GSM - The Great Law of Peace - New World Roots of American Democracy

[Guest guest]

[Deganawida's Great Law of Peace provides the firm foundation upon which the

Constitution of the Six Nations Confederacy of the Iroquois League and later on

- the U.S. Constitution - were based.

 

Qualities of love, justice, respect, forgiveness, equality and peace all point

to the spiritual dimension of the Peacemaker's message and distinctly parallel

the spiritual message given by Lord Jesus.]

 

" If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in

peace...

Treat all men alike. Give them all the

same law. Give them all an even chance

to live and grow. All men were made by

the same Great Spirit Chief.

They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people

should have equal rights upon it....

Let me be a free man, free to travel,

free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free

to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself,

and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. "

 

Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

http://www.sapphyr.net/natam/quotes-nativeamerican.htm

 

 

The Great Law of Peace

New World Roots of American Democracy

© by David Yarrow

September 1987

September 17th, 1987, America celebrated the 200th birthday of the

United States Constitution, a brilliant jewel of human liberty and

reason, fashioned by the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution

to prescribe the structure of their new American government.

 

Throughout the year, countless ceremonies, reenactments, rallies,

contests, TV shows, articles and conferences have marked this

bicentennial of American government. The televised Senate Iran-

Contra hearings and the battle over Robert Bork's nomination to the

Supreme Court have sharply highlighted our national remembrance—and

the importance—of the governmental roots of our freedom.

 

Yet, one vital perspective has been missing from the pageantry: for

the true historical origins of freedom and democracy in the New

World—and indeed, in modern civilization itself—lie nearly forgotten

on the pages of time, where they were written centuries before the

days of King George and the Founding Fathers of the United States

Constitution.

 

Perhaps, amidst the revelry, we will take this opportunity to turn

back these pages, to rediscover and possibly fulfill our debt to one

of the great social wonders of history: The Great Law of Peace.

 

New World Democracy

 

As a government, America was a bold new experiment, based on—what

were at their inception—radical ideas in European political

philosophy. These ideas were given practical expression in the

Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. For

Europeans, these historic documents represented a great leap forward

towards realizing the ideal of " liberty and justice for all. "

 

To the poor, often starving and indentured refugees from European

feudal society, the vast, unexplored North American continent was

the far dark shore of hope, an escape from the continued numbness of

poverty, suffering and misery. These newcomers saw the New World as

a shining symbol of freedom, fortune and the possibility of a happy

future. But the New World was not only a symbol. In truth it was the

birthplace and homeland of liberty and democracy—for the arts of

peace had taken root on Turtle Island many hundreds of years before.

 

This September at Cornell University, a special conference entitled

The Iroquois Great Law of Peace and the U.S. Constitution, 200

scholars examined a lost and forgotten origin of the U.S.

Constitution. Convened by the North American Indian Studies Program,

this gathering reviewed historical and scholarly evidence that the

oldest democracy on Earth isn't the U.S.A., but rather the Six

Nation Confederacy of the Iroquois.

 

The Iroquois Confederacy existed centuries before the U.S.

Constitution was written. Historians, anthropologists and

traditional chiefs addressed the proposal the U.S. Constitution was

based on the Iroquois Great Law of Peace rather than on Greek

democracy, as is commonly believed and taught.

 

Conference speaker Bruce Barton, Chair of English at Castleton

College, has written a novel on the founding of the Iroquois

Confederacy. Barton summed up the evidence to support that

proposal: " Modern democracy was first established here, and is not

the evolutionary result of European political theories. The modern

age of democracy had its origin in the vast recesses of this

continent, and from here it spread throughout the world. American

democracy owes its distinctive character of debate and compromise to

the principles and structure of American Indian civil government. "

 

On September 17th, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), fresh from chairing summer

hearings on constitutional breaches he termed " worse than Watergate, " introduced

a Senate Resolution to formally recognize the contribution of the Iroquois Great

Law of Peace to the U.S. Constitution. Congressional hearings on the subject

will begin in November.

 

The First United Nations

 

The first Europeans in the New World northeast encountered strong,

well organized communities of the Iroquois League. This powerful

alliance of five nations controlled a vast sweep from the St.

