Extract: The Toltec Teachings-Volume 1
The Old Seers had, over generations, gathered a vast number of facts about awareness, which they never formulated into an ordered structure. As the New Seers started to rearrange these facts another very important set of concepts emerged, which were condensed into an ordered whole to form a set of precepts which were termed the Truths of Awareness. The New Seers regarded these precepts as paramount to all of their understanding, and to this day these truths form the foundations of the Toltec Teachings.
Most of the Truths of Awareness are based upon the act of perception and the way in which this takes place. The New Seers found that the whole mystery of perception can be summarized quite adequately in the following nine precepts:
- The universe consists of an infinite number of energy fields resembling threads of light.
- These threadlike energy fields radiate from a source of unimaginable dimensions metaphorically called the Eagle. As such these energy fields are known as the Eagle’s Emanations.
- Human beings are likewise composed of the same infinite number of these threadlike energy fields which manifest in the shape of a large luminous egg. The height of this egg is equal to the length of a man’s body with his arms fully extended above his head on the vertical axis, and its width is that of a man with his arms extended outwards from the centre of his body along the horizontal axis. This egg is known as the cocoon of man.
- Only a small group of the energy fields inside the cocoon are lit up at any one time by a brilliant point of light located on the surface of the cocoon.
- Perception takes place when the energy fields which are illuminated by the point of light extend their light to illuminate corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is termed the point where perception is assembled, normally abbreviated to the assemblage point.
- It is possible to shift the assemblage point to any other position on the surface of the cocoon, or even into its interior. Because the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it comes into contact, the new energy fields it illuminates as a result of such shifting constitute therefore a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is known as seeing.
- When the assemblage point shifts sufficiently far a totally new world is perceived, which is as real as the one man normally perceives.
- There is a mysterious force known as intent which exists throughout the entire universe. It is this force which brings about perception, for it is intent which, firstly, aligns the energy fields, and secondly, causes awareness of that alignment.
- The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This constitutes what is known as Total Awareness, inherent within which is an alternate way of dying.
Life for average man is a rather vague and monotonous affair - an existence which is not completely devoid of amusement, but one in which he listlessly wanders from one type of activity to the next, only to find that the happiness he is seeking is constantly eluding him. The life of such a man becomes filled with a sense of emptiness and a dull longing to have that emptiness filled. But not knowing what he seeks, the man discovers instead a numbing sense of futility creeping into his heart. Then all too soon he finds his life has slipped through his fingers, spent on the meaningless trivialities of human pettiness.
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