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From: Meditations With the Hopi by Robert Boissiere. Long before Pahana, the white man, ever set foot in the Americas, long before the hegemony of the red race had been challenged by light-skinned people as the prophecies told us it would, a spot in the immensity of the desert, a center of Spiritual power, was Hopi. The land of the peaceful ones. The continent was different then - much space, few to occupy it. But the energy coming from Hopi is in realms where communications are not of this world; in dimensions set by Taiowa and expressed by Massoua. Hopi is the thread, the bridge, the place of peace and balance. If perhaps there is a name, a word, that can show the world what Hopi peace is - it is balance. The world must grow, expand, but it must do it in balance. Otherwise, nature, the great regulator, will take over, as it is now, with floods, eruptions, famine, earthquakes. This is nature at war, nature that will convince humankind of the need for balance, to set in motion positive energies to reestablish a world in balance. In the beginning, we are told, Taiowa, the Creator, gave us his life plan, as it is written on the Rock of Oraibi which we call the prophecy. If we hold fast to the sacred way as he devised it for us, what we have gained, we will never lose. But still, we have to choose between the two ways. This is the balance of Taiowa's way. For he will always meet us halfway. That is why on the sacred petroglyph he is portrayed holding in his hand the thread of the sacred way. In the other hand is the bow, for it was the Bow Clan which led us out of the Underworld at the beginning of the Hopi Way. That is what the arrow shot from the bow means on the rock. The diagram shows two lines: the lower line is the path of the Great Spirit, for in its last end, a man is bending on the cane the old ones use, pointing to the corn, which is the sacred food that nourished us from the start. The old one shows he was the first and he will be the last. And so will we if we hold fast to his pathway. But next to him, beware of the other way, the way of life of those who do not pray. It is easy enough to see that their heads are not fastened on their body, as it happens with people who use their mind, instead of their faith in the spirit way. As Taiowa's life plan shows, their line ends in a zig-zag way, in the void of the mind of the faithless life and the fruitless. But there is another line on the sacred map drawn on the rock - a vertical line that connects the two ways. It is like a ladder that some might use to change ways, to go from the way of peace and balance - Taiowa's Way - to a path that seems to many a much easier one. Finally seeing that the Hopi Way of balance is the only chance, many will choose to climb down the ladder, to go through the Great Spirit gateway. This time of confusion, in which many will choose either path, is called a time of purification. The prophecy says the earth will shake three times: first the Great War, then the Second One, when the Swastika rose above the battlefield of Europe to end in the Rising Sun sinking in a sea of blood. The end of an Empire .... or perhaps the beginning of another? Now what would the third one be? This, the Prophecy does not say. For it depends on which path humankind will walk: the greed, the comfort, and the profit, or the path of love, strength, and balance. When strong-hearted people keep on singing the Song of Creation, they will find the true path, forgotten by many, so Grandpa David says. When prayer and meditation are used rather than relying on new inventions to create more imbalance, they will also find the true path. Mother Nature tells us which is the right way. When earthquakes, floods, hailstorms, drought, and famine will be the life of every day, the time will have then come for the return to the true path, or going the zig-zag way. Long ago, Massoua told us, "Remember the Pahana, the white brother. He has the other stone tablet, but he has not returned it, yet. He will be sent so the people who held fast to the Hopi Way can be spared from destruction. He is the purifier, for people to go on with the Great Spirit life plan. It will then open our hearts and minds when a new age is about to be, with people renewed and purified through fire. It will be like the pure gold of a new day. But fire is red, and when it takes command, it will set the forces of nature in motion. We will know when purification day has come. We all are the caretakers of life. The balance of nature depends on us. The world will be what we want it to be. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From the TAWA Messenger Newsletter Near Orabi, a pictograph is shown on a large rock (Prophecy Rock) depicting the emergence of the present world and progressing into the future to the day of purification. The present world is seperated into two paths. The lower path is followed by the One-Hearted and leads into eternal life. The upper path is followed by the Two-Hearted and leads to self destruction. The three world shaking events are shown by the two circles and a half circle. The last one is the "mystery egg," the suprise as to how the world would be purified; all depending on how humanity handles their worldly affairs. In the last stage of modern civilization, the One-Hearted will lead the Two-Hearted (headless people shown next to the mystery egg). If the One-Hearted is listened to, the Two-Hearted can be lead back to the eternal path (last connecting line). Persistance of the Two-Hearted to live in ignorance will lead to their self destruction (zigzag path). The One-Hearted at the last stage (lower path) is depicted by the farmer who lives a long and happy life (symbolized by him leaning on two canes). The final message of the pictograph is: through direct relationship with the Earth, as such, self reliance becomes the basis of Health, Peace, Justice and Freedom.