By Olusola Faboya
On Saturday 8th, 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 who 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 been 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 to 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 uplifts 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, has 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
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