Esoteric mysteries of Ifa - Mother Onile (Mother Nature) the teacher and revealer of mysteries

Aboru Aboye.

The divine earth mother Onile is the first teacher and spiritual preceptor of mankind. Just like a mother is the first teacher, protecter, nurturer and guide to her children, so is the divine and powerful Onile Ogboduora the divine power responsible to guide mankind and coordinate and harmonize all of the activities of nature including the activities and interactions of the divinities, nature spirits, other kinds of spirit beings and humankind. Onile is the manifestation and condescension of Olodumare as the primordial mother, nurturer and original dinamic power. When the immense, boundless, immeasurable and limitless Source initiates activity, the internal potency which acts and moves to accomplish the desire of the great Olodumare is known as the Onile potency. Just like a loving, devoted and dutiful wife, delights to the do the bidding of her caring, loving and dedicated husband, so does the Onile potency (dynamic aspect of Mother Nature) act and behave in relation to Olodumare. Olodumare and Onile are one inseparable reality. Olodumare fills the heart of Onile and Onile fills, enchants and satisfies the heart of Olodumare.

The lover and the Beloved (Onile and Olodumare) one singular Entity and Mystery of Limitless Power, Harmony, Orderliness, Dedication and Love. The devotee's of Olodumare in his manifestation as Onile, are lovers and promoters of order, peace, harmony, balance and justice. Onile devotee's (ogboni) live beautiful and happy lives free of extremes. They are active and not passive participants in the spiritual development and unfoldment of the world. Passive, indifferent and/or laid back people (lazy) cannot be followers and initiates of Onile (ogboni cult) because Onile is the raw manifestation and immediate proximate source of dynamic energy and power.

Onile is the supreme doer and maintainer of universal harmony. Onile correlates and harmonizes the activities of men, spirits, protective functions of nature and divinities. Onile is the storehouse of wonderful, holy and powerful mysteries and secrets. Those who listen to and obey Onile Ogboduora become persons of rare genius, power, influence and become filled with a charismatic, divinely attractive energy that endows them with an authoritative and commanding presence which elevates, inspires, empowers and ennobles people. Such initiates inspire confidence and trust immediately. Such are the keys of wisdom, power and influence which are kept in safe keeping by Onile. Onile guards her secrets, mysteries and powers jealously. She does not impart them to everyone; neither are they available just by the asking.

There are requirements to be fulfilled if one is to worship Onile and be qualified to receive the impartation of her unique instruction, vision, power and grace. To command the power or forces of nature one must first honor, respect and obey Mother Nature (Onile). Onile devotion makes men wise, understanding, kind, powerful and capable of effecting holistic changes in people, communities and society at large. The true actual initiates of Onile are few. In name their are many but in actual inner power, divine intelligence and chiseled character there are few people who have been personally selected, chosen and set apart by Onile to receive her unique manners, instructions and powers.

Onile worship leads to power, authority, uprightness and leadership skills and leadership responsibilities. Onile worship leads to a life of useful, enthusiastic and dynamic activity. Only those who are willing and able to shoulder sacred, solemn and holy responsibilities can enter the deepest levels of inner initiation and virtue that are communicated and transmitted by the divine and powerful mother Onile Ogboduora--the holder of authority, power and wisdom and has been charged with te responsibility to train and discipline mankind in the ancients ways of harmony, uprightness, wisdom and power. Health, longevity, tender heartedness tempered by courage and refined honorable character and uncommon mystic vision, penetrating insight, divine empathy, holy powers and regulating-ordering power accrues to the devotee of Onile.

To pledge oneself to Onile is to pledge oneself to honor, courage, bravery, uprightness and integrity. The devotee of Onile loves rectitude more than his life. The one who has pledged before Edan (the holy emblem) representing Onile and the unified cooperation and harmony of the Primordial 'Male' and 'Female' principles, pledge themselves to live for the safety and wellbeing of their community. They pledge themselves to defend and protect the earth and all the holy and sacred beings that inhabit it. Ogboni (Onile worshippers) are the heroes and protectors of humanity and progress. Onile is the power which dispenses discipline to law breakers. Onile also dispenses severe chastisement to wanton evil doers and deliberate-intentional doers of injustice, hurtfulneed and malice.

The path of Onile (ogboni) is for those who are not afraid to confront evil with the purpose of transforming it to goodness and if it refuses to embrace the good, the Onile (ogboni devotee) is consecrated to vanquish the evil and unrepentant evil doer for the sake of the health, happiness, wellbeing and orderliness of the community of those who live peaceful, responsible and law-abiding lives. This is the way of ogboni...the way of Onile. Open your heart and mind to humbly receive the guidance, blessings and instruction of Onile, obey her teachings and principles then you will know the mystery and power of Onile (ogboni) in your own life. No one will have to tell you or explain it to you because you will know it personally in a glorious and life empowering way. Ase.

Aboru Aboye.