The Emperor's Soul: Haile Selassie's Mind Crowned by Substance Dualism and Intelligent Design Theory
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| "Respect everyone and show special love for God's people. Honor God and respect the Emperor." Holy Bible, Contemporary English Version, 1 Peter 2:17. |
God is an eternal and immaterial mind that transcends space, matter, time and energy.¹ This mind was the necessary cosmic observer responsible for collapsing the superposition of the quantum wave packet; through the means of observation, God's mind caused the Big Bang to occur as according to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.² This same divine mind is the required author that impressed the functionally specified information contained in the genetic code into matter using the mind-body problem mechanism, at various points in time throughout history, and is thus the creator of all life on earth.³ This mind also created the laws of physics which are based upon mathematics. The fact that mathematics are merely a construct of our minds further attests to the fact that God is a mind that operates in the mental realm.⁴
"The author of a work of the mind shall have on the work he created, by the mere fact of his creation, an incorporeal right of ownership. He shall have such right regardless of the nature, form of expression, merit or purpose of the work."⁵
In creationist substance dualism (i.e., soul-creationism, not to be confused with biblical creationism), God creates each soul at conception with an inherent mind—a finite, human faculty for intellect and will. Accordingly, the fertilization of the egg, the creation of the soul and its ensoulment into the zygote all happen simultaneously.⁶ Unitarian Rastafarianism posits that the Bible is poetry written in parables, allegories and prophecies. The extent to which the scriptures are literal is dictated by the life and times of Emperor Haile Selassie the First of Ethiopia and his prophet exclusively.
The Bible describes God to be a literal political sovereign (Isaiah 9:6–7) born in modern day Ethiopia (Psalm 87:4) who rules the nation for "about the time of forty years" (Acts 13:17–18) with both titles King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16). Thus, the infinite mind of God localized itself into the newly created soul of Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael (later Emperor Haile Selassie I) at the moment of his conception in one divine act, sometime around October 1891. Since conception is rarely ever calculated to an exact day, this date is an estimate because it not only depends on ovulation and fertilization timing, which can vary, but also the technology to record this event didn't even exist during that time.
His Majesty's Lack of Self-awareness
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1892–1975) was the physical manifestation of God in the flesh on earth but he was unaware of this fact himself due to natural human constraints. His political titles are the evidence of his divinity, not his self-awareness or self-proclamation.⁷
Knowing that His Majesty stated, "That education which ignores man's intrinsic nature, and neglects his intellect and reasoning power cannot be considered true education."⁸
And since, "Matter is not that which produces Consciousness, but that which limits it, and confines its intensity within certain limits."⁹
We can extrapolate that the human brain limiting the mind's consciousness is part of the intrinsic nature of man which classifies this theory as "true education" according to the Emperor's own philosophy. Consequently, we can logically conclude that His Majesty's infinite God mind/consciousness was limited by his physical brain thus preventing him from even realizing that he was God in the flesh during his time on earth. This explains why he was a devout Orthodox Christian who always spoke about God as a separate entity from himself.
"'I pardon you,' said Haile Selassie, 'but I do not know if God will.'"¹⁰
The fact that Emperor Haile Selassie did not know that he was God on earth takes nothing away from his divinity however. As Rastafarians, we acknowledge that he's God because he's the only person attested in history in the Common Era to simultaneously hold both political titles "King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords" as according to Psalm 87:4 and Revelation 19:16.¹¹ His titles are the source of his spiritual authority and therefore his words, laws, political dispositions, morals and philosophies have the weight of God behind them and must be followed by all of humanity for we will be judged by him in the afterlife.
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"RAS TAFARI ELEVATED TO MIGHTY RULER: Proclaim Coronation in 70 Languages." Chicago Defender, 20 Oct. 1928, p. A1. |
The Emperor's character, humility, his genuine struggle—unscripted by human ego—allows us to verify his divinity. During his time, humanity saw a man, not a self-proclaimed deity, fulfilling prophecy (i.e., a prediction of sacred authority that assumes cosmic inevitability) through deeds (e.g., ascending the throne, inspiring Rastafarians, etc.). In retrospect, this exposed the hypocrisy of those abusing scripture for power and control. God localized into Haile Selassie's soul, and let his body fulfill the prophecies naturally, without him needing to grasp the entire cosmic scope while he was living on earth.
This ensoulment wasn't a random act but a deliberate and intentional intervention. Scripture, in this view, isn't a hazy oracle but a set of forecasts—promises of a figure who'll realign humanity's moral compass. God, observing humanity's tendency to twist religious texts for ungodly behavior (slavery, colonialism, oppression, etc.), engineered a living rebuttal: a ruler whose life will match the prophecy's criteria so precisely that it forces a reckoning. Haile Selassie's birth into Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty, his resistance to fascism, and his global stature as a symbol of justice become the fulfillment—not through magic, but through a calculated alignment of genetics, history, and circumstance.
