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Twisted truth
What history tells us about the Mexican
cultures and the Indians is often untrue,
and what is true is either not told or has
been twisted in its rendering. But fortu-
nately, we have the monumental struc-
tures that speak for themselves. Their ar-
chitecture and the stone-carved reliefs
testify to multifaceted and varied cul-
tures. Theybear witness to universal va-
lues and expressions of universal know-
ledge that accompany humanity
through all times.
Universes, omniverses, multiverses,
even megaverses, whatever they are called
nowadays, come and go in immeasurable
space and hence in time. In them, tremen-
dous developments are taking place ^ bil-
lions of galaxies and nebulae of all kinds,
of material or other densities, multifar-
ious solar systems and planets, consisting
of atoms, of which the nuclei are, in turn,
composed in the same way as the stellar
systems in the universe. The question
arises: why, wherefore, and to what pur-
pose does all of this exist? Moreover, the
earth and therefore the human being, as
well as the sun and the moon do not exist
independently. Everything is linked to
everything else and is mutually depen-
dent down to its infinite detail, both on a
large and on a small scale. This is why the
seemingly primitive Ubuntu philosophy
of South Africa states: Your pain is my
pain, your wealth is my wealth and your
salvation is my salvation.
When we consider the magnificence
and age of creation, it seems rather bizarre
to have to accept that the phenomenon
man only managed to achieve culture
and cultural communities during approxi-
mately the last 6500 years, as conservative
science and religion would like us to be-
lieve.
New discoveries
In the 1920s, a complex, stepped pyra-
mid was found a little south of theUniver-
sity of Mexico City. A very special feature
was its circular shape.
The pyramid was buried under a layer
of lava as a result of an unknown volcanic
eruption. Geologists were called upon to
date the lava. Everyone was amazed that
the conclusion was that the eruption had
taken place at least 7000 years ago. This
definitive date was, however, completely
ignored by historians and archaeologists,
because it did not fit their established the-
ories. This possibility was simply unac-
ceptable. It was not believed that a civilisa-
tion capable of building a pyramid, ex-
isted in Mexico so early in time. The
Americanarchaeologist ByronCunnings,
who excavated the pyramid, nevertheless,
declared emphatically that this temple
had already become a ruin 8500 years
ago; which was 1500 years before the
eruption.
Generally speaking, it is astonishing
that conservative scientists and religion
can only gape at the expressions of highly
developed cultural and spiritual commu-
16
nities from antiquity and usually dismiss
themas forms of pagan idolatry, without
realising that these are the means by
which the one creator expresses himself.
More recently, scientists have shown
that the earth ^ and by analogy, the total
manifestation of forms ^ is embedded in a
large energy field, in which all informa-
tion, the whole memory of everything
that has happened, is stored. They also ac-
cept that humanity draws on this without
being conscious of it. Hence, civilisation
after civilisation builds upon, and trans-
mits, earlier realised knowledge and facul-
ties. Time and again, humanity has had to
be put on the right track again. Messen-
gers have brought drops of loving know-
ledge from another reality, thus giving di-
rection to further progress.
It is an endless rising, shining and fad-
ing. Nevertheless, nothing of all these
experiences is forgotten; nothing is lost.
These experiences are recorded, both
large and small. In every microcosm, the
life of a human being is recorded in his li-
pika. And this determines the starting
point of the human being in a next life. In
a larger context, this is equally true of the
earth and the universe.
Waves of probability
The human being has his memory,
although he sometimes gets lost in it. The
earth also has a memory, which in princi-
ple is accessible to all. Nowadays, scien-
tists call this the zero-point energy field,
but the esotericists have already been
speaking about the Akashic Chronicles
for much longer. It is like a book, in
which matter, in whatever shape or form,
is expressed as energy. Some people are
able to read this book. In it, they can see,
among other things, what developments
have taken place and what their results
were.
For the large majority of people, the
zero-point energy field remains a closed
book. Their consciousness is not yet ade-
quate. The human being is developing, is
17
Serpent head in
stone
still in a state of genesis. Nowadays, we
are very apprehensive of the implications
of this knowledge. Suspicious as he is, the
human being wants to be in a position to
check and prove everything.
The insights of quantumphysics, how-
ever, increasingly explain things. The
smallest units of matter are described as
probability waves. These smallest units
only exist when they are observed. This
means that before these particles (quan-
tums) are observed, only a probability, a
possibility, exists but not yet a reality.
It is, apparently, in the power of
humanbeings toturnprobability into rea-
lity. Because they can consciously focus
on the energy potential, which is primar-
18
ily present within them as soul quality,
they can draw similar powers into their
circle of attention. Probability then be-
comes reality. Does the human being
reach the limits of his (subtle-)material fa-
culties in this way? Do we push back the
borders of consciousness? Or does the
human being want to cross the border?
