The concept of ‘God’ as the Dark Cosmic Mother of Everything is a very foreign one for many African Americans. There is little in our combined experience or collective consciousness that would make this concept acceptable to us. Yet as a people, we are in desperate need of metanoia, a complete change of heart and mind, in regards to whom we say ‘God’ is. By and large, we have been taught to adhere to a theology that teaches that Africans carry the curse of Ham, that white is good and black is evil, and that God favors a group of people to which we do not belong.
Christians and Jews unquestioningly accept that Yahweh has a “chosen people,” his favorites among human beings. And Black folks, it’s not us. We need a spirituality that says we are also ‘God’s’ chosen people. The concept of the Cosmic Mother of Everything in the teachings of Black Liberation Spirituality is that She is the Divine Blackness reflected in our dark skin. ‘God’ for us becomes Goddess, making the connection between holiness and blackness, which is only to be found in the Divine Feminine.
Traditional religious teachings present us with a White, Neptune-like figure in the clouds. With this picture of ‘God’ so deeply rooted in our consciousness, we often go on to perceive anything unlike this image as not-God, including our darkness and our femaleness. Under the spell of this White male God image, we too often relinquish our own power to White people in general and then expect our liberation to be granted us by the White God, the White people or both. So long as we perceive ourselves as not-God, we can default to someone or something outside ourselves to explain away our pain. The existence of racism and oppression, we rationalize, must be ‘God’s’ will.
Our darkness is a physical expression of the Divine as is all else in the cosmos. A root cause of our inability to know ourselves as the powerful creator-beings we are is our having been so thoroughly indoctrinated with the image of a White male God of light. Black Liberation Spirituality illuminates the connection between the Divine Feminine and our dark skin in order to reclaim the holiness and divinity of blackness.
It is time to abandon completely the notion that darkness is evil, and that the fable of Eve in the the Garden of Eden has doomed all women to wickedness. We suffer the consequences of racism in large part because we cannot envision our ‘God’ in dark skin. Whether we are male or female, we do not see The Creator when we look in the mirror.
As we become acquainted with and acknowledge our connection to our Cosmic Mother, we begin a process which allows the freedom child to be born in our heart, soul and mind. We begin to excise the malignancy of self-hatred from our personal life, our family life and in our community. We reclaim our power as creators of our own reality. In so doing, we open the way for political, social and most importantly, economic freedom for Black people wherever on the planet we are.
Principle 2: BLS Reveres the Cosmic Mother of Everything
Everything has to have a mother. It is She, the Cosmic Mother of Everything, whom Black Liberation Spirituality reveres. By its very nature, Black Liberation Spirituality is relevant to and specifically for Black people. Therefore, it does not adhere to any form of spirituality that teaches that Africans carry the curse of Ham, that white is good and black is evil, and that the Creator favors a group of people to which we do not belong.
Black Liberation Spirituality teaches that rather than carrying the curse of Ham, Black people are the physical embodiment of the Cosmic Mother. Out of Her, everything in creation, including light itself, took form. She is, therefore, God’s Mother, the Cosmic Matrix, the Primordial Blackness, reflected here in our dark skin.
The Church of the Cosmic Mother guides us in claiming our divinity and therefore, our power to create the kind of world where Black people, wherever we are in the world, can thrive.
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