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THE KEYS
TO THE WORLD
OF SORCERERS ARE TWENTY-ONE
JEWELS REFLECTING A
LIGHT THAT IS
LETHAL TO THE
IGNORANT. BUT WHOEVER
HAS THE POWER TO HOLD
THESE
KEYS IS MASTER OF THE WORLD OF SORCERERS AND MAY ENTER
AND EXIT THAT
WORLD SAFELY AND AT WILL.
In considering the
four directions in terms of awareness we have several
options open to us, depending upon where we choose to place the focus. For our present purposes I am
going to adopt the method which is
used in explaining to apprentices what their specific role within
the Toltec unit encompasses, for
although this method leaves many questions unanswered,
it is nonetheless also quite the
easiest to follow in terms of the four directions. In time
all questions will be answered, but for the sake of simplicity let us first of all opt for the simpler method.
The Toltec unit is
based upon the laws of evolution, which are
not laws that
were devised by
man, but laws
that were
discovered by Toltec seers over a great many
generations of seers. I make this point here because in the section
that follows I am
simply going to make one statement after another without any attempt at trying to substantiate these
statements at this point,
for if we are to achieve clarity on this
material, then details must perforce come only
later. If I were
to try and
explain every
statement, the reader will become so confused
and lost in detail, that he or she will not be able to see the
wood for the trees.
If we
look at the Toltec unit, we see that the way in which power has set it up is
quite awesome in its implications. First of
all, realise that all units are comprised of both men and women,and that all men and women naturally fall into four
very definite groups.
In other
words, although every individual is unique in his or her own right, in the final analysis there are only four types
of men and four types of women corresponding
to the fourfold purpose of the Unspeakable
As a
result, these four types of men and four types of women are also assigned to the four directions.
In relation to the above, it is important to
remember that the male is positive relative to the female, (Cry of the Eagle), and that
in
practice this means
that the male equates
with the known, whilst the female equates with the unknown. Also bear in mind
that it
is the purpose
of the male to
anchor all knowledge, meaning that it is the male who has to make
knowledge practical
within life upon the physical plane. The
purpose of the female, on
the other hand,
is to assist
the male in
mapping out the
unknown by bringing forth fragments of the
unknown which she feels is needed within the context of any particular endeavour.
As we saw in Cry of the Eagle, this necessitates the act of intelligent co-operation between male
and female, which of course, both
implies
and yields the
element of inclusiveness. Therefore although it is the female who takes the lead
in entering into the
unknown, it is nevertheless the male who takes
the lead upon the physical plane by opening the heart, not only
so that intelligent
co-operation
can take place,
but also so
that the element
of inclusiveness can come into being, for without inclusiveness it is
not possible to incorporate the unknown into
the known.
Consequently each of the four directions within
the Toltec unit has a male and a female half, the purpose of which
is intelligent co operation bringing forth inclusiveness.
The way
in which the
male and female
warriors within a Toltec unit are placed is not difficult to
grasp once we under
stand what the four types of men and the four
types of women are.
I am not at this stage going to
explain the four different
types, other than to say that the four types
come about because all men and women have a natural predilection for any one of the
four
directions. However, that
predilection is not
something which is chosen at random by the individual, but is instead deter
mined firstly by destiny, and secondly by
fate. Therefore it is not a question of the individual deciding
for him or herself in which
direction they would like to be; nor for that
matter, is it the nagal who decides this.
The role of the nagal here is merely to use his seer's ability
to point out to the
apprentices who will in time become the warriors
of his unit, what their respective directions and
functions are.
Another point which
must be reiterated here is that because the unknown is
female relative to the known, and because the female has a dual nature,
that is, the mother and the woman, each of
the female directions within the Toltec unit also reflects this duality.
As a result, each of the female directions is made up of two women, one
channelling the power of the mother, and the other channelling the power of the woman.
In order to understand how this works,
it is important to know that all men and women also have a natural predilection for either
the art of dreaming, in which case they are called dreamers, or for the art of stalking, in which
case they are
called stalkers. The
dreamers
are those men
and women who
are naturally introspective, and therefore who also tend
to be relatively quiet and
withdrawn.
The stalkers, on the other
hand, are those men and women who are naturally extroverted,
and therefore who tend to
be relatively domineering and
outgoing. In the case of women, this predilection manifests in such a
way that the dreamer will be
the one who quite naturally channels the power of the woman, whereas the stalker
quite naturally channels
the power
of the
mother.
Consequently the stalkers
are always the
bossy ones, whilst the dreamers are the more quiet
introverted ones.
Before we look at the actual
structure of the Toltec unit, let us first of all list the four types of men and the four types of women.
The types of women are traditionally referred
to in terms of the four principal winds, the
characteristics of which are
extremely
reminiscent of those qualities
of awareness that mark
the four directions.
Consequently we have the Easterly women, referred to simply as the East, which are those
women who have a natural predilection
for sobriety.
As a
result these women
have the tendency to be light-hearted and breezy, and so are likened to the morning breeze.
Next we
have the North, with
their natural predilection for strength, and which are therefore likened to the North wind,
for when the North
wind really gets going, which is towards midday, it can be with a strength and a
vengeance that takes its toll on most.
The West is pure feeling, for like the haunting afternoon wind coming from the west, the
Westerly women tend to be broody and
melancholic.
Finally we have the South, which, having a predilection for warmth and
nurturing, are also likened to the warm
night wind blowing from the south.
The four types of
men are traditionally always referred to by their natural predilection.
Consequently in the East we have the Scholar who is preoccupied
with sobriety and therefore with the Mastery of Awareness.
In the North we have the Man of Action, for as his name implies, this man is
preoccupied with action and therefore also with materialization.
In the
West we have the Man Behind the
Scenes,
for this is the
man who is
predominantly concerned
with erasing personal
history, and therefore
with
feeling and ultimately
with the Mastery of Intent.
Next we have the Courier, who, in not having
a specific direction as such, can be attached to any one of the male or the
female directions.
In order to understand what it is entailed in the
fourth type of man,
that is, the Courier,
it must be remembered that the
direction to which an individual belongs is a
matter of destiny, and therefore never changes.
In other words,
if it is your destiny to
be a Scholar when in a male incarnation,
and a Northerly woman when in a female incarnation,
then
whenever you incarnate as a male you will automatically be a Scholar, and whenever you
incarnate as a
female, you will
be a Northerly
woman.
However, since the purpose of incarnation is to evolve awareness,
it would be exceedingly limiting if you could only ever
incarnate either as a Scholar or as a
Northerly woman. The way in which power has set it up for
us to overcome this problem, is
that we can also incarnate as a Courier because
of the fact that a Courier has no
specific direction as
such. This means
that a
Courier is much like a wild card, and because
he can be attached to any of the male or the female
directions, it is possible for us
to gain experience and knowledge in
any of the male or female positions in all four directions.
