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Ascended Master Archangel Jophiel through Kim Michaels, January 4, 2026. This dictation was given at the 2026 New Year’s webinar: Becoming Wise to the Serpents.

I AM the Ascended Master Archangel Jophiel. What exactly is an archangel? Let us begin by considering this. Is an archangel created or is an archangel made? Is an archangel instantly there in its full form, ready to carry out its task? Or does a being start with a point-like sense of identity and eventually evolve to the level of awareness where it can take up the office of an archangel?

The office of an archangel

Many traditional religions that talk about angels portray that God created the angels in their present form instantly. But as we have explained to you in our many teachings about the previous spheres, nothing was created instantly in its present form. Everything was created in a lesser form and gradually evolved. Does that mean that in the first sphere there were no archangels? Exactly. That is what it means. Only as the spheres evolved were there beings who had raised themselves to the level of consciousness where they can carry out some of the functions that you today take for granted. My point for this is to show you that the archangel of the Second Ray is an office.

It could be fulfilled by other beings than I who am speaking here. It has, during the evolution of the spheres, been fulfilled by various beings. Furthermore, I, as the Archangel Jophiel, represent the Second Ray for certain cosmic units but not for the entire cosmos. This will again offend some people from previous dispensations who wanted to think that there is one archangel for the Second Ray for the entire cosmos. But that is because they still carry with them this self-centered view of the universe that goes way back even to the fallen beings. But certainly, as you can see, in the Middle Ages they believed the earth was a small flat disk with a dome above it, and beyond the dome was God and the angels. As you see, even the material universe is vast, but certainly the previous spheres are much vaster. And therefore, you can see that there is not one being who can perform a function for this entire whole, except of course, the Creator. There are, of course, beings in the first sphere who have evolved to the point where they have a very high level of awareness. But since I am an archangel working with the latest unascended sphere, I do not have anywhere near that level of consciousness that these beings have.

A change with a clear direction

Everything is evolved. Everything is evolving. What does that have to do with the serpentine mind, the serpentine mindset, the serpentine illusions? Well, as we have explained, they use the duality consciousness, so there will always be contradictions. Some will use the serpentine mind to claim that the heavens must be perfect, God must be perfect, therefore, there can be no evolution. Therefore, there are beings on earth who have reached a level or who were created at a level where they do not need to evolve. They are appointed by God to be the leaders. Others will use the serpentine mind to say that things should change over time. The aspiring power elite will argue with the serpentine mind that things need to change, that things can become stale, and so forth. The reality I am seeking to convey here is that in the spiritual realm, everything is constantly evolving, changing, but it is not just changing in a random way.

There is self-transcendence. You may say the weather changes. One day it is sunny, the next day it is cloudy. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about a change that has a clear direction, self-transcendence towards higher levels of awareness. This is what many Eastern religions would dispute, for they would say that there is change in the world, but the world is an illusion, and beyond the world is Brahman, who is never changing because Brahman is the undifferentiated. But as we have said, the Creator is constantly changing. As its world of form is being raised by the self-aware extensions of the Creator, naturally the Creator is changing.

The individualized focal point

Now, we have said that there is one Creator for your world of form, that one Creator has manifested itself as a myriad of self-aware extensions of itself. When you look at this from your perspective, you might perceive this, that here you are, you are a human being in embodiment on this little planet called Earth. You are separated from other people. They may be extensions of the Creator, but really that is not something you experience. You often see them as being in opposition to you. And you might look up towards ascended masters. We are up there. They are raised above you in consciousness, and then you may understand intellectually there are levels of these previous spheres reaching all the way to the Creator. You are looking at this based on a sense of being separated from the Creator. But the Creator does not look at this from its perspective and see itself separated from you.

The Creator is at the same time experiencing its world of form from the level of the Creator, from the overall perspective of the Creator. Yet at the same time it is experiencing its own world of form from the inside through you. And at the same time, it is experiencing the world of form from the inside through all other extensions of itself at the same time. This is what is difficult to fathom for those in an unascended sphere because in an unascended sphere the whole point is that you experience the world of form from your particular individual vantage point.

That is perfectly natural. That is the only way it will be until you ascend. I am not saying this to blame you, I am saying this to give you at least some awareness that when you ascend you give up the individualized focal point. This will require some contemplation for you, but many of you are at the level where you can benefit from contemplating this. Look at your situation right now. You are in a physical body. You are looking through your physical eyes at whatever screen you are watching this on. You are watching a human person talking, waving his hands. You are watching this from the outside because you are physically seeing everything from your individual vantage point through your physical eyes. You may turn around and look the other way, but you are still looking out through your eyes. This is perfectly in order until you reach the 144th level of consciousness. In order to ascend, you give up the vantage point that you, the Conscious You, has had in the unascended sphere. We have said that the Conscious You merges back into the I AM Presence. But the I AM Presence also has an individual awareness, but it is not the same kind of individual vantage point that you have when you are in embodiment that the Conscious You has in embodiment.

