Although the inherent awareness of life directs evolution upon a linear course, evolving awareness, being fixed to its centre, pulls all linear motion into an arc, to bring about an inclusiveness which would otherwise not have been possible. This inclusiveness naturally intensifies the vibration of evolving awareness.

We see, therefore, that although the individual is moving forward from day to day, and from experience to experience, he nonetheless brings all of his day's experiences, and ultimately the whole of his life's experiences, into one coherent whole. In other words, regardless of whether man is aware of it or not, his life is not merely a string of separate and unrelated events, but is instead the product of bringing all his past experiences to bear upon the present, and in this manner is constantly 'knitting together' the fragments of his life. This 'knitting together' quite automatically deepens, or intensifies, the man's sense of awareness, in that his awareness becomes keener and sharper.

Any person whose view of the world has become too small has intensified his or her awareness to the point where it is self-centred. Once awareness is self-centred, it rapidly reaches a critical level which becomes thoroughly destructive to that person.

The principle of inclusiveness is also at work in the life of the warrior, except that in his case it has the opposite effect to that described above. By being wide awake, and by living on the edge at all times, the warrior is capable of meeting his challenges impeccably in the moment. Every challenge met with impeccability yields personal power, and in having more personal power the warrior is able to intensify his awareness. This intensification obviously allows the warrior to see ever deeper meanings in the occurrences within his daily life, and these deeper meanings in turn ultimately lead him into seeing the interrelationship of life. In other words, because the warrior's awareness is constantly becoming keener and sharper, it also becomes more inclusive as it expands outward to encompass more and more of life around him.

Since the radius of evolving awareness can be lengthened by the intensifying action of inclusiveness, and since its centre is ever propelled forward by the force of inherent awareness, evolving awareness proceeds in the form of a spiral, each ring encompassing a greater and greater whole. However, in the case of self-centredness, the rings of the spiral diminish in size during forward propulsion.

The aphorism above describes very clearly the effects of inclusiveness. In this respect, keep in mind that evolving awareness is swept into an arc by the linear progression of inherent awareness versus the fixed radius of evolving awareness. However, the circle, which would have been described by the radius of evolving awareness, becomes a spiral, because the radius of evolving awareness is continuously being adjusted by the intensifying effect of inclusiveness. In the warrior's case, the quality of inclusiveness quite automatically pushes out the parameters of his awareness, so that the radius of his perception is continually being lengthened. In other words, such adjustment always amounts to the spiral growing bigger, rather than diminishing.

Furthermore, it should be realised that although the radius of evolving awareness is fixed to its centre, this centre itself is not fixed, but is constantly being propelled forward from day to day throughout life by the linear motion of inherent awareness. Consequently the spiral is not flat as such, but is rather more in the nature of a coil.

A point which must be stressed here, is that although, for the sake of clarity, this model of awareness is shown as being a coil, the rings in themselves are also not two-dimensional, but are instead spheres overlapping one another. In this respect it is vital to remember that all models given in the teachings are purely rational interpretations of the relationships existing between forces. Therefore, although these models are precise, they must never be taken literally. All models are merely symbolic representations of factual forces, and in this respect are not the same as, for example, the scale model of a building which an architect may present.

The manifested universe is not open-ended, for at the core of all existence is the primal urge of life to know itself in its entirety. This urge defines an ultimate radius of a predetermined length, fixed by the intent of the unspeakable for the duration of this manifestation. Therefore even the grand spiral of all states of awareness is curved back upon itself to define that vast circle of beingness which we recognise as the outer parameters of the manifested universe.

We thus have two distinct types of awareness interacting together to produce that quality we term inclusiveness. This inclusiveness is central to the entire manifested universe and, as the aphorism above indicates, ultimately bends all of life back upon itself to create a closed sphere containing Every - Thing. Consequently, not only is it the purpose of life to evolve awareness, but also to incorporate, or to include all awareness into one whole. Furthermore, it is this inclusive quality of life which is not only vitally important to the evolution of awareness, but also which gives rise to that elusive mystery known as the dreamer.

