Abstract
Yes, I believe in a force that lies dormant in the land of Mexico .... I believe in the magical reality of these forces as one believes in the beneficial and curative power of certain waters, wrote Antonin Artaud.' It was Mexico where he chose to go on 7 February 1936 to live the myth of renovatio, by getting to know the most primitive arcana of the solar and agrarian tribes of Aztecs, Toltecs, Zapotecs, and Chichimecs. Differentiated by their names, just as the earth, the space they occupy in the world of contingency, is multiple, for Artaud, the mystic, these people are one-bathing as they do in the unus mundus. Artaud, the alchemist, sought to <expand himself (9, p. 108) by ferreting out the prima materia about which Robert Fludd and Paracelcus had so often written: this substance in which all contradictions are re-
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