Ancient Mexicans are part of a single civilization, even cultures that have existed in time and space in Anahuac. Which means, essentially, that shared the same cultural philosophical matrix.
This set of ideas that explain life and death and their relationship with nature, the universe and the divine and sacred sense of existence, basically, is not very different from Mother of five other civilizations on the planet. In fact, when a man or a people have reached a higher stage of development, when they have satisfied the basic needs of living material, necessarily seek to give meaning to their lives and transcend their existence in the spiritual, sacred and divine. Because awareness of a significant real world and is in close connection with the discovery of the sacred.
Although agriculture is invented in the Cem Anahuac to the sixth millennium before the Christian era, the mother culture appears decanted and its own personality, between the states of Veracruz and Tabasco around a thousand years five hundred BC The Olmecs left us evidence of bases of what will be the civilization of Anahuac. In the period known as the Formative or Preclassic, the Old Grandparents developed and perfected systems: food, health, education and social organization, which will be the structural foundation which will release what would later be known as Splendour or previous Classic, which includes 200 BC to 850 AD
The Toltec civilization will lead to peak Cem philosophical project that initiated the Olmec Anahuac. Evidence of this continuity "philosophical-cultural-sacred-divine" we can see in the iconography, which presents the designs and symbols they left sculpted, carved, painted or embroidered, as the quincunx, the feathered serpent, the jaguar, the eagle and the divine duality from the pair of complementary opposites to "humanize" the world and seen clearly through two profiles of two snakes or two quetzals. And of course the building system, truncated pyramids, ball courts, patios square flanked by four rooms, trails, three-dimensional sculptures and so on, which will almost intact, with minor variations to the very arrival of the English.
Few people notice these similarities that were kept at least three millennia, not only in the Cem Anahuac, but surprisingly, shared by all indigenous peoples from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but that the Eurocentric and colonization has never accepted that this land existed before the invasion, people with a civilization much more advanced than Europe at the time. And what is also important to note that all people shared the same womb "philosophical-cultural-divine-sacred." The settlers have always studied the peoples and cultures invaded by their differences, not their similarities. Which are many and striking.
But the point of this reflection is the need to know the structure of philosophical and religious Anahuac, so that in its essence and its root, we can understand and see the stem and foliage civilizing project that is eminently sacred and divine. This challenge is fundamental to understanding the root Mother and end our civilization forever impoverished colonial vision. The Hermeneutics of Old Mexico is presented as an urgent task to undertake next.
Our remote ancestors, having failed to meet basic subsistence needs, focused all his ability, talent and sensitivity to materials beyond the limited areas of life and the unfathomable fields penetrate the Human Spirit, the Universe and reach the ultimate source, ie detached from the profane world and enter the world of the sacred and the divine. Awareness of the sacredness of the world and life, free man from his animal-secular state, which meet their material needs is all that exists in the scope of its basic existence. Awareness of a sacred world and the sacredness of human life by enabling to create its magnificent old grandparents cultural universe. The awareness of the sacred ontologically based the existence of the civilization of Anahuac. Anahuac is becoming the world insofar as it unveils its sacredness and man ceases to be an animal with basic material needs, until he becomes aware of their spiritual potential, its sacredness and its mission in life and the universe.
What did the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians and of course so did our old grandparents.
This knowledge is the most important legacy we have inherited thousands of years of evolution and human development. This knowledge was called the Old Grandparents toltecayotl and is understood as the legacy of the Toltecs. Our inability to understand the most precious of our historic and cultural heritage, becomes part of who now live in a materialistic culture, desecrated and pragmatic, and of course, mental colonialism, cultural and spiritual environment in which we have lived the last five centuries.
The basis of this set of ideas is that the earth is a living and lives with consciousness cosmic cycles. That man and Earth are intimately interdependent relationship. That in the pursuit of human perfection, the land suffers cataclysms and restart again, with the experience of the previous cycle. Thus, the sense of history is cyclical and not linear. This concept is explained in the myth of the creation of the Fifth Sun Time ceases to be ordinary and becomes sacred to the extent that human beings become aware of their responsibility and their mission in the maintenance of energy balance and purity must achieve spiritual.
