06-08-2005, 12:00 AM
The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle, not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands, its height reaching to infinity.
As the seer gazes on the blackness that the eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightening, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagles feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightening reveals the flapping, wind creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightening the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.
The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagles food.
The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the whole is too insignificant to move the whole.
It is only from the Eagle's actions that a seer can tell what it wants. The Eagle, although it is not moved by the circumstances of any living thing, has granted a gift to each of those beings. In it's own way and right, any one of them, if it so desires, has the power to keep the flame of awareness, the power to disobey the summons to die and be consumed. Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and to go through it. It is evident to the seer who sees the opening, and to the creatures that go through it, that the Eagle has granted the gift in order to perpetuate awareness.
For the purpose of guiding living things to that opening, the Eagle created the nagual. The Nagual is a double being to whom the rule has been revealed. Whether it be in the form of a human being, an animal, a plant, or anything else that lives, the Nagual by virtue of its doubleness is drawn to seek that hidden passageway.
The Nagual comes in pairs, male and female. A double man and a double woman become the Nagual only after the rule has been told to each of them, and each of them has understood it and accepted it in full. To the eye of the seer, a Nagual man or Nagual woman appears as a luminous egg with four compartments. Unlike the average human being who has two sides only, a left and a right, the Nagual has a left side divided into two long sections, and a right side equally divided in two.
The Eagle created the first nagual man and nagual woman as seers and immediately put them in the world to see. It provided them with four female warriors who were stalkers, three male warriors and one male courier, whom they were to nourish, enhance and lead to freedom.
The four female warriors are called the four directions, the four corners of a square, the four moods, the four winds, the four different female personalities that exist in the human race.
The first is the east. She is called order. She is optimistic, light-hearted, smooth, persistent like a steady breeze.
The second is the north. She is called strength. She is resourceful, blunt, direct, tenacious like a hard wind.
The third is the west. She is called feeling. She is introspective, remorseful, cunning, sly, like a cold gust of wind.
The fourth is the south. She is called growth. She is nurturing, loud, shy, warm, like a hot wind.
The three male warriors and the courier are representative of the four types of male activity and temperament.
The first type is the knowledgeable man, the noble, dependable, serene man, fully dedicated to his task, whatever it may be.
The second type is the man of action, highly volatile, a great humorous fickle companion.
The third type is the organizer behind the scenes, the mysterious, unknowable man. Nothing can be said about him, because he allows nothing about himself to slip out.
The courier is the fourth type. He is the assistant, a taciturn, somber man who does very well if properly directed but who cannot stand on his own.
In order to make things easier, the Eagle showed the Nagual man and the Nagual woman that each of these types among men and women of the earth has specific features in its luminous body.
The scholar has a sort of shallow dent, a bright depression at his solar plexus. In some men it appears as a pool of intense luminosity, sometimes smooth and shiny like a mirror without a reflection.
The man of action has some fibers emanating from the area of the will.
The number of fibers varies from one to five, their size ranging from a mere string to a thick, whip like tentacle up to eight feet long. Some have as many of three of these fiber s developed into tentacles.
The man behind the scenes is recognized not by a feature but by his ability to create, quite involuntarily, a burst of power that effectively blocks the attention of seers. When in the presence of this type of man, seers find themselves immersed in extraneous detail rather than seeing.
The assistant has no obvious configuration. To seers he appears as a clear glow in a flawless shell of luminosity.
In the female realm, the east is recognized by the almost imperceptible blotches in her luminosity, something like small areas of discoloration.
The north has an overall radiation; she exudes a reddish glow, almost like heat.
The west has a tenuous film enveloping her, a film which makes her appear darker than the others.
The south has an intermittent glow; she shines for a moment and then gets dull, only to shine again.
The Nagual man and the Nagual woman have two different movements in their luminous bodies. Their right sides wave, while their left sides whorl.
In terms of personality, the Nagual man is supportive, steady, unchangeable. The Nagual woman is a being at war and yet relaxed, ever aware but without strain. Both of them reflect the four types of their sex, as four ways of behaving.
The first command that the eagle gave the Nagual man and Nagual woman was to find, on their own, another set of four female warriors, four directions, who were the exact replicas of the stalkers but who were dreamers.
Dreamers appear to the seer as having an apron of hairlike fibers at their midsections. Stalkers have a similar apronlike feature, but instead of fibers, the apron consists of countless small, round protuberances.
