The History Of The Toltec Warriors

For those amongst us who prefer things to be done in the accepted  manner, let me begin this account in the age-old fashion which I am sure will more than likely be deemed proper for a tale such as this. Once upon a time, eighteen million years ago, several groups of people, who would by today’s standards be known as priests and priestesses of the ancient temples of humanity, came to this world together with mankind as we know mankind today. How all this came about and from where mankind originated are questions that go far beyond the scope of this book, but what can be said is that the arrival of man upon this planet was something akin to a semi-voluntary exile from his home-world. This planet, however imposed such severe limitations upon the life-forms which came here that man became utterly immersed in that prison we have come to call matter. So drastic was the effect of this that man even forgot his home-world and who and what he really is. Lost and bewildered, mankind turned to the priests and priestesses for spiritual guidance, only to find that they too had been affected in the same adverse way as the rest of mankind. This was a dark period of seemingly endless struggle and hopelessness.

All of this took place in that far distant time when humanity was at that stage of evolution which is today known as Lemurian, and was living upon the ancient continent of Shalmali. The immersion in matter, and man’s struggle against the debilitating effect of this, took place over millions of years. In this time there were the seven sub-races born within the civilisation of Lemuria. The fourth sub-race of the Lemurians was known as the Barhishads, or Divine Hermaphrodites, and it was from these that there was born the Rmoahal Race, the first sub-race of the Atlanteans. From the Rmoahals were born the Tlavatli, and it was from within this stock that the priests and priestesses of old began to incarnate and slowly regain some of their former memories.

As they gradually regained their memories, so the priests and priestesses once again began to lead their people, and so it was that they became known as Toltecs, meaning men and women of knowledge. As more of their memories were restored, the Toltecs then took it upon themselves to lead mankind back to its true home as soon as this was possible. Thus it was that they also became known as warriors of the spirit fighting for freedom.

So this was how the history of the Toltec warriors began upon this planet in an era when mankind was just beginning to measure time as we know time today. On recalling their former training, the Toltecs began developing the ability to see, for they were equipped with what is today known as the third eye. It was only in the period of becoming immersed in matter and the resultant loss of memory that the Toltec seers experienced a temporary psychic blindness. However, once some of them began to remember, this natural ability to see returned and enabled them rapidly to recall the former knowledge they had acquired upon their home-world.

This knowledge consisted almost entirely of what is called will-power, mathematics, astronomy and astrology. So adept were the Toltecs in the use of will-power that they had no difficulty in levitating either themselves or solid objects of immense size and weight, and it was this ability which was much later used to build structures such as the Great Pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England.

The Toltecs then started to teach their fellow men the mundane but practical crafts required for physical prosperity, such as fishing, hunting, cooking, healing, building, the fundamentals of mathematics, and many of the arts, notably sculpture. The Toltecs had one serious problem though, for although their knowledge was extremely comprehensive, it was as yet entirely atavistic and of another world.

The Toltecs had little understanding of the intricacies of life upon the physical plane, for even though they had already spent millions of years on the earth, this time meant practically nothing to them because of their initial loss of memory. As a consequence, their knowledge of matter was limited. Toltecs at this time had no understanding of the abstract, for they saw things entirely as they were, and therefore for them everything was very clear, but nevertheless also one-sided. Due to this limitation Toltecs did not grasp the implications of duality, or its purpose. As a result, concepts such as the interrelationship and the interaction of all life, although instinctively practised by them, were not understood. In time this ignorance of the abstract was to lead to the first downfall of the Toltecs, for it gave rise to the worst form of selfishness imaginable.

For thousands of years the Toltecs led their people superbly, and the whole of their world, by then known as Atlantis, prospered in great material wealth and power. It was from this rule by the Toltecs that their world derived its name, for the word atl means ‘head’ or ‘ruler’.

The people of Atlantis had an Emperor, known as the White Emperor by virtue of the fact that his knowledge was the greatest amongst the Toltecs, and as such he was likened to a great white light. The Emperor ruled his people from the capital city of the Toltecs, known as the City of the Golden Gates.

Because the crafts they had been taught by the Toltecs were specialised, the people had been divided into clans, much like guilds, and each of these guilds was governed by a small group of Toltecs. These clans lived in cities, each city being governed by a senior Toltec who had a status equivalent to a king. These kings in turn were ruled by the Emperor, who was surrounded by a group of the more learned and powerful of the Toltecs.

