NOTE : I AM A FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENT IN ECONOMICS. ENGLISH IS OUR SECOND LANGUAGE. I DO MY BEST TO TRANSLATE THIS TEXT FROM FRENCH TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES.
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Everything is relativity. We can not understand any reality by excluding it from its CONTEXT. All religions exist for a common reason: to fight against the forces of evil. Nothing has shown us that there is only one force of evil that undermines the whole universe. The abrahamic religions speak of a Satan competing with MAWU, which seeks to destroy the works of MAWU we are. In this case, the approach is Manichean where good is necessarily opposed to evil. In a vodouic environment, good and evil are not necessarily opposed because ALL THAT IS GOOD CAN HURT. In this context, we can talk about witchcraft, which allowed people to become stars, becomes an instrument of destruction in a very competitive environment. Other voduïds of Zoka type , which allowed people to escape an ambush, become dangerous instruments in the hands of a blood thirsty person. Since all these forces are both force of good and evil, there must be a MANAGER that controls the use of these voduïds in society. Without that manager, the evil people can kill without impunity and defenseless people will die innocently. This manager that ensures the WELFARE of society by preventing the arbitrary use of Zokas and witchcraft has a name: VODU.
- DEVIL: definition
Devil is not a spirit or a complete whole that seeks to kill humans remaining invisible. If it were the case, we would all be killed without having had time to see it coming. So what is the devil? Is considered devil or evil, any INDIVIDUAL who, after he had master one or more forces of the nature, decides to use them to harm people at A PARTICULAR TIME. The devil is a human being who decides to hurt another human, at a specific time and for a reason. The devil is the one who sits next to you, it may be your father, your mother, your aunt, sister / brother, friend, husband / wife. .. it is not a spirit somewhere! because the spirits are ALWAYS controlled by humans. That's why we say in voduism that : "MAWU gave us power over the spirits". It is to us, Human Beings, that MAWU gave the key of the universe as we controll ALL the spirits in the world.
When I made the classification of voduïds in the article Understanding the African sipirituality, a sister asked me a pertinent question: "Where is the place of Human in all this?". Here is the answer. Human is above ALL voduïds in the sense that it is the human who commands spirits NOT to say human is STRONGER!
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| Place of Human between voduïds |
- The malignant spirit :
- The sorcerer
Witchcraft is to sign a pact knowingly or unknowingly with Absolute Power to use this power ad libitum. How a sorcerer operates? According to the testimony of witches who were caught by the Alafia Vodu : When a sorcerer wants to kill someone, he watches that person day and night without rest. He expects that the person to fall into any weakness: weakness may be the acool, women, men, excessive thirst for money, anything that causes man to lose control of his life. And it is this weakness that will permit the sorcerer to take people's minds. And when the sorcerer takes someone's mind, it does not kill the person immediately but the person gets sick. He waits to see if the person or his family will see a VODU because it is able to take back the stolen spirit from sorcerer and heal the sick body. VODU has power over witches;VODU is the only religious entity that has power over the rest of the voduïds of voduism. Let's continue: If relatives do not go to see the VODU then sorcerer eats stolen mind and the person dies. But when the person will see VODU, she is saved. Alafia is a Vodou internationally renowned and highly specialized in the field of witches. In case the wizard eat mind before the intervention of Vodou, it happens a particular phenomenon: the Vodou catches the wizard and begin to torture him until the sorcerer has confessed all his crimes. Most wizards caught confessed how EASY it is for them to eat the minds in Christian places of worship, for example. Wizards pretend to convert to Christianity to attack easy prey. The sorcerer is too afraid of Vodou while he feels no fear to go into a church; I remember those church bells that provide shelter for sorcerer birds. Many wizards go to hide themselves in churches so that people cannot suspect them of witchcraft. This is why Vodounons recommend VIGILANCE to voodoo adepts because the enemy does not sleep. Anyone who wants to hurt you is that DEVIL THAT NEVER SLEEPS and seek your weak point to attack you.
- The Bo or Zoka
I even said once these voduïds are designed for defense purposes. In situations of jealousy, envy, competition, these voduïds are diverted to evil goals by INDIVIDUALS. These types of voduïd are very common in men. If you're a beautiful woman, you are very rich, very popular, shiny ... jealous can use these voduïds to make you sick, crazy or outright kill you if you do not have the protection of a VODU. But they also do not attack the vigilant people because they know that the Vodou can take or catch them. To do this, they await their "prey" until the person falls into a moment of weakness like being drunk or drugged. There they can make him commit a crime unintentionally and it is definitely jailed for example. That is why the adepts of Alafia, pray two to three times per week to protect themselves from these evil people. Vodou is the enemy of those who use these spirits to do harm. Without Vodou, people would kill without fear and the whole society will collapse. Societies that do not have Vodou are those where evil individuals are kings.
I remember this Zokato (who uses Zoka) that Vodou Alafia caught because he had killed people. The holy water of Vodou has been used out to destroy his Zokas : They simply spread holy water of Vodou, called "aflasi" on his Zokas and everything went up in smoke! The holy water has an extraordinary power and I suspect the notion of holy water to be of African origin. In many voodoo, there is the notion of "SARA" or "SALA" which is to do good to people or giving gifts to strangers: this notion is found in Islam! But this voodoo Alafia (and others) comes from the Hausa, a strongly Muslim people today who had a lot of "exchanges" with Arab-Muslim countries. The adepts of that Vodu do not eat pork, do not consume alcohol during the pray etc ... The same voodoo has similarities with chritianity on "communion: cola and holy water by analogy in the holy bread and wine ", the signs marked on the body of followers after the prayer with a white substance, are the same points of a crucifix ... The world is deep.
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-The necessity of Vodou
Each society has its measures. MAWU even know why we are born in Africa rather than in Europe or America. He alone knows why you're born black rather than white. He knows why you were born in an environment of voduism rather than Islamic. The willingness of witches and evil people is to see Vodou disappear to commit crimes of all kinds and undermine society. Pastors, miracle workers, often use the Vodou in their places of worship to protect adepts from witches. They also use voodoo to heal people: I'm not against this practice because it is in vodu philosophy. But other pastors also use witchcraft and other voduïds against their own members! vigilance. Unwary children who taught to have received "jesus" and who dared to break the "REAL" voodoo of their parents are crazy today because they destroyed their own protection and have become easy prey for the devil.
The FA, language and Vodou Scriptures, can expose these criminals of society to ensure its welfare . People are very concerned about the Vodou because those who will swear on a "holy book" and lie, are unable to LIE to the Vodou. If they do so, the Fa will denounce them. If Fa does not, the ordeal will catch without fail. In reality, people are fleeing the Vodou, not because they believe it is evil, but rather, they want to be free to do evil in society. The whole campaign against Vodu is a work of evil spirits, witches and all those who want to undermine our society.
I will conclude with these words: VODU is the only guarantor of good morality and justice in our African societies even in the world as it effictively fights against the evil individuals and prevent arbitrary use of the forces of nature. The spirit of evil, the devil and other considerations are very relative concepts as they are applied to more INDIVIDUALS we meet every day rather than spirits that are managed by Human through power he takes from MAWU.
ONLY EVIL PEOPLE, THE WITCHES, THE BAD SPIRITS, HATE VODU. This is exactly devil who speaks bad of Vodu since Vodou is a nightmare for them. It is easily understood why VO-DU means "free society", "get society comfortable" because VODU is the only entity that guarantees WELLNESS society.
Tsetula TSAGLI
Tsetula TSAGLI
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