The eight female warriors are divided into two bands, which are called the right and left planets. The right planet is made up of four stalkers, the left of four dreamers. The warriors of each planet were taught by the Eagle the rule of their specific task: stalkers were taught stalking, dreamers were taught dreaming.
The two female warriors of each direction live together. They are so alike that they mirror each other, and only through impeccability can they find solace and challenge in each other's reflection.
The only time when the four dreamers or four stalkers get together is when they have to accomplish a strenuous task; but only under special circumstances should the four of them join hands, for their touch fuses them into one being and should be used only in cases of dire need, or at the moment of leaving this world.
The two female warriors of each direction are attached to one of the males, in any combination that is necessary. Thus they make a set of four households, which are capable of incorporating as many warriors as needed.
The male warriors and the courier can also form an independent unit of four men, or each can function as a solitary being, as dictated by necessity.
Next the Nagual and his party were commanded to find three more couriers. These could be all males or all females or a mixed set, but the male couriers had to be of the fourth type of man, the assistant, and the females had to be from the south.
In order to make sure that the first Nagual man would lead his party to freedom and not deviate from that path or become corrupted, the Eagle took the Nagual woman to the other world to serve as a beacon, guiding the party to the opening.
The Nagual and his warriors were then commanded to forget. They were plunged into darkness and were given new tasks: the task of remembering themselves, and the task of remembering the Eagle.
The command to forget was so great that everyone was separated. They did not remember who they were. The Eagle intended that if they were capable of remembering themselves again, they would find the totality of themselves. Only then would they have the strength and forbearance necessary to seek and face their definitive journey.
Their last task, after they had regained the totality of themselves, was to get a new pair of double beings and transform them into a new Nagual man and a new Nagual woman by virtue of revealing the rule to them. And just as the first Nagual man and Nagual woman had been provided with a minimal party, they had to supply the new pair of Naguals with four female warriors who were stalkers, three male warriors, and one male courier.
When the first Nagual and his party were ready to go through the passageway, the first Nagual woman was waiting to guide them. They were ordered then to take the new Nagual woman with them to the other world to serve as a beacon for her people, leaving the new Nagual man in the world to complete the cycle.
While in the world, the minimum number under a Nagual's leadership is sixteen: eight female warriors, four male warriors, counting the Nagual, and four couriers. At the moment of leaving the world, when the new Nagual woman is with them, the Nagual's number is seventeen.
If his personal power permits him to have more warriors, then more must be added in multiples of four.
Being involved with the rule may be described as living a myth.
...the rule was endless and covered every facet of a warrior's behavior.
...the rule was not a tale, and... to cross over to freedom did not mean eternal life as eternity is commonly understood- that is, as living forever. What the rule stated was that one could keep the awareness which is ordinarily relinquished at the moment of dying.
...at the moment of crossing, one enters into the third attention, and the body in its entirety is kindled with knowledge. Every cell at once becomes aware of itself and also aware of the totality of the body... the crux of a warrior's struggle was not so much to realize that the crossing over stated in the rule meant crossing to the third attention, but rather to conceive that there exists such an awareness at all.
The Nagual is the conduit of the spirit.
A Nagual has to struggle especially hard [harder than ordinary sorcerers] because he has more strength, a greater command over the energy fields that determine perception, and more training and familiarity with the intricacies of silent knowledge, which is nothing but direct contact with intent.
[The eyes of the nagual ] can move someone else's assemblage point, especially if their eyes are focused on intent.
...Each Nagual developed a brand of ruthlessness specific to him alone.
Naguals are very misleading... they always give the impression of something they are not, and they do it so completely that everybody, including those who know them best, believe their masquerade.
Naguals mask their ruthlessness automatically, even against their will.
...all naguals, as cold as the Arctic wind [underneath it all].
What a nagual aims at with his apprentices is the shattering of their mirror of self reflection.
It is the duty of every Nagual to guide awareness so it would fly toward the abstract, free of any liens and mortgages.
The nagual is the part of us which we do not deal with at all...for which there is no description- no words, no names, no feeling, no knowledge.
The nagual...can be witnessed, but it cannot be talked about.
At the moment of death...the Nagual becomes fully operative and the awareness and memories and perceptions stored in our calves and thighs, in our back and shoulders and neck, begin to expand and disintegrate.
the Nagual that was accountable for creativity.
The nagual is not experience, or intuition, or consciousness...it is only effect...it never ends. It has no limits...it is where power hovers.
The Nagual is the only part of us that can create.