Lawrence south into Pennsylvania and west to Illinois. They

controlled both Hudson-Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, and

controlled access to the Great Lakes. This strategic position on

passages into North America gave them control of trade routes, and

destined them to play a major role in North American history.

 

However, the greatest Iroquois role was neither military nor

economic, but government. At that time, the Iroquois League was the

oldest, most highly evolved participatory democracy on Earth.

Although known for military prowess, Iroquois power was not founded

on the force of arms, but rather on the arts of peace and reason. A

profound understanding of the principles of peace and human freedom

lay at the foundation of Iroquois government, allowing them to

foster genuine, effective statesmanship.

 

It is no coincidence that the U.S. Constitution strikingly

resembles, in both principle and form, the Great Law of Peace of the

Six Nations Confederacy of the Iroquois League. When the Founding

Fathers looked for examples of effective government and human

liberty upon which to model a Constitution to unite the thirteen

colonies, they found it in this New World society—not in Europe,

usually considered the cradle of modern civilization.

 

The Great Law of Peace

 

The Confederacy arose centuries ago among separate, warring

communities as a way to create harmony, unity and respect among

human beings. Implicit in Iroquois political philosophy is

commitment to the highest principles of human liberty. Iroquois

Laws' recognition of individual liberty and justice surpasses any

European parallel. Faithkeeper Oren Lyons, an Onondaga, states The

Great Law of Peace includes " freedom of speech, freedom of religion,

[and] the right of women to participate in government. Separation of

power in government and checks and balances within government are

traceable to our Iroquois constitution—ideas learned by colonists. "

 

The central idea underlying Iroquois political philosophy is that

peace is the will of the Creator, and the ultimate spiritual goal

and natural order among humans. The principles of Iroquois

government embodied in The Great Law of Peace were transmitted by a

historical figure called the Peacemaker. His teachings emphasize the

power of Reason to assure Righteousness, Justice and Health among

humans. Peace came to the Iroquois, not through war and conquest,

but through the exercise of Reason guided by the spiritual mind. The

Iroquois League is based not on force of arms or rule of law, but

spiritual concepts of natural law applied to human society.

 

At the planting of a Tree of Peace in Philadelphia in 1986, Mohawk

Chief Jake Swamp explained, " In the beginning, when our Creator made

humans, everything needed to survive was provided. Our Creator asked

only one thing: Never forget to appreciate the gifts of Mother

Earth. Our people were instructed how to be grateful and how to

survive.

 

" But during a dark age in our history 1000 years ago, humans no

longer listened to the original instructions. Our Creator became

sad, because there was so much crime, dishonesty, injustice and war.

 

" So Creator sent a Peacemaker with a message to be righteous and

just, and make a good future for our children seven generations to

come. He called all warring people together and told them as long as

there was killing there would be no peace of mind. There must be a

concerted effort by humans for peace to prevail. Through logic,

reasoning and spiritual means, he inspired the warriors to bury

their weapons and planted atop a sacred Tree of Peace. "

 

The White Roots of Peace

 

The Peacemaker legend is a central tale of Iroquois history,

constituting an Iroquois Bible, Declaration of Independence and

Constitution. This inspiring story describes a people mired in

violent bloody feuds who, guided by a spiritual teacher, set aside

war to adopt a Path of Peace. It's a mythic tale of struggle between

good and evil, order and chaos, and the triumph of Reason. It's a

morality play depicting the transformation of humans rising above

suffering and tragedy to establish a higher order of human

relations. It's also a practical guide to establishing unity and

balance amongst diverse human communities. It's a successful model

of how to distribute power in a democratic society to assure

individual liberty.

