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separativeness, in that it wants to divide and to separate the known from the unknown in support of the male's purpose, that is, in
support of the fact that before the unknown can be incorporated into the known in an intelligent and meaningful way,
the two must first be separated out into the two polarities.
From the above it should be clear that the Toltec phrase"discriminating with divine inspiration", implies that in choosing
between the old, that is, the mother, and the new, that is, the woman, the warrior cannot base such discrimination upon any
form of prejudice or haphazard assumption, but instead needsto rely upon divine inspiration, a term used for denoting the act
of listening to the heart.
It therefore stands to reason that jewel16 has inherent within it the quality of guidance, for 1 + 6 is
indeed equal to 7. Furthermore, from this it is also obvious why it should be feeling that is assigned to the West, for in both the
male West and the female West, listening to the heart is vitally important in feeling one's way in the darkness of the unknown -
the unknown being marked by the setting sun, as opposed to the known marked by the rising sun.
Consequently the Man Behind the Scenes is the man who works directly with the heart and
with feeling, as opposed to his polar opposite, the Scholar, who works directly with mind and with sobriety.
The Courier to the Man Behind the Scenes is predominantly concerned with mapping out the unknown, and hence his
predilection for the jewel called light through darkness. Jewel 15 is the product of the relationship between fluidity (1) and
freedom and change (5), or alternatively the sum of impeccability (10) and freedom and change (5), for it must never be forgotten
that in referring to fluidity derived from 10, we are implying that type of fluidity which is derived through life's experience
upon the physical plane, and which, in the final analysis,amounts to the same thing as impeccability.
Therefore light through darkness can only emerge when freedom and change is exercised within the context of impeccability.
The implication in the above is that there can be no light emerging from out of the darkness of a challenge if we strive to
free ourselves from that challenge by trying to avoid it, or if we attempt to change our fate in some way.
Only by facing our challenges fairly and squarely can there be light through darkness.
True freedom and change is freedom from the debilitating restraints of social conditioning and a consequent change in our
self-image. Needless to say, from this it is very easy to see that light through darkness (15) must yield the ability to choose
between the old and the new (6), for 1 + 5 = 6.
We see therefore that the overriding emphasis in the male West is to bring about stability (4) within the realm of the irrational
unknown by initiating the death of the old (13) through the medium of liberation through the power of intent (16), coupled
with the acquisition of light through darkness (15).
This is achieved through the medium of that guidance (7 from 16) received in listening to the heart, in conjunction with the acquired ability to
receive divine inspiration in choosing between the old and the new (6 from 15), again through listening to the heart.
The female West, being made up entirely of prime number jewels, does not have the quiet stability to be found in the other
three female directions, which all have a majority of double numbers.
As a result, the Westerly females, including their Courier, are fondly referred to by their fellow warriors as mad.
In this respect the men from the male West really do have their hands full most of the time in having to contain the Westerly
females, for whenever these women go into one of their "mad" phases, which is rather more often than not, their Courier, whose
predilection is for mixed abundance, tends to join them, with the result that all hell breaks loose!
Yet, demonstrated in this fact, we once again see the need for polarity, for in many ways it is the
fiery "madness" of the female West, coupled with the sombre broodiness of the male West, that tends to balance out the
rather cool and somewhat clinical collective sobriety of the East.
The Westerly Dreamer is the most "mad" of the two Westerly women, in that not having much patience with logical assumptions,
her natural predilection is for pure fluidity (1). Being predominantly concerned with the One Power, this lady cannot be
bothered with all of the nit-picking so prevalent within the world of humanity, and thus has the most amazing ability to cut
straight through all pettiness to the very heart of any challenge.
Being so very fluid in her natural dislike of human pettiness, the Westerly Dreamer can "bounce" her way through life on her
head if need be, for in herself she has no regard for any form of self-importance, and least of all self-pity, both of which tend
to get in the way of unfolding and achieving the One Power (1).
Having such a disposition, the Westerly Dreamer also has no regard for anyone else's sense of self-importance or self-pity.
As a result, unless she is contained, this lady can quite literally turn a whole nation upside down when she suddenly gets it into her
head to go on a rampage against all that hinders freedom in the acquisition of man's divine heritage.
In this respect it is interesting to note that the majority of so-called female martyrs, such as
Joan of Arc, were Westerly Dreamers.
In relation to the above, it must be realised that jewel 1, being an aspect of inherent awareness, has a natural tendency
towards linear progression. Therefore unless pure fluidity is contained, in the sense of being grounded in impeccability
achieved through practical experience within life upon the physical plane, it will always revert to its natural tendency to
forge straight ahead in the face of all odds.
This does not implythat the Westerly Dreamer is not impeccable in her actions. On the contrary, when she is caught in the "madness" of her vision,
her grasp of the true purpose of the One Life is exceedingly impeccable, in that it is utterly free from all sense of self importance
and self-pity. However, in not having any sense of self-importance at all, this lady also does not care a fig about
what others may or may not think of her actions, and therefore unless she is contained and directed when the "madness" overtakes
her, she will simply forge ahead with a sense of purpose that often appears to be the actions of the fool, or the clown, by
virtue of her total disregard for the opinion of others.
The Westerly Stalker, on the other hand, being much more concerned with the practicalities of life upon the physical plane
than the Westerly Dreamer, is somewhat less "mad" than her counterpart, and yet, in having a predilection for jewel 5, this
lady also has the tendency to go on a mission with a vengeance.
Jewel 5 is, of course, freedom and change, and notwithstanding what we have already learned about this jewel,
realise that it too is an aspect of inherent awareness, and also very closely allied to jewel 1, for inherent within 5 is the One Power
and its fourfold expression, namely, sobriety, strength, feeling and warmth.
As a result, whenever the Westerly Stalker goes into one of her "mad" phases she is usually a rather weird mixture of
all four expressions of the One Power, and thus there is always an incredible clarity within the otherwise apparent "madness" of
the Westerly Stalker - a clarity that she will deliver with a warmth and a strength that unfortunately all too often comes across like
the oddly "benign" actions of a fired-up bulldozer sweeping all before it with the "good" intention of imparting a most
treasured, albeit impassioned, feeling.
Any warrior will testify to the fact that if you should ever have difficulty in learning the true meaning of freedom and change,
then the person whose assistance you should enlist is the Westerly Stalker. This lady will simply bulldoze you most unceremoniously
out of your view of the world, and if you still do not know what constitutes freedom after that, she will demonstrate
change by changing your image of yourself in no uncertain terms, and will more than likely do so in such a manner as to
leave you with very little room for doubting that she finds you to be an absolutely brainless moron.
After such a lesson in the very definite disadvantages of vanity, this lady will without a
doubt embrace you with all the love and warmth of the proverbial matron, will pat you on the head like a favourite pet,
and if you are not quick enough in malting good your escape, will promptly set about stalking you into your next lesson!
Whilst it is true that to be stalked by an Easterly Stalker is to know without a doubt that you have been stalked, to be stalked by a
Westerly Stalker is to be left wondering if you have not perhaps been seriously manipulated!
