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 ''incarnation of the creative world. "They had it as creator of things and cause of them." Symbol of the Sun was the Eagle, such that their mystical names always include this bird. Cuahuahtlehuaniti is the "Eagle starting to fly", Cuauhtémoc is the "Eagle flying down", name of the Sun that from the zenith falls to the west. Cuauhcalil is the "Eagle and special servers House", also known as Cuauhnochtii. And those who went to the Sun House, in its royal mansion were the 99 inhabitants of the Eagle land", or Cuauhtecati, Cuauhteca.''

Perhaps the origin of these concepts will never be known, but they must be ancient. All documents that gather archaic information contain references to the same ideas complex.

Page 210 of the same book notes: ''"In summary of the previous lines, what I consider most necessary to appreciate “Eagles Songs”, will explore several of the themes where they take place. Rather than in another genre here considers the complex of religious ideas. A complete study of so many poems as we have in this respect, would give us information of the 'Sun friends cooperative for preservation of universal life'. That is, the very core of Mexico religion doctrines..." ''

Professor Laurette Séjourné in her book "Thought and religion of ancient Mexico, page 121, notes: ''"But is it necessary after what the myths have taught us, that only burning matter the divine particle is released? The Quetzalcoatl message does not say otherwise. We have seen that the individual soul detaches from the Tollan King cremated body and from the ashes of the ulcerous elder is where the cosmic soul emerges. These narratives, on the other hand, have sufficiently indicated that liberating fire is sacrifice and penance; and it is known that the priesthood institution had no other purpose than teaching practices that led to detachment of the terrestrial condition. It is then likely that the trophy sought by the "flourished battle" warrior was none other than his own soul."    ''

The fire from within was the work that came to "rescue" many readers, who after "Tales of power", published in 1974 and until the emergence of "The fire within", released in 1984, had fallen into greater confusion than Castaneda himself.

Following the books through each publishing, certainly was a challenge to the reader; now it is easier to have the nine books at hand and read them one after the other, or even choose the order that one sees fit. We will now begin our analysis of the Fire Within.

INTRODUCTION

The author relates that in the last fifteen years he has been writing about the experiences of being a Toltequity apprentice, the ancient knowledge that was divided in three parts: consciousness of being, staking and intent. He clarifies that he and his companions are not witches but "seers" and that the work will focus on mastery of being conscious. Mentions in turn, that they belong to a new Toltequity cycle and are "total freedom warriors" who seek to scrupulous and impeccably comply with all the complex practices that require a tremendous effort and discipline, and that if they manage to complete, they shall be consumed on an inner fire that makes them disappear from this world, free and without traces.