As we noted earlier in this chapter, this interaction between inherent awareness and evolving awareness brings about the quality of inclusiveness, an element which has not been present before this point in manifestation. This inclusiveness is of course the goal of evolution, for we know that the purpose of the nagal is to include the unknown within the known. We can therefore define the quality of inclusiveness as the manifestation of the nagal's purpose. However, this is about as much as we can say about inclusiveness, for although we know it to be the purpose of the nagal, we have no way of being able to ascertain what may or may not underlie such a purpose. We must never forget that we know precious little about the Unspeakable, other than the fact that it wishes to map out the unknown. In this respect we can safely assume that this means that the Unspeakable wants to know its full potential, but what exactly this entails, and what could possibly have engendered this desire in the first place, lies securely within the realm of the unknowable.

Consequently, Toltec seers have given to the quality of inclusiveness the same title as accorded to its unmanifest counterpart, namely, It Is, and because it is defined as the manifestation of the nagal's purpose, it has also been termed the Eye of the Eagle or, simply, The Eye. Realise, however, that ultimately it is intent which is the true expression of the nagal's purpose, and therefore inclusiveness, or The Eye, is also the manifestation of intent.

As yet we know very little indeed about inclusiveness, or intent, other than the fact that it happens, and because of this, is simply there. All we really know about The Eye are the effects it has upon life in general. Of these effects, by far the most significant is what man has come to understand as magnetism, of which the force of gravity is an aspect. Much later we will return to our consideration of The Eye, so that we can look at some of its effects in more detail, but for now we will confine ourselves to its influence upon manifestation.

Inclusiveness is a most peculiar quality of awareness, for in some ways it is very much there and yet in others it is nowhere. For example, any man or woman knows when he or she is aware. Such awareness is very obviously based upon all past and present experience, sparking off an anticipation of the future. This clearly shows the inclusiveness of awareness, but in the actual moment one is never cognisant of how the past, present and future flow into one instant of perception. This instant, which is now, is of course not frozen, but is constantly moving forward to the next instant, because of the linear quality of inherent awareness. However, the next instant in its turn also becomes now, so that what was the future in the previous instant has now become the present, and this brings into being a new instant in the future. This eternal process, in which past, present and future interact together in the present moment, is what lies at the basis of that concept known as the eternal now. Consequently, although we react to the effects of inclusiveness, we are never really aware of it as such, and it is in this respect that it is there and yet isn't.

At the moment that active intelligence extends its potential into a new level of manifestation, the child is born, and evolving awareness comes into existence. Evolving awareness at this moment in time may indeed be just a tiny infant, but it is nevertheless a force which has never before been present within manifestation, and thus it has an immediate and potent impact upon the act of manifestation. The linear progression of inherent awareness is suddenly and dramatically curbed; swung into an arc so that the element of inclusiveness comes into being. With the advent of this, the purpose of the nagal is made manifest within the universe, and the course of evolution is instantly defined according to that purpose, and at the same time confined by that same purpose.

As a result of this dramatic change, active intelligence does not merely extend its potential into a new level of manifestation, as had been the case with mind but, having become cognisant of the nagal's purpose, through the force of inclusiveness, it now simultaneously separates the two poles of its being into the known and the unknown. In Toltec memory this stupendous act is expressed in the ancient ideogram which translates as: "evolving awareness, the son of man, who is the son of the Unspeakable and the keeper of the known, has been born of Mara, who implanted within his heart the secret of his own unknown counterpart." In other words, Mara the feminine unknown, has not only given birth to evolving awareness, the masculine known, but has also instilled in his heart the knowledge needed in order to map out the unknown. In Christian terms we can express this by saying that buried within the heart of Adam already lies the potential longing for his own female counterpart, Eve.

