"Rastafari and all His Children are Israelites"
They are humanity. Israel is no more significance than any other land on this planet, only in the limited mind of the individual does Israel take precedence over another place when it comes to God. The bible is simply the Jewish version of the mysteries, not the authority above all other writings, there is actually much deeper and profound writings explaining much more than the bible and the jewish version of things. Sure if you simply read it as literal you will think it's the ONE proof above others, but, initiates and learned people understand it differently, this is well known to the most learned rabbi's. Besides most learned rabbi's actually study more the Kabbalah than the torah let alone the revised King James bible to learn deeper truths. This is not to say there are not truths in the bible, quite the opposite, but, it is just the jewish version of humanitys origins and lifes mysteries.
The Israelites in the exoteric version were the sons of Jacob, who later went against God at every point in the story and intermarried many races so today it is nonsense to say who they are, the esoteric version and most sensible version is that Jacob stands for matter and Esau stands for spirit and is why Jacob was born holding Esau's heel and Esau was born RED and HAIRY. Jacobs family represented by the number 12 (again as in the significant number littered throughout the bible...hint...hint) is a representation of NATURES forms. Issaic was 3 score years old when she (rebekah) conceived them....a white light shined into a 3 sided prism creates 7 colored rays of the spectrum, this is natures form and him being the number 3 score is a clue to the story. Esau(spirit) sold his birthright to Jacob(matter) so he can produce his family lineage(objective nature). The entire story along with his lie to King Abimelech as to his relationship with Rebekah is of deeper significance when understood esotericaly than exotericaly. This is why the same occurrences in life by Abraham are REPEATED in Jacobs life, re-read the story of both and see they are equal.
I will say this so there is no confusion in my view and it is taken out of context: Support for a symbolical reading of the bible is gained by COMPARISON of the promises of perpetual prosperity and divine protection made by God to Abraham and his succesors with the SUBSEQUENT defeats by invaders, exile under there commands in Babylon and Egypt, and the destruction of the Temples of King Solomon and King David. TO THESE MISFORTUNES may be added the later fate of the Hebrew people, INCLUDING their miseries and homelessness since the Diaspora and the holocaust of German jews under nazi rule. This marked divergence between divine assurances and promises on the one hand and what actually happened on the other provides strong grounds for a NON-LITERAL reading of the sctriptures. The alternative of a TOTAL REJECTION of the pentateuch as being, on the SURFACE, unworthy of serious consideration would, I SUGGEST, involve the LOSS OF INVALUEABLE treasures of wisdom which are revealed when the VEIL OF ALLEGORY AND SYMBOL IS REMOVED.
