We Hopi believe that the
human race has passed through three different worlds and life
ways since the beginning. At the end of each prior world, human
life has been purified or punished by the Great Spirit Massauu
due mainly to corruption, greed, and turning away from the Great
Spirit's teachings.
The last great destruction
was the flood which destroyed all but a few
faithful ones who received a permission from the Great Spirit
to live with Him in this new
land. The Great
Spirit said, "It is up to you, if you are willing to
live my poor, humble, and simple life way. It is hard but, if
you agree to live according to my teachings and instructions,
if you never lose faith in the life I shall give you, you may
come and live with me." The
Hopi and all who were saved from the great flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit at that
time.
To the Hopi the Great
Spirit is all powerful. He appeared to the first people as a
man and talked with them in the beginning of the creation of this world. He taught us how to live, to
worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us seeds to
plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets into which he breathed all teachings. In these
stone tablets were made instructions and prophecies and warnings.
This was done with the help of Spider Woman. Before the Great
Spirit went into hiding, He and Spider Woman put before the leaders
of the different groups of people many colors and sizes of corn for them to choose. The Hopi was the last to
pick and then chose the smallest ear of corn. Then Massauu said,
"You have shown me you are wise and humble. For this reason
you will be called Hopi (people of peace)."
It was to Spider Woman's
two grandsons the sacred stone tablets were given. These two brothers were instructed to carry them
to a place the Great Spirit had instructed them. The older brother was to go immediately to the east, to the rising sun
and upon reaching his destination was instructed to immediately
start to look for his younger
brother who shall
remain in the land of the Great Spirit. The older brother's mission
when he returned was to help his younger brother (Hopi) bring
about peace, brotherhood and everlasting life.
Hopi, the younger brother,
was instructed to cover all land and mark it well with footprints
and sacred markings to claim this land for the Creator
and peace on earth. We established our ceremonials and sacred
shrines to hold this world in balance in accordance with our
first promise to the Creator. This is how our migration story
goes, until we met the Creator at Old Oraibi
(place that solidifies) over 1000 years ago. It was at that meeting
when he gave to us these prophecies to give to you now at this
closing of the Fourth World of destruction and the beginning
of the Fifth World of peace.
He gave us many prophecies
to pass on to you, and all have come to pass. This is how we
know the timing is now to reveal the last warnings and instructions
to mankind. We were told to settle permanently here in Hopiland where we met the Great Spirit and to wait for
Older Brother, who went east, to return to us. When he returns
to this land he will place his stone tablets side by side to
show all the world that they are our true brothers -- when the
road in the sky has been fulfilled and when
the inventing of something, in Hopi means, gourd of ashes, a gourd that, when it drops upon the earth
will boil everything within a large space and nothing will grow
for a very long time.
We were told that three helpers who were commissioned by the
Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful life on earth
would appear to help us and that we should not change our homes,
our ceremonials, our hair, because the true helpers might not
recognize us as the true Hopi. So we have been waiting all these
years.
It is known that our
True White Brother, when he comes, will be all powerful and will
wear a red cap or red cloak.
He will be large in population and belong to no religion but
his very own. He will bring with him the sacred stone tablets.
With him there will be two
great ones, both
very wise and powerful. One will have a symbol or sign of the swastika, which represents purity and
is Female, a producer of life. The third one or the second one
of the two helpers to our True White Brother will have a sign
of a symbol of
the sun. He,
too, will be many people and very wise and powerful. [One will
have the symbol
of the moja, or cross.]
We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd rattle which
is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers
of our True Brother.
It is also prophesied
that, if these three fail to fulfill their mission, then the
one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many in numbers and unmerciful.
When he comes he will cover the land like the red ants and overtake
this land in one day. If the three helpers chosen by the Creator
fulfill their sacred
mission, and
even if there are only one, two, or three of the true Hopi who
remain holding fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions
the Great Spirit, Massauu will appear before all, and our
world will be saved. The three will lay our a new
life plan which leads to everlasting life and peace. The earth
will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers will bloom
again, wild game will return to barren lands, and there will
be abundance of food for all. Those who are saved will share
everything equally and they all will recognize Great Spirit and
speak one language.
