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Goring begins with ‘horns of re’eim’ among untribed Apache

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Rabbis have long held that the Christian interpretation of the “re’eim” as a “unicorn” is impossible and have opted for the “wild ox associated with Joseph.” In the American Southwest and particularly the Sacred Four Corners area where Joseph-East M’nashe has settled and remained in covenant, this animal is unquestionably the buffalo.

LITTLE DIPPER — Shells of buffalo horns fit like sleeves over the points of skulls. The shells pour water over glowing stones called grandfathers and in the process “gore.” (Photo by Don Cryingeale)

Buffalo horns instrument of covenant

between Native, non-Native ‘Joes’

at East Gate of Sacred Four Corners

WALSENBURG, COLORADO – Starman and Lioneagle lift two buffalo skulls overhead, offer sacred tobacco and pray to Grandfather in the six directions of the Apache star. A shell from one of these buffalo horns will use the hand of Cryingeagle to dip into water, which will pour onto glowing grandfather stones in the darkness of inipi (purification lodge). Thus, untribed Apache descended from still-covenanted East M’nashe are used of Creator and His Creation to begin to “gore” the “thousands of M’nashe and the myriads of thousands of Ephraim” together with the “horns of the re’eim” (Deut 33:17).

Still under the influence of Shabbat Torah study the previous day, Starman and Lioneagle choose a large, 80-pound, five-sided grandfather to represent the Books of Moses. Offering more sacred tobacco – the Apache equivalent of the p’tum ha-ketoret (or incense used in the Jerusalem Temple) the two raise this grandfather in a sacred manner also turning it to the same six directions to which Orthodox Jews wave their Feast of Tabernacles bundles. All present mimic this diligent search for Creator turning toward each direction while praying with sacred tobacco.

‘Rock of Torah,’ Judea-Samaria highlight ‘grandfather council’

The “Rock of Torah” is placed on a cradle of larger diameter cottonwood branches. The elevated cradle, which forms a floor for fire to burn from below and through to heat the grandfathers, is arranged in a sacred manner inside a deep, stepped and circular fire pit.

The 50th grandfather laid atop the rock pile with the Rock at its base, is oddly shaped, Starman notes. Its porous, volcanic and raised 3D contours resemble the outline of the mountains of Judea-Samaria! That is appropriate as well for this inipi (sometimes irreverently called a “sweat lodge).” Rockets fired by Hamas from the Gaza have been striking southern Israel the previous week. Israel is responding with surgical attacks but there have been civilian casualties. It appears that the Middle East is about to explode. The Birthright territories of Joseph are again in the news and blogs. Smiles is half Palestinian. Lioneagle has a son whose Jewish mother lives in southern Israel. A third member of the community has friends in Egypt. And the Torah study the day before taught about the separate and incompatible “le’um” of Jacob with the people Obadiah wrote would be occupying Jacob’s possessions when Jacob would be returned to them: The House of Esau.

The grandfathers are prepared to hold their fiery pre-inipi council within a tipi covered with a skin of thick, peeled cottonwood bark over piles of more kindling and under layers of split cottonwood slabs.

‘I am the re’eim who gores nations together’ – ministering Buffalo spirit

Meanwhile, Cryingeagle positions the buffalo skulls on an altar made of a small mound of earth midway between the fire pit and entrance of the inipi. Shells of the horns fit like sleeves over the two points of each skull. Sage bundles, which have a way of spontaneously igniting depending on the direction of spiritual winds, are stuffed into mouth, nose and ear openings of the skulls. All remember the lodge poured the Sunday after Simhat Torah (the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles), by Running Buffalo when those nostrils did flare with fire: “I am the re’eim who gores the nations together,” the ministering Buffalo spirit explained in inipi, that day.

Between the horns of the buffalo, no longer silent about his identity and role as the “re’eim,” Cryingeagle lays the community’s holy channupah. After the inipi, the Apache community will draw smoke (but not inhale it) from this sacred pipe, wash with it and blow it in the six directions.

A golden eagle named ‘Aaron’ awaits arrival of Condor

Cradling the channupah between the horns of the re’eim is the wing of a golden eagle known before it flew into the World To Come as the priestly, “Aaron.” The wing will later be passed inside the inipi circle allowing all to momentarily take symbolic shelter beneath. “Aaron” will administer buffalo, bear and eagle medicines and as an interceding “tzaddik,” (with one wing in this world and the other in the World To Come), will petition on behalf of Lion relatives and other beasts of the field growing restless in the current drought. Aaron’s wing will wash the two-legged in the lodge with the smoke of sage, cedar and braided sweetgrass. Because these Apache reside at the eastern gateway of the Sacred Four Corners, there is also a special connection the Eagle, Aaron, makes with the Condor commemorated weekly with the smoke of the Azteca medicine from the copal root. And when the heat is especially intense, Aaron will “fly” around the inipi and hear cries of mercy while his wing stirs up the heat and adds to the suffering.

Tenrivers realizes fruit of labors

Jimmy Tenrivers, the first sundancer among these untribed Apache, who started this very inipi in his back yard some 15 years ago, fittingly arrives on this day Torah is honored. The fruit of this spiritual elder crippled in first a car and then a motorcycle accident more than 25 years ago, includes most everyone in the lodge. He was also the first Native American spiritual leader given a sample by an emissary from Jerusalem of the more than 600 pounds of a substance identified as containing 11 of the 14 ingredients that comprise the ancient pitu’um ha-ketoret (incense used in the Jerusalem Temple).  The “incense,” was found under 37 feet of fill and stored in pits carved out of bedrock  in a cave excavated north of Qumran.

Eighty-year-old Uncle Shorty, a Navy veteran, arrives to take out the grandfathers used the last inipi and clean and sweep the inipi firepit assisted by Cryingeagle’s young son.

‘Unseen Hand’ lends fiery council first spark

Hollowbone, one of the first to attend and promote the Shabbat Torah study at Eldersgate American Indian Council, arrives with others from the community who live near the Sundance site located some 26 miles away and a few thousand feet higher into the Rockies. Finally other drummers and sundancers including Tenrivers‘ son arrive. All watch as an Unseen Hand uses Cryingeagle to lend the fiery council its first spark.

Almost immediately, the flames jump through the carefully prepared tipi … a very good sign. While the grandfathers begin their council of fire, the warrior-society elders, sundancers, singers and drummers and their women and children gather around a father drum left in the care of Cryingeagle by a fellow sundancer.

Drummers sing, chant permutations of Divine Name

The drummers and singers offer sacred tobacco on the drum, painted with the face of a bear. Starman flips his Native Pride cap so the bill faces back of his ears and begins pounding the drum. Soon, a dozen drumsticks, most padded with bear hair, join in a steady beat directed by the Starman’s vertical chops with his free hand. Seven songs are sung. All contain chants permuting Y, H and W consonants with various vowels. Since “remembering” in Torah that this is the Divine Name reflecting Creator’s attribute of Justice tempered with Mercy, these Apache are living evidence of the Covenant of Mercy with Hashem (Grandfather). This day is yet another reminder since of the 50 grandfathers, one will remain in the fire so that 49 “elders,” the number of judgment tempered with mercy, are the fiery teachers today.

Migration research locates East M’nashe at Four Corners

Recent migration research links especially the Navajo and the five nations of the Apache among 38 Athap(b)ascan Language Group nations to the warriors and assimilated Gershonite priests of Israelite East M’nashe. (See reprint of Ancient American magazine article, “Israelite East M’nashe traced to Four Corners,” at www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm.) If so, East M’nashe was never removed from its covenant . These frontier warrior-priests were exiled 17-23 years before the “House of Israel” residing west of the Jordan River entered their prophesied exile.

The King of the Northern Tribes also paid a tribute to the King of Assyria so that Assyria would not invade west of the Jordan at that time. So the terms of Yizra’el, Lo-ruhamah and Lo-ami, — a scattered seed without mercy disowned by God — in Hosea 1 severing the covenant with the northern House of Israel, apply not at all to East M’nashe as they apply not at all to the Southern Kingdom, the House of Judah. It is possible that the 7,000 from the Northern “House of Israel,” who did not bow their knees to the ba’alim, (pagan gods of wood and stone) about whom Elijah was told, came from his own country and stomping ground: The Gershonite priests of Gilead and warriors of East M’nashe. These Apache evidence they are part of the “preserved of Israel” of Isaiah 49:6-8. Consequently, the spiritual work is one of “restoration” to Torah and “remembrance” of mercies, and not a “new” covenant.