Yet, notwithstanding anything we have noted about the two Westerly women so far, these two ladies really are the heart and
the soul of the Toltec unit in a very literal sense. Although even their fellow warriors within the Toltec unit have to learn through
many an arduous trial, and many a painful error, to appreciate the Westerly women fully, once their apparent "madness" is
understood for what it really is, these two ladies are the heart personified!
Ruthless to the n'th degree in their natural tendency to forge straight ahead, and utterly fearless in their deep sense of
uncomplicated simplicity, these two ladies are truly formidable opponents in any battle.
Furthermore, because of their total inability to be swayed, the courage of the two Westerly women is such that their sense of
loyalty to the cause, and therefore also their loyalty to their fellow warriors, is something that is not only unsurpassed, but also
heartrendingly beautiful to behold.
In this respect, neither of these two ladies will bat an eyelid at sacrificing themselves in the
defence of a fellow warrior, but, rest assured, they will not do so without giving that warrior an earful of verbal abuse.
And yet,although that abuse will be so designed as to tear strips off the ego, it will also always be filled with such profound meaning and
deep poignancy that tears invariably come unbidden to the eyes of the witness.
Such is the true inner beauty of these two most special ladies - an inner beauty arising out of an intrinsic selflessness,
and which is by far their most distinguishing characteristic.
Attendant to the two Westerly women is the Courier to the West who, as we have already noted, has a predilection for mixed
abundance. Inherent within jewel 3 is the fundamental triplicity of the manifested universe. Consequently within 3 we encounter
the relationship between inherent awareness and evolving awareness, but within the context of the purpose of the Unspeakable.
Therefore jewel 3 is primarily concerned with how best to nurture and to keep intact the results of the interaction between
the linear progression of inherent awareness and the circular inclusion that comes about as a result of evolving awareness being
fixed to its centre.
The results of this interaction, because they pertain to both inherent as well as evolving awareness are, of
course, what is referred to as mixed abundance.However, jewel 3 is also referred to as joy and creativity, for
inherent within this jewel is the childlike, as opposed to childish, desire to surround oneself with mixed abundance for the
sheer joy of not only collecting, but also for the joy of being able to create something out of the bits and pieces collected,
irrespective of whether these are material things, or simply tit bits of interesting information. In this respect we are all familiar
with how any child is quite capable of crying at one moment, and then laughing the next; of building a sand castle with glee, and of
destroying it with equal glee once completed; of collecting sea shells with huge enthusiasm, then merely to forget them totally
in the equally enthusiastic pursuit of a sudden new interest.
From the above it stands to reason that the Courier to the West, because his jewel is a single digit, and therefore having a
natural tendency towards inherent awareness, is far more inclined towards forging straight ahead than he is towards trying to
create order within mixed abundance.
The end result is that the Courier to the West is quite the best collector, for in his love of
forging ahead within the context of mixed abundance, he quite literally collects everything in sight, irrespective of whether it is
gossip, objets d'art, musical instruments, poetry, books, photographs and, in short, everything which may or may not be
useful.
However, although this man's talent for joyful creativity never ceases to amaze, his childlike enthusiasm for life does
not allow him to linger with any one book long enough to finish reading it, although admittedly, his spontaneous openness of
heart does normally enable him to grasp intuitively the contents of the book, even though he has never read it fully. Likewise will
he find it far too time-consuming to learn to master any of the musical instruments he may have collected, although once
again, his intuitive grasp of anything is such that he will normally have an uncanny ability to improvise superbly on just about any
musical instrument.
When these three warriors from the female West co-operate intelligently, we see once again that the result is the sum total of
their respective jewels, that is: 1 + 5 + 3 = 9.
The meaning here is that in the female West completion (9) is achieved through the medium of pure fluidity (1) coupled with
freedom and change (5) in the childlike pursuit of that creativity and joy (3) that yields mixed abundance (3).
This type of completion cannot possibly be more different to that type of completion generated in the East; namely, the urge to completion
through the medium of humility and understanding born of forebearance and the death of the old.
Completion in the East, true to the dictates of sobriety, means being finished in the sense that everything is sorted out
and no loose ends remain unattended to.
Therefore the East always has the quality of being immaculately neat and tidy, ordered, and everything perfectly accounted for.
But completion in the West most of the time never does have the quality of being finished in the true sense of the word, but is
more in the nature of a rather delightful and truly childlike higgledy-piggledy order of sorts amidst what can only be termed
inspired chaos!
In relation to the female West the reader will find it interesting if we digress slightly at this point in order to demonstrate the
universality of the One Truth. The example I would like to use is one recorded in the Christian bible, namely, the well-known
episode when Christ returned from a trip to find his disciples fishing from a boat on the Sea of Galilee.
Having been informed by his disciples that they had had no luck all through the night,
Christ instructed them to lift the fishing net and to cast it to the other side of the boat. Even though such an injunction must
have made little sense to the disciples, they nonetheless obeyed, and when the net was pulled up after having been cast to the
other side as instructed, they beheld a miracle, for it was filled with one hundred and fifty-three fishes.
This episode is one of the most beautiful examples of irrationality versus rationality, for clearly, if there had been no
fish on the one side of the boat, then why in exactly the same spot would there be fish on the other side of the boat? Yet, what
Christ taught his disciples on that day was the importance of shifting the focus so as not to become obsessed with rational
assumption. Furthermore, by instructing them to cast the net to the other (9) side of the boat, Christ was pointing out to his
disciples the importance of aligning The World of Sorcerers and, in so doing, becoming capable of performing a miracle.
In this particular example, Christ showed his disciples how to align The World of Sorcerers, firstly, by shifting the focus; and
secondly, by being fluid (1) enough to change (5) their view of the world, as well as their self-image, thereby acquiring the
freedom (5) necessary to become truly creative (3). The result, as we already know, was their joy (3) when they again raised the net
and found plenty of fish inside - one hundred and fifty three tobe exact - 153 - the jewels assigned to the female West, 1, 5 and 3.
Later we will again look at how to set about aligning The World of Sorcerers, but I wanted to give this example here
merely because it is so very appropriate in demonstrating the fact that where there is true knowledge there is only the One Truth.
What separates and divides, what causes one person to be suspicious of another, and what causes one religious sect to
condemn another, always boils down to a lack of true knowledge and a vision limited by the narrow and all too often inaccurate
confines of rational assumption.
To return now to our consideration of the West, we find that when the warriors in the male West co-operate intelligently with
the warriors in the female West, the result is, as always, the sum of their respective totals, namely:
(15 + 16) + (1 + 5 + 3) = 13+ 9 = 13.
The implications here are again very different to those in the East, for although the end result is still stability (4) through the
medium of the death of the old (13), it must be remembered that,according to the laws of numerology, these two types of stability
are completely different by virtue of their different constituents.
Therefore stability in the West is based upon pure feeling, and is therefore completely irrational, whereas the stability in the
East is based entirely upon sobriety, and is therefore the very epitome of that lovely sober clarity born of the impeccable use of
the rational mind.
