{"id":271,"date":"2022-11-18T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosecommunity.org\/services\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:39:00","slug":"faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wosecommunity.org\/?page_id=271","title":{"rendered":"Frequently Asked Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The word Wo’se (pronounced ‘Wo-say”) comes from Waset, the name of a capital city in Ancient Egypt (referred to herein as Kemet). Our version of the name comes from the classic book, The Destruction of Black Civilization written by the great scholar, Dr. Chancellor Williams, who called it ”the most important single city in the entire “history of the Black people.” By choosing it, we have attempted to resurrect the name of this great city and many of its ancient traditions.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"wosesac.orgYes, but not in the conventional western tradition (i.e. a superman sitting on a throne). The matter is stated very succinctly in one of the sacred texts of our Community, \u201cthere is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that force is not something cut off, not something separate from ourselves. It is an energy in us, strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected frag\u00adments.”<\/p>

The foregoing statement of African wisdom, drawn from Ayi Kwei Armah’s 2000 Season, echoes and reflects the perceptions we have always held towards the Most High. For African people, the Most High has never been an abstract idea separated from our reality. One of our spirituals captures it best, ”My God is real, for I can feel God in my soul.”<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"wosesac.org-At Wo’se we have embraced the name Amen-Ra, which comes to us from the ancestors of Kemet’s 18th Dynasty, around 3500 after the founding of Kemet (A.F.K.), approximately 1500 (B.C.). Just as other spiritual traditions have affixed names to the \u201cOne Who Is Self-Produced\u201d that reflect their particular vision (Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, Ol\u00f3d\u00f9mar\u00e8, etc.), the same is true of the Kemetic expe\u00adrience. The most important names that have come to us from the Kemetic traditions include Atum, Ra, Amen, Ptah and Amen-Ra. Amen means “hidden” or ‘unknowable” and it refers to that aspect of the Divine that we know as consciousness. Ra refers to that aspect which pro\u00advides and sustains the life force and is symbolized-realized via the power and functions of the sun. Additionally, Amen-Ra reflects the spirit of har\u00admony and unity, as it is the result of the merging of two traditions and, further, reflects what we know to be of critical importance in the essence of the Divine.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"wosesac.orgOur spiritual system is monotheis\u00adtic, as has always been the case for Ancient Kemet. We have always celebrated the Most High, but also recognize that the Divine is made visible through various manifesta\u00adtions. These manifestations are referred to as Neters. Our religious system simply ascribed a name to the neters; for example, Shu as light and air or Nut as sky. The neters have both a mythological and a cosmologi\u00adcal significance.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"wosesac.orgMaat is the foundational principle upon which Creation and humanity rest. Maat is truth, justice, righteousness, harmony, balance, right order, reciprocity and harmony. The teachings of Our Way inform us that Maat is the inner vision and convictions of the heart of the Creator, the vital source of all that exists: “When I came into being, being itself came into being. I formed it from the desire in my heart; I laid the foundation through Maat.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>