~ Teoxopancuicatl – Song of the Igneous Rose ~

by PIXEQUE

En Española Mexicana

[Note: In order to interpret this properly you should read these codices: I, II, III, IV, VI, VII. Then you will understand in what context my definition of Sin (fault) is, which is not to be mistaken for blasphemy against Judeo-Christian morality, but a realism which weighs out more levelheaded eternal values from those unholistic "Progressive" ones (ahnelli) which deny many aspects of the inherent in our universe.]

Humans are by nature contemplative. We ask ourselves, Who created the universe? For what reasons am I alive? Why does life contain conflict? How can we maintain a balanced life while going forward on this unpredictable planet? Modern folk claim religion was "invented" just to answer these questions, but I find that a shallow excuse to turn out law & ideals. My ancestors, the Mexica, were no narrow-minded fools; they were pragmatic, valuing moderation, and had an alchemical theology (matter & movement of the 4 elements; water, earth, air, & fire) – an explanatory knowledge (pramana) that was flexible and concrete rather than a binary symbolism akin to exoteric Judeo-Christianity (as opposed to the esoteric) & Stoics. The ancients of Anahuac, the land that is now called Mexico, realized the obvious which always has been and always will be.

Ometeotl, the self-created creator, is the Eternal. The Eternal is everything, not just the physically real but the ethereal too. "It would be impossible to accept, in any sense, a mechanism without a mechanic, as the materialist anthropologists believe. We must never stop comprehending that behind any mechanism there most always exist intelligent principles," said Samael Aun Weor. Even if the name of your higher power differs according to your culture – Father-Son-Holy Spirit, Brahma-Vishnu-Siva, Odin-Vili-Ve, the Tao, etc – it is still Ometeotl, though of course this is not an absolute which would suggest these different manifestations of culture-souls lack uniqueness. The Logos that is Ometeotl is specific to the Anahuaca type (geno/pheno/para) as Brahman is specific to the Hindustani type. (This is called parallelism.) Recognizing Ometeotl is recognizing what is inherent in this assorted universe that is both structured and uncontrolled, so in this light we understand that there is no "singular existing truth" as the absolutist "believes" but various paths to life (extensive for development on its different branches) & degrees of level-headedness.

Many today are way off balance on this scale. We've been led to think we have all the time in the world to make individualistic materialism our life's goal, that this is
great. Our groundwater and rivers are contaminated, making the soil less fertile, yet the news still has to theorize if we're safe and sound. There is too much room taken up to sustain healthy living spaces, yet the news still has to theorize if we're safe and sound. Divorce rates and other dissolutions are going far up the charts, yet the news still has to theorize if we're safe and sound. It is a passive denial of mankind's self-imposed cancer of a death.

But…this is just the shifting of the tide; our lot should not be construed as purely negative because "things didn't go our way," as they also play a part in the
processing motifs of the divine teotl. Tlalli, mother earth, is its hall of and for paintings. Progressivists, who argue we are in the greatest epoch ever because of "freedom" and technology, think that natural catastrophes and war are terrible, but our Traditional societies approached these life-challenges as fortifiers. The wonders of the world, from volcanoes & carnivorous jaguars to love & mortality, were celebrated with reverent awe. (Notice how city men feel life-deficient, while men who are at peace with nature have a sense of totality.) So we shall see future cataclysms as positive, even if they endanger us as well, because they are purging the larger numbers of undermen. The lightning of Xolotl will clear away the ruins to make room for Tonatiuh to shine upon us once again. What goes up must come down, vice versa.

Civilizations have 4 stages: the Golden Age, the Silver, then Bronze, and finally Iron. Here, where a clock would strike 12, is the symbol of death/renewal.

