MAKING OF THE WHITEMAN

by PAUL LAWRENCE GUTHRIE

Excerpts from "MAKING OF THE WHITE MAN" BY Paul Lawrence Guthrie.

This book examines a series of events that took place long ago in and around the region of the Near East. Those events include the disruption of civilization, the sudden arrival of white people in the vicinity of the Caucasus Mountains and what happened 2,000 years later when they unexpectedly came out of the hills and attacked the centers of civilization. By examining these events we will be able to better determine to what extent the facts of history agree with the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

AN OVERVIEW OF ANCIENT HISTORY

Between six and seven thousand years ago, signs of disruption began to appear throughout the ancient civilization of the Near East. For nearly a thousand years the cultures of that region underwent a change; a period of regression. As chasos and dissatisfaction grew, problems intensified and the ancient societies of the Near East slipped deeper into despair. Then about 6,000 years ago, the inevitable happened--civilization fell apart.

What caused the breakup of civilization six thousand years ago? Some historians had speculated that a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or some similar event took place, but they were unable to find any evidence to support their claims. Besides, all of the clues pointed in the direction of an event quite different from that of an earthquake - a condition that grew over an extended period of time. The picture is on of communities in turmoil, of societies collapsing and falling apart from within; of chaos, dissatisfaction and unrest. The most accurate summation would be to say that the people just began fighting and killing one another - this is the best way to describe what was happening in the Near East 6,000 years ago.

Soon after the unsettling of civilization, another interesting change began to take place. This change occurred in the area of the Caucasus Mountains. There, in West Asia, a previously unknown group of people suddenly appeared as if from out nowhere. Collectively they are known as the Indo-Europeans, Caucasians or white people. The facts show that they first entered the area around 6,000 years ago. 2,000 years later their invasions would bring them into contact with the civilized nations to the south. Because they had no fixed homes and wandered about from place to place, historians usually describe their way of life as 'nomadic'.

Since they were so backward, it is very difficult to use archaeological evidence to help pin down the original home of the Indo-European tongues.

With the arrival of the Caucasians into that cold and sparsely populated area of the world, the few older communities, which earlier had been established there in Europe were either abandoned or destroyed. The evidence clearly suggests that the original inhabitants of those settlements either fled or were killed off by the newly arriving whites. After the whites showed up, drastic changes started to occur in the region north of the Caucasus.

A time period around 3500 B.C. forms a caesura between Old Europe and Indo- European Europe. It is a time when life in the large villages and townships either stops or is markedly changed. The degeneerative changes in the settlements of the Old European Civilization may be assumed to indicate the beginning of the Indo-European presence.

Following the breakup of the ancient societies and the arrival of the whiteman in Europe, the people of the Near East worked to re-establish the level of peace and security they had once known. Slowly, over time, communities were rebuilt, prosperity was restored and signs of new live started to emerge.

In Africa, along the banks of the Nile River, Egypt blossomed into the Pyramid Age. In Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Sumerians too, established a civilization reknown for its high level of culture and refinement. Even as far away as India, along the tributaries of the Indus River, the Dravidians constructed the magnificent twin cities of Mohoenjo-Daro and Harrapa. Rich in arts, sciences and the necessities of life these civilizations laid the foundation for trade and finance, architecture, geometry, mathematics and astronomy, philosophy, law and government, writing and religion.

Throughout the period of reconstruction, not much attention was paid to the nomads of the north; the threat never seemed significant. From time to time, a few nomadic bands would wander down into the center of civilization, but their activities never amounted to more than occasional raids or skirmishes. In the course of time small groups of the whites were abe to establish camps along the hills and deserts outside of Mesopotamia. Although such camps survived mainly by robbing and scavenging, their overall impact upon civilization remained minimal; most of the whites were at that time still beyound range up in the hills.

But the Caucasians of the north were not to remain a distant novelty forever. 2,000 years after their arrival, the nomadic tribes began to move away from what for years had been their home. As they swarmed down, out of the hills, some of them began to travel west, toward the Aegean Sea. At the same time another large group trudged southward, in the direction of the centers of civilization. "for unknown reasons,the group went into a ferment shortly before 2000 B.C. and started spilling out all over europe and western Asia.

As they moved southward, they were joined by smaller groups - members of their own who had earlier taken up positions along the hills and caravan routes ouside of Mesopotamia. As they advanced toward the centers of civilization, they began a series of violent and devastating attacks. One by one the great cities of the ancient world began to topple. So complete was the effect of the onslaught that when it was all over, nothing was left standing.

During a period of about three hundred years, beginning soon after 1700 B.C., the civilized world was overrun by barbarian conquerors. Hill peoples living north and east of Mesopotamia, tribesmen from the desert fringes of Syria, Palestine and northern Arabia, together with wide ranging war bands originating from the northern steppe combined in varying proportions to attack all existing centers of civilized life. The range of these barbarian conquests was never again equaled...At the two extremes of civilized world, in Crete and in India, little but smoking ruins remaind.

So the facts show that after the reconstruction of civilization, the whites came out of the hills and destroyed it all. Every historian agrees that the uprooting of those civilizations were the resul of attacks from white barbarians who came rushing down, out of the hills of West Asia.

In India, Mohonjo-daro was sacked and its people were enslaved or killed. The outcome was the same for those of Mesopotamia and Egypt too.