As time went on, and as the knowledge of the people grew, so some of the clans, together with their kings, became ambitious for more knowledge and power. No longer content with the knowledge and power they had, these people started to look at their neighbours and more advanced Toltecs with envy. It was not long before greed drove some of the Toltecs to start experimenting with ways in which to increase their psychic abilities in an attempt to gain superiority over others. This was the beginning of sorcery, and the practice of the black art.

Having no real grasp of the abstract, Toltecs on the whole did not understand their psychic abilities any more then a duck understands how it swims. Consequently, the Toltecs who turned their hand to sorcery began to develop the most elaborate and intricate rituals with which to boost their power [foot-note one].

[foot-note one] Will and Power are synonymous terms for the product of perception [Théun Mares].

Even though they did not realise that these rituals served no purpose other than to strengthen their will, these sorcerers nevertheless managed to increase their power to such an extent that they began to overrun and dominate other cities and Toltecs. Rebellion and strife spread rapidly as Toltec fought Toltec for supremacy. Warfare had been discovered and launched full-scale, but as this was a war fought not only with physical weapons but also with psychic weapons, the destruction was terrible.

The White Emperor and his group of Toltec advisors were eventually driven from the City of the golden gates, after which the sorcerers put one of their own on the throne.

The White Emperor, his advisors, and many kings were by this time sufficiently aware of the interrelationship of all life, and could therefore foresee the consequences of sorcery. This led to the start of the great Toltec migration, for the white Emperor and his followers started to move North into Egypt, and West into North and South America in an attempt to save themselves and their people from the disasters they could foresee.

So great had become the black Toltecs’ command over the forces of nature, and so limited was their understanding of the interrelationship of all, that it did not take them long to unbalance the forces of the earth to such an extent that natural cataclysms started to occur.

The first great catastrophe struck in approximately 800,000 B.C.E. The cataclysm of earthquakes and tidal waves shattered the main continent into a great many islands of varying size and destroyed the City of the golden Gates, together with the Black Emperor and his sorcerers. For a while this warning kept sorcery at bay, but relatively speaking it was not too long before greed once again surfaced, and in approximately 200,000 B.C.E. the second great cataclysm reduced the remains of Atlantis down to two huge islands, Daitya and Ruta.

This time the warning was not heeded for quite so long. The Toltecs upon Ruta, by then hopelessly addicted to the black art, brought about another cataclysm in 75,000 B.C.E., destroying both Ruta and Daitya, and heaving up the large island that was to become known as Poseidonis. In 9,564 B.C.E. Poseidonis also met  its fate as it sank beneath massive tidal waves brought about by violent volcanic eruptions. Atlantis and her black sorcerers were finally gone forever.

At various times during the destruction of the mother continent the remnants of the Atlanteans migrated to other parts of the world, some of which had emerged as a result of the major cataclysms that destroyed Atlantis.

On the whole, these remnants, led and guided by their Toltec kings and priests, did not fare at all well. Some, however, did manage to find lands where they could settle and even flourish. Notable amongst those who prospered were the Egyptian dynasties, the Chaldeans, Peruvians, Akkadians, Tibetans, and to a lesser extent various smaller groups scattered throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.

It is not the purpose of this book to give detailed accounts of all these various lines, but merely to point out how it came about that Toltecs became so scattered throughout the world. Even to this day Toltecs are found the world over, and it is due to this fact that at least some of the lines managed to survive the rigours of the subsequent centuries.

In time, most of the weaker lines lost their Toltec kings and priests, either through wars or natural causes. Where there were no descendants of the seers the people started to fall into barbaric ignorance. This same fate also befell many of the stronger lines, and in time they too were likewise impoverished.

The number of truly learned seers diminished rapidly as finding and training suitable successors became increasingly difficult. The atavistic abilities of the original seers had moreover started to die out due to the steady development of the rational mind. This development of rational thought had become necessary in order to gain greater knowledge of the abstract, of matter and of the forces of duality.

By the time Poseidonis met its end there was only a handful of natural seers left in the world, and in time these too died out. This meant that most of the Toltec descendants, although extremely knowledgeable and capable of leading, were now no longer seers.

This lack of seers was obviously a serious setback. In their endeavour to regain the abilities of their ancestors, the Toltecs used their knowledge of medicinal plants and drugs to enable them to see. The drugs worked after a fashion, but the cost to the physical body and brain from using these plants continuously was soon found  to outweigh the benefits. Even so, Toltecs had no other means by which to see, and although the rate of mortality, insanity and failure kept escalating, they desperately continued with their experiments.

