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sorcerers have of that totality, and what emphasis they put on particular portions of it. Such
periods of change are recurrent, and they are represented by the number three."
"Why three?"
"Because the old Toltecs associated the number three with dynamics and renewal. They
discovered that ternary formations - formations based on the number three - announce
unexpected changes.
"The Rule dictates that, from time to time, a special kind of nagual will appear in the lineages;
a nagual whose energy is not divided into four parts, but instead has only three compartments.
Seers call them 'three-pronged naguals1."
I asked him how they where different from the others. He
answered:
"Their energy is volatile, they are always moving, and because of that they find it difficult to
accumulate power. From the point of view of the lineage, their composition is faulty; they will
never be true naguals. In compensation, they lack the timidity and
reservation that characterize the classic naguals, and they possess an unusual capacity to
improvise and communicate.
"We can say that three-pronged naguals are like the cuckoo birds incubated in other birds'
nests. They are opportunists, but they are necessary. Unlike the naguals of four points, whose
freedom it is to pass unnoticed, those of three points are public personalities. They disclose
secrets and cause fragmentation of the teachings, but without them, the lineages of power
would have been extinguished a long time ago.
"Among the new seers, the Rule is that a nagual leaves a new party as a descendant. Some,
due to their enormous energy surpluses, are able to help organizing a second or third
generation of seers. For example, the nagual Elias Ulloa lived long enough to create his
successor's party and to have an influence on the following one. But this does not mean a fork
in the lineage; all those groups were part of the same transmission line.
"On the other hand, the three-pronged nagual is authorized to transmit his knowledge radially,
which does lead to a diversification of lineages. His luminous cocoon has a disintegrating
effect on the group, which breaks the lineal structure of transmission and foments a desire for
change and action in warriors, and an active disposition to be involved with their fellow men."
"Was that what happened to you?"
"That's what happened. Due to my luminous disposition, I don't have any qualms about
leaving kernels of knowledge behind, wherever I go. I know that I need an enormous quantity
of energy to fulfill my task, and that I can only obtain it from masses. For that reason I am
willing to broadcast the knowledge far and wide, and transform and redefine its paradigms."
The Portion Of The Rule For
The Three-Pronged Nagual
"As you know, my teacher became aware of the Rule for the three- pronged nagual when he
tried to analyze certain anomalies in the new group. Apparently, I could not get in tune with
the rest of the apprentices. Then he paid me sufficient attention to see that I masked my
energy configuration."
"Do you mean that Don Juan's seeing had been mistaken?"
"Of course not! What was mistaken was his looking. To see is the final form of perception;
there are no appearances, so it is not possible to be deceived. However, due to the pressure
that he had exerted on me for years, my energy struggled to mold itself to his. That is
common among apprentices. Since he was divided into four compartments, I also began to
manifest a similar energetic weight in my actions.
"Once I was able to shake off his influence (it took me almost ten years of arduous work), we
discovered something astonishing: My luminosity only had three compartments; it didn't
correspond to an ordinary, modern person, who only has two, nor to a nagual. This discovery
caused a great commotion in the group of seers, since they all saw it as a portent of profound
change for the lineage.
"Then Don Juan went back to the tradition of his predecessors, and dusted off a forgotten
aspect of the Rule. He told me that the election of a nagual cannot in any way be considered
as a personal whim, since it is the spirit who chooses the successor of a lineage at all times.
Therefore, my energetic anomaly was part of a command. Faced with my urgent questioning,
he assured me that a messenger would appear in due time and explain to me the function of
my presence as a three-pronged nagual.
"Years later, during a visit to one of the rooms in the National
Museum of Anthropology and History, I observed a native dressed
in the old-fashioned Tarahumara costume, who seemed to have the most absorbing interest in
one of the exhibition pieces. He examined it from all sides and demonstrated such a total
concentration that it made me curious, and I went closer to look.
"When he saw me, the man spoke to me and began to explain the meaning of a group of
excellent, painstaking drawings sculpted into the stone. Then, while I meditated on what he
had told me, I remembered Don Juan's promise, and realized that this man had been an envoy
from the spirit, who had passed on to me the portion of the Rule concerning the three-pronged
nagual."
"And what does that portion say?"
"It affirms that, just as the party has an energy matrix of the number seventeen (two naguals,
four female dreamers, four female stalkers, four male warriors, and three scouts), a lineage,
which is formed by a succession of parties, also has a structure of power, of the number fifty-
two. The Eagle's command is that every fifty-two generations of four-pointed naguals, there
will appear a three- pronged nagual who serves as a cathartic action for the propagation of
new four-point lineages.
"The Rule also says that the three-pronged naguals are destructive to the established order,
because their nature is neither creative nor nurturing, and they have the tendency to enslave
all those who surround them. It adds that, to achieve freedom, these naguals should do it
alone, because their energy is not tuned to guide groups of warriors.
"Like everything in the world of energy, the block of fifty-two generations is divided into two
parts; the first twenty-six concerning themselves with expansion and the creation of new lines,
the rest oriented towards conservation and isolation. This pattern of behavior has been
repeating itself millennium after millennium, so sorcerers know that it is part of the Rule. "As
a result of the activities of a three-pronged nagual, the knowledge becomes widely known,
and new cells of four-point
naguals are formed. From that starting point, lineages recapture the tradition of transmitting
the teachings in a lineal form."
