wise. A man of good judgment or discernment. A discreet or prudent man. Okay. The wise man is, this is, this is what the wise man is. A man who is wise. A man of good judgment or discernment. A discreet or prudent man. Often opposed to fool. Okay. So, do you know what wise is? And do you know what a fool is? You don't want to be a fool. You don't want to walk around foolish. You want to walk around wise, able to discern, able to make the right decision at the right time. The best way. How we going to get to where we going? This the best way to do it. The ability to do that is called wisdom.
Here's wise woman. For the general sense, a woman who is wise. See wise one. We saw that one. A woman skilled in magic or hidden art. See how they do women right there. Look at this. I'm going to bring you back. Okay. The wise man is a man who is wise. So, why isn't a wise woman a woman who is wise? A man of good judgment or discern. So, it would be a woman of good judgment and discernment. A, a woman who is discreet or prudent. A woman who is opposed to, she's opposite of a fool. No, that's not what it is. Wise woman is a specific. A woman skilled in magic or hidden arts. A female magician, soothsayer, etc. A witch, sorceress, especially a homeless or beneficent one who deals in charms against disease, misfortune, or, or, or malignant witchcraft. Or, you know, bad witchcraft, you know, evil witchcraft. Okay, that's what they're trying to tell you right here. Now, I told you before, why is the, the woman you see. Let me go back a little bit here. Okay. You see wise man. Wise man is a man who is wise. So, a wise woman would be the same thing. Wise man is a man of good judgment or discernment. A discreet or prudent man. So, that would be the woman as well. But as we get to the definition of wise woman, we see all this. A woman skilled in magic or hidden arts. A female magician, susay, a witch. Now, in our generation, we say, "Oh, a witch." You immediately think of, you know, you start getting some negative thought in your mind. You start thinking a witch, a sorceress. But they're telling you the original wise woman who was called a witch and a sorcerer, she was curing disease. She was getting you out of misfortune. She was taking that evil witchcraft off you. That was the wise woman. And keep in mind that the wise woman, see, it says here, look at the from 1552. Wise woman that tth fortune. The first wise women were Africans. The first wise women were the so-called slaves or captives that were brought into Europe, brought into England. And they brought their charms with them. They brought their magic with them. And a lot of Europeans benefited. Kings, queens. Imagine being able to tell the future. And the king knows that these women had power. This is, this is what the Kandake became in England and Europe. The Kandake was the Queen Mother of Africa. And she wasn't just a military or political figure. She was a soothsayer, a magician. She was a prophetess. She was a sorceress. She was able to do things outside of nature. She was above nature. She was above man or human. She was outside of that. And so, check out the wise woman. This is the original wise woman. Okay. Here she is making something. And this picture is so great because it's showing you how ancient Africa used to do it. This is Hip Hop. This is, this is where our culture comes from. Ancient Africa. And, and these people, notice women here, African women. Okay. Bead breasted women. Nobody looking at them with any lust or anything. This was just our culture. You know, breasts were no big deal. But you get here to the United States, and all of a sudden, this looks like a sexual thing to your mind. And I'm not saying it does. I'm just saying in a general sense, most people immature can't really look at the original African philosophers because they walked around naked. Most of them. They didn't need nothing. They had everything and knew everything and was able to make the right choices in a split second. She's crunching down herbs and making something for you to see the future. Okay. She's making something to heal. Okay. Take a look. Look at the kids around. Look at all the mothers standing around. Queen Mother. That's the Kandake. That's Queen Mother in English and European culture. She's called the wise woman. Now, a witch, a sorcerer. This is Africa. We're going deeper into philosophy. Why am I talking about this? Because these are the first philosophers. These are the first philosophers. They don't look like philosophers, do they? But the very first philosophers don't come out of Greece. The very first philosophers come out of Africa. The people that built this are the first philosophers. And even before them, because this took many, many thousands of years to evolve too. So, you got to consider. They tell us all the time, "Greek philosophy, Greek philosophy, Greek philos." But if you do philosophy on philosophy, you find that Greek is the appearance. The original cause is Africa.