Dark and terrible as this time was, it nevertheless brought Toltecs face to face with the hard facts of life on the physical plane, and thus the effects brought about by the necessary development of the rational mind finally caught up with the Toltecs, exacting a heavy toll. Yet this also meant that even though Toltecs had lost their atavistic abilities, they were for the first time faced with the opportunity to discover what those abilities had really consisted of in the first place, and exactly how they worked in practice.

It was not until much later that the Toltecs could see in retrospect what a gift this dark time had been, for it was during this period of constant struggle and failure that they learned to look deep within themselves and to find there faculties they never knew they possessed. Without realising it at the time, Toltecs had taken a huge step forward in their development and had in addition defined one of the fundamentals of the Toltec Path, namely that a warrior lives by challenge.

As time went on, Toltecs became more selective in their use of drugs, and therefore more proficient. The rate of failure and mortality started to decline, whilst the numbers of seers increased. But by this time Toltecs were faced with yet another problem; one which was so subtle that they did not identify what it was until it was already too late.

Toltecs had become obsessed with their desire to see to such an extent that seeing had become for them more important than knowledge itself. With this obsession, the sobriety of their former knowledge quickly became replaced by the same arrogance and self-importance that had been the downfall of the sorcerers of Atlantis. The black art had once again reared its ugly head, and now even the remaining Toltecs succumbed to sorcery. This was the era which Carlos Castaneda describes in his books as that of the Old Seers.

Using their newly rediscovered ability to see, the Old Seers began reviving most of the old practices, and it did not take them long to reinstate the rituals and incantations which had been the specialised knowledge of the sorcerers of Atlantis.

Their rituals allowed the Old Seers to manipulate their awareness in such manner that they could achieve what we today call altered states of perception. By using these rituals and entering into different states of awareness, the Old Seers learned an enormous amount, not only about themselves but also about other life-forms, both organic [foot-note two] and inorganic [foot-note three], which share the planet with man. Like their Atlantean predecessors, the Old Seers were remarkably clever at amassing facts and information but, since their sense of self-importance was so great, the Old Seers used this knowledge to dominate and manipulate everyone and everything luckless enough to catch their attention.

[foot-note two] Life-forms which have biological functions [Théun Mares].

[foot-note three] Life-forms which do not have biological functions [Théun Mares].

During this period in Toltec history the Old Seers re-established themselves to a great extent within the same clan or guild systems that had been in use in ancient Atlantis. So powerful were these guilds that they invariably dominated even the leaders of the people, whether king or emperor. This was equally true regardless of where in the world Toltec history was unfolding.

In this respect it should be realised that the Toltec civilisation in the Valley of Mexico as described by Carlos Castaneda was but one of many later civilisations. Historically this was the only lineage that went under the name of Toltec but, as been explained previously, all civilisations the world over, whatever their name, had their roots in Toltec migrations from Atlantis. Therefore, at the core of all these civilisations were priest-seers trained in the Toltec tradition. As a result of this common heritage and tradition, and in spite of the fact that dates obviously vary enormously between one civilisation and the next, Toltec knowledge the world over has nevertheless always unfolded in a more or less identical pattern.

The Old Seers ruled for a long period during which they continued to gather a vast amount of information about the manipulation of awareness, but they mostly used this knowledge for the furtherance of the black art. Many of the rituals and magical incantations found in the world today are watered-down versions of the techniques that were used at one time or another by these Old Seers.

Sorcery flourished and, depending upon which civilisation they happened to be a part of, many of these Old Seers lasted right up until, and even beyond, the advent of Christ and the Christian Church. It was because of the unscrupulous actions and the unwholesome pursuits of these Old Seers that the Christian Church began its great persecution of paganism.

It was, however, not only the Christian Church, as is commonly assumed, that brought about the demise of the Old Seers. Even in the absence of the Christians, the Old Seers often found themselves at the mercy of other conquerors. The reason for this was that although the Old Seers had become just as powerful as their Atlantean predecessors, they still had one disadvantage which they had not managed to overcome.

This disadvantage amounted to the fact that the Old Seers could not entirely master the force of will, which the old Atlanteans had done with such ease. This was in many ways a blessing, for if the Old Seers had conquered the force of will, the evils of Atlantis would have been repeated, since the Old Seers would undoubtedly have unleashed upon their enemies the full force of their knowledge.

It was this lack of being able to command will which saved the world from yet more psychic warfare and which ultimately brought about the destruction of the Old Seers. Powerful as the Old Seers’ rituals were, they were also cumbersome and impractical. Whenever physically confronted by their enemies, the lack of the necessary time in which to enact and perform their rituals rendered the Old Seers just as defenceless as the people they ruled.

