The Supreme Wisdom Seminar Series New Orleans,LA May 29, 2009

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***Classes are filling up fast. Deadline for registration is April 29, 2009 to allow time for pre-seminar packet to be mailed***
Truth of God Institute Presents Master Fard Muhammad and the Truth of GodUnit I ofThe Supreme Wisdom Seminar Series
The Supreme Wisdom Seminar Series is a series of intensive two-day seminars held in various cities across the US and Canada designed to (1) make available to participants the empirical evidence supporting the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and (2) provide substantive knowledge and critical resources enabling participants to intelligently discuss and empirically defend the covered aspects of the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Supreme Wisdom Seminar Series is dedicated to empowering through education Muslim followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, regardless of affiliation. Through a combination of Powerpoint presentations, directed discussion, and study tools, the Supreme Wisdom Seminar Series seeks to strengthen confidence in the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and help participants develop a language whereby this confidence may be conveyed in an informed manner. The first unit of this series, Master Fard Muhammad and the Truth of God, will treat the following subjects:
1.] The Bible and Point #12 (Is God a man or a spirit?)2.] The Quran, the Sunna, and Point #12 (Did the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teach true Islam?)3.] God Eternal? The Self-Created Black God4.] God, One or Many? Understanding the Twenty Four Scientists

1.] Discuss the Truth of God from the perspective of the Bible in its original Hebrew and Greek context and show its congruence with the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.2.] Discuss with imams, shaykhs and lay Muslims the Truth of God from the perspective of the Quran, the Sunna, and the Classical Arabic Islamic intellectual tradition and demonstrate that Point #12 is not un-Islamic. 3.] Intelligently, non-dogmatically discuss the Honorable Elijah Muhammads teaching on the Self-Created Black God and demonstrate its congruence with ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Islamic tradition. 4.] Intelligently, non-dogmatically discuss the Honorable Elijah Muhammads teaching on the Twenty-Four Scientists and demonstrate its congruence with the monotheism of the Biblical/Islamic traditions. 5.] Demonstrate that the popular claim that Master Fard Muhammad is a white, drug-convicted felon (Wallace Dodd Ford) or the new claim that he was an Indian Buddhist is totally unfounded and wrong.
Seminar Cost $235- Individual or $335- 2 RegistrantsFees include:
1.)A pre-seminar Self-Study packet which includes scholarly articles (to be read prior to attending the seminar), study guides to assist in the reading of the scholarly articles, and a glossary of technical terms which will both facilitate an easier read of the articles and will help develop the lingua franca necessary to discuss the Truth of God clearly and effectively during the seminar. 2.)The shipping and handling cost to ship the Self-Study packet to the participants at least a month prior to the seminar begins. 3.)A detailed, user-friendly study guide synthesizing the material presented at the seminar (given out during the seminar), putting this material at the ready finger tips of the participants. 4.)Two (2) days of Power-Point lectures and directed discussion.Fees do not include food or lodging. Schedule
Friday May 29, 20098-9 AM: Registration9-10 AM: Welcome 10 -1 PM: The Bible and Point #121-1:45 PM: Break for Lunch2-5 PM: The Quran, the Sunnah and Point #12

Saturday May 30, 2009
1-3:45 PM: The Self-Created Black God3:45-4 PM: Break4-6:30 PM: Understanding The Twenty-Four Scientists
Why register for this seminar? Dr. Wesley Muhammad, founder, director, and chief scholar of TGI has recently explained,
For the last 18 years of my life I have intensely studied this teaching (of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) academically. All of the degrees that I have acquired from academic institutions (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) I did so only in the course of this study. By Allah's Grace the time, commitment and sacrifice has paid off: we can now absolutely vindicate the teachings of Master Fard Muhammad/the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. My training in Biblical Hebrew and Classical Arabic has enabled me to demonstrate convincingly that the God of the Bible, Quran and Sunna is indeed a man. We have demonstrated that Master Fard Muhammad/the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's description of the self-creation of the Black God from an atom hidden in darkness agrees with the Truth of God as found in the Indic Rg Veda and other Sanskrit texts, the Pyramid and other Kemitc texts, as well the ancient Cuneiform tablets of Sumer/Akkad.In April, 2007 I spoke at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA. The subject of my presentation was: The Black Man is God: Truth or Lie? As I pulled up to the lecture hall I noticed one of the organizers of the event outside 'fishing,' inviting passers-bye to the presentation. One such 'fishing' encounter caught my attention so I held back and watched it from a short distance. It was a sister whom I will later learn was a Spelman student and she was not at all impressed and even less interested in attending the presentation. But the brother insisted, and she continually resisted. This sister was simply not interested in hearing some 'True Islam' speak about the Black Man being God, and she made this clear. But for some reason the brother was relentless. After several minutes of this tug-of-war the sister finally conceded and entered the auditorium, no doubt to get the brother off of her back and with the intension of staying for ten minutes and then leaving. I ended up speaking about two and half hours with another 30 minutes Q&A. The sister stayed the entire time. In fact, she was one of the first to raise her hand once I opened it up for Q&A. This sister prefaced her first question with these words: "Peace brother. I believe everything that you have said is the truth. Can you tell me" I said to myself after she stated this: "Word? Everything?" I just spent two hours presenting a Powerpoint slide-show on God the Creator being a Black man who died and whose birth, death, and resurrection is allegorized in the New Testament story of Jesus the Christ. It was amazing to me that this sister who was so turned off by the flyer and insistent on not hearing the presentation at all, would openly confess the Truth of the Black God! Anyone who has had the AUC (Atlanta University Center) experience knows that Spelman sisters in general are the most unlikely converts to the Truth of the Black God!