And here we have our pyramids. These are African structures. Don't get it twisted. Black African people made those structures. These are the first philosophers. But then here comes Greece with a copy. I put this specifically. See how they copy? See the pyramid? They're copying. Okay. Here comes Greece. The first philosophers are Africans who can make wise decisions. The first philosophers are Africans who were living right. They called them the blameless Ethiopians. Blameless. Then we got this, this, this. What, how does he get the whole? This is Africa. Okay. But when Greece comes in as the colonist, as the war machine, they hit the philosophers. Philosophers are not warriors. We know how to fight, but we also know karma. We also know that what we do to others is going to come back to us too. We know to stay calm in all situations. So, here comes now the thief. And the thief is invading Africa and copying everything that is African. Everything. This is Pythagoras, or at least an image of Pythagoras. Everything about this dude is stolen from Africa. Africa. And I say that respectfully. I'm not dissing. It's the truth. This is an African object. So is the liar down here. Artwork. This is agriculture. All that's out of Africa. Okay. The very clothes he's wearing, African. This pillar. This is Imhotep back here. Okay. This pyramid. What is called the Pythagorean Pythagorean theory theorem. This here. Let me give you that. Okay. Pythagorean theory. The P, Pythagoras is credited with inventing the word philosopher, stating, "No man, but only God is wise. Call me rather a philosopher, a lover of wisdom." Now, most people when they see this, they say, "Oh, right. He's saying God is wise." But remember that in Pythagoras' time, the gods were black people. There was no God in the sky. The gods were the ancestors of those that built them pyramids. That was the gods. The original gods were a people. You see, you're going to have to wrap your head around that because some of us are now walking with the God gene, as Rizza says, the God particle. We're walking around with the God particle on us, regardless of race, because we're all intermarried now. We're all sharing blood now. We're all, uh, together. And this is what the ancients wanted. They wanted us. They want, they put their blood into humanity. This is where we get the, the idea of the Da Vinci Code and the blood of Christ and all these type of things. These are allegories for the original philosophers, the first gods. The first gods were not some fantasy. They were regular people with knowledge. They were regular people with knowledge beyond the average person.
"Sapient." Aware of. To be to have knowledge of or to be aware of. That's what it means to be sapient. So, we can even say to be sapient is to be help. Right here. Aware of. That means to be hip. Pertaining to characteristics of modern man, Homo sapiens. Only in Latin, sapiens, a wise man, a sage. So, this idea of a grunt animal, Homo sapiens. We got Nandos, Homo habilis, Neanderthal, and this Homo sapiens, a modern human, still hairy, still kind of ape-like. But this is, this is what they're pushing on us. No, the Homo sapiens were not some ape-like people. And they know that. That's why they put it in these books that you got. You're never going to get because this is where they hide in the knowledge. They know that Homo sapiens means wise man. So why are you depicting ancient humans as these animals, grunting and growling, when you know you're degrading the image of a wise sage? Sapiens. We go to the Oxford Latin Dictionary. Here's sapiens in Latin, where the word comes from. Sapient, the word sapience. Okay. Endowed with a mind. Rational. Of sound mind. Saying two of persons. Wise. Understanding. Having sound judgment. Okay. This is what they want you to think a Homo sapiens is. And if you could move your mind past this, you'll see that. Okay, let's say that our ancestors look like this. Let's just say this is, this is true. Is a true depiction of our ancestors. What makes you think this guy is stupid? Grunting, growling, an animal man? No, get out of that. This is a Homo sapiens. Look at him as he is now. I don't agree with this picture at all, but let's just say this is the truth. Then also adjust your mind to say that this is who's reading the stars. This is who's doing agriculture. This is who built the pyramids. This is who developed speech, art, music, handwriting. Let's say this is the image. Fix your mind then to say, "Nope, that's a Homo sapiens. This is wise. Sound judgment. This is the dude who's making all the right decisions for humanity to survive." You didn't hear me. He's making all the right decisions for humanity to survive. Often referred to as subhuman and prehistoric. And often depicted as a half-man and half-ape characters. Uh, these humans, our ancestors, left physical evidence that they were just as much human and shared the same basic human desires and needs as any human does today. But if they draw him like this, you dehumanize him in your own mind because he don't look like a human. He