 ZIGGY MARLEY: "This book is about the mind...We understand,
however, that things must come, and we have to let them out, let them happen. Not
supernatural experience but inspiration and vision: real not magical. At times I wonder if
I myself have some knowledge of things beyond my existence, but I don't think too deep,
just lightly. The spirit lives on. The spiritual sense will always be here, as the music
will be here; my father's music lives as he lives in the music...Jah said to me,
"Don't worry about what you are going to say. Don't worry, the words will come...And
like the words of in the Kebra Negast, they come in their own time."
GERALD HOUSMAN: "The claim of the Kebra Negast is that God
favored and loved the people of Ethiopia because they did not reject the Son of Man when
he walked on earth. They, the text states, beheld and loved their savior. However, the
richest claim of all (concerns the) Ark of the Covenant, and this is the heart of the
Kebra Negast, and the thing that makes it a document of such inordinate fascination. Much
of the text deals with the removal of the Ark from the Temple of Bayna-Lehkem and its
subsequent enshrinement in Ethiopia. According to the myth told here, the Ethiopians were
guided by God's angels, who enabled them to remove the Ark and carry it to Ethiopia.
Legend holds that it resides there to this day."
PSALM 68: Verse 31- For information on purchasing The Kebra Negast or
setting up interviews with Gerald Hausman or Ziggy Marley concerning the book, contact:
Nelson Taylor, St. Martin's Press, (212) 674-5151 ext. 531 or "nelsontaylor@stmartins.com". -
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