There is a supreme source of creative energy, invisible, intangible, unnameable, invented herself. This principle operator will have many invocations different partial representations of his greatness. These multiple forms of sacred Europeans have translated as "gods" but are not. For indeed act as partial representations of the sacred whole.
Thus we have "partial expressions" of the immeasurable. There are gods in the Western sense, but fragmented manifestations of the same whole. So the Sun, Moon, Venus, the Milky Way, water, wind, fire, duality, the feathered serpent, jaguar, snake, among others, are only metaphorical symbols of divinity contact with humans and the secular world.
There are seven cardinal points of human existence. The navel or unifying center of the universe. The four corners of existence led to the four cardinal points. Each of them has a philosophical meaning, religious and esoteric. The sky has thirteen levels to the zenith and the underworld that has nine levels to the deep.
Man performs his material existence among the first five points. Begins to be "transcendent" as he becomes aware of their spiritual potential. In that time comes the history and culture. If he manages to balance the pair of complementary opposites arising from the North-South and East-West in the "unifying center, elevation and transcendence achieved. But if developed further some of the complementary opposites, the imbalance will drag into the abyss of human stupidity. In this way the pursuit of "balance" is one of the key elements to understand this philosophy and its close relationship with the quincunx, Macuilxochitl or the cross of Quetzalcoatl, revelations of a philosophical, religious and sacred of Anahuac.
Human beings were created by the sacrifice of "the gods." We therefore named "masehual" meaning "deserved the sacrifice of the gods" and therefore his life is a permanent spiritual sacrifice. Human beings find meaning in their lives, rather than having food, clothing and shelter. The profane material world is only a means to penetrate the sacred spiritual world. It is precisely the awareness of the sacredness and divinity that makes us human. Here is the foundation of our civilization. The two major objectives is the existential human being are the gods to help the upkeep of the universe and transcend its material existence in the spiritual plane. Without this mission, human life has no meaning.
From first say that unlike Western culture, where God has created in his image and likeness to humans and gives to the Earth and all beings who live in it for domination , exploitation and processing. Instead, the ancient Mexicans interpret the Earth as his "beloved mother" and are located and their small children. Have the obligation not only to ensure and preserve the original balance, but also "humanize" from the spiritual energy that can produce humans through a virtuous life.
This is very important. The humanization of the world means giving a sense sacred and divine all around us. " It is only humans who can do this miracle from their spiritual potential. This is one of the most important purposes of the civilization of Anahuac. A mission that goes far beyond a single individual, a people and many generations. The concept of a historical and collective responsibility, will remain alive even in the decadent Postclassic, but violated by the ideological-religious reform cihuacoatl Mexica called Tlacaelel. And we fully explained how it was possible construction projects of more than a millennium of time, as the case of Monte Alban, which began construction in 500 BC and was abandoned 1350 years later in AD 850
The second goal of civilization is the individual pursuit of existential significance from a very decanted and difficult, involving dominance and self-knowledge from sophisticated teachings of hermetic character. Where basically you take the world and human beings as energy charges and energy producers.
This second goal was called the Toltecs symbolically "Florida War." Undertook the brave that are called "warriors" and according to their energy load could be eagles or tigers. Their weapons were "flower and song", understood as beauty and wisdom. The ultimate goal of the warriors of death bloom was "to flourish his heart" and give spiritual food to his people.
is important to note that the Old Grandparents maintained cohesion very strong social and stratified. That there was "the wing and tail" composed of masehuales society. People who lived his life so ordinary. Peasants, artisans, public servants and what we might identify as specialists in medicine, construction, art, the equation, religion, etc. Guided by strong social foundations, religious and moral that gave them a small elite of people who are totally dedicated to the study, research and systematization of the spiritual potential of human energy. These elites living in the vicinity of what today is known as "archaeological sites", which never been cities, palaces or fortresses, as colonized and ignorant minds presuppose the "official story."