We are at downfall in the entropic (Yin) age of the 12th Baktun – the equivalent of Kali Yuga – where much of ultimate reality's prisms are not acknowledged, but with luck the lunacy of this age will spark a creative urge for change within man (in the cathartic fires of the 13th Baktun – whether that date refers to metaphysical transformation or a true prediction of apocalypse is beyond me); the Modern world will no longer appeal to him and he will return to the Eternal. …Then if history repeats itself, strong leaders will become taken for granted and we'll once again degenerate into a secular crowd of mercantiles & slaves after several millennia, but it's also inevitable at least for a few sub-races. The mysterious dynamics of life are boundless, a wide range of s-shaped oscillations all unequal in altitude. It's all necessary for our spirit to evolve; ambitions and failures. In our prime Golden Ages, reality was not only perceived in its all-encompassing entirety but we were also superhuman, so ethnic-cultural artistic reflections on life were very advanced, in connection with the above – formed into an organic force premeditated by humans as our racially-favored means to the greatest type of functionality, discovered through experiential gnosis, for our archaic civilizations.

That is the legend of the Quetzalcoatlian-Hyperborean cycle, Omeyocan on Tlalli, when humans were avatars of Ometeotl in direct service to the above. Not a thing was less sacred or separate from the other, but integral; experience & reality, physical & astral, matter & mind, man & nature, man & woman, life & death, time & space, etc, it was all rooted in the whole. The solar teachings of Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl of Tollan Xicocotitlan are its highest manifestation because he was incarnated as the gold nagual who obtained Xolotl's foundation (the lapis philosophorum), destined to lead the Nican Tlaca (people of Ixachilan, the Western hemisphere) into greatness. The most colossal temples commended him for his gift of wisdom. With his lessons of rising above fear of death and the psychological I's, much suffering which is imposed by fellow men was alleviated. Death is not an evil to be conquered, and humanity is not the center of the macrocosm. Persona was absent, for we were one with everything. We did have a strong warrior tradition where might made right, but not in a barbaric/pompous sense; war was eugenic, holy. The grandest imperiums were similar in these ways – the Greco-Romans, Dynastic Chinese, Ancient India & Jihadi Islam. The last known empirical reign of these hero-sourcerers is Nezahualcoyotl over his city of Texcoco, the "Athens of the Western hemisphere." If you do some research you'll see what I mean (unless you're the antithesis of a radical traditionalist).

The Pilli and Tlamatinime

Only Death is real; life represents the inherent reality of death because we are mort-al. There are many ways death represents the inherent reality of life, it just depends on your grade of perception – or, what your culture dictates. To the shamans of Ixachilan, it is known that spirits (monads, teyolia) are eternal and would move on to the next born person when its previous embodiment dies. ("Existence before essence," someone once said.) In science, it is thought that energy cannot be destroyed once it is created; it remains, and in studying mummies & the bone-dust of the cremated, they have discovered atomic energy floating about. Perhaps this left-over energy has been the source of ghosts? Religion and science were united at a time. The Maya found the fire-serpent K'ulthanlilni to be dormant in the coccyx, the organ of the chacla K'ul-Can (Muladhara chakra). Non-secular science made us one with the transcendent by implementation of Alchemy, an Arab word meaning "fusion with God." The Eastern equivalent is White Tantra. We are in Ometeotl, and Ometeotl is in us.

The nectar of the flowers of wisdom from the Great Arcanum (held within the roots of Wakah Chan, the Cosmic Tree) was forbidden in the past. Ometeotl is deliberately esoteric so even the world – a tiny speck in the universe – is so large, and life is so short, that we each will never be able to witness all the marvels of it. Thus humans chose to conduct themselves wisely, make every act count, and, in times when tribes were tightly-knit, worked to make each generation wiser than the last. This knowledge was not passed on to just anybody, but to those who were of most
noble character, tlacamelahuac. The calmecac (school of nobles) of the Pilli (strong leaders) was not exactly a closed-caste institute like with Eurasians, but an elitist meritocracy made up of the finest warriors, and they knew that the general masses could not wield such powerful secrets without making them second-rate. For ordinary people, who went about their business happily, what they could cognize in the world was limited to descriptions. They had no access to the occult – the fiercely guarded warrior-priest tlamatiliztli (wisdom), which to keep safe was passed on orally – but made no fuss about this as they understood their station in the societal order. I myself accept that I am a born macehualli (commoner) so do not have the capacity to grasp the spartan disciplines of the tlamatinime (philosopher shamans) to facilitate joining their Cohesion.

