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 put it in some way, the Toltec masterpiece and must have been the basic structure, or societies foundation that for millennia developed in the Anahuac civilization. Because without this wisdom, without this "methodology" the Toltec would not had been able to face the terrifying infinity mystery.

"The warrior path" is the most important Anahuac cultural heritage to the children’s children in the twenty-first century. It represents the archetype of physical and mental health, both for individuals and society. This is why, when the Mexica rules and laws of the 16th century are read, these are of a "Spartan" spirit character, which do not agree with human sacrifice and the Mexica "Florid wars " are a degenerated and degraded a shadow of the Toltec "Florid wars", in the classical period.

TALES OF POWER

The warrior trust is not the common man trust. The common man seeks for certainty in the spectator eyes and calls it self-confidence. The warrior seeks for impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humility. The common man is hooked to his peers, while the warrior is only hooked to infinity.

It is internal dialogue what binds people to the everyday world. The world is such and such way only because we tell ourselves that is such and which way. The passage to the shamans world opens when the warrior has learned to stop his internal dialogue.

Our peers are black magicians. And whoever is with them is also a black magician, for sure. Think a moment. Can you divert from the path your peers have mapped for you? While you remain with them, your actions and thoughts are forever fixed on their terms. That is slavery. The warrior, instead, is free from all that. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible to pay. So fear your captors, your masters. Do not waste your time and your power afraid of freedom.

Human beings are perceivers, but the world they perceive is an illusion: an illusion created by descriptions told from the moment they were born.

So the world that your reason wishes to sustain is, in essence, a world created by a description which has inviolable and dogmatic rules, rules that your reason learns to accept and defend.

Only as a warrior can stand the knowledge path. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is a never-ending challenge, and there is no way that challenges can be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

The warrior, as a teacher, teaches three techniques to his pupil to help him delete his personal history: losing the own personal importance, take responsibility for own acts and use death as a counselor. Without the beneficial effect of these three techniques, erasing personal history makes one stealth, evasive and unnecessarily uncertain of himself and his actions.

COMMENTARY

Don Juan declares to Castaneda that he demands from his apprentices: perfect efficiency, impeccable intent and impeccable discipline. Because to capture this wonderful