Sundance draws out independent, untribed Apache

Among the House of Joseph, East M’nashe was the most separated and among East M’nashe, the most separated “nation” appears to be untribed Apache who obeyed their prophet, Geronimo. They did not surrender and go onto reservations. Instead these descendants of Geronimo and his chief Membreno warrior, Victorio, fled into the Rockies and eventually mixed with the mountain people. The regathering started when the Sundance was brought to southern Colorado about 12 years ago. The dance has drawn out these independent-minded but unaffiliated and untribed Apache who have reassembled as a people, just as Geronimo prophesied.

Under the banner, “Iglesia de Aztlan,” (assembling of Aztlan), the sundance is also attracting Aztec from the South country. Hopi medicine man Emory Holmes, who gave his blessing to Tenrivers and Lioneagle for the work of hosting elders, said the Aztec are a Hopi clan who instead of returning to their homeland in the north set up another civilization in Mexico and Central America. However, the Aztec literature, songs and dramas are about returning to the promised Aztlan, the Aztec homeland somewhere in the Four Corners area. Coupled with the promise to the Hopi connected with their migrations across Turtle Island, “America” became the promised homeland of the Latino descendants of the Hopi long before anything “American” existed.

Many believe this will be the arrival of the Condor to unite with the Eagle, an ancient Native prophecy. Another Oglalah Sioux prophecy states “just before great fires will sweep the Plains, that a place will be prepared in the mountains (Rockies) for elders to come from which to steward the healing of the land.”  Wilson, a sort of renegade Oglalah medicine man who rode a Harley, spent his life seeking Grandfather about this place for the elders. The “Buffaloman” as he was known to his friends before his death in 2007 wound up living near Walsenburg, Co., the eastern gateway of the Sacred Four Corners. Traditionally, elders meet in eastern precincts, explaining why the revelation of the horns of the re’eim may have been given to these particular Eastern Gate Apache. Many of them also know they are being prepared to host elders.

Covenant between Creation, humanity under way in Native inipi

The judgment of the Ten Tribes (sans East M’nashe) written in Hosea 1 is in part remedied with the covenant outlined in Hosea 2:18-20. This covenant with “the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the creeping things on the earth and to end the sword, bow and violence in the earth,” is weekly celebrated/accommodated in the Native American inipi. It is “evidenced” with the suffering that comes when the horns of the re’eim “gore” or dip into water and pour onto the glowing grandfathers. This and the preparation of the fire are the only human hands in this sacred ceremony – given to a people whose stream of Israeli-priesthood was never cut off and which predates Orthodox Judaism by more than 200 years!

Otherwise, Creation speaks directly through the suffering and inner-reflection that occurs in inipi (which means to look “inside” or “within” one’s spirit). In a pitch-black, steaming womb of Earth framed by 16 sacred willows, the natural and basic elements of fire, water, wind and stone combine to “covenant with” and “humble” human beings. Just what the Good Doctor ordered for Ephraim.

All bow low to the ground before entering inipi and declare, “Hoa (pronounced as a Hebrew furtive patah, “Ah-ho”) mitakuye oyasin,” or “To all of my relations.” This includes the four-legged, winged and other aspects of Creation, free to speak in Native inipi through human beings, the insights communicated from and while suffering.

Judah needs Joseph and Joseph needs a humble Ephraim

Especially in need of humility are the “myriads of thousands of Ephraim,” infamous in the words of the prophet Hosea for their pride and arrogance. It appears that Grandfather has decreed the only family of Joseph never removed from covenant – the descendants of shibboleth-speaking M’nashe who lay claim to the n’zirei Yisrael  (preserved of Israel of Isaiah 49:6-8) — to “gore” together Ephraim with sibboleth, M’nassah. Or perhaps the goring is to reconcile Ephraim with (East) M’nashe. If the latter, this covenant would reconcile groups who could loosely be called, “Cowboys” and “Indians.” Regardless, the House of Joseph must get its house together before it can think of reconciling with the House of Judah as per Ezekiel 37 “on the mountains of Israel.”

The House of Judah would do well to recognize and expedite this reconciliation since those mountains (Judea-Samaria), comprise a large part of the Palestinian state proposed according to the pre-1967 borders and usurp the biblical Birthright. And as it all plays out, until that biblical curse is remedied, the economy of the entire world suffers. Sages have long written that to deal with the House of Esau, Judah needs Joseph. It seems now that the world needs Joseph.

Priestly authority indicated with heavy incidence of extra Y in males

Also, in the Four Corners area the incidence of the extra-Y chromosome occurring in indigenous males is 20 to 24 times greater than anywhere else in the world including among population samples that are totally Jewish., although similar large concentrations have recently been located in Africa. This may also be due to the early assimilation of Gershonite priests with East M’nashe warriors. A priestly sect mixed with Joseph and never removed from its covenant should have some spiritual authority and voice in the disposition of the Birthright of Joseph and is certainly deserving of Levitical tithes.

In this inipi, Torah is honored and seeds of prayer are sown and sung with suffering while permuting the Divine Name with the awareness of covenant mercies associated with the Divine Name. From a people never removed from Covenant, but being “restored” to its understanding, this is powerful medicine.

Apache lodge follows Lakota tradition, OK’d by Lakota elder

The prescribed Lakota songs — the lodge is poured by sundancers who follow the Lakota traditions — like Hebrew songs are prayers to these Apache, who will sometimes ad-lib with their ancient Apache lodge songs.   These are being revived as Tenrivers, Cryingeagle and Cryingeagle’s daughter — a rising vocalist — learn and teach them to the people.  But every lodge opens with the traditional Lakota songs calling to the six directions for Wakhan Tanka (the Sacred Spirit) drummed on bear and elk hides stretched over hollow cottonwood frames.  The lodge also has been visited, scrutinized and embraced by a Lakota sundance intercessor who pours his own lodge for Native American Air Force personnel stationed in nearby Colorado Springs.

One of the pipe-loading songs — and the sundance piercing song which Uncle Shorty always adds to his prayers — begin with a series of Yah’s and Hey’s, which invoke the Wah.  Hebrew sages have called the Wah, “the ruach ha-Kodesh”  (or the Sacred Spirit) in the Divine Name.

Suffering intensifies for community’s prayer

During the third round, when the suffering is probably the most intense, the entire community prays one at a time in order … and silently prays that no one is too long-winded. After each audible prayer the re’eim gores and upwards of 130 degree steam from the grandfathers momentarily kisses all the sufferers, who usually pray for needs of others ahead of themselves.  In addition to prescribed Four Directions, Spirit Calling, Prayer and Exit Songs, each round usually includes other songs, each of the four rounds.  Each song is short but is sung four times, the suffering growing with each repetition.

Tenrivers prays for the Condor and Eagle to unite and blesses the Torah study and work of Eldersgate. Cryingeagle testifies to the Divine Name and its entitlement to Covenant mercy. Starman petitions for the humility through which blessings can flow. Lioneagle prays for food for his mountain lion brothers who have been spotted foraging in the alleys of Walsenburg. And all give a hearty “Hoa (Ah-ho)” when petition is made for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the future role these Apache may play as Creator’s hand to “gore” together even the Israeli and Palestinian nations. See “Israelis, Palestinians and Apache, Oh My,” at www.torah-voice.org/blog.

Cryingeagle judges from the moans and cries and intensity of prayer the moment when all declare “Aho mitakuyasi” (All my relations) and the flap of the inipi is thrown open.  All inside are offered an exit, but none leave. All are offered water, women first, but some refuse.  Between rounds the sufferers recline on Unci Makha (Mama Earth), who true to the FEMININE Hebrew noun – adamah – used to describe her, believe Mama to be alive.  At the same time these Apache were given the revelation about the re’eim’s identity as the “buffalo,” they learned “the Song of Moses.”  There, Mama is one of the two witnesses who carry out the Judgment for not obeying the Torah; the Heavens being the other.  But for now, Mama is a refuge between rounds onto Whom the sufferers recline and find temporary relief getting to know Her “intimately.”

‘Hot kisses’ from the Rock of Torah at final goring

Finally the last round when almost all of the strength of the inipi community is drained, all find it in them somehow to sit up as the last grandfathers enters.  Starman has saved for the last, the Rock of Torah, which fittingly takes two firemen working together in unison to maneuver on pitchforks into the inipi. The entrance is closed shutting out all light except the glowing grandfathers. It’s five-sided smile is unmistakeable as are its hot kisses as the re’eim gores away at the Sitra Achra (Opposing Side) dividing Joes and Joes and Joes and Jews.

