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- 4-30-2007
- Categorized in: The Discovery of Bro. Ishmael Tetteh
Etherean Mission was formed around me in 1975. People who were consulting me for Healing and clinic services received periodic spiritual messages from our monthly convocations. Those who believed in it decided to stay and it became a church.
My message was and has been different from the traditional Christian teaching of hell-fire-and brimstone. I have a simple message:
- God is absolute love and the devil does not exist.
- Our culture is as divine as other cultures in the world.
These teachings met with and still meet with strong opposition and persecution, especially, from adherents of the Christian, Charismatic and Pentecostal faiths. The persecutions were reinforced by the regular visits of evangelists from the West, who with the dollar power, hold large crusades to bind the devil. Their message of devil, hell-fire-and brimstone inspires fear and I know that a people filled with fear cannot make any meaningful progress in their lives. Their teachings also propagates the idea that everything African is wrong; our culture, names, skin color are all wrong. A people who do not believe in themselves are doomed.
I stood alone as the strongest voice against the above teachings. I perceived the persecutions as coming from ignorance telling me the degree of its malady so that I may prescribe the appropriate medicine.
To cause a change, I decided to put my Ministry on a year long prayer so that we will have connection with Ministries of my type of thinking and philosophy to come into partnership with us. My thinking was that, if Ghanaians will hear the message from others who teach what I teach, they will believe as they believe the other Western ministers. In 1986 I created a prayer decree that stated thus:
We command the appearance of a Ministry with our thinking and philosophy to come and look for us, so that we form partnership for planetary liberation. A ministry shall be formed in the West with our thinking and philosophy and shall come and look for us, and we form partnerships through them with others for planetary liberation.
After a year of prayer, praying it every Sunday and Wednesday in church, we declared it done.
In early 1996, revelations from my Mystical team indicated a possible answer to a prayed request from the universe. In June-July that year, news got to us that a group of missionaries from the West wanted to visit Ghana and would want to visit a Science of Mind-like church. The local tour company told them that there was no such tradition in the country. A month prior, a member of my church has been employed in that company. Overhearing the discussions from his boss, he suggested that they come Etherean Mission since we do a Spiritual Mind Science called Soul Processing.

I will graduate in June (2007) as a Practitioner of Spiritual Truth, and I am so thrilled to have learned what I have from Rev. Michael and I look forward to learning more from Brother Ishmael!
In Love and Light,
D J Bernier
Bother Tetteh, I am fairly new to the "New Thought" way of worship; but I must say that when I arrived to the East Bay Church in Oakland, California, I felt that wow this is what has made sense to me for a very long time. Where I must stay that being raised Christian, I am still newly on the journey of understanding how to confidently move forward into what seems such a different view from Christianity, and all that I am sure you know comes with it. I intend to soon complete the Foundation class at East Bay. I have taken to Mystical/Howard Thurman class and have read several literature by Earnest Holmes and other writes, and have found it very inspiring.
Anyway, I have heard you speak three times now. Twice at East Bay and recently at the Center for Spiritual living in Oakland, CA. Thank You for coming and for the very incouraging message.
Sincerely,
Debra Duncan
I am sooo excited to have met Bro. Tetteh and I am looking forward to doing his course "Transformational Tool Kit". I also, look forward to becoming an Ambassador for "Growing the Empowered Child"
Thank you for doing the work you do.
Peace and Blessing,
Susyn