Although his genetics are contested as being of mythological origins (the Solomonic Dynasty), mere speculation about them was one of the main causes for the Rastafarians to begin to worship him in the late 1920s and early 1930s (at least one western newspaper mistakenly proclaimed Ras Tafari as Emperor and King of Kings as early as 1928). In this regard, the Rastafarians themselves fulfilled the scriptures pertaining to the nation of Israel (Jeremiah 3:19–20, Zechariah 7:5–6, Matthew 15:8–9, Romans 9:4–6, Hebrews 3:8–10). His Majesty's limited consciousness doesn't negate his role; it enhances it—his unwitting fulfillment forces humanity to confront the scriptures' true intent and shun the common distorted misuses. The mind of God didn't need Haile Selassie's brain to agree; it just needed his life to speak.
The Late Industrial Revolution
God's physical manifestation occurred during a time known as the late industrial revolution when steam engines, steel production, and railroads crescendoed multiplying human power. Modern weapons such as explosives, machine guns, Tesla's long-distance potential of AC, Edison's bulbs, Hertz's waves, cameras, phonographs, and film all culminated to invoke God's physical manifestation on earth. These tools and technological breakthroughs weren't progress alone—they were the power to record, to destroy and to create on a mass scale. Thus humanity's rapid technological developments of weapons, energy distribution, travel, recording and communications placed God's emergence at the cusp of modernity's technological leap.
God entered the zygote of the Emperor at this specific time in order to face the horrors of the 20th century—WWI, WWII, and beyond. This ensured he'd be seen and heard: humanity's rapid and exponential advancement to destroy called him forth; its power to preserve proved he came. In hindsight, God was present in the flesh with humanity on earth during its darkest hours.
70 Years Accomplished
On Thursday, April 3, 1930, His Majesty King Tafari Makonnen was proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia. Seven months later, on November 2, 1930, he was officially crowned with the titles "King of Kings of Ethiopia and Lord of Lords" (i.e., "Negusa Negast ze Itiyopiya ina Le'ul-Ras").¹³
As according to biblical prophecy, seventy years, one month and sixteen days after April 3, 1930, a thirty-three year and three month old Rastafarian preacher named Kenyatta Felix (his Catholic baptismal name being Primus St. Croix) was arrested in New York for desecrating at least eleven different Roman Catholic Church's statues with a sledgehammer around the Brooklyn area in New York (biblical Babylon) from September 26, 1999 to March 15, 2000 with twelve of his accomplices (disciples).¹⁴
Primus wrote theological letters which he left behind at every crime scene and sent copies to the Vatican in the hopes that their congregation would repent from their sins.¹⁵ Primus denounced graven images citing scripture and testified to the authorities that His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the First of Ethiopia is the God and Father of Jesus Christ whose laws, principles and policies must be adhered to.¹⁶
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| Rayman, Graham and English, Merle. "Preacher Charged in Statue Attacks: Police say he admitted role in five." Newsday, Thursday, May 18, 2000, New York, pp. A5, A33. |
According to the Unitarian Rastafarian interpretation of the Bible, Primus St. Croix is Jesus Christ and Christ is not part of the Godhead. He is the messiah and prophet, and only Emperor Haile Selassie is God.¹⁷ The biblical descriptions of Christ correlate with the life and actions of Primus St. Croix; the parallels are mathematically improbable attestations rather than mere coincidences.¹⁸ To be clear, Primus St. Croix does not preach nor does he personally accept his own messiahship as he also unwittingly fulfilled biblical prophecy in accordance with Exodus 34:13, Deuteronomy 12:3, Jeremiah 29:10, John 5:19–22, John 7:16–18, John 12:49 and Revelation 5:5.
Sunday, November 2, 1930 is the true Sabbath according to the Bible.¹⁹ The Emperor's laws also observed the coronation date as a national holiday.²⁰ Yet April 3rd commenced the seventy year prophecy, November 2nd sanctified and celebrated it and May 18, 2000 was the day Christ "returned," his true identity revealed through the time-stamped fulfillment of prophecy.
God (Emperor Haile Selassie I) sent forth his only begotten son (by posthumously inspiring Primus St. Croix) to save the world by declaring his heavenly Father's true name so that the masses can repent accurately (Ezekiel 36:26–28, John 3:16, John 17:26).