The human being is part of the whole
Their religious experience taught the
Indians that the bones must remain be-
hind and that only the soul could con-
tinue its journey to the reunion with the
central spiritual sun. The Mayas believed
that the human being consisted of a physi-
cal body (widil-il), an astral quality that
shaped the body (pixan) and the spirit
that gives life (inhan). Widil-il means
being in constant vibration, pixan is en-
soulment, the bearer of the material vibra-
tion, and inhan is the spiritual element
that exists in eternal genesis.
The Indians also believed that the
human being incarnated many times in
different periods and in different places.
The purpose of life was to gain many
experiences in order to learn its diversity.
The most important principle of the
Mayas was to regard everything as a part
of themselves, to feel one with creation.
Only throughthis insight would it be pos-
sible to change selfish human behaviour.
Only that would lead to harmony.
Through the ages, the various Mexi-
can-Indian communities have always
known and professed that this world is
only a twilight, dream world. They did
not call themselves inhabitants of the
earth, but children of the sun. In fact, in
all ancient legends and esoteric records of
Human sacrifices
Here follows a piece, written by soldier-writer Bernal
Diaz, fromhis book, published in 1568 (almost 50 years
after the date of its writing), The conquest of New
Spain. In this bizarre piece, he even goes as far as repre-
senting the Indians as eating human flesh with a sauce
of peppers and tomatoes.
... we saw our comrades, who had been taken prisoner
after Cortez defeat. They were dragged up the steps to
be sacrificed... They had to dance for Huitzilopochtl.
After they had danced, the papas laid them on their
backs on top of some small altar stones. Their chest was
cut open and the palpitating heart was ripped out and
sacrificed to the gods.
Then the corpses were kicked down the steps. Indian
butchers were waiting below to cut off their arms and
legs and to flay their faces. The skin was prepared as a
leather glove and kept for great festive occasions.
Thereafter they sat down to a meal of humanflesh with
a sauce of peppers and tomatoes.
humanity, the allegorical sun religions ap-
pear to be a constant factor.
Stories of ceremonies revolving around
the cutting out of the heart, originate from
only two or three Spanish chroniclers and/
or conquerors, published about fifty years
after they were written. The only ^ rather
dubious ^ chronicler of Aztec history in
Mexico was Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and
for the Mayas, it was the Franciscan Diego
de Landa. Only of Bernadino de Sahagu n,
another Franciscan monk, can we say that
he tried to record Aztec history, religion
and legends through communication with
old, indigenous inhabitants, and by means
of Aztec pictography. The Spanish authori-
ties banned his books at a later stage.
In The untold story of the Ancient
Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel,
the beginning of the book states: The
idea that there are as many realities as
there are communities, will be new to
many of us. Yet, whether we are aware of
it or not, we observe our world through a
filter. We give our own interpretation to
reality, and this interpretation determines
the reality of a community. In the same
way other, completely different interpre-
tations have shaped other communities
all over the world, in the present as well
as in the past...
TheWestern conquerors ^ history has
abundantly shown ^ were only lusting
after gold, and in its pursuit, and in the
name of their god, they put hundreds of
thousands of Indians to the sword. As in
ancient Egypt, gold had no value in the
Mexican cultures. It was embellishment,
only used for decoration.
The mythical stories of all times show
that the divine wants nothing other than
to save the human being from this mate-
rial world. To this end, the light continu-
ously sacrifices itself for, and in, the
human being. In the stories of the Mayas
and the Aztecs, the gods descend into the
underworld, the land of Xibalba. There
they are seemingly defeated and mur-
dered by the Lords of Darkness. But gods
are immortal and are allegorically reborn
time and again, in any shape or form. This
is described in the Popol Vuh. The light sa-
crifices itself inthis way inthe darkness of
the human heart, so that the human being
will be able to overcome his wilfulness
and no longer has to hide in the twilight
world. Then he can ^ symbolically ^
offer his heart to his creator.
The truth was withheld by the con-
querors, while the untruth was told.
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Relief of the
goddess
Coyolxauqui
Man has religion in his blood
It is said that great spiritual forces con-
trol the development of humanity. Mod-
ern esotericism speaks of important
beings of an exceptional spiritual power
who, guiding and directing certain peo-
ples in all their undertakings, in turn,
undergo their own development. This
was known in antiquity, and this know-
ledge was expressed in a positive faith:
each nation has its own god and con-
forms to his (alleged) demands and
commandments. This also happened in
Mexico. The Popol Vuh, about which
more is written elsewhere in this issue,
tells this story.