Why do I share this story? For some time after that Atlanta presentation that sister and her words resonated with me until it dawned on me: we are living in a day wherein we not only have the Truth of God - we've had that for over seventy years now - but we have also the PROOF of the Truth of God such that even the most skeptical and resistant can be made to see. Not that this sister was the first in my 17 years of teaching to be persuaded. Allah has blessed me to bring many to Islam and the Truth of God. Everyone who knows me and my work knows that for seventeen years now I have been debating and successfully defending this Truth, not just in street ciphers and fireside chats but in classrooms and auditoriums with professors, scholars, imams, preachers, etc. But this sister in Atlanta suggests to me that a new day is upon us. In those past discussions and debates the most resistant persons, while recognizing their inability to defeat the arguments presented to them, yet refused to allow themselves to be personally persuaded by the irrefutable arguments. But today, our level of understanding of the Truth of God and the evidences now available to demonstrate its correctness is such that 'knees bow and tongues confess.'
I thus decided to formally train as many who are interested in the science of the Truth of God. Truth of God Institute (TGI) will offer several short term and extended courses designed to expand one's knowledge and understanding of the Truth of God by exposing students to the full range of scientific, scriptural, literary, and historical evidences supporting the Truth of God as first revealed on these shores by Master Fard Muhammad/the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The extended, advanced courses are designed to train intellectual warriors -Truth of God scholars - preparing them to be able to go into any Synagogue, Church, or Masjid and discuss the Truth of God with the rabbi, pastor, and imam from a position of superior knowledge. I am convinced that today is the day the Truth of God will prevail in all arguments. This is not just academic. The state of Black America is a tragic witness of how desperately needed is the Truth of God in the Black community. I am convinced that we, collectively and individually, cannot do life right until we first get God right. For more on Dr. Wesley Muhammad see www.DrWesleyMuhammad.comor www.TruthofGodInstitute.com or www.TheBlackGod.com

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Dr. Wesley Muhammad, FounderFor most believers in God religion is a non-, even anti-intellectual experience. Not in the mystical sense of recognizing that ultimately the Divine, and the experience of it, transcends all intellectual categories; rather anti-intellectual in the sense of failing or even refusing to allow intellect and reason to guide or even participate in their religious experience. This is especially true in matters of dogma. For instance, when it is empirically demonstrated that a particular time-honored religious doctrine (such as the Orthodox [Nicean] doctrine of the Trinity) has a very earthly, historical beginning and development and did not actually fall down from heaven or originate with the religion's founder, instead of trying to understand that doctrine in the context of this history, many believers reject the value of history itself in matters religious and seek refuge in the supposed 'mysteriousness' of the sacred. Such anti-intellectualism could not but produce 'fools for Jesus,' 'fools for Muhammad,' 'fools for the Buddha," etc., making mockery of these great thinkers rather than drawing the believer closer to them. This anti-intellectualism serves the good of no one but the religious establishment who, like wicked shepardmen, take full advantage of their flock. So rather than being edified by religion, too many believers are allowed to live lives that clearly do not reflect the thinking of the religions' founders and which could never lead them (the believers) to the destiny that almost all of the ancient scriptures and sacred texts predict for man: apotheosis or deification, 'becoming divine.' In the process, many sound-minded folk who are unwilling to surrender their God-given intellectual faculties and make some clergyman rich have abandoned religion, spirituality, and even God-consciousness all together. It is our opinion at TGI that the catastrophic state of the world today is a direct consequence of both factors: religion's failure to edify human beings and human beings' consequent rejection of religion and, frequently, the (God-centered) spiritual principles that initially under girded religion. It is our conviction that human beings simply cannot do life right unless and until we get God right. So the question, Who is God, is, again, not just academic. But it must be approached academically. I am an historian of religion. This means that I am trained in the historical-critical study of religion and religious texts. After 18 years of studying the world's major religious traditions I am convinced that it can be demonstrated that there is indeed significant continuity across these