Maggid ben Yoseif

Join our LInkedIn Group discussion at “Eldersgate American Indian Council” on the spiritual, environmental and theological ramifications of the realization of Native American spiritual sovereignty in connection with covenant identity with Israelite East M’nashe.

See also “The Heavenly Sign for Which the World Awaits,” at www.torah-voice.org/pleiadesstarcluster.htm which parallels the “horns of the re’eim” with a recorded change at the time of the flood of Noach, in the star-cluster, “Pleiades” that could right itself and form a Cocav David (Star of David). If this should occur, the cluster forming the six-pointed star would have a blue hue in the night sky. Did Jesus of Nazareth refer to this as “the sign of the coming of the son of man … as in the days of Noach?” Is this the awaited Hopi “blue star” to end the Hopi religion?

Also, the exact words of this prophecy are closely guarded but the “Constellation of the White Buffalo” draws a White Buffalo comprising a shoulder (which pivots the horns) ALSO from the Pleiades, a backbone from Orion’s belt and the tail from Sirius.

Finally, if any spiritual elders, medicine people, chieftains — or spiritual elders of Ephraim would like to visit our Torah study and/or inipi, please contact Eldersgate AIC at the contact information above.

Most important factor holding back jobs not addressed by candidates

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Biblical curse at root of recession;

Bush family, US State Dept. involvements exposed

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The fields of Samaria and Ephraim represented by the head and crown region comprise the biblical Birthright of Joseph to which his mother, Rachel was promised Joseph’s desendants would return.

The most important question to ask about what is holding back jobs and the American (and world) economies has not been asked of either presidential candidate. Consequently, an honest-to-God biblical curse worsens by the day.

An economic recession/depression has hit at a time when corruption and distrust in Washington, corporate greed and a usury-driven capitalistic system are squeezing the life out of the Middle Class. Alvin Toffler’s prophesied, “Future Shock” is materializing before our eyes. The socio-economic and racial divides in America are being brought to a head like festering boils. All of this makes this election about the spiritual needs/condition of America and that unasked and still unanswered question which directly affects our economic prosperity: Whether either candidate would continue to press Israel for a Palestinian state in the Birthright of Joseph. See our blog titled, “Economic curse is biblical for tampering with Birthright,”

The Birthright tied to economic, spiritual health

The same media who has for the past 30 years slandered and propagandized the Birthright to which Joseph’s descendants are promised their return as “Israeli-occupied Arab/Palestinian territories,” has been strangely silent on the vetting of either candidate on this pivotal political, foreign policy and as it turns out domestic, economic issue. It is also the No. 1 issue affecting America’s economic health when it is understood how economic health is tied to a nation’s spiritual health.

3D map of Judea-Samaria reveals it to be the high ground to which Joseph will return to be reunited with Judah and therefore not suitable as a Palestinian state.

For those fellow voters disappointed that neither candidate had the courage to address the real problems festering in America, I’d like to break it down into spiritual terms that may help one make that crucial choice.

 The desecration of the grave of an Israelite prophet

 On July 7, 2007, shortly after the Native commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown ending the failed experiment called, “Manifest Destiny,” – how could it be called a success when it relied on more than 500 broken treaties? – a message was delivered from Apache-Israelite prophetess Ada Fasthorse to the George W. Bush White House. The message warned the president that the economic curse descending on America would grow much worse unless he secured the skulls and bones of the revered Apache leaders, Geronimo and Mangus Colorados and other young Apache used in unclean rituals at Yale University and they were returned in a sacred manner.

Bush ignored her warning and the curse intensified the next year with the economic collapse.

Apache, Cherokee and other Native American spiritual elders have linked U.S. foreign policy with Israel and the Palestinians to the skullduggery of the Bush family beginning with W’s grandfather and H.W.’s father, Prescott Bush. In addition to aiding the Nazi cause and using Holocaust labor to his advantage, Prescott’s spiritual resume includes leading the raiding party at Ft. Sill, OK, to desecrate Geronimo’s grave.

Apache, Navajo linked to ancient Israelite priesthood

Grandfather Bush may not have known at the time that Geronimo was an Israelite prophet descended from the land of Elijah and Elisha, through the intermarriage of Gershonite priests and the warriors of East M’nashe. He probably did not understand since all of America and all of the Native American nations themselves did not then realize that the five nations of the Apache, the Navajo and 32 other Athap(b)ascan Language Group nations minimally comprising East M’nashe, remained covenanted with the God of Israel. (Note the landmark research submitted for peer review and published in the March 2011 edition of Ancient American magazine, “Israelite East M’nashe Traced to Four Corners,” reprinted with permission at www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm.

The strongest evidence of this connection is the weave used on Navajo rugs identified by Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Revived Sanhedrin as the same weave used by the Gershonites on tabernacle and Temple tapestries and the breastplate of the ancient Hebrew high priest.)

Spiritual root of an economic curse materializes with ‘Road Map’

This identity of East M’nashe at the Sacred Four Corners, since East M’nashe like the House of Judah was never removed from its covenant, means wrongs done the Apache nation also were done to part of Israel. Bush may not have known but the ha-Satan to which his son and grandson would later vow as members of Yale’s secretive and Satanic Skull and Bones society certainly knew this means to curse America.  The desecration of the grave of an Israelite prophet comes with a curse. The Bush family had made possible a means to spread this curse nationwide and even across the world.

With ha-Satan’s help deceiving the Religious Right, the curse made its way to the White House with the Bush presidencies. They materialized into the “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East,” whose attempt to steal the Birthright of Joseph has cursed all of America and consequently the American and world economies.

Road Map foreign policy the product of ‘metote’; U.S. tampers with holy ground

The infamous “Road Map” was the brainchild of minds under the influence of “metote,” (the fog of the mind, which comes with an Apache curse). The curse of a prophet of Israel with the help of “metote,” resulted in a “foggy” foreign policy with Israel, that had Israelis questioning whether the Bush and his secretary of state were anti-semites.

Within three days of the declared cease-fire between Iraq and American and allied forces in 1991, former Secretary of State James Baker delivered the ultimatum for H.W. Bush to Israel that it must halt settlement and infrastructure development in the (former) “West Bank (of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)” or lose $10 million in loan guarantees on which the Israeli economy was then dependent. This was the region’s name for 19 years but its biblical name for the past 2,700 years has been, “Judea-Samaria.” The portion of the Birthright that would become part of a Palestinian state according to the pre-1967 armistice lines, is outlined by the “head and crown” in the partzuf above. A partzuf is a pictorial outline or a picture that somehow outlines or tells a story.

The story of the head and crown

Contextually, this head and crown can and does speak for itself. See the Scripture accompanying the logo at www.torah-voice.org. But it may be helpful to point out the outline’s origin in the prophesies by Jacob and Moses just before their deaths and related to the fate of the 12 tribes of Israel. “The blessing of the deep will be on the crown of the head of Joseph and the n’zir (one separated or exiled) from his brothers,” they each stated. The outline is confirmed by the modern Israeli city known as Rosh Ha-Ayin, the “eye of the head,” located at precisely that position. The prophet Isaiah clarified that this n’zir was the “preserved of Israel” never removed from Covenant and whose Restoration was sandwiched between the command to the anointed servant to “raise up the tribes of Jacob” and “become a light to the nations .” (Isaiah 49:6ff).

The partzuf above includes the fields of Samaria and the fields of Ephraim, which comprise the Birthright territories of Joseph over which Rachel cried and Creator heard, (Jeremiah 31:15-18) and to which the descendants of Joseph are promised their return to be reunited with the descendants of the House of Judah (Jewish Israel).

History of Bush political skulduggery; Sell out at Gulf War slander against Birthright

Bush and Baker sold out Israel for the pledge of Arab “non-participation” in the Gulf War. Their logic for targeting Saddam still lies buried in secrecy but leaks have surfaced.

