Always Love, Never Hate 652.
— July 26th, 2020
I seem to be standing alone upon the monumental rock tower called The Sign of the Sacred Four Directions. It is named this due to the giant mural painted on the surface of its flat top. This Universal Cross covers nearly the entire plateau, vivid hues of red, black, yellow and white, representing the 4 races of our world.
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From its peak, great panoramas unfold before my eyes of distant lands and all manner of majestic terrain and sparkling seas.
Even further away, as I turn round
and round to view these gleaming horizons, the rounding curves of our hemisphere are revealed. Yet I am not alone, for even as I begin to pray my praise for beholding the glorious beauty from this high place, my Native American teachers and family approach from a higher spiritual dimension.
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hundreds are there and they walk upon the air above me in majesty — with bright affections even in their stern noble faces. From the circling plethora of angelic beings, 2
a medicine woman in her traditional ritual costume streaming in many vibrant colors walks closer to me. With her is a chief wearing a war bonnet.
The man is from
the Apache tribe while the medicine woman is Lakota Sioux. They speak in unison: “Look across the earth. What do you see? What do you sense?” This time I survey the lands and horizons below, but with my spiritual sight. Very different now it looks. I reply: “There are great spheres of brightness, angelic-like thoughts blended with feelings of love and happiness. Yet 3
these are being slowly overrun by dark thoughts, by ill-will, which are flowing and growing as one might think of a virus pandemic!
There are those who hate, and
hurt and kill and the vile blackness of their hatred is rising like a crescendoing wave, especially in our largest cities. Negative feelings, vile and violent thoughts are brewing as a fatal poison upon all people.� The Chief speaks: “You see and sense the truth.
I once was a great war chief who
slaughtered the invaders of my land. In the end, I was cut down and with me, from all the Tribal Nations, millions of my people as well. I mustered all my fierceness and hatred to fight the white invading soldiers but in the end, it was to no avail. Then I saw 4
my defense as honorable, even in death. Now I see it as a tragic mistake since I and my people have risen in hatred to breed more hatred for all in this nation. We have returned to help. We will hate no more and that is the message we wish to share. The medicine woman:
“Even now we see,
we sense the hatred you yourself are daily drinking as you feel anger at those whom you would call evil.
This is a mistake and
you must stop this. Hate can never stop hate.” The Chief: “There is no good end to this. There never is with hatred. Hate cannot defeat hate. Hatred brings only more evil and darkness upon us all.” 5
The medicine woman: “This is our message to you, to all the world. Stop the hatred. Begin to forgive! Attone for the sins of your families from the many moons and suns of the past. Do not fight those who would in violence destroy all. Love them. Forgive them. Teach them. Let all be as brothers and sisters, the Family of Our Great Spirit, the Children of Our Father-Sky, Mother Earth.� In one voice, all the surrounding elders chant: Let Love command Your Hearts! Let Love be the prayer of your lives! Let no hate, let no darkness endure! Let us be the Children of Our Universe of Beauty!
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They became then as a whirlwind of light and music, sending forth healing prayers and love-filled blessings to inspire all our world. The power of their powwow filled me with higher inspirations, to seek more self-control. For the good of all in our world, we must learn to return love to those who hate, to bless everyone with our deepest thoughts and feelings of love. Every day, every breath, we dance and sing, we pray and bless, all with love! So we vow to Our Great Spirit Creator!
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