The Birth of the Left-Handed Hummingbird [Huitzilopochtli]

Chapter 3 – The True Penance

The efforts we would realize with the purpose of satisfying divine principles could be austerities, discipline, penances, etc., lamentably many of those practices today tend to separate us more from that which has no name, instead of bringing us closer…

"And Coatlicue made penance, she swept because her duty was to sweep, and that is how she made penance in Coatepec, the Hill of the Serpent. And at a certain time as Coatlicue was sweeping, a plumage descended over her as a ball of fine feathers. Coatlicue promptly picked them up and placed them on her bosom, and as she was done with her sweeping, she looked for the feathers on her belly, and did not find them. It was at that moment that she had become pregnant." Florentine Codex

"The One with the Skirt of Serpents" [Coatlicue], our individual and particular Divine Mother was making penance in the Hill of the Serpents [Coatepec]; she was walking the path of initiation, sweeping her internal impurities which is how penance is done.

In modern times we have an incorrect concept of "penance" and we mistakenly think that which has no name and we refer-to as "God", would like to see us mutilate, bring pain or harm our bodies; that is the thinking of a degenerated humanity.

In the Bhagavad Gita [the Chant to the Lord], Krishna (the Christ) solemnly states there are some penances or austerities that must not be done:

"Not recommended by the scriptures, but from ostentation and selfishness; those who are bonded and lustful, deprived of reason, torture the organs of the body and torture me, because I dwell in the body. Know them! Their intent is demonic!" Bhagavad Gita

Divinity is only interested in the penance of the work that leads to our purification: the sweeping of our psyche of all that is wicked and gross and the elimination of the inhumanity that dwells within us. This effort is only possible walking the path of initiation (the hill of the serpent) and with the help of our internal Divine Mother (The One with the Skirt of Serpents [Coatlicue]), as there is no other way to eliminate our psychological aggregates. The only force that can help us is that of our Divine Mother, and she is a part of our own Being.

The specific work that corresponds to us in this is that of comprehending our defects. It is only once this requirement is satisfied, that our Divine Mother can then sweep, clean and disintegrate the defect that we have integrally comprehended at all the levels of the mind.

"The One with the Skirt of Serpents" [Coatlicue] (Museum of History and Anthropology, Mexico)

Fine Feathers

Those who sincerely dedicate their lives to the work of cleansing their psyche of all the undesirable psychological aggregates and who truly know how to take advantage of life itself, who celebrate the opportunity to discover a defect and dedicate the effort of rigorous meditation to comprehend it, are rewarded by their Divine Mother with its disintegration. In Gnostic wisdom this is known as DEATH.

But when the seeker of the path works simultaneously in their "Hill of the Serpent" [Coatepec] alluding to the other two factors that enable the revolution of the consciousness, he then works with superior forces. On one hand the serpent is a symbol of the electric power of love that can be wisely transmuted when we, instead of approaching our spouse with animal passion, sincerely love them and seek the channeling of the creative forces that flow at the time of the connection of the man and the woman. In Gnostic wisdom this work is known as BIRTH.

The very "hill" is indicative of the work that leads to initiation, which is the reward for the sacrifices endured. Any and all selfless help we provide humanity is known in the Gnostic wisdom as SACRIFICE FOR HUMANITY.

Those who are able to sustain such level of internal work can receive the rhetoric ball of fine feathers from above, which among Christians, is the equivalent of the descending of the dove of the Holy Spirit, the arrival of the Condor amongst the Inca or the arrival of the vulture amongst the Egyptians.

The event of the feathers speaks to the possibility of experiencing the birth of the Internal Christ in our heart; just as Jesus was born out of Mary, as the divine twins of the Popol Vuh were born off the virgin Ixquic, and as Horus was born off Isis. These are symbols of the event that can take place within our internal universe.

"Regardless if the Christ were born a thousand times in Bethlehem, if he is not born in our hearts, it is of no use." Samael Aun Weor

This is the internal myth represented by "The Left-Handed Hummingbird" [Huitzilopochtli] which is made possible by the intervention of the Holy Spirit (the ball of fine feathers), an event that can only take place when we live a life of penance, sweeping off or cleaning our psyche from all our inhumanity.

Feathered Serpents (Museum of History and Anthropology, Mexico)

The Anger of the Four-Hundred Southerners

"The Four-Hundred Southerners angered when they learned their mother was pregnant, exclaiming 'who has done this to her? Who has impregnated her? This is an insult and a disgrace'." Florentine Codex

The Four-Hundred Southerners symbolize the innumerable psychological defects we carry within and they are commanded by the Head of the Legion: Lust. Lust itself is represented by "The One Adorned with Rattles" [Coyolxauhqui] and the Four-Hundred Southerners rebel before the possibility of facing the birth of the Internal Christ.

This is an event they cannot forgive because the birth of the The Left-Handed Hummingbird [Huitzilopochtli] threatens their existence.

We must understand that psychologically, we are not an "individual". We are a Legion and our psychological defects are innumerable. Each defect has its own mind, believes itself to be the sole owner of the human machine and yet they associate amongst themselves, they trade and share ideas and make fools of us.

Whenever someone makes the effort to awaken their consciousness, the ego sets its resistance; it makes its effort to stop us, defeat us and convince us to renounce of any internal work. It makes use of all possible tricks to reach its goal, among them the false reasoning that leads to errors and a self-deceits that come as constant fallacies of the Ego.

The work is not easy, which is why the Buddha has said:

"Like a frontier fortress, guarded inside & out, guard yourself. Don't let the moment pass by. those for whom the moment is past, grieve, consigned to hell." Dhammapada 22:10

Warriors (Museum of History and Anthropology, Mexico)