don't look like a modern-day human. So you don't give our ancestors any humanity. You say, "Well, that's just a, a man. He don't know much." But the anthropologist, paleoanthropologist, they got the real definition to themselves. This is a sage. This is the wise man. Okay. In fact, the early human known to paleoanthropologists as Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthal man, is now known to have had a larger brain than that of the so-called modern humans. These so-called subhumans, they still call Neanderthals subhumans. And Neanderthals had bigger brains than humans. Okay, modern, uh, uh, so-called modern humans. These so-called subhumans or hominids, hominins. These are the technical names they give these, these beings. They're trying to make him look like him. This is who they disrespected. These are the original people. This is what original man would have looked like. This is what Homo hip hop iensis would have looked like. Not this. We look just like this. The problem, though, he probably would have had a beard. Maybe not. Who knows? But this is what's closer to what we would have looked like. Not no half ape. They're trying to disrespect this figure with this image. And your eye got to be open enough to really see it. I call this figure Homo hip hop iensis. Homo meaning man. Hip hop iensis. Our ancient ancestor. And remember, we have an ancient ancestor. We don't come from slavery. That's stupidity. We come from an ancient cultures that float through our blood. And we're expressing that culture through what we call Hip Hop today. Here's the female Homo hip hop iensis. Man, woman, brother, sister, husband, wife. Kandake, Queen Mother. King, father. This is the original. And this is what it's really all about. Those who had attained the intervision and had received mind or nose. Remember, mind was that inner voice. That's what mind was. That inner voice. The voice that speaks without moving the mouth. The sight that could see with closing these eyes, and you still see your past, your present, your imagination. When you read a book, you hear a voice in in your being reading the book, yet your mouth is not moving. This is what is called mind. Or what was the original concept of mind was your inner being. And three, the creators or sons of light who had become identified with or united with the light. True spiritual consciousness. See, you united with the light. How do you get to the light? You have an inner being that's already there. Once you realize that, you now can walk into the, you're in the light, actually.
Going back to the book. I'm opening the book up real quick. We just read this part of it. Let's move over here. Why am I moving over here? Because, like I said to you, philosophy is an attitude. It does not begin. It does not begin with warring civilizations, colonists, imperialists, kidnappers, and slavers. Societies like this don't produce philosophers or philosophy. Only those societies that are at peace with themselves, those societies who have enough to eat, those societies who who are so ordered and so right that they have the time to study the stars, the time for weaving and pottery making and food preparation and all the, you have to have time for that. A warring culture has no time for that. That's what stolen legacy is bringing up right now. Put your attention right here. It is obvious from a study of the causes and effects of the Peloponnesian Wars, that's some Greek wars, that one or a the Greek states were envious of each other, and the desire for power and expansion led to constant aggression and warfare amongst themselves. The condition of constant warfare between the city-states was unfavorable for the production of philosophers. Before passing on to consider my next position, I would like to say that it is an accepted truth that the development of philosophical thought requires an environment which is free from disturbances and worries. The period commonly assigned to Greek philosophy fails to Aristotle, 320 to 622 BC, was exactly is that? 320? Yeah. To 622 BC, uh, was exactly the opposite to one of peace and tranquility. And therefore, it could not be expected to produce philosophy. The obstacles against the origin and development of Greek philosophy were not only the frequent civil wars, they explained them here, Greeks fighting amongst themselves, and the constant defense against Persian aggression, but also the threat of extermination from the Athenian government itself, its worst enemy. So, how can Athens be the birth of philosophy when Athens, when the Athenian government will kill any philosopher talking anything other than what the Athenian government was talking? And that government was at war with itself, making the environment unsuitable for a philosopher. This is why Greeks did not create philosophy, nor were they the first philosophers. With all due respect, Africans are the first philosophers. Africa is the land of the first philosophers. There are pockets of places in Africa that are so peaceful that the gods can dwell there. That's what we're dealing with.
