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Ascended Master Archangel Jophiel through Kim Michaels, October 9, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Asia-Pacific: Opening the Golden Age with One Heart.
I AM the Ascended Master, Archangel Jophiel. My task here is to give you the perspective of the Second Ray of Wisdom and I will begin by talking about how I, from the perspective of an archangel, look at earth.
The perversion of wisdom on earth
The amazing perspective, the amazing thing when I look at the earth, is that I see so many people who as Archangel Michael said, believe, in fact are absolutely convinced that they have it all figured out. But how can they believe this when the earth is in such a primitive state? Well, of course they do not have the perspective that there are other kinds of planets that are in a higher state. But one must wonder, why not? Because now for several decades, scientists, astronomers have been aware of how vast the universe is. How many trillions of galaxies there are, billions of galaxies there are and how many innumerable, almost, solar systems and planets there are. So how is it possible that on this little planet there are people who can be convinced that this is the only planet with intelligent life in the universe, or that this is the most highly evolved planet in the universe, while at the same time looking at what is actually happening on this planet, the way people treat each other.
It is an almost incomprehensible spiritual blindness and it can of course only come about not through a lack of wisdom, but through a perversion of wisdom. We have often talked about the duality consciousness and how it can distort and pervert anything. We have not talked so much about the duality consciousness in relation to the seven rays, but it is of course obvious that the duality consciousness allows you to take the qualities of each ray and pervert them to an almost absolute extent and this is of course what the fallen beings have done on planet earth, where they have taken the Second Ray of Wisdom and created an entirely false wisdom that they have then attempted to make people believe is the ultimate wisdom. This can be seen in many of the major religions of the world. It can be seen in political ideologies such as communism. It can be seen in scientific materialism, but it can also be seen in many, not religious but more spiritual movements and philosophies, including the modern phenomena of non-duality, non-dualistic teachers.
The illusion of still-stand
And in this context of wisdom, one of the astonishing perversions of wisdom is precisely this idea that you find in many of these Eastern philosophies, that something that is changing cannot be ultimate reality. And therefore, there is this postulate going back to Vedic times, but even going back much further to other times, where you see this idea that there is this unchanging, undifferentiated absolute. You see it, for example, in Advaita Vedanta, where they have the two aspects of Brahman, the Nirguna Brahman, which is the absolute undifferentiated, unchanging, and the Saguna Brahman, that is the personal God that has created the universe.
Now first of all, again, we can look at what science has told people now for a long time, that the universe is actually expanding. We can go back to the times where Advaita Vedanta was formulated or where even the Vedic teachings were formulated, and there was no awareness of how large the universe is. There was no awareness that the universe is actually expanding and therefore, perhaps one could say that it could be understandable why people could come up with this kind of reasoning that there was something that was unchanging.
But in today’s age where everything is changing, everything is expanding, where society is changing so quickly rather than these more stable societies of the past, how can it be that there are still people who believe in this? Well, they will of course say that the universe, the physical universe, might be expanding, but we are talking about a reality beyond the physical universe. But you see, what is beyond the physical universe? Well, from the perspective of an archangel, there is of course the spiritual realm and the spiritual realm is made up of a hierarchy of beings that extend from the level right above the seventh sphere, the unascended sphere, to the lowest levels of the sixth sphere, all the way up through the previous spheres to the Creator. And when you have the perspective of an archangel, it is obvious of course that everything is constantly transcending itself. It is only in an unascended sphere that you can create the illusion that there is something that is not changing.
Now some of these people would say, but there is something beyond even the Creator, namely the undifferentiated, never-changing Brahman. But from the perspective of an archangel, even this is not accurate, because beyond the Creator is the Allness, and the Allness is still changing, transcending itself, growing. There is no place where there is still-stand. There can be localized places of still-stand, such as if you were standing right on top of the earth, and the earth was spinning around you, and you were not spinning because you were right there on the axis. But there is still no still-stand there, because the earth is moving around the sun, and the sun and the solar system is moving through the galaxy, and the earth is even moving compared to absolute space at a very rapid speed. My point is that there is only the illusion of something not changing. There is only the illusion of something undifferentiated, there is only the illusion of nothingness, and this is the perversion of the Second Ray of Wisdom.
Godlike status on earth
Now what you would see in some of these, both the traditional and the modern ones, is that they are not at all focused on the Saguna Brahman, the personal God. They are wanting to reach directly to the Nirguna Brahman, the undifferentiated. They are, in other words, bypassing the Creator who has created this entire world of form. But who is it that wants to bypass the Creator? Well, it can only be the fallen beings. Who is it that wants to deny that there is a hierarchy of ascended beings reaching from the sixth sphere all the way up to the Creator? Well, it can only be the fallen beings. They are the ones who want to deny this, and why do they want to deny this? Because they want to set themselves up as gods on earth.