Associated Press and Newsweek investigative reporter Robert Parry exposed a whitewashed Congressional inquiry into allegations that Vice President Bush, President Reagan, former CIA director William Casey (who directed the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign) and a host of active and inactive CIA agents sabotaged President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to obtain the release of the 52 hostages held by Tehran until after the Reagan-Bush administration came to power. Bush had feared an “October surprise,” that would re-elect Carter, after learning from former Texas Senator John Connally that Carter had arranged through Israeli contacts for sensitive military parts to be shipped to Iran from Amsterdam in exchange for the release of the hostages before the 1980 election.  The Republican conspirators made Iran a “sweeter deal,”  that extended the imprisonment of the hostages and defeated Carter.

Evidence intentionally ignored

The congressional inquiry intentionally ignored the evidence and the only congressman who was part of the House investigative committee who wanted to write a dissenting opinion of this travesty of American history and politics found his staff curtailed until he also fell into line.  Parry brought out the facts substantiated by Israeli, Iranian and Russian intelligence after he discovered the hidden “X-files” disputing the inquiry in a ladies bathroom converted into storage in the Sam Rayburn building in Washington. The truth was eventually published in his 1999 book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.”

Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait was actually justified because Western oil companies were drilling directional wells from Kuwait into Iraq knowing President Bush would “have their backs.”  Therefore the 1991 Persian Gulf War is understood in Arab nations as a “provocation” by America to attempt to steal Iraqi oil which could then be imported at less cost than America could produce oil domestically.

Spiritually, America in choosing Iraq over helping Israel develop the infrastructure in the Birthright region, got 20 years of Iraq, a nation on the infamous soil of ancient Babylon, which the Bible states is perpetually cursed.

Birthright tampering non-partisan; A curse known by its ‘tread marks’

The Bush state departments together with the Clinton and Obama state departments have since all tampered with this sacred Birthright to some degree. The pre-1967 lines first proposed as a Palestinian state by the George W. Bush “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East,” therefore has brought a curse on America and the world.

The curse may never have appeared evident, except for the “right-brain” logic of Apache medicine people. “The wheel that has rolled over you has left its tread marks,” Membreno leader Jimmy Tenrivers explains. “Geronimo’s head was taken. The Road Map outlines a man’s head in the Birthright region.”

Obama’s tightrope mirrors late King Hussein; Still ‘Us vs. Them’ nation

During the Obama Administation much has been made of the “appearance” of a strained relationship with Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Outsiders have noted the long friendship between “Bibi” and candidate Mitt Romney and suspected some of this to be political contrivance. But Obama also greatly admired the late King Hussein of Jordan. King Hussein was Israel’s closest ally in the Middle East, but always practiced “distance diplomacy,” knowing if he appeared too great a friend, he would face opposition from the PLO and various radical and militant Islamic organizations. He was successful in walking this tightrope, which Obama to some extent appears to be imitating with similar success.

Obama also has been criticized for “apologizing” to Moslem-ruled or controlled nations in the Middle East. A video earlier surfaced showing the president praying in a mosque in perfect Arabic. Here’s the rub, people. Do we or do we not believe in religious liberty in this nation? Our Constitiution guarantees it but we do not live it or think it or breathe it or feel it or believe it. We are still largely a nation of “Us vs. Them.” (See www.torah-voice.org/Timeofthewe.htm.)

The role of Islamophobic heretics, Shoebat, Caner, Jones

This is the mentality that resulted in the Religious Right earlier deceived by George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, again being deceived. Islamophobia – promoted by heretics like the Palestinian Walid Shoebat whose feigned conversion as an Islamic terrorist made him the darling of the Religious Right; Ergun Caner, defrocked dean at Liberty University after also lying about an Islamic past; and the racist Pastor Terry Jones in Florida have clouded this race with fear and mistrust. Caner’s support led to the mistrust giving a Mormon high priest a Christian pulpit at the university founded by Jerry Falwell. What the Religious Right will do in the name of racism, bigotry and mistrust.

Shoebat’s heresy has been adopted/taught by Christian evangelical ministers the like of Tim Lahare, Chuck Missler, John Hagee, Pat Robertson and Joel Richardson, who should all know better. He has shared at Jewish community centers, Jewish business leagues, the Harvard Law School, UCLA, USC, the University of Georgia, Washington University and Penn St., The Palestinian heretic has been given favorable publicity by Bill O’Reilly and Neil Cavuto of Fox and has duped others on ABC, CBS, NBC and BBS radio before his heresy was exposed. And let us not forget, the Mormon Glenn Beck.

Beck refused to mention Birthright issue on Fox programs

Beck was contacted by more than a dozen Cherokee spiritual leaders, others on my House of Joseph email list and personal friends who sent gifts with their letters. He was asked simply to mention during his last programs on Fox that the pre-1967 lines he was examining as a Palestinian state usurped the biblical Birthright of Joseph. He refused to do so.

Shoebat ‘s ‘miniscule’ heresy leads to major attack on Obama

Shoebat claimed that the “mark of the Beast” in Revelation has a translation other than “666” in the accepted Greek text. If the middle Greek letter were rotated 90 degrees, he said the mark would read in Arabic, “in the name of Allah.” This, coupled with the Islamic faith of President Obama’s father, ignited a wave of paranoia that Obama was a Moslem himself, or as John McCain corrected a woman misinformed by a fourth or fifth hand account of Shoebat’s heresy, “an Arab.”

However, Shoebat based his interpretation on the “miniscule” Greek text added to the Codex Vaticanus after the 15th Century. Miniscule Greek did not exist at the time of John’s vision on the isle of Patmos. The Greek “uncial” letters John saw in his vision do not at all resemble the later miniatures.

Sound exegesis be damned; Satan has America headed for fall

Sound exegesis be damned, the Religious Right especially in the South and Midwest where racial divides have largely been swept under the rug rather than healed, had its “sounding” around which to conceal a campaign of hatred, bigotry and racism. And so, here we are, a nation divided, and ready to fall.

When ha-Satan tries to pull a fast one like this over our eyes, we need to realize there are frequently other motives at play which ha-Satan wishes to conceal in doing so.

Satan’s bold move to have a surrogate president

For instance, there is this alarm. Mitt Romney is a “high priest” of the order of Melchizedek in the LDS Church. The LDS were founded by a teenager rebelling at all religions. Joseph 156 Smith 510=666, received his revelation from an “angel of light” who called himself Moroni (MO-RONE-EE). This same Moroni appears toward the end of the Book of Mormon, divined by Smith using a “seer stone” given to him by Moroni. Four years before the Book of Mormon was published in 1830, Smith used the same stone to hunt buried treasure for which he was convicted of “glasslooking fraud” in BAIN-bridge County, NY in 1826.

When Moroni appears late in the book, he challenges all who read the book to pray about whether it is true and “ask for a witness in their hearts.” But any LDS or LDS candidate who would first read the Torah would know the standard for determining Truth and false prophets is whether their words line up with the Torah. But someone who has never read the Torah and does not know this admonition is easy pluckings for a book camoflauged with the flowery poetry of Isaiah and the basic story of the King James Version.

Smith’s revelations given by Moroni conflict with Torah making Smith a false prophet and surrogate of Satan. See the only review of the Book of Mormon commissioned by Native spiritual elders at www.torah-voice.org/BoMDCT.htm. The book also represents a perversion of Native history and migrations, which Native spiritual elders shall soon address.

Frauds discredit Joseph Smith; LDS Church doctrine

Smith also falsified a later writing he called the “Book of Abraham,” within a collection that also conflicts with Torah with a book included called, “The Book of Moses.” In addition to committing the heavy sin of adding to the words of Moses, the collection called “Pearl of Great Price,” is the source of the most strange LDS doctrine and beliefs. But since Salt Lake City became aware of Smith’s fraud, neither the Book of Moses nor the Book of Abraham nor any of the strange doctrine these bogus works have produced have been taken back, revised or even edited.

With the “Book of Abraham,” Smith claimed an Egyptian papyri traveling with a mummy show in New York was actually the story of Abraham offering up Isaac written in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The papyri showed a man with a raised knife and a man lying on a stone slab beneath him. (Anyone who knows the Torah would know right away that the altar was not a stone slab). But when the Rosetta Stone was discovered after Smith’s death, making it possible to correctly decipher hieroglyphs, the papyri turned out to be a page from the funerary text, “Book of Breathings of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.”

Biblical warnings about Joseph Smith and his ‘angel of light’

The New Testament warns that ha-Satan will come as an “angel of light” and also warns that the spirit of rebellion under which young Smith was questioning religion, is as the “spirit of witchcraft.” Smith’s later Doctrine and Covenants changed the “everlasting covenant God made with all of Israel for all time,” to the most strange, “new and everlasting covenant of the sealing in Temple marriage.”

