Let’s take up the three areas that I didn’t fit into my last article.

"As did his teacher before him, Minister Farrakhan teaches that which will thoroughly uproot and destroy these heart-corroding emotions. [The emotions I referred to are jealousy and envy.] In that which they’ve taught are those keys that can develop each human beings potential to the fullest.

"Now, there is an important qualifier that could be inserted here, but I don’t want to go off from my primary point. However, I intend to take it up next article, Allah willing."

We’ve learned from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, that the life in the "hereafter" will be infinitely superior to any which has ever existed. It will be based on the loving power of Allah—freedom, justice and equality on the highest level—which will enable the people to willingly live by the surpassing wisdom He will reveal for that brand new world. That wisdom is reserved for the people who will live in the "hereafter." That wisdom for the next world is that wisdom which "no eyes have seen … ."

Meanwhile, it’s also true that there has been, and there are now, certain people who have attained to the status of gods—right here on this earth—under the Supreme One or God. The Bible and the Holy Qur’an teaches on this but in a veiled way. This most important of all subjects could not be understood until today. What this means and how this occurs has now been made clear by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Many scientists of this world agree with him. There are a growing number of them who are teaching the general public (via TV and otherwise) that people once lived on this earth, people whose civilization far surpassed anything known to this world.

They know that the "indigenous people" of the earth are the descendants of those ancient people, despite their present reduced condition. This is especially true of Black people of America, falsely called members of a "minority group."

They point to monuments, such as the pyramids, and other structures and other scientific facts as proof that there once were a people whose wisdom did not merely differ from this world’s wisdom by degree, but by quality. The wisest of the scientists of this world cannot fathom that ancient wisdom with the power of their limited and exhausted wisdom. To fathom means to get to the bottom of; to penetrate; to comprehend.

The insight of this world’s wisest persons could not pierce the darkness between their knowledge and that of the wisdom of the ancient people, who built such monuments as the pyramids. That darkness, they admit, is not only the denseness of their ignorance but the reasons for their collective inability to learn the thinking; the mathematics; the technology; even the very basis of their way of life, out of which came their power to build what their scientists can’t duplicate.

Some of them say it seems as if, at some point, humanity suffered the most massive or catastrophic case of amnesia imaginable or possible. Their public words indicate that they don’t have the explanation of this so-called amnesia.

A growing number of this world’s scientists now admit that their wisdom must have been—from its very inception—inherently limited. That’s why an increasing number of them look up to Min. Farrakhan and what he represents. They have come to see in him guidance, based on wisdom, that is superior to their learned ones. Many of them have come to reevaluate the teachings as well as the person of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Increasingly, they ask: "What kind of a man was Elijah Muhammad?" Look at and listen to Min. Farrakhan.

Meanwhile, there is a big move now being made to blunt this growing awareness. It won’t work. It will fail.

Min. Farrakhan teaches wisdom that pierces the darkness that the wisdom of this world’s scientists cannot. However, he has never claimed that he is the author of what he teaches. He has made clear that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught him. Likewise, his teacher did not claim to be the author of what he taught. Moreover, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s wisdom could not possibly have come from himself. He said that he received it from Him Whom all of the prophets spoke of as coming at the end of the time of this world.

The prophets of God taught that this One would come unobserved; like a thief in the night. He did. He came when "men slept." They would be too preoccupied with the problems of the Depression and related matters, to realize His presence until it was too late.

Jesus saw His coming from the East to the West. He did. Jesus saw Him among a spiritually and mentally dead people, who were enslaved to the rulers of this world.

The 42nd chapter of Isaiah speaks of a man of this destroyed people, whom the One to come would choose to redeem and awaken the rest—all of whom would be mentally blind, deaf and dumb. The prophecy in Isaiah (53rd chapter) describes this chosen man as "a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground."

Suppose you came upon dry ground, with nothing green around; not even cactus. You see no rain clouds overhead. You see clear blue sky and dry ground. Yet you see that there is a little fleshy rich green plant there in the desert. You know that dry ground, without water, can’t bring about the germination of the seed to produce a root down in the earth and send up shoots. Dry ground lacks the power to do that.

So how did this plant get water? Since you don’t see rain clouds and the ground is just too dry, is it not reasonable to conclude that somebody must have poured water on the ground when no one was looking? There is no other way to account for that green plant.

There was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in the early 1930s, teaching what no one else ever taught us. He was like that little fleshy green plant in the midst of dry ground.

How else can we account for that little fleshy green plant—the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his astounding wisdom, when nothing like this wisdom was in his education, nor among us, prior to his meeting with his Teacher Master Fard Muhammad in 1931?

We don’t see the One Who came. But we saw a man telling us and the world that He did come. He taught not of God’s coming but of His presence. This bears on Min. Farrakhan’s magnificent work absent his teacher.

The people couldn’t know the truth of Him, Who came unobserved, until the man He made His witness began telling them and the world the true identity of his Teacher. Certainly, thousands saw Master Fard Muhammad in the early ’30s with their physical eyes. But only one man recognized Him.

The Holy Qur’an often referred to "the dead earth." The dead earth or the dry ground is the Black people of America. We are described in scriptures as the lost sheep; also called the dry bones; and "no people." Let’s not forget that the word "negro" means dead. (Just because there was a court ruling in the 1930s making the "n" in "negro" a capital "N" did not raise us from the dead.)

What he taught us about his Teacher, Master Fard Muhammad, is the key to how the wisdom of the ancient people was to come down to us.

Take for instance a part of the answer that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad gave us, from his Teacher, about how those huge stones of the pyramids were lifted into place. He told us that his Teacher taught him that our ancestors used hydraulics to lift those heavy stones of the pyramids. That has been kept as a secret long before this world came into existence. This is among the secrets that have been passed down among just a few, generation after generation. Those who know these things, in these times, are very quiet.

Isaiah 9:2 states that "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad called this light, or wisdom, both "a wake-up teaching and message" and "the kindergarten of His wisdom." (But look at what he and Min. Farrakhan did with a "wake-up" and the "kindergarten" part of God’s wisdom. What will happen when Min. Farrakhan gets the whole of what he is to get—Allah willing?

This present divine wisdom is preparatory to that which is to come, which "no eyes has seen … " etc.

Now, the second qualifier not given in the last issue in this column involves just why Min. Farrakhan is the first of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s converts. This explains why Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was not allowed to make a convert to himself, during the first 40 years of his work.