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The Mastery Of Love Guide To The Art Of
A Practical Guide to the Art of
Relationship

A
Toltec

THE MASTERY
OF LOVE
Wisdom
Book

DON MIGUEL RUIZ

To my parents, my children, my siblings, and the rest of my family, with whom I am bonded not only by love, but by our blood and ancestral roots.
To my spiritual family, with whom I am bonded by our decision to create a family based on unconditional love, mutual respect, and the practice of the Mastery of Love.
And to my human family, whose minds are fertile for the seeds of love contained in this book.
May these seeds of love flourish in your life.

Acknowledgments
I WISH TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO JANET MILLS who, like a mother with her own child, gave form to this book with all her love and dedication.
I would also like to thank those people who gave of their time and their love, and helped us with the realization of this book.
Finally, I want to express my gratitude to our Creator for the inspiration and beauty that gave this book Life.

The Toltec
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, THE TOLTEC WERE known throughout southern Mexico as "women and men of knowledge."
Anthropologists have spoken of the Toltec as a nation or a race, but, in fact, the Toltec were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones. They came together as masters
(naguals) and students at Teotihuacan, the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico City known as the place where "Man Becomes
God."
Over the millennia, the naguals were forced to conceal the ancestral wisdom and maintain its existence in obscurity. European conquest, coupled with rampant misuse of personal power by a few of the apprentices, made it necessary to shield the knowledge from those who were not prepared to use it wisely or who might intentionally misuse it for personal gain.
Fortunately, the esoteric Toltec knowledge was embodied and passed on through generations by different lineages of naguals.
Though it remained veiled in secrecy for hundreds of

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