Monotheism, Polytheism, and the Crisis of the Modern Soul: A Cosmic Analysis of Freewill, Willpower, and Burden Bags
BY: OMOLAJA MAKINEE
For thousands of years, African cosmologies—rooted in Ma’at, harmony, reciprocity, moral balance, and ancestral continuity—operated on a sophisticated spiritual framework. This framework understood the human being not merely as flesh and consciousness, but as a biological vessel carrying a pre-chosen spiritual contract, encoded in what is identified as the burden bag. This burden bag holds karmic residues, obligations, opportunities, and corrective tasks chosen before birth by the soul itself.
In such systems, priests and diviners acted not as miracle-workers, but as interpreters, warners, and guides. Their task was not to rewrite destiny, but to reveal its conditions and help the individual walk in alignment.
Then monotheistic religions arrived.
Christianity and Islam entered Africa through conquest, colonial intrusion, and mass conversion. They brought not only a new theology, but a new metaphysics of self, rooted in individual prayer, individual salvation, and a singular, sky-dwelling God who responds to personal petitions. On the surface, this seems like a spiritual evolution. Instead, it quietly triggered one of the most significant metaphysical crises in human history.
1. The Shift From Polytheism to Monotheism: A Shift From Willpower to Freewill
African polytheistic systems work on the principle of willpower—the disciplined force of alignment between inner potency, ancestral backing, and divine intermediaries (Orisha, Abosom, Neteru, etc.). Polytheism demands that:
- The body is disciplined;
- The inner potency is cultivated;
- The priesthood performs its role with cosmological precision;
- Rituals follow the cosmic laws of balance;
- One’s burden bag is respected, and only rarely adjusted.
In this world, rituals cannot bypass what the soul has predetermined unless the soul has left openings. Willpower works within the contract, never against it.
Monotheism reversed this logic. Instead of aligning with cosmic orchestration, it empowered individuals to demand change through direct appeal to a singular God. Personal prayer became a type of metaphysical pressure—a negotiation, a plea, and often, a forceful attempt to redirect life-paths. But here lies the metaphysical twist:
The God monotheists pray to is not in the sky. There is no God in the sky.
Every prayer is a negotiation with one’s own soul. Every plea, every fasting, every night vigil, every desperate prayer—is the freewill of the biological vessel demanding the soul to alter what it had previously chosen before incarnation.
And because freewill made the burden bag in the first place, it is only freewill that can undo it.
Thus monotheism unknowingly or intentionally activated a profound self-negotiation loop, where the biological body—craving comfort, ease, avoidance of hardship—pushes the soul to rewrite its original agreement.
2. Freewill versus Willpower: The Soul’s Dilemma
The soul built its burden bag using freewill, but intended for the individual to navigate life using willpower.
- Freewill chooses.
- Willpower endures, obeys, and executes.
In the ancient polytheistic world:
- Freewill chose the burden bags before birth.
- Willpower guided the biological body through the chosen timeline.
- Rituals aligned the person with cosmic order, not with personal desires.
But monotheism turned prayer into freewill demanding more freewill, over and over again. The soul became overwhelmed. For millennia after millennia, souls began to:
- Delay certain karmic consequences;
- Patchwork other karmic consequences;
- Abandon some tasks in present lifetime, which inevitably pushed into future lifetimes;
- Soften burdens to appease the biological vessel;
- Adjust timelines to reduce pain;
- Create loopholes within the predetermined path.
The result?
A generation of souls returning to the afterlife confused, ill-willed, and cosmically stagnant.
They died expecting:
- Judgment by a singular God;
- A saviour to intervene;
- A divine redeemer to reset their burden bag.
Only to discover that it was their own soul all along who had managed, adjusted, negotiated, or avoided their karmic duties.
3. The Re-Emergence of Stagnant Souls
This modern era mirrors a very ancient one—a time when:
- Souls repeatedly broke their contracts;
- Burden bags were ignored or overwritten;
- Ritual pathways were abused;
- Priests catered to monetary and personal desires instead of cosmic law;
- Biological cravings outweighed spiritual discipline.
Back then, this caused a flood of stagnant souls unable to reincarnate, trapped in dissonance, having died with unresolved karmic assignments.
Today, due to monotheistic self-negotiation, this crisis is gradually returning. Souls who softened their burden bags too often are now:
- Unable to reconcile their posthumous state;
- Unable to justify their altered paths;
- Unable to reincarnate;
- Accumulating again like a growing metaphysical shadow.
Many souls, conditioned by monotheism, die expecting:
- Heavenly relief;
- Divine forgiveness;
- A merciful deity to override their shortcomings.
Instead, they encounter themselves—the same self who arranged, then erased, delayed, or bypassed their karmic responsibilities. It is not judgment they face. It is unfinished business.
4. Why Monotheistic Prayer “Works”… But at a Cost
People often say: “My prayers were answered.”
Yes—because the soul finds ways to reconfigure the burden bag in small patches, sacrificing future spiritual balance for present biological ease.
This is why:
- Some prayers work immediately;
- Some take years;
- Some never work;
- Some cause karmic backlash later.
The soul can bend fate, but only to a point. Every alteration leaves metaphysical consequences:
- karmic debts;
- destiny imbalances;
- distorted challenges;
- deferred karmic tasks;
- inevitable harder conditions attached to burden bags in the next incarnation.
This is why more souls are now returning to Earth with:
- rigid, non-negotiable burden bags;
- harsher karmic conditions;
- life challenges that no ritual or priest can alter;
- predetermined events that divination can only warn about, not change.
Because the soul no longer trusts the biological body to honour discipline. And because the soul must correct the distortions it created under monotheistic pressure.
5. The Coming Age of the Shadowed Cosmos
If cravings of biological body continue to wield willpower as a weapon, to compelling souls to continue to using freewill to override what freewill originally chose, the cosmic field will become increasingly crowded with:
- confused souls;
- stagnant souls;
- ill-willed souls;
- and souls unable to reincarnate.
This darkening has already begun. Humanity is approaching another era in which:
- Priests cannot override predetermined conditions;
- Ritual power becomes limited;
- Divination offers warnings but no solutions;
- Burden bags become rigid and unforgiving;
- Souls incarnate with heavier, stricter karmic design.
All because the logic of monotheism encourages individuals to pray for relief rather than discipline themselves through willpower. The soul cannot shield the biological body forever. Nor can it eternally delay karmic processes. Eventually, it must confront its own deformed timelines.
Conclusion: A Call for Spiritual Honesty
This crisis is not a condemnation of monotheism—it is a reminder that cosmic law cannot be bypassed indefinitely. Prayers, fasting, vigils, and spiritual exercises have potency, but they are tools of negotiation, not shortcuts.
The true path is alignment. The true power is discipline. And the true spiritual maturity lies in understanding that:
- hardships may be chosen by the soul;
- ease is not always a blessing;
- delayed karma becomes heavier;
- spiritual shortcuts create long-term imbalance.
To walk with clarity in this era, individuals must learn the ancient principle:
Freewill designs destiny; Willpower fulfills it. And no amount of prayer can permanently erase what the soul requires for evolution.
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