ISESE L'AGBA

Ifa is the knowledge, philosophy and wisdom of the spirituality of Orisa, the mystery of life is unraveled in spiritual calculations and interpretation which brings accurate messages that give warnings, propound solutions, and guidance from ancestral and premodial energies (this include Orisa, Iyami, Egun etc and Irunmole) for human.
The quest for the knowledge of the mysteries in Ifa is an unending journey one can not grasp the entirety of Ifa as the knowledge is very wide and its depth very great, it is a continuous education that one studys till he/she returns to his/her ancestral haven. The quest and practice of Ifa is Isese and Isese comes first in all human pursuit.

IFA says in Osa Irete a verse in the sacred Odu that Tradition is what's needed to have alignment in our lives. Tradition gives us order, it teaches us to respect and honor our Parents and Elders, how to attain a prosperous destiny, as well as Olodumare and Orisa. If we are looking for alignment it is Isese we should search for. The fundamental goal of our practice in Isese is to create heaven here on earth, not just for us but for the sake of generations to come. The Orisas represented by the people in this photograph were once humans that attained greatness in thier life and were deified after thier death because thier accomplishments deserved to be worshipped.

In our quest to fix our sole into tight and painful shoes to climb up the congested ladder of societal ideology of success, we have lost our divine affinity and oneness and become insensitivity to things divine, moral, pure and true. We have pushed Isese aside and trampled upon it with our iron stods and hard boots. We have neglected the source of ancestral wisdom and light. Isese has ceased to be a living reality, power and person in our lives who has the right to command our obedience, loyalty and dedication. We now live a life of strife, aggression, deception, poverty, cheating and fear, we have become spiritually malnourished and morally ill as a result we have become stepping stones and slave for the rise of other nations. The way onward as a nation is to remove the veils of division, rekindle our faith in tradition and its ever flowing stream of wisdom and spiritual consciousness and practice isese with honesty, compassion and justice for the benefit of the great nation of Africa and all of humanity. Black lives can only matter if African culture and traditions are brought back to life in the mind and lives of Africans to become our backbone and wings.