The Nagual, once it learns to surface, may cause a great damage to the tonal by coming out without any control.
The Nagual...almost never acts out: but when it does, it terrifies the tonal.
one should never turn to one's left when facing the Nagual.
When one is dealing with the Nagual, one should never look into it directly.
The only way to look at the Nagual is as if it were a common affair. One must blink in order to break the fixation.
The Nagual can perform extraordinary things...that do not seem possible, things that are unthinkable for the tonal. But the extraordinary thing is that the performer has no way of knowing how those things happen.
The expression of the nagual is a matter of personal temperament. If the warrior is funny, the nagual is funny. If the warrior is morbid, the nagual is morbid. If the warrior is mean, the nagual is mean.
The actions of the nagual are deadly... if you don't have enough power to parry the naguals onslaughts, you're dead.
We make sense in talking only because we stay within certain boundaries, and those boundaries are not applicable to the nagual.
For the nagual, there is no land, or air, or water.
The nagual can acquaint you with anything through his gourd...that is the key to his power. Anyone can give you peyote, but only a sorcerer, through his gourd, can acquaint you with mescalito.
To be a true nagual you have to claim your power.
The naguals gourd...a tiny, perfect gourd with a neck...the size of the thumb of the left hand. A gourd of that kind is not in the world of men. It's like a little bundle that one can distinguish hanging from their belts. But if you deliberately look at it you will see nothing.
The gourd, once it is found, must be groomed with great care. Usually sorcerers find gourds like that on vines in the woods. They pick them and dry them and then they hollow them out. And then they smooth them and polish them. Once a sorcerer has his gourd he must offer it to the allies and entice them to live there. If the allies consent, the gourd disappears from the world of men and the allies become an aid to the sorcerer.
The nagual also had to choose to leave the human form. He was not being cruel. He simply did not have any more human feelings. To him, everything was equal. He had accepted his fate. 2R 235. Around the end of the 16th century every nagual deliberately isolated himself and his group of seers from any overt contact with other seers...[thus] the formation of individual lineages.
A nagual is someone flexible enough to be anything... To be a nagual, among other things, means to have no points to defend.
It's a nagual's duty always to look for better ways to explain... Time changes everything, and every new nagual has to incorporate new words, new ideas, to describe his seeing.
As the seer gazes on the blackness that the eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightening, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagles feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightening reveals the flapping, wind creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightening the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.
The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagles food.
The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the whole is too insignificant to move the whole.
It is only from the Eagle's actions that a seer can tell what it wants. The Eagle, although it is not moved by the circumstances of any living thing, has granted a gift to each of those beings. In it's own way and right, any one of them, if it so desires, has the power to keep the flame of awareness, the power to disobey the summons to die and be consumed. Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and to go through it. It is evident to the seer who sees the opening, and to the creatures that go through it, that the Eagle has granted the gift in order to perpetuate awareness.
For the purpose of guiding living things to that opening, the Eagle created the nagual. The Nagual is a double being to whom the rule has been revealed. Whether it be in the form of a human being, an animal, a plant, or anything else that lives, the Nagual by virtue of its doubleness is drawn to seek that hidden passageway.
The Nagual comes in pairs, male and female. A double man and a double woman become the Nagual only after the rule has been told to each of them, and each of them has understood it and accepted it in full. To the eye of the seer, a Nagual man or Nagual woman appears as a luminous egg with four compartments. Unlike the average human being who has two sides only, a left and a right, the Nagual has a left side divided into two long sections, and a right side equally divided in two.
The Eagle created the first nagual man and nagual woman as seers and immediately put them in the world to see. It provided them with four female warriors who were stalkers, three male warriors and one male courier, whom they were to nourish, enhance and lead to freedom.
The four female warriors are called the four directions, the four corners of a square, the four moods, the four winds, the four different female personalities that exist in the human race.
The first is the east. She is called order. She is optimistic, light-hearted, smooth, persistent like a steady breeze.
The second is the north. She is called strength. She is resourceful, blunt, direct, tenacious like a hard wind.
The third is the west. She is called feeling. She is introspective, remorseful, cunning, sly, like a cold gust of wind.
The fourth is the south. She is called growth. She is nurturing, loud, shy, warm, like a hot wind.
The three male warriors and the courier are representative of the four types of male activity and temperament.
The first type is the knowledgeable man, the noble, dependable, serene man, fully dedicated to his task, whatever it may be.
