Ausar Auset Society
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The Ausar Auset Society is a Pan-African religious organization founded in 1973 by Ra Un Nefer Amen. It is based in Brooklyn, New York with chapters in several major American cities. The organization was created for the purpose of providing members a societal framework through which the Kemetic spiritual way of life can be lived daily and functions as an international body teaching Kemetic philosophy (cosmology), meditation, ritual, divination, yoga, nutrition, herbalism, homeopathy, astrology, African history and culture, and various other disciplines to students around the world. The organization provides afrocentric-based spiritual training to the African American community and to African descendants in the diaspora. Classes taught are based on the Ausarian theology of ancient Egypt and are heavily steeped in indigenous traditional African cultures dating from the early historical periods of Kemet, Indus Kush (pre-Aryan, pre-Vedantic India), Canaan (Palestine), and Kush (Ethiopia). The religion uses the Kemetic Tree of Life (Paut Neteru) as the basis of its cosmogony and philosophical underpinning. It seeks to reunite the traditions of the founders of civilization into a spiritually empowering way of life that aims at the awakening of the Ausar principle (the Divine Self) within each individual.
The organizational structure of the Ausar Auset Society is patterned after traditional African Kingship and has been officially recognized by the Asantehene (King of the Ashanti) of Ghana.
The Ausarian religious system has at its essence the establishment of an intimate relationship with God. It's fundamental tenet holds that God and Man (men and women) share the same divine attributes qualitatively, although not quantitatively. Thus, unlike other religious systems in which humankind is essentially bound to the frailties of the flesh and is incapable of transcending human limitations, the Ausarian religion is based upon the individual's effort to use each and every life experience as a means of bringing his or her divine attributes to the forefront of human existence as the "normal" way of addressing all issues in life. Hence, the individual must live by Maàt (Divine Law) while interacting on the physical plane, thus making one's body, one's life even, a fit vessel through which God's divine attributes can be of service to all creation all over the world.
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