The Holy Piby

by Robert Athlyi Rogers

Overview

In the 1920s, Robert Athlyi Rogers founded the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly religion in the West Indies. He wrote The Holy Piby as a guiding text, seeing Ethiopians - in the classical meaning of all Africans - as God's chosen people, and he preached self-determination and self-reliance. The Holy Piby is a major source of influence to the Rastafarian faith, which holds Haile Selassie I as Christ, and Marcus Garvey as his prophet. The Holy Piby consists of four books, and the seventh chapter of the second book identifies Marcus Garvey as one of three apostles of God. Original copies are extremely rare, and it is not even listed in the Library of Congress. The text was banned in Jamaica and many other Caribbean Islands until the late 1920s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775410522
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	130 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface	6
	Introduction	7
	Foreword	15
	Proclamation	19
	Ises Prayer	20
	The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi	22
Chapter 1	Creation	22
Chapter 2	Dead Became Alive	23
	The Second Book of Athlyi Called Aggregation	25
Chapter 1	Heaven Grieved	25
	Convention in Heaven	26
	The Heavens Open	26
	Ethiopia Anointed	27
	Rejoicing in Heaven	28
	Shepherd Anointed	29
	The Mighty Angel	30
	Dominion Over the Shepherd	30
	Purification	31
Chapter 2	Presentation of the Law	33
	Athlyi Robed	34
Chapter 3	God's Holy Law to the Children of Ethiopia	35
	The Holy Commandments	36
	The Shepherd's Prayer By Athlyi	39
Chapter 4	The Law Preached	40
Chapter 5	Athlicanity Preached	42
Chapter 6	Solemnity Feast	47
	The Athlyian's Creed	50
Chapter 7	Marcus Garvey	54
Chapter 8	Athlyi Sent Abroad	56
Chapter 9	The Word of the Lord	58
Chapter 10	Rejoicing In the Light	61
Chapter 11	Returned to Newark	63
Chapter 12	The Guiding Light	66
Chapter 13	Athlyi Bleeds	68
Chapter 14	Heaven and Hell	72
Chapter 15	The Beggar	77
	The Third Book of Athlyi Named the Facts of the Apostles	81
Chapter 1	Apostles Anointed	81
Chapter 2	God Spoke to His Apostles	83
Chapter 3	Standing Before Elijah	86
Chapter 4	Apostles Exalted	88
	The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution	90
Chapter 1	A Buggy From Tokio to Los Angeles, A Bicycle From London to Anguilla	90
Chapter 2	Held Out His Morsel	94
Chapter 3	The Clean Should Not Accept the Invitations of the Unclean	96
Chapter 4	Shall Suffer	98
	Questions and Answers	100
	The Shepherd's Command By Athlyi	103