Consequently we have the East on the one hand, stable in having brought about death of the old through the medium of
sobriety; and on the other hand we have the West, also stable in having brought about death of the old through the medium of
feeling.
This is the horizontal axis marked by man standing with his arms stretched sideways, embracing both the rising sun as
well as the setting sun, the East and the West. In that embrace,man incorporates within his beingness not only the known
and the unknown, but also the very meaning and purpose of life upon the horizontal axis, that is, life upon the physical plane.
By embracing both the East and the West equally, by embracing both polarities of life upon the physical plane, that is, the rising
sun, life, and the setting sun, death, man achieves true stability by bringing about death of the old, or death of all that hinders his
progress along the Path of Freedom, and this he does with both sobriety and feeling, with mind and heart.
Finally, because the warriors in the male West as well as the female West are predominantly preoccupied with feeling in one
way or another, they are, because of that openness of heart, also acutely aware at all times of the warrior's duty to help fulfil the
purpose of the Unspeakable.
Because of this fact, and bearing in mind that space is defined as the product of perceiving the purpose of life, the Westerly warriors
are traditionally and collectively referred to as the dreamers in space.
Therefore upon the horizontal axis, or within life upon the physical plane, we see the necessity
for, firstly, using the art of stalking in the Mastery of Awareness, and secondly, the art of dreaming in the Mastery of Intent.
As was mentioned earlier, this does not imply that all of the Easterly warriors are stalkers, and that all of the Westerly warriors are
dreamers, but it does imply that in worldng with sobriety it is vitally important to stalk our own perception constantly; whilst in
working with feeling we must cultivate an openness of heart that can only really be acquired through dreaming.
Next in line is the South, which, it will be remembered from Cry of the Eagle is known as the gateway to the nagal's world.
Accordingly in the male South we find both the nagal and his Courier. The nagal, because he is not a specific type of man,
unlike any of the others, does not have a particular predilection for any one jewel, for his duty as nagal requires of him an equal
efficiency with all of the jewels, male and female, as well as with those jewels known as the dark jewels and the forbidden jewels
Nevertheless, because of what is required of him in terms of leading others to freedom, the jewel that is normally assigned to
the destiny of a nagal is jewel 18, which is primarily centred upon the meaning of courage.
Courage means many things to many people, but in essence it is the product of the relationship between fluidity (1) and
harmony and balance (8), which is the same as the sum of impeccability (10) and harmony and balance (8).
However, inherent within jewel 8 is the harmonious balance existing between the tenth and the ninth world, that is, between the
dense physical world and The World of Sorcerers.
That balance, existing upon and maintained by harmony, is by its very nature exceedingly fragile and therefore easily upset.
Furthermore,because all harmony is dependent upon the interrelationship of life, it is invariably man who tends to upset that balance in one
way or another whenever he ignores the interrelationship of life through his actions, physical, emotional or mental.
Consequently it stands to reason that there can be no true freedom where
there is not harmony and balance between the ninth and the tenth worlds, for not only is the ninth world the blueprint of the
tenth world, but it is also the mirror in which is reflected the purpose of the Unspeakable.
Therefore whenever the balance is disturbed between the ninth and the tenth world, the resultant
disharmony reflected in The World of Sorcerers distorts all of life upon the dense physical plane.
From the above it follows that the real meaning of courage is to strive to restore and to maintain both harmony and balance,
a task which, because of humanity's general ignorance of the interrelationship of life, is truly formidable at the best of
times, and well-nigh impossible most of the time.
And yet, inspite of this, that which is required of the nagal at all times, is hope in the face of all odds, and persistence even amidst constant
defeat. To keep on hoping when all seems hopeless, and to keep persisting when there never seems to be any light at the end
of the tunnel, takes a type of courage that is impossible to verbalize. Yet, realise that if the nagal was to give up hope and to
stop trying, what hope would there be for any of those whom it is his duty to lead to freedom?
The only way in which any nagal can ever hope to fulfil his fate is to reconcile the two aspects of awareness which constitute
his own jewel. In other words, the nagal strives to reconcile fluidity (1) and harmony and balance (8) - two aspects which by
their very nature are fortunately most compatible. What in effect this boils down to, is that the nagal must make every attempt to
be so utterly impeccable in his own perception that he can find ways and means whereby at least some measure of freedom can
be achieved amidst the constant turmoil and turbulence brought forth by humanity within both the ninth and the tenth worlds.
Whenever any nagal accomplishes even just this little bit, then at least a tiny, a minuscule portion of the Unspeakable's purpose
has been materialised through the medium of completion, forrealise that courage does reduce to completion, in that 1 + 8 = 9.
Assisting the nagal in his herculean task is the nagal woman. I wish to explain the nagal woman's role at this point, for
although she is technically-speaking not part of the rest of the unit, nonetheless, because of her exceedingly close association
with the nagal, she forms part of the male South, rather than forming part of the female South.
The jewel of the nagal woman is 9, completion, a fact which in itself speaks volumes to the perceptive apprentice. Not only do
all four of the female directions within the Toltec unit add up to 9, but so too is the jewel of the nagal woman 9 - which is not at
all surprising if one remembers that the nagal woman has the characteristics of all four types of women. However, inherent
within jewel 9 is one of the greatest paradoxes to be found within the Toltec teachings, namely the reconciliation of jewels 4 and
5, for 9 is, according to the laws of numerology, 4 + 5.
Why it should be 4 + 5, as opposed to, say 6 + 3, or 2 + 7, or even 3 +3 + 3, is not within the scope of this book, but let it suffice for
now merely to point out the significance of this fact.
Remember that it is the purpose of the Unspeakable to incorporate the unknown within the known, but that this can only
be done through practical experience gained within life upon the physical plane, irrespective of whether this is the dense physical
plane or not.
Now, as we already know, fulfilment of this purpose is what we term materialization, but since all materialization
naturally tends to inertia, there is always the danger that the process of evolution can be arrested before true completion of the
Unspeakable's purpose has been achieved. Furthermore, realise that, in the final analysis, the force of inertia is the negative
manifestation of the very same force we look upon as being stability (4). This is necessarily so, because for any act to
be really meaningful, including the incorporation of the unknown within the known, such an act must be grounded in
stability, and it is, of course, exactly herein that lies the danger already referred to.
Therefore counteracting the force of inertia (-4), which is inherent within stability (+4), is that aspect of awareness
termed freedom and change (5), and it is this that is the paradox, for clearly (-4) + 5 = 1, and not 9.
This paradox rests upon the question of how completion can ever be achieved if everything is kept in a state of perpetual
fluidity (1). We have in actual fact already partly answered this question in the previous chapter when we took a brief look at the
nature of the fourth dimension and, in doing so, saw that the centre of the sphere of beingness is in constant motion, that is,
in a state of perpetual fluidity (1).
As is clear to see from what we have learned here, this fluidity (1) of the centre of the sphere of beingness comes about because
of the fact that freedom and change (5) counteracts the force of inertia (-4). Yet, realise also that in spite of the natural tendency
of materialisation towards inertia, materialisation can only come about because the stability (+4) inherent within MEST itself
makes it possible for the Unspeakable to fulfil Its purpose.