We are now faced with
great problems, not only here but throughout the land. Ancient
cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are being
taken from them. Why is this happening? It is happening because
many have given up or manipulated their original spiritual
teachings. The way of life which the Great Spirit has given
to all people of the world, whatever your original instructions,
are not being honored. It is because of this great sickness called
greed, which infects every land and
country.
Now we are at the very
end of our trail. Many people no longer recognize the true path
of the Great Spirit. They have, in fact, no respect for the Great
Spirit or for our precious Mother Earth, who gives us all life.
We were told that someone would try to go up to the moon, that
they would bring something back from the moon,
and that after that nature would show signs of losing its balance. Now we see that coming about.
All over the world, there are now many signs that nature is no
longer in balance. Floods, drought,
earthquakes, and great storms are occurring constantly and causing much suffering.
Now we must look upon
each other as brothers and sisters. There is no more time for
divisions among people. Today I call upon all of us, from right
here at home, Hotevilla, where we too are guilty of gossiping
and causing divisions even among our own families, out to the
entire world where thievery, war, and lying go on every day.
These divisions will not be our salvation. Wars
only bring more wars, never peace. Only by joining together in
a Spiritual Peace with love in our hearts for one another,
love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth, shall
we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just ahead.
There are many of you
in this world who are honest people. We pray for balance on earth
to live in peace and leave a beautiful world to the children
yet to come. We know you have good hearts, but good hearts are
not enough to help us with these great problems.
We want the people of
the world to know the truth of our situation. This land which
people call the Land of the Freedom celebrates many days reminding
people of the world of these things. Yet in well over 200 years,
the original Americans have not seen a free day. We are suffering
the final insult. Our people are now losing the one thing which
gives life and meaning to life -- our ceremonial land, which is being taken away from us. Hotevilla
is the last holy consecrated, undisturbed traditional Native
American sacred
shrine to the Creator.
As the prophecy says, this sacred shrine must keep its spiritual
pathways open. This village is the spiritual vortex for the
Hopi to guide the many awakening Native Americans and other true
hearts home to their own unique culture.
Where is the freedom
which you all fight for and sacrifice your children for? Is it
only the Indian people who have lost, or are all Americans losing
the very thing which you originally came here to find? We don't
share the freedom of the press because what gets into the papers
is what the government wants people to believe, not what is really
happening. We have no freedom of speech, because we are persecuted
by our own people for speaking our beliefs.
We are at the final stages
now, and there is a last force that is about to take away our
remaining homeland. We are still being denied many things including
the right to be Hopis and to make our living in accordance with
our religious teachings. The Hopi leaders have warned leaders
in the White House and the leaders in the Glass House[the United Nations] but they do not listen.
So as our prophecy says then it must be up to the people with
good pure hearts that will not be afraid to help us to fulfill
our destiny in peace for this world. We now stand at a crossroad
whether to lead ourselves in everlasting life or total destruction.
So many people have come
to Hopiland to meet with us. Many times people have asked how
they can help us. Now I hope and pray that your help will come.
If you have a way to spread the truth, through the newspapers,
radio, books, through meeting with powerful people, tell the
truth! Tell them what you know to be true. Tell them what you
have seen here, what you have heard us say; what you have seen
with your own eyes.
We, the Hopi, hold the
sacred stone tablets and now await the coming of
our True White Brother and others seriously ready to work for
the Creator's peace on earth. We are not so different in the
Creator's eyes. The same great Father Sun shines his love on
each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the substance
for our table, do they not? We are one after all."
