On Saturday 8 th , March, 2025, the United Nations international Women’s Day was
commemorated globally, as scheduled in the yearly calendar of the United
Nations. In many cities all around the world, there were well intentioned
gatherings at different fora, where issues and concerns affecting the ranks of
womankind on Earth were wholesomely contemplated. And such resolutions
arrived at, which were intentioned to further drive the wheel-of-progress, in
connection with the destiny of the species that woman is, in the human
community on Earth!
The Commemoration of the international Women’s Day, at the instance of the
United Nations is arguably, the most important of all the other commemorative
events, when recognition and knowledge becomes more widely known, about
the pre-eminent role of Woman, in the human society. Hitherto, all the
contemplations and decisions that have taken place at different fora globally…
have consistently revolved around the socio-political and socio-economic
circumstances of the Womenfolk! We must be reminded that for the past five
decades, women have had to shake off complacency and passivity, to resolutely
demand for equity and social Justice… along with unfettered access to political
and business opportunities, at all level of human endeavor. Kudos to all the
women that have courageously spoken up, when and where it was expedient to
speak; and also acted expediently, when it was timely to act! All in all, it can be
said that measurable progress has impacted the social, political and economic
circumstance of women globally!
If the question is asked hypothetically, on the floor of the United Nations General
Assembly as to who… the Woman is intrinsically or in other words, what exactly
constitutes the nature and inner being of the Woman. The answer would most
likely be greatly influenced by concepts from the Adam and Eve narrative, in the
Garden of Eden story. Strangely, many people who have held on (in faith) to that
allegorical narrative have never asked themselves, whether a snake (the
Serpent) such as reportedly engaged Eve, have ever spoken again, in human
language, to any other human creature, after the momentous Garden of Eden
incident! The Garden of Eden narrative, though, an allegorical narrative, was
indeed conceived through spiritual inspiration and providentially adapted to the
receptive capacity and maturity of mankind at the time! No sensible mother on
Earth would give a hamburger to a newly born baby. To that extent therefore,
the Divine that is Omniscient, would not give to human creatures a body-of-
knowledge which they will be unable to spiritually digest and assimilate! The
Adam and Eve narrative was and remained a beautiful, helpful and apt allegory,
regarding the incarnation of human beings on Earth and their subsistence
thereon. And it was aptly relevant, to that epoch of human evolution and
maturing development.
The feminine figure that we see as Woman among us in the human community
on Earth, still largely remains, an engaging enigma! It is said of her that… “the
Hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world” … This is a very true statement,
rightly understood! It is also said of her… “behind every successful man, is a
Woman” …! This is also what mankind have found to be true. To indeed rule the
world, as indicated in the first statement, does confirm that she singularly
influences and decides the fate of mankind, to a very large extent, in the
expansive cycle of existence. And to be behind every successful man, indeed
confirms the critical supportive factor that she will ever remain, in the fulfillment
or non-fulfillment for the man, as a provider for the home.
With the foregoing picture of the positive benevolent figure that she is, we
should begin to ask ourselves, the question why, the ranks of Women on Earth,
had to ever go picketing, or carry placards in protest, before according her, the
honour of giving to her and timely too, what is deserving and due to her! Before
we humans can point accusing fingers in this connection … a “finger”, is already
being printed at her! And from where? … From Above!
The finger being pointed at Womanhood from Above is literally saying that she
has not “completely” fulfilled her roles, as ordained by her Awesome Creator.
When the “Eye” of her ever benevolent Creator now sees her in a long picketing
line of protest, at times under very inclement weather… Her Creator would ask
the question… “who has disempowered Woman, my creature… for her to have
felt neglected, deprived, humiliated and unfairly treated”? Her Creator who had
invested her with exquisite wealth of endowments, for the general upliftment of
mankind, however knows that the pass-mark of Woman, for her service to be
acceptable to Him… “is a hundred-percent”. Anything less is out of it! is a
fairytale! Nine-nine percent is Not a pass-mark for her! The Loyalty and
commitment He expects from Womanhood to the Creative Will is absolute. No
more… no less!