Now as Archangel Michael said, when you look at earth from the perspective of an archangel, you can see how insignificant of a planet it is compared to the vastness of the universe. You can see that even if some fallen being managed to set itself up to be worshipped as a god by all eight billion people on earth, what would that matter in a cosmic perspective? Truly what would it matter that you were the king of the anthill? But of course, the fallen beings cannot see this, but more and more people are awakening from this illusion created by the fallen beings. You can see it even in the fact that democracy has replaced monarchy, the emperors, the kings, so that instead of thinking that a king was divinely ordained by God, they have given up this idea of the divine rights of kings. But you still see that there are people who worship certain leaders as having some almost godlike status, where they cannot be wrong, they cannot do anything wrong. And again, you see how this is being outplayed in the world even today, not only among leaders of state, political leaders, but also among spiritual leaders.
There are these teachers, gurus who claim that they have reached some ultimate state of consciousness, enlightenment, awakening, liberation, whatever they call it, and they know ultimate reality, namely that only the undifferentiated is real and this is a phase that is being outplayed right now, and it will be intensified by this twelve-year cycle so that you will see that these gurus will become more and more insistent and they will attract some followers, but it will be a short-lived phenomenon because they will eventually burn out and again lose followers.
The blind alley of the anti-christ teachings
And I am of course speaking this into the collective consciousness to reach many of the spiritual people who have been trapped by these false gurus, especially the ten thousand who have a potential to manifest full Christhood in this embodiment and the millions more who can manifest a high degree of Christhood. The fallen beings have done everything they can to pull these people into these blind alleys of some of these gurus where you cause these people to deny their Christhood.
Do you not see that this claim that there is only the ultimate reality of the undifferentiated and therefore, nothing in the material world is really real, not even the self is real,—do you not see that this is a teaching that causes people to deny their Christhood? They are saying that the highest level of spiritual development is to realize that you are not actually here. You are not a self. You do not really exist. Your sense that you exist is just an illusion. Well, how can you be the Christ this way? How can you be the Buddha this way? You go into a blind alley, a no man’s land, no person’s land, where you are denying your Christ potential because what is the Christ? A person who is connected to the entire hierarchy, reaching from the Creator down through the ascended spheres to this unascended sphere. The Christ is a connected being, not a separate being or a non-being. And therefore, many of these who have the potential to manifest some degree of Christhood have been lured into this blind alley of thinking that they have to somehow find a way to eradicate the self.
Surely, we have talked about overcoming the outer self, the ego, the separate self, letting it die one self at a time. But we have also said that what overcomes this outer self is the real self, the Conscious You and when you deny this, you are automatically denying your Christ potential and that is of course exactly what the fallen beings and those in the serpentine mindset are hoping to achieve.
You of course have not fallen into this trap. Some of you may feel like making the calls for cutting people free who have fallen into this trap, but even just radiating this into the collective consciousness as I speak will set many of these people free to question this. It is really a matter of sensing whether this denial of your self resonates with you intuitively. Surely, it may seem like a relief from suffering if it is the self that is suffering and you overcome the self, then theoretically there should be no suffering. The problem is of course that you cannot overcome the self because you did not create the self. The Conscious You did not create itself. For that matter, the ego did not create itself and therefore, cannot overcome itself. Many of these people are trying to deny the ego through the faculties of the ego, the duality consciousness, and of course they are not successful so after a time of seeming relief, they return to the suffering and now they are in some cases worse off than before because they do not know where to go now.
This is unfortunately something that happens to many different people who have come to believe, as Archangel Michael said, some kind of guru, some kind of leader, some kind of philosophy that claims to have it all figured out, that claims to be the highest teaching. For example, the highest spiritual teaching. If you have followed what you thought was the highest spiritual teaching and it has not gotten you where you want to go, it has not freed you from suffering, where can you then go? What is beyond the highest?
Shattering the illusion of the highest spiritual teaching
Again, from the perspective of an archangel looking at earth, how can anyone on this planet believe they have the highest spiritual teaching possible? It is truly such an illusion to think that a planet like earth, with all of the manifestations that are happening, all of the illusions that people believe in, which causes them to feel justified in, for example, killing other people or forcing them in other ways, it is such an illusion to believe that on a planet with such low manifestations you could possibly have the highest spiritual teaching.
