The awakening of Sleeping Beauty Part Two-
The New Millennium

'Hast thou not thought of him who disputed with Abraham about his Lord, because Allah had given him kingdom? When Abraham said, My Lord is He who gives life and causes to die, he said: I give life and cause death. Abraham said: Surely Allah causes the sun to rise from the East, so do thou make it rise from the West. Thus he who disbelieved was confounded. And Allah guides not the unjust people." �Surah 2, Verse 258

In this Section of the Holy
Qur�an, Allah begins to Re-
veal Himself in parables relating to the Seen and the Unseen. In this parable, the argument placed before the disbeliever is that Allah causes the physical Sun to rise from the East; and if it were to rise from the West, it could only be by Allah�s Power and Might. In reality, this parable is referring to the rise of Islam in the West and the Resurrection of the mentally dead and the spiritually blinded people.

In yet another parable we read in verse 259, "Or like him who passed by a town, and it had fallen in upon its roofs. He said: When will Allah give it life after its death? So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him. He said: How long hast thou tarried? He said: I have tarried a day, or part of a day. He said: Nay, thou has tarried a hundred years; but look at thy food and drink�years have not passed over it! And look at thy ass! And that We may make thee a sign to men. And look at the bones, how We set them together then clothe them with flesh. So when it became clear to him, he said: I know that Allah is Possessor of power over all things." �� Surah 2, verse 259.

In the above parable, we see a similarity to the story of Sleeping Beauty. Every one hundred years, according to the exegesis of the Holy Qur�an, it is believed to have come down from the time of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) that a Reformer would be raised to revive the spirit of God�s True Religion among the People. The Spiritual Wisdom contained in the story of Sleeping Beauty reveals that with the wave of a magic wand that the whole kingdom was put to sleep. The intervention of the Fairy Godmother was to protect the Kingdom while the evil ones reigned. In the Sleeping Beauty Ballet as performed by the Universal Ballet Company of Korea in Chicago�s Civic Opera House during the last week of April, the Fairy Godmother is portrayed as the Lilac Fairy. Once the prince awakens the princess, the entire kingdom is revived. A flurry of activity begins in preparation for a sumptuous wedding Ceremony in which many guests are to be in attendance. The Universal Ballet Company, with its home theater in Korea, performed with great delicacy and refinement under the Direction of Julia H. Moon with Oleg Vinogradov (Artistic Director), who brought together many fine artists from Korea, China, Europe and Russia.

The synopsis of the story tells us that, when the princess is born, one of the fairies is not invited to the christening. In outrage, she appears in the palace and threatens the king and queen with revenge. The stage was now set for their daughter to prick her finger on a spindle which was hidden in a bouquet of roses that would cause her to appear as dead. The story of Sleeping Beauty ties us into the story of The Artist, Prince with the awakening of our people to the truth of the dominating will and control exerted by others over the destiny of our lives. In conjunction with the Seven-Day Celebration with Prince, we attended a special Tribute to Paul Robeson and China�s Mei Lanfang. Now emerges a common thread being interwoven around a fictitious fairy tale that is taking on greater meaning as we continue to express our Cultural Roots in the Revival of the Golden Age of our ongoing Revolution. With this awakening stream of consciousness, of the Black man�s roots spreading across the Continent of Asia from Japan to China, Mongolia, Central Asia and Korea it is removing a curtain covering thousands of years of the History of the Original Black Man and Nation and our Presence all over the Planet Earth.

When I was a child my mother exposed me to the arena of the performing arts. I enrolled into art classes at the Detroit Art Museum and studied dance, theater and drama. I also recall my performance in the theatrical production of Sleeping Beauty and remembered pricking my finger on a spindle and falling in a deep like trance to be finally awakened by the Prince or God of our People through the Divine Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In the Dance Version of Sleeping Beauty, the Lilac Fairy is identified as the fairy of kindness who had the power to weaken the spell cast by the wicked fairy, and later guided the prince into the thick forest overgrowth to find the entrance to the Enchanted Castle. The conclusion of the story ends with the Great Awakening of the entire kingdom whose members are called to the great marriage feast.

According to the Book of Revelations, Chapter 19, there is a great rejoicing in heaven with shouts of Hallelujah for the avenging of God against the wicked harlot. Then we are led to the marriage of the Lamb. "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him; for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife have made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he said unto me Write, Blessed are they who are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, these are the true sayings of God." Revelation 19 Verses 7-9

Our Black artists and entertainers are standing at the crossroads of a period of renewed life or death, enlightenment or darkness with their arms outstretched on the horizontal with their bodies being pulled or stretched up and down on the vertical with their heads upright forming a circle to the body which appears in this configuration as the Egyptian Ankh, the symbol of the key of life.

In ancient Egypt, the Ankh symbol is the most prevalent design which is attached to the solar symbol used by the enigmatic 18th Dynastic Ruler, Akhenaton, portrayed in the Aton Sun Disk. Even in the Name, Akhenaton, we have the inclusion of the sound and letters for the Ankh symbol, which is extended from 19 rays on the Aton Sun Disk.

In adulthood, we come to see how the allegories of life begin to spin their meanings, welding us together to fulfill God�s Purpose and Divine Plan. As we join together from many diverse paths and from all walks of life with distinct, yet similar ethnic origins, we arrive to the Time to recognize the One God that is uniting us all by tribes and nations into one Global Humanity.

"Allah is the Friend of those who believe�He brings them out of darkness into light. And those who disbelieve, their friends are the devils who take them out of light into darkness. They are the companions of the Fire; therein they abide. Surah 2: Verses 257