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The Holy Piby by Robert Athlyi Rogers

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The Holy Piby
by Robert Athlyi Rogers

The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The theology outlined in this work saw Ethiopians (in the classical sense of all Africans) as the chosen people of God. The church preached self-reliance and self-determination for Africans, using the Piby as its guiding document.

The Holy Piby is made up of four books. The first, entitled “The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi,” has only two chapters. The next, “The Second Book of Athlyi Called Aggregation,” is the largest with fifteen chapters, the seventh of which identifies Marcus Garvey[1] as one of three apostles of God. The “Third Book of Athlyi Named The Facts of the Apostles” presents two prominent members of the UNIA-ACL, Robert Lincoln Poston[2] and Henrietta Vinton Davis[3], as the other apostles in the Holy Trinity. The title of the last book is “The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution.” That book is followed by a series of questions and answers wherein Garvey, Davis, and Poston are proclaimed to be the saviors of the “down trodden children of Ethiopia.”
While not, strictly speaking, a “Rastafarian text”, it was certainly a primary source of influence to the Rastafari movement, who see Haile Selassie I as Christ, and Marcus Garvey as his prophet.
The original is very rare. There are no copies listed in either the Library of Congress or the University of California catalogs. The Holy Piby was even banned in Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands in the middle and late 1920s.

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The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King

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The Code of Hammurabi

This, the earliest known written legal code, was composed about 1780 B.C.E. by Hammurabi, the ruler of Bablyon. This text was excavated in 1901; it was carved on an eight foot high stone monolith. The harsh system of punishment expressed in this text prefigures the concept of ‘an eye for an eye’. The Code lays out the basis of both criminal and civil law, and defines procedures for commerce and trade. This text was redacted for 1,500 years, and is considered the predecessor of Jewish and Islamic legal systems alike.
At the other end of the evolution of Ancient Near Eastern law is the refined and considerably more merciful Talmud, composed two and half millenia later, also in Babylon, by expatriate Jewish scholars……..

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The religion of babylonia and assyria by theophilus g. Pinches, ll.d

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THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

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The Life of George Washington vol I,II,III & IV By John Marshall.

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The Life of George Washington By John Marshall

The life of George Washington,
Commander in chief of the American Forces,
During the war which established the independence of his country,
and first president of the United States.

BY JOHN MARSHALL.

The Life of George Washington vol I

The Life of George Washington vol II

The Life of George Washington vol III

The Life of George Washington vol IV

The Holy Qur’an Arabic Text Arabic Pronunciation English text by A. Yusuf Ali

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The Holy Qur’an

This is the main Qur’an version at HolyeBooks. Because a completely accurate Unicode version of the Arabic Qur’an text is not yet available, the Arabic is presented as embedded graphics in the GIF format. To allow for viewing on slower systems, each Surah is broken down into traditional sections, which usually include about a dozen verses. Each verse is presented in Arabic along with a pronunciation guide, and The Yusuf Ali English text. The system used in the pronunciation guide can be viewed in this file. This text is hyperlinked with other English versions and transcriptions of the Qur’an at this site. …………….

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The Promised Key by G.G. Maragh

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The Promised Key
by G.G. Maragh

This is pro Rastafarian work by Leonard Howell, a Jamaican “John The Baptist”. Published around 1935, this is an edited, much shorter, version of The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy. This text gives us the identities of ‘King Alpha and Queen Omega’,Howell became a preacher of Ras Tafari in 1933, he started to preach that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (Ras Tafari) was the Messiah, that Black people were the chosen people, and would soon be repatriated to Ethiopia

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The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy By Fitz Balintine Pettersburg

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The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy

The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought. It is a surrealistic stream-of-consciousness polemic against the white colonial power structure, a palimpsest of Afrocentric thought.

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Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt [1912]

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JATAKA TALES

Jataka tales are considered to be the collection of stories related with the previous birth’s of lord buddha. Apart from its religious importance jataka also have great impact on children’s story books. Author have selected 18 different stories for this book and we hope that you will enjoy reading it.

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The Dhammapada A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

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The Dhammapada

Dhammapada literally means foot steps of eternal truth, it is said to be the collection of sayings of lord buddha. There are different versions of Dhammapada available but the one we have here on our site is Pali Dhammapada which consists of 26 chapters and 423 verses.

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The Wisdom of Rastafari

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The Wisdom of Rastafari

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