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 This Toltec discovery is devastating to the ego of occidental culture, which affirms that the human being is the pinnacle of creation, predator of predators. The Toltec were able to "see" that human beings and what surrounds them through infinity, is made of small light particles with being consciousness. What separates the luminous strands that make up the human being from the filaments surrounding them is a weak membrane formed by the "being consciousness".

The life of human beings and all living beings, aims to increase the being consciousness, to be finally consumed by the Eagle. Human beings are therefore "Eagle food". This truth is a very strong revelation for those who have lived in the belief that man is the evolution pinnacle.

But finally, as Don Juan said, there is neither Eagle nor emanations, but something that no living being can understand. However, the Eagle and the emanations are so real for Toltecs and Toltequity as time or gravity force can be for a modern human being.

Receiving the "Eagle gift" is the seers ultimate goal; it is total freedom or total consciousness.

"—The first truth about the being conscious status, as I already told you —he began— is that the world around us is not really as we think it is. We believe it is a world of objects and it is not...

—The first truth says that the world is just as it seems and yet it is not —continued—. It is not as real and solid as our perception has led us to believe, but it is not a mirage neither. The world is not an illusion, as it has been said that it is; it is partly real, and also unreal...

He explained that one of the ancient seers most dramatic legacies was the discovery that living creatures only exist to enhance being consciousness. Don Juan called it a colossal discovery...

They saw that the Eagle provides being consciousness. The Eagle creates conscious beings to live and enrich the awareness given by life. They also saw that the Eagle devours the same being consciousness, enriched by life experiences, after making conscious beings discard it, at the time of death...

—In our case, as human beings, —don Juan said— we use these emanations and interpret them as reality. But what man captures is such a small part of the eagle emanations, that it is ridiculous to give so much credit to our perceptions, and yet it is not possible to ignore them. Come to understand this, which seems so simple, cost immensities to new seers..." C.C.

THE LUMINOUS EGG GLOW

For Toltequity the world is composed of Eagle emanations and man is a cocoon containing the same emanations, both outside and inside. External luminosity attracts the inner luminosity; this occurs at a point in the cocoon, and there is set to be "being consciousness"; that is the setting of the lace point.

The consciousness degree of each individual, is determined by the external emanations pressure on the inner, and this pressure is determined by the small portion of external emanations, which is equal to a small portion of the inside; this pressure produces a more intense luminosity in the whole cocoon.