Chief Dan Evehema from
Hotevilla, Arizona, Hopi Sovereign Nation
Spiritual leader, Eldest Elder Greasewood/Roadrunner Clan
author Sandra
L. Butler's reponse (dated
February 1st, 2003)
The carnal flood
in the Bible symbolizes the spiritual flood of evilness that
leads to punishment, and purification, through which we
enter into a new land, which the Bible calls the "promised
land," symbolizing a new (way of) life. The sacred covenant
is a spiritual covenant, the promise of protection as long as
we remain in this new (way of) life.
The creation of
the World in the Bible is the blueprints for a spiritual
creation. Had mankind followed this creation process
he would know how to live, and how to worship. The two sacred
stone tablets given to Moses contained the spiritual
laws of God, instructions for how man was to live. The
corn symbolizes the spiritual word of God.
In the Bible it was Joseph that was in possession of the corn.
He wore a coat of many colors," which like
the many colors of Hopi corn, symbolize degrees of spiritual
growth, levels of enlightenment or truth. The Hopi, last to pick
of the corn, picked the smallest, repesented in Joseph's younger
brother, Benjamin, who received the smallest, but richest,
inheritance. Hopi, people of peace... a parallel to Joseph and
Benjamin, symbolizing the two divine attributes that will bring
authentic peace to all of mankind!
The two brothers
parallel the two witnesses of the Bible, Moses
and Aaron, who carried the sacred tablets (symbolizing
God's spiritual laws) to the place God instructed,
which spiritually is the Heart. The older brother going
to the east and reconnecting with his younger brother
symbolizes the word reconnecting with the
spirit... bringing spiritual truth. The rising sun
symbolizes the resurrection of this spiritual truth.
When these two brothers or two witnesses of spirit and truth
come together, there will be authentic peace, brotherhood, and
everlasting life.
The younger brother
symbolizes the spirit, one of the two divine attributes
of the Creator, which the Red Man embodied, being the first to
cover all the land, marking it with footprints and sacred
markings, claiming this land for the Creator, as the spirit
claims possession of the heart, imprinting and inscribing truth
upon it.
The ceremonials and sacred
shrines, performed and erected physically, are now, in what is
"The Third and Final Era of Jacob" to be performed
and erected spiritually, bringing balance and peace to the heart,
and subsequently, to the earth. It is through this spiritual
action that we fulfill our first promise to the Creator, keeping
the spiritual law from within our heart.
Old Orabibi (place that solidifies) symbolizes
the spiritual land of the heart. It is the word
that solidifies... "All things were made by him,"(Jn.1:4)
turned into matter or brought into existence. Jesus, the
word made flesh, came in the Fifth; in the year 5000. It is only
through obedience to God's word that we will enter the Fifth
World of Peace. The Fifth represents taxation (the taxation
of 2000 years ago and the great taxation of today) symbolizing
a great spiritual taxation being place upon the people, which
is to make a choice between two opposing forces. One leads to
more death and destruction, the other to life and peace. One
to more and more laws, the other to complete freedom... Esau
and Jacob.
The prophecies given
to the Hopi have been interpreted as physical events. But we
need to go beyond the physical and into the spiritual, using
the symbolism to understand the deeper spiritual meaning so we
can obey the Creator's spiritual instruction, averting the dismal
prophecies that have been predicted for our earth. The Hopi interprets
the gourd of ashes as the atomic bomb, the Bible (through
its mathematical code) concurring, the words atomic holocaust"
and "2006" encrypted therein. Not being physical
warrants a spiritual interpretation, having the power to stop
the physical if we hear/obey its spiritual message. The spiritual
gourd is the false peace that has settled on the
people, which like the gourd in the book of Jonah, began to wither
on September
11th, 2001, the only physical evidence of
which was a pile of ashes.
The death and destruction
in the Middle East, and in future castastrophies, all serve to
wither the gourd; to bring down the wall of false peace spoken
of by the prophet Ezekiel. Mankind procures this wall of false
peace and protection by thinking he can bring World Peace through
ritualistic or ceremonial practices; by keeping a set of religious
laws, or by repetitious mantras or prayers. There will be no
peace in the Earth until mankind stops serving God through his
mind and body and starts serving God through his Heart.