Wisdom is a character, not a study or a pursuit. Those that study wisdom do not become wise, just as those that pursue wisdom never retain it. I'm going to leave that up there for you to ponder that for a minute. It's a deep thought, but it's what philosophy is all about. Those that study wisdom do not become wise, just as those that pursue wisdom never retain it. Wisdom begins as a character that knows right from wrong, real from faith, reality from illusion. Wisdom is the character of the wise. It is a moral skill, not a study. You either have it or you don't. Come on now. As we are learning, the very first wise people are the very first self-aware human beings. These are the communities that would go on to establish the very first centers of learning, the very first colleges and universities in the world, as well as the very first libraries and centers of trade. These are who the Greeks and others are learning from. Right here. The several degrees of persons in the university. This is what a sophomore is. The several degrees of persons in the university or colleges. Freshman. Sophie. Moors. Knowledge. Wisdom. Knowledge. Sophie. Wisdom. Knowledge. To one or other of the various sciences, departments of study. Sophie. Sophie. Okay. A wise or learned man. A sage. That's Sophie. Filo. Sophie. Filo is love for this sage. Or filos Sophie. Love for the Sophie. Love for the wise or learned men. Love for the sage. Sophie. More. The word was often used for negro. Do you see that? This is the printed word. This is fact. Okay. And hey, the word was often used for negro. Confer blackamoor. And we get into that as well when you study Ethiopia. And start say, you start, this word here becomes entrenched. You start seeing it a lot. And so on. And it has really, uh, different meanings. Meanings of authority. They try to degrade the word because, you know, they're after the negro. They got to make the negro a low, they got to make the negro an animal. They got to subhumanize the negro. But as you can see, the negro is the beginning of wisdom and philosophy. Here they go. They'll. And I want to show you this picture because this is just a party going on. Just people having a good time. And this is more realistic, uh, as a picture. I should have had the other one up here when I showed you Greeks in, uh, you know, with muscular bodies and these philosophers. This is what they're imitating. This is who they, this is who they want to be. The wise black. You could call this a philosophers' party. The originals. That's how they got down. And all of them don't have to be philosophers. Only she does. All of them don't have to be philosophers. Oh, he does because philosophy is a character. It's a character. And not everybody has the character. No matter what race you are, everybody don't have this character.
Moving on. Just bringing you up closer to it. You know, but this, this is the stylized version. So, this is the letter for divinity. Now, when you put this figure up, immediately we go, "Oh, black man, monkey." Oh, here's the racism. That's how they took your culture. This is a god named, some say, Thoth. Okay. It's a god. God. When, when we were the first philosophers, the word was that this baboon was our first teacher. Okay. Now, come on now. Kemet. Knowledge of the mystery systems of Egypt. Of K. This is some of the oldest knowledge that they, they know. They knew the time when we went from what is called animal or whatever to human, or from man to God. They knew when that happened. And they said the first knowledge, who came and brought us writing? Who? Somebody who taught us how to write was this figure. A baboon. Now, this is an image, so it could have been a human that came in and taught. But if you're dealing with the first humans, who they're saying the first humans lived more like animals, and it was something about human awareness that made us upright and start living in a symbolic world, start imagining our world and living in a symbolic world. We started making language and art and beauty and looking around. That's this. They're saying in ancient sciences that this dude was taught by this being that is depicted as a baboon. So now they tell you, you know, now the racism comes in. "Oh, you don't want to be no monkey." They're talking down to the monkey, talking down to the ape. You know, you don't want to be, you a ape. I don't want to be no ape. And they just took your culture because they know that the original baboon was, in our culture, was a god and a god of knowledge and writing.