Therefore attendant
to each of the male and the female directions is a Courier, and the exact position is once again determined by fate.
So if you incarnate as a Courier,
then the direction you will become attached to depends upon what it is
you have to learn in this
lifetime.
For example, if you need to
learn about feminine strength, you will gravitate
towards the female North,
but if you need to learn about masculine action, you will find yourself working with a Man of Action in one
way or another.
We will presently be looking at this in more detail, but I give this particular example here merely to help
clarify the nature of the
Courier, and
in this respect,
one final point
needs to be mentioned.
Although the
Courier is predominantly one of
the four types of male, there are very
rare cases in which a Courier may also incarnate as a female.
Why
this should be so is far too involved for
our present purposes,
but I point
out this fact because female couriers do exist.
Having considered the four types of
male, the reader will have noticed that because the Courier has no specific direction, the
male South seems to be vacant. The
reason for this is that the male South, the place of warmth, of nurturing, and of power, is
always filled by a nagal; that type of man which, because of his peculiar energy configuration, can fulfil the role of any one of the
males and, once fully trained, also the role
of any one of the four females.
Consequently a nagal is not a
type of man as such, for in a most esoteric sense he is a mixture of all the males and the
females. As a result it also stands to
reason that it should be a nagal who takes
the lead in
both the purpose
as well as the
direction of the Toltec unit, for his
principal duty is firstly, to train
those apprentices who
will in time
become his unit
of
warriors; and secondly, to lead that
unit to freedom.
In addition to the nagal man, there is also a nagal woman, who has much the same energy
configuration as the nagal man,
except that she contains within
herself the characteristics of only the
four types of woman.
Because of this one
profound difference in their make-up, the
training of a nagal woman differs
from that of the male, in that it is
not her duty either to teach,
or to lead, but instead to aid the
nagal in leading the Toltec unit to freedom.
In order to make this point clear I always
use the following analogy.
Think of the Toltec
unit as being like a ship, manned by the warriors that comprise that unit, and the captain of which is the nagal.
The aim of the captain, the nagal, is to
navigate his ship to freedom through the
darkness of the unknown upon the ocean
of life.
However, being aboard the ship amidst the darkness of the unknown, it is difficult for the captain
to see all of the hidden
dangers concealed within the unknown, and
which we will look upon as being like rocks just beneath the
waves in the ocean of
life. In order
to help him
navigate the ship
safely, the nagal therefore employs the services of the nagal
woman, who is not
aboard the ship itself, but is in a tiny one-man boat of her own which
she can navigate
with ease and
skill in between
the
treacherous rocks unseen from on board
the ship. In this way the nagal woman precedes the ship, and in
pointing out to the nagal
where lies the greatest danger, she
assists the nagal in mapping out the best course for the ship to
take. From this analogy it is
clear to see that the nagal woman is very much part of the nagal's unit of warriors, and yet because of the
nature of her duties, she
is
also apart from
the unit, not
physically, but in
terms of awareness.
Consequently the nagal woman also is not
fixed to any one
particular direction, unlike
the other females,
but because of her predilection for power and freedom, and because of her close association
with the nagal,
she is very
definitely attached to the South.
Having covered
this much we are now in a
position to consider
each of the four directions in terms of awareness, which brings us hard up
against the twenty-one
jewels of awareness. However, a word of caution is called for here, for
although we are now going to be
looking at awareness in terms of the twenty-
one jewels, realise that in spite of
the fact that every individual has his or her predilection for specific
aspects of awareness, all of us nonetheless
have all twenty-one aspects of awareness
within our make-up.
Any predilection is
merely in the
nature of approach, and
therefore does not imply
that other aspects
of awareness are ignored, or excluded
in any way.
Predilection for
any one of the aspects
of awareness is technically speaking the individual's specialised
approach to the
greater whole which, of course,
is the fourth dimension. Further more, in defining the four directions in terms
of those aspects of
awareness
that constitute them, we
will adhere to the flow of power as it occurs during manifestation,
rather than within manifestation.
The
reason for this is that the flow
of power during
manifestation is easier to relate to in terms of trying to come to grips
with the fourth
dimension, whereas the
flow of power within manifestation pertains to the evolution of
awareness with in the process of
life upon the physical plane.
Only one more point
must be covered ever so briefly here if we are to
understand what is meant by the twenty-one jewels of awareness. This point
concerns what is known as the science of numerology. The science of
numerology encompasses, amongst other things, the fact that numbers denote
specific alignments of perception, but
why certain numbers
should be assigned
to certain alignments is far too complex to
explain at this point. Let it suffice for now
to point out that although Toltec seers have painstakingly
revealed the laws of this science
through a great many
generations of research, the laws which govern this science have not been formulated by Toltecs, but are
instead based upon universal laws
and principles which
are far more
precise than anything man could have invented or calculated.
Therefore, in
looking at the structure of the Toltec unit, we see that in
the East, the place
of the rising sun, we find
the Scholar, and
since this man is predominantly
occupied with sobriety, that
aspect of awareness, or
that jewel of awareness which is central to his approach to the evolution
of awareness is the jewel termed knowledge,
and to which is assigned the number 14.
Attached to this man's position within the Toltec unit is a Courier,
known simply as
the Scholar's Courier,
and whose predilection is for that jewel termed discrimination, to which is assigned the
number 17. Now
when these two
males work
together, that is,
if they co-operate intelligently with each other, the effect of their joint endeavour is equal to the
sum of their jewels. In
other words, if the Scholar and his Courier exercise intelligent co-operation between them, the result
will be know ledge plus discrimination, that is, the acquisition of new know ledge through the act of discrimination.
Realise, though,
that new knowledge
can only arise
when there
is a willingness, firstly,
to build upon our former knowledge; and secondly, to relinquish our
former level of perception.
However, to relinquish a level of perception is an
act which implies the death of the
old, for the simple reason that any new knowledge must of necessity encompass a new level of perception. In this particular case it
is clear to see that new knowledge is brought about
through the medium of discrimination based upon existing knowledge, and this of course results in the death
of the old. In terms of numerology we express this as
17 + 14 = 13.
In order
to understand this
rather strange-looking mathematics, it should be noted that,
according to the laws of numerology, numbers that
are to be added are as a rule first reduced to a single digit
by addition, and only then
are the single
digits added together. If the final total after addition is greater than
33, then such totals are again reduced by addition
until the number does not exceed
33. Therefore in
this particular example, the whole process is
as follows:
17 + 14 = (1 + 7) + (1 + 4) = 8 + 5 = 13.
Had the final total
been greater than 33, say for example, 67, then the total would again have been reduced
by addition, that
is, 67 =
6 + 7
= 13.
This is true even if the
number had been, for example,
96875,
in which case the
reduction would read: 96875 = 9 + 6 + 8 + 7 + 5 = 35 = 3 + 5 = 8.