These Satanic origins of the Book of Mormon are eclipsed by the book’s Satanic purpose.

LDS hold to beliefs that usurp the legitimate Aaronic priesthood identified with an extra Y chromosome in the male lineage. As a “high priest” within the LDS Church, Mitt Romney has himself usurped this priesthood.

The LDS also believe the inheritance of the Israelite tribes of Joseph is here in America, thereby usurping the Birthright of Joseph in the fields of Ephraim and Samaria in the land of Israel. LDS believe the New Jerusalem will be near Independence, Mo., and a temple to rival the temple in Jerusalem will be built there.

LDS doctrine usurps Right of Return of all tribes of Israel; separates ‘Jewish’ Israelis

Finally LDS believe all of the other tribes of Israel except those of the Jews will have their inheritance here in America. This would usurp the biblical right of return of all tribes of Israel to their ancestral inheritances on the one hand, and leave the Jewish people isolated and at the mercy of Palestinian aggressors on the other. For more information, see “The Spiritual Dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict http://www.torah-voice.org/blog/2012/05/31/the-spiritual-dimension-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/.

It appears that neither candidate is on the right side of this issue with both fully intending to press Israel for a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 armistice lines. The Birthright continues to be tampered with and the curse – so long as Geronimo’s skull remains an object for unclean divinations, also continues.

Shades of 2008

In 2008, we were also undecided. Again this Birthright issue was not raised. But Creator gave us a word in our weekly inipi (purification lodge). “Why don’t you vote for the choice of the four-legged if you still can’t decide for yourself?” That choice was pretty clear since we weekly renew our covenant with the four-legged, winged and creeping things on earth (Hosea 2:18-20), and Sarah Palin was proud of killing our Wolf brothers just for sport.

This year the choice is equally as clear. We hear in inipis, “America is racially divided and the best way to heal this rift is giving White America four more years to overcome its prejudice.”

‘ … you just might find, you get who you need.’

To paraphrase Mick Jagger and his angelic choir, “You can’t always get WHO you want … but you just might find, you get WHO (Creator) thinks you need.’ All three major monotheistic faiths hold that the authority given to a nation’s leader is given by the Creator, who sets up and tears down kingdoms for Creator’s more grand purposes.

All spiritual matters weighed and considered, the best way America can learn this spiritual lesson hindering its Divine destiny and path, is to re-elect President Obama. But America has a choice. If America votes against healing this rift, be warned that the election of an LDS Melchizedek priest to the presidency could be the furtherance of ha-Satan’s agenda in these Last Days.

We run the risk of marrying a religion Satan invented with the most powerful office on Earth to steal the Birthright of Joseph and cement the curse.

Be warned.

Maggid ben Yoseif

 

Israelis, Palestinians and Apache, Oh My!

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‘Horns of Re’eim’ (Deut 33:17)             revealed as shells of buffalo horns    used in Native purification lodges                                                                      As the World awaits the ‘mother of all letters,’ Maggid ben Yoseif offers a special ‘peace pipe’ and the ‘Mother of all Inipis’

WRITER/EDITOR’S NOTE:  I apologize that my reputation as a credible journalist is again on the line, as again, I must be “part of the story,” in reporting it.   The “Zechariah Plan,” a two-state solution alluded to in Zechariah 9, which I  researched from 1996-99 was presented according to protocol, first to Jerusalem’s spiritual leaders and then — through a series of arrests and illegal imprisonments that resulted, it came to the attention of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the 2000-01 Al Asqua intifada.   The plan based on Last Day’s geography and a warning by the only biblical prophet descended from Esau is modeled after a more humane and abbreviated version of the Cherokee Removals of the 1830s – its international precedent.  It urged mutual disengagements over a few weekends of Israelis from the Gaza and regions contiguous including the cities of Ashdod and Ashquelon – the so-called “Plain of the Philistines” and all Palestinians from Judea-Samaria.  This was before Israel acted unilaterally to disengage Jews only from the Gaza region with no reciprocal disengagement of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria.  The plan was disseminated to Native American spiritual leaders first among the Twin Fires of Hopi and Cherokee Kituwah and then to a wider audience of the 500 Nations.  While the actual return is decreed by one of the Twin Fires for a “next generation,”  the “Mother of all Letters,” alluding to a declaration of a Palestinian state according to the pre-1967 lines, mandates a warning in the strongest terms possible NOW that this action usurps the Birthright of its true heirs who are neither Jewish nor Palestinian.  They are the House of Joseph still in exile but decreed their return to the “fields of Ephraim” and the “fields of Samaria,” the head and crown region in the outline above.  And the only family of Joseph never removed from its covenant exists today most remotely among the five remnant Nations of the Apache and the Navajo.  See www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm reprint of March 2011 Ancient American magazine article.  This article alleging a covenant that remains intact between — minimally — the 38 Athap(b)ascan Langauge Group Nations and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and is yearly renewed, has gone unchallenged since its publication.  Based on the presumed truths of the Zechariah Plan and the migrations of Israelite East M’nashe,  we offer this scenario to bring Israel and the Palestinians to the place of trust and peace. It interjects a third unilateral position regarding the Birthright of Joseph for the consideration of all who are Hebrews, whether they call themselves this or not.  The parties named are actual parties and these are their real Native names.  Seven Apache, led by direct descendants of the Israelite-Apache descendants of Geronimo are willing and waiting to carry out the role specified, since learning their origins among the priestly descendants of Israelite East M’nashe.

3-D map of Judea-Samaria reveals it to be the mountains of Israel on which the Houses of Joseph and Judah will reconcile and therefore not suitable for a Palestinian state

BEAR VALLEY, COLORADO — It looks and suffers like any other Lakota, Navajo or Apache inipi.  Sheets, blankets and tarps are draped and tied over a 16-pole womb that receives the seed of prayer in the steamy darkness rising from a pit of glowing hot “grandfathers” (stones) onto which water was thrown in the six directions.  As in every other inipi, the seeds herein are planted in humility with hearts crying for mercy and diligently seeking Grandfather (Creator) in every direction He may be found.

 Buffalo skulls lock horns but prop special chanuppah

 But this purification lodge lies in the heart of the old pre-settler Five Nation Apache confederacy.    The location just within the eastern precincts of the Sacred Four Corners is guarded by a very old chieftain spirit who a few with pure hearts, claim to have seen.   And perhaps prophetically, where there is usually only one, two buffalo skulls on the dirt mound altar are facing opposite with their horns seeming, again prophetically, to interlock.

Propped between the interlocking horns is a channupah (sacred pipe used anciently to seal peace treaties between Native tribes and the American government, more than 500 broken by the American government).  This is a very special channupah contributed for this occasion by “C(h)antewas(h)tewi’in” (Good heart woman), as told in her visions, “to seal the reunion of the houses of Joseph and Judah in Jerusalem.”   Although previously stewarded by two others, smoke had never been drawn from the simple carved Lakota stem and red pipestone bowl by the previous steward.   It had never been “activated” with a flesh offering until just before this inipi began, when Cantewastewi’in chose me to volunteer a sliver of my flesh and blood from the region where Orthodox Jews lay their “arm” t’fillin.

The Red Bead Family

Now a grandmother in her 70s, Cantewastewi’in, was so named by the late Cherokee-raised-by-Lakota spiritual elder, Dr. James Gillihan when he was the steward of the sacred channupah of Sitting Bull from which she drew smoke herself.

Although never earlier activated, the intentions that came with the pipe at its prior giftings also are significant to advancing the cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.  One of those intentions as expressed by Grandmother Cantewastewi’in is expressed by a simple red bead.  Dr. Gillihan distributed these beads to more than 600 “willing” Native elders, grandmothers and peace sympathizers around the world before his death, including the Dalai Lama, who is a member of the “Red Bead Family.”  The red bead promotes the simple but vital awareness that “we are all relatives, part of the same family.”  This chanuppah has Dr. Gillihan’s signature bead and motto, which carries the message of the inipi – and the COVENANT it establishes.

Smoke reserved for Jerusalem peace treaty

The chanuppah is loaded in the traditional way with the traditional pipe-loading songs, but sundancers descended from Israelite East M’nashe offer their prayers with the sacred tobacco stuffed into the bowl with the point of a deer horn.  Smoke will not be drawn from this chanuppah until the final peace is signed in Jerusalem which also allows the Return of the House of Joseph to their ancestral inheritances.

