Digging Tswana Roots

Legend of Baloi: the exoteric level (2)

In this miniseries we first explored what the term baloi really meant at the exoteric level, before we began to unearth the esoteric secrets of these much-misunderstood beings. And one question I posed was “If we one is yet to understand baloi (wizards, witches) at the exoteric level, then how will he or she even begin to grasp what they are at the esoteric level?”

What, essentially, are baloi at the exoteric level? These were simply ancient, pale-skinned people of highly-advanced technology which they kept to themselves to buttress their status as ‘the gud ones’ (‘the good/superior ones’…gud being the source of ‘god’).

Their most striking difference, we saw, was that they ‘came to Earth from the sky’ at a distant age, which ‘sky’ (outer space) we figured to be the planet Mars, their N’ibiru (Na-hibiru: the Reddish One). To Sumerians – and which term Sotho-Tswana still retains – they were ma-Illui, literally ‘Shining (or light-giving) Ones’, reference to their dazzling ‘illumination’ (knowledge).

Indeed, mo-Illu (now abbreviated to mo-llo in Sotho-Tswana) means ‘light-giving substance’. (Note: the prefix mo usually applies to a person, and se, le, etc. to a substance, but exceptions exist, like motsoko (tobacco), motswako (mixture), etc. But when an ‘i’ instead of ‘o’ is appended to mo, it definitely means ‘light-giving person’. To help clarify this, I gave the basic example of taboga (run) and mo-tabogi (runner).)

So, to those outside the purview of their technology, ma-Loi (ma-Illui) – or Eloi-ma in Hebrew syntax, thus ‘Elohim’) – seemed like they were indeed ‘wizards’, wielders of ‘magic’. Instead, so drunk with power were they that they eventually took the most daring step imaginable: to play God Himself. And now their descendants, loosely called the ‘Illuminati’ (a sinister play on the term ‘Illu’) do not wish the world to know the truth about their shady past…to the extent of orchestrating what Michael Cremo calls ‘Forbidden Archaeology’. But as even ‘learned’ professors are taught to ignore anachronous finds and teach only their version of ‘truth’, they do not have to do anything at all.

Next, we tackled baloi at the esoteric level. Here, it involves people who seem to wield genuine magic’; who can apparently distort the normal workings of Science and Nature. I say ‘seem’ and ‘apparently’ – i.e. ‘as it appears to the eye’ – because few people (if any) can actually do this, so tight are the Working Laws of this plane of existence. What ‘plane of existence’? 

A mere 200 years ago, in pre-Marconi days, the concept of anything existing beyond the visible electromagnetic spectrum would have been laughed out of all serious scientific discussion. Now we take it for granted that we can generate spooky waves that go through walls without disintegrating, travel so fast that we can send them from New York to here in a blink of an eye, and through them we can see, hear and communicate with people at such great distances in real-time.

Back then, we would have been accused of ‘dabbling with spirits’ and promptly burnt as ‘witches’! Indeed, anything invisible to the eye, that did not obey the ’unshakeable’ laws of Newtonian physics based on ‘equal and opposite resistance’, and did many wondrous things for us, had to be ‘spirit’!

But even today, there are a good number of Christians who believe that Heaven can exist only in outer space – somewhere beyond the sky – and that if we had powerful enough telescopes we would be able to see it; that it cannot be a whole unseen existence that, right here and now, vibrates at a much higher frequency than our own And tied to this very question of ‘spirit dimension’ is whether we have an immortal soul or not. So, though many believe that we carry the very ‘breath of God’ in us which is our very Life, and that God does not die, they insist that we do not have a ‘spirit body’ within us that can live independently of the body.

But, before I personally came to any conclusion at all, I looked at all evidence, not only at mere assertions. I discovered many credible examples of Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs), including one about a certain man who was clinically dead for some minutes at a hospital ICU.

When he came to, he related to others how his ‘spirit’ had floated outside the hospital walls and saw a pair of sneakers wedged deep into an indent below a window ledge a distance away from his room. But the sneakers were several floors up and positioned such that no-one could see them from above or below; one had to lean outside and feel for them (they were probably smelly and therefore long left there by an unknown patient)! The experience changed his life forever.

Now, if we indeed have a subtler body that animates this material body; that escapes this body upon death and goes somewhere else, how do we make contact with that body? Are we allowed to see where it goes upon our death, even whilst we are still living?

Actually, as we will see more closely next week, the ‘magic’ powers that the very few genuine baloi wield are derived from that other plane of existence. Such powers are in fact natural to that plane and are not meant for use in ours; such use is largely illegal and amounts to no good.

And this is where these genuine baloi miss the boat…but not Saviours like Jesus who use these same abilities for a much loftier purpose, a purpose the early Church tried its best hide and stamp out, along with what we now loosely call Gnostic, or Nasorean or Nazarene or Essene Christianity – the genuine, undistorted teachings of Jesus, the Christ.

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