In other words, on the one hand we have the sum of the stability (4) of MEST and the urge towards freedom and change
(5) bringing about completion (9); and on the other hand, we have the sum of the force of inertia (-4) and the urge towards
freedom and change (5) bringing about the perpetual fluidity (1) of materialization.
However, the stunning intelligence in all of this, is the fact that the force of inertia and stability are not
two separate forces, but are instead one and the same force, manifesting two different aspects of itself simultaneously, but both working together in perfect harmony with
freedom and change.
The result of this weird paradox is that, although the purpose of the Unspeakable is continuously being materialized, all such materialization is kept in a state of perpetual
fluidity so that premature stagnation is never possible. It is for this reason that it is stated that The World of Sorcerers is the world of completion,
in that it is constantly folding in upon itself to become Every-Thing else.
In the final analysis, realise that we are here looking at one of the most breathtaking phenomena of the universe,
namely, how it is indeed possible to achieve a completion that in reality never ceases to continue coming to completion.
It is also within this awesome phenomenon that lies the true nature of the eternal now, for in The World of Sorcerers, and
therefore inherent within jewel 9, past, present and future co-exist as one potential. Every facet of that potential is capable of being
materialised, and yet through being kept in a state of perpetual fluidity once materialised, it has neither beginning nor end,
has neither a past nor a future, for within the realm of potential, what was, is and can be, co-exist as one interrelated whole, the parts
of which are not only thoroughly interdependent, but are also constantly interacting in such a way that every moment is now, and
within the now every occurrence is a completion.
Therefore, from all of the above it can now be seen that, in having a predilection for jewel 9, the nagal woman, in a most
esoteric sense, embodies within herself the nature and the purpose of The World of Sorcerers. Also, because all of the
female directions add up to 9, it is not so difficult to grasp why the nagal woman should have the characteristics of all four types
of women.
Furthermore, because the nagal woman embodies within herself the nature and the purpose of The World of
Sorcerers, the fully trained nagal has no difficulty at all in being able to "read" in the beingness of the nagal woman the
reflections within The World of Sorcerers brought about by the actions of humanity.
It is for this reason that it is said that the nagal woman assists the nagal in ascertaining where lies the
greatest threat or danger in the moment, and because of her ability to do this, the nagal woman is traditionally referred to
as the beacon light by which the nagal navigates the ship which is his unit of warriors.
Intelligent co-operation between the nagal and the nagal woman is the sum of their jewels, namely: 18 + 9 = 18.
The implications here are that the nagal woman is at her most courageous, and also truly complete when she is fulfilling her fate
in working together with a nagal, for 18 reduces to 9.
Conversely, as we see from the equation above, the nagal draws double courage from the co-operation between him and the
nagal woman, and since the courage that is demanded of him is more than the average human being is capable of, this added
courage is something every nagal treasures above anything else in the world.
Together these two beings give each other courage, and together they strive for completion, but in their heart
of hearts knowing that neither of them can ever truly win. The nagal woman can at best, like her progenitor The World of
Sorcerers, keep turning in upon herself in constantly becoming Every-Thing else in fulfilment of the purpose of the Unspeakable.
The nagal can at best keep hoping that with every tiny bit of freedom achieved, his efforts at trying to restore and maintain
harmony and balance are not in vain, even though again and again he faces defeat at every moment of every day. Yet such is
the nature of these two beings, and such is their predilection, that neither are ever really happy and fulfilled unless they are
fighting to find a way in which to turn an impossible battle into a battle that it is possible to win, even if just in some small way.
This then brings us to the nagal's Courier, a man whose predilection is most aptly for jewel 20, namely, honour, for realise
that at the end of the day it is honour that is to be found at the core of any warrior's heart. Yet, as we have discussed many times
before, the warrior's sense of honour is very different to that of the average man or woman. True honour is the product of
the relationship between humility and understanding (2) and absolute freedom (0).
Although we have already dealt with both of these two jewels, namely, 2 and 0, it will benefit the reader greatly if we expand a bit
more here on the deeper implications of that mysterious jewel which has no number, for although we assign the number zero
to this jewel, the implications are that it is nothing, that is, No-Thing.
From the above it is immediately clear that to try to do justice to jewel 0 in this book is well-nigh impossible, for if the truth be
told, many volumes can be devoted to just this one jewel alone, and still the reader will more than likely feel none the wiser, for
how does one explain that which by its very nature is no-thing.
Therefore let it suffice for our presen purposes merely to say that jewel 0, because it is no-thing, is the origin of all the jewels,
as well as permeating them all. Like its progenitor, the spirit of man, the nagal, jewel 0 is the void containing every-thing, for as
paradoxical as it may sound, the void is the ultimate in awareness, for within that void the nature, the meaning, and the purpose of
all, stands revealed in the eternal now.
From within the void, that is, from within that aspect of awareness to which no number is assigned, there are no questions, for there is no-thing to understand.
Likewise, from within the void, there is no freedom, for there is no-thing from which to be free, and hence is it referred
to as absolute freedom. Yet care should be taken not to take these statements at face value, for no-thing does not imply emptiness.
The fact that the void is no-thing simply implies that it is not that which we can verbalise, for in essence it is the ineffable, the Unspeakable.
From what we have learned here, it should be clear that true honour is the product of the relationship between humility
and understanding (2) and the void (0). The implications here are so vast that verbalisation is exceedingly difficult, but it will
help to think of it in terms of what were probably the most profound words ever spoken by the philosopher Socrates when
he said, "I am the wisest man in the whole world, for I alone know that I know nothing".
In this truly brilliant statement, Socrates tried his level best to verbalise the true nature of honour, and to the Toltec warrior
who is thoroughly versed in the properties of words, those few words do indeed speak volumes. However, it takes a fair amount
of explaining in order to qualify the nuances of these words and, in this respect, I personally have always been enormously envious
of Socrates, for although those who are fully trained in the properties of words can verbalise anything that needs to be
verbalised, the problem is that apprentices never come to the Warrior's Path already literate. However, to judge from the
teachings of Socrates, his students were all fully literate when they came to him!
Nevertheless, realise that the overall import of this statement by Socrates is very much a statement of humility, in that Socrates
understood enough about life to know that, relative to the greater life of which we are units, none of us knows much at all. It is only
the ignorant fool living in the tiny cocoon of his view of the world who tends to think that his rational mind can provide
the answers to everything.
Therefore when Socrates said that he knows that he knows nothing, he was in fact stepping back to
lower his head in utter humility, for he was fully willing to admit that even all of his wisdom as a philosopher was as nothing in
comparison to all that he still did not know. To have such understanding that it automatically brings about humility, in
itself already indicates the truly wise man.
Furthermore, in making reference to himself as "I alone", Socrates was referring to I, the all-one, meaning the totality of the
self, and in saying that "I alone know", he was actually saying "I, the all-one know". It stands to reason that the only real
knowledge there can be, is knowledge of the self, that is, knowledge of the totality of the self - the all-one - and when
that knowledge is fully conscious, one can indeed say "I, the all one know", or alternatively, "I know the all-one (which is me)".
