Inner Circle

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The Inner Circle Church of Graduate Christians

Book Seven -

Time Line Evolution of Woman’s Church in a nutshell

I  Graduate Christianity Born

1. Prayer for Ministry

2. Need for Doctrine

3. Need for Mission Statement

4. Need for Graduate Christian Bible

a. Need for Definition of Graduate

b. Christian

c. Write My Own Bible

d. Design My Own Religion

e. Sign My Name to it

f. Practice What I Preach

5. Need for Hymns

6. Need for a Prayer

7. Need a Name for Church

8. Need a Logo for Religion

a. Atom

9. Plan for Salvation

a. Black Eye Peas

10. Need Historical Background

a. Stolen Legacy

b. Black Gnostics as Taught and Developed at the Aquarian Spiritual Center

11. Need for a Way to Encourage Other Ministers to Express Themselves Within the Inner Circle

a. Ministers Encouraged to Form Their Own "Congregation" Circles to Provide Individual Leadership and Space for Creativity, Maintain Personal Touch as Church Grows and to Grow Church Membership

12. Need for Balance in All Things in Service and Philosophy

a. White and Black Candles

b. Dialogue

c. Congregation Participates in Lighting Candles During Service

d. Jessie Mae Chris

e. 12 Days of Christmas

f. Vocabulary Including Feminine Gender

g. 5th Sunday Field Trips

h. Creative and Innovative Services - Experiential

II  First Graduate Christian Service

1. 137 Attend First Sunday

a. 1st Lecture:  16 Crucified Saviors

2. 11 Attend Second Sunday

3. Brother First Member

a. Other Family Members Support Idea

b. Early Board

c. Problems with Husband & Chairman of Board

d. Chairman Quits, Cousin Steps up

4. Other Church Members

a. Members Celebrate Holidays Together "No One Has to Be Alone on a Holiday!"

b. If One Has a Performance, All Went

c. Sounds of InnerCircle Traveled All over L.A. Singing and Performing

d. Tight Knit Family

5. First Meeting Place - Elegant Manor

6. Layout of Service - Tables and Chairs, Matching Table Cloths

a. Ironing Table Cloths

b. Picking Flowers

c. Tea, Anyone?

7. Special Sundays and Matching Colors

a. Egypt 85 Sundays

(1)  African Influence 

(2)  Egyptian Influence

(3)  African Spirituality

b. Fifth Sunday Field Trips

c. a Sunday for God

d. a Sunday for the Goddess

e. Changing the Words to Songs

(1)  Gender and Affirmation

(2)  Changing the Words in the Scriptures

(3)  Gender and Reinterpretation

8. Not Readily Accepted by General Public:

a. Too Black

b. Too Feminine

c. Too Much Fun

d. Too Much Personal Responsibility

e. Not Enough God

f. Not Enough Scripture

g. Not Enough Jesus

h. Not Enough Structure

I. Too Much Laughing

j. Sunday, March 12, 1995

k. Too Much Music

l. Too Metaphysical

9. Annual Pageants:

a. Birth of the Sun

b. Kwanzaa Parade

c. Nefertitti

10. Lectures Topics:

a. Metaphysics

b. Sacred Numerology

c. Astrology

d. I Ching

e. Tarot

f. Sex

g. Money Honey

h. Family

I. African History

j. African American History

k. Her-Stories

l. Crystals

m. Mathematics

n. Music

o. Judeo Christian Bible

p. SOYM

q. Stolen Legacy and Other Emphasis on African Philosophy

r. The Goddess

11. Founder’s Ordination

a. Starlight Eleven

(1) Spiritual Name - Crystal Clarity

b. Who Ordained First Minister

c. Rev. Hasani Presents the Lady’s Prayer

12. Lectures Become More Female Oriented

a. Healing Racism Through Acknowledgment That Africans Are Mothers of Humanity

(1)  Seeing Other Races as African

(2)  Integrated Congregation

(3)  Problems Jealousy

(4)  Egypt 85 Falls Through Because of

b.  Healing Lectures on Menses; for Men and Women

c.  Healing Lectures on Menopause; for Men and Women

d.  Healing Lectures on Fertility; for Men and Women

e.  Healing Lectures on Virginity; for Men and Women