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sorcerers have of that totality, and what emphasis they put on particular portions of it. Such
periods of change are recurrent, and they are represented by the number three."
"Why three?"
"Because the old Toltecs associated the number three with dynamics and renewal. They
discovered that ternary formations - formations based on the number three - announce
unexpected changes.
"The Rule dictates that, from time to time, a special kind of nagual will appear in the lineages;
a nagual whose energy is not divided into four parts, but instead has only three compartments.
Seers call them 'three-pronged naguals1."
I asked him how they where different from the others. He
answered:
"Their energy is volatile, they are always moving, and because of that they find it difficult to
accumulate power. From the point of view of the lineage, their composition is faulty; they will
never be true naguals. In compensation, they lack the timidity and
reservation that characterize the classic naguals, and they possess an unusual capacity to
improvise and communicate.
"We can say that three-pronged naguals are like the cuckoo birds incubated in other birds'
nests. They are opportunists, but they are necessary. Unlike the naguals of four points, whose
freedom it is to pass unnoticed, those of three points are public personalities. They disclose
secrets and cause fragmentation of the teachings, but without them, the lineages of power
would have been extinguished a long time ago.
"Among the new seers, the Rule is that a nagual leaves a new party as a descendant. Some,
due to their enormous energy surpluses, are able to help organizing a second or third
generation of seers. For example, the nagual Elias Ulloa lived long enough to create his
successor's party and to have an influence on the following one. But this does not mean a fork
in the lineage; all those groups were part of the same transmission line.
"On the other hand, the three-pronged nagual is authorized to transmit his knowledge radially,
which does lead to a diversification of lineages. His luminous cocoon has a disintegrating
effect on the group, which breaks the lineal structure of transmission and foments a desire for
change and action in warriors, and an active disposition to be involved with their fellow men."
"Was that what happened to you?"
"That's what happened. Due to my luminous disposition, I don't have any qualms about
leaving kernels of knowledge behind, wherever I go. I know that I need an enormous quantity
of energy to fulfill my task, and that I can only obtain it from masses. For that reason I am
willing to broadcast the knowledge far and wide, and transform and redefine its paradigms."
The Portion Of The Rule For
The Three-Pronged Nagual
"As you know, my teacher became aware of the Rule for the three- pronged nagual when he
tried to analyze certain anomalies in the new group. Apparently, I could not get in tune with
the rest of the apprentices. Then he paid me sufficient attention to see that I masked my
energy configuration."
"Do you mean that Don Juan's seeing had been mistaken?"
"Of course not! What was mistaken was his looking. To see is the final form of perception;
there are no appearances, so it is not possible to be deceived. However, due to the pressure
that he had exerted on me for years, my energy struggled to mold itself to his. That is
common among apprentices. Since he was divided into four compartments, I also began to
manifest a similar energetic weight in my actions.
"Once I was able to shake off his influence (it took me almost ten years of arduous work), we
discovered something astonishing: My luminosity only had three compartments; it didn't
correspond to an ordinary, modern person, who only has two, nor to a nagual. This discovery
caused a great commotion in the group of seers, since they all saw it as a portent of profound
change for the lineage.
"Then Don Juan went back to the tradition of his predecessors, and dusted off a forgotten
aspect of the Rule. He told me that the election of a nagual cannot in any way be considered
as a personal whim, since it is the spirit who chooses the successor of a lineage at all times.
Therefore, my energetic anomaly was part of a command. Faced with my urgent questioning,
he assured me that a messenger would appear in due time and explain to me the function of
my presence as a three-pronged nagual.
"Years later, during a visit to one of the rooms in the National
Museum of Anthropology and History, I observed a native dressed
in the old-fashioned Tarahumara costume, who seemed to have the most absorbing interest in
one of the exhibition pieces. He examined it from all sides and demonstrated such a total
concentration that it made me curious, and I went closer to look.
"When he saw me, the man spoke to me and began to explain the meaning of a group of
excellent, painstaking drawings sculpted into the stone. Then, while I meditated on what he
had told me, I remembered Don Juan's promise, and realized that this man had been an envoy
from the spirit, who had passed on to me the portion of the Rule concerning the three-pronged
nagual."
"And what does that portion say?"
"It affirms that, just as the party has an energy matrix of the number seventeen (two naguals,
four female dreamers, four female stalkers, four male warriors, and three scouts), a lineage,
which is formed by a succession of parties, also has a structure of power, of the number fifty-
two. The Eagle's command is that every fifty-two generations of four-pointed naguals, there
will appear a three- pronged nagual who serves as a cathartic action for the propagation of
new four-point lineages.
"The Rule also says that the three-pronged naguals are destructive to the established order,
because their nature is neither creative nor nurturing, and they have the tendency to enslave
all those who surround them. It adds that, to achieve freedom, these naguals should do it
alone, because their energy is not tuned to guide groups of warriors.
"Like everything in the world of energy, the block of fifty-two generations is divided into two
parts; the first twenty-six concerning themselves with expansion and the creation of new lines,
the rest oriented towards conservation and isolation. This pattern of behavior has been
repeating itself millennium after millennium, so sorcerers know that it is part of the Rule. "As
a result of the activities of a three-pronged nagual, the knowledge becomes widely known,
and new cells of four-point
naguals are formed. From that starting point, lineages recapture the tradition of transmitting
the teachings in a lineal form."
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