THE FOUR AGREEMENTS .
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ .
Born in 1952, he is a Mexican author, writer and speaker of texts and spiritualist or neochamanistic themes , influenced by Carlos Castañ eda.
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS.
Thousands of years ago, the Toltecs were known throughout southern Mexico as " women and men of knowledge . " Anthropologists have defined the Toltecs as a born or a race, but, in fact, they were scientists and artists who formed a society to study and preserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of their ancestors. They formed a community of teachers (nagual) and students in Teotihuacá n, the city of the pyramids on the outskirts of Mexico City , known as the place where " man becomes God". Over the millennia naguals they were forced to hide their sabidurí to ancestral and maintain s or existence a secret. European conquest, coupled with an aggressive misuse of personal power by some apprentices, made it necessary to protect knowledge from those who were not prepared to use it wisely or who have pod i do misuse it intentionally for personal gain. Fortunately, the esoteric knowledge of Toltec was preserved and transmitted from one generation to another by different lineages of Naguals. Although he remained hidden in secret for a hundred t os An os, ancient profecí as llegarí predicted that at the moment I Zeri to the sabidurí necessary to return to the people.