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no longer be accepted, the time of the wild sorcerers is already past. The sorcerers of the old
guard were stagnated in their traditions, and they lost their ticket to eternity; we don't want the
same thing to happen to us now.
Therefore, the Rule for the seers of the new era is preparation; that is their distinctive stamp.
They should not only prepare in terms of the arts of sorcery, but also cultivate their minds in
order to know and understand everything. The intellect is the comfort of today's Toltec, just as
in the past, it was the affection for rituals.
"Don Juan said that each warrior of this new cycle should have at least a university degree, to
lake advantage of the defenses against disinformation which modern science has created. That
will heighten the chances of survival for the entire party, and in the future this will be even
more valuable."
11
The Task Of The Nagual
"Could you tell me what task the nagual Juan Matus gave to you?"
He looked at me with a surprised expression.
Usually, Carlos would hide his answers in between his words, or give them out little by little
throughout his conversations. But this time he changed tactics.
He told me my question was so extraordinary that the only thing he could do was to take it as
an omen. But the answer was such a personal thing that he could only tell me about it in an
appropriate place. Therefore, he suggested that we meet the next day in the Tacuba café one
of Don Juan's favorite restaurants.
After breakfast, he told me in a solemn tone that I should silence my internal dialogue,
because we were about to visit a sacred place where a famous warrior of antiquity was buried.
He added that the day was perfect for it, because since dawn a dark fog had hung over the
city.
"And since everything has became sinister, our omens today will come from the left."
At first, his suggestive efforts made me feel privileged. But as we came closer to the main
square, I became more and more apprehensive.
We entered through the small door set in the beautiful side door of the Cathedral of Mexico,
and came into the gigantic main part of the church. Immediately, Carlos walked up to the
fount of holy water, wet his fingers, and crossed himself. I was struck by the familiarity of his
movements, it seemed like he was used to going to church.
Seeing my curiosity, he explained that a warrior should respect all conventions, particularly
those of an institution like the Catholic Church, which has served as a sanctuary for sorcerers
for centuries.
We sat down on the pews of the central nave of the church and remained silent for a while.
There were very few people there, and the atmosphere was very calm. I noticed that he was
sitting up straight and his eyes, neither open nor closed, were lost in the busy mass of
decorations of the main altar. The light scent of candles drifted down to our pew, and also the
murmur of children's voices that were rehearsing a chorus; or maybe it was a recorded tape.
Little by little I became engrossed in my own thoughts, until I lost track of where I was. His
voice startled me:
"The task which my teacher gave me, and my mission as a nagual for the era which is
commencing, is to move the assemblage point of the Earth."
1 was expecting anything but that. For a few seconds, my mind didn't react; I simply didn't
have a clue what Carlos was saying. But suddenly, the monstrosity of his task hit me in the
center of my reason, and I found myself thinking that Carlos had either gone crazy, or he was
talking about something I didn't have the faintest idea about.
Disconcerting me even further, he seemed to read my thoughts, because he made a little nod
of agreement and murmured:
"That's it. You have to be crazy to let yourself commit to something like that, and even crazier
to believe that it is possible to do."
I asked him how a man could possibly even think about a feat like that.
He answered:
"Just like the other world has its mobile unit - the inorganic beings
- Earth also has one, and it's us. We are children of the Earth. The movement of the
assemblage point of a sufficient number of warriors can change the modality of the time, and
that is what I am working towards."
He explained that the assemblage point of Earth has changed many times in the past, and will
do so in the future. In recent times it has been moving steadily towards the area of reason.
"That is magnificent, because, once it is fixated there, humanity will have an opportunity to
move to the other side, and many men and women will become aware. The challenge for the
seers of the future will be to maintain that focus for the necessary length of time until it
becomes fixated there, becoming a permanent position for the planet, a new center, which we
will be able to turn to anytime in a perfectly natural way.
"The refocusing of the Earth's attention is the product of the combined action of many
generations of naguals. The new seers conceived of it as a possibility, and discovered that it
was part of the Rule. They incubated it with their intent, and determined that now is the time
to begin it."
"What is the effect of that movement?"
"To move the fixation of the planet is the only way out from the dramatic state of slavery to
which we have been reduced. The course of our civilization has no exit, because we are
isolated in a remote location of the cosmos. If we don't learn how to travel along the avenues
of awareness, we will come to such a state of frustration and despair that humanity will end
up destroying itself. Our options are the way of the warrior, or extinction.
"However, I cannot know what the total effects of my task wilt be. The Earth's assemblage
point is very big; it has an enormous inertia. My mission is to start the fire, but it will take
time to get the blaze going. In fact, that task is not mine only, but belongs to all the seers who
must come.
"Knowledge of the assemblage point is an unprecedented gift from the spirit to modern man,
and it is the catalyst for changing the modality of this era. It is not a Utopia, but a real
possibility that is waiting there, just around the corner.
"I don't want to speculate on my chances of being successful with this task; I just persist,
because it is all that's left for me to do. Personally, I have no doubts. In my view, the future is
luminous, because it belongs to awareness, which for sorcerers means that it belongs to
nagualism."
Encounter In The Crypt
After describing his task, Carlos rose from the bench and went closer to the rail around the
entrance to the crypt below the church. I followed him.
Pointing at the stairway with his chin, he told me: [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]