At this point it is
appropriate to digress for a brief moment in order to point out that Couriers, like all of
the males, can be
either dreamers or stalkers, and that it does
not matter which of the two they are. In this respect it is only
the female directions
that
must have one
dreamer and one
stalker in each
of the directions, and therefore cannot have two of
the same in any one
of the
directions. The nagal too, like the
other males, can be either a dreamer or a stalker, and the
nagal woman, by virtue of
the fact that she is the only female in her
role, and because she is in a sense not part of the unit, can also
be either a dreamer or
a stalker. Female Couriers too can be either
dreamers or stalkers, because the
female Courier does not affect the feminine quality
of a direction.
Returning now to
the Toltec unit, we see that the male East brings
forth new knowledge
through the medium
of discrimination,
and that this
results in the death of the old.
However, in numerology a double number is the product of
the relationship between the digits comprising the number.
Therefore knowledge,that is, jewel 14, is a most specific vibration of awareness
that is unique in its configuration, namely, 1 and 4. Note that I state 1 and 4, and not 1 plus 4 which has a different meaning. There can of
course be a great many different types of knowledge, but these other
types of knowledge are not considered to be the jewel termed knowledge, for the simple reason that they do not have the
same configuration as jewel 14.
In order to grasp this point, realise
that jewel 14 is essentially the product
of the relationship between 1 and 4, in that 14 is in
reality 10 + 4, as opposed to, say, 7
+ 7, or 3 + 6 + 5, which also add up to 14.
However, 14 from 7 + 7, and 14 from 3 + 6 + 5, both have
different energy configurations
to 14
from 10 + 4, even though all
three can be seen as knowledge.
Furthermore, 10 is in itself a double number, meaning that 10
is in reality the product of the
relationship between fluidity (1) and absolute freedom (0).
The numerological implication of this is that 10, which is the jewel impeccability, can only be
achieved through fluidity within the
context of absolute freedom.
In more
precise terms this means
that where there is not fluidity of perception within the
context of complete
freedom from social
conditioning,
impeccability must perforce be
distorted.
From the above it
should be clear that although any 14 is the product between fluidity and stability, yet they are not
the same as jewel 14, which
has its basis
in 10 + 4.
The implications inherent within
jewel 14 are that when perception is fluid, and yet stable in
spite of that fluidity, then true knowledge is the result,
but the fluidity
that is required
must be that fluidity acquired through
impeccability within
life upon the
physical plane, for it
must not be forgotten that the physical
plane is the tenth world and the medium
through which the jewel impeccability must
be evolved.
In
other words, true knowledge, or personal power, is in reality impeccability (10) plus stability (4). Furthermore,
realise that true knowledge (14), that
is, personal power acquired through practical experience, will always
lead to freedom and
change (5), for the simple reason
that 1 + 4 = 5.
Discrimination, jewel 17, is likewise
the product of the relationship
between fluidity (1) and guidance (7), but as
with all double
numbers, that fluidity
must be grounded in
impeccability (10) within the
context of life upon the physical plane.
In
simpler terms this
means that impeccability (10) plus guidance (7) yields discrimination.
Therefore the jewel discrimi nation
implies being fluid
enough to receive
the guidance inherent within the challenges posed by life upon the physical plane, and in this respect, true discrimination will always
lead to harmony and balance (8),
for 1 + 7 =
8, as opposed
to, forexample, racial
discrimination which has
its basis in the
configuration 1 + 25.
Regarding the
above, I would
like to use
the example of discriminating against in order to
demonstrate how the aspects of awareness can
interact in terms
of the four directions
to produce not only the positive results we
term jewels, but also those negative results such as racial
discrimination. Therefore in the case
of racial discrimination, which
is based upon
the separative nature
of the rational mind, we see that it properly belongs
in the East,
by virtue of the fact
that it pertains
to sobriety, albeit the
negative side of sobriety.
The
reason this negativity
comes about is
because, firstly, awareness
is centred in the East;
and secondly, we have pure fluidity (1) which,
not yet having been grounded in impeccability
achieved through life's
experience, tends to
manifest in terms of the individual not having the necessary personal power to think and
to decide for himself. Consequently such a person will demonstrate his fluidity in terms of simply "going with the
flow" of what appears to be a very logical assumption.
Moreover, in not
yet having acquired impeccability,
that person will not accept the challenges of life in terms of receiving guidance (7),
but will instead be tempted to avoid those
challenges in such a way as to
manifest the dark jewel temptation (25).
In other words, in
discriminating against,
whether it is
racial discrimination
or any other form of discriminating against, the individual is practicing a
form of discrimination that
has its basis
in the fluidity of the fool
(1) coupled with temptation (25).
As a result,
although 25 still reduces to 7, that 7,
because its origin is in 2 5 , will manifest in its
negative form, that is, the need
for guidance, and
therefore the total
equation will read,
"the product of
the relationship between fluidity and the
need for guidance",
that
is, 1 + (-7) = (-6).
The negative form of jewel 6 is the need for choosing between the old and the new, which will manifest as a form
of discrimination, although such discrimination obviously cannot
lead to harmony
and balance (8).
In the example
above, we also clearly see
that in reducing numbers to a single digit, we should also take care to
change the sign should the
double number fall into the range of
numbers from
22 through to
32, for these
particular numbers, which, technically speaking, are known as the dark jewels, are numerologically positive only in their double number
form.
Note that I state "numerologically positive", for in
essence the dark jewels never do manifest
in a positive sense except within the
context of the greater whole of which they are also a part.
In other words,
within the process of life as a whole, the dark jewels provide
the necessary friction
that makes possible
the evolution of awareness,
and in that
sense they are
considered positive. Likewise,
within the life of the individual, it is
because of the relationship between
the light jewels and the dark jewels that our shadow side comes into being, and since our shadows are our shortcomings, and since our shortcomings are
our ticket to freedom and our passage to power, the dark jewels once again make the evolution of awareness possible.
When we now look at
jewel 13, the death of the old, it must not
be forgotten that
we are here
referring to that aspect of awareness which brings
about death of the old, and not to death in terms of the
universal force. Therefore jewel 13 implies that death of the old
is the product of the relationship between fluidity and mixed abundance. However, remember that because this is a
double number, we can equally well say that impeccability (10) plus mixed abundance
yields death of the old. The
implications here are that death of the old should be in the nature of judicious "pruning", or judicious
elimination of the undesirable
within the context
of mixed abundance. Also, realise
that whenever there is such a
judicious elimination of the undesirable,
which is necessary when
dealing with mixed abundance,
the result will always be stability (4),
from 1 + 3 = 4.
From everything we have learned so far concerning
the male East, it
should be a lot clearer how new knowledge is acquired through the
medium of discrimination, and what this
actually entails.
Furthermore, it is also clear
that the death of
the old in the East comes about as a result
of intelligent co-operation between the
Scholar and his Courier, a co-operation that yields freedom and change (5) plus harmony and balance (8);
two qualities that are in perfect
synchronicity with the
quality of the judicious elimination of all that is
undesirable.
