4 Men
Blue Self-Existing Eagle
Blue Eagle, do you hear the call
Singing through the Oak and Pine –
Whispering Tendrils on the Vine?
My Voice – a faint Murmur in the Night
Kissing you softly awake
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Song
Floating on a misty Mountainside
Rushing down a narrow Waterfall
Up the lazy River of your Spine
Like a lovely Lotus Blossom?
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Sound
Crowning and surrounding you
Sighing for your Soul
To learn its Language?
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Drum
Signaling the Rhythm of your Days
As you become the Master of your Fate?
Blue Eagle, mark the Measure of your Glory
Embrace the Grandeur of your Story —
Now!
©Kleomichele Leeds
Octavia V. Rogers Albert
Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – August 19, 1889) was an African-American author and biographer. She documented slavery in the United States through a collection of interviews with ex-slaves in her book The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, which was posthumously published in 1890.
Life and work
She was born Octavia Victoria Rogers in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the emancipation. She attended Atlanta University where she studied to be a teacher. Octavia Rogers saw teaching as a form of worship and Christian service. She received her first teaching job in Montezuma, Georgia.
In 1874, at around 21 years old, she married another teacher, Dr. Aristide Elphonso Peter Albert, and they had one daughter together, Laura T. Albert. In 1875 Octavia converted to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a church under the ministry of Henry McNeal Turner, a Congressman and prominent political activist. After her conversion, she then taught because she saw teaching as a form of worship and as a part of her Christian service like her contemporaries. While teaching in Montezuma, Georgia, both she and her husband became strong advocates for education and "American religion" as they used their home to teach reading and writing lessons. Her husband became an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1877. Shortly after the couple married, they moved to Houma, Louisiana.
The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves
In Houma, Louisiana, Octavia Albert began conducting interviews with men and women who were once enslaved. She met Charlotte Brooks for the first time in 1879 and decided to interview her later, along with other former slaves from Louisiana. These interviews were the raw material for her collection of narratives. Although most of the book focuses on the narrative of Charlotte Brooks, Albert also implemented the interviews from ex-slaves John Goodwin, Lorendo Goodwin, Lizzie Beaufort, Colonel Douglass Wilson, and a woman known as Hattie. Their interviews and experiences shaped her book The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves as a mix of slave stories that would expose the inhumanity of slavery and its effects on individuals. Albert's goal in writing her book was to tell the stories of slaves, their freedom, and adjustment into a changing society in order to "correct and create history." The stories of Charlotte Brooks and the others would eventually be compiled into a book after Octavia's death, published in New York by Hunt and Eaton in 1890. Octavia Albert died on August 19, 1889, before The House of Bondage became widely known.*
MEN
Kin 95: Blue Self-Existing Eagle
I define in order to create
Measuring mind
I seal the output of vision
With the self-existing tone of form
I am guided by the power of magic
I am a polar kin
I convert the blue galactic spectrum.
There are infinite sets of mathematical permutations in the ever-changing chemical composition of life.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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