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support of the fact that before the unknown can be incorporated into the known in an intelligent and meaningful way,
the two must first be separated out into the two polarities.
From the above it should be clear that the Toltec phrase"discriminating with divine inspiration", implies that in choosing
between the old, that is, the mother, and the new, that is, the woman, the warrior cannot base such discrimination upon any
form of prejudice or haphazard assumption, but instead needsto rely upon divine inspiration, a term used for denoting the act
of listening to the heart.
It therefore stands to reason that jewel16 has inherent within it the quality of guidance, for 1 + 6 is
indeed equal to 7. Furthermore, from this it is also obvious why it should be feeling that is assigned to the West, for in both the
male West and the female West, listening to the heart is vitally important in feeling one's way in the darkness of the unknown -
the unknown being marked by the setting sun, as opposed to the known marked by the rising sun.
Consequently the Man Behind the Scenes is the man who works directly with the heart and
with feeling, as opposed to his polar opposite, the Scholar, who works directly with mind and with sobriety.
The Courier to the Man Behind the Scenes is predominantly concerned with mapping out the unknown, and hence his
predilection for the jewel called light through darkness. Jewel 15 is the product of the relationship between fluidity (1) and
freedom and change (5), or alternatively the sum of impeccability (10) and freedom and change (5), for it must never be forgotten
that in referring to fluidity derived from 10, we are implying that type of fluidity which is derived through life's experience
upon the physical plane, and which, in the final analysis,amounts to the same thing as impeccability.
Therefore light through darkness can only emerge when freedom and change is exercised within the context of impeccability.
The implication in the above is that there can be no light emerging from out of the darkness of a challenge if we strive to
free ourselves from that challenge by trying to avoid it, or if we attempt to change our fate in some way.
Only by facing our challenges fairly and squarely can there be light through darkness.
True freedom and change is freedom from the debilitating restraints of social conditioning and a consequent change in our
self-image. Needless to say, from this it is very easy to see that light through darkness (15) must yield the ability to choose
between the old and the new (6), for 1 + 5 = 6.
We see therefore that the overriding emphasis in the male West is to bring about stability (4) within the realm of the irrational
unknown by initiating the death of the old (13) through the medium of liberation through the power of intent (16), coupled
with the acquisition of light through darkness (15).
This is achieved through the medium of that guidance (7 from 16) received in listening to the heart, in conjunction with the acquired ability to
receive divine inspiration in choosing between the old and the new (6 from 15), again through listening to the heart.
The female West, being made up entirely of prime number jewels, does not have the quiet stability to be found in the other
three female directions, which all have a majority of double numbers.
As a result, the Westerly females, including their Courier, are fondly referred to by their fellow warriors as mad.
In this respect the men from the male West really do have their hands full most of the time in having to contain the Westerly
females, for whenever these women go into one of their "mad" phases, which is rather more often than not, their Courier, whose
predilection is for mixed abundance, tends to join them, with the result that all hell breaks loose!
Yet, demonstrated in this fact, we once again see the need for polarity, for in many ways it is the
fiery "madness" of the female West, coupled with the sombre broodiness of the male West, that tends to balance out the
rather cool and somewhat clinical collective sobriety of the East.
The Westerly Dreamer is the most "mad" of the two Westerly women, in that not having much patience with logical assumptions,
her natural predilection is for pure fluidity (1). Being predominantly concerned with the One Power, this lady cannot be
bothered with all of the nit-picking so prevalent within the world of humanity, and thus has the most amazing ability to cut
straight through all pettiness to the very heart of any challenge.
Being so very fluid in her natural dislike of human pettiness, the Westerly Dreamer can "bounce" her way through life on her
head if need be, for in herself she has no regard for any form of self-importance, and least of all self-pity, both of which tend
to get in the way of unfolding and achieving the One Power (1).
Having such a disposition, the Westerly Dreamer also has no regard for anyone else's sense of self-importance or self-pity.
As a result, unless she is contained, this lady can quite literally turn a whole nation upside down when she suddenly gets it into her
head to go on a rampage against all that hinders freedom in the acquisition of man's divine heritage.
In this respect it is interesting to note that the majority of so-called female martyrs, such as
Joan of Arc, were Westerly Dreamers.
In relation to the above, it must be realised that jewel 1, being an aspect of inherent awareness, has a natural tendency
towards linear progression. Therefore unless pure fluidity is contained, in the sense of being grounded in impeccability
achieved through practical experience within life upon the physical plane, it will always revert to its natural tendency to
forge straight ahead in the face of all odds.
This does not implythat the Westerly Dreamer is not impeccable in her actions. On the contrary, when she is caught in the "madness" of her vision,
her grasp of the true purpose of the One Life is exceedingly impeccable, in that it is utterly free from all sense of self importance
and self-pity. However, in not having any sense of self-importance at all, this lady also does not care a fig about
what others may or may not think of her actions, and therefore unless she is contained and directed when the "madness" overtakes
her, she will simply forge ahead with a sense of purpose that often appears to be the actions of the fool, or the clown, by
virtue of her total disregard for the opinion of others.
The Westerly Stalker, on the other hand, being much more concerned with the practicalities of life upon the physical plane
than the Westerly Dreamer, is somewhat less "mad" than her counterpart, and yet, in having a predilection for jewel 5, this
lady also has the tendency to go on a mission with a vengeance.
Jewel 5 is, of course, freedom and change, and notwithstanding what we have already learned about this jewel,
realise that it too is an aspect of inherent awareness, and also very closely allied to jewel 1, for inherent within 5 is the One Power
and its fourfold expression, namely, sobriety, strength, feeling and warmth.
As a result, whenever the Westerly Stalker goes into one of her "mad" phases she is usually a rather weird mixture of
all four expressions of the One Power, and thus there is always an incredible clarity within the otherwise apparent "madness" of
the Westerly Stalker - a clarity that she will deliver with a warmth and a strength that unfortunately all too often comes across like
the oddly "benign" actions of a fired-up bulldozer sweeping all before it with the "good" intention of imparting a most
treasured, albeit impassioned, feeling.
Any warrior will testify to the fact that if you should ever have difficulty in learning the true meaning of freedom and change,
then the person whose assistance you should enlist is the Westerly Stalker. This lady will simply bulldoze you most unceremoniously
out of your view of the world, and if you still do not know what constitutes freedom after that, she will demonstrate
change by changing your image of yourself in no uncertain terms, and will more than likely do so in such a manner as to
leave you with very little room for doubting that she finds you to be an absolutely brainless moron.
After such a lesson in the very definite disadvantages of vanity, this lady will without a
doubt embrace you with all the love and warmth of the proverbial matron, will pat you on the head like a favourite pet,
and if you are not quick enough in malting good your escape, will promptly set about stalking you into your next lesson!
Whilst it is true that to be stalked by an Easterly Stalker is to know without a doubt that you have been stalked, to be stalked by a
Westerly Stalker is to be left wondering if you have not perhaps been seriously manipulated!