Since the whole purpose of manifestation is the evolution of awareness, it is not difficult to see that the dream of potential intelligence is partly materialised in the manifestation of the Creative Trinity. However, realise that this dream can only be fully realised once the unknown has been incorporated within the known, for only then can there be a totality of the self. Therefore the process of manifestation cannot stop at the point where evolving awareness has come into being, for clearly this is but the beginning of evolution. Consequently, through the effects of inclusiveness, which is the manifestation of intent, the nagal's purpose is once again stressed. As a result, evolving awareness, being a mirror image of that purpose, now begins to dream into existence its own evolution, which is of course also the nagal's purpose.

Because the poles of active intelligence have now been set, the evolution of awareness can from this point on proceed with real meaning and significance, and it is for this reason that the Creative Trinity has been termed the dreamer. In this respect, realise that although the dream of potential intelligence is the totality of the self, it is only at the second level of manifestation, once evolving awareness has come into being and the known has been separated from the unknown, that this dream becomes a real possibility. In other words, in striving for the totality of the self, potential intelligence materialises the Creative Trinity; but it is evolving awareness, as the reflection of the nagal's purpose, which dreams its own unknown counterpart into the light of the known. In this respect the Creative Trinity is the ultimate dreamer.

Now, with the advent of unity within time, manifestation is precipitated into a totally new stage of progressive unfoldment. This new unfoldment is in every respect identical to the first stage, except that the effect of inclusiveness has now brought the element of time into the secondary manifestation of unity. In other words, this new unity is now aware of the element of time, and as a result awareness has acquired a new dimension - the dimension of time.

Notice that inclusiveness is not shown as one of the ten dimensions. The reason for this is that inclusiveness is not an expression of inherent awareness, but rather the product of the interaction between inherent awareness and evolving awareness. Furthermore, because of the nature of inclusiveness, it is a quality which is found at all levels of manifestation 'below' that point at which it first came into existence. In this respect realise too that inclusiveness is the manifestation of the nagal's purpose, and this fact, together with its all-pervasiveness, is what has given rise to the Christian concept that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. Consequently inclusiveness is normally not depicted at all within the model shown in Figure 25 but, if it is to be shown, then for the sake of clarity it is placed at its point of origin.

The point of no pity is not really anything like what one would expect it to be judging by its name, although in a way the name is a very apt description for this particular alignment of perception. The principal reason why it is favoured for doing battle is because at this particular alignment the sense of inclusiveness is so immanent and pressing that one becomes completely immersed in the total interdependence, interaction and interrelationship of all. Furthermore, because it is an alignment which is quite far into the left side, there is a total lack of thought, and therefore instead of perceiving things in a linear and sequential fashion, everything appears to be happening all at once in such a way that it is well-nigh impossible to ascertain what is past, present or future.

The greatest benefit derived from operating from the point of no pity is that although normal awareness is suspended whilst in the left side, the warrior is nonetheless exposed to such an intense vibration of inclusiveness that it is as if he has achieved an enormously high level of sobriety, even though at that particular alignment he could not be further away from true sobriety. Furthermore, in being quite literally exposed to the inter-relationship of all, but in the absence of the rational mind, the warrior does not perceive himself as being separate from anything a round him. Instead he becomes one with everything, including his opponent and, as a result, feels his opponent's every move as if it is his own, so that if the warrior's opponent is fighting him from the level of normal awareness, the warrior will even be one with his opponent's thoughts, feelings and emotions.

The advantage in all of this is that the warrior is oblivious to anything other than the battle at hand. Consequently, he himself is not subject to any thoughts or emotions and thus merely flows with the movements of his opponent with the express purpose of overcoming the opponent. All in all there is no doubt that a warrior who is doing battle from the point of no pity is an utterly ruthless being, and yet, in having no thought and no emotion, never once will the warrior react with anger, or hatred, or vengeance, or spite, or any other form of emotion or ill intent as a result of prejudice or wrong thinking. It is for this reason that it was pointed out that the point of no pity, although utterly ruthless, is not really what social conditioning would lead one to believe it is.