From all of this it
should now also be easier to grasp how the male warriors
within the East
use their predilection
for their own specific jewels
in both the acquisition of sobriety,
as well as its continual evolution. In this
respect it must not be forgotten that it is the duty of a warrior not only to unfold
his or her full potential, but also to
research and to
evolve that potential according to the dictates of his or her fate.
In the female East we have the Easterly Dreamer, the Easterly Stalker and
the Courier attached to the East. The predilection of the Easterly Dreamer is
jewel 13, the death of the old. However, as we have already learned earlier, because this is the East, this lady achieves her full potential by acquiring a fluidity grounded within
impeccability. Then
by bringing that fluidity to bear upon mixed abundance (3), she judiciously eliminates all that is undesirable
within mixed
abundance, so as to
bring about the quality of stability (4) through death of the old
(13).
The Easterly
Stalker, on the other hand, being predominantly concerned with the evolution of
awareness through the medium
of life upon the physical plane, has a
natural predilection for jewel 12,
forebearance. True
forebearance is
the product of the
relationship between fluidity and destiny.
The
implications here are subtle indeed, for 2 is not only the number of destiny, but also the
number of humility and understanding.
In other words, it is only through having acquired
both humility and understanding
that
the force of destiny can be
unfolded consciously and impeccably.
Furthermore, because 12 is a
double number, we can equally well say
that forebearance (12) is the sum
of impeccability
and the force of destiny, or alternatively, the sum of impeccability and humility and understanding.
However, realise that true forebearance (12), that is, impeccability plus the force of destiny, will
invariably yield creativity and
joy (3), and where there is creativity and joy, the end result will always be a mixed abundance
(3).
The
Courier to the East has a natural predilection for jewel 2, for to this man the force of destiny is of paramount importance, as
is
the quality of humility
and understanding. Being a
prime number, jewel
2 does not appear to have the
complexity of the
double numbers, and yet this is merely
another example of the fact that the world is not what it appears to
be. In order to grasp
the implications of jewel 2, realise that
inherent within the number 2 is the basic duality of nagal and tonal, implying that the
force
of destiny is inextricably
interwoven with this
duality.
Jewel 2 concerns the
relationship between the nagal and the tonal, and is therefore the
very essence of intelligent co-operation.
When
these three warriors in the East co-operate intelligently, the result is
once again the sum of their jewels, namely: 2 + 12 + 13 = 9.
The implications
here are that when
the force of destiny, forebearance and the death of the
old combine in the East, completion is the result.
However, jewel 9, like all the prime numbers, it is not as simple as it appears to be, for
inherent within this jewel
is
the reconciliation of
two qualities that
appear to be diametrically opposed to one another, namely, stability (4) plus
freedom and change (5).
Within the scope of this book it is not feasible to explain the prime numbers to any great depth, but let
it suffice for now to say that all the
prime numbers pertain to the awareness of the nagal, that is, to inherent awareness,
where
as
all the double
numbers pertain to the awareness
of the dreamer, that is, to evolving awareness. All
other numbers are
merely complex permutations pertaining to life on the physical plane, that is, to the dreamed.
Therefore in
considering jewel 9, which
is completion, itbecomes apparent that
9 in some way defines the
outer para
meters of inherent awareness, which in a most
peculiar sense it indeed
does, for remember
that 9 marks
that particular
clustering of
vibrational frequency known
as The World
of Sorcerers and which, as we have already learned, is in reality an expression
of the fourfold
purpose of the Unspeakable,
and therefore also an
expression of Its
potential in this
present manifestation.
It
is primarily because of this fact that materialisation, which in essence is stability (4), always tends to inertia and
therefore has to
be constantly countered by the
force of freedom and change (5). As a result, jewel 9 is therefore in a most esoteric
sense the primal expression of not-doing, and as we know from the previous chapter, it is this
primal not-doing that gives rise to the
fourth dimension.
Therefore, in
the final analysis, we
see that the sum of
the Easterly jewels yields a resistance to the force of
inertia so that the
purpose of the Unspeakable may be fulfilled to completion, and not just partially so. As a result, the
female East has the overall
quality of the urge to completion through
the medium of humility and understanding born of forebearance and the death of the old.
When the male East
co-operates intelligently with the female East,
the result is the sum of the respective totals,
namely: (14 + 17 ) + (2 + 12 +13) = 13 + 9 = 13.
In other words, the
predominant quality that emerges in the East is death of the old brought about by that death of the old engineered by the male East in response to the urge to completion brought forth by the female East.
In a nutshell this amounts to the technique of recapitulation, and it is for this
reason that the East always excels in sobriety. Moreover, since the East is also the origin of time, it is beneficial
to point out here that the warriors in the East are constantly working with the deeper
implications of time in one way or another
and, as a result, are traditionally and collectively referred to as the time stalkers,
irrespective of the fact that some will be stalkers and others will be
dreamers.
Although it is not possible to explain this point here, it is mentioned merely
in the sense of rounding off this section of the teachings.
In following the flow of power as it occurs during manifestation,we now come to the West, the place of death and of the setting
sun. Here we find the Man Behind the Scenes, who has a natural predilection for working with the force of intent, and thus he is
most drawn to jewel 16, known as liberation through the power of intent. This man's
Courier, on the other hand, has much the
same disposition as he himself, and therefore
feels most at home in the darkness of the unknown. Consequently the Courier of
the Man Behind the Scenes loves to work with jewel 15, that is, light through darkness. Being on the same
axis as the East, and
because the West is also the place of death, it is hardly
surprising that intelligent co-operation between these
two men should also
yield death of the old, that
is: 15 + 16 = 13.
Nonetheless, the
implications in the West are quite different to
those in the East, as they should be, for the West is after all the polar opposite of the East.
First of all, in
looking at the jewel of the Man Behind
the Scenes, we see that 16 is in reality
10 + 6, meaning that the sum of impeccability (10)
and the act of choosing between
the old and the new (6), yields liberation
through the power of intent (16).
Alternatively, we can
also see that liberation
through the power
of intent is
the product of the
relationship between fluidity (1)
and the act of
choosing between the old and the new (6),
bearing in mind, of course,
that the fluidity called for here
must be grounded in impeccability.
The implication
in all of this is that choosing between the old and the
new is very
closely allied to discrimination, in
that such choosing must be done
judiciously, or impeccably. The reason for this is that 6 is not
only an aspect of inherent awareness, in that it is a prime number, but it also denotes the duality of the
female.
In other words, 6 is the primal expression of discrimination, in that it
concerns the vitally important act of discriminating
with divine inspiration between the
mother and the woman, both
of whom are needed for the purposes of evolution.