The fire was made with an offering of sacred tobacco from only cedars and pinion chosen (made sacred) by lightning strikes.  It is carefully and prayerfully built into a cradle to support the “grandfathers” (stones), also specially chosen with the offering of sacred tobacco from a nearby volcanic mountain pass.  The firekeeper, who guards its holiness and is certain about washing down all who approach with the smoke of sage and cedar,  is Running Buffalo, visited by Great Spirit in his very first inipi when younger but today a leader among the mixed, full-blood and untribed Apache remnant who comprise the descendants of Israelite East M’nashe at the eastern precincts of the Sacred Four Corners.  By the end of the lodge, Running Buffalo will have escorted and gingerly laid to the mouth of the pit in the inipi, more than 100 “grandfathers,” glowing, smiling and full of wisdom imparted with humility and suffering.

Lodge poured by Apache-Palestinian sundancer

Pouring the lodge is “Smiles,” a mixed Apache sundancer (according to the Lakota dance tradition) in his mid 20s, who also happens to be half Palestinian and – rare for a Native American — a student of political science.

Smiles pours water on the glowing ‘Grandfathers’ with the customary shell of a buffalo horn dipped in a bucket of water.  In this traditional manner, Moses foresaw an End-Tmes spiritual reunion of the “goring together of the thousands of M’nashe and the myriads of Ephraim” or the reconciliation of the House of Joseph. (Deut 33:17)

Little out of the ordinary has taken place until now the third of the four rounds of the inipi, sometimes irreverently called a “sweat” or “sweat lodge.” The customary Lakota songs were drummed and sung honoring the directions in which we seek Grandfather and honoring our living Earth Mother and honoring all of our relatives, especially the beasts of the field, the winged and the creeping things on Earth. Starman Joe, who also leads the singing of the permutations of the Divine Name, also honors the ‘wambli gleshka’ (spotted Eagle).   The one significant difference occurred when the channupah gifted by Cantewastewi’in was brought in so that I could touch it against the first six rocks, signifying the six directions from which we seek the Great Spirit.  Then the pipe was removed and replaced between the two buffalo skulls.

Divine Name unites ‘Hebrews’

I broke with protocol after the seventh grandfather arrived.  After first asking for permission from all my relatives,  “Hoa mitakuyasi,” (AH-HO M’TAK-OO-YAH-SEE) I sang and drummed the fourth pipe loading song, which is often not sung.

It was only two words, “Yah” and “Heh,” meant to invoke the “Wah” or “Holy Spirit” within the Divine Hebrew Name.  “Because,” the Great Spirit had earlier decreed, “all in this lodge, be they Israelis or Palestinians were Hebrews when their father Abraham crossed the Euphrates.”  See “Time of the We” at www.torah-voice.org.

Other than a few Apache songs kicked out by Bandido Don and Joe, the first two rounds were Lakota according to Hoyle, with all light and fresh air blocked out, songs sung in four stanzas include the singing and chanting in the steamy darkness of the permutations of the Divine Name, which identify these Apache as descendants of the assimilation of the Gershonite priests of Gilead East M’nashe and the family of Joseph set apart from his brothers.  Told by Geronimo and his chief warrior Victorio not to surrender but to mix with the “mountain people” until Geronimo said “we become a people again,” the Sundance brought to Colorado by Tomas Eaglebear about 10 years ago, has been the banner under which these untribed and mixed but fiercely independent Apache have reunited.

In this inipi, Smiles, a son of a Palestinian mother and Eaglebear, leads an awesome, amazing suffering as an Apache-Palestinian without prejudice, especially when it comes to flinging water on grandfathers and testing the limits of one’s spiritual endurance … and arrogance.

Biblical peace recognizes House of Joseph

Between rounds those in the lodge were offered a chance for fresh air and water outside, but inside, it was all about reaching that place of Brotherhood and mutual respect exemplified by the Red Bead Family and that would come only with shared suffering.

When negotiations stalled around the traditional sticking points — removal of settlements and return of refugees and status of Jerusalem — at Camp David, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Machmoud Abbas were contacted about considering the biblical alternative Zechariah Plan.  (See WRITER/EDITOR’S NOTE above).

As an effort to avoid a war that could destroy Israeli cities in the south and annihilate the Palestinians and returning Palestinian refugees to Judea-Samaria,   I suggested this inipi to make the Joes and their position known.  The northern two-thirds of the so-called former West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is the ancestral inheritance of neither Jews nor Palestinians.  It is the eternal inheritance and Birthright of the House of Joseph.  And inipi itself is a means of changing one’s attitude toward violence.

‘Sarah Palin would put down her shotgun’

Anyone who continues in the inipi lifestyle, which involves bowing low to the ground and declaring yourself related to the rest of Creation, and then receiving suffering from the natural combination of wind, wood, fire, rocks, water and steam, cannot remain the same person.  It is natural and spiritual to look “within,” which is what the word “inipi” entails.  And anytime you have the courage to do that, things can, and with the help of Creator, will change!

Even Sarah Palin would put down her shotgun.  In 2008, I and my mailing list of about 800 Joes were puzzled about for whom we would vote.  The major election time task of “spiritual” Native Americans, who usually do not vote themselves was to discern which candidate’s platform might bring the fewest curses on Turtle Island!  Uncertain about then Senator Obama’s position on whether to press Israel for a Palestinian state that would usurp our Birthright, we were seeking Spirit’s direction.  Finally, in inipi, the answer came, “Why don’t you vote for the choice of the four-leggeds?”  The next day, Governor Palin was observed on CNN shooting wolves – my totem – for sport.

When one makes a habit of bowing low toward all four leggeds and wingeds and receives the suffering dealt out as something personal shared with all Creation, the compound bows, shotguns, and rifles might begin to collect dust.

Spiritual priority to avoid curses, bless family of Abraham

We are all thinking this election will be about jobs, when it should be about the overriding biblical factor that determines a nation’s prosperity to offer jobs; whether or not that nation’s policies bless or curse the family of Abraham.  Especially tampering with a Birthright is a very black road, as all Native elders, grandmothers and medicine people know.

Ada Fasthorse, the eldest granddaughter of the Israelite-Apache prophet known as “Geronimo,” tried in July 2007 to warn President George W. Bush that an economic curse was coming for his tampering with the Birthright in promoting the ill-fated “Road Map to Peace in the Middle East.”  There are means to remedy this curse at the roots if the American leadership is ever interested in doing so.

Presidential candidates not invited due to spiritual concerns

So, noticeably absent from this “Hebrew” lodge are the American presidential candidates.  It was decided unilaterally that the U.S. Government had no legitimate unilateral interest in this spiritual matter and past political tampering has only worsened it.

The GOP candidate, as a Mormon embraces a faith that usurps the Aaronic priesthood, usurps the Birthright of Joseph in the land of Israel and even usurps the land of Promise as a homeland for all of Israel.   As a disciple of Joseph (156) Smith (510) = 666 who divined his Book of Mormon using a “seer stone” after contact with an angel of light during the same time period he was convicted of “glasslooking fraud,” credibility issues as well as Satanic concerns arise with a Mormon president.   A spirit with a clear Satanic agenda that would not honor the Birthright of Joseph would not be comfortable – and might not survive — a pure and sacred Native American inipi.  Remember that the covenant with the God of Israel, unlike the remainder of the Northern tribes, remains intact with Native Americans who comprise Israelite East M’nashe.  East M’nashe was exiled 17-23 years before his brothers across the Jordan and exempt from the terms severing West M’nashe and the other tribes from covenant..

The incumbent in support of pre-1967 lines for a Palestinian state, which also usurps the biblical Birthright, has reportedly been rethinking this position. But no official change in the Obama Administration’s foreign policy with Israel pressing for a state according to the pre-1967 lines has yet to surface, so to keep American politics out of the suffering between Israelis and Palestinians and Joes, President Obama also was not invited to this inipi.

Respect for ‘Mama’ needed before one can respect the life that comes from her

A word came forth in an earlier inipi, “Until one respects your Mother, that one cannot respect any life that comes from her.”  So Smiles knew when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Machmoud Abbas, stripped, covered with towels and bowed low to the ground and declared, “All my relations,” as they entered the inipi, that the two world leaders were within Creator’s design.