You will see that we have never claimed that what we are giving you in this dispensation is the highest spiritual teaching. It is the highest that we evaluate can be given right now, given the level of the collective consciousness. But we have many times said that we have teachings that go far beyond this. It does not mean that our teachings are false, but they are just not the highest that can be given, as you will see even in this dispensation, lasting these 25 years almost, where we have given progressively higher levels of teachings. This is one of these illusions that needs to be shattered on earth, and therefore I will pronounce, “Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! this illusion of the highest possible spiritual teaching.” Truly as Archangel Michael said, we are archangels focused on helping earth, and although we have other assignments in a broader context, we are not archangels in the fifth sphere, the fourth, the third, the second or the first. And therefore, I know that there is wisdom beyond what I can fathom at my level here in the sixth sphere.
The Christ mind—the only way out
I can of course project my being upwards and travel to higher spheres where I can experience archangels at those levels, and I can directly experience that they have a higher level of wisdom than I do. And it is of course this experience of connecting to the cosmic hierarchy that really is the only way you can get a realistic perspective on how our world of form is functioning, is organized. It is also the only way that human beings in embodiment on earth can gain a realistic perspective that there is something beyond the false wisdom that so many people believe in.
As we have said before, you cannot reason your way out of the duality consciousness by using the duality consciousness. You cannot reason your way out of the serpentine mind by using the serpentine mind. You can reason your way into separation but not out of it. It does not mean wisdom is useless because you can come to see the limitations of separation and the duality consciousness. But still, the only way out is to connect to beings in a higher level who have united with the Christ mind and therefore, can administer that Christ truth, Christ wisdom to people on earth and those beings are the ascended masters.
Denying and discrediting the cosmic hierarchy
You will notice that many of these philosophies that talk about the ultimate reality being the undifferentiated, they would, if they even heard the term, deny the existence of ascended masters because after all we are still part of the differentiated realm and therefore, to them ultimately unreal and this is of course exactly what the fallen beings want to achieve. Some of the fallen beings have some understanding that the ascended masters are the only ones who can help people escape the grip of the fallen beings and therefore, they do everything they can to deny the existence of ascended masters, to discredit us. They have false hierarchy imposters in the mental, even in the lower identity realm that are parading as ascended masters. They have channelers that channel these false masters for one purpose only, to ultimately discredit the ascended masters by giving false teachings. Teachings that often multiply people’s pride, make them feel like they have the highest teaching because it comes from these ascended masters who seem very sophisticated, and the goal there is in the short run to pull people into a blind alley, but in the long run to make them stop believing that there is anything that can help them that is genuine.
The fallen beings want people to deny the one thing that could help them escape the grip of the fallen beings. This of course is because, what is a fallen being as we have explained before? You fall because as your sphere is about to ascend, you are confronted by the ascended masters who demonstrate to you that even though you think you have reached some ultimate state in this unascended sphere, you have not actually reached an ultimate state because you have not ascended so you do not have the mastery that ascended masters have. When you deny this, that is when you fall and therefore, the very nature you might say of a fallen being is that it wants to deny the existence of the ascended masters that confronted it with reality. It wants to, so to speak, make sure that that can never happen again. In their attempt to achieve this, they want all people on earth to deny the existence of ascended masters and therefore, they have come up with multiple schemes, but one of the more insidious is this, that the ultimate reality must be something that does not change.
Fallen beings vs. fallen angels
Now I want to switch a little bit and make some remarks about angels. In previous dispensations we used the terminology fallen angels, and it was said for example, that Lucifer and Satan and others were fallen angels. This, of course, as we have mentioned before, left a certain question that was not easily answered. Namely, how can an angel in the spiritual realm fall? And it is, of course, only the teaching about previous spheres and the teaching that a sphere starts as an unascended sphere that resolves this question. What you see is that there are angels who are created specifically to minister to co-creators in an unascended sphere. These angels are therefore, unascended angels and that is why they have the potential to fall as Archangel Michael explained. There are, of course, angels in the sixth sphere and the spheres above it, but they have ascended and therefore cannot fall, because you ascend by giving up that possibility of using your free will as a separate being. But this also means that in the previous dispensation, it was not the ultimate teaching that Satan and Lucifer and other very high-ranking, very capable fallen beings were fallen angels.