The second type is the man of action, highly volatile, a great humorous fickle companion.
The third type is the organizer behind the scenes, the mysterious, unknowable man. Nothing can be said about him, because he allows nothing about himself to slip out.
The courier is the fourth type. He is the assistant, a taciturn, somber man who does very well if properly directed but who cannot stand on his own.
In order to make things easier, the Eagle showed the Nagual man and the Nagual woman that each of these types among men and women of the earth has specific features in its luminous body.
The scholar has a sort of shallow dent, a bright depression at his solar plexus. In some men it appears as a pool of intense luminosity, sometimes smooth and shiny like a mirror without a reflection.
The man of action has some fibers emanating from the area of the will.
The number of fibers varies from one to five, their size ranging from a mere string to a thick, whip like tentacle up to eight feet long. Some have as many of three of these fiber s developed into tentacles.
The man behind the scenes is recognized not by a feature but by his ability to create, quite involuntarily, a burst of power that effectively blocks the attention of seers. When in the presence of this type of man, seers find themselves immersed in extraneous detail rather than seeing.
The assistant has no obvious configuration. To seers he appears as a clear glow in a flawless shell of luminosity.
In the female realm, the east is recognized by the almost imperceptible blotches in her luminosity, something like small areas of discoloration.
The north has an overall radiation; she exudes a reddish glow, almost like heat.
The west has a tenuous film enveloping her, a film which makes her appear darker than the others.
The south has an intermittent glow; she shines for a moment and then gets dull, only to shine again.
The Nagual man and the Nagual woman have two different movements in their luminous bodies. Their right sides wave, while their left sides whorl.
In terms of personality, the Nagual man is supportive, steady, unchangeable. The Nagual woman is a being at war and yet relaxed, ever aware but without strain. Both of them reflect the four types of their sex, as four ways of behaving.
The first command that the eagle gave the Nagual man and Nagual woman was to find, on their own, another set of four female warriors, four directions, who were the exact replicas of the stalkers but who were dreamers.
Dreamers appear to the seer as having an apron of hairlike fibers at their midsections. Stalkers have a similar apronlike feature, but instead of fibers, the apron consists of countless small, round protuberances.
The eight female warriors are divided into two bands, which are called the right and left planets. The right planet is made up of four stalkers, the left of four dreamers. The warriors of each planet were taught by the Eagle the rule of their specific task: stalkers were taught stalking, dreamers were taught dreaming.
The two female warriors of each direction live together. They are so alike that they mirror each other, and only through impeccability can they find solace and challenge in each other's reflection.
The only time when the four dreamers or four stalkers get together is when they have to accomplish a strenuous task; but only under special circumstances should the four of them join hands, for their touch fuses them into one being and should be used only in cases of dire need, or at the moment of leaving this world.
The two female warriors of each direction are attached to one of the males, in any combination that is necessary. Thus they make a set of four households, which are capable of incorporating as many warriors as needed.
The male warriors and the courier can also form an independent unit of four men, or each can function as a solitary being, as dictated by necessity.
Next the Nagual and his party were commanded to find three more couriers. These could be all males or all females or a mixed set, but the male couriers had to be of the fourth type of man, the assistant, and the females had to be from the south.
In order to make sure that the first Nagual man would lead his party to freedom and not deviate from that path or become corrupted, the Eagle took the Nagual woman to the other world to serve as a beacon, guiding the party to the opening.
The Nagual and his warriors were then commanded to forget. They were plunged into darkness and were given new tasks: the task of remembering themselves, and the task of remembering the Eagle.
The command to forget was so great that everyone was separated. They did not remember who they were. The Eagle intended that if they were capable of remembering themselves again, they would find the totality of themselves. Only then would they have the strength and forbearance necessary to seek and face their definitive journey.
Their last task, after they had regained the totality of themselves, was to get a new pair of double beings and transform them into a new Nagual man and a new Nagual woman by virtue of revealing the rule to them. And just as the first Nagual man and Nagual woman had been provided with a minimal party, they had to supply the new pair of Naguals with four female warriors who were stalkers, three male warriors, and one male courier.
When the first Nagual and his party were ready to go through the passageway, the first Nagual woman was waiting to guide them. They were ordered then to take the new Nagual woman with them to the other world to serve as a beacon for her people, leaving the new Nagual man in the world to complete the cycle.
While in the world, the minimum number under a Nagual's leadership is sixteen: eight female warriors, four male warriors, counting the Nagual, and four couriers. At the moment of leaving the world, when the new Nagual woman is with them, the Nagual's number is seventeen.