HISTORY AND THE TEACHINGS OF ELIJAH MUHAMMAD

The disruption of the ancient civilization of the Near East, the sudden arrivial of white people in the vicinity of the Caucasus Mountains and what took place 2,000 years later are among the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

Elijah Muhammad says that 6,000 years ago a new race of people showed up in the region of the Near East. The new race, Muhammad says that 6,000 years ago a new race of people showed up in the region of the Near East. The new race, Muhammad says were white peoople. He says that the whites first appeared 6,000 years ago on the Island of Pelan, in the Aegean Sea, where they had been "made" by the process of selective breeding called "grafting". According to Muhammad, it was black people, living on the Island if Pelan who gave birth to the whites. Under their leader Yakub, the blacks of Pelan were placed under a system of laws by which marriage was based on skin color and in which only lighter complexioned babies were allowed to survive. Over a course of many generations, the population of Pelan began to grow lighter and lighter until, after 600 years of grafting,the people became very pale and white.

When some of the whites from Pelan showed un in the Near East, their presence created a calamity. As a result were driven out, away from the people and into the hills of West Asia. There they remained for the next 2,000 years.

Following the driving away of the whites, they became isolated and cut off; without proper guidance and the things to start a civilization of their own, they slipped into a life of svagery.

Since history shows that a disruption had occurred in the Near East just prior to the sudden appearance of the whit people in the hills of West Asia is it possible that the teachings of Elijah Muhammad is indeed rooted in fact? Inasmuch as no other explanation has been presented to explain these occurrences, and since the evidence is consistent with what Muhammad says took place, is it reasonable to suggest that what Muhammad teaches is in fact true?

A SERCH FOR SIMILARITIES

The most popularly known traditional account which shares similarities with the teachings of Elijah Muhammad is the Bible's story of Adam and Eve. According to the Old Testament, Adam was made 6,000 years ago. (This date is arrived at by adding togther the ages of all of Patriachs from Adam to Abraham as they appear in the 5th and 11th chapters of the book of Genesis.) Accordingly, the time of Adam's "creation" corresponds with the time which Muhammad says white people first appeared on the planet. Elijah Muhammad explains that the Bible's account of Adam and Eve is in actuality a narrative of early history of the Caucasian race. A review of the traditions of the making of Man as they exist around the world shows a surprising number of them to be in full agreement with Muhammad - they relate that Adam and Eve had white complexions. Some depict the new man-made as starting out with a darker comoplexion, then later being transformed to white.

One such account has been handed down in the traditions of the Maidu Indians. Similar tradition, from India explain that the first Caucasians were made when a group of dark-skinned people gave birth to light complexioned babies who in turn gave birth to a nation of albinos from whom other whites were born. L.Bolk wrote in Origin of Racial Characteristics in Man "White skin...started from an ancestor with a black skin, in whose offspring hair and iris color were suppressed more and more. Charles Darwin, he too expressed the opinion that selection over the course of many generations, had to have been used in bringing about what he called "the characteristic differences between the races of man" He even went on to concluded that without some form of selective breeding, such racial differences simply "cannot be accounted for in a satisfactory manner. James Cowles Prichard, concluded that the physical differences between the races of Man could only have resulted from a method comparable to "the process of artificial selection carried on by plant and animal breeders. This too is consistent with the words of Elijah Muhammad. Dr Edwin Grant Conklin The Evolution of Man wrote: "It is evident that distinct races could not have been established and perpetuated except by the aid of isolation, chiefly geographical. Dr. Ramm who admitted: "By scientific breeding we can shuffle these genes with their characteristics and breed traits in or breed them out...The laws of heredity plus principles of separation or selection operating over a period of time will produce the various races of the world."

Another ancient traditional account that shares similarities with the teachings of Muhammad is the bibical account of Jacob's grafted flock. Genesis 30:35 says that Jacob (english translation of the name Yakub) was able to produce unusually colored flocks of sheep and goat through the use of a skillful breeding technique. According to the bible it took Jacob six years to successfully change the color of the flock (Genesis 31:41). That Bible's story of Jacob's grafted flock is related to the birth of white people from Black parents is attested to by the ancient book of Jewish traditions called the Midrash Rabbah.

In his book,Message to the Blackman, Elijah includes the name "Azazel" to be one of many used to describe the white race. According to hebrew tradition, Azazel is one of the names given to the leader of the devils - it is the hebrew name for Iblis, leader of the Jinn. Once a year, on the eve of the Jewish Day of Atonement, a ceremony is traditionally performed in which a goat (Azazel) is tied to a rope and led away from the people, out into the desert and abandoned in a place of hills and rocks. The ceremony of the atonement, handed down from generation to generation, is a re-enactment of the early history of the caucasian people.

A more thorough understanding of the history of Azazel can be had by examining the The Book of Enoch which for 500 years was accepted as part of the Bible. This book along with the Book of Adam and Eve and many more book which was removed from the Bible can be found in THE LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE and THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF EDEN(ISBN0-452-00944-8).

Making of the Whiteman by Paul Lawrence Guthrie is an innovative and well-documented study. Today many people are beginning to re-examine the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. They are taking a closer look at the facts. Many are beginning to ask: "Could the teachings of Muhammad be correct?" This book looks at the facts of history and the writings of ancient traditional accounts and compares both with what has been taught by Muhammad. The result is a unique view into the historical significance of Black America's most controversial leader. READ IT AND RECOMMEND IT TO OTHERS!

Making of the Whiteman is published by Beacon Communications 4951 Clairemont Square Suite 137 San Diego, Ca 92117.

I urge all who question the teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how the whiteman was made to read this book, check the facts from the extensive list of reference, and come to your own conclusion. Excerts of this book was placed on this site w/o permission of author. Since many do not know/acknowledge their beginning. I felt this book to be a very important reference.

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