 

To portray the spirit of democracy, the Peacemaker gave The Tree of

Peace as a symbol of the Great Law of Peace. This is a great white

pine tree whose branches spread out to shelter all nations who

commit themselves to Peace. Beneath the tree the Five Nations buried

their weapons of war; atop the tree is the Eagle-that-sees-far; and

four long roots stretch out in the four sacred directions—the " white

roots of peace. "

 

The Peacemaker proclaimed, " If any man or nation shows a desire to

obey the Law of the Great Peace, they may trace the roots to their

source, and be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree. "

 

Upon hearing the Peacemaker legend, Dr. Robert Muller, former

Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, remarked, " This

profound action stands as perhaps the oldest effort for disarmament

in world history. "

 

Several versions of the legend have been transcribed from oral

traditions. The most complete and authentic is The White Roots of

Peace by Dr. Paul Wallace, respected ethnohistorian. In his

words, " The Iroquois excelled in the arts of statesmanship and

diplomacy. After the white man came, during a century of

intercolonial strife, [the Iroquois] loyally protected the infant

English colonies, showed them the way to union, and helped prepare

American people for nationhood. "

 

Iroquois and the U.S. Constitution

 

By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Iroquois

had practiced their own egalitarian government for hundreds of

years. The Iroquois reputation for diplomacy and eloquence reveals

they had securely evolved a sophisticated political system founded

on reason, not on mere power. Accounts of the " noble savage " living

in " natural freedom " had inspired European theorists John Locke and

Jean-Jacques Rousseau to expound ideas that had ignited the American

Revolution and helped shape the new direction of government.

 

But the Founding Fathers found their best working model for their

new government, not in the writings of Europeans, but through their

direct contact with the Iroquois League; for the Great Law of Peace

provided both model and incentive to transform thirteen separate

colonies into the United States.

 

George Washington, after a visit to the Iroquois, expressed " great

excitement " over the Iroquois " two houses and Grand Council. Ben

Franklin wrote, " It would be strange if ignorant savages could

execute a union that persisted ages and appears indissoluble; yet

like union is impractical for twelve colonies to whom it is more

necessary and advantageous. "

 

At Cornell's conference, Dr. Donald Grinde, Jr. of Gettysburg

College presented evidence that Thomas Jefferson adopted the

specific symbols of the Peacemaker legend. The Tree of Peace became

the Tree of Liberty; the Eagle, clutching a bundle of thirteen

arrows, became the symbol of the new American government.

 

Grinde also brought the revelation that " one of the framers, John

Rutledge of South Carolina, chair of the drafting committee, read

portions of Iroquois Law to members of the committee. He asked them

to consider a philosophy coming directly from this American soil. "

 

The Great Law of Peace laid out a government " of the people, by the

people and for the people " with three branches. The Onondaga, the

Firekeepers, are the heart of the Confederacy. Similarly, the U.S.

presidency forms an executive branch.

 

The League's legislative branch is in two parts: Mohawk and Seneca

are Elder Brothers who form the upper house, while Oneida and Cayuga

are Younger Brothers, similar to the Senate and House of the United

States Congress. The Iroquois' equivalent of a Supreme Court is the

Women's Councils, which settle disputes and judge legal violations.

 

America Joins the Great Peace

 

In 1776, the Continental Congress appointed George Morgan the first

Indian agent to promote peace with Indian nations. Congressional

President John Hancock told Morgan to follow the custom of the

Iroquois " forest diplomats " by taking a " great peace belt with 13

diamonds and 2,500 wampum beads " to invite Indians to the first U.S.-

Indian Peace Treaty. This historic Washington Covenant belt was

given to the chiefs and clan mothers at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix

in 1784 as a promise that they would never be forced to fight in

U.S. wars, and that Indian land rights would be respected. As in the

Peacemaker legend, the war hatchet was buried beneath the Tree of

Peace and prayers of peace were offered through the sacred pipe.

 

Another speaker at the Cornell conference, Gregory Schaaf, Ph.D,

recently discovered a cache of Morgan's papers in an attic of

Susannah Morgan, 94-year-old family heir. In his book The Birth of

Frontier Democracy from an Eagle's Eye View, he writes: " Before the

Revolution, members of the Continental Congress met with Iroquois

ambassadors to learn how they governed themselves. A Chief

advised, 'Our wise forefathers established Union and AmityI this

made us formidable. We are a powerful Confederacy, and if you

observe the same methods, you will acquire fresh Strength and

Power.'

 

After meeting with the Iroquois in 1754, Ben Franklin first proposed

creating a colonial Grand Council in the 'Albany Plan of

Union': 'One Government may be formed administered by a President,

and a Grand Council chosen by representatives of the people.'