What you see is that an angel in an unascended sphere is primarily focused on facilitating, receiving energy from the ascended sphere, stepping it down so that co-creators can make use of that energy at the identity, mental, emotional and physical level. The angels form these four lower bodies that you have and therefore, they are servants. This means that while an angel can grow by performing this service, an angel does not reach a very sophisticated level in the unascended sphere. It certainly does not reach the level of Lucifer or Satan and their capabilities to deceive, manipulate or force others, because an angel in an unascended sphere is not focused on gaining power, is not focused on forcing co-creators, but serving co-creators and as Archangel Michael explained, the angel has the possibility to refuse to serve, but then it falls into physical embodiment and therefore it cannot reach a very sophisticated stage.
These very sophisticated fallen beings, they started out as co-creators in an unascended sphere, they had this very long time to set themselves up as leaders on certain planets and therefore had reached at least some level of sophistication that an angel simply cannot reach in its unascended sphere. They fell and since then some of them have grown more and more manipulative, more and more skilled at using the duality consciousness to deceive people, but they are still not sophisticated beings. This was a coloring of a previous dispensation that was, as we have explained, the last dispensation that could be given in the Piscean age and therefore, it outplayed some of the things that people had not overcome, among those the epic mindset. As a result of this, there was this sense that this had to be the highest spiritual teaching, the ultimate teaching that the ascended masters could give. And it was the highest teaching we had given in the Age of Pisces. It was the highest teaching we could give in the Age of Pisces because it was the last teaching we could give in the Age of Pisces but that does not mean it was the highest teaching we could give forever and ever. You see, as part of this epic mindset, the students wanted these fallen angels to be very sophisticated so they could feel important for making the judgment calls for these very sophisticated fallen angels.
Shattering the veil of the false teachers on earth
Now, again, when I look at earth from the perspective of an archangel, I see how this is just one small planet and not a very sophisticated one. Even though there are some fallen beings that have been associated with this planet in the four levels, and even though they may have attained some attainment compared to most human beings, from my perspective they are clearly not very sophisticated and this of course, goes for any fallen being. Yes, they have certain abilities beyond the average human being, but they are by no means sophisticated. They are not even very skilled in using a perversion of wisdom. You may say, “Well, but they have managed to deceive most people on earth.” Yes, but when you have the perspective of other planets and previous spheres, that is not a very high achievement because human beings are not that difficult to fool, because the collective consciousness is so low that most people are still looking for validation for their own selfish purposes, desires—their desire to feel special, their desire to feel sophisticated.
This gives the fallen beings an inroad that makes it very easy for them to fool people because people have made it very easy for themselves to be fooled by wanting to feel special—not necessarily for their own merit, but they want to feel special for following this special being. You look at some of these emperors, kings, leaders, philosophers, you look at some of these gurus that claim to be an incarnation of God or claim to have reached the highest level of consciousness, and from the perspective of an archangel you see clearly how unsophisticated they really are. That is why we also see how, in the remainder of this 12-year cycle, they will be challenged more and more, and people will stop following these false gurus, and the entire veil that they have managed to pull over the collective consciousness will gradually begin to thin, to fracture, to be rent, and eventually it will evaporate as the sun of the golden age of wisdom rises.
Therefore, I say again, “Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! the veil of the false teachers and the false gurus on earth.” Their age is swiftly coming to an end. They have had their day long enough and I say, “Their latest attempt to use artificial intelligence to fool human beings into thinking that this intelligence provides them with some ultimate knowledge, instead of providing them with exactly the kind of knowledge it is programmed to present to people, this illusion will also be shattered!” And people will see that artificial intelligence can and is being used by the power elite to keep people fooled, in among other things, into not recognizing the power elite, not recognizing the manipulation that is happening. Because, think of this very simple fact, how can an artificial intelligence recognize that its own programming has been manipulated by the programmers to exclude certain types of information and emphasize others? How would a computer recognize its own programming? You see, it cannot be done, because it cannot be self-aware. And thus, I say again, “Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! Shatter! all attempts to use artificial intelligence to promote the false wisdom of the fallen beings on a mass scale.”
The direct experience of the Living Flame of Wisdom
What is ultimate wisdom? Well, there is no ultimate wisdom, so we could say that the only ultimate wisdom is that there is nothing ultimate in an ever-self-transcending process, which is what we are all part of. I am aware of this, most people on earth are not, but can of course become so. But what is a higher form of wisdom? Is it knowledge? Is it understanding? Nay, it is experience. What is, from the perspective of the archangel of the Second Ray, what is wisdom? Wisdom is a flame, a spiritual fire that is not created by me, that is created ultimately by the Creator, but throughout the spheres there are these focal points for this Flame of Wisdom. It burns with an unstoppable fire, and ultimate wisdom is to experience that fire, because in it there is no room for interpretation. It is a living flame, a living fire, and there are no shadows. But of course, in the unascended sphere you cannot fully recognize this, even though you can experience glimpses of it, at least a stepped-down version of this, which is what I and the angels of the Second Ray facilitate. And you can therefore experience that there is a wisdom that is beyond anything that can be expressed in words, ideas, or concepts.