Right now, you have the outer mind. You are looking at the world. The Conscious You is looking at the world through the filter of the outer mind, whatever subconscious selves, whatever perception filter you have. What you see is colored by the filter. As you raise your consciousness towards the 144th level, you are gradually shedding the selves that make up the perception filter. Therefore, your view of the world is less and less colored by these selves. And you can come to a point where you are simply witnessing the world from a neutral perspective. You do not have the opinions, the fears, the perceptions that most people have. But you are still viewing the world from this individual vantage point that you give up, the Conscious You gives up, as you ascend and merge into the I AM Presence.

The focal point for God’s consciousness

The I AM Presence has a broader view of the cosmos than the Conscious You. And when the Conscious You gives up its individual vantage point, it now sees the world as the I AM Presence sees it. The I AM Presence is now an ascended being and it has a broader perspective than it had before the Conscious You ascended. But it is still a newly ascended being in this latest sphere, and so it still has a limited vantage point on the entire cosmos. But it can expand its vantage point to the point where your I AM Presence has become an ascended master and you can gradually grow in awareness until you can fill a certain office, a certain spiritual office. For example, you might take up some position of assisting a Chohan in administering the energies and the knowledge of a particular ray. You could gradually work your way up to becoming a Chohan. You could gradually work your way up to becoming an archangel or an Elohim, although that would take some time. Why I am giving you this teaching is to show you that what you are right now is simply a focal point for God’s consciousness, God’s being.

You, your Conscious You, is a focal point for God’s being. I, as an archangel, am a focal point for God’s being. You have a point-like sense of self. I have a broader, more expanded sense of self but we are still both focal points for God’s being. What does this have to do with the serpentine mind? Well, first of all, the serpents will deny what I have just said. They will deny that you are a focal point for the Creator’s being because they will point to your incompleteness, your inadequateness, the mistakes that you might have made and say you could not possibly be an extension of God. You must be an incomplete being, a sinner, a person who can make mistakes. But how could God make mistakes? But as we have attempted to show you, you are a co-creator. You co-create by experimenting. And an experiment is not a failure. It is an opportunity to expand your sense of self based on the feedback you get from the cosmic mirror. That is how you, as an individual focal point of God, rise higher towards the full awareness of the Creator.

Two basic, complementary forces of creation

The serpents have separated themselves, the fallen beings have separated themselves from that process. They can only maintain that illusion of separation by being in constant denial of the underlying reality of oneness. Therefore, they must do everything they can think of to deny what I have just told you. And one of the clever ways of denying it is to make use of what we have called the most basic feature of the duality consciousness, division into two opposite polarities. Now, Mother Mary has, in previous years, through this messenger, given some profound teachings about the expanding force and the contracting force, the masculine, the feminine, that the Creator can be said to represent the expanding force and its creation represent the contracting force. But even within the world of form, there are these polarities. This is what you see outpictured in the Tai Chi. There is a reality that when the Creator started its creation, it first had to create the void, where there is no differentiation, because the void has to be set apart from the Allness, as we have explained. It is this void that some Eastern rishis tuned into a long time ago, but they interpreted it to mean that the highest state is nothingness, no differentiation, and that Brahman is undifferentiated, and as soon as you have a differentiation, you have duality. But as we have explained before, duality is not differentiation. Duality is a state of consciousness that creates the illusion of separation, which means you can now have opposing forces. The Creator starts by creating a void, which is simply a space. Then it creates out of itself the Christ consciousness, the One mind, that is meant to unify everything because everything is created out of it. Then it creates the Ma-ter light, which is the substance that can take on form. But the Ma-ter light does not take on form by itself. For there to be form, there has to be a differentiation, and the basic differentiation is that between the expanding and the contracting forces. The expanding force is raw expansion. The contracting force is raw contraction. These two forces by themselves cannot create anything, at least nothing sustainable. What creates something that can persist over time is that the two forces are balanced by the One mind, the Christ mind. And when the two forces are balanced by the Christ mind, which, mind you, happens through self-aware extensions of the Creator, they are not opposites. They are complementary forces. They complement each other. They balance each other. And through the balance is created something that has longevity, something that can self-transcend rather than descend.

The illusion of opposition

There is a basic polarity, or nothing could be created. Everything on earth is created out of this basic polarity of the expanding and contracting forces. The serpentine mind, which is in duality, is separated from the Christ mind therefore cannot grasp that the two basic forces of creation could be complementary. It can only see them as opposites because a serpentine mind projects a dualistic view upon the two basic forces of creation.

And this view has been projected into the collective consciousness since the fallen beings came to earth a long time ago. And it has found its way into almost every thought system found on earth. I say almost because there are a few exceptions, Taoism being the most widely known, and some other mystical teachings. But many of the mainstream belief systems are based on this serpentine view that there are two opposite polarities, opposite forces, working in the world. Yet, it is unreal. It is a complete illusion. But how could you come to see that it is an illusion? Not by any rational, intellectual, analytical argument. For the serpentine mind is more clever at using rational arguments than you could possibly be, because the fallen beings have had a lot longer to perfect their skills than any avatar or original earth inhabitant.

