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 cosmic soul, time and eternity, the limited and the infinite." (Laurette Séjourné. 1957)

"The Center Law", was reiteratively expressed by the ancient grandparents in everything that formed their material and iconographical world. They expressed it in architecture, since the pyramids and research facilities and study are a clear expression of this philosophy. Suffice to observe that most have a central courtyard and four rooms or four pyramids in each cardinal direction. The pyramids are generally four levels, four faces and on top a structure that unites them. Another very recurrent form is noted by a four petal flower a unifying center Macuilxochitl (five flower). Also through the Quetzalcoatl cross or simply by an X, a circle with two crossed lines, in their engravings, with five circles.

The "quincunxe" as called by Professor Séjourné is a fundamental motif in the architectonic and artistic designs that the ancient Grandparents built, painted, recorded and embroider in pyramids, codices, steles, textiles, frescoes. Should be sufficient to observe carefully and with respect the philosophical—spiritual message, in the material vestiges of this wonderful civilization. The fundamental aspiration of the ancient grandparents, as that of all the ancient great civilizations, is the EXISTENCE SPIRITUAL TRANSCENDENCE.

"The joining of opposites in the Nahuatl religion. The dynamics of jointed opposites is at the foundation of all creation, both spiritual and material.

''If the body "sprouts and blooms" its soul, only if it is trespassed by sacrificial fire, earth produces fruits more than if penetrated by the solar heat transmitted by rain. That is, that the generating element is not simple heat or water, but a balanced combination of both." (Laurette Séjourné.)" (1957)''

The ancient grandparents set out a path, through achieving equilibrium, similar to buddhism, christianism or islamism. But this path is different for us, in as long as "it is own—ours", which was born in our land, with our people and their experiences and