Time to launch the #BringBackOurMagicians Movement

Jason’s search for the magicians of old is reminiscent of majority of those in his age bracket, who fondly nurse nostalgia for those good old days of Nigeria. That is the only conclusion anyone who hears them as they recount fond memories of idyllic lifestyle will make.

They usually talk of those times when, as University students, they had their bed linens changed for them while they learnt in lecture halls. In those days, we are told, our forebears slept in houses with no bugler bars; the good moral force presence within the society was palpable.

However, nothing is as stunning to me to realize, that the common man could get a plate of “spirit cooked rice with meat” by just stopping by to be entertained by a magician displaying the dexterity of his craft.

One must not gloss over the concept of a magician conjuring up rice or any other meal out of thin air, because that was essentially the same thing Jesus Christ did that won him fame and acclaim.

He was even quoted as remarking that the crowd seeking him had suddenly grown because the word was out that some dude was able to throw a party at the snap of blessing a small boy’s lunchbox, which in my opinion may be the same thing as those inaudible mumblings Jason recalls the magician making before that basin of rice he ate from appeared.

Back again to Jason’s rice, I can’t help but be in inquisitive by asking: How did those spirits know the rice must be at the bottom of the dish, while the stew and meat must come out on top? That’s an ipsissima verba conclusion drawn from Jason’s narratives.

I would also like to ask Jason these, “Was the rice warm, was it well cooked, did it have the right amount of salt, pepper oil etc.?”

These answers will help us understand if indeed it was possible to pass a meal order to the spirits by mumbling a secret phrase into the spirit realm, and voila as it happens every day at McDonalds drive thru restaurants, the food comes just as you have requested it. Those behind the scenes in McDonalds are not spirits, but surely an unenlightened person might perceive then as.

The fact that the government of our day is spending billions of Naira feeding school children, as an incentive to get them into the four walls of a classroom is enough reason for everyone to help Jason with his search for these magicians, their usefulness can’t be struck out in our generation.

Let us clamour for the return of such magicians, time to lunch the #BringBackOurMagicians movement is ripe.

In other private conversations I have always stressed to people that Humans seem not to understand that “the cloaks of religion” wantonly preclude them from accomplishing that which is desired by the LORD God, which simply is to become bearers of “a true Image of God”.

A status that is also declared as being “a Son of God” just a Jesus Christ was and still is. Ladies, you are not excluded’ please ignore the patriarchal context of those appellations.

Scriptures tell us God created our world by just speaking it forth. Once a human acquires the sine qua non that invest them with “the Authority of God”, which is that called “the Spirit of God” resting on them as it did on Jesus Christ; or Moses; or Elijah, they too can speak forth things, and things spoken by them will be as they declared.

Imagine a world where there is just “One human” on Earth capable of blessing a plate of rice, stew and meat and by so doing, transforms it into a meal that can feed as many as are gathered around him at such a moment.

I suppose in this case, the people will come with their spoons, with each person taking a spoonful and passing the plate onwards to the next man, knowing for sure, that the plate will certainly return back to him still full of rice and meat.
Without such an assurance, I am sure the whole plate of food will disappear into a nylon bag and the next man will be passed an empty plate!

Perhaps, a more suitable method is to ask everyone to step forward and fill their plate with as much rice and stew as they can eat, just as we do at buffets. The only difference is that this is a buffet operated by the LORD God, He does not run out of supply, lest we forget, He did something similar to that while the Israelites wandered through the desert, raining down manna every day to feed them for all of forty years.

Any human who can feed multitudes, raise the dead, heal the sick in the land and for who angel fights, is surely what the forces controlling this world don’t want to appear.

The appearance of such a human brings an end to the misery of Humanity. His appearance is the much heralded “Rise of Man” that the Earth needs. Indeed, such a Human bears attributes of “the expected Messiah” that all religious doctrines speak.

To presume that some of such attributes belonging to “the expected Messiah” had been manifested by Nigerian magicians in those good old days, suggests we may have overlooked a rare talent or craft and pushed it into extinction, spurred by our neo-western preconceptions.

The rice and meat that Jason ate did not kill him and I presume he won’t mind another plate! I wouldn’t too, and also the science community will love to get an opportunity to analyse it. I am sure somewhere down the line, NAFDAC too will come in with a certification for such meal.

If indeed these magicians resurfaces and they can conjure up food from another realm, that surely would put Nigeria on the map of fame. Imagine the tourism potentials it would portend for those who will want to eat “Spirit rice and meat”.
Humans with such attributes and abilities similar to those of these magicians have been known as spiritualists, priests, marabous, prophets, anointed of God etc.

These ones bear abilities that in their own little ways solve problems that humanity has confronted for generations. Imagine if we had a ministry that aggregated their abilities in a manner helpful to society, such will not be any different from the X-men alliance which is a movie screen success.

We are told that Heaven is a place where there is no problem for humans, we are also told that such expectations of humans having no problems here on Earth is unrealistic, that such will only happen in Heaven.

Various Religious doctrines – or their pervasions, maintain that if we do what they tell us, we will get a gate pass into their Heaven. Some are told to kill innocent people in order to secure that much longed for gate pass; others are told to pay tithes endlessly, as ceaseless reverence to fancy-dressed, SUV-driving, private jet-flying and exotic mansion inhabitants.

They are those who Jason posits are the lost magicians of old. I beg to disagree with Jason’s conclusions here, because unlike the magicians of old, these ones take money, common sense and time that could be well spent on other things from people who follow them and they don’t give anything to these people back in return!

Let that search for the real magicians of old begin, for their return brings good things back to us. They appear more capable than politicians at solving basic human problems.
So, whatever it takes, let’s all join hands to help Jason #BringBackOurMagicians!