Grandfather's Final Message"Nakwa brothers and sisters,http://thebeloveddisciple.org/finalmessage.htmlIt is in my heart to share the knowledge of native people with our brothers and sisters, I have not
much Time to do this because I will soon walk the Line of Sacred Corn, and so I will find another way
to share what I know and hope I can reach many people and touch their hearts and bring them to a
better understanding of our Earth Mother.
When I refer to God I say "Him" but I am equally comfortable with "Her", in fact, I do not know which
gender I use most, but one thing is very sure, when I say "God" I always refer to our Earth Mother or
to an aspect of Her. Life is one great aspect of Her, Land is another great aspect of Her, and Death is
another great aspect of Her. She controls the Underworld, and She controls this Fourth World, when
we were in the Third World, we were with Her and thus it was She who controlled the Third World.
When we go to the Next World, which we call the Fifth World, this same Earth Mother who has always
nourished and supported us, will also be the controller of the Fifth World, but there will be a
difference, She will release more control into our hands, because in the Fifth World we will have the
good hearts and the wise minds not to abuse our control.
We have different names for Her different aspects, in Her aspect of Death She is Masau, and as
Masau She is male. In her aspect of Land She is our Mother and She is female, in Her aspect as life
she is Spirit and She is Male. There are many aspects but they are not different Gods, they are the
omnipotent Earth Mother, and in my humble view, for whatever it may be worth, this is the case with all
old religions. Many native people do not like their belief system to be referred to as "religion" because
it brings to mind the Christian missionaries and all that they inflicted upon the "heathen" native
people, but I do not have this problem, I am a religious man, and my religion is very old and as valid
as any other great religion.
I am Hopi. My religion is called "the Hopi Way" or simply "Hopi". I want to
leave in this forum the essence of my religion. If I were to brew it all down to its essence, what would I
have in my hand? Evolution.
I have had the great blessing of my Mother to travel in India, China, Africa, Europe and of course
Turtle Island (America) the Land of my birth. Turtle Island will always be Turtle Island to me.
Nobody
*discovered Turtle Island, *We were born on our Land, She gave to us this Land when She gave our
Lives. We Love and Honor and Respect Turtle Island. It was a giveaway. Not a discovery. Our Land
was renamed after an Italian by the name of Amerigo (I think his second name was Vespucci),
because he was the first Caucasian man to Land on it, but he did not discover it, he stumbled onto
Turtle Island, and yet it was given his name. That is water under the bridge, but as I say, to me it
remains Turtle Island.
What is the essence of my religion? To *serve my Earth Mother who has given all to me, and to serve
Her we must honor Her, Respect Her, and obey Her. To obey Her is the hardest part we might say,
because She appears to be silent, therefore how do we know what She wants from us? She is not
silent! She is very eloquent, but She does not speak with the language of words, at least not to us, I
am sure She does use words when She speaks with Her brother and sister Stars, but our ears are
deaf to Her voice, just as we are deaf to other sounds, such as the dog whistle. There are many
sounds our ears do not hear; Her voice is among the sounds we cannot hear, so She communicates
with us through sign language. We call this sign language "symbols" and we have to train our senses
and our mind to interpret Her sign language, just as if we are learning a foreign language.
We learn to understand Her symbols quickly, because, once She sees we are trying to understand
Her, She is overjoyed, and She does all in Her Power to help us. Symbols are natural to native people
all the world over. It is our first language! Our native language takes second place to symbols. As we
move through our Lives our senses and our minds are always alert to symbols, we might be so
absorbed in symbols that we cannot hear our brother calling to us in our native language! Our
dreams are very important, we shape our lives according to our dreams, and we search our dreams
for Her guidance and direction. One of the first lessons we learn in Life is to pay attention to our
dreams and to learn to understand them. The course of my Life has been governed by my dreams,
and will continue in this way. I would be lost without my dreams. When I think back, it is through
understanding my dreams that I learned to understand symbols, and thus I moved on to searching for
symbols in my daily Life as well as my dreams. What a rich language! An all-encompassing language!
One symbol has so many levels! One symbol can say so *much more than one word!
Last night I dreamt I was pulling a cloth out from under autumn leaves, the cloth was heavy and I soon
noticed it was not simply a cloth, it was part of a dressing gown, and then I noticed (by the weight) that
it was on a dead body. I did not pull more. I stopped. I noticed that by pulling I had cleared the leaves
off two socked and slippered feet. Male feet. I did not uncover the face of the male. I asked a man who
was nearby to inform the police. With a heavy heart I went indoors. This dream told me so much! I
know only two men who wear socks, slippers and dressing gown. One is Keith and the other is Ken.
One of these will die in Autumn when the leaves are thick under Trees, they will die after they take a
bath, when they are almost ready to go to bed, not in the morning because neither of these men wear
socks under their slippers in the morning. They will die indoors and not outdoors (even though they
were covered in leaves) and they will not be ready for death. The face was hidden from me, but by the
weight of the body I can guess which man will die this Autumn when the leaves are thick on the
ground. I will be informed of his death in the Morning of the following Day. But if I keep alert when I see
the leaves accumulate on the ground this Autumn, I will receive a sign *before he dies, and this is
important to me, because I will get a chance to say goodbye.
To read symbols we have to become a tracker, I think of symbols as being tracks for which I look. The
first step in beginning to serve God is to be the best human being we can be, the second step is to
look for Her words to us, and to respond in a good way to Her voice, 'Yes, Mother, you call me? I
stand alert! Show me a sign and I will do all my best for you." This second stage is an enlightened
state of being. No need for a priest or a temple, in this second stage a man can communicate one on
one with God. We do not need to hear Her voice to know She wants us to honor all Land and Life,
She is Land and if we wish to honor Her we must honor Her body also. She is the giver of Life, of
Spirit, and we must honor Life wherever we find it. It is easy to honor Life in our families and friends,
even a terrible sinner can do this, but we must honor Life also in strangers and in our enemies, we
must honor Life in even those people who abuse that Life, because the Life itself is Sacred, and that it
is abused is terribly sad. Where we see Life being abused, we can try to guide that person to a better
understanding of Life.
Respect and Honor are very important to native people. The Respect and Honor we earn from others
as well as the Respect and Honor we give to others. We Respect and Honor our God and all Land
and all Life, *and all Death. We do not shun Death, and if we have walked a good Road, we do not
fear Death because Death is the doorway to a new body, a better more evolved body, and a better
Life in the Fifth World. In the Fifth World where finally a good man can live in a peaceful World Where
all men and women are brothers and sisters and Live in perfect harmony with Nature. But if we have
not walked a good Road, we do fear Death, because we fear reprisals! If our walk has not been good
there will be no better more evolved body for us, and no peaceful Fifth World, at least not in our Next
Life! Even when we fear Death we nonetheless Respect and honor Death. We have the gift of Life
because we are not strangers to Death. We have Lived and Died before, and the fact that we are still
in this Fourth World means we have not yet perfected our actions and our service to Mother Earth, we
are still here in our imperfect bodies and in this imperfect World because we are still struggling to
*know Her and to serve Her and to bring ourselves to as good as we can get, given our present
physical limitations. Those who do not fulfill their potential return to this state of being, those who do
fulfill their potential move on to the Fifth World (Which pahana calls Heaven but which we recognize as
the Star "Taalawsohu" which is also called the Star of "David', and which pahana calls the planet
"Venus").
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