By Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad

Many times I have wondered why did Master Fard Muhammad come and declare our independence on July
4, 1930? Why did he choose the day of the signing of America’s Declaration of Independence to make
himself known and his mission to liberate Black people in America? I can not claim that I know the
complete answer to these questions, however in my research I have stumbled upon some interesting
food for thought.

Did you know that at the dawn of America’s birth that there were two in the womb? Let’s go
back to a similar story found in the Bible book of Genesis. Rebecca the wife of Isaac had twins in
her womb described as two nations, two manner of people. The first to see the light of day was Esau,
but his brother Jacob grabbed the heel of Esau as to pull him back and take his place. Jacob with
the help of his mother did finally prevail in tricking Isaac into giving the birthright and
inheritance to Jacob instead of the first born, Esau.

America declared her independence from Britain in 1776 using glorious phrases such as "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…" After learning that
most of its signers were slave owners, I wondered how they could fix their minds to produce such
eloquence yet not see the humanity in their captives from Africa. I know now that it was not their
minds that created the idea of freedom, but they fed off of the Black man and woman’s yearning to
be free as motivation and strength to stand up against all odds. They saw even after their complete
domination, murder, castration, rape and torture of Black people that they could not completely put
out the light of humanity in them. They treated their slaves as dogs, but their slaves never
completely accepted their fate nor believed in their inferiority.

In 1772 a Black man who was a slave in Virginia was taken to England by his master. He ran away
and was recaptured and bound for Jamaica. The Black man, James Somersett sued for his freedom and in
a ruling by Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, he was freed in June and the
institution of slavery was declared unlawful. By January of 1773 not only had Blacks in America
heard about this ruling but many sued for their own freedom in the court of Massachusetts in Boston
which was still under British law.

On January 6, 1773 slaves under the pseudo name of "Felix" filed a petition for freedom
which was the first "Declaration of Independence" in America. They were denied by the
court but other petitions followed. By September slave owners in Virginia were afraid that their
slaves would run to the British to seek their freedom.

After reading the "Felix" petition, I realized how eloquent and wise my captive
ancestors were. The petitions were denied but it seems that this idea of the right of every man to
freedom was so eloquently and forcefully expressed that it seeped into the scalps of the
"Founding Fathers" and was used as a justification for their decision to cease the King’s
land and declare themselves free.

The "Founding Fathers" of which many were Masons, were superstitious and turned to
astrology to pick the right date for the birth of the nation so that the "gods" would
insure the success of their new endeavor. They chose July 4, 1776 because four lunar months prior
was the spring equinox on March 16^th. Their astrologers had told them that they were in
the dawn of a new age where the vernal equinox moved from Pisces to Aquarius. So after this four
month gestation period they would spring forth from the womb at high noon in the middle of summer
like ripe corn.

They chose July 4^th also because they thought that they would be born in the middle of
the Zodiacal house of Cancer which in Ancient Egypt was represented by a scarab, beetle, which
represented Khepera, the Creator God. You see as they were enslaving and dehumanizing the sons and
daughters of Africa they were studying Ancient Egypt in secret to steal her wisdom as they had stole
her children. The children of the man from where god "el" was called Ra or Israel were
asleep in Zion, but yearning to be delivered.

When one steals something, say like an expensive car, one must get the owner’s manual. This
takes us back to the story of Hiram Abiff, the master architect, who was hit upside the head and
buried in the northwest corner of the temple. His murderers wanted him to reveal some type of
secret. Some say that the secret was the name of God. However, since the Masons teach that the name
of God is Allah, they were and still are looking for another name, the name of the Messiah that was
to come and liberate the slaves.

The Babylonians had stolen the knowledge of astronomy and developed a set of superstitions by
which they thought that they could foretell the future, Astrology. The Wise Men from Babylon, the
magi, based on what they had learned from Daniel, thought that Jesus was the one because of the
time, 400 years after the last prophet of Israel, Malachi. They also saw a sign, a Star, in the West
which they felt proclaimed his birth. They immediately went to Herod, the warden for Rome, to tell
him that a Messiah for the Children of Israel was born. Herod thanked the gentlemen for their
"intelligence" and proceeded to kill all the male children age two and under. But of
course Jesus had escaped to Egypt, the home of his mother, Mary.

Jesus was later killed but he prophesied of another to come after him, called the Comforter or
Spirit of Truth. Well the old soothsayers and magi realized they had better put a guard on post to
watch for the next Messiah. So the secret societies of Mason, Rosicrucian, Illuminati, Club of Rome,
Knights Templar, Skull and Bones, all are awaiting the long awaited Messiah so that they can kill
him. They have enlisted new agencies like the FBI to track him down. They took the Astrological
Zodiac, as codified by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., as the tool to know the time and beat God at his
own game.

Well it seems that the old boys forgot to receive instructions on when and how to make the
necessary timing adjustments in their stolen artificial clock. The real clock, the astronomical
stars were fixed but the place of the sun within the background of these stars had shifted by about
30 degrees over the 1800 years interval from 46 BC to 1776 AD. Therefore, when the astrologers would
say that your sign at birth was Aquarius, more than likely the sun would actually be in Capricorn
and so forth. Therefore, when they thought they were setting America up in Cancer, the sun was
actually in Gemini. So instead of America being in the womb of creation by herself, there was
another.

Master Fard Muhammad came and made himself known on July 4, 1930. On July 4^th the sun
was still in Gemini along with the newly discovered planet of Pluto, which was discovered on
February 18, 1930. So it is indeed fitting that the Nation of Islam should celebrate July 4^th
as our Independence Day, because Master Fard Muhammad heralded by a new star, Pluto, found that
other Nation that was in the womb of America, that she has held back from freedom, justice and
equality. "What goes around comes around" and it seems that the story of Jacob and Esau
must be restudied to learn the lessons of the present tense for the Nation of Islam. Another way to
put it is that we must better understand why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that he was
"Jacob" or "Yakub" in reverse.