Most today are macehualli. Witness the lack of authentic shamans who lead ascetic lives and can channel themselves into the astral plane and bring messages directly from the above. Your common priest is more like a mediocre high school counselor that's not sincerely concerned about your well-being but will say anything that makes you believe you should continue working as an inert-minded cog for the machine of Social Darwinism and its moralism. Even our warriors have been lessened into pawn-like soldiers, who wage war not for a eugenic/honorable cause for but for the dysgenics/
globalism of the Pochtecas (Merchant caste). There is no differentiation; the majority of mankind is not like our ancestors who served Ometeotl and his Huey Tlatoani (great speakers), but have been made into proletariats for the Bourgeoisie by the forces of anti-Tradition. In the past, the Worker caste (macehualli) knew they qualified for manual labor but not for participating in the decisions of the government / undermining the divine authority of the priests. They were the only caste allowed to enjoy themselves freely, as they did not have to undertake the heavy responsibility of the warrior-shamans. Merchants/artisans (pochtecas) existed to provide material needs, not to control the workers and warriors. The idea of "equality" outside death is a logical fallacy.

Only Death is Real

I again say that this does not mean any of them are less valuable; they all have integral roles in existence. Without the macehualli, there would be no structural design; civilization would have no support. (Macehualli also means "the ones who are deserved by Ometeotl.") Without the pochtecas there would be no distribution of food, clothes, utensils and all the other things required to survive. Military was not the only specialization that ranked its members; for the commoner there was tonalli, basically the Toltec/Maya/Inca system of Zodiacs and shape selected by previous karma. Yet with enough meditation, favorable karma layered by honorable deeds and education from the senior telpochcalli (public schools) one might be worthy of the warrior-shaman's profound gnosis. (For the reason that good intentions do not suffice, one must actually have concrete proof of their worth.) With this, the "breath on the mirror" would disappear, and through the channel of one's heart they would see Ometeotl.

Currently we are all ruled by
Ihiyotl, the instinctual-motor drive. This is man's most basic brain, but it is degenerating when it is the only brain active. They become animalistic, having no discipline by any means, and pander to all their cravings. This state feeds the delusion of self-obsession, hence man's ignorance of objective reality (Tloque Nahuaque) and extreme apathy for carrying out long-term feats in the external world. Above ihiyotl is the Intellectual Brain, Tonalli, which of course is that grey matter in our heads. We must be careful, for we can only use this thinking organ through two senses, either the spirit (the heart) or the Ego. By thinking through a healthy spirit we will have the proper balance of the head's reason and the ihiyotl's intuition, but thinking through the Ego will bring us instability. Hence excessive wars…passivity…selfishness. Exercise of tonalli is the maximum aptitude for most macehualli. The few who are of utmost nobility (in the context previously stated as tlacamelahuac), after going through trials within the Tzinacalli (death temple [meaning death of the Ego]) inflicted onto the four bodies (physical, astral, mental, and conscious will), could control the central power within us – Teyolia, found in the solar plexus. They did this with spiritual alchemy.

Controlling teyolia meant power over the previously inactive portions of the body, the "course of the stars," the 4 elements, the power of telepathy and astral projection, of shape-shifting. These are the powers of a nagual. No longer just moved by the divine, but also movers themselves. Macehualli are certainly guided by the nature of the heart – passion, vitality, emotion – but it takes a soul refined through ordeals of the 4 elements to awaken the core powers of the heart. Other than the fact that humanity was not like the perfect protoplasmatic Polarian and Hyperborean root-races so provided not enough quality candidates for the occult orders, the warrior-shamans were especially a minority because they did not fornicate. They left population to the macehualli, because ejaculation of ens seminis meant they would lose their powers, the electromagnetic fire raised up throughout the being from the base of the vertebral column. The tlamatinime performed
magic coitus with the Soror Mystica woman where they instead transmuted the sexual energy into themselves, which expanded their consciousness, opening the Third Eye (chacla Cizin). Upon reaching that point is when the second birth came to pass, and the fruit of this secret ritual held inside the Tzinacalli was the creation of a new life, a solar spirit whose thoughts come to him as visions directly from Ometeotl, thus he has the power to transform the world.

