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Stepped wisdom
The Mesoamerican version of increasing wisdom, knowledge, energy and power is quite simple. It's based on the principle of never taking away, always summing up. This is how many of the pyramids where built, and from them we can learn the example. Mesoamerican pyramids are all stepped, they use very few inclined angles, they are mostly one layer above another, and this symbolizes not only the layers of the different dimensions upwards towards heaven and downwards towards the underworld, but also the steps humans take to get closer to the divine, as they are able to build on themselves, learn and grow. Mesoamerican pyramids are essentially ladders up man-made mountains. They all hosted a temple on top, and in the temple, a god. Pyramids were the path to god.
Building on top of the old is very practical. Sometimes we feel like abandoning the old, because we need something new and fresh. Deconstructing ourselves is crucial, and now more than ever. The old can become rotten, outdated and even harmful. So how would this work according to the Mesoamerican principle of never taking away? If it's rotten and bad, wouldn't we just want to abandon the pyramid and never come back to it?
What our ancestors did was, destroy that which no longer served them. They would destroy ever so often the surface of a pyramid, burn it. However, this rubble left, was the perfect bulk on top of which a larger pyramid could later be built. In this manner, the temple grew closer to the sky, no matter what happened. Applying this as a principle for wisdom in our lives can be very healing. We can't really get rid of the past. We might want to detangle it, destroy it's surface, it's face. But it will always serve us to build on top of and become bigger, wiser, better and more healthy. We can deconstruct many things, but the raw components will remain, and we will actually find them useful to grow above and beyond that.