Yet, notwithstanding anything we have noted about the two Westerly women so far, these two ladies really are the heart and
the soul of the Toltec unit in a very literal sense. Although even their fellow warriors within the Toltec unit have to learn through
many an arduous trial, and many a painful error, to appreciate the Westerly women fully, once their apparent "madness" is
understood for what it really is, these two ladies are the heart personified!
Ruthless to the n'th degree in their natural tendency to forge straight ahead, and utterly fearless in their deep sense of
uncomplicated simplicity, these two ladies are truly formidable opponents in any battle.
Furthermore, because of their total inability to be swayed, the courage of the two Westerly women is such that their sense of
loyalty to the cause, and therefore also their loyalty to their fellow warriors, is something that is not only unsurpassed, but also
heartrendingly beautiful to behold.
In this respect, neither of these two ladies will bat an eyelid at sacrificing themselves in the
defence of a fellow warrior, but, rest assured, they will not do so without giving that warrior an earful of verbal abuse.
And yet,although that abuse will be so designed as to tear strips off the ego, it will also always be filled with such profound meaning and
deep poignancy that tears invariably come unbidden to the eyes of the witness.
Such is the true inner beauty of these two most special ladies - an inner beauty arising out of an intrinsic selflessness,
and which is by far their most distinguishing characteristic.
Attendant to the two Westerly women is the Courier to the West who, as we have already noted, has a predilection for mixed
abundance. Inherent within jewel 3 is the fundamental triplicity of the manifested universe. Consequently within 3 we encounter
the relationship between inherent awareness and evolving awareness, but within the context of the purpose of the Unspeakable.
Therefore jewel 3 is primarily concerned with how best to nurture and to keep intact the results of the interaction between
the linear progression of inherent awareness and the circular inclusion that comes about as a result of evolving awareness being
fixed to its centre.
The results of this interaction, because they pertain to both inherent as well as evolving awareness are, of
course, what is referred to as mixed abundance.However, jewel 3 is also referred to as joy and creativity, for
inherent within this jewel is the childlike, as opposed to childish, desire to surround oneself with mixed abundance for the
sheer joy of not only collecting, but also for the joy of being able to create something out of the bits and pieces collected,
irrespective of whether these are material things, or simply tit bits of interesting information. In this respect we are all familiar
with how any child is quite capable of crying at one moment, and then laughing the next; of building a sand castle with glee, and of
destroying it with equal glee once completed; of collecting sea shells with huge enthusiasm, then merely to forget them totally
in the equally enthusiastic pursuit of a sudden new interest.
From the above it stands to reason that the Courier to the West, because his jewel is a single digit, and therefore having a
natural tendency towards inherent awareness, is far more inclined towards forging straight ahead than he is towards trying to
create order within mixed abundance.
The end result is that the Courier to the West is quite the best collector, for in his love of
forging ahead within the context of mixed abundance, he quite literally collects everything in sight, irrespective of whether it is
gossip, objets d'art, musical instruments, poetry, books, photographs and, in short, everything which may or may not be
useful.
However, although this man's talent for joyful creativity never ceases to amaze, his childlike enthusiasm for life does
not allow him to linger with any one book long enough to finish reading it, although admittedly, his spontaneous openness of
heart does normally enable him to grasp intuitively the contents of the book, even though he has never read it fully. Likewise will
he find it far too time-consuming to learn to master any of the musical instruments he may have collected, although once
again, his intuitive grasp of anything is such that he will normally have an uncanny ability to improvise superbly on just about any
musical instrument.
When these three warriors from the female West co-operate intelligently, we see once again that the result is the sum total of
their respective jewels, that is: 1 + 5 + 3 = 9.
The meaning here is that in the female West completion (9) is achieved through the medium of pure fluidity (1) coupled with
freedom and change (5) in the childlike pursuit of that creativity and joy (3) that yields mixed abundance (3).
This type of completion cannot possibly be more different to that type of completion generated in the East; namely, the urge to completion
through the medium of humility and understanding born of forebearance and the death of the old.
Completion in the East, true to the dictates of sobriety, means being finished in the sense that everything is sorted out
and no loose ends remain unattended to.
Therefore the East always has the quality of being immaculately neat and tidy, ordered, and everything perfectly accounted for.
But completion in the West most of the time never does have the quality of being finished in the true sense of the word, but is
more in the nature of a rather delightful and truly childlike higgledy-piggledy order of sorts amidst what can only be termed
inspired chaos!
In relation to the female West the reader will find it interesting if we digress slightly at this point in order to demonstrate the
universality of the One Truth. The example I would like to use is one recorded in the Christian bible, namely, the well-known
episode when Christ returned from a trip to find his disciples fishing from a boat on the Sea of Galilee.
Having been informed by his disciples that they had had no luck all through the night,
Christ instructed them to lift the fishing net and to cast it to the other side of the boat. Even though such an injunction must
have made little sense to the disciples, they nonetheless obeyed, and when the net was pulled up after having been cast to the
other side as instructed, they beheld a miracle, for it was filled with one hundred and fifty-three fishes.
This episode is one of the most beautiful examples of irrationality versus rationality, for clearly, if there had been no
fish on the one side of the boat, then why in exactly the same spot would there be fish on the other side of the boat? Yet, what
Christ taught his disciples on that day was the importance of shifting the focus so as not to become obsessed with rational
assumption. Furthermore, by instructing them to cast the net to the other (9) side of the boat, Christ was pointing out to his
disciples the importance of aligning The World of Sorcerers and, in so doing, becoming capable of performing a miracle.
In this particular example, Christ showed his disciples how to align The World of Sorcerers, firstly, by shifting the focus; and
secondly, by being fluid (1) enough to change (5) their view of the world, as well as their self-image, thereby acquiring the
freedom (5) necessary to become truly creative (3). The result, as we already know, was their joy (3) when they again raised the net
and found plenty of fish inside - one hundred and fifty three tobe exact - 153 - the jewels assigned to the female West, 1, 5 and 3.
Later we will again look at how to set about aligning The World of Sorcerers, but I wanted to give this example here
merely because it is so very appropriate in demonstrating the fact that where there is true knowledge there is only the One Truth.
What separates and divides, what causes one person to be suspicious of another, and what causes one religious sect to
condemn another, always boils down to a lack of true knowledge and a vision limited by the narrow and all too often inaccurate
confines of rational assumption.
To return now to our consideration of the West, we find that when the warriors in the male West co-operate intelligently with
the warriors in the female West, the result is, as always, the sum of their respective totals, namely:
(15 + 16) + (1 + 5 + 3) = 13+ 9 = 13.
The implications here are again very different to those in the East, for although the end result is still stability (4) through the
medium of the death of the old (13), it must be remembered that,according to the laws of numerology, these two types of stability
are completely different by virtue of their different constituents.
Therefore stability in the West is based upon pure feeling, and is therefore completely irrational, whereas the stability in the
East is based entirely upon sobriety, and is therefore the very epitome of that lovely sober clarity born of the impeccable use of
the rational mind.
Consequently we have the East on the one hand, stable in having brought about death of the old through the medium of
sobriety; and on the other hand we have the West, also stable in having brought about death of the old through the medium of
feeling.