In what we have looked at so far, it should now be somewhat clearer what is meant by the warrior abandoning himself. Being at the point of no pity and having no thought and no emotion, but being completely at-one with every thing pertaining to his battle, there is in the warrior no sense of having to, or of wanting to, control anything because of that sense of oneness. Yet, even though the warrior experiences a sense of being suspended within a void, the deep sense of inclusiveness found at the point of no pity keeps the warrior very much in touch not only with the minute details within the void, but also with the broader implications of his battle beyond the confines of the void. In other words, although the warrior has immersed himself fully in the battle at hand, in having become one with it, he is nonetheless still wide awake in the deepest possible sense of the word.

Now, the point to be grasped in all of this is that in striving to achieve that identity termed the totality of the self, all sense of separativeness must give way to a sense of complete inclusiveness, for without that inclusiveness there can be no at-one-ment. It therefore stands to reason that in striving to cultivate the totality of the self the warrior must open wide his or her heart, and the only way in which this can be done is by living the Path with a Heart.

There comes a point in the life of the warrior when it is no longer enough merely to tread the Warrior's Path. When that moment comes, the warrior knows without a doubt that the Warrior's Path, like all paths, leads absolutely nowhere, and that the only advantage in treading this most difficult of paths is that it is for him a Path with a Heart, in that it teaches him the meaning of inclusiveness.

From Volume II it will be remembered that it is the force of evolving awareness that curves inherent awareness back upon itself to bring about the element of inclusiveness, which is not only an expression of universal intent and therefore also the manifestation of the nagal's purpose, but it is also an expression of what the Christian scriptures refer to as the Christ principle, and what Toltecs refer to as the heart. From this it stands to reason that the true purpose of the nagal is not to annihilate the female, but to bring about an intelligent co-operation between male and female, between inherent awareness and evolving awareness, so that the evolution of total awareness can proceed within the context of inclusiveness, for only in this way can the unknown become incorporated within the known so that the totality of the self can be achieved.

However, in order for there to be inclusiveness the apprentice cannot afford to remain goal-orientated. Sooner or later the goal must be surrendered in favour of the journey, and the only way in which this can be done is for the apprentice to learn to bring about within him or herself intelligent co-operation between inherent awareness and evolving awareness; between male and female. Only once the apprentice is content to remain exactly where he or she is in endeavouring to assimilate fully everything that is taking place right here and right now, can the force of inclusiveness bring about liberation through intent, by circular expansion. Therefore rather than ducking and diving the gifts of power that our challenges bring us, which is what happens when the apprentice is set upon linear advancement, the apprentice must instead face those challenges fully, assimilate all gifts of power, and then through the force of inclusiveness he or she quite literally outgrows those challenges through circular expansion. If this is done, then all motives automatically fall away, for motives can only have existence where there is a goal.

In order to grasp all of this clearly, realise that to strive for freedom is already in itself a goal, and this in turn presupposes motive. In other words, to start with every apprentice will have a motive of sorts, but even if that motive is only to achieve freedom, it still remains a motive, and therefore even those apprentices with pure motive will still be goal orientated. This state of affairs can only change once the apprentice comes to see the folly in having motives and in being goal-orientated.

However, in order to have such sobriety, the apprentice must be brought to a point at which he or she can clearly see the difference between treading the Warrior's Path, irrespective of how impeccably this is done, and living the Path with a Heart. To begin with no apprentice ever has sufficient sobriety to be able to make this differentiation, and therefore everyone starts his or her training treading the Warrior's Path with a truly admirable zeal and a determination which can sometimes be rather grim, to say the least. However, sooner or later every apprentice begins to tire from the endless struggle to reach a goal which is always receding with every step taken. This is very much like the misguided soul in the old stories, who tries to follow a will o' the wisp, and it is always at this point, once the apprentice is nearing the point of exhaustion, that he or she will begin to wonder if the Toltec teachings are not perhaps just a myth. This is the crisis point which was mentioned earlier, and which every apprentice has to face sooner or later.

