There was the
cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now
we are in the cycle of the animals coming to the end of that and beginning
the cycle of the human being. When we get into the cycle of the human being,
the highest and greatest powers that we have will be released to us. They
will be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind. But
right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle and we have investigated
ourselves and learned what it is to be like an animal on this earth.
At the
beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down and
He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together
they say on an island which is now beneath the water and He said to the
human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm
going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings
and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together
with each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace
on earth, and a great civilization will come about."
And he said "During
the cycle of time I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When
I give you those stone tablets, don't cast those upon the ground. If any
of the brothers and sisters of the four directions and the four colors
cast their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hard
time, but almost the earth itself will die.
And so he gave
each of us a responsibility and we call that the guardianship. To
the Indian people, the red people, he gave the Guardianship of the earth.
We were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the earth,
the plants that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the
herbs that are healing so that when we came back together with the other
brothers and sisters we could share this knowledge with them. Something
good was to happen on the earth.
To the South,
he gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the wind. They were
to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves
for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with is at this time.
To the West He
gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the water. They were
to learn the teachings of the water which is the chief of the elements,
being the most humble and the most powerful. When I went to the University
of Washington and I learned that it was a black man that discovered blood
plasma, it didn't surprise me because blood is water and the elders already
told me the black people would bring the teachings of the water.
To the North He
gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the fire. If you look
at the center of many of the things they do you will find the fire. They
say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at the center of
a car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane
and the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves.
This is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to move upon
the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family.
And so a long
time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two stone
tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners
Area on 3rd Mason.
I talked to people
from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya.
They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I once had the honor of presenting a
sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from the red pipe stone of Mount
Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago. A medicine
man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the
gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; He asked the
people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota,
maybe Saskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just
like ours, with the same color.
The stone tablets
of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in Tibet. If you
went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world,
you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word
for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".
The guardians
of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In Switzerland,
they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They still
know the colors of the families, they still know the symbols, some of them.
I went to school with some people from Switzerland at the university
of Washington and they shared this with me. Each of these four peoples
happen to be people that live in the mountains.
In 1976 America
had its bicentennial celebrating 200 years of freedom. Some of the Native
people thought this was significant and they carried a sacred pipe bundle
from the West Coast to the East Coast of this land. They said that the
roads of this land should either go North-South or East-West. If they went
North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters, but if they
went East-West there would be destruction and almost the earth itself would
have a hard time. So you all know the roads went East-West. They said then
things would be lost from the East to the West and from the South to the
North and that they would come back again from the West to the East and
from the North to the South. So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to
East Coast of this land, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people
carried a sacred pipe bundle by hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years
ago that people that didn't Like them would throw rocks and bottles at
that pipe bundle as they carried it across the land. And sure enough that
came about. But, as was in my aunt's dream, the rocks only came so close
and then they dropped, and nothing touched it. When they reached the top
of the Rocky Mountains, they hit a hard storm. An elderly man with long
white hair said, "I will carry it now." They had a van that went alongside
the people who were walking. He got out of the van and carried the sacred
pipe bundle clear through that storm. He was so cold when he got back in
the van that someone touched his hair and it fell. His hair was frozen.
You have to be pretty cold for your hair to freeze but that old man carried
it through that storm because they said if they carried this bundle across
the earth, the powers would begin to come back. They said a spiritual fire
would be lit in the North and would come down the Northwest Coast
of this land. When it gets to the Peugeot Sound, it would go inland. I
think this, nine years later, is the gathering in the North, myself. That's
why I came here. This is it. We have the capacity to start the-spiritual
fire now, here. The old people long ago saw it and foretold it and I'm
going to come to that.
So we went through
this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their directions
and they learned their teachings. It was on News week not too long ago
that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed
here in the western hemisphere because that was our Guardianship,
to learn the teachings of the earth, and the things that grow from the
earth. We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back together
as brothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings. It was
indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothers
and sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across the
land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. So when
the time came close the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the
turtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning
and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they
saw the Spanish Conquistadors coming, covered in armor, like turtles across
the land. So this was them.
So they went out
to the Spanish man and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake
but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread
throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe
some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things
and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth. So
tribes began to send people to the mounds to have missions to try to figure
out how they could survive. At that time there were 100,000 cities in the
Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on
great mounds. Those mounds are still there. If you ever go out to Ohio
or the Mississippi Valley, they're tourist attractions now. There was 100,000
cities of Native people and they were wondering how they could survive.
They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard
time was going to come. They began to send people to have visions to see
how we could survive this time. People came on the east coast and they
went across this land to the east and they were told in the prophecies
that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the
sacredness of all things.