In Toltec terms the mother is that aspect of mind that lends itself to
the force of inertia,
in that its
tendency is towards
preservation, unity and stability. The woman, on the other hand,
is
that aspect of mind that lends itself to
the force of
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THE KEYS
TO THE WORLD
OF SORCERERS ARE TWENTY-ONE
JEWELS REFLECTING A
LIGHT THAT IS
LETHAL TO THE
IGNORANT. BUT WHOEVER
HAS THE POWER TO HOLD
THESE
KEYS IS MASTER OF THE WORLD OF SORCERERS AND MAY ENTER
AND EXIT THAT
WORLD SAFELY AND AT WILL.
In considering the
four directions in terms of awareness we have several
options open to us, depending upon where we choose to place the focus. For our present purposes I am
going to adopt the method which is
used in explaining to apprentices what their specific role within
the Toltec unit encompasses, for
although this method leaves many questions unanswered,
it is nonetheless also quite the
easiest to follow in terms of the four directions. In time
all questions will be answered, but for the sake of simplicity let us first of all opt for the simpler method.
The Toltec unit is
based upon the laws of evolution, which are
not laws that
were devised by
man, but laws
that were
discovered by Toltec seers over a great many
generations of seers. I make this point here because in the section
that follows I am
simply going to make one statement after another without any attempt at trying to substantiate these
statements at this point,
for if we are to achieve clarity on this
material, then details must perforce come only
later. If I were
to try and
explain every
statement, the reader will become so confused
and lost in detail, that he or she will not be able to see the
wood for the trees.
If we
look at the Toltec unit, we see that the way in which power has set it up is
quite awesome in its implications. First of
all, realise that all units are comprised of both men and women,and that all men and women naturally fall into four
very definite groups.
In other
words, although every individual is unique in his or her own right, in the final analysis there are only four types
of men and four types of women corresponding
to the fourfold purpose of the Unspeakable
As a
result, these four types of men and four types of women are also assigned to the four directions.
In relation to the above, it is important to
remember that the male is positive relative to the female, (Cry of the Eagle), and that
in
practice this means
that the male equates
with the known, whilst the female equates with the unknown. Also bear in mind
that it
is the purpose
of the male to
anchor all knowledge, meaning that it is the male who has to make
knowledge practical
within life upon the physical plane. The
purpose of the female, on
the other hand,
is to assist
the male in
mapping out the
unknown by bringing forth fragments of the
unknown which she feels is needed within the context of any particular endeavour.
As we saw in Cry of the Eagle, this necessitates the act of intelligent co-operation between male
and female, which of course, both
implies
and yields the
element of inclusiveness. Therefore although it is the female who takes the lead
in entering into the
unknown, it is nevertheless the male who takes
the lead upon the physical plane by opening the heart, not only
so that intelligent
co-operation
can take place,
but also so
that the element
of inclusiveness can come into being, for without inclusiveness it is
not possible to incorporate the unknown into
the known.
Consequently each of the four directions within
the Toltec unit has a male and a female half, the purpose of which
is intelligent co operation bringing forth inclusiveness.
The way
in which the
male and female
warriors within a Toltec unit are placed is not difficult to
grasp once we under
stand what the four types of men and the four
types of women are.
I am not at this stage going to
explain the four different
types, other than to say that the four types
come about because all men and women have a natural predilection for any one of the
four
directions. However, that
predilection is not
something which is chosen at random by the individual, but is instead deter
mined firstly by destiny, and secondly by
fate. Therefore it is not a question of the individual deciding
for him or herself in which
direction they would like to be; nor for that
matter, is it the nagal who decides this.
The role of the nagal here is merely to use his seer's ability
to point out to the
apprentices who will in time become the warriors
of his unit, what their respective directions and
functions are.
Another point which
must be reiterated here is that because the unknown is
female relative to the known, and because the female has a dual nature,
that is, the mother and the woman, each of
the female directions within the Toltec unit also reflects this duality.
As a result, each of the female directions is made up of two women, one
channelling the power of the mother, and the other channelling the power of the woman.
In order to understand how this works,
it is important to know that all men and women also have a natural predilection for either
the art of dreaming, in which case they are called dreamers, or for the art of stalking, in which
case they are
called stalkers. The
dreamers
are those men
and women who
are naturally introspective, and therefore who also tend
to be relatively quiet and
withdrawn.
The stalkers, on the other
hand, are those men and women who are naturally extroverted,
and therefore who tend to
be relatively domineering and
outgoing. In the case of women, this predilection manifests in such a
way that the dreamer will be
the one who quite naturally channels the power of the woman, whereas the stalker
quite naturally channels
the power
of the
mother.
Consequently the stalkers
are always the
bossy ones, whilst the dreamers are the more quiet
introverted ones.
Before we look at the actual
structure of the Toltec unit, let us first of all list the four types of men and the four types of women.
The types of women are traditionally referred
to in terms of the four principal winds, the
characteristics of which are
extremely
reminiscent of those qualities
of awareness that mark
the four directions.
Consequently we have the Easterly women, referred to simply as the East, which are those
women who have a natural predilection
for sobriety.
As a
result these women
have the tendency to be light-hearted and breezy, and so are likened to the morning breeze.
Next we
have the North, with
their natural predilection for strength, and which are therefore likened to the North wind,
for when the North
wind really gets going, which is towards midday, it can be with a strength and a
vengeance that takes its toll on most.
The West is pure feeling, for like the haunting afternoon wind coming from the west, the
Westerly women tend to be broody and
melancholic.
Finally we have the South, which, having a predilection for warmth and
nurturing, are also likened to the warm
night wind blowing from the south.
The four types of
men are traditionally always referred to by their natural predilection.
Consequently in the East we have the Scholar who is preoccupied
with sobriety and therefore with the Mastery of Awareness.
In the North we have the Man of Action, for as his name implies, this man is
preoccupied with action and therefore also with materialization.
In the
West we have the Man Behind the
Scenes,
for this is the
man who is
predominantly concerned
with erasing personal
history, and therefore
with
feeling and ultimately
with the Mastery of Intent.
Next we have the Courier, who, in not having
a specific direction as such, can be attached to any one of the male or the
female directions.
In order to understand what it is entailed in the
fourth type of man,
that is, the Courier,
it must be remembered that the
direction to which an individual belongs is a
matter of destiny, and therefore never changes.
In other words,
if it is your destiny to
be a Scholar when in a male incarnation,
and a Northerly woman when in a female incarnation,
then
whenever you incarnate as a male you will automatically be a Scholar, and whenever you
incarnate as a
female, you will
be a Northerly
woman.
However, since the purpose of incarnation is to evolve awareness,
it would be exceedingly limiting if you could only ever
incarnate either as a Scholar or as a
Northerly woman. The way in which power has set it up for
us to overcome this problem, is
that we can also incarnate as a Courier because
of the fact that a Courier has no
specific direction as
such. This means
that a
Courier is much like a wild card, and because
he can be attached to any of the male or the female
directions, it is possible for us
to gain experience and knowledge in
any of the male or female positions in all four directions.
