Texas, as a Consequence of Ancient Cults

1. The Geographic and Cultural Threshold of Texas

Spiritually and geographically, Texas sits on a borderland:

• Between Mesoamerica (the Aztec-Maya cultural sphere) and the North American mound-builder traditions.
• It forms part of what archaeologists call the Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica — a zone of cultural exchange, ritual diffusion, and at times violent collision.
• Sites such as Caddo Mounds (East Texas), Hueco Tanks (near El Paso), and the Lower Pecos rock shelters preserve traces of ritual life and cosmological art reaching back thousands of years.

In a spiritual-historical sense, these were liminal zones: contact regions between two world-impulses — the more solar-agricultural (southern) and the more cosmic-shamanic (northern).
Such borderlands often became places where knowledge streams met and could either transmute or curdle — which is exactly where “dark mystery centers” can appear.

2. The Southern Stream — Toltec and Aztec Shadows

According to Steiner’s reading of cultural evolution, the Toltec initiates once carried a bright, Sun-oriented wisdom from the late Atlantean epoch.
Yet over centuries, fragments of this knowledge hardened into sacrifice cults.

• The original intention of sacrifice was to represent the voluntary offering of the lower nature to the divine Sun-Being.
• When the clairvoyant capacities faded, outer rituals replaced inner transformation.
• Thus, in late Toltec and Aztec times, the symbolic offering degenerated into literal human sacrifice — a tragic echo of the Mystery knowledge that had once prepared souls for the coming of the Christ.

From a Michaelic perspective, the “darkness” of these centers lay in the severing of cosmic wisdom from moral evolution. The power remained; the heart withdrew.

3. The Northern Stream — Caddo, Jornada, and Pecos Traditions

In Texas and the Southwest, one finds traces of different but parallel initiatory lines:

• Caddoan peoples (East Texas / Louisiana) built earthen temple mounds similar to those along the Mississippi — oriented to the Sun and often containing burial chambers. Their rituals emphasized communal renewal and fire-worship, suggesting vestiges of an ancient solar mystery.
• Lower Pecos rock art (ca. 4000 BCE – 500 CE) depicts therianthropic beings, processions, and sky symbolism — likely related to shamanic ascent and descent. These could be seen as remnant practices of pre-Atlantean “dream clairvoyance.”
• Hueco Tanks (El Paso area) holds thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs; the site functioned as a pilgrimage and rain-making center for centuries. Some motifs — serpents, masked figures, stars — suggest initiatory cosmology.

None of these were as systematized as the Aztec centers, yet their inner gesture may have retained the earlier Atlantean polarity of Sun and Serpent: striving for harmony between heavenly and chthonic forces.

4. Degeneration and Darkness

As the epochs progressed (especially after the 3rd post-Atlantean cultural period), many such sanctuaries lost their initiatory clarity.
In esoteric history, Texas and the surrounding Southwest likely became repositories of half-remembered rites — fertility, blood, trance, and vision quests — where the elemental superseded the moral-spiritual.

Steiner hints that by the time of the later Mesoamerican empires, some priesthoods were in direct rapport with ahrimanic beings — commanding elemental powers without heart or conscience.
That influence radiated northward through trade and migration routes; echoes may linger in rock art and oral memory.

5. A Contemporary Reading

If we look etherically, Texas carries this mixed karma of Sun and Serpent:

• Vast deserts and plains — spaces of purification and exposure.
• Petroglyphs and caves — thresholds between seen and unseen worlds.
• And modern industrial, military, and energy complexes — re-manifestations of “power without reverence.”

From the standpoint of spiritual geography, one could say the region still oscillates between ancient magic and modern technic, awaiting a new synthesis grounded in conscience — a Michaelic redemption of power.