traditions, and this continuity can serve as the basis for productive interreligious dialogue. But the differences are just as, if not more, important. The Truth of God is like a puzzle. The various sacred texts/scriptures of the world's religions are each an important - equally important - piece of this puzzle and only by figuring out how these different pieces fit together can the fullness of the Truth of God be revealed. We have endeavored to do that here at TGI and we believe the results are convincing. The fact that these results in some cases conflict so violently with normative religious dogma alone lends credence to the results; it is these normative dogmas that are used by the religious clergy as tools for the manipulation of people. The Truth of God as presented here at TGI has the potential to end religious intolerance; the Taliban of Afghanistan for example could never have blown up the towering and ancient Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 had they possessed the Truth of God. It has the potential to free believers in God from the manipulating practices of a self-righteous clergy while at the same time freeing them from the need to choose between abandoning belief in God and abandoning their intellect. The Truth of God requires holding on to both. Once we as individuals finally get God right, we as individuals, as civilizations, and as a world community can begin once again doing life on earth right.Who is God? There is arguably no more important a question than this. Even a thorough knowledge of self is predicated upon an accurate knowledge of God. Is God an immaterial spirit as normative Judaism and Christianity teach, or a formless no-thing as traditional Islam postulates? Might God be a Man (or Woman), as claimed by such disparate groups as the Nation of Islam on the one hand and the Church of Latter Day Saints on the other? In as much as these two groups posit a material, human body for God, they are not able to avoid the question of the color of that body. God is a Black man, declared Elijah Muhammad, while Joseph Smith described his theophanic encounter with a white skinned, blond-haired, blue-eyed Father God and Christ. What sources can we with profit turn to in order to answer these question? The scriptures of the Western religions (Bible, Qur'an)? The sacred writings of so-called pagan antiquity, e.g. the Kemetic (Egyptian) writings such as the Book of Coming Forth by Day; the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer; or maybe ancient Indic literature such as the Rig Veda? What about Science; what contribution, if any, can it make to this discussion? According to a recent estimate, approximately 25 million Americans consider themselves agnostic, seekers of truth, or simply non-committed. This liminal state of rejecting religion, while not yet rejecting the idea of God, is a powerful critique of the institutions of organized religion and most of their representatives who tend to promote dogmatism and uncritical assent to traditional doctrine. This is neither edifying for the believer nor becoming of the religious professional. Prove all things, the Apostle Paul admonished us, and hold fast to that which is good (I Thess 5:21). Truth of God Institute (TGI) is an educational, research and resource center committed to providing scholarly and scientific answers to this Mother of All Questions: Who is God? TGI promotes serious, interdisciplinary research and encourages/facilitates critical discussion on the topic of God and related matters. At TGI we are convinced that a critical, history-of-religions approach to the various scriptures and the exegetical traditions that have developed around them, as well as the sacred literatures of antiquity, allows us to proffer an answer to this question (Who is God?) that has support from a remarkably wide and diverse cross-section of these literatures, but an answer that does violence to many of the most time-honored and fundamental dogmas of the various religions that claim these literatures as their foundation texts. Such a study suggests that: God, the creator of the cosmos and all life within it, evolved (himself, not just mans idea of God). Four major (and several relatively minor) stages in this divine evolution are emphasized in the various literatures. (1) In the beginning God was an impersonal, formless force (The Brahman neuter of India is exemplary of this stage). (2) In order to bring order to the pre-existent chaos the formless God assumed form, that of a divine, luminous anthropos (the sun-gods of the so-called pagan traditions and the Logos of Johns Prologue [John 1: 1-18] are exemplary of this stage). To protect creation from the harmful effects of his overpowering luminosity God cloaked his morphic brilliance in a black material body, the substance of which was the dark primordial matter that coexisted with him. The light of the divine form passing through the hairpores of the divine black body produced a beautiful blue iridescence or surrounding glow. This is why in Egypt, Sumer, India, and even in ancient Israel the leading deities (in Israels case Yahweh himself) are