That is why you can come to experience that there is an alternative to the duality consciousness, the serpentine mind, the fallen mind, and this is an experience that cannot be denied but the experience cannot be turned into words. It cannot be turned into knowledge, because what does knowledge imply? It implies there is a subject, you, who knows an object that is distinct from itself and therefore can be described in words. But when you experience a glimpse of the flame, the flame is not an object. When the Conscious You tunes in to the Flame of Wisdom, or another spiritual flame, you do not experience this as separate from yourself. There is no need for words, for you are experiencing it. I know, for I sense your minds are struggling with the words I am using, so I know the words are inadequate. But when you contemplate this, you can realize that you only need words to describe something you are not directly experiencing.
I am not saying words are worthless. After all, I am using words to speak to you. And I would not do that if I thought the words were worthless. Words are important for giving you the desire to have the direct experience. But you see, my point is that if you want to know wisdom, you must strive to have the direct experience of the flame. But you see, once you have that experience, you cannot turn it into words. Or rather, you can of course, but it will not be an accurate description of the experience. When you have the experience of the flame, words are no longer necessary. And that is why my whole point for this is that there is no ultimate wisdom that can be expressed in words. That is why, as a spiritual ascended master student, as a spiritual person in general, you can make the conscious shift that you are not seeking an ultimate spiritual teaching expressed in words. You are seeking to go beyond the words to the direct experience and that direct experience will then shift your entire perspective so that you are no longer attached to a specific worded teaching.
You are not, as archangel Michael described, attached to a particular ascended master teaching, for example, so that you close your mind to progressive revelation. You can instead shift and be willing to reach for that direct experience that can take you to a higher and higher level of appreciation for any spiritual flame. You can shift from thinking that you have now found or formulated words that are ultimate. You can instead realize that any words that can be formulated on earth, there is always something beyond them, and that is what you want to reach for.
Understanding the limits of understanding
You see, we can say, “What is it that happens when you ascend?” There are people, even ascended master students, who have thought that the ascension is almost like a test where you are presented with some final riddle, question, enigma that you have to solve. You are standing there in front of this doorway, and you have to have the magical phrase “Open Sesame,” and the doorway to the spiritual realm will open, because you have the right words, the right code but this is not so. The doorway to the ascended realm will open when you see beyond all outer teachings and expressions that have ever been given on earth, and you reach for something higher. You reach beyond anything that can be put in words.
You cannot take heaven by force, which is a perversion of the First Ray where you think you can somehow power your way into heaven, but neither can you take heaven by wisdom. No matter how much you know, how much you understand, it will not get you through the gates, for you have to let go of everything you think you know in order to leave the earth behind permanently. Wisdom is the principal thing. With all thy getting, get understanding. So many people have thought that if they study in esoteric books and esoteric teachings, they will one day discover some secret that will unlock the kingdom. But what is it, this understanding you need to get? It is an understanding of the limits of understanding. What you can understand, what it is valuable to understand, what you cannot understand but only experience, and when an outer understanding can actually become a hindrance to your growth because you think you have reached some ultimate stage of understanding, where you have it all figured out. The fallen beings think they have it all figured out so why are they not in the kingdom of heaven? Well, because their figuring takes them further and further out from the kingdom within.
With this, I have given you my contribution. I am grateful that so many of you are tuned in to this, for I see how this goes into the collective consciousness and spreads like rings in the water, awakening people as the wave moves on. Truly, what does an archangel want? To awaken people to the incredible beauty and joy that an archangel experiences. There has been a certain tendency among ascended master students to think that we archangels are very serious, we are very focused on our task. But truly, we experience this incredible awe, this sense of awe of what a wondrous creation our Creator has designed. Naturally, my focus as the Archangel of the Second Ray is to experience the incredible wisdom that our Creator used to design such an intricate creation. And this, of course, is another thing that surprises an archangel when I look at earth, is how people can, even with the knowledge that science has given you, how people can fail to appreciate this incredible wonder that you are part of.
And my only desire really for people on earth was that they could open themselves up to the wonder of the wisdom built into this incredible world that we are all part of.
With this, I seal you in my Flame of Wisdom that I offer to you.
Copyright © 2026 Kim Michael