Franklin's plan for a Grand Council of United Colonies resembles the

Iroquois Grand Council. "

 

The Fire That Never Dies

 

Today the Iroquois League remains alive—the last surviving sovereign

nations of native Americans in North America. Its capital still sits

at the center of New York State in Onondaga County, just south of

the City of Syracuse. On a bend of Onondaga Creek Valley is the

Onondaga Nation, a 35 square mile island of still sovereign native

soil inhabited by 1500 survivors of the once great Iroquois

Confederacy. It was nearby, at Hiawatha Point on the Onondaga Lake

shore, that Peacemaker taught the Iroquois to " bury the hatchet " and

imparted The Great Law. The Onondagas, Firekeepers of the League,

still host meetings of the Grand Council of Iroquois government.

 

Among Indian tribes in America, Iroquois are special in that they

remain autonomous, independent nations. Yes, nations,

not " reservations " as many Americans mistakenly believe. Under

international law Iroquois reservations aren't U.S. lands, and

aren't subject to federal, state or local laws. Rather, they are

foreign nations within the United States and Canada, who exercise

their own self government on their own national soil. They're a

distinct culture and race with their own language, religion,

history, families, communities, and government.

 

Their sovereignty is continually challenged. As recently as 1983,

Dennis Banks, an Ojibway leader of the American Indian Movement

(AIM), was sought by South Dakota for prosecution on riot and arson

charges connected with a demonstration by Sioux Indians at the Rapid

City Courthouse. Banks sought political asylum under the wing of the

Onondaga Nation. New York State under Governor Cuomo declined to

send agents onto Onondaga soil to extradite Banks. On another front,

the Iroquois are fighting the presumption of the U.S. Selective

Service to draft Iroquois sons into the American military.

 

To Iroquois traditionalists the Great Law of Peace isn't merely a

form of government, but religious practice of an ancient spiritual

legacy. Peacemaker wasn't a military hero or social leader, but a

messenger of the Creator. Following The Great Law is a spiritual

practice, and those who follow the Longhouse tradition are " faithkeepers. "

 

There's no separation of church and state in Iroquois society.

Indeed, spirituality lies at the root of government and law.

 

New Light From an Ancient Source

 

Hundreds of years ago in North America a spiritual Teacher appeared

in the Finger Lakes region to communities of the red race who

guarded the eastern gate into the continent's interior. This

messenger from the Creator transmitted an instruction to these

people of how to live together in honor, dignity and peace.

 

The Peacemaker spoke his Words of Law to only a few villages, but

his message and vision is the legacy and heritage of all human

beings, of all five races of humanity.

 

Today the League remains one of the best examples of democracy, self-

government and libertarian society on Earth. Through it we continue

to gain wisdom and inspiration needed today to confront intensified

challenges to peace and survival. Seneca traditionalist, writer and

lecturer John Mohawk, in his Foreword to the recent version of Dr.

Wallace's White Roots of Peace, sums up his ancient past amid our

modern predicament:

 

" Long ago on the Onondaga Lake shore a man proposed peace was a

possibility. It was a radical idea at the time, as it is now. He

proposed justice could be achieved, that there would be no true

peace until justice is achieved. He proposed because human beings

are rational and have a potential to use their heads, these things

are possible. His vision contained many principles, and what nearly

amounted to a faith based on the process of thinking.

 

His efforts carried an obscure group of Indian peoples to the center

of the world stage of history. It was a major building block which

enabled the Haudenosaunee to become one of the most politically and

philosophically influential peoples in history.

 

" The ownership of the thinking which took place then, and the

generation of thinking which needs to take place now are our job.

That's what we'll find when we follow the roots to their source. The

White Roots continue to represent a tradition of thinking about

ourselves as a species, and the responsibility to use our minds so

that we continue to survive and create a good world for our children

seven generations into the future. "

 

" We, The People... "

 

It is unfortunate that the Iroquois' central role in the creation of

the United States government has apparently been a well kept secret.

For The Great Law provides uniquely valuable instruction in the arts

of politics and law, negotiation and diplomacy, disarmament and

government.

 

The search for world peace is of utmost concern to all men and women

of good will today. As American democracy celebrates its 200th

birthday, we must assure this deeper heritage of freedom is

rediscovered and exposed to national attention once more. Beneath

the great gushing growth of modern American culture, hidden and

forgotten, lie the true roots of freedom, democracy and peaceful co-

existence.