Finally, they had signaled their respect for “the beasts of the field, the birds of Heaven and the creeping things on the Earth, both the four-legged, two-legged and winged and all of Creation.”  Now and only now, could they adapt to the peace Creation is decreed by Creator and a peace Creation and Creator would oversee.   The Hosea 2:20 covenant necessary to reunite the land of Israel with its children, including Palestinian “daughters of Jerusalem” was at hand.  But that covenant also decrees the end of the sword and the bow and “violence in the Earth.”  For that to happen, these two would have to suffer still more.

World leaders silenced to hear decree of Joseph’s return

And so began the third round with the rock count at about 75.  Neither world leader was able to sit upright in the 140 degree steam and hardly able to speak, much less to pray when it was their turn.  And so for the first time, both could only listen as I offered this prayer on behalf of a third unilateral interest:  The House of Joseph still in exile.

Hoa Mitakuyasi,

Great Mystery, may You be applauded for your Wisdom in concealing the family of Joseph most separated from his brothers and for Your timing for him to be found.

Turn the hearts of the sons of the European settlers, sprinkled with Ephraim, to their father, Joseph; Turn the hearts of the Native sons of M’nashe to their father, Joseph. Turn the hearts of these and all of Ephraim assimilated at coastal regions about to be inundated, back to Joseph.  Turn the hearts of the Thai, Burmese, Cambodians and Vietnamese and Japanese from the seed of the sons of M’nashe who went East, back to their father, Joseph.

Merciful One, as calamities are poised to strike, turn the hearts of the sons of Judah to their father, Judah. Let Joseph and Judah reconcile in the Place You have set aside and according to the Truth of their father, Jacob, on the mountains of Israel in Judea-Samaria.

Turn the hearts of the House of Esau, sons of Isaac to their, father, Isaac. Let he who never left the Land promised to Jacob, show the House of Esau the wells he dug in the Plains of the Philistines.  And let Esau heed the words of their prophet, Obadiah and find refuge in a contiguous Palestinian state that honors the Birthright and Return of the House of Joseph to avoid a bloodbath.

Turn the hearts of all mankind to our father, Abraham and to his ever-patient, all-enduring hesed (everlasting kindness). Show the world the many myriads of nations his seed has become.  With the simple truth that all of our wars have spilled the blood of brothers, prick the hearts of the House of Joseph and all mankind to never learn the ways of war again and lay down the sword, bow and end violence in the Earth.

And turn the hearts of the fathers — the heart of Abraham to all of his children — the heart of Isaac towards the wall You placed between Jacob and Esau; the heart of Jacob toward all of his sons and the hearts of Joseph and Judah toward their sons and each other’s sons.

Hoa Mitakuyasi Oyasin

Maggid ben Yoseif

Happy Mother’s Day: Mama calls Ephraim to ‘inipi’ for Covenant, reconciliation with Israelite East M’nashe

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Mega-church or Native American inipi (sweat lodge)?  Which would Grandfather use to make a covenant with the life that comes from our Mother Earth?

Hoa mitakuye oyasin (AH-HO M’TOK-OO-YEH OH-YAH-SIN) or as it is sometimes abbreviated “Aho mitakuyasin,” is the Lakota declaration that has united and reconciled Native Americans from coast to coast:  “All my relations.”  Simply re-stated, “We are all related.”

“We” includes all full-bloods and mixed Native Americans.  “We” also includes all other two-leggeds (human beings), together with the four-legged, winged, creeping things, insects, trees, flowers, herbs, all vegetation, rocks and soil, mountains, oceans and streams and all of Creation.  White Buffalo Calf Woman, who brought this ceremony to the Lakota taught that from the youngest child to the eldest grandmother and most wise chieftain or elder, ALL, bow low to the Earth and make this declaration of “Covenant with Creation” before entering sacred inipi.

Diligently seeking Grandfather in Six Directions

Inipi are Native American “prayer tents” but which resemble a “womb” and represent the womb of our Earth Mother, who Natives understand to be just as alive as the humanity and other life she nourishes.   The songs and prayers sang and uttered while suffering “within” or “inside” (the meaning of inipi), also “diligently” seek Grandfather, as represented by prayers in all Six Directions, including Heaven above and Earth below.  The Directions are both a “witness” and a “seal” (represented by the Apache as a 6-pointed star) to these prayers.

That harmony with the Living Earth Mother has the weight of Covenant in Native American inipi ceremonies is reinforced by  Chief Seattle, of blessed memory, of the Suqwamish and Duwamish. “What is man without the beasts?  If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected.  Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the children of the Earth.”

The Land’s rests

The two short Torah portions usually read the week of or following Mother’s Day (Behar and Bechukosai) are Leviticus 25-27.  These portions, more than any other in the Torah deal with the Covenant relationship between the Children of Israel and the Land of Israel.  Israel would allow the land one year’s rest in each seven, which meant Israel must remain dependent on Grandfather for its food to sustain life for more than two years before the land could again be harvested.  And during the “time off” from sewing and reaping, the entire nation could be devoted to the study of Torah and spiritual pursuits.  The fruitfulness of the Land made this possible.  If Israel pursued Torah diligently (and not casually), the land would shower the people with tzedekah (charity), but if casual and not diligent, the land would bring forth mishpat (judgment).

The Covenant between Israel and its land was so intimate that land in Israel could not be sold in perpetuity (which means forever); that it was the eternal possession of Grandfather and those residing on it were to be both “sojourners” and “residents” WITH Grandfather.

Jubilee returns ancestral inheritances

When all of the tribes of Israel would be in the land, seven such rest periods would culminate with another entire year’s rest for the land called the Yovel or Jubilee on the 50th year.  At this time, the tribes would be called back to their ancestral inheritances, which would dictate property rights exchanges, called “redemption of the land.”   Each part of the land of Israel was designated as the permanent home for the descendants of one of its 13 tribes.

The Covenant with the land is further expounded in the oral traditions of the Torah from which the Halachah was formed.  The portion of Torah beginning at Leviticus 26:3, reads: “Im b’chukotai TALEYCU” literally translated “If you will WALK OUT (follow) My chukot (decrees or ordinances that have no rational explanation but just beg for observance out of love for Grandfather).  “Taleycu” is derived from the Hebrew root “Halach” (in the imperfect or future tense), from which we get the concept of Halachah (how one actually “walks out” the commands of Torah).

Well-being of land, people evidence of ‘diligent’ or ‘casual’ Torah observance

So the promise is made in verse 3 that if the children of Israel will follow Halachah and guard Grandfather’s commandments, rain will come in the right time in the right amount and the land and people will flourish.  Nothing would disturb our Earth Mother from caring for her children.

Hosea 1 records three judgments on the House of Israel (residing north of the House of Judah and west of the Jordan River and Israelite East M’nashe).  These judgments decree exile, removal from Grandfather’s Covenant and even His mercies.  But in Hosea 2, after the prophet finishes pronouncing Grandfather’s judgment, he announces a coming restoration.  Since the terms of the judgment did not apply at all to Judah or Israelite East M’nashe (who both remained in Covenant despite earlier and later exiles) it is reasonable to believe that these still-covenanted families are the natural choice to extend this covenant to those removed from it.

Scriptural basis for Covenant with life sustained by Earth Mother

Integral to that restoration is a restored Covenant specifically with the other life sustained by our Earth Mother.

‘And in that day will I make a Covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things on the ground; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the Earth and will make them to lie down safely.’  (Hosea 2:20)

Sages of Torah suggest that this covenant is for the Last Days … after the House of Israel (again not to be confused with Judah — the Jewish People — or Israelite East M’nashe — Native Americans) is punished for “treating the commands of Torah and their observance casually.”  Leviticus 26:42 then promises, “I will remember My covenant with Jacob and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember AND I WILL REMEMBER THE LAND.”

Covenant with Creation reinstituted in inipi after 390 ‘sh’mitahs’ appeased

The chapter goes on to explain that the land would be bereft of the House of Israel specifically to appease for the sabbatical rests it was denied during the House of Israel’s residence.  The prophet Ezekiel had given a sign to the Northern Tribes that they would be exiled for 390 years, but for acting casually toward the commands of Torah, a seven-fold multiplication was decreed to 2,730 years so that the 390 years represented appeasements for only the years the land was denied its rest or 390 sh’mitahs.  Calculated from the exile of the Nothern Tribes in 722 BCE, the land completed its last appeasement of judgment in 2008, meaning the Land Covenant prophesied is now on the horizon perhaps before the next sh’mitah year.

