Ausar Auset Society
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The Ausar Auset Society is a Pan-African religious organization founded in 1973 by Ra Un Nefer Amen. It is based in Brooklyn, New York with chapters in several major cities in the United States as well as internationally. The organization was created for the purpose of providing members a societal framework through which the Kemetic spiritual way of life can be lived daily and functions as an international body teaching various disciplines to students around the world. The organization provides afrocentric-based spiritual training to the African American community and to African descendants in the diaspora. The religion uses the Kemetic Tree of Life (Paut Neteru) as the basis of its cosmogony and philosophical underpinning. It seeks to reunite the traditions of the founders of civilization into a spiritually empowering way of life that aims at the awakening of the Ausar principle (the Divine Self) within each individual.
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[edit] Classes
All classes are taught with the intention of organizing the society’s members into a community whereby the ageless wisdom of ancient African cultures can be lived on an on-going daily basis. The fundamental premise is that for a people to grow spiritually and function together as a harmonious and productive group, they must encounter the spiritualizing forces during their day to day interaction with life and with each other. Classes taught are based on the Ausarian theology of ancient Egypt and are heavily steeped in indigenous traditional African cultures dating from the early historical periods of Kemet, Indus Kush (pre-Aryan, pre-Vedantic India), Canaan (Palestine), and Kush (Sudan). Some of the classes taught include Kemetic philosophy (cosmology), meditation, ritual, divination, yoga, qi gong, nutrition, herbalism, homeopathy, astrology, African history and culture, as well as other disciplines indigenous to ancient cultures from around the world.
[edit] Organizational Structure
The Ausar Auset Society has patterned its government on the traditional African Kingship structure which has been officially recognized by the Asantehene (King of the Ashanti) of Ghana. This system is built around a hierarchally organized group of officials whose titles include King, Queen Mother, Priest(ess), Chief(tess) and Elder. A major point of emphasis of traditional African Kingship is that the King had to also qualify as the Chief Priest. This model has also been incorporated into the organizational structure of Ausar Auset Society and seeks to ensure that the leadership are highly spiritually trained individuals of impeccable character. Each Ausar Auset Society branch or study group (Hesp/Nome) replicates the society's structure established by Ra Un Nefer Amen in New York and falls under the leadership of either a Paramount King, Paramount Queen Mother, or Chief(tess) who has his/her own hierarchy of officials and autonomy over their respective region.
[edit] Ausarian Religion
The Ausarian religious system has at its essence the establishment of an intimate relationship with God. It's fundamental tenet holds that God and Man (men and women) share the same divine attributes qualitatively, although not quantitatively. Thus, unlike other religious systems in which humankind is essentially bound to the frailties of the flesh and is incapable of transcending human limitations, the Ausarian religion is based upon the individual's effort to use each and every life experience as a means of bringing his or her divine attributes to the forefront of human existence as the "normal" way of addressing all issues in life. Hence, the individual must live by Ma'at (Divine Law) while interacting on the physical plane, thus making one's body, one's life even, a fit vessel through which God's divine attributes can be of service to all creation all over the world.
[edit] References
- Amen, Ra Un Nefer, Metu Neter magazine, vol. 4, no. 1, 1994
- Amen, Ra Un Nefer, I Ching Spiritual Counselor Commentary Booklet, 2006
- Asante, Molefi and Mazama, Ama, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Sage Publications, 2005
