CONCERNING GOD
In our Universe God manifests in four parts,
Nzambi – God as the next three powers united as one. (Vu) Nzambia Mpungo - 'God in Heaven / God Almighty' SHI (passive energy).
Nzambi Ci - God on Earth -the mother Creatrix of life on earth. CI (active energy)
Kici - the divine awe from which all Bakici get their power. (FU tradition
Muntu = Person. Muntu is the Noun 'person' however; the Congolese as a whole have a very different idea of what constitutes a Person. All beings that can procreate are Muntu and thus we must define Muntu not as: 'Muntu = person', but rather 'Muntu = Vital Force endowed with intelligence and will'. This means that plants, spirits, people, animals, insects etc. are all Muntu.
All types of Muntu are of one of two natures:
1. Muntu Nzambi (person of god) 2. Muntu a Ndongo (person of black arts)
The Order of God is everywhere but many today live outside of natural time. Look around you and see the Order of God in place. God is one power (monad) but is divided into Nzambi Mpungo and Nzambi Ci (a duo).
Nzambi Mpungo and Nzambi Ci create the Kici (spiritual force) between them thus making a triad.
We must live a life of unity in the triads of Body, Mind, and Spirit (Ntinu, Mwela, and Kiini), we must live in harmony with ancestors community and god. Family is made of mothers, fathers, and children.
They touch every aspect of life and the living.
There are eight winds (north, south, east, west, northeast, southeast, North West, and southwest).
There are eight sacred directions (north, south, east, and west, above, below, center, and within the heart/mind/spirit.
There are eight occupations, (PRIESTS, FISHERMEN, HUNTERS, MEDICINE MEN, FARMERS, TRADERS, and ARTISANS).
Our Mission
The duties of the Nganga Bakulu (priest of the ancestors)
The Nganga Bakulu has the duty to help people come into alignment with their ancestors. The Nganga must be willing to suffer discomfort in the effort to help a person settle issues with the dead.
Not all the dead are good or wise. Many bad people carry on after death because while they have not moved on to the place of Kalunga (the under world) they are still dead. These spirits caught in this world are called Nkuyo. They are not spirits of revelation; rather they are delinquents that must find a way to regain their path of evolution.
The duties of the Nganga Bakici Baci (priest of the Bakinda)
The priest of the higher spirits (Kinda or Bakinda) has the responsibility to help man come into alignment with the servants of god. God is a mighty power that chooses to issue his might into the hand of certain spirits of his creation, in order to more directly manage the universe. These Bakinda (plural of Kinda) choose to serve as immanent forces of nature in an effort to serve god.
Humankind is capable of serving the will of god but is often distracted by common things. Therefore, in an effort to ensure that those who serve stay focused and have the capacity to do god's will, god created initiation and the priesthood
We are a type of 'medicine society' called a Bakinda Society.
Spirits of a Higher Nature were called Nkinda (singular) or Bakinda (plural).
The House of Baba Gbenye and our line of Bakinda
Our lineage There was a Mamboma named Gbenye who served king ManiMakoso. The tradition of serving the spirit of Maluango Makoso was passed on in Gbenye's family and its associated traditions were tightly maintained even when the rest of Loango began to lose its traditional religion due to the continuous decline of the Kings.
Before being Mamboma, Gbenye lived in the village of Ndembu. Gbenye was a respected Nganga Bakici Baci (priest of the nkisi) as well as an Nganga Bakulu (priest of the ancestors
Baba NKAKA IA KALAIt must be understood that the information contained herein is not a coherent work written from start to finish. Rather, it is a transfer of hand written notes taken while in the process of studying under Baba Nganga Andile Ngwenya from the period of 1983 to 1985. At that time, I wrote in notebooks about the oral information of the Gbenye family traditions and it is only now that I transcribe them to the electronic medium.
