André Hofer - Heaven and Earth - 1 - Now

We in the Western world know, for instance, the terms ‘solar plexus’ or ‘the third (or spiritual) eye’.

There are seven main-chakras known, which are distributed along the vertical axis of the human body, three of which are situated below the diaphragm, correlating to the Feminine Principle, and three others situated above the thorax, belonging to the Masculine Principle.

They are interconnected with each other in the heart via the heart-chakra.

Mankind is connected energetically with the Earth, the root- and vital force, by the three bottom chakras (the Feminine), which nourish the carnal body.

The upper three chakras (the Masculine) are connected with vocal expressions, spiritual clarity and a “hotline” upwards, to the Devine, towards transcendency.

Once the bottom and top chakras are evenly opened, connected via the heart with each other, a human being experiences the best of spiritual, mental and physical well-being, simply due to the fact that she/he is energetically in a state of equilibrium. This means first and foremost that the physical (Feminine) and spiritual (Masculine) aspects of a human being are flowing freely and are in harmony with each other, in feminine as well as masculine bodies.

Hence, the Masculine dominates the Feminine, the Spiritual (or rationality) is above the physical, the gut feeling. Adam made Eve his subject, according to God’s will. Thus, feminine bodies were turned into ‘childbearing machines’ and sex objects to accord to man’s pleasure, whether he only wanted a few nice hours or offspring (preferably masculine). The woman never got the recognition as being the wonderful, unique being that she was; she was replacable, she had to serve, to obey and to function.

Furthermore, man did the same to Mother Earth, he also degraded her to a ‘means to his ends’, and so Mother Earth is still depleted as much as possible, because commodities, timber, animal carcasses, plants and estates can be turned into money, and money equates with power!

Thus, Adam got lost in his avaricious quest; he remained lonely despite having Eve at his side, he kept on farming and tilling the earth, and in the process failed to notice that he gradually lost control …

While writing this last paragraph I could not but feel a certain nausea taking over the region of my stomach. When one really visualises all this, one could truly get sick and, maybe that is exactly what it takes for us to act, NOW …

My dear Brothers, you in your position as the mighty ones in government, economics, church, sciences and techniques, are you not slowly beginning to feel sick in the face of all that destruction, exploitation, abuse of the female body, the killing of life for money and possession? How long more do you want to continue? How long more do you want to cling to that deadly logic? How long more do you want to assume your role as God’s proxy? When can you admit at long last that you have gone astray and cannot see real solutions for the immense environmental problems, mountains of debt and social unrest?

It just is not possible anymore to carry on according to the principle: “Close your eyes, accelerate and push through!” You will not be able to appease all so-called ‘Joe Soaps’ and all women any longer, using just bread and entertainment. Although you may believe you still can.

Just stop! Now! Wake up! In the same way you began this nightmare you are able to end it; all you have to do is to admit that you cannot do it on your own.

However, that is okay, you will not lose your face over it, and if you do, what harm? The Feminine, out of her own heart, will only be too glad to crown you “King” again when she looks into your sad eyes, so abject, resigning, war-torn, heart-rendering and asking for forgiveness.

An ancient Spanish proverb runs: “When you want to learn to pray, just walk into the sea!”

How wonderful, how simple, how wise!

Just imagine: You are standing somewhere on the shore, looking out on this endless watery vastness; your feet feel the water; you walk a few paces further into the water, and suddenly you realise how infinitely small you really are, despite your 1.80 or 2.00 metres (about 6’ or 6’ 5”) compared to the ocean. You would feel the elements even more up-close and comfortable if a gentle wind would be blowing and the waves lapping the shore. Yes, my dear Brother, go to the ocean and stay as long as it takes for you to come to understand; and while you are there you may even swim a few rounds, and once you are on the shore again, how would you feel, after going down on your knees and prostrating yourself on the sand, so that your heart and forehead touch the Earth? How would you feel if you would consciously breathe in and out, to sense and even to talk to the Earth, the Feminine? How would you feel if you could, perhaps for the very first time in your entire life, honestly pray out of the depth of your heart?

Beginning in the 1990’s there are wonderful books available on this planet entitled “Conversations with God”. Millions of people have read these books so far, and I can only warmly recommend them to you. I just mention this now, because they contain a very basic and essential idea, among many other aspects. How wonderful would it be if, after all the cited millennia, which were also moulded by the belief in one’s own creed and one’s own understanding of law and order as the one and only valid, genuine truth, the mighty powers of this world would come out openly and state, that their own way was not better, but simply different! What consequences this could have, to grant each nation, each religion, each individual their own truth?

This could have an immediate and intuitive great effect, provided another proposition is considered, viz. that one’s own truth cannot be realised and lived accordingly at the cost of others. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!” Nobody needs to be evangelised, nobody needs to be converted! Or, saying it in different words, as our Brother so aptly ‘hit the nail on the head’ 2,000 years ago: “There are many rooms in my Father’s house.”

Even in little things, in the family circle, it would mean that we men, all of us, should stop telling women what is good for them.

How much could be gained, if this antiquated masculine arrogance, still rife in our educational programmes, would remember the philosophical roots of the Occident and would go down on one’s knees before one of the most wonderful Souls ever to walk this planet, whom we know under the name Sokrates, and who stated at the end of his life: “I only know that I do not know anything.” How simple, how true, how humble in every sense, when one contemplates the never-ending vastness and depth of the universe.

Humility is asked for, my dear Brother, in small as well as great matters, NOW!

Just to make something quite clear: I do not mean the ancient incorrect subserviency of subordinates or apprentices within any hierarchical organisation vis-à-vis mundane or ecclesiastical authorities, and the involved renunciation of one’s own truth in order to gain ‘Brownie points’ from them, neither do I mean the endurance of pain and suffering in the name of the Lord in order to be rewarded for it in heaven. That has nothing to do with humility, it is rather the abandoning of one’s own responsibility to think independently, to feel, and speak and act according to one’s own truth.

So, if you have lived so far in a rather conformed life-style, then true humility could mean for your own truth and for your way of life in future to end at long last your ancient self-abandonment.

For you as a man this could mean that you no longer approve of certain aspects in the hierarchies in which you move, that you no longer follow certain dictates. It could also mean that you no longer bow to pronounced or unexpressed expectations resulting in stress.