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 attention. Reaching it does liberates us automatically from our human clumsiness. An apprentice who reaches the second attention without losing the human form, without sobriety, discipline and control, can "perish" just as the first Toltec who got lost in the second attention and "neglected the everyday world".

The nagual rule is "a truth" that the warrior must assume totally. If not fully prepared the "Rule" is literally crushing. The rule says that "The Eagle" is a force or superior energy, immeasurable and incomprehensible. The ancient viewers metaphorically called "The Eagle" just to name it, but it is not an eagle, nor anything we can imagine.

This superior energy feeds from the energy implied by living beings consciousness. So when they die, these energetic particles are absorbed by this force. However, "The Eagle" gives an opportunity or gift to all living beings. This opportunity is "entering another reality", with the being consciousness. This gift is given by the Eagle to perpetuate awareness. To this end, the Eagle creates a pair of naguales, man and woman, provides them with a team very well defined and determined by their energy charges, gives them "the rule” and makes them forget it, so that they later recover it and achieve "their totality" and form a new team before leaving, to perpetuate the opportunity.

"Considered that the freedom gift the Eagle offered was not a gift but the chance of having an opportunity..."

''His conjecture was that once, in the indigenous world before the conquest, the handling of the second attention corrupted. It had developed without any obstacles for perhaps thousands of years, until it lost strength. Practitioners of that time perhaps did not need controls, and thus without control, the second attention, instead of becoming stronger, weakened as it became more and more intricate. Then came the Spanish invaders and, with their superior technology, destroyed the Indians world. Don Juan told me that his benefactor was convinced that only a small group of warriors survived and managed to regroup their knowledge and redirect their path…" C.C.''

THE EAGLE’S GIFT

The official history of "Prehispanic Mexico" is made on the basis of "scientific" studies and research, primarily from the Aztec culture, taking as a "reliable information" what was written, product of their personal interpretations, the conquerors, the chroniclers, the Friars and some indigenous that became Occidentalized immediately after the conquest.

The roots of ancient Mexico were lost in time. Francisco Javier Clavijero, in his "Ancient History of Mexico", points out that it is almost impossible knowing the origins of Anahuac peoples, (the reader’s attention is drawn to the fact that in the conquest recent past, the current national territory was known with the name of Anahuac). "The history of the primitive people of Anahuac is so dark and so altered with so many fables (as other peoples of the world) that it is impossible to find the truth […]. Several of our historians who wanted to penetrate this chaos, guided by the weak conjectures light, futile combinations and suspicious paintings, were lost in antiquity darkness and have been forced to adopt puerile and ____________________