This is the horizontal axis marked by man standing with his arms stretched sideways, embracing both the rising sun as
well as the setting sun, the East and the West. In that embrace,man incorporates within his beingness not only the known
and the unknown, but also the very meaning and purpose of life upon the horizontal axis, that is, life upon the physical plane.
By embracing both the East and the West equally, by embracing both polarities of life upon the physical plane, that is, the rising
sun, life, and the setting sun, death, man achieves true stability by bringing about death of the old, or death of all that hinders his
progress along the Path of Freedom, and this he does with both sobriety and feeling, with mind and heart.
Finally, because the warriors in the male West as well as the female West are predominantly preoccupied with feeling in one
way or another, they are, because of that openness of heart, also acutely aware at all times of the warrior's duty to help fulfil the
purpose of the Unspeakable.
Because of this fact, and bearing in mind that space is defined as the product of perceiving the purpose of life, the Westerly warriors
are traditionally and collectively referred to as the dreamers in space.
Therefore upon the horizontal axis, or within life upon the physical plane, we see the necessity
for, firstly, using the art of stalking in the Mastery of Awareness, and secondly, the art of dreaming in the Mastery of Intent.
As was mentioned earlier, this does not imply that all of the Easterly warriors are stalkers, and that all of the Westerly warriors are
dreamers, but it does imply that in worldng with sobriety it is vitally important to stalk our own perception constantly; whilst in
working with feeling we must cultivate an openness of heart that can only really be acquired through dreaming.
Next in line is the South, which, it will be remembered from Cry of the Eagle is known as the gateway to the nagal's world.
Accordingly in the male South we find both the nagal and his Courier. The nagal, because he is not a specific type of man,
unlike any of the others, does not have a particular predilection for any one jewel, for his duty as nagal requires of him an equal
efficiency with all of the jewels, male and female, as well as with those jewels known as the dark jewels and the forbidden jewels
Nevertheless, because of what is required of him in terms of leading others to freedom, the jewel that is normally assigned to
the destiny of a nagal is jewel 18, which is primarily centred upon the meaning of courage.
Courage means many things to many people, but in essence it is the product of the relationship between fluidity (1) and
harmony and balance (8), which is the same as the sum of impeccability (10) and harmony and balance (8).
However, inherent within jewel 8 is the harmonious balance existing between the tenth and the ninth world, that is, between the
dense physical world and The World of Sorcerers.
That balance, existing upon and maintained by harmony, is by its very nature exceedingly fragile and therefore easily upset.
Furthermore,because all harmony is dependent upon the interrelationship of life, it is invariably man who tends to upset that balance in one
way or another whenever he ignores the interrelationship of life through his actions, physical, emotional or mental.
Consequently it stands to reason that there can be no true freedom where
there is not harmony and balance between the ninth and the tenth worlds, for not only is the ninth world the blueprint of the
tenth world, but it is also the mirror in which is reflected the purpose of the Unspeakable.
Therefore whenever the balance is disturbed between the ninth and the tenth world, the resultant
disharmony reflected in The World of Sorcerers distorts all of life upon the dense physical plane.
From the above it follows that the real meaning of courage is to strive to restore and to maintain both harmony and balance,
a task which, because of humanity's general ignorance of the interrelationship of life, is truly formidable at the best of
times, and well-nigh impossible most of the time.
And yet, inspite of this, that which is required of the nagal at all times, is hope in the face of all odds, and persistence even amidst constant
defeat. To keep on hoping when all seems hopeless, and to keep persisting when there never seems to be any light at the end
of the tunnel, takes a type of courage that is impossible to verbalize. Yet, realise that if the nagal was to give up hope and to
stop trying, what hope would there be for any of those whom it is his duty to lead to freedom?
The only way in which any nagal can ever hope to fulfil his fate is to reconcile the two aspects of awareness which constitute
his own jewel. In other words, the nagal strives to reconcile fluidity (1) and harmony and balance (8) - two aspects which by
their very nature are fortunately most compatible. What in effect this boils down to, is that the nagal must make every attempt to
be so utterly impeccable in his own perception that he can find ways and means whereby at least some measure of freedom can
be achieved amidst the constant turmoil and turbulence brought forth by humanity within both the ninth and the tenth worlds.
Whenever any nagal accomplishes even just this little bit, then at least a tiny, a minuscule portion of the Unspeakable's purpose
has been materialised through the medium of completion, forrealise that courage does reduce to completion, in that 1 + 8 = 9.
Assisting the nagal in his herculean task is the nagal woman. I wish to explain the nagal woman's role at this point, for
although she is technically-speaking not part of the rest of the unit, nonetheless, because of her exceedingly close association
with the nagal, she forms part of the male South, rather than forming part of the female South.
The jewel of the nagal woman is 9, completion, a fact which in itself speaks volumes to the perceptive apprentice. Not only do
all four of the female directions within the Toltec unit add up to 9, but so too is the jewel of the nagal woman 9 - which is not at
all surprising if one remembers that the nagal woman has the characteristics of all four types of women. However, inherent
within jewel 9 is one of the greatest paradoxes to be found within the Toltec teachings, namely the reconciliation of jewels 4 and
5, for 9 is, according to the laws of numerology, 4 + 5.
Why it should be 4 + 5, as opposed to, say 6 + 3, or 2 + 7, or even 3 +3 + 3, is not within the scope of this book, but let it suffice for
now merely to point out the significance of this fact.
Remember that it is the purpose of the Unspeakable to incorporate the unknown within the known, but that this can only
be done through practical experience gained within life upon the physical plane, irrespective of whether this is the dense physical
plane or not.
Now, as we already know, fulfilment of this purpose is what we term materialization, but since all materialization
naturally tends to inertia, there is always the danger that the process of evolution can be arrested before true completion of the
Unspeakable's purpose has been achieved. Furthermore, realise that, in the final analysis, the force of inertia is the negative
manifestation of the very same force we look upon as being stability (4). This is necessarily so, because for any act to
be really meaningful, including the incorporation of the unknown within the known, such an act must be grounded in
stability, and it is, of course, exactly herein that lies the danger already referred to.
Therefore counteracting the force of inertia (-4), which is inherent within stability (+4), is that aspect of awareness
termed freedom and change (5), and it is this that is the paradox, for clearly (-4) + 5 = 1, and not 9.
This paradox rests upon the question of how completion can ever be achieved if everything is kept in a state of perpetual
fluidity (1). We have in actual fact already partly answered this question in the previous chapter when we took a brief look at the
nature of the fourth dimension and, in doing so, saw that the centre of the sphere of beingness is in constant motion, that is,
in a state of perpetual fluidity (1).
As is clear to see from what we have learned here, this fluidity (1) of the centre of the sphere of beingness comes about because
of the fact that freedom and change (5) counteracts the force of inertia (-4). Yet, realise also that in spite of the natural tendency
of materialisation towards inertia, materialisation can only come about because the stability (+4) inherent within MEST itself
makes it possible for the Unspeakable to fulfil Its purpose.