depicted with blue-black, sapphiric bodies. (3) God suffers some sort of tragedy in his person, the effects of which resonate throughout his entire creation. This tragedy is frequently given a somatic significance, or at least its somatic consequences are often emphasized. That is to say, the tragedy affected Gods body. (4) The repair in the divine nature is affected through the agency of a divine eschatological figure whose relation to God is highly ambivalent in the sources: he is both identified with God and in some sense distinguished from him. The God of monotheism (Judaism, Christian, and Islam) is not of a different genus as the Gods of so-called pagandom. He too is a transcendent anthropos a divine man: in the Hebrew Bible an ish (man) and gibbor (mighty man), in the Greek New Testament an anthropos (man), and in the Classical Arabic/Islamic sources a shakhs (corporeal person) and shabb (young man). He is not a formless spirit, nor does he govern the cosmos alone. He sits amidst a council of gods holy like himself but subordinate to his command. The God of monotheism is multiple, like the Gods of Israels neighbors. These literatures, including the scriptures, give evidence of a theological anthropology in which God and man are not separated by an unbridgeable ontological gulf. God is anthropomorphic and man is divine, or at least he (i.e. they, man and woman) was at his creation and has the potential to be again. God and man are indeed kin. Thus Yahweh exhorts: Be ye holy, for I am holy (Lev. 11:44), and John declared that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him (1 John 3:2). The ancient Egyptians said simply: the gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods. TGI is committed to providing scholarly materials, written by us as well as by scholars in various disciplines, confirming and elaborating upon these various aspects of the answer offered by the ancient texts (read critically and independent of dogmatic presuppositions) to this important question: Who is God?In the near future we will be offering such general courses:1.) Who is God? Part I: The Ancient Mysteries
2.) Who is God? Part II: Biblical Tradition
3.) Who is God? Part III: Islamic Tradition
4.) The Truth of God and the Deity of Christ
5.) The Secret of God: Gnosticism and Kabbalah
6.) Science and the Truth of GodAs part of our commitment to offering strictly empirical, academically sound answers to important questions relevant to the Truth of God, TGI will be releasing Status Questionnaire Reports, or Status Reports for short. These Status Reports will each address an important controversial or misunderstood issue, bringing the best, most updated scholarship to bear on the issue/question. Forthcoming Status Reports include but are not limited to the following:1.) God: Man or Spirit?
2.) God: One or Many?
3.) A Black God?
4.) Are the Prophets Historical? Jesus and Muhammad as Test Cases
5.) Are the Scriptures Reliable?
6.) God and the Ancient Mysteries: Egypt, India and SumerAnd more.What distinguishes TGI scholarship? In a word: sources. In a phrase: access to top-notch academic sources. The quality of scholarship is largely determined by the quality of the sources upon which a work relies. Researchers who have access to the most and the best source-material have the potential to produce the best scholarship. This is why language training is important to scholarship: because it gives one access to a wider range of relevant primary and scholarly secondary source-materials. This is also why spoken fluency in a language has minimal scholarly value, at least in terms of historical-critical scholarship. It is LITERACY in the relevant languages that is of paramount importance here. Just as there are articulate yet illiterate English speakers, there are fluent, even native, Arabic speakers (for example) who cannot read a Classical Arabic text. Such a person, while able to converse about modern trends and events, can offer very little to the critical discourse about Islamic Theology. TGI scholarship is based on access to the best sources. The bottom line is this: books acquired from Borders, Barnes & Noble, or our local bookstores can at best produce only mediocre scholarship. These stores dont service the most important scholarly presses (such as BRILL, for example). These scholarly sources are only available in academic libraries, at academic conferences, or from the publishers. Also, a good deal of the best scholarship is not available as books at all: it is published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals that are largely inaccessible to non-academicians. Students and affiliates of TGI will have access to a lot of this source material through the TGI Online Library. I have already scanned hundreds of pages of this material, which will be made available as PDF files through the Library. The Library will continuously grow. TGI affiliates will be in a much better position to speak critically and authoritatively on relevant issues because they will have access to the more critical, authoritative source-materials.

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