The Eyes are the Windows to the Soul
"Emperor Haile Selassie squares his shoulders and his black eyes flash fire."²¹
"His eyes were very powerful and very dark, but very truthful, there was a sense of truth, honesty, perfection."²²
"Haile Selassie's solemn demeanor and magnetic dark eyes complemented his titled, mythological descent from Solomon and Sheba, and his rule of a nation of Christians was another positive factor in his reception."²³
"He looked tired from his long vigil, yet in his eyes was a burning sincerity of purpose and the poise of his body suggested not so much triumph as spiritual exaltation."²⁴
There was at that time little reason to think that this young nobleman would ever ascend the ancient throne of Ethiopia, yet anyone who studies the photograph, even with no knowledge of subsequent events, will assume that the boy with the delicate features, slender build, beautiful hands, and those extraordinarily penetrating—indeed imperious—eyes is the Emperor, accompanied in this picture by an elderly retainer. It is that overpowering personality contained in so small a physical frame and prominently manifest from early childhood to great old age, that has been the key to Haile Sellassie's success and international stature.²⁵
"'In those irresistible eyes', wrote Sylvia, 'burns the quenchless fire of the hero who never fails his cause.'"²⁶
But the moment one looks into his eyes, and from 1960 onward I had many opportunities of doing so, one instantly forgets his air of frailty and realizes that the man one is confronting, the man seated on the edge of the great, gilded bed-throne, has a will of iron, an acute and alert mind, and the strength of purpose to move mountains.²⁷
There was a fugitive smile of greeting and the dark eyes flashed briefly as long slim fingers somewhat limply reached out to grasp my hand followed by a quick downward thrust in the handshake. There I noticed for the first of many times that despite his short stature, even when standing, he never directed his gaze upwards towards the taller interlocutor. Unless inspecting a building or following birds or aircraft in flight, he invariably looked out upon the world as from an inner eminence.²⁸
"He was short, broad-shouldered, big-skulled and broad faced with an aquiline nose, deep penetrating eyes and a straight set of snow-white teeth."²⁹
"He had dark-brown eyes with a silver circle around his pupils, and his steel, piercing gaze made you feel like he knew exactly what you were thinking!"³⁰
"Tafari Makonnen had always been small, with delicate hands and striking eyes."³¹
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2. Ibid. pp. 388–390.
3. Meyer, Stephen C. Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence of Intelligent Design, HarperOne, United States of America, 2009, p. 347; Meyer, Stephen C. Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, HarperOne, United States of America, 2013, pp. 397—398.
5. Art. 1647(1)(2), Civil Code of the Empire of Ethiopia, 1960, Negarit Gazeta, Proclamation No. 165, year 19, no. 2, p. 272.
7. Tobijah, Omar. Seventy Years Accomplished: The Second Coming, Divine Child Publications, U.S.A., 2013, pp. 20–26.
8. Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I 1918–1967, Ministry of Information, Addis Ababa, 1967, p. 34.
9. James, William. Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1898, p. 67.
10. Mockler, Anthony. Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign 1935–1941, Random House, New York, 1984, p. 391.
12. Fallaci, oriana. "Journey into the Private Universe of Haile Selassie." Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 24, 1973, p. 2.
13. Sellassie I, Haile. The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie I: 'My Life and Ethiopia's Progress' 1892–1937, vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 172; Copley, Gregory R. Ethiopia Reaches Her Hand Unto God: Imperial Ethiopia's Unique Symbols, Structures and Rôle in the Modern World, Defense & Foreign Affairs, United Kingdom, 1998, p. 44; Bellizzi, Francesco and Wondim, Simeon et al. The Order of Coronation, Debre Zeyt Books, Italy, 2013. pp. 52–53.
14. Allen, Angela C. "CHURCH VANDAL CONFESSES HIS SINS TO POLICE." New York Post, 18 May 2000, www.nypost.com/2000/05/18/church-vandal-confesses-his-sins-to-police. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025; Egbert, Bill, and John Marzulli. "COPS BUST STATUE VANDAL CONFESSES TO STRING OF CHURCH ATTACKS." New York Daily News, 18 May 2000, www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/cops-bust-statue-vandal-confesses-string-church-attacks-article-1.864733. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025; Barstow, David. "Man Charged in Defacing of Church Statues." nytimes.com, New York Times, 18 May 2000, www.nytimes.com/2000/05/18/nyregion/man-charged-in-defacing-of-church-statues.html. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025; Egbert, Bill, and John Marzulu. "Statue Vandal Confesses to String of Church Attacks." New York Daily News, 18 May 2000, p. 677. www.newspapers.com/newspage/482421282. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025; Francescani, Christopher. "CHURCH VANDAL FACES DEPORTATION." New York Post, 30 Sept. 2000, www.nypost.com/2000/09/30/church-vandal-faces-deportation. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025; Donohue, Bill. "JUSTICE DENIED IN BROOKLYN CHURCH VANDAL CASE." Catholic League, 11 Oct. 2000, www.catholicleague.org/justice-denied-in-brooklyn-church-vandal-case. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
16. Ibid. p. 33.
17. Ibid. pp. 43, 140, 264–265.
18. Ibid. pp. 109–111, 117.
Petar Vukotic is a Rastafarian Bishop and the Secretary for the Global Alliance of Justice for the Ethiopian Cause (GAJEC), he's a member of the International Society for the Imperial Ethiopian Orders and is the world's leading authority for interpreting Imperial Ethiopian case law. He's also Moa Anbessa's Imperial Ethiopian Constitutional Law Expert.
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