If his personal power permits him to have more warriors, then more must be added in multiples of four.
Being involved with the rule may be described as living a myth.
...the rule was endless and covered every facet of a warrior's behavior.
...the rule was not a tale, and... to cross over to freedom did not mean eternal life as eternity is commonly understood- that is, as living forever. What the rule stated was that one could keep the awareness which is ordinarily relinquished at the moment of dying.
...at the moment of crossing, one enters into the third attention, and the body in its entirety is kindled with knowledge. Every cell at once becomes aware of itself and also aware of the totality of the body... the crux of a warrior's struggle was not so much to realize that the crossing over stated in the rule meant crossing to the third attention, but rather to conceive that there exists such an awareness at all.
The Nagual is the conduit of the spirit.
A Nagual has to struggle especially hard [harder than ordinary sorcerers] because he has more strength, a greater command over the energy fields that determine perception, and more training and familiarity with the intricacies of silent knowledge, which is nothing but direct contact with intent.
[The eyes of the nagual ] can move someone else's assemblage point, especially if their eyes are focused on intent.
...Each Nagual developed a brand of ruthlessness specific to him alone.
Naguals are very misleading... they always give the impression of something they are not, and they do it so completely that everybody, including those who know them best, believe their masquerade.
Naguals mask their ruthlessness automatically, even against their will.
...all naguals, as cold as the Arctic wind [underneath it all].
What a nagual aims at with his apprentices is the shattering of their mirror of self reflection.
It is the duty of every Nagual to guide awareness so it would fly toward the abstract, free of any liens and mortgages.
The nagual is the part of us which we do not deal with at all...for which there is no description- no words, no names, no feeling, no knowledge.
The nagual...can be witnessed, but it cannot be talked about.
At the moment of death...the Nagual becomes fully operative and the awareness and memories and perceptions stored in our calves and thighs, in our back and shoulders and neck, begin to expand and disintegrate.
the Nagual that was accountable for creativity.
The nagual is not experience, or intuition, or consciousness...it is only effect...it never ends. It has no limits...it is where power hovers.
The Nagual is the only part of us that can create.
The Nagual, once it learns to surface, may cause a great damage to the tonal by coming out without any control.
The Nagual...almost never acts out: but when it does, it terrifies the tonal.
one should never turn to one's left when facing the Nagual.
When one is dealing with the Nagual, one should never look into it directly.
The only way to look at the Nagual is as if it were a common affair. One must blink in order to break the fixation.
The Nagual can perform extraordinary things...that do not seem possible, things that are unthinkable for the tonal. But the extraordinary thing is that the performer has no way of knowing how those things happen.
The expression of the nagual is a matter of personal temperament. If the warrior is funny, the nagual is funny. If the warrior is morbid, the nagual is morbid. If the warrior is mean, the nagual is mean.
The actions of the nagual are deadly... if you don't have enough power to parry the naguals onslaughts, you're dead.
We make sense in talking only because we stay within certain boundaries, and those boundaries are not applicable to the nagual.
For the nagual, there is no land, or air, or water.
The nagual can acquaint you with anything through his gourd...that is the key to his power. Anyone can give you peyote, but only a sorcerer, through his gourd, can acquaint you with mescalito.
To be a true nagual you have to claim your power.
The naguals gourd...a tiny, perfect gourd with a neck...the size of the thumb of the left hand. A gourd of that kind is not in the world of men. It's like a little bundle that one can distinguish hanging from their belts. But if you deliberately look at it you will see nothing.
The gourd, once it is found, must be groomed with great care. Usually sorcerers find gourds like that on vines in the woods. They pick them and dry them and then they hollow them out. And then they smooth them and polish them. Once a sorcerer has his gourd he must offer it to the allies and entice them to live there. If the allies consent, the gourd disappears from the world of men and the allies become an aid to the sorcerer.
The nagual also had to choose to leave the human form. He was not being cruel. He simply did not have any more human feelings. To him, everything was equal. He had accepted his fate. 2R 235. Around the end of the 16th century every nagual deliberately isolated himself and his group of seers from any overt contact with other seers...[thus] the formation of individual lineages.
A nagual is someone flexible enough to be anything... To be a nagual, among other things, means to have no points to defend.
It's a nagual's duty always to look for better ways to explain... Time changes everything, and every new nagual has to incorporate new words, new ideas, to describe his seeing.