In other words, on the one hand we have the sum of the stability (4) of MEST and the urge towards freedom and change
(5) bringing about completion (9); and on the other hand, we have the sum of the force of inertia (-4) and the urge towards
freedom and change (5) bringing about the perpetual fluidity (1) of materialization.
However, the stunning intelligence in all of this, is the fact that the force of inertia and stability are not
two separate forces, but are instead one and the same force, manifesting two different aspects of itself simultaneously, but both working together in perfect harmony with
freedom and change.
The result of this weird paradox is that, although the purpose of the Unspeakable is continuously being materialized, all such materialization is kept in a state of perpetual
fluidity so that premature stagnation is never possible. It is for this reason that it is stated that The World of Sorcerers is the world of completion,
in that it is constantly folding in upon itself to become Every-Thing else.
In the final analysis, realise that we are here looking at one of the most breathtaking phenomena of the universe,
namely, how it is indeed possible to achieve a completion that in reality never ceases to continue coming to completion.
It is also within this awesome phenomenon that lies the true nature of the eternal now, for in The World of Sorcerers, and
therefore inherent within jewel 9, past, present and future co-exist as one potential. Every facet of that potential is capable of being
materialised, and yet through being kept in a state of perpetual fluidity once materialised, it has neither beginning nor end,
has neither a past nor a future, for within the realm of potential, what was, is and can be, co-exist as one interrelated whole, the parts
of which are not only thoroughly interdependent, but are also constantly interacting in such a way that every moment is now, and
within the now every occurrence is a completion.
Therefore, from all of the above it can now be seen that, in having a predilection for jewel 9, the nagal woman, in a most
esoteric sense, embodies within herself the nature and the purpose of The World of Sorcerers. Also, because all of the
female directions add up to 9, it is not so difficult to grasp why the nagal woman should have the characteristics of all four types
of women.
Furthermore, because the nagal woman embodies within herself the nature and the purpose of The World of
Sorcerers, the fully trained nagal has no difficulty at all in being able to "read" in the beingness of the nagal woman the
reflections within The World of Sorcerers brought about by the actions of humanity.
It is for this reason that it is said that the nagal woman assists the nagal in ascertaining where lies the
greatest threat or danger in the moment, and because of her ability to do this, the nagal woman is traditionally referred to
as the beacon light by which the nagal navigates the ship which is his unit of warriors.
Intelligent co-operation between the nagal and the nagal woman is the sum of their jewels, namely: 18 + 9 = 18.
The implications here are that the nagal woman is at her most courageous, and also truly complete when she is fulfilling her fate
in working together with a nagal, for 18 reduces to 9.
Conversely, as we see from the equation above, the nagal draws double courage from the co-operation between him and the
nagal woman, and since the courage that is demanded of him is more than the average human being is capable of, this added
courage is something every nagal treasures above anything else in the world.
Together these two beings give each other courage, and together they strive for completion, but in their heart
of hearts knowing that neither of them can ever truly win. The nagal woman can at best, like her progenitor The World of
Sorcerers, keep turning in upon herself in constantly becoming Every-Thing else in fulfilment of the purpose of the Unspeakable.
The nagal can at best keep hoping that with every tiny bit of freedom achieved, his efforts at trying to restore and maintain
harmony and balance are not in vain, even though again and again he faces defeat at every moment of every day. Yet such is
the nature of these two beings, and such is their predilection, that neither are ever really happy and fulfilled unless they are
fighting to find a way in which to turn an impossible battle into a battle that it is possible to win, even if just in some small way.
This then brings us to the nagal's Courier, a man whose predilection is most aptly for jewel 20, namely, honour, for realise
that at the end of the day it is honour that is to be found at the core of any warrior's heart. Yet, as we have discussed many times
before, the warrior's sense of honour is very different to that of the average man or woman. True honour is the product of
the relationship between humility and understanding (2) and absolute freedom (0).
Although we have already dealt with both of these two jewels, namely, 2 and 0, it will benefit the reader greatly if we expand a bit
more here on the deeper implications of that mysterious jewel which has no number, for although we assign the number zero
to this jewel, the implications are that it is nothing, that is, No-Thing.
From the above it is immediately clear that to try to do justice to jewel 0 in this book is well-nigh impossible, for if the truth be
told, many volumes can be devoted to just this one jewel alone, and still the reader will more than likely feel none the wiser, for
how does one explain that which by its very nature is no-thing.
Therefore let it suffice for our presen purposes merely to say that jewel 0, because it is no-thing, is the origin of all the jewels,
as well as permeating them all. Like its progenitor, the spirit of man, the nagal, jewel 0 is the void containing every-thing, for as
paradoxical as it may sound, the void is the ultimate in awareness, for within that void the nature, the meaning, and the purpose of
all, stands revealed in the eternal now.
From within the void, that is, from within that aspect of awareness to which no number is assigned, there are no questions, for there is no-thing to understand.
Likewise, from within the void, there is no freedom, for there is no-thing from which to be free, and hence is it referred
to as absolute freedom. Yet care should be taken not to take these statements at face value, for no-thing does not imply emptiness.
The fact that the void is no-thing simply implies that it is not that which we can verbalise, for in essence it is the ineffable, the Unspeakable.
From what we have learned here, it should be clear that true honour is the product of the relationship between humility
and understanding (2) and the void (0). The implications here are so vast that verbalisation is exceedingly difficult, but it will
help to think of it in terms of what were probably the most profound words ever spoken by the philosopher Socrates when
he said, "I am the wisest man in the whole world, for I alone know that I know nothing".
In this truly brilliant statement, Socrates tried his level best to verbalise the true nature of honour, and to the Toltec warrior
who is thoroughly versed in the properties of words, those few words do indeed speak volumes. However, it takes a fair amount
of explaining in order to qualify the nuances of these words and, in this respect, I personally have always been enormously envious
of Socrates, for although those who are fully trained in the properties of words can verbalise anything that needs to be
verbalised, the problem is that apprentices never come to the Warrior's Path already literate. However, to judge from the
teachings of Socrates, his students were all fully literate when they came to him!
Nevertheless, realise that the overall import of this statement by Socrates is very much a statement of humility, in that Socrates
understood enough about life to know that, relative to the greater life of which we are units, none of us knows much at all. It is only
the ignorant fool living in the tiny cocoon of his view of the world who tends to think that his rational mind can provide
the answers to everything.
Therefore when Socrates said that he knows that he knows nothing, he was in fact stepping back to
lower his head in utter humility, for he was fully willing to admit that even all of his wisdom as a philosopher was as nothing in
comparison to all that he still did not know. To have such understanding that it automatically brings about humility, in
itself already indicates the truly wise man.
Furthermore, in making reference to himself as "I alone", Socrates was referring to I, the all-one, meaning the totality of the
self, and in saying that "I alone know", he was actually saying "I, the all-one know". It stands to reason that the only real
knowledge there can be, is knowledge of the self, that is, knowledge of the totality of the self - the all-one - and when
that knowledge is fully conscious, one can indeed say "I, the all one know", or alternatively, "I know the all-one (which is me)".
(edited for easier reading)