If we could do
that, then there would be peace on earth. But if we did not do that, when
the roads went clear from east to west, and when the other races and colors
of the Earth had walked clear across this land, if by that time we had
not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth
with his hand and shake it. And so if you read the treaty negotiations
from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land clear
to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, they
all said the same thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and
I hope you accord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying
to live together. But instead of living together, you all know there was
separation, there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated
the Indians, and they separated the blacks. In the state of Washington
it was against the law for an Asian to marry a white person up until not
too long ago. There was separation.
They said "You're
going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to
find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA, deoxyribonucleic
acid. They said, "They re going to cut this blueprint." They call that
now, genetic splicing. And they said, "They're going to make new animals
upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us.
And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren
and great grandchildren are going to suffer." I don't know if you heard
on the news last night in the United States now they have genetically spliced
a new germ, never before released in the environment. They want to release
this germ into the cotton fields of the south because they say it will
rejuvenate and strengthen the cotton. They had scientists on the CBS Evening
News the other night talking about it. One scientist said what the elders
said in the 1950's, that this will not
harm us. We've
put it in a lot of tests. And the other scientist said what the elders
also said, no, this has never before been in the environment. We have no
idea what it will do. The elders spoke of it long ago.
They said it would
see harmless, but it may be able to hurt the great grandchildren. The elders
said long ago, "They will release these things, they will use them." This
is going to be released not too long from now. They are making new animals.
The elders talked about this. They said, "You will see new animals, and
even the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared.
They will find them here and there. They'll begin to reappear."
They said (and
I know many of you are from tribes that also have this prophecy, "You're
going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night and
it will land upon the moon." Some tribes say the eagle will circle the
moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly it's highest in the night. "And
at that time," they say, "Many of the Native people will be sleeping,"
which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. There are some
tribes that say it will be as if they are frozen: they've been through
the long winter. But they say, "When the eagle flies it's highest in the
night, that
will be the first
light of a new day. That will be the first thawing of spring." Of course,
at the first light of a new day, if you've stayed up all night, you notice
it's really dark. And the first light, you want to see it, but you can't.
It sneaks up on you. You want to see it change but it's dark and then pretty
soon it's getting light before you know it. We're at that time now. The
Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed they sent
back the message, "The Eagle has landed." Traditionally, Native people
from clear up in the Inuit region, they have shared with us this prophecy,
clear down to the Quechuas in South America. They shared with us that they
have this prophecy. When they heard those first words, "The Eagle has landed,"
they knew that was the start of a new time and a new power for
Native people.
There was absolutely
nothing strong before us now. We may do anything we wish. In 1776 when
the United States Government printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle],
if you've ever noticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They said
that represented peace. The Indian elders shared with me in South Dakota
that to them that represents the enslavement of black people. In the prophecies
of the Six Nations people they say there will be two great uprisings by
black people to free themselves. We've seen one about 1964. There will
be a second, more violent one to come. I'll get back to what that means
in a minute. In the other claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers of the
United States said that represents the 13 States. But the elders say that
represents the enslavement of the Native people. When the Eagle landed
on the moon, they decided to print a special silver dollar to commemorate
that. I don't know how many of you noticed it. The original design showed
the spaceship landing on the moon but at the last minute it was changed
to an actual eagle. And in the eagle's claws is the olive branch, but the
arrows are gone. The elders said, "That's our prophecy we have been released."
There was one more uprising coming for the black race of people and then
they will be released and this is also going to have an effect on Native
people, a good effect. There's a whole new set of prophecies from the Iroquois
people about that and I won't have time to go into that this morning.
But we're in that
time now. We're between the first light of a new day and the sunrise. The
sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone is going to see
it. But you know how it is in the village there's a few people that get
up early, and there are some that sleep until noon. I'm probably one of
those that sleeps until noon.
They said when
that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to come back to us.
As an alcoholic person, I feel that one of our greatest diseases is alcoholism.
Within seven days of the time of the Eagle landing on the moon, the first
Native alcoholism program was started on an Apache reservation in Arizona.
Within seven days of the time the Eagle landed on the moon, the Freedom
of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the United States Congress.
Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed by President Carter,
making the song that Kevin [Kevin Locke, a famous Indian Baha'i who spends
his time traveling around the world sharing the North American Indian culture
through dance and music] sang legal to sing in every state of the United
States. It was punishable at one time to go to jail for 10 years and/or
a $10,000 fine for singing a song or doing a suat. This was changed in
1978s the legislation was introduced in 1969, less than seven days after
the Eagle landed on the moon. These are the physical manifestations of
the spiritual prophecies that we have.
So he said at
this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people on
the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time
for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem
like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as things
speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower
you go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to
be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two
times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human
family, to remind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers
and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle
that would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.
Tonight they were
talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth.
I heard it while sitting in the airport after I missed my plane. They said
they're going to build what the elders called the "house in the sky".
In the 1950's
they talked about this: they will build a house and throw it in the sky.