When this crisis point is reached, and provided that the apprentice has enough sobriety to know for a fact that he cannot return to his old way of life, such an apprentice becomes caught up in the myth whether he likes it or not. Yet, realise that it is exactly as a result of having started to look upon the teachings as being perhaps nothing more than a myth that the apprentice is forced into letting go of all sense of achievement. In no longer expecting that he is ever going to get anywhere at all, and therefore also no longer expecting any kind of a reward, the apprentice has finally reached the outer fringes of power. Standing quite literally on the threshold of a brand new life, such an apprentice will do either one of two things. Either he will yield to the lack of sobriety and give up in one way or another, in which case, if he is being trained by a nagal who is dedicated to the Path of Freedom, that apprentice will have his apprenticeship terminated. Or alternatively, the apprentice comes to the realisation that because he is not likely to be going anywhere at all, he might just as well try, to the best of his ability, to live the Path with a Heart for whatever it may be worth. In that moment, although the apprentice will only become aware of it in retrospect, and only much further down the line, he not only forfeits his motive for having come to the Warrior's Path, but, paradoxically, is also rewarded with his freedom!

Once the apprentice has come to this point in his or her training there is nothing that will any longer hold the apprentice back in his or her progress. Making every effort to live the impeccable life of a warrior, the apprentice becomes so completely absorbed in constantly and diligently practising the teachings, that in time the practising becomes second nature, and therefore instead of trying to live like a warrior, the apprentice just simply starts to live like a warrior without even noticing it. In other words, what started off as a conscious not-doing becomes an unconscious reality, and in no longer having any expectations, or motive, the apprentice does the only thing he can - he starts to open up to the world around him.

Without realising it, the apprentice has started to open his heart and to bring into being the force of inclusiveness and, by doing so, unconsciously becomes the myth - becomes the warrior! Yet the apprentice himself is still wholly unaware of the transformation, and it is only as power starts to come to him unbidden that it will suddenly dawn on him that his apprenticeship is over, that he is finally a warrior, and that power is at his command.

When this moment arrives in the life of the apprentice he or she is invariably overcome by the most indescribably intense feeling of utter humility - a humility which can only be expressed by opening the heart even further and wider than ever before. It is then that the warrior steps back and lowers his or her head, for in that moment there comes the realisation that none of our endeavours as human beings can ever bring us one step closer to warriorship, but only by having come to accept the limitations of our humanness do we find the key to warriorship, namely, the force of inclusiveness. There is nothing more devastatingly humbling than that realisation, and in that moment every warrior forfeits for ever any desire to strive for anything other than complete freedom - freedom from everything that keeps him or her from throwing wide open even the most secret and previously jealously-guarded recesses of the heart.

Such is the true nature of the Path of Freedom, and such is the nature of living the Path with a Heart. In order to have our freedom we must be brought to the point of giving up our idea of what it is to be free, and it is for this reason that no-one can simply, or fraudulently, claim warriorship. It is simply not possible to pretend to be a warrior. To be a warrior is a true act of the heart, and implies living the Path with a Heart. It is the easiest thing in the world to love conditionally, but to love unconditionally is something only a warrior is capable of doing. In that unconditional love of and for all of life, the warrior meets his or her fellow men squarely in the midst of their folly, and although the warrior does not support the folly, he or she also knows that there is no blame. Now being able to see the madness of the dream for what it really is, the warrior also knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that his fellow creatures are all part and parcel of the one dream, the one folly, and the one life. As a result, the warrior no longer feels the need to force his will upon others in an effort to elevate himself above them, but instead sets himself to the task of world transformation by continuously striving to uplift himself so that those around him too may be uplifted.

