Jean Charlot's mural featuring the emblem and motto of the National University, "By virtue of my race, the spirit shall speak", encapsulates José Vasconcelos's ideological vision of a unified, spiritually enlightened Latin America. Created in 1922, Charlot’s mural integrates Vasconcelos’s concept of the Fifth Cosmic Race, which envisioned Latin America as the birthplace of a new, superior race formed through the fusion of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

The mural prominently features the emblem designed by Vasconcelos, held by an Mexican eagle and an Andean Condor—symbols of Latin America’s great pre-Hispanic civilizations—further reinforcing the spiritual mission of the university. This imagery reflects Vasconcelos’s belief in a higher destiny for Latin America, where intellectual and cultural synthesis would transcend materialism and European imperialist legacies.