When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know
the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand,
but with both hands. Many of you of Native background may have heard "the
spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone." We've
had two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the
third one. As it says in the Baha'i Writings, there will be no-one protected.
When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth
a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going
to drop. They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great
that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and
in the prophecies these are called "villages of stone", or "prairies of
stone". And they said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will
not be able to see beyond the village. At the center of each and every
one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as "hollow"
shells upon a "prairie of stone". They said "hollow shells" which means
they will have lost any of their traditional understandings; they will
be empty within. They said after the Eagle lands on the moon some of these
people will begin to leave these "prairies of stone" and come home and
take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because
it's a new day. But many will not. And they said there's going to come
a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise and this village of
stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming
from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those
villages of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn
to steam also because they never woke up and left the village. And this
used to bother me when I was a young man. I used to ask the elders, "Isn't
there anything we can do?" And they said, well, it's just that way that
if a person does not have the spiritual eyes to see, it's very hard to
show them. Or if they don't have the ears to hear, it's very hard to speak
with them. We wish that we could go get them all but we can't. It's just
that some are not going to wake up. But some will wake up .
And so they say
there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not going to be
a good thing to see but we will survive it. We will survive it.
And when we survive
it, then there's going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human
beings on the earth. And this time the Native people will not have to petition
to join but will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude
towards us will have changed by then, and people will let us into the circle
and all the four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom,
and there will be a peace on earth. This is coming close. A lot of times
when I share this message of the prophecies, people say, "Can't we change
it? Could we stop it?" The answer is yes. The prophecies are always "either/or".
We could have come together way back there in 1565, and we could have had
a great civilization, but we didn't. Always along the path of these prophecies,
we could have come together. We still could. If we could stop the racial
and religious disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking.
The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's
pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can "cushion" it. The
word we use is "cushion". We can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad.
How do we do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite
us. The Hopis in their prophecies say there will be a religion that comes
here. Maybe it will be true and bring unity, or maybe it will not be true
and not bring unity. If it does not bring unity, a second religion will
come, and the people of this religion are known in the Hopi language as
the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni means "people of". So I was looking
for the people of Baha. I wondered who the people of Baha were. I was a
Baha'i for quite a while before somebody told me that baha'i means "people
of Bahà". I thought, "Oh my God!" Here I was looking for it all
these years and I never even noticed it! And I found it! I was stubborn
and didn't want to become a "Baha'i but my grandfather who passed away,
you know he must have found out about it in the next realm because he came
back to me four times to tell me, "Hey, look at that again, look at that
again. Look one more time." Bahà, it means "light or glory". Baha'i
means "follower of the light", or the "people of Bahà". We've been
waiting for these people for a long time. They say they will bring a Teaching
that will unite the earth. So we need to share this Teaching. They say
the fire will come from the North. So here we are, in a circle, in the
North, talking about the Bahànis, the "people of Bahà", and
the teachings of Baha'u'llah.
When I heard about
these [prophecies], none of them made any sense. Now most of it has come
to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said the "house in the sky" will
be put up in 1996. It was going to be put up sooner, but it's been postponed
for four years. Maybe it will be postponed again. But in not too long it's
going to go up. The earth as we know it is going to change.
Each of us carry,
I believe, a sacred drop of light. In the Indian teachings, they say it
takes nine ancestors to agree before conception can occur. Nine ancestors
of the husband and the wife have to come together in the spiritual realm
and say; "We will bring life," before a woman can become pregnant. At that
time the soul is born.
I delivered my
first daughter and a man from the Blood Reserve who went to South Dakota
and was the first Bloodline 82 years he came to my house by coincidence
four days before my wife went into labor. Each night we had a ceremony,
and on the morning after the fourth ceremony my wife went into labor at
sunrise. And that night, at sunset, my daughter was born. And I took her
out, and I cut the cord, and I noticed at the sun dance that what people
do in South Dakota, they pass the pipe three times, and they don't take
it until the fourth time. And even in Washington I've heard
the coming of
a child is like the coming of a new pipe. When I was delivering my daughter
I happened to notice that the skull came out three times, and on the fourth
time, her head came out like the coming of a pipe. First I put her on the
mother instantly and after a few minutes I cleaned her up and I washed
her up. There was a circle of people just about like this around my wife
and there were people of different backgrounds and we looked up and through
the ceiling came a small drop of blue light. When it got close to the child
you could not see it. That was her soul, she will carry that light throughout
earth. In that is her special uniqueness as a being, a spiritual power.
In that are gifts.
After we go through
and then we carry it back here and it radiates to she mind but for some
reason in this cycle we've been in the lower natures, the animal thought.
But now we're going into the human world. The mind is going to be opened
up to the radiance of our own soul and the cycle of the human beings is
going to come back, and something so good is going to happen on the earth
that it cannot even be described. The elders say it in different ways.