Let us look at the following two scenarios, for us to have glimpses of the positive
Power and influence, which can emanate from the Woman… but which have not
been pervasive and strong enough, to prevent humanity from morally drifting
into the perilous danger of cosmic upheaval, that threateningly draws closer and
closer, with each passing day!
In the first scenario, a well-dressed lady suddenly enters a room, where there
were men drinking beer, and relishing rough immoral jokes. The moment they
sight the lady… THEY ALL STOP and this will be so for as long as she remains in
that room! In contradistinction, to the entry of a girl in hot pants or thighs
revealing, skimpy-skirt and a top, revealing her cleavages! The spontaneous
response from the men would be, suggestive whistling and such overtures, as to
get her to share drinks with them and “enjoy” their company!
What is relevant to our reflection, on the commemoration of the International
Women’s Day, is the response/reaction, to the first lady, whose presence,
immediately STOPPED and restrained their further regression, into untoward
exchanges. In the inner make-up of Woman, is an incisive restraining Power that
inhibits moral descent. Unfortunately, this incisive and uplifting Power, has not
been forthcoming consistently, from Womanhood, for it to be pervasive, in the
human community. And this is why Woman could often find herself exposed and
at the receiving end of acts of bestiality and brutality from the male sex. It is
only the Woman that can refine the Man… And make a gentleman, out of him!
This is a recognition that awaits mankind in the nearest future.
The second scenario is a true and factual story which my late father told me,
years back! There was this very influential and powerful monarch in Ekiti State,
whose domain was about ten kilometers from my town! He became very
oppressive to our town, harassing and intimidating our people. Matters soon
came to a head and the men were determined to resist, by going into armed
conflict. The men were on the verge of taking that final decision, when the
Women of the town restrained the men and requested that they, the Women,
should be allowed to step into the matter, and they did!
On a fateful morning, a band of Women trekked from my town to see the
Monarch, whose mother, ironically, was a native of my town! They got to his
Palace, a storey-building with a balcony. He appeared to them, after keeping
them standing for a while … and started raving contemptuously at them. As he
leaned on the railings of the balcony, lo and behold, the royal beads on his neck
snapped and dropped right down, from his neck … and lay in front of the
Women! He knew immediately that he was in big trouble and immediately sent
for his Chiefs, to help him placate the aggrieved Women! He knew, in trado-
cultural context, the grave implications of what had happened to him! The
Women listened to the pleadings … AND THAT WAS THE DAY, THE OPPRESSION
STOPPED!
What is the take-away from this? A band of Women decided to stand up for
Justice and instantly, got a remedy! That is just a glimpse of how Women could
be incisively and decisively effective for good, when they have not compromised
or mortgaged what I can now call and term … “the Woman … in a woman”
There is indeed… the “Woman”, in a woman, which presupposes an instructive
but sacred duality, in the figure, standing and person of the Woman!
The Monarch, that my towns-women engaged, in their legitimate quest for
Justice had a raw taste of the cutting-edge of the “Woman in a woman”. A
sacred trust however goes with the outworking of this divinely ordained duality,
in the spiritual make-up of the feminine figure that we know as Woman on Earth!
THIS SACRED TRUST MUST NEVER BE BREACHED THROUGH WRONG
ASPIRATIONS AND VANITY…! If and when this happens, the reciprocal
consequences for the guilty woman, is too grave to imagine. It simply must
never happen.
The erstwhile commemoration of the International Women’s Day to date has bee
one sided as the perspective employed has always been from the socio-political
and socio-economic angles! These have only addressed the material and physical
circumstances of the Woman of contemporary times! Curiously though, the
generation of educated Women are contented with the seeming improvements in
employment opportunities and better access to business opportunities. While
acknowledging these apparent improvements, the tragedy, is that Womanhood
on Earth, is still a stranger to who she is… seen from Above without realizing it.