A shaman is a tribe's seer sent forth into the wilderness of his own personality in order to dig forth the answer to the question everyone is blinded from asking. A master of finding the obvious behind a whole structure of reality designed to hide it.

The mystic sphere of Ometeotl, whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, is not like that of the Judeo-Christian Deity who is in a remote Heaven, but can be found on right here on Tlalli, though disguised. Called or not called, Ometeotl is always present. It is the psyche of the Whole, so we fail to have the mind's eye to find Ometeotl in all things when we are severed from it. Accordingly, youth today hate religion because their parents filled them with fairy tales as children, and as the final blow on the soul they later discovered these were fabrications. Give a god then take it away because it was a fraud after all, and this will crush anyone's soul. It's not easy for people to regain their faithfulness to the transcendent these dark stormy days, since society at large is not connected to the above. Hither and thither you may find some old-style churches, but in a society that had Tradition, huehuetlatolli, these would be at the top of the hierarchy and the trade-markets below, not the other way around. By faith I mean a removal of false reality (the perception through self-obsession), not a theoretical reasoning based solely on the subjective. In accepting the transcendent we are really accepting the inherent in the cosmos, which requires no "faith" as it is already there regardless of indifferent minds.

Humans with Tradition knew the skill of pliancy, so when a drastic change came about instead of letting it control them they simply metamorphosed to control it. There are no fixed ideas, thus the civilization of Quetzalcoatl can be successfully
reinstated with a new face and have the genuineness of the original. Those who look for God as hermits from a Godless society are truly the only warriors left, differentiated men (Pixeque) standing above the cahuipouhqui (time-keepers) and rediscovering oneness with the Eternal, but if they tried to bring about change in this degraded (tlazolli) era of Modernity within its cycle of events they would get nowhere. When one cannot understand how they are connected to Ometeotl, rather than be completely destructive in this condition of loneliness it is better to become neutral to the Modern world, apolitical, but the best thing that can be done is improving their innermost spirit, and preparing themselves for the most grueling battles yet to come of the times. The key to this is becoming non-self-referential, selfless. To eliminate the psychological I's of self-importance.

Detachment is the opposite of concupiscence and avidity; it is the greatness of soul which, inspired by a consciousness of [eternal] values and thus also of the imperfection and impermanence of relative values, allows the soul to keep its inward freedom and its distance with regard to things. Consciousness of [Ometeotl], on the one hand annuls, in a certain fashion, both forms and qualities, and on the other confers on them a value that transcends them; detachment means that the soul is so to say impregnated with death, but it also means by compensation, that it is aware of the indestructibility of earthly beauties; for beauty cannot be destroyed, it withdraws into its archetypes and into its essence, where it is reborn, immortal, in the blessed nearness of [Ometeotl]. - Frithjof Schuon, "Esoterism as Principle and as Way"

We must re-embrace the teachings of Quetzalcoatl, the overarching Tlacatecuhtli, the avatar of the cosmic spirit, the Ocelomeh of all Jaguar Knights (whose war tactics like the ritual of taking captives instead of destroying the enemy were analogous to those of the Wu veteran Sun Tzu). He conceived solutions to a problematic through revealed aesthetics & ideals subsequent to heightened awareness. Utilizing struggle as a mechanism for enrichment, as I stated earlier, is how he and his people arrived at the paramount creative achievements for Nican Tlaca in antiquity. "War, the world's only hygiene." We must be able to do the same, which simultaneously works to maintain our balance on this earth.

