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 a very short time and in a vast territory, comprising from Nicaragua in Central America, up to the northern United States.

The collapse permanence and transcendence.

The large problems dragged by the Mexican society, have their true origin in this "fracture or civilization collapse" that still has no explanation. The decline of the Postclassical period, the ephemeral Aztec power, the European conquest and Creole colonization up to the present day, have much to do with this sudden abandonment of the ancient wise men and women of the Anahuac lands and their centers of knowledge. The conquest only added effect and consequences to this amazing fact, which to date remains a mystery.

The loss of the spiritual teaching and the mysterious absence of the Toltecáyotl venerable masters, as well as the ideological—religious transgression made by the Aztecs, a little less than a century before the arrival of the European invaders, is the real problem facing the people of Mexico to the present day.

The anahuacas remained "orphaned", without teachers and alien to our ancient philosophy and despising our own—ours culture. Always in permanent waiting for the return of Quetzalcoatl. The european conquerors destroyed almost to their foundations —the institutions, authorities and laws— that had governed us for at least three thousand years. To replace this, visions of the world and the life of Spain, France and now United States were imported, and imposed a colonial regime of human exploitation and nature predation, that through the last five centuries has gradually changed on the surface, maintaining its essence intact. ____________________