 

Let us hope modern civilization will pause its arrogant, headlong

rush to catastrophe long enough to look and take note. For if we

follow the White Roots of Peace back to their source, we find men

and women of the Iroquois Nations gathered around a hole into which

Peacemaker cast the weapons of war. There we find the spiritual

inheritance of all humanity: One Peaceful World, the United Nations

of the human family.

 

http://www.championtrees.org/yarrow/greatlaw.htm

 

[The Great Law of Peace also resonates with the message of Lord Jesus Christ.

Not only was His also a message of love, peace, justice and forgiveness, but it

also contained the vital message of resurrection and the True Peace that comes

with the achievement of His directive: " Ye must be born again. " (John 3:3-8)]

 

The True Peace

 

The first peace, which is the most important,

is that which comes within the souls of people

when they realize their relationship,

their oneness, with the universe and all its powers,

and when they realize that at the center

of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit),

and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals,

and the third is that which is made between two nations.

But above all you should understand that there can never

be peace between nations until there is known that true peace,

which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.

 

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader (1863 - 1950)

http://www.sapphyr.net/natam/quotes-nativeamerican.htm

 

 

[The 'True Peace' spoken about by Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader

(1863 - 1950), attained through experiencing the Second Birth, the Birth of the

Spirit, is the connection to the Divine Power of Love, which is - the Silence.]

 

 

O' GREAT SPIRIT

help me always

to speak the truth quietly,

to listen with an open mind

when others speak,

and to remember the peace

that may be found in silence.

 

Cherokee Prayer

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[shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Who is the Incarnation of the Holy Ghost, the

promised Comforter, Counselor, Redeemer, and the Lakota's 'White Buffalo Calf

Woman' brings to our remembrance the words of Christ Jesus:]

 

" Today we are celebrating the resurrection of Christ. With it we also

have to celebrate the resurrection of human beings, of Sahaja Yogis,

who have been resurrected as realised souls. With that we have to

understand that we enter into a new awareness. He had to come down

and again to show to this world that you are the eternal life, that

you lead a life that is spiritual, which never perishes. You have to

rise, into that new realm, which is the Realm of God Almighty, what

you call the Kingdom of God.

 

And He said it very clearly to Nicodemus that `You have to be born

again' when he asked, `Am I to enter back into my mother's womb?',

and He said it so clearly. Those who don't want to see can remain

blind. No, that is, whatever is born of the flesh, is the flesh, but

whatever is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.'

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

V4 No 23 Sept 84 p4

 

" Now this Kundalini is the power which is placed in the sacrum bone,

nowhere else... And imagine this bone is called sacrum; " sacrum "

means " sacred. So they knew there was something in it... This is the

primule, is the germinating power within us. Now this fact has been

accepted for thousands of years in India and elsewhere. For in the

Bible also ... they talk of the Tree of Life. That is the same as

this...

 

So this is the thing that is being described in our ancient books, in

all the scriptures, even in the Qur'an they are described as Ruh,

R,U,H, Ruh. " Ruh " means the " cold breeze " , the " cool breeze " . The

cool breeze of the Holy Ghost is described in the Bible also.

 

You cannot suddenly start a new idea about something. If it is an

evolutionary process, if it is a living process it must have its

background, its history, and it must culminate into something

fruitful. Like every fruit has a tree behind it... If it is a living

fruit it has to come out the trees that have existed for thousands and thousands

of years, and out of that, this tree has to come. It must have a base and this

is traditionally called the kundalini awakening process...

 

Christ has said very clearly that you have to be born again. I mean

the whole message of Christ's life is realization ... when Christ

came on this Earth to show that you have to become the Spirit. By His

resurrection He showed that, and this is the message of Christ. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

October 23, 1980 - Hampstead, UK

 

 

" The Kundalini rises through a very thin line of Brahmanadi. In the

beginning only a hair like thing rises, it pierces through. In some

people, of course, in a big way it rises also. And then it pierces

this fontanel bone area which is a real baptism, real. Today only

people felt the cool breeze coming out of their heads. Can you do

that by jumping, or by paying money? They felt the cool breeze in the

hand. It's written in the Bible, even in the Bible very clearly, that

it's the cool breeze. Cool breeze is the sign of the Holy Ghost. You

start feeling the cool breeze in your hands and you start feeling the

cool breeze on your head. This is the actualization.