Ometeotl / Hunab K'u, also the Mayan Yin & YangWe are not meant to serve philosphy for the sake of novelty; its purpose is to serve us so we may aspire to high goals. Philosophy is not for following a dogma so we will get into its "Heaven" when we die, but for finding a way to work with what we have here in the world to do creative things in it – because we love life and its whole architectonic structure. Philos = love, Sophia = wisdom. Wisdom is a gift to humans from the Creator, and in return we express our love for Ometeotl with everything great we do. Ideas that have eugenic results are inpired by the learned benefactors of the Eternal, so in each age you will find its philosophies reborn; contemporary terminologies or logos still deriving from the inherent. It revolves within Tradition; it prefers a fasces-like concentration so is circumspect of its opposite – dispersion. This is the task the Pixeque are faced with. I, for my part, love having responsibility. Life is exciting! We should never give up on it.

When ideas are not composed in harmony with our physis, they are not based on reality but static materialism, and will toss us off the edge of tlalticpac – Tlalli as a narrow summit of endless-peril where we will fall after even the slightest miscalculation – if we lose responsibility for our actions. When we become disintegrated from the whole. We may not be able to see Ometeotl in our current state of negative-nihilism (fatalism), but we can work toward that by taking the initiate steps. If you are ever brought into temptation, here are ways in which you may resist that destructive urge...

When you think of committing an act of sin, pretend as if you were a bystander, observing you in your degeneracy. You should immediately think what your Self thinks: "What in HELL are you doing, you fool!" (with emphasis on the "in Hell", for when we submit to base elements, we enter
the metaphysical Abyssus.)

Keep in mind how terribly your kin, ancestors, friends, community or all that you love would feel about your dishonor. If you do not think they or even you would be ashamed, then think about how you would be affected if they did catch you in the middle of the act. It is from this disobedience to Huehuetlatolli (the ancients' Law) that lack of consensus spreads.

Think beforehand about the long-term ill effects your misdeed will bring and follow you for the rest of your life, including your progeny's lives (for our acts are not only determined by environment and education, but by inheritance as well).

Realize what a hypocrite you would be in doing this lowly thing – for do you not already judge others for doing such?

Like in a gamble, the loser of the game of life has debts to pay. Do not forget who or what you will be in debt to and the degree of significance this debt has; it may not be very easy to repay.
Evil can only bring inopportunity and failure.

Think of the energy and strength that will be sapped from you and all those that hold you dear. All will suffer for what you have done; theirs and your own willpower, luck, confidence, body, mind, and spirit – altogether, the life force – will be weakened.

You choose who you surround yourself with, so be sure that you befriend good folk. Associate with an unprincipled company, and you will inevitably conform to their tlatlacolli (depravity). You will, then, be unable to rid yourself of your flaws.

You are not any better if you sin only when unseen.

In order to break unholy habits and build a superior character, write all of your defects on a sheet of paper. (These do not have to be in any order; write each down as it comes to mind, and continue to contemplate on what it is about you that you know in your heart you must change. Do not lie to yourself or try to justify any defects for your Ego; listen only to that underlying voice which rests in your soul.) Once you know this inventory is complete, start working to remove them from yourself through active practice of not doing them – one at a time, starting with the lesser evils. Move on with this process until you've finally reached the time to put an end your core evils. (They should then be at least a little easier to break than would be had you not annihilated the lesser sins first.) If you can overcome all of your defects, you can prevent much unnecessary suffering from cursing your life. (The rest of your pains will occur regardless of what you do, because suffering is a natural part of life that has been with humankind as long as winter.) If you can overcome, your urge to carry out only good and productive works will be strong. You will now take responsibility for what you do, including how you react to things, and have attained the state of greatness (constant praiseworthy conduct according to our
Anahuaca spiritual traditions) which the heroes of old had attained.

The result of this choice is holistic improvement to life, not deterioration. Were each of our people to take this action, unity through peace would replace the current chaos brought by pluralism.

But you must keep up with this practice at all times. It only took Quetzalcoatl one sip of Tezcatlipoca's liquor to degrade to irresponsible behavior and become unworthy of his own golden halls.

The Mexica Swastika of Well-Being
 WE ARE OUR DEEDS!

Resources for further reading:
Los Misterios Mayas
La Crisis del Mundo Moderno [pdf]
El Reino de la Cantidad y los signos de los tiempos [pdf]
Tras las huellas de la religión perenne
Sacrificio
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