The Hopi were told to
settle in Hopiland, which in the language of the Bible
is called Jerusalem, which in the Hebrew means
founded peaceful. To remain or settle in this land is
to stay focused on the transformation of the heart, the only
place from which man can obtain authentic peace. The Hopi were
to wait in this land for the return of Older Brother, as the
apostles were to wait for Jesus, the Word, which went to the
East... to the Spirit. The Word of the True White Man will now
stand as a witness to the Spirit of the True Red Man, their ancient
sacred tablets, which contain the ancient instruction, standing
side by side, in support of one another. The road in the sky
has been fulfilled. We can no longer reach God or The Great Spirit
through the sky or heaven, symbolizing the mind. The only way
now is through the earth, symbolizing the heart.
The three helpers
commissioned by God or the Great Spirit to bring about peace
symbolize the trinity of the soul: mind, heart, and body, serving
as the faculties for thought, emotion, and action. It is through
the purification of these three that we will contribute to a
peaceful life on earth.
The True White Brother
wears a red cap or red cloak, but not in
mockery, not in the literal sense. He wears it in the spiritual
sense, his mind and heart influenced by the holy spirit,
the color red symbolizing spirit. He will have a spiritual rather
than religious mind. The two great ones are male and female,
symbolizing pure truth (male) and a pure heart (female).
The first of the great
ones is Female, the spiritual womb, a producer of spiritual
life. The second one carries a symbol of the sun,
symbolizing the son, seed, or word of God, which is truth. Truth
is male, the fruit of that spiritual womb called the heart. He
will be many, as it is written: " I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon
the sea shore..." Genesis 22:17. The sign of the
swastika is a sign of purity, but for many it symbolizes
an evilness beyond belief. Yet there is a connection, a very
profound one. Hitler, standing as judge, was given "forty
and two months" (Rev. 13:5) to execute his judgment,
which came in the form of a human holocaust, representing a spiritual
judgment...a baptism of fire, a spiritual purification, the "type
and shadow" of a spiritual death and rebirth.... the
sign or symbol of the cross.
If the three helpers
fail to fulfill their sacred mission of purifying the
heart, the one from the west will come as a big storm,
symbolizing an evil and destructive energy/force, the likes of
which has never been seen before. This storm, like Hitler, is
out of the west, symbolizing the word, man's word,
unleashing its deadly destructive power. If these three spiritual
helpers fulfill their mission of purification, the negative-destructive
energy that brings death will be transformed, bringing life and
peace. Those that reach this state, saved from themselves,
will recognize the same Great Spirit/God, having all things in
common, speaking one language... the spiritual
language of truth.
It is not only our physical
lands that are being taken away and destroyed, but our spiritual
promised lands. It is within this land, within our heart, that
each of us will find our spiritual inheritance. But this land
is being raped and pillaged by those that have perverted and
manipulated the word of God for their own gain. " Many
pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion
under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."
Jeremiah 12:10. This has been going on for thousands of years
by men lacking God's spirit, men using fear to control their
brothers. The cause of this destructive behavior is the great
sickness of the heart, greed, a lust for physical and
spiritual power, infecting every land and country. "And
thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels... Thy
ways and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this
is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth
unto thine heart. My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very
heart...destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole
land is spoiled..."
The true path was covered
over by religious iniquity, being unearthed by those that seek
God... seeking the Great Spirit not with their mind and body
through ritualistic prayers and practices, but with their heart.
The lack of respect for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth comes
out of man's lack of respect for the holy spirit of his Heart,
a lack of respect for spiritual Jerusalem, "the mother
of us all," through which we obtain spiritual (everlasting
or eternal) life. The imbalance in nature that followed man's
trip to the moon is also about a spiritual imbalance,
awareness of which comes from man's trip to discovering his emotions,
which are greatly influenced by the moon. The droughts,
earthquakes, and strong storms are the manifestations
of spiritual events, the negative-destructive emotional energy
of the heart causing much pain and suffering.
