Fitz Balintine Pettersburg

	Fitz Balintine Pettersburg Reverend Fitz Balintine Pettersburg was a proto-Rastafari preacher, and author of the ''Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'', published in 1926. He influenced Leonard Howell, who according to author Barry Chevannes, plagiarised the ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' in his 1935 book ''The Promise Key ''The Promised Key'', sometimes known as ''The Promise Key'', is a 1935 Rastafari movement tract by Jamaican preacher Leonard Howell, written under Howell's Hindu pen name G. G. Maragh (for ''Gong Guru''). Content The tract bears some close s ...''. Notes Rastafarian texts {{Reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rastafari Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is a religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas. Rastafari beliefs are based on a specific interpretation of the Bible. Central is a monotheistic belief in a single God, referred to as Jah, who is deemed to partially reside within each individual. Rastas accord key importance to Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974; many regard him as the Second Coming of Jesus and Jah incarnate, while others see him as a human prophet who fully recognised Jah's presence in every individual. Rastafari is Afrocentric and focuses attention on the African diaspora, which it believes is oppressed within Western society, or "Babylon". Many Rastas call for this diaspora' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Royal Parchment Scroll Of Black Supremacy ''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' is a text from Jamaica, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg. The ''Royal Parchment Scroll'' is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought, along with ''The Holy Piby'' and Leonard P. Howell's ''The Promise Key'', which itself made considerable use of content from Pettersburg's work. See also * Black supremacy Black supremacy or black supremacism is a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are superior to people of other races. In the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. said that a doctrine of black supremacy was as dangerous as white ... References Further reading ''The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'' by Rev. Fitz Balintine Pettersburgh, Frontline Distribution International Inc. (2003), External linkscomplete etext at sacred-texts.com Rastafarian texts Black supremacy 1920s documents {{reli-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leonard Howell Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898 – 23 January 1981), also known as The Gong or G.G. Maragh (for ''Gangun Guru''), was a Jamaican religious figure. According to his biographer Hélène Lee, Howell was born into an Anglican family. He was one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement (along with Joseph Hibbert, Archibald Dunkley, anRobert Hinds, and is known by many as The First Rasta. Born in May Crawle River, Jamaica, Howell left the country as a youth, traveling to many places, including Panama and New York, and returned in 1932. He began preaching in 1933 about what he considered the symbolic portent for the African diaspora—the crowning of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. His preaching asserted that Haile Selassie was the "Messiah returned to earth", and he published a book called '' The Promised Key''. Although this resulted in his being arrested, tried for sedition, and imprisoned for two years, the Rastafari movement grew. Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Promise Key ''The Promised Key'', sometimes known as ''The Promise Key'', is a 1935 Rastafari movement tract by Jamaican preacher Leonard Howell, written under Howell's Hindu pen name G. G. Maragh (for ''Gong Guru''). Content The tract bears some close similarities to an earlier (1926) writing by Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, the ''Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy'', but omitting much of the stream of consciousness language, long opaque abbreviations, and repetition, and some content from the '' Holy Piby''. Some lines of ''The Promised Key'' were taken verbatim from the ''Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy''; for example, the slogan "Gross beauty is the Queen in hell" may be found in both works, as part of a general condemnation of western aesthetics. Most significantly, the identities of " King Alpha and Queen Omega" were changed from Fitz Balintine Pettersburg and his wife, as in the Royal Parchment Scroll, to Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw. This was one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]