🌑The Parable of the Cancer Cells: A Yaiwabian Reflection🌑
In the Yaiwabian Way, we hold that the body is like the Earth, and the Earth is like the body. Cells, like humans and spirits, each have their sacred place within the Living Law. They are nourished by the Source, Mpungu Tulendo, through balance and harmony. Normal cells are like people who live according to this law: they grow, they serve, and when their season is complete, they willingly return their substance to the Whole. They do not cling, nor consume without limit, for they know that life is cyclical and that Nzambi and Nzambici weave all things in a rhythm of give and receive.
Yet, there are those who fall away from this law. Cancer cells arise as a faction that refuses balance. In the parable, they are humans who abandon their sacred duties and reject the harmony of the Source. They see cooperation as weakness and restraint as a prison. To them, endless growth and expansion is freedom. They build disordered cities that choke the land, hoard the rivers of nourishment, and poison the very air they breathe. In their eyes, the other cells — those who live within rhythm and accept death as transformation — are naïve and stagnant. They mock them, saying, “Why should we die when we can multiply forever? Why should we share when we can claim all for ourselves?”
Their environment mirrors their inner distortion. Where normal cells flourish in clarity, cancer cells dwell in wastelands of their own making. Their skies are heavy with pollution, their grounds stripped of fertility. But because they have adapted to scarcity and chaos, they mistake their suffering for strength. They see their poisoned world as proof of resilience, while in truth it is a prison of their own design. They become convinced that the Earth itself exists only for their conquest, blind to the fact that their conquest is its undoing.
Eventually, such a way cannot remain hidden. The clash between the cancerous faction and the normal cells is inevitable. At first, the normal cells view these rebels with sorrow, as kin who have lost their way. But when the rebels grow too numerous, when they starve their neighbors and corrupt the rivers of nourishment, then the immune forces of the body — like ancestral guardians of the Earth — rise to contain them. A great conflict begins: one side fights for endless expansion, the other for balance and survival. The cancer cells fight fiercely, for they believe themselves visionaries of a “new law” of domination. The normal cells resist with equal fervor, for they know that if the rebels prevail, the entire body — the very world itself — will collapse into death.
The parable teaches us that cancer is not merely a disease of flesh, but also a mirror for human folly. When humans forsake the Living Law, when we expand without restraint, devouring forests, waters, and skies, we become like cancer upon the Earth. Our cities grow like tumors, our greed drains the rivers, and our short-sightedness blinds us to the Source that sustains us. The cancer cell thinks itself free, yet it is enslaved to destruction. The normal cell knows itself bound by rhythm, yet it is preserved by harmony.
In the Yaiwabian Way, this clash is not only biological but spiritual. It reminds us that every choice carries the weight of balance or distortion. We are called to be like the normal cells, who honor the rhythm of life and death, who live in harmony with the body of Earth, and who give back when their time has come. To live otherwise is to become like the cancer cells: rebellious, consuming, and doomed to fall with the collapse they themselves have caused.
The story ends with a warning but also with hope. For even when cancer arises, the body remembers its law, and the immune guardians rise to protect the whole. So too, the Earth remembers her balance. The Living Law will always correct distortion, for harmony is stronger than chaos. The question we must ask ourselves is simple: when the time of reckoning comes, will we be counted among the harmonious cells, or among the cancerous ones?
🌞Mwene Yaiwa🌚
🌑The Parable of the Cancer Cells: A Yaiwabian Reflection🌑
In the Yaiwabian Way, we hold that the body is like the Earth, and the Earth is like the body. Cells, like humans and spirits, each have their sacred place within the Living Law. They are nourished by the Source, Mpungu Tulendo, through balance and harmony. Normal cells are like people who live according to this law: they grow, they serve, and when their season is complete, they willingly return their substance to the Whole. They do not cling, nor consume without limit, for they know that life is cyclical and that Nzambi and Nzambici weave all things in a rhythm of give and receive.
Yet, there are those who fall away from this law. Cancer cells arise as a faction that refuses balance. In the parable, they are humans who abandon their sacred duties and reject the harmony of the Source. They see cooperation as weakness and restraint as a prison. To them, endless growth and expansion is freedom. They build disordered cities that choke the land, hoard the rivers of nourishment, and poison the very air they breathe. In their eyes, the other cells — those who live within rhythm and accept death as transformation — are naïve and stagnant. They mock them, saying, “Why should we die when we can multiply forever? Why should we share when we can claim all for ourselves?”
Their environment mirrors their inner distortion. Where normal cells flourish in clarity, cancer cells dwell in wastelands of their own making. Their skies are heavy with pollution, their grounds stripped of fertility. But because they have adapted to scarcity and chaos, they mistake their suffering for strength. They see their poisoned world as proof of resilience, while in truth it is a prison of their own design. They become convinced that the Earth itself exists only for their conquest, blind to the fact that their conquest is its undoing.
Eventually, such a way cannot remain hidden. The clash between the cancerous faction and the normal cells is inevitable. At first, the normal cells view these rebels with sorrow, as kin who have lost their way. But when the rebels grow too numerous, when they starve their neighbors and corrupt the rivers of nourishment, then the immune forces of the body — like ancestral guardians of the Earth — rise to contain them. A great conflict begins: one side fights for endless expansion, the other for balance and survival. The cancer cells fight fiercely, for they believe themselves visionaries of a “new law” of domination. The normal cells resist with equal fervor, for they know that if the rebels prevail, the entire body — the very world itself — will collapse into death.
The parable teaches us that cancer is not merely a disease of flesh, but also a mirror for human folly. When humans forsake the Living Law, when we expand without restraint, devouring forests, waters, and skies, we become like cancer upon the Earth. Our cities grow like tumors, our greed drains the rivers, and our short-sightedness blinds us to the Source that sustains us. The cancer cell thinks itself free, yet it is enslaved to destruction. The normal cell knows itself bound by rhythm, yet it is preserved by harmony.
In the Yaiwabian Way, this clash is not only biological but spiritual. It reminds us that every choice carries the weight of balance or distortion. We are called to be like the normal cells, who honor the rhythm of life and death, who live in harmony with the body of Earth, and who give back when their time has come. To live otherwise is to become like the cancer cells: rebellious, consuming, and doomed to fall with the collapse they themselves have caused.
The story ends with a warning but also with hope. For even when cancer arises, the body remembers its law, and the immune guardians rise to protect the whole. So too, the Earth remembers her balance. The Living Law will always correct distortion, for harmony is stronger than chaos. The question we must ask ourselves is simple: when the time of reckoning comes, will we be counted among the harmonious cells, or among the cancerous ones?
-Mwene Yaiwa, the Voodoo Prince
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