Here's the full picture. Picture with a woman. Look at her hair. Lock. These are ancient pictures too, by the way. We didn't just draw these yesterday. These are like 2, 3,000 years old. These pictures. But the, I'm showing you the first philosophers. I.e. of Horus. Okay. The baboon. Okay. The priestess. The wise woman. Okay. Here's another, a figure of it. This is a duplicate of something that was actually made 2, 3,000 years ago. I got this from a museum. Actually, I think it's the British Museum. I might have got this out of, uh, but here is to the baboon teaching man how to write. So, you got to consider, if you're the first human, you could talk to animals because you're an animal yourself. So you know the language of animals. You know how to communicate to animals. Then you gain this human awareness. You gain this God consciousness. And you start knowing right from wrong, up from down, fake from real. You know, you start knowing. And here's where you become wise. So, what is interesting here is that this is the first MC as well. These are MCs. These are divine speakers. The, what is called the med. These are the writers and speakers of the meow nature. And they're being guided and inspired by this being called Thoth. And Thoth has more images than just this image right here. Let's read. A baboon is squatting on a small pedestal with his hands sagely laid on its knees. Take a look. Sagely. Those are his hands. Little sagely hands over the knees. Sage. We're going to go back. Homo sapiens. Sage. Laid on his knees. But it would be sailed or disrespectful to make, to, to mistake it for a pet. They say, "Don't mistake this guy for a pet. Don't mistake this. This is not a pet." Okay. This monkey is one of the forms of the god Thoth. The god. Back to that word again. Patron of the scribes. This is made clear by the offering table set at the base of the pedestal and the humble attitude of the scribe seated at his feet. The scribe is reading a papyrus unrolled across his knees and bowing his head as a sign of devotion. I didn't see that here. And I'm just pointing that out to you because you got to be, don't just read. Read with a critical mind. It says here, "The scribe is reading a papyrus unrolled across his knees." How could you read a papyrus that's unrolled across his knees? Or maybe unrolled, what, uh, that it was supposed to be rolled up? I don't know. Whatever. Rolled his knees, bowing his head. Let's take a look at this. That's an open scroll. And his head is not bowed. And, and this information is explaining that P, this is the card that comes with that picture. Comes with that figure. Okay. "The scribe is reading a papyrus unrolled across his knees and bowing his head is a sign of devotion." The inscription encircling this little group invokes Thoth, master of divine words. Sounds like MC to me. Master of divine words. On behalf of the scribe, whose titles are listed. He is a high official, uh, called Nebu, Nebu, Neb, Neb Marut, a priest, archivist, and royal scribe with the rank of minister. His sovereign, Imhotep, thei. Is it, it's, it's, I'm got this from Germany. Now, did I see it? Imhotep, thei, granted him the very special favor of being portrayed at his side on the walls of his temple at Saqqara. So, what are we looking at? We're looking at a god influencing man with knowledge, writing, divine speech, basically breaking, MCing, graffiti art, DJing. That's called Hip Hop. Let's go forward.
This is another picture of the same scribe. I want you to see the folded leg. This is the first image that is like this. Look at the hair. Look at the image. Okay. Look at the style. I'm going to show you this right now. Lei. This high-ranking official of the Pharaoh, chief of the double treasure, is seated cross-legged. Well-known position of a scribe. So, the cross-leg, the meditation position, was the first position of the, was the scribe. That's where we get it from. It's not yoga. It's not Buddha. It's not any of that. It's black Egyptian that came first with the crossed leg and writing on the papyrus. He wears a large wig. Oh, say, in his left hand, he holds a papyrus unrolled over his knees. And, and I guess that when they say unrolled, it means it's open. Um, showing the list of funerary offerings. He wears a large wig. That ain't a wig. He wears a large wig which leaves his ears uncovered and a short, beltless skirt tied simply at the waist with a knob. The first portrayals of seated scribes go back to the fourth Dynasty, around 26 to 2500 BC. At that time, and by the way, Greek didn't even exist that.