Àṣẹ

Every Orisa ceremony ends with it. Every prayer invokes it. Every initiated priest carries it. But most practitioners have never had it explained to them fully - what Àṣẹ actually is, where it comes from, how it accumulates, how it’s lost, and what it means for daily life and spiritual practice.Àṣẹ: Sacred Power answers those questions directly.Àṣẹ is the divine life force - the creative and executive power of the universe. It is what makes a prayer work. It is what gives an Orisa the capacity to respond. It is what separates a true priest from someone who simply knows the words. In the Yoruba worldview, everything alive has Àṣẹ, but not all Àṣẹ is equal, and not all Àṣẹ flows in the right direction.Babalawo Olodu Ifadahunsi Egundiran Obafemi Alladahanou, Akoda Awo of UNIOV and practicing Ifa priest, draws on the Odu corpus, traditional Yoruba cosmology, and sixteen years of priestly practice to deliver the most thorough treatment of Àṣẹ available in English.What this book covers:The theological definition of Àṣẹ - what it is in the Yoruba cosmological framework and how Ifa describes its nature.Àṣẹ and Olodumare - how the Supreme Being distributes Àṣẹ to all created things and what that means for human beings.Àṣẹ and the Orisa - how each Orisa embodies a specific aspect of divine power and what this means for worship and initiation.Àṣẹ in Ifa divination - how the divination process channels and confirms Àṣẹ, and why the Babalawo’s own Àṣẹ matters.How Àṣẹ accumulates - through initiation, ethical conduct, prayer, sacrifice, sacred knowledge, and right relationship with the Orisa and ancestors.How Àṣẹ is lost or blocked - through taboo violation, broken oaths, spiritual neglect, and living out of alignment with Ori.Àṣẹ in ceremony - how ritual space is charged, how sacred objects carry Àṣẹ, and why some practitioners’ work produces results while others’ does not.This book is for anyone who works in the Ifa and Orisa tradition who wants to understand the invisible architecture that their practice is built on.Nubala Ifa Library. Published by Nubala Publishing.