What I do not want to accept the colonists, is that the Old Grandparents had a deep human wisdom and decanted. As important as those produced by the civilizations of Egypt, China or India. That his project of civilization was beyond "domination and exploitation" of the material world. The potential of your wisdom was focused on achieving the highest aspiration of human consciousness. We refer to transcend the divine and sacred plane of existence from spiritual development.
settlers from the sixteenth century until today, do not accept that indigenous peoples and their children's children possess the human condition "and of course, much less recognize the degree of material development had the civilization of Anahuac. Even in the sixteenth century, right in Postclassic Period Cem decadent peoples of Anahuac had much higher quality and standard of living of European peoples. This is a great truth that "researchers" did not want to see and overthrew all the speech scientist colonizer of cultural inferiority of the invaded and conquered. Here's why:
Feeding the Old Grandfather was of greater nutritional quality and variety. Possessed the "floating island" which involves the highest human technology until today, to produce land intensively throughout the year. Invented corn from biogenetic transformations did to grass called teozintle. The health system had reached levels of excellence. The trepanation, as well as the wisdom of what we now call herbs and the use of "power plants" arrived at all. The concept of personal hygiene, housing and urban development, was more advanced than in our days. The educational system found in 1519, was much higher than European. Popular education was 3 millennia in Europe only began in 1596. The old grandparents lived in a civilization that lasted thousands of years schooling before the invasion. The system of social organization and legal system was so effective and efficient, which has survived until today in the cargo system of the indigenous and peasant communities in contemporary Mexico.
The "material" world of Anahuac was far superior to European. The concept of urbanism that met the invaders in the Great Tenochtitlan in the sixteenth century, just what came to be European cities until well into the nineteenth century. Drinking water, the grid system of streets, roads, alleys, canals, bridges, community use and free transportation, schools, hospitals, markets, libraries, museums, zoos, sports facilities, cultural centers, administrative offices and a large etcetera.
But the "material world" is just a mirage for unsettled consciences. When an individual or a people have reached a level of existential development, looking beyond the solid walls of the limited material world and enter the fast and wonderful Spirit world, the sacred and divine existence. The material world is just off base that requires the "spirit world" to transcend. The importance of the heritage of our Old Grandparents is precisely the wisdom accumulated over seven thousand five hundred years to transcend our existence in the spiritual realm and our settlers have not seen for fraud, much less understand disability.
cultural wealth, our greatest cultural heritage, not in "material ruins" of so-called archaeological sites, or "treasures" that are stored in museums around the world. The great cultural achievement of our civilization Mother is deposited in the heart of every one of the sons of the sons of the Old Grandparents. The Treasury is given in the "flowers and songs that live in our" spiritual. " In the feelings and thoughts as flowers and songs that can help us transcend this precarious and chaotic material world in which we live.
This is how the toltecayotl is revealed as the most important cultural potential that we have inherited from our ancestors. The systematic knowledge about the spiritual potential that is lurking in the everyday world Popular Culture in the call, the values \u200b\u200band principles of family education. This ancient wisdom refugee living traditions, festivals and customs, is still giving us "own face and a true heart" and is what can lead us to the release of the dark, grotesque and dehumanizing material world which have fallen over the past five centuries.
Until now, researchers have only made archeology and history of the material and secular world of ancient Mexico. These are times when the children of the children of the Old Grandparents do archeology of the mind and try to rebuild sacred history of Anahuac.
research is needed, reorder information and create new knowledge based approach to the manifestations of the sacred and divine that our old grandparents left us, not only in material remains, but in symbols, myths, rituals, traditions, legends, festivals and customs. Both the Cultural Heritage as the intangible tangible. We must understand that we are one civilization who is still ongoing and necessary continuity over eight millennia.
Minority Whip loss by historical processes of colonization is only superficial and very temporary. The sacred essence of our civilization, its values \u200b\u200band principles are alive and relevant in each of the individuals, families and villages that form. The colonizer has tried to make us think that there is no connection between the Old Grandparents and contemporary Mexican. That the past is completely and hopelessly lost and extinct. But certainly we're still the same civilization, only now potentially richer five centuries of appropriation and cultural exchanges with other peoples of the world.
Our cultural potential latent continue until we make aware of our spiritual wealth, from recovering the historical memory.
The most valuable legacy we have of the Old Grandparents arguably is the spirituality and mysticism with which we interpret the world and life. This sacred and divine vision is gained at toltecayotl and represent hierophanies of Anahuac.
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