I would like to submit that this Covenant is now being instituted in the Native American inipi.  Any from Ephraim who are serious about reconciling with the family of Israelite East M’nashe may do so in inipi.  Grandfather has decreed that a condition of this reconciliation will be a Covenant with our Earth Mother.

Inipi is for spiritual birthing of prayers

The inipi sometimes irreverently called a “sweat lodge,” is constructed like a womb of a pregnant woman.  Prayers and suffering in the inipi are intended, among other things, to bring about spiritual birthings “inside or within” (which is what “inipi” means).   An Apache woman stated in inipi a few days before Mother’s Day, that since she left her “mega church” with its “cushioned seats and air-conditioning and multi-media sermons” and returned to inipi, “the distance between “the birthpangs” has considerably lessened.  “My prayers are being answered the same day,” she testified.  But we all know that this grandmother today walks in the highest spiritual power of the repentant.

Pipe-carriers function the same as Hebrew ‘tzaddikim’

On those occasions when Heaven appears stubborn as brass, or one FEELS estranged from Grandfather, at our inipi, we call on those who carry sacred channupahs (sometimes irreverently called “peace pipes”).

When the spiritual preparation to be a “carrier of a sacred channupah” is considered along with how the channupah itself is protected from worldly defilements, the picture emerges of the pipe carrier as the equivalent of the Hebrew “tzaddik,” who assists Jews who feel estranged from Covenant.

Sinners are not judged by pipe carriers or tzaddikim

The tzaddik is a link between this world and the World to Come from the time the tzaddik becomes a tzaddik.  From the Hebrew root tzadak, it means one who is “righteous.”  From this the Hebrew sages determined the tzaddik was one who had “overcome his evil inclination” so that he could live to intercede for the less “righteous” while still alive in this world and once they have passed, from the World to Come.  The tzaddik has one foot in this world and one foot in the World to Come.  BUT, and this is an important but in the Native American community, the work of the tzaddik NEVER judges the sinner, only the sin.  Should he judge, he would do more damage than good, preventing the judgment of Grandfather.

Sometimes, Grandfather’s personal judgment is first necessary to change personal habits and cleanse one from the encrustations of sin and defilements.  As the Cherokee specifically understood, “Grandfather is a Just God.” As the Hebrew sages put this, God is a Supreme Tzadik Himself.  Part of His justice we are learning forbids “double jeopardy.”  This is why those who “judge” others merit on their own heads, the very judgment they judge.  Their judgment has circumvented the judgment on the guilty and brought it instead onto themselves.  The way psychology works explains this as one tends to judge the things in others he or she does not like about himself or herself.

Chanuppah made sacred with carrier’s own flesh and blood

In my inipi community, to become a bearer of the Sacred Chanuppah, one first must be gifted of a channupah stem and/or bowl by a Native American spiritual elder – which is considered like an “anointing” or “smichah”  to carry a pipe.   Or as sundancers, they must whittle and shape their own stems and bowls.

Regardless, flesh and blood is taken from the left arm of the channupah carrier (in the region where the arm t’fillin is layed) before the stem and bowl may be joined for prayers.  The bowl is loaded with piki (a mixture of ritual tobacco, sage and other herbs which all have meaning and significance) while singing centuries-old songs telling us always to load this pipe in this same sacred manner.  Finally the songs include singing permutations of the Divine Name.  In fact, the last pipe-loading song is an invocation by the Yah and Hah to welcome the Wah (representing the Holy Spirit).

Inipi:  Means to diligently seek Grandfather

During the inipi ceremony, the Sacred Chanuppah loaded with piki remains on the altar between the fire pit and the inipi but outside of the lodge.  After inipi, with the intent of the prayers of the people still lingering and in mind, the people all bring smoke out of the stem, never inhaling it but blowing it in the six directions.  In this sacred manner we have observed for centuries before Christian missionaries arrived, we seek Grandfather diligently with our prayers in all directions, East, South, West, North, Above and Below (from our Mother).

It is not unusual to have spiritual experiences inside the darkness of inipi.  We sometimes see small blue lights that speak to us (ministering spirits) and sometimes Grandfather will speak directly.  And so, after last Mother’s Day in 2011, I reported on the Word of Grandfather given in inipi a few months earlier:

‘Until Ephraim can respect Your Mother, Ephraim cannot respect the life that comes from Her.’

– The Word of Grandfather

Pipe-carriers are usually sundancers

Usually, those who carry the sacred Chanuppah are also sundancers.  Among some nations, this is required.   Sundancers spend the entire year of the four years most will dance occupied with spiritual preparations also similar to the spiritual preparation demanded of a Hebrew tzaddik.

Sundancers are not allowed alcohol for the duration of their vows, which can be up to 16 years in some nations, but which is usually 4 years.  They are also expected to exemplify model moral behavior, avoid gossiping and excesses in everything.  He is expected to pursue charity and unconditional love and load his channupah every day for prayer.  If someone in the community needs and calls for prayer, the channupah carrier will be quick on the scene.

The manner of carrying Chanuppah

As a peacemaker, the pipe-carrier will also pray for any situations that divide the community. He (or she) will engage in a 4-day vision quest inscribed within a 7-foot diameter circle with no food or water for the duration (or some choose to lay in a hole in the earth for the four days).  On their quests they are allowed only a buffalo hide and their chanuppah, while firekeepers keep a fire going the entirety of their quest which begins and ends with inipi purifications.  They will fast another four days during the dance itself, which is called the sundance because the dance is observed during the hours the sun is out.  (Contrary to myths and false rumors, neither the sun, nor the tree to which the dancers lend their flesh and blood are worshipped.  Only Creator (Grandfather) is worshipped by Native peoples, although his Creation is always respected and honored.

The manner of prayer with the channupah also is most holy.  Except for Heyoka (spiritual clowns who do everything backwards) and the Cherokee Kituwah (who represent the Cherokee priesthood), the Channupah is always turned clockwise and the bowl only held in the left palm.

Tzaddikim empowered to bring Covenant to the people

Pipe-carriers would appear to be the perfect tzaddikim to institute this “Land covenant” between Grandfather and the House of Israel commonly called, “Joseph-Ephraim.”  Tzaddikim were so empowered in ancient times to actually be a covenant for the people, a role exemplified by the sundancers who bleed on behalf of the “Chosen One,” a tree.  No Halachah is violated since no animal was sacrificed in this “shedding of blood” necessary for the annual Covenant renewal.  In fact, the sundance appears orchestrated by an ancient Hebrew priest, who was aware of Grandfather’s disdain for animal sacrifices.  Israelite East M’nashe is known to have assimilated with the ancient Hebrew priests of Gilead, with whom they went into Assyrian exile 17-23 years before the remainder of the Northern Tribes were exiled.

Today a remnant of these M’nashe priests reside in the Four Corners area:  The five nations of the Apache and the Navajo.  Here the extra Y chromosome identifying Hebrew priests occurs from 20 to 24 times more often than anywhere in the world.  Gilead also was the haunt of Elijah the Prophet.

Intimacy with our Earth Mother

It is a “mitzvah” for the skin to touch the Earth from which the Teton Sioux Chief Luther Standing Bear is remembered with blessings for teaching us that in “Her” soil we find “soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing” beyond the capacity of the love we found in our dear mothers’ wombs.  This is why elders and grandmothers often walk barefoot without moccasins, which allow at least the feel of the contour of the bare ground.  For the same reason, Native altars are only made of earth and tipis are preferred to houses.  So purists sit on the bare ground inside inipi, which can get wet.  The “mud” we bring out of inipi is just our Mama’s love.  “One is able to think more deeply and feel more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and come closer to kinship to other lives about him.” — Chief Standing Bear

Feminine Hebrew noun proves ‘life’ of Mother Earth

In Hebrew, the noun describing the earth (adamah) is feminine.  Anything with the designation of “feminine” in the Torah has the ability to transmit life of its own kind and is dynamic meaning it will grow or shrink, increase or decrease, live … and if we are not careful and mindful of our Covenant, die.  This validates the very first Native teaching, or for that matter, the first teaching by all indigenous people — that the Earth is our Mother who is alive and we should do nothing in our lives to cause her to die and should do what we are able to keep her alive.

The problem has been the immigrants without this natural tie, who do not honor or respect our Mother and who treat her like a disposable napkin or their own private and corporate latrines.  But, even for these, Mama is calling.

“Mother’s Day,” has a special connotation in the inipi.  It is year-round.

Maggid ben Yoseif