 

" Of course, you people don't read other books which are very good,

like Adi Shankaracharya. People don't even like the mention of his

name who has really and clearly said that it is the cool breeze, the

chaitanya, is to be felt like cool breeze in the hands. They do not

want that you should know the truth. And this is the truth that when

you get your realization, you have to feel the cool breeze in your

hands yourself. You have to judge yourself. I'm not going to tell

you. It is you who has to see, it is you who has to feel. And then

you have to grow and you have to know all and everything - all the

secrets of Divine Science. You become the master then, you are the

guru.

 

" You are the Spirit, and you should get it. It's your own which is

given to you. I have nothing to do about it. I'm just a catalyst. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

March 22, 1981 - Maccabean Hall, Australia

 

 

" Christ didn't say that, " I am the Destination. " He said, " I'll send

you the Holy Ghost; I'll send you a Comforter; I'll send you a

Redeemer; I'll send you a Counselor. " He talked about the future. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

" I am here to do the job of God Almighty. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Bordi, India — February 6, 1985

 

 

" To know God itself is such a great blessing, because He is the God

Almighty; the God who has all the powers and all the loved ones.

 

He is our Father, He is waiting for us to enter into His Kingdom, to

enjoy that peace and beauty of His Being, because He has created us

and He wants His creation to come up to that. "

 

Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi

 

 

" If we have to change this world, and if we have to save our people from

complete destruction, we have to take to wisdom, and that is only possible when

the brain is enlightened by Kundalini. This is what is very important today,

when we see that this world is on the verge of destruction. Of course the

Creator Himself is very anxious to save us and that is why He has in these

modern times which are called Kali Yuga, made the All-pervading power activated.

 

" So, now a New Age has started which is called the Age of Aquarius, meaning the

pitcher carrier of spiritual holy water that is the work of Kundalini. The

activity of the Kundalini is like the sap of the tree that rises and nourishes

all parts of the tree and does not get stuck at one flower (religion).

 

" Moreover these are special times. This is the Resurrection Time. The Last

Judgment is done by the Kundalini. On the fingertips one can feel oneself and

can judge oneself. Moreover the All-pervading power has become very activated,

so the Kali Yuga (present Age of Darkness) is passing into Krita Yuga of Brahma

Chaitanya (activated All-pervading power). This is helping the en-masse

enlightenment and self realisation.

 

" After this will be Satya Yuga (Age of Truth). We have to take advantage of this

activity of the Brahma Chaitanya by all the time being corrected with the

All-pervading Power and achieving our realisation and establishing it. After

such a state a person becomes very dynamic and compassionate. His race, sex,

nationality and age do not hamper his dynamic life.

 

" Whatever one is doing now is relative in this modern world. In relative terms,

everything is working it out. This relative working is not going to give any

absolute results. Absolute knowledge only comes from the Spirit, and so unless

we know the Self, the Spirit, we cannot know what is absolute and what is

Absolute Truth. Otherwise, when we live in the relative world we will be always

quarrelling, fighting and having wars. But if one is in the Absolute then one

knows that there is only one Truth for everything, and there will be no more

argument or discussion; everybody will enjoy that Truth as it is Absolute. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

http://www.adishakti.org/age_of_aquarius.htm

 

" Now very interesting it is to see that this Kundalini is the one which is

called as the Kumbha - in Sanskrit language, means the Aquarius. We call it

Aquarius, as one of the signs, and is the same as Kumbha in Sanskrit language.

So it is the Age of Aquarius, is the Age of the Kundalini. Secondly is the Age

of the Kundalini which will nourish, which is the Mother (Divine Feminine - Adi

Shakti, Holy Spirit, Ruh or Great Spirit Mother) within you, which will rise,

will give you the completeness of it, and which will connect you with your

Spirit which ultimately gives you the enlightenment by which you become

'collectively conscious'. You become, again I say. It's not just telling a

story. You just become! "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

September 16, 1983