Regrettably, we as modern people are
strongly focused on the exterior, thus
finding ourselves deprivedof the direct in-
spiration of those spiritual forces. What
we experience inwardly ^ if we experi-
ence anything inwardly at all ^ is usually
a reaction to our environment.
Very little comes fromwithin, because
all our senses are focused on absorbing
our surroundings, and because the power
to give, toradiate, is still dormant. Hence,
the wellspring of benevolence and true
help still remains closed.
There is only one, very rare impulse
that, independent of its environment,
wells up from the innermost being of the
modern human being. There is only one
voice that, very rarely, reaches him from
a pure atmosphere of peace, and touches
his consciousness with unknown impres-
sions of freedom and harmony.
Development is not always progress
Nowadays, the current theory is that
people who worship a god, and by their
very religion have strong mutual relation-
ships, are more primitive. The teachings of
the Christian religions have significantly
contributed to this. The western human
being may have a religion, but experiences
his church or his faith in another way. It is
more secondary; quite often, it is not an
inner need and sometimes springs from
the wish to maintain civilised appear-
ances, proper cultural habits or cherished
forms. In the west, the personality, and
above all someones personal develop-
ment, is dominant. What does this devel-
opment bring? At best, it brings good edu-
cation and hence thinking power, intelli-
gence and reasonable social behaviour.
Friendship and culture are important.
You show this to the outside world, as
this is what people would like to see; on
the other hand, showing worries or moan-
ing is not appreciated. It is preferably de-
nied, but on an unconscious level, it is
there and plays an important role.
Everything is developing and this is
encouraging for the future. Yet, we are
not dreamers. Development, yes, but pro-
gress? How much inner progress has
humanity achieved? Have feelings and af-
fections changed through the ages, or
even millennia? Have they perhaps be-
come nobler, more selfless, more charita-
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Stairs with
serpent head in
the pyramid of
Quetzalcoa tl.
ble? Does the ear hear the unspoken sigh
of his neighbour in the undertones of a
conversation? Does the eye see the suffer-
ing ^ not the suffering of discomfort, but
of the denial of the human being?
Since time immemorial, none of the
many emotions and feelings a human
being alternately, but ceaselessly,
experiences, has disappeared. They are
only alternately confronting the conscious-
ness in an active, compelling and demand-
ing way, and the human being experiences
them. Or is this way of expressing it too
passive? A strong emotion appears, usually
ina flashof a second. The blood seethes, the
emotion grows until it is satisfied. Then it
disappears into the background of our con-
sciousness and something else presents it-
self. Some emotions arrive as if on a cloud
and are mild. Others are like a thunder-
storm or a hurricane. And just like the
fields, the landscape of the human soul
waits until it has passed. However, the soul
does not escape its consequences. The nerve
fluid must quiet down again; the blood
must assimilate new energies. This con-
tinues until the end, until the power of re-
generation of the soul is exhausted, and life
must be returned to the great life, from
which it has received life. How does this
benefit a human being?
Blood is magical
Everyone understands and experiences
these individual affections, as they are an-
chored in the blood. This is why it is said:
the blood is the soul, or the soul can be
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Becoming gnostically conscious means attaining the
pure unity of the rebornsoul with the Spirit. That is the
true central idea. It is necessary that you begin to live
from this blood, the blood of Jesus Christ. This blood
has to be absorbed by the liver. This blood has to be
inhaled by you. This blood needs to be the source of
your life and existence. This blood is the Gnosis calling
you. It is called blood because it is drunk by the heart
as a light force that causes the blood to change.
This blood, this light force, must begin to replace the
central principle of life so that a totally newhuman
being can rise up from this blood force in the field of
resurrection.
Catharose de Petri, The Living Word, [p. 92]
found in, or lives in, the blood. The loss of
two and a half litres of blood is all that is
necessary to lose our life as we know it;
the whole human being lives in five to six
litres. Human life and blood are almost in-
separably linked. Through this special
juice, the properties of the parents and an-
cestors return to life; but the character and
past history of a human being are also ex-
pressed in it in the form of talents and lim-
itations. He who wants to positively influ-
ence his life and wants to develop spiri-
tually, will have to change all the way
down to the blood. This may be easy to
say, but it isnt easily done, because the
blood is a mirror that reflects the world
into the human consciousness. We see how
boththe inner and the outside world are re-
flected in the human blood. The outside
world corresponds, after all, with that
which stems from within a human being.
Thats how it is. When the voice of the pri-
mordial energy speaks in it, the activity of
the blood reinforces this energy. It only de-
pends onwhat a humanbeing is focusedon.