Therefore attendant
to each of the male and the female directions is a Courier, and the exact position is once again determined by fate.
So if you incarnate as a Courier,
then the direction you will become attached to depends upon what it is
you have to learn in this
lifetime.
For example, if you need to
learn about feminine strength, you will gravitate
towards the female North,
but if you need to learn about masculine action, you will find yourself working with a Man of Action in one
way or another.
We will presently be looking at this in more detail, but I give this particular example here merely to help
clarify the nature of the
Courier, and
in this respect,
one final point
needs to be mentioned.
Although the
Courier is predominantly one of
the four types of male, there are very
rare cases in which a Courier may also incarnate as a female.
Why
this should be so is far too involved for
our present purposes,
but I point
out this fact because female couriers do exist.
Having considered the four types of
male, the reader will have noticed that because the Courier has no specific direction, the
male South seems to be vacant. The
reason for this is that the male South, the place of warmth, of nurturing, and of power, is
always filled by a nagal; that type of man which, because of his peculiar energy configuration, can fulfil the role of any one of the
males and, once fully trained, also the role
of any one of the four females.
Consequently a nagal is not a
type of man as such, for in a most esoteric sense he is a mixture of all the males and the
females. As a result it also stands to
reason that it should be a nagal who takes
the lead in
both the purpose
as well as the
direction of the Toltec unit, for his
principal duty is firstly, to train
those apprentices who
will in time
become his unit
of
warriors; and secondly, to lead that
unit to freedom.
In addition to the nagal man, there is also a nagal woman, who has much the same energy
configuration as the nagal man,
except that she contains within
herself the characteristics of only the
four types of woman.
Because of this one
profound difference in their make-up, the
training of a nagal woman differs
from that of the male, in that it is
not her duty either to teach,
or to lead, but instead to aid the
nagal in leading the Toltec unit to freedom.
In order to make this point clear I always
use the following analogy.
Think of the Toltec
unit as being like a ship, manned by the warriors that comprise that unit, and the captain of which is the nagal.
The aim of the captain, the nagal, is to
navigate his ship to freedom through the
darkness of the unknown upon the ocean
of life.
However, being aboard the ship amidst the darkness of the unknown, it is difficult for the captain
to see all of the hidden
dangers concealed within the unknown, and
which we will look upon as being like rocks just beneath the
waves in the ocean of
life. In order
to help him
navigate the ship
safely, the nagal therefore employs the services of the nagal
woman, who is not
aboard the ship itself, but is in a tiny one-man boat of her own which
she can navigate
with ease and
skill in between
the
treacherous rocks unseen from on board
the ship. In this way the nagal woman precedes the ship, and in
pointing out to the nagal
where lies the greatest danger, she
assists the nagal in mapping out the best course for the ship to
take. From this analogy it is
clear to see that the nagal woman is very much part of the nagal's unit of warriors, and yet because of the
nature of her duties, she
is
also apart from
the unit, not
physically, but in
terms of awareness.
Consequently the nagal woman also is not
fixed to any one
particular direction, unlike
the other females,
but because of her predilection for power and freedom, and because of her close association
with the nagal,
she is very
definitely attached to the South.
Having covered
this much we are now in a
position to consider
each of the four directions in terms of awareness, which brings us hard up
against the twenty-one
jewels of awareness. However, a word of caution is called for here, for
although we are now going to be
looking at awareness in terms of the twenty-
one jewels, realise that in spite of
the fact that every individual has his or her predilection for specific
aspects of awareness, all of us nonetheless
have all twenty-one aspects of awareness
within our make-up.
Any predilection is
merely in the
nature of approach, and
therefore does not imply
that other aspects
of awareness are ignored, or excluded
in any way.
Predilection for
any one of the aspects
of awareness is technically speaking the individual's specialised
approach to the
greater whole which, of course,
is the fourth dimension. Further more, in defining the four directions in terms
of those aspects of
awareness
that constitute them, we
will adhere to the flow of power as it occurs during manifestation,
rather than within manifestation.
The
reason for this is that the flow
of power during
manifestation is easier to relate to in terms of trying to come to grips
with the fourth
dimension, whereas the
flow of power within manifestation pertains to the evolution of
awareness with in the process of
life upon the physical plane.
Only one more point
must be covered ever so briefly here if we are to
understand what is meant by the twenty-one jewels of awareness. This point
concerns what is known as the science of numerology. The science of
numerology encompasses, amongst other things, the fact that numbers denote
specific alignments of perception, but
why certain numbers
should be assigned
to certain alignments is far too complex to
explain at this point. Let it suffice for now
to point out that although Toltec seers have painstakingly
revealed the laws of this science
through a great many
generations of research, the laws which govern this science have not been formulated by Toltecs, but are
instead based upon universal laws
and principles which
are far more
precise than anything man could have invented or calculated.
Therefore, in
looking at the structure of the Toltec unit, we see that in
the East, the place
of the rising sun, we find
the Scholar, and
since this man is predominantly
occupied with sobriety, that
aspect of awareness, or
that jewel of awareness which is central to his approach to the evolution
of awareness is the jewel termed knowledge,
and to which is assigned the number 14.
Attached to this man's position within the Toltec unit is a Courier,
known simply as
the Scholar's Courier,
and whose predilection is for that jewel termed discrimination, to which is assigned the
number 17. Now
when these two
males work
together, that is,
if they co-operate intelligently with each other, the effect of their joint endeavour is equal to the
sum of their jewels. In
other words, if the Scholar and his Courier exercise intelligent co-operation between them, the result
will be know ledge plus discrimination, that is, the acquisition of new know ledge through the act of discrimination.
Realise, though,
that new knowledge
can only arise
when there
is a willingness, firstly,
to build upon our former knowledge; and secondly, to relinquish our
former level of perception.
However, to relinquish a level of perception is an
act which implies the death of the
old, for the simple reason that any new knowledge must of necessity encompass a new level of perception. In this particular case it
is clear to see that new knowledge is brought about
through the medium of discrimination based upon existing knowledge, and this of course results in the death
of the old. In terms of numerology we express this as
17 + 14 = 13.
In order
to understand this
rather strange-looking mathematics, it should be noted that,
according to the laws of numerology, numbers that
are to be added are as a rule first reduced to a single digit
by addition, and only then
are the single
digits added together. If the final total after addition is greater than
33, then such totals are again reduced by addition
until the number does not exceed
33. Therefore in
this particular example, the whole process is
as follows:
17 + 14 = (1 + 7) + (1 + 4) = 8 + 5 = 13.
Had the final total
been greater than 33, say for example, 67, then the total would again have been reduced
by addition, that
is, 67 =
6 + 7
= 13.
This is true even if the
number had been, for example,
96875,
in which case the
reduction would read: 96875 = 9 + 6 + 8 + 7 + 5 = 35 = 3 + 5 = 8.
