The other day I was sitting in my study in Lappland, looking out over the lake in Heightened Awareness, gazing on Eternity, when a light gently descended into the room and took shape as the recognizable spirit-figure of the Nagual Maria.

 “I have pondered your invitation to courageously enter a womb on Earth and reiterate the Nagual Path in a new body, but the whole thing is too difficult for me at this time, though I understand what you were talking about”, she gently and warmly confided to me.  “I am drawn, however, to keep in close spirit relationship with you and tell you things my Nagual Group learned and developed together under my inspiration that we were unable to pass down.  Part of this is because I am the only historical female leader of a Nagual Group, so we represent a strange hiatus or gap in our lineage, somewhat perhaps like a comma in a sentence.  I think Power brought you to me for some purpose in your own work that needs the unique facet of the Nagual Path that we were unable to pass down.  Shall we explore it together?”

 “I am happy to see you again”, I replied.  “I understand your decision to remain in your established place on the verge of Eternity.  I t is not an achievement to be surrendered lightly!  The relative freedom it brings is worth prolonged savoring, even if it cannot and will not last forever.  So, now, what was it you could not pass down?”

 “It is that Power is feminine, like an Infinite Woman.”

 “You mean like Shakti Devi as worshipped by some Hindus?”

 “I am vaguely aware of those Hindu worshippers, but what they arrive at is another aspect of the Mold of Man.  My experience of Feminine Power, because I am myself basically a heightened woman, is not so much a thing of worship, lighting candles at an altar, praying or suchlike.  In my youth, I was extremely devoted to the Divine Mother, however, and this may have played a part in what has emerged.  You see, when the Nagual recruited me, I was deathly afraid of violating religion to follow a diabolical path of Power, so he endlessly and patiently reasoned with me that the real Divine Mother is Power and not the limited figure of Catholic belief.  He convinced me slowly over endless meetings that the Divine Mother had brought him to me as a heavenly plot to bring me closer to the Divine Mother as a reward of Power for my intense devotions.  So, I made the Nagual Decision to follow the Ways of Power through the Nagual Path as a fulfillment of my religion rather than an outright divestiture.  So, for me and my Nagual Group, Power is feminine, but those who came after did not see Her that way.  In some senses they are right and Power has an inhuman, impersonal and transcendental quality.  But I see Her and I see that She is the secret decider in all beings in all the great zones of the Eagle’s emanations, including the zones of both ordinary sleeping people and sorcerer-seers who are awake.  Even what might look like my choice to be reborn or stay where I am is actually Her decision on my behalf.  She talks to me!  Hers is the Voice of Eternity.  She brought me to my present freedom of the spirit, however long it may endure, and She will take me down again, if necessary, to prepare some new inconceivable leap that I am not now ready for.”

 “Dona Celestina Soledad and her apprentice, Merilyn Tunneshende, would perhaps pick up the thread of your transmission,” I offered.

 “In some respects, perhaps, but they are a broken off branch from the tree of our lineage and the full Power in the transmission would not be taken up.  Tunneshende is so caught up in her expanding social importance!  Anything she would get from me or you, she would claim to have dreamed it up herself!  No, the transmission of Feminine Power will be arranged by Power through other, relatively unknown channels.  It is enough that you publish our interaction and let it fall out and take root wherever it will.  The Rule of the Nagual remains that Power is transmitted through private people selected by Power Herself, not through popularized public figures with social organizations.”

 “I see what you mean.  The Death Defier is not a public figure, but eternally works behind the scenes.  As an incarnation of Power, we notice that he increasingly has a predilection of taking the form of a woman.  But Power is also very playful.  Quite recently She played with me through the Death Defier who appeared to me as a wonderful, brilliant little boy I befriended and even wanted to adopt!  Only later did I realize that he was the Death Defier, and I thought I could see through anyone!”

 “Yes”, said Maria, “She works increasingly through the Death Defier as a woman, though he would of course appear to me as a man for his arrangements with me and my Nagual Group.”

 “Is there any further aspect of Feminine Power you were unable to transmit down through the lineage of the New Seers?”

 “Yes.  It is the injection of Power into especially radiated food and drink.”

 “Ah!  You speak of the Kaif-injections of the Sufis and what they call ‘The Food of Life’.”

 “Perhaps, though I do not know much of these people but what I see on the Other Side.  I think only very few of them really understood how Power can work in food and drink.”

 “Maybe some Siddha Yogis of India understand it as the giving of Prasad or blessed food and drink.”

 “Again, perhaps, but even there I perceive a certain degree of incomplete awareness of Power in those Siddhas and even less awareness in their self selected emotional followers.”

 “Maria, I once had Prasad from a Siddha of South India.  He deliberately injected some fruits (two plums) with Shakti or Power.  Eating them was so overwhelming at the time, that I could only eat one and not the second.”

 “Well, well!  Nothing new under the Sun!”