If he is focusedonthe primordial energy, all
divine properties can be expressed in the
blood again! In addition to all its physical
functions, the blood also has a magical as-
pect: it assimilates positive, spiritual energy
and negative energy, and transforms them
into either beneficial or detrimental im-
pulses in human beings.
The Spiritual School of the Rosycross
speaks of a mysterious power. The termi-
nology of the early Christians speaks of
the blood of Christ that cleanses, because
a human being, who was deeply linked
with it, exemplified a life of wisdom and
help, focused on the kingdom of heaven.
It is the human being who, symbolically,
accepted the ultimate consequences of
the power that inspired and drove him;
he gave his life to be able to follow that
power. Ever since, every human being
can partake of a free, inner life. To the ex-
tent that the new power works in his
blood, he will let go of possible impedi-
ments, even to the extent that their nega-
tive repercussions will disappear from his
blood.
Even from the mutilated teachings of
theNewTestament that have been handed
down to us, we may conclude that the
freedom of the gospel was propagated.
And look at what later centuries have
made of it. Despite the fact that the
power of liberation is linked with the
earth through the symbolic blood sacri-
fice of Jesus, we are told that we are essen-
tially depraved and that the ungodly must
have faith in their own power ^ we who,
as small worlds, have been created in
Gods image!
When this spiritual essence came into
the atmosphere in the Middle East, there
was a similar impulse inCentral America,
concentratedonthe heart andthe bloodof
the people. Many thousands of years ago,
the memory of the great emissaries of the
Atlantean period was still alive in the ori-
ginal peoples of South America. They had
given humanity a positive religion of the
heart. Lift up your hearts to the divine
world; try to continuously stand in the in-
spiration and the example of the great
ones; do not only plunge into earthly life,
but learn how your heart can grow and
develop by assimilating the divine ener-
gies in the blood.
In addition, the ancient priesthoods
propagatedthat food for the gods was pro-
vided through this cooperation, because
the radiating power of the blood formed
the main source of nourishment; the
gods lived on all human expressions of
life, feelings and emotions. But the origi-
nal divine energies moved far into the
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Fountain in a
courtyard of a
government
building in the
Zo calo in Mexico
City. The fountain
is adorned with a
sculpture of an
equestrian riding
a winged horse.
backgrounddue tothe decline and manip-
ulation of the priests. Their aim degener-
ated into pure self-maintenance, with all
the ensuing striving for power.
Perhaps the sacrifice of human hearts,
blood, children, slaves and prisoners of
war, of which the Spanish records speak,
originated from this. If all these awful
practices truly occurred, they form the
sinister opposite of what happened on
Golgotha in a symbolic way.
Of some more recent priesthoods ^
even now, albeit in a different form ^ it is
said that they, in a deliberate and well-
considered way, turned around the es-
sence of the mystery of Golgotha: We,
continuations of the gods, take your
heart, literally if necessary, and sacrifice
it.
Transformation of the blood
The symbolic self-sacrifice of a human
being makes all this earth-binding magic
totally superfluous.
This self-sacrifice of a human being
cleanses the life atmosphere and activates
ever more pure Christ power.
Gradually, the earth is changing again:
the new spiritual impulse in the atmo-
sphere that is linked with the Christ, will
always continue to work. There may come
a time in which his name is forgotten, and
people no longer know what happened
during his time. Yet, the atmospheric
change has begun again. The human
being has become enabled to inner free-
dom, and hence will obtain it.
There is no true change if the blood,
the basis of our consciousness, does not
change. But the quality and the properties
of the blood, of the character, of the life
soul of a human being, do not easily
change. An initial impulse is needed,
which can, as yeast in bread, bring about
a transformation. This impulse does not
stem from this nature. If that were the
case, humanity would have accomplished
its soul development long ago. This is
what original gnostic Christianity knew
and preserved as the secret of the Christ
mystery. The blood of the Christ has posi-
tively changed the heart of the earth, and
hence humanity, forever. This is expressed
all over the world. The human being who
focuses his attention on this, is absolutely
going to partake of the universal life,
which is, after all, always associated with
him, the Christ.
It is like a pure impulse from the
realms of the original life that irradiates
the blood with spiritual life. This impulse
is diametrically opposed to the nature of
self-maintenance; this principle cannot
do otherwise than spread light and love.
This is why we often speak of a shock
when a human being experiences this
power for the first time!
But if he reacts, an interesting process
begins. This is sometimes called the fun-
damental reversal. It is clear that this
change is not associated with external or
social circumstances. It rather concerns
an inner transformation, a change in the
human heart blood.
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