During these times of trouble, and especially during the persecution of paganism by the Christian Church, some of the more far-sighted Toltecs broke away from their age-old tradition and began to review their situation within the world. They were the Toltecs which marked the beginning of that era Carlos Castaneda termed the age of the New Seers.

The New Seers could clearly see the disadvantages of lengthy and cumbersome rituals. But more important still was the fact that they could also see the futility of trying to control and manipulate others, because of the continuous strife which this inevitable brings about. This split in the Toltec tradition was by far the most important event in the history of the Toltecs, for it constituted that turning point in their knowledge, and provided that magical key which Toltecs had been seeking ever since the destruction of Atlantis.

As has already been stated, the Old Seers had enough knowledge and ability to manipulate the awareness of their victims, and this they did without scruple. The fact that awareness can be manipulated is a vitally important tenet of Toltec knowledge, but man is still generally sceptical about this truth. Although arts such as telepathy and hypnosis have done so much to eradicate this scepticism, man still finds it hard to believe that someone can manipulate his awareness without his consent or knowledge. Yet this is exactly what the Old Seers had been capable of doing.

Today Toltecs no longer adhere to the endless techniques of the Old Seers, for although these techniques remain powerful tools, they have nevertheless outlived their purpose. However, in spite of the fact that Toltecs now spurn this aspect of their heritage, these techniques still form an integral part of their knowledge, by virtue of tradition.

Another important fact to be stressed is that Toltec knowledge, because of a peculiarity of the Toltec tradition, has never been and can never be lost. This had always been one of the strengths of the Toltecs, since this accumulated knowledge has been the principal medium through which they have been able to acquire their power. However, for the Old Seers, as we have seen, it was also their weakness, for it was this part of the Toltec tradition which tempted them back into the abominations of the Atlantean sorcerers. In their arrogance and conceit the Old Seers aspired to a kind of power which was abusive, and although it would in some respects be an exaggeration to label the Old Seers as evil, they came close to being exactly that.

One of the most costly mistakes the Old Seers made was to fail to acknowledge the importance of having to make their knowledge more streamlined and practical for use upon the physical plane. Instead, owing to their self-importance and obsession with power, their methods of manipulating awareness became ever more complex and impractical. Furthermore, the Old Seers were far too lazy to bring any order into their already vast and rapidly-growing knowledge. Eventually it came to the point where they could no longer see the wood for the trees. Self-importance had undermined their strength, so that even though they had at their disposal knowledge that was quite awesome, chaos precluded them from being able to put it to any real practical use.

Although today we no longer condone the aberrations of the Old Seers, we must give the devil his due, for the Old Seers discovered some truly amazing facts about awareness ~ knowledge without which the Toltec tradition would be much impoverished.

The task that faced the New Seers was to take stock of their overburdened tradition and to re-evaluate their vast heritage of knowledge. From their experience the New Seers could see that the Old Seers had gone very far astray, but, so vast was their knowledge by this time and so utterly chaotic, that none of the New Seers were sure what was valid and what was useless. The only logical thing they could do was to start working from the hypothesis that everything their predecessors had done was questionable, and to start classifying the immense amount of knowledge available to them. This marked the end of chaos and the beginning of a long-needed order and sense of sobriety.

The New Seers discarded all the many theories the Old Seers had formulated and held as being central to their knowledge, and began searching for practical ways in which to apply this knowledge. Consequently they managed to condense the greater part of their heritage into a few fundamental concepts which could be applied practically.

The first of these concepts concerned what the Old Seers called the Eagle. In their attempts to fathom the purpose of existence, the Old Seers actually managed to see the source of all life, which when interpreted by the rational mind resembles something akin to a black and white eagle. Consequently, the Old Seers metaphorically termed this source the Eagle.

Seeing the Eagle was an act which cost many of the Old Seers their sanity, or their lives, or both. However, from what they managed to see they worked out that the purpose of existence is to enhance the quality of awareness. This was an invaluable discovery, and one which has become fundamental to everything the Toltecs today know and practice.

The Old Seers could see that it is an Eagle which endows all beings with awareness at the moment of birth and which also reclaims this awareness at the moment of death, having become enriched by the being’s experiences during life. The Old Seers understood this as meaning that the Eagle feeds off awareness, and that the sole purpose of existence is therefore to keep recycling awareness so as to bring out all latent potential.

It is important to realise that there is of course no eagle as such, nor is there anything visual about the incomprehensible source of life. Nevertheless, even a seer is subjected to the conditions of the rational mind, which must by its very nature interpret things, and the result of such interpretation is a visual impact of the Eagle.

