"The arrows, main attribute of the celestial Warrior, can obviously not symbolize anything other than interior lightning that reveal the existence of a divine condition"... Of the immersion in this higher consciousness which dissolves his, Quetzalcoatl comes out armed with the arrows that allow him to become Lord of the Dawn, "projecting the sun rays" that reveal to humans the salvation that everyone should seek." (Laurette Séjourné. 1957)
The Toltec flower battle implied the hardest fight that a human being can face. Men and women prepared for this "internal war" and as such, became "warriors". Discipline, frugality and the austerity that formed these warriors were very strict and rigorous. Weapons were "flower and song" and the battle field was their own heart. To defeat the inertia which destroys matter. The vices, laziness, personal ignorance. These warriors of the flower death were impeccable hunters of knowledge hunters and forgers of their spiritual temperance.
“Emeralds are: turquoises
your clay and feathers!
oh life giver!
Happiness and wealth of the Princes
Is the death at the edge of the Obsidian,
Death in war."
(Romances of the Lords of the New Spain.)
The Toltec developed a philosophical knowledge hermetic school, just as other ancient civilizations with autonomous origin. The concepts of: warrior, flower battle, flower and song, own face and the true heart. Speak to us as a whole of a philosophical vision of spiritual possibilities of human existence and the capacity to transcend the limited spaces of the material existence. The flower battle is one of the most vigorous philosophical conception expressions that the Toltecs have of the world and life.
Existential Responsibility
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