It needs to be revealed at this point that, the primary obligation and challenge
facing the Woman of contemporary times, is to get know more about the finer
and stronger side of her nature, her being… her spiritual make-up to which she is
still a complete stranger! And so long as she stands in reprehensible ignorance of
this situation… so long, would she find herself at the receiving end of demeaning
and bestial acts from her male counterpart (regardless of being a
Harvard/Cambridge graduate) who is still largely immature too, in many
respects. The deficient social systems cannot possibly fill these gaps.
What in real terms, makes a human creature to evolve into the male or female
gender, is far above and beyond the knowledge of genetics and the interplay of
genes, chromosomes and all that! The male or female gender, are consequential
results of decisions prenatally taken (which can no longer be consciously
recalled) to either work passively in Creation, which conditions such creature to
evolve into a female creature and assume the typical female form; or, to work
actively in creation, which correspondingly conditions that creature to evolve
into a male entity, as it were! The woman is loosely constituted physically, with
no bulging biceps; while the man is more solidly constituted physically, for
reasons of the physical realities he has to face and contend with, on earth.
These aforementioned decisions/options, once made are literally irreversible, but
can be weakened, compromised and undermined, through reckless human
waywardness which can then weaken the creature’s inherent nature, giving rise
to such human distortions, that we have come to know today, in LGBTQ,
transgenderism phenomena… the causes of which still continue to baffle right-
thinking mankind!
With a human creature opting at the morn of its conscious existence, to work
passively in Creation, the Perfection and Omniscience in the outworking of the
Creative Will, automatically, endows that female creature with an additional
spiritual Gift… which exists to support and uplift the positive aspirations of
mankind, enabling her to thus serve as the connecting-bridge between mankind
on Earth… and the higher planes of existence, which are still largely closed to
modern science and the generality of mankind today. The avoidable disconnect
arising from this, have taken its toll on the content, value and direction of human
life on earth and for millennia. The aforementioned divinely endowed Gift, is …
the “Woman in a woman”. The male sex basically lacks this Gift. Women
therefore stand higher spiritually, than men for this simple reason. The various
directions, in the outworking of this sacred endowment in WOMAN, is for another
day!
Woman is to bring, to bear on mankind, such incisive virtuous influence, as
would impact edifyingly on the humanity in Man… a humanity that has been
degraded, debased, and given a wrong direction. The consequences of which,
mankind is currently groaning under.
It is blatantly unnatural for a woman to incline towards masculinity, while it is
grossly undesirable for a man to become effeminate A woman who strongly
inclines towards masculine characteristics, will in time weaken “the woman” in
her being. This weakening may oblige her to reincarnate as a Man. Yes, we
would then see a man standing before us, but “he” is a woman-in-soul! Such a
“man” will be attracted through the homogeneity of mutual distortion to … a
“woman” with all the external physical features of a woman … but she is a ‘man-
in-soul through distortion! THESE ARE THE STRANGE ABBERATIONS OF THE
PRESENT TIMES! The key to the understanding of this bizarre phenomenon is,
Spiritual Knowledge… Knowledge of the Laws of the Creative Will
And lest we forget… so long, as rape, pornography, incest, gender violence
thrives and subsists on Earth… Womankind would always have a case to answer
before their Awesome Creator, who endowed them so gloriously that they may
work in gracefulness, in the human community on Earth. It is within the realm of
possibility for spiritually awakened Womanhood, to work for the complete
effacement of these evil vices and odious outgrowths, from the face of the Earth.
These are the primary issues that should engage the minds of Women at the
commemoration of the International Women’s Day. This is where to start from…
For Womanhood, the admonition should ideally… be “Seek ye first, the
reorientation of the Woman in a woman, and all other things shall be added “
The WOMAN… in a woman, must be discovered, shielded, protected and
employed duteously, to serve only the Divine Creative Will! That will then mark
the beginning of a long-awaited moral resurrection of Mankind and the Earth
itself.
Olusola Faboya
Email: solafaboya@gmail.com
Sms: 08033969872
