IF THE EMPEROR SPOKE, by Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am security. I am the strength itself. When I speak to you, I make you understand that there is no weakness. Until you have seen me, you know only insecurity. You do not yet have the power to act, to express yourselves, to oppose others: you are a victim. But with me, your fear ceases. You stop doubting and devaluing yourself. No one can force you to do what you don't want to do.

My laws are the laws of the universe in action. When someone is not opposed to them, they are infinitely peaceful. But when one disobeys, the laws are terrible. I am capable of triggering diseases, heart attacks, tumors, cirrhosis. If you don't obey the laws I command, I can destroy. I have a right to kill. However, if anyone is sick and I live in that person, I will make them overcome their pain and difficulties, to dissolve obstacles. I am the hidden health in a sick body.

I am invincible. I do not delay in the face of conflict - I fight! I never surrender. I am sure. Nothing can dethrone me.

I am the axis: I order everything around my laws. I make order reign in every way, from the softest to the most ferocious. When I inhabit you and you meet another Emperor on your way, we join forces. There is no possible competition, there is no combat between kings. I am a unique archetype that lives in each of you.

When I manifest in your body, you are in full balance, you are unable to stumble. With me, the body is the center of the Universe; it is supported by an immeasurable strength and can cope with anything.

I am terribly peaceful. When I place myself in your mouth, in your musculature, your words are exact and do not shudder. Your whole body soothes: your organic life, thoughts, desires, heart, memory, time and space.

Place me at your center, as an inexhaustible source, as the root of your future. Then anguish will not prevent you from living or realizing, impotence and grief will not dominate your action. Fear and misery will not stand in the way of your work, you will be able to build your prosperity. Emotional storms will not distract you from your work, pain and illness will not prevent you from feeling your own strength; nothing can break your concentration.

Neither your intellectual reticence, nor your shyness, nor your identification with the role of victim, nor the sufferings of the past, nor the poor image that you have of yourself will prevent you from finding me, your Emperor.

If a toxic education or a nefarious value system has imprinted false laws and useless rules in you, throw them away! Establish your rules, your work system, your actions based on the laws that I reveal to you. I am here, I appear, and behind me there is an entire army, the sun, the stars, the galaxies. I protect you and I resource you with the force.

I am your inner warrior, the one who sees your weaknesses and who never weakens.