Version 2007.11.08

## "Encounters With The Nagual" - ©2004 by Armando Torres
Part III. The Rule of the Three-Pronged Nagual

### The Origin of the Rule

I asked him how man had come into contact with this matrix.

He replied:

"It has always existed. However, seers are its discoverers and guardians.

"The rule is the origin of the universal order. Its operation and purpose are ignored, not because they are not known, but because they are not understood. Hundreds of generations of sorcerers gave their lives in their zeal to elucidate it, and to develop practical proposals for every one of its conceptual units.

"In the beginning, no man attempted to catch a gleam of this structure, because nobody knew it was there. As the seers of old Mexico came into contact with other aware entities on this Earth, entities much older and more experienced than the seers themselves, the seers began acquiring portions of the rule. One day they saw that all those portions fit into each other like a puzzle. That day, they discovered what they called 'the map', and the lineage of the seers of antiquity began.

"Through their seeing, the ancient seers verified each portion related to dreaming. They tested every combination and determined its effects on awareness. They organized exercises of dreaming on seven levels of increasing depth, and they penetrated the innermost twists and turns of the universe. Little by little, they developed the pattern for the nagual party: a structure in the shape of an extremely stable pyramid; capable of expressing the designs of power with transparent clarity.

"But there was one thing the ancients didn't verify: The rule for the stalkers. They viewed stalking as a latent possibility which was not worthwhile to explore in practice."

"Why?"

"Because, in an era when being a sorcerer meant being at the top of the social scale, stalking as an art had no purpose. It would have been a poor investment. But when the modality of the time changed, that line of reasoning brought the old seers almost to the edge of extinction.

"It was not until the appearance of the Toltecs that the other great portion of the rule revealed its extraordinary content. Lineages who were able to apply it were the only ones who survived; the rest were dissolved, and got lost in the vortex which signified the fall of the old seers' regime. The incorporation of stalking determined the birth of the new seers, and with them the rule of the nagual was completely elucidated."

"When did that happen?"

"The period of the new seers began about five thousand years ago, and reached its peak in the times of Tula. Through stalking, the fundamental contribution of those warriors to sorcery was the notion of impeccability."