The manifested universe is an infinity beyond our understanding of time and space, for its size and complexity cannot be rendered comprehensible in terms of words or mortal concepts. It is not God, for God after all is part of what we know. The churches, ministers of religion, and even other people, are constantly trying to describe God to us, so therefore God becomes something within the scope of words, within the sphere of conceptualisation. But beyond words, beyond description, beyond concept, lies that indescribable, incomprehensible No-Thing, which can only be termed the Unspeakable.

This was yet another error on the part of the Old Seers. In their arrogance they never stopped to consider that most of what constitutes the manifested universe is utterly incomprehensible and unknowable within the framework of our human condition. The New Seers corrected this mistake by identifying and demarcating three distinct levels of awareness.

The first of these levels they termed the known, which consists of everything the human being can register within normal awareness. The second level, termed the unknown, is a truly vast and mysterious area, but which can and does become the known gradually and sequentially as the seer gains in his proficiency to see it. The third level, on the other hand, termed the unknowable, is a level of awareness which can never be known to man whilst he still retains his humanness. To enter into the unknowable is to lose our humanness, which is why so many of the Old Seers lost their sanity.

The Old Seers had, over generations, gathered a vast number of facts about awareness, which they never formulated into an ordered structure. As the New Seers started to rearrange these facts another very important set of concepts emerged, which were condensed into an ordered whole to form a set of precepts which were termed the Truths of Awareness. The New Seers regarded these precepts as paramount to all of their understanding, and to this day these truths form the foundations of the Toltec teachings.

Most of the Truths of Awareness are based upon the act of perception and the way in which this takes place. The New Seers found that the whole mystery of perception can be summarised quite adequately in the following nine precepts:

1. The universe consists of an infinite number of energy fields resembling threads of light.
2. These thread-like energy fields radiate from a source of unimaginable dimensions metaphorically called the Eagle. As such these energy fields are known as the Eagle’s Emanations.
3. Human beings are likewise composed of the same infinite number of these thread-like energy fields which manifest in the shape of a large luminous egg. The height of this egg is equal to the length of a man’s body with his arms fully extended above his head on the vertical axis, and its width is that of a man with his arms extended outwards from the centre of his body along the horizontal axis. This egg is known as the cocoon of man.
4. Only a small group of the energy fields inside the cocoon are lit up at any one time by a brilliant point of light located on the surface of the cocoon.
5. Perception takes place when the energy fields which are illuminated by the point of light extend their light to illuminate corresponding energy fields outside the cocoon. This point of light is termed the point where perception is assembled, normally abbreviated to the assemblage point.
6. It is possible to shift the assemblage point to any other position on the surface of the cocoon, or even into its interior. Because the assemblage point illuminates any energy fields with which it comes into contact, the new energy fields it illuminates as a result of such shifting constitute therefore a new perception. It is this new level of perception that is known as seeing.
7. When the assemblage point shifts sufficiently far, a totally new world is perceived, which is as real as the one man normally perceives.
8. There is a mysterious force known as intent which exists throughout the entire universe. It is this force which brings about perception, for it is intent which, firstly aligns the energy fields, and secondly, causes awareness of that alignment.
9. The goal of warriors is to experience all possible perceptions available to man. This constitutes what is known as Total Awareness, inherent within which is an alternate way of dying.

In order to See, the Old Seers had to use hallucinogens to move their assemblage points, but the New Seers realised that this was as impractical as the rituals of the Old Seers. More than anything else, practical ways of moving the assemblage point were now needed, and in order to find these the New Seers began by studying the assemblage point through seeing, even though at the outset they still had to make use of drugs. This research turned out to be most worthwhile, for not only did they find the necessary techniques to enable them to move the assemblage point, but they also uncovered the mystery of will-power.

The Old Seers had known about the mysterious force which their Atlantean predecessors had used with such facility. Through observation, they also knew that this force exists throughout all of nature and the manifested universe. The Old Seers termed this force power, but they never understood it or managed to figure out how to use it.

The New Seers discovered that this mysterious force is in fact the energy of alignment, that is, the force that is released when energy fields inside the cocoon become aligned with energy fields outside the cocoon. The New Seers termed this force will, and defined it as ‘a continuous flow of energy which can be guided by the intent of the seer’.

The New Seers also discovered that will is the force that makes us behave in the ways we do when we perceive. It is therefore this force that determines our perception of the world. Thus it is will which fixes the assemblage point at the exact spot where it is located. Here it is important to realise that although there is a definite area within which the assemblage point can always be found, the exact position is brought about by habitual action and repetition. Habits obviously vary between one individual and the next, and consequently no two people will have their assemblage points fixed in exactly the same spot.