Version 2007.11.08

## "Encounters With The Nagual" - ©2004 by Armando Torres
Part II. Warriors' Dialogue

### The End of the Lineage

On various occasions, Carlos affirmed that don Juan Matus' lineage ended with him. But when I wanted to know more about it, he insisted that, for now, he could not give me any more details.

"I can't know exactly what the design of power will be: Who am I to determine something like that? I know the traditional form of the lineage which I belong to ends with me, but whether a new format will continue into the future or not is something that is determined by a superior force."

He told me he had spent years waiting for signs of continuity- concretely, a person that had the luminous characteristics to be the new nagual- but those signs didn't appear. Consequently, he had decided to act in an impeccable way, as if he were the last nagual on earth. From that came his urgency to tell everything.

"Take advantage of me!" he told me. "I am liquidating all that was given to me."

With sadness, I asked if it meant that, after him, there would be no more teaching of the knowledge.

He answered:

"No, that's not what I mean. My destiny is to close a line, nothing more. I am sure the spirit will find the way of continuing ahead, because the current of knowledge cannot stop.

"The extinction of a lineage of sorcerers or the birth of another are constant incidents in the flow of energy. I know several parties of warriors living now, getting ready for the final jump, and I can also foresee the beginning of a new cycle corresponding to the renewal of cultural paradigms for the next millennium."