In his efforts to move beyond the confines of that madness demarcating the boundaries of the dream, the warrior gradually but surely includes more and more of this madness within himself, and the more madness he includes within himself, the more madness he transforms into beauty, peace and, ultimately, harmony. In layman's terms, the warrior, in his or her inclusiveness, is becoming everything to everyone and, as a result, no longer has an identity based upon separativeness, but acquires instead the beginnings of what in time will become that state of awareness, that identity, termed the totality of the self. But in no longer having a fixed identity and in becoming everything to everyone, the warrior also acquires a great many different faces. The true warrior quite literally has a face for everyone and for every occasion, for no two people or two occasions are alike, but because all people and all occurrences in the life of the warrior are of equal importance, they each deserve whatever is demanded by their needs. Therefore the different faces of the warrior are not masks behind which he or she hides, but are instead an expression of his or her innermost predilection for humility and unconditional love.

Yet, because of the folly of mankind, those different faces will again and again bring forth the most precious reactions from the warrior's fellow men - reactions that will cause the warrior to burst out in heartfelt laughter. However, such laughter is never at the cost of the other person, but is simply the result of the warrior's unconditional love for all of life. In this respect, remember that the warrior cried so many tears in his own efforts at becoming a warrior, that eventually those spent tears created an emptiness within the warrior, an emptiness of motive, an emptiness of expectation - an emptiness that became filled with the force of inclusiveness, with the force of unconditional love.

Such a warrior can afford to laugh, for in his or her laughter there is no malice, no ill intent; only camaraderie in the folly of the dream. But in now being able to see the folly of it all, the warrior can also see the folly of having an identity to protect and to defend. Consequently, to the warrior, there is no point in having any form of identity and, as a result, he or she continues to become ever more inclusive in pursuit of the totality of the self, not because it is a motive for progress, but simply because it has so much heart that it is the best fun in the whole wide world. When one is having so much fun, come hell or high water, come laughter or tears, who cares about a destination, a goal? Right here and right now is more than enough fun; besides which, it is after all the journey that is the fun part, for any goal, once reached, always brings a disappointment in one way or another. However, to the warrior, who knows the folly of a fixed identity, the greatest mystery of all is the mystery of his own beingness which, naturally, plunges him straight back into the four postulates of stalking again and again. Thus, in having no other recourse but constantly to stalk his perception of himself, the true warrior finds himself caught in a never-ending game. What fun it is to play the game of life over and over, each time to be left breathless with the sheer joy of being able to witness the wonder of it all!

The warrior is a man who has learned to love life and all the many richnesses it brings him - most of all the path where he walks. There is for the warrior no greater joy than to walk a Path with a Heart. On this path he walks, thrilled by the wonder of it all, and in his joy he gives thanks in his heart for this marvellous privilege by embracing everything he encounters with love and gratitude.

If we look at the Toltec unit, we see that the way in which power has set it up is quite awesome in its implications. First of all, realise that all units are comprised of both men and women, and that all men and women naturally fall into four very definite groups. In other words, although every individual is unique in his or her own right, in the final analysis there are only four types of men and four types of women corresponding to the fourfold purpose of the Unspeakable. As a result, these four types of men and four types of women are also assigned to the four directions. In relation to the above, it is important to remember that the male is positive relative to the female, (Volume II), and that in practice this means that the male equates with the known, whilst the female equates with the unknown. Also bear in mind that it is the purpose of the male to anchor all knowledge, meaning that it is the male who has to make knowledge practical within life upon the physical plane.

The purpose of the female, on the other hand, is to assist the male in mapping out the unknown by bringing forth fragments of the unknown which she feels is needed within the context of any particular endeavour. As we saw in Volume II, this necessitates the act of intelligent co-operation between male and female, which of course, both implies and yields the element of inclusiveness. Therefore although it is the female who takes the lead in entering into the unknown, it is nevertheless the male who takes the lead upon the physical plane by opening the heart, not only so that intelligent co-operation can take place, but also so that the element of inclusiveness can come into being, for without inclusiveness it is not possible to incorporate the unknown into the known. Consequently each of the four directions within the Toltec unit has a male and a female half, the purpose of which is intelligent co-operation bringing forth inclusiveness.