At this point it is
appropriate to digress for a brief moment in order to point out that Couriers, like all of
the males, can be
either dreamers or stalkers, and that it does
not matter which of the two they are. In this respect it is only
the female directions
that
must have one
dreamer and one
stalker in each
of the directions, and therefore cannot have two of
the same in any one
of the
directions. The nagal too, like the
other males, can be either a dreamer or a stalker, and the
nagal woman, by virtue of
the fact that she is the only female in her
role, and because she is in a sense not part of the unit, can also
be either a dreamer or
a stalker. Female Couriers too can be either
dreamers or stalkers, because the
female Courier does not affect the feminine quality
of a direction.
Returning now to
the Toltec unit, we see that the male East brings
forth new knowledge
through the medium
of discrimination,
and that this
results in the death of the old.
However, in numerology a double number is the product of
the relationship between the digits comprising the number.
Therefore knowledge,that is, jewel 14, is a most specific vibration of awareness
that is unique in its configuration, namely, 1 and 4. Note that I state 1 and 4, and not 1 plus 4 which has a different meaning. There can of
course be a great many different types of knowledge, but these other
types of knowledge are not considered to be the jewel termed knowledge, for the simple reason that they do not have the
same configuration as jewel 14.
In order to grasp this point, realise
that jewel 14 is essentially the product
of the relationship between 1 and 4, in that 14 is in
reality 10 + 4, as opposed to, say, 7
+ 7, or 3 + 6 + 5, which also add up to 14.
However, 14 from 7 + 7, and 14 from 3 + 6 + 5, both have
different energy configurations
to 14
from 10 + 4, even though all
three can be seen as knowledge.
Furthermore, 10 is in itself a double number, meaning that 10
is in reality the product of the
relationship between fluidity (1) and absolute freedom (0).
The numerological implication of this is that 10, which is the jewel impeccability, can only be
achieved through fluidity within the
context of absolute freedom.
In more
precise terms this means
that where there is not fluidity of perception within the
context of complete
freedom from social
conditioning,
impeccability must perforce be
distorted.
From the above it
should be clear that although any 14 is the product between fluidity and stability, yet they are not
the same as jewel 14, which
has its basis
in 10 + 4.
The implications inherent within
jewel 14 are that when perception is fluid, and yet stable in
spite of that fluidity, then true knowledge is the result,
but the fluidity
that is required
must be that fluidity acquired through
impeccability within
life upon the
physical plane, for it
must not be forgotten that the physical
plane is the tenth world and the medium
through which the jewel impeccability must
be evolved.
In
other words, true knowledge, or personal power, is in reality impeccability (10) plus stability (4). Furthermore,
realise that true knowledge (14), that
is, personal power acquired through practical experience, will always
lead to freedom and
change (5), for the simple reason
that 1 + 4 = 5.
Discrimination, jewel 17, is likewise
the product of the relationship
between fluidity (1) and guidance (7), but as
with all double
numbers, that fluidity
must be grounded in
impeccability (10) within the
context of life upon the physical plane.
In
simpler terms this
means that impeccability (10) plus guidance (7) yields discrimination.
Therefore the jewel discrimi nation
implies being fluid
enough to receive
the guidance inherent within the challenges posed by life upon the physical plane, and in this respect, true discrimination will always
lead to harmony and balance (8),
for 1 + 7 =
8, as opposed
to, forexample, racial
discrimination which has
its basis in the
configuration 1 + 25.
Regarding the
above, I would
like to use
the example of discriminating against in order to
demonstrate how the aspects of awareness can
interact in terms
of the four directions
to produce not only the positive results we
term jewels, but also those negative results such as racial
discrimination. Therefore in the case
of racial discrimination, which
is based upon
the separative nature
of the rational mind, we see that it properly belongs
in the East,
by virtue of the fact
that it pertains
to sobriety, albeit the
negative side of sobriety.
The
reason this negativity
comes about is
because, firstly, awareness
is centred in the East;
and secondly, we have pure fluidity (1) which,
not yet having been grounded in impeccability
achieved through life's
experience, tends to
manifest in terms of the individual not having the necessary personal power to think and
to decide for himself. Consequently such a person will demonstrate his fluidity in terms of simply "going with the
flow" of what appears to be a very logical assumption.
Moreover, in not
yet having acquired impeccability,
that person will not accept the challenges of life in terms of receiving guidance (7),
but will instead be tempted to avoid those
challenges in such a way as to
manifest the dark jewel temptation (25).
In other words, in
discriminating against,
whether it is
racial discrimination
or any other form of discriminating against, the individual is practicing a
form of discrimination that
has its basis
in the fluidity of the fool
(1) coupled with temptation (25).
As a result,
although 25 still reduces to 7, that 7,
because its origin is in 2 5 , will manifest in its
negative form, that is, the need
for guidance, and
therefore the total
equation will read,
"the product of
the relationship between fluidity and the
need for guidance",
that
is, 1 + (-7) = (-6).
The negative form of jewel 6 is the need for choosing between the old and the new, which will manifest as a form
of discrimination, although such discrimination obviously cannot
lead to harmony
and balance (8).
In the example
above, we also clearly see
that in reducing numbers to a single digit, we should also take care to
change the sign should the
double number fall into the range of
numbers from
22 through to
32, for these
particular numbers, which, technically speaking, are known as the dark jewels, are numerologically positive only in their double number
form.
Note that I state "numerologically positive", for in
essence the dark jewels never do manifest
in a positive sense except within the
context of the greater whole of which they are also a part.
In other words,
within the process of life as a whole, the dark jewels provide
the necessary friction
that makes possible
the evolution of awareness,
and in that
sense they are
considered positive. Likewise,
within the life of the individual, it is
because of the relationship between
the light jewels and the dark jewels that our shadow side comes into being, and since our shadows are our shortcomings, and since our shortcomings are
our ticket to freedom and our passage to power, the dark jewels once again make the evolution of awareness possible.
When we now look at
jewel 13, the death of the old, it must not
be forgotten that
we are here
referring to that aspect of awareness which brings
about death of the old, and not to death in terms of the
universal force. Therefore jewel 13 implies that death of the old
is the product of the relationship between fluidity and mixed abundance. However, remember that because this is a
double number, we can equally well say that impeccability (10) plus mixed abundance
yields death of the old. The
implications here are that death of the old should be in the nature of judicious "pruning", or judicious
elimination of the undesirable
within the context
of mixed abundance. Also, realise
that whenever there is such a
judicious elimination of the undesirable,
which is necessary when
dealing with mixed abundance,
the result will always be stability (4),
from 1 + 3 = 4.
From everything we have learned so far concerning
the male East, it
should be a lot clearer how new knowledge is acquired through the
medium of discrimination, and what this
actually entails.
Furthermore, it is also clear
that the death of
the old in the East comes about as a result
of intelligent co-operation between the
Scholar and his Courier, a co-operation that yields freedom and change (5) plus harmony and balance (8);
two qualities that are in perfect
synchronicity with the
quality of the judicious elimination of all that is
undesirable.