They say, there will be grass at that time when they make that circle and
bring the peace on earth. There will be blades of grass that have not quite
come through the earth. Even they will try to push themselves up to be
part of that day when the sun rises. The elders explain it like this:
out here, outside this building, long before there was a fair ground here
there were Native people. They say many of these Native people in different
tribes were aware of these things, and they told
the children.
Their children grew up.
You know, one
time the scientist came to the Hopis and they said, "We want to take a
piece of the stone tablets." They said "We want to take the stone tablets
to a scientific laboratory to determine how old they are." The Hopis said,
"We know how old they are". Well, the scientists said, "We want to confirm
it." Well, the Hopis let them take a little piece, and they did that by
the carbon dating
method. They found these tablets were at least 10,000 years old, maybe
50,000. So when I say, "Thousands of years ago, there were Native people
that spoke of these things," that's exactly what I mean.
They told their
children and thousands of years ago, their children grew up and told their
children, and then their children grew up and told their children. And
they spoke about the people that will live in this time.
And now it is
us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago. They say to be alive, to come
into creation and to live upon the earth at this time is a great honor.
In the cycle of
time, from the beginning to the end, this time we are in now will change
the purification of all things. They say this is the hardest time to live,
but it is also the greatest honor to be alive to live and see this.
In the state of
Washington in 1855 they signed treaties and made 22 Indian reservations.
They wanted to do it before there were problems. They thought they were
advanced at the time, they had learned from what had happened elsewhere.
They made 22 Indian reservations and the elders spoke in 1855 and they
said, "We're going to become weaker, and you are going to become stronger,
and if you wish to break these treaties, you may do so." They said, "But
there's going to come a time when the earth itself will rise up and purify
itself and this will be announced. It will be announced by the speaking
of more than 16 Great Ones on the West Coast of this land. And when the
16 Great Ones speak, the purification will have begun. There was a new
[?] five years ago when Mt. Saint Helens, one of the 16 great volcanoes
on the West Coast of this land, "spoke". The Seattle Times did a special
interest story. They went over to Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill. It was
Woodrow Bill's son that made this hoop that I brought here today, my good
brother Randolf Bill. They asked Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill as spiritual
people of the Yakuma nation, "What does this mean?" What they said was
so profound that they didn't put it on page 16, they put it on the front
page of the Seattle Times. They said, "This means that the races and nations
of the earth should slow down and come together and talk to each other."
That's exactly what it meant. And we had four years and four days to do
that.
Four years and
four days later, Mt. Saint Helens erupted the second time. That was last
spring, just about this time. That was our grace period. We could have
still done something really good. But now things are going to speed up.
Now things are going to really happen fast. Time is going to go so fast.
The more we share the Message, the more we will cushion the Third Shaking
of the Earth, and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.
A good friend
of mine in Montana whose grandmother just passed away last year, the last
thing she said to him was "Make a place for yourself in the mountains because
the air will become so hot down here," where they were at on a reservation,
that it would be hard to breath. And it won't be long, That's the last
thing she told her grandson when she was passing. Go on the mountains and
make a place for yourself. Put some things there that you can survive with.
People are going to run to the mountains to survive and the Native people
must be ready for this.
We are now within
the purification of all things. Non-Natives call this the "Apocalypse".
The Native elders call this the "Purification". I want to share one non-Native
prophecy with you. There was a seer in Europe whose name was Nostradamus.
I'm sure many of you have heard of him. He foresaw three Great Shakings
of the Earth. He said the Third Great Shaking will begin when Lesser Arabia
and Persia engage in a war. Five years ago, when Mt. Saint Helens went
off, Iraq attacked Iran. Lesser Arabia today is called Iraq. Persia is
called Iran. These two prophecies coincide. Both the Native elders and
Nostradamus said this will start slowly, almost unnoticed by the people
of the earth, but it will eventually involve us all. Eventually the "gourd
of ashes" will fall from the sky so muck that the river that runs
through the center
of this [?], the Mississippi River, will boil from the heat of the "gourds
of ashes" that will fall on this land. But don't despair. It sounds terrible,
but we will survive it. We will live through it. I don't think there's
anyone chosen to live through it, but some people will.
So, in closing
I would like to call on each and every person, regardless of who you are,
young or old, Native or non-Native, to arise now, and to awake, to embrace
this time, to learn everything you can about the Teachings and the Writings,
to arise and awake and go forth, all the peoples of the earth. Peoples
everywhere are now receptive to the Message. This year is the year when
that is really going to start, I believe, myself. Arise and awake. That's
a phrase from the Damuleada of Buddha. It is time to arise and awake, to
go forth and teach, to walk the road. We call it the good red road, the
road that runs north to south, things that were lost from south to north
but come back from north to south. There's , people out there waiting to
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