Many of our divisions
are caused by the same sacred texts that were intended to bring
unity. What is causing these divisions is the literal interpretation
of the carnal mind. " For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Literal
interpretations are at the root of this third world war we are
about to engage in. But these divisions among us have a spiritual
root, coming from within, as it is written: " From whence
come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even
of your lusts that war in your members? " Spiritual
peace is of the heart, which comes through the purification of
the heart. Then and only then will we have peace in the earth,
and love in our hearts for one another. If we love Mother Earth
we will take part in a spiritual Purification Day within
our Heart, a spiritual Day of Pentecost or Shabuoth,
thereby averting the terrible Purification Day that is coming
quickly upon the Earth.
Many of us may be honest
with respect to our outward actions, but there is a deeper level
of honesty, which exists at the heart level. Many of us would
never consider stealing from our brother, yet we continually
rob God by offering carnal sacrifices instead of spiritual sacrifices.
Some give money in place of spiritual tithing, some sacrifice
their time to help others, some perform ritualistic prayers,
practices, and ceremonials. But there is a much greater sacrifice,
one that brings the emotions of the heart into perfect balance,
which will bring balance to the earth. Peace in the heart will
bring peace in the earth. It is the heart of mankind that contains
the evil seeds that are carrying the negative-destructive energy
that is resulting in these great problems.
The Red Man has not seen
freedom for the past * 200 years, as the Spirit has been imprisoned
in the heart of mankind for the past *2000 years. The ceremonial
land of the Red Man symbolizes the spiritual land of the
heart, over which the holy spirit is caretaker. But the holy
spirit has suffered the final insult, loosing possession of the
heart, the spiritual altar or Hotevilla... the only spiritual
sacred shrine to the Creator. (*Egyptian time differs
from our own by a factor of 10 to 1).
The white man came to
America in search of freedom, but we have been slowly loosing
that freedom due to the very thing we sought to escape... the
limitations of religion. We can speak freely on the streets and
on the internet about what we believe, and we can still travel
about this great country at will, yet we are in bondage from
within by the beliefs or word of our own heart. The government
reveals what is governing the people, and what is governing the
minds of the people is false peace, the result of being told
what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear; lies
instead of truth. And even if one does not possess the freedom
of speech in the literal sense, he possesses freedom of speech
in the spiritual sense, which we speak out of our heart through
action, which has more power to effect change than all the words
spoken in the literal sense through the media. If our beliefs
are in line with God/the Great Spirit there will always be persecution
from those who stand opposed to it.
" And ye shall
be hated for my name's sake." That name is truth!
Like the Hopi, Mankind
is in the final stages as well, entering "The Third and
Final Era of Jacob," the final opportunity for mankind
to purity his Heart, which will bring purity to the Earth, returning
it to its former state. This will bring peace to the Heart, which
will bring peace to the Earth.
If even a few of us complete
this transformation process it will start a ripple effect, and
mankind will than do the right thing with respect to the Native
American peoples. The White House and the Glass House
[the United Nations] are representative of the Heart and Mind
of mankind, neither of which is hearing the voice of the Red
Man, symbolizing the voice of the Spirit. We indeed stand at
a crossroads, taxed to make a choice between life and peace or
death and destruction... "For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
I have devoted close
to 30 years of my life resurrecting the spiritual truth of the
Holy Bible, to be spread through the two books I have written.
They contain God's ancient instruction to all of Mankind, which
will free the holy spirit within the heart of man, honoring The
Great Spirit!
The True White Brother
will hold the same sacred stone tablets, the word of the
True White Brother standing as a witness to the spirit of the
True Red Brother. When these two witnesses come together there
will be peace in the Heart, and peace in the Earth.
Response
written by Sandra L. Butler ~ Copyright 2003
Author; The Bible Decoded: breaking the ancient code
The Little Book for the soul: an ancient healing process
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