From all of this it
should now also be easier to grasp how the male warriors
within the East
use their predilection
for their own specific jewels
in both the acquisition of sobriety,
as well as its continual evolution. In this
respect it must not be forgotten that it is the duty of a warrior not only to unfold
his or her full potential, but also to
research and to
evolve that potential according to the dictates of his or her fate.
In the female East we have the Easterly Dreamer, the Easterly Stalker and
the Courier attached to the East. The predilection of the Easterly Dreamer is
jewel 13, the death of the old. However, as we have already learned earlier, because this is the East, this lady achieves her full potential by acquiring a fluidity grounded within
impeccability. Then
by bringing that fluidity to bear upon mixed abundance (3), she judiciously eliminates all that is undesirable
within mixed
abundance, so as to
bring about the quality of stability (4) through death of the old
(13).
The Easterly
Stalker, on the other hand, being predominantly concerned with the evolution of
awareness through the medium
of life upon the physical plane, has a
natural predilection for jewel 12,
forebearance. True
forebearance is
the product of the
relationship between fluidity and destiny.
The
implications here are subtle indeed, for 2 is not only the number of destiny, but also the
number of humility and understanding.
In other words, it is only through having acquired
both humility and understanding
that
the force of destiny can be
unfolded consciously and impeccably.
Furthermore, because 12 is a
double number, we can equally well say
that forebearance (12) is the sum
of impeccability
and the force of destiny, or alternatively, the sum of impeccability and humility and understanding.
However, realise that true forebearance (12), that is, impeccability plus the force of destiny, will
invariably yield creativity and
joy (3), and where there is creativity and joy, the end result will always be a mixed abundance
(3).
The
Courier to the East has a natural predilection for jewel 2, for to this man the force of destiny is of paramount importance, as
is
the quality of humility
and understanding. Being a
prime number, jewel
2 does not appear to have the
complexity of the
double numbers, and yet this is merely
another example of the fact that the world is not what it appears to
be. In order to grasp
the implications of jewel 2, realise that
inherent within the number 2 is the basic duality of nagal and tonal, implying that the
force
of destiny is inextricably
interwoven with this
duality.
Jewel 2 concerns the
relationship between the nagal and the tonal, and is therefore the
very essence of intelligent co-operation.
When
these three warriors in the East co-operate intelligently, the result is
once again the sum of their jewels, namely: 2 + 12 + 13 = 9.
The implications
here are that when
the force of destiny, forebearance and the death of the
old combine in the East, completion is the result.
However, jewel 9, like all the prime numbers, it is not as simple as it appears to be, for
inherent within this jewel
is
the reconciliation of
two qualities that
appear to be diametrically opposed to one another, namely, stability (4) plus
freedom and change (5).
Within the scope of this book it is not feasible to explain the prime numbers to any great depth, but let
it suffice for now to say that all the
prime numbers pertain to the awareness of the nagal, that is, to inherent awareness,
where
as
all the double
numbers pertain to the awareness
of the dreamer, that is, to evolving awareness. All
other numbers are
merely complex permutations pertaining to life on the physical plane, that is, to the dreamed.
Therefore in
considering jewel 9, which
is completion, itbecomes apparent that
9 in some way defines the
outer para
meters of inherent awareness, which in a most
peculiar sense it indeed
does, for remember
that 9 marks
that particular
clustering of
vibrational frequency known
as The World
of Sorcerers and which, as we have already learned, is in reality an expression
of the fourfold
purpose of the Unspeakable,
and therefore also an
expression of Its
potential in this
present manifestation.
It
is primarily because of this fact that materialisation, which in essence is stability (4), always tends to inertia and
therefore has to
be constantly countered by the
force of freedom and change (5). As a result, jewel 9 is therefore in a most esoteric
sense the primal expression of not-doing, and as we know from the previous chapter, it is this
primal not-doing that gives rise to the
fourth dimension.
Therefore, in
the final analysis, we
see that the sum of
the Easterly jewels yields a resistance to the force of
inertia so that the
purpose of the Unspeakable may be fulfilled to completion, and not just partially so. As a result, the
female East has the overall
quality of the urge to completion through
the medium of humility and understanding born of forebearance and the death of the old.
When the male East
co-operates intelligently with the female East,
the result is the sum of the respective totals,
namely: (14 + 17 ) + (2 + 12 +13) = 13 + 9 = 13.
In other words, the
predominant quality that emerges in the East is death of the old brought about by that death of the old engineered by the male East in response to the urge to completion brought forth by the female East.
In a nutshell this amounts to the technique of recapitulation, and it is for this
reason that the East always excels in sobriety. Moreover, since the East is also the origin of time, it is beneficial
to point out here that the warriors in the East are constantly working with the deeper
implications of time in one way or another
and, as a result, are traditionally and collectively referred to as the time stalkers,
irrespective of the fact that some will be stalkers and others will be
dreamers.
Although it is not possible to explain this point here, it is mentioned merely
in the sense of rounding off this section of the teachings.
In following the flow of power as it occurs during manifestation,we now come to the West, the place of death and of the setting
sun. Here we find the Man Behind the Scenes, who has a natural predilection for working with the force of intent, and thus he is
most drawn to jewel 16, known as liberation through the power of intent. This man's
Courier, on the other hand, has much the
same disposition as he himself, and therefore
feels most at home in the darkness of the unknown. Consequently the Courier of
the Man Behind the Scenes loves to work with jewel 15, that is, light through darkness. Being on the same
axis as the East, and
because the West is also the place of death, it is hardly
surprising that intelligent co-operation between these
two men should also
yield death of the old, that
is: 15 + 16 = 13.
Nonetheless, the
implications in the West are quite different to
those in the East, as they should be, for the West is after all the polar opposite of the East.
First of all, in
looking at the jewel of the Man Behind
the Scenes, we see that 16 is in reality
10 + 6, meaning that the sum of impeccability (10)
and the act of choosing between
the old and the new (6), yields liberation
through the power of intent (16).
Alternatively, we can
also see that liberation
through the power
of intent is
the product of the
relationship between fluidity (1)
and the act of
choosing between the old and the new (6),
bearing in mind, of course,
that the fluidity called for here
must be grounded in impeccability.
The implication
in all of this is that choosing between the old and the
new is very
closely allied to discrimination, in
that such choosing must be done
judiciously, or impeccably. The reason for this is that 6 is not
only an aspect of inherent awareness, in that it is a prime number, but it also denotes the duality of the
female.
In other words, 6 is the primal expression of discrimination, in that it
concerns the vitally important act of discriminating
with divine inspiration between the
mother and the woman, both
of whom are needed for the purposes of evolution.
In Toltec terms the mother is that aspect of mind that lends itself to
the force of inertia,
in that its
tendency is towards
preservation, unity and stability. The woman, on the other hand,
is
that aspect of mind that lends itself to
the force of
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