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The promised Key is a proto-Rastafari document written by Leonard Percival Howell, a Jamaican preacher. Published around 1935, this is obviously an edited, much shorter, version of The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy. Most significantly, the identities of 'King Alpha and Queen Omega' were transposed from Fitz Balintine Pettersburg and his wife as in the Royal Parchment Scroll, to Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Astaw. This was one of the key innovations of the Howellites, and is today an article of faith of Rastafarianism.<br />
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In 1933, Howell started to preach that the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (Ras Tafari) was the Messiah, that Black people were the chosen people, and would soon be repatriated to Ethiopia. He soon attracted the attention of the colonial authorities, and was arrested in December 1934 for sedition. In March of 1934 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment, during which he apparently wrote The Promised Key. After he was released in 1936, he published a newspaper called "The People's Voice". In 1954 his commune was raided and much literature, including copies of this book, were burned. Howell was found dead under suspicious circumstances in February 1981.<br />
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==Sections==<br />
[[The Promised Key/Title Page|Title Page]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The Mystery Country|The Mystery Country]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The False Religion|The False Religion]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The Promised Key|The Promised Key]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Ethopia's Kingdom|Ethopia's Kingdom]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The Healing|The Healing]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Balm Yard|Balm Yard]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Royal Notice|Royal Notice]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/How to Fast|How to Fast]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Department|Department]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Government|Government]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Eternal Law Office|Eternal Law Office]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Eve the Mother of Evil|Eve the Mother of Evil]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The Rapers|The Rapers]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Ethiopian Question|Ethiopian Question]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/The First and the Last|The First and the Last]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Matrimonial Affidavit|Matrimonial Affidavit]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Black People Black People Arise and Shine|Black People Black People Arise and Shine]]<br /><br />
[[The Promised Key/Forward to the King of Kings|Forward to the King of Kings]]<br /></div>imported>Kofi