Subject-object duality

What is it that the serpentine mind has done on earth? It has created the illusion that there are two basic forces that are opposites. And this has been projected in such a way that it has created what among philosophers is known as the subject-object duality. That the subject is separated from the object. Such as, the old dream of the scientific materialists that there is an independent observer who is observing a phenomenon an because it is separated from the phenomenon, the scientist can make an objective observation because the scientist is not affecting the phenomenon being observed. This has other variations. Some people are able to recognize a higher truth than others. They become the experts. They are seeing a higher truth and they are telling you in words what that higher truth is. A perpetuation of the subject-object separation where you are separated from the world, you are separated from other people, you are separated from God. But there are those who can receive some higher truth from God, and they can translate it into words and give it to you. The same thing with other experts. The scientists, the political philosophers, whatever you have.

The reign of the fallen beings on earth, their dominance, is based entirely on this illusion that there is a separation between you and what you observe. Everything you observe is separated from you. You are observing it from a distance. What does this mean? What did I talk about earlier? The Conscious You is seeing the world through the filter of your identity, mental, emotional bodies. Because there is a distance between you and the object you are observing, a filter can be inserted between you and the object. Now, is there an actual separation? Is there an actual filter? Not in reality, but in your mind there is, so where does the subject-object duality exist? Not in reality, but in the mind.

What is the sun?

You may say: “But I am here on earth and the sun is up there in the sky, far away. It takes the light from the sun eight minutes at light speed to reach the earth.” This is the perception you have through the illusion of separation. Is the earth an object in space? Is the sun a distant object in space? Is the sun a physical object up there? Nay, the sun is an energy field. It is not an object, it is an energy field. Yes, there is a certain center of that energy field and from that center streams energy out over a large area of space, but the sun is an energy field that reaches

as far as its light rays have had time to perpetuate through the cosmos. That is what the sun is at the physical level. The earth is inside the energy field of the sun. You are living within the energy field of the sun. You are part of the energy field of the sun in that you would not be alive, your body would not be alive were it not for the energy coming from the sun. How are you separated from the sun, even physically?

Furthermore, the sun is not just physical energy. It is also emotional, mental, identity level energy. But the sun is also a focal point for spiritual energy. How are you separated from the emotional energy of the sun, or the mental energy, or the identity level? How are you separated from the spiritual? You are not separated in reality. Therefore, what is separation? It is an experience. You are right now bathed in the energy field of the sun. You are part of it. You could not separate yourself from it. Your body could not exist without it. But you are experiencing yourself as separated from the sun. You are a subject studying a remote object.

Experiencing life through a perception filter

What does that mean? It means you have an experience of the sun, but it is not a direct experience. It is an experience from a distance. This means that the serpentine mind can insert a filter between you and the direct experience of the sun, such as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Does the sun rise in the east and set in the west? Does the sun move around the earth? Or is it that the earth rotates around its axis and gives the impression when you look at the sun from earth that the sun is rising in the east, moving across the sky and setting in the west? But the earth is actually rotating in the opposite direction from west to east.

You see a simple example of how when you experience something at a distance, a perception filter can be inserted that gives you a certain experience, but it is actually out of touch with what is happening even at the physical level. Because even though at the physical level, you can say there is a sun up there in the sky, there is a planet called earth, but the sun is not moving relative to the earth, it is the earth that is moving relative to the sun.

The experience of oneness

What is the alternative to this? The alternative to being a separate subject studying a separate object? The alternative is the Christ mind. You are not studying something through the Christ mind at a distance. The Christ mind is the mind of oneness. If you reach for the Christ mind, you can experience the totality of the sun, not from a distance. You can experience oneness with the sun, oneness with the physical sun, oneness with the emotional energy field of the sun, oneness with the mental, oneness with the identity, and oneness with the spiritual beings that have created and are upholding the sun. In that experience, there is no need for words. There is no need for a description. It is beyond words.

Going beyond words

Now the serpents will say: “Ha, here you are talking about this, and what are you doing? You are giving people words.” But study our teachings, especially given through this messenger, and see how many times we have talked about you going beyond words, not being attached to the words, that there is no absolute truth that can be expressed in words, and you reaching for the Christ mind for a direct experience of our being. How many times have we said: “Don’t focus on the level of the words. Use our dictations, use the word to transcend, to go beyond the words and experience the being giving the dictation.” That is an experience you can have only through the Christ mind. And that is why we are saying that as you raise your consciousness, as you begin to merge with the Christ mind, as you begin to let go of the perception filters of the separate selves and the ego, you come to a point where you do not need words to connect to the ascended masters, or for that matter, any object in the material world. You can directly experience our being.

The words are only meant to be pointers that help you, first of all, see that the experience is possible, see that it is desirable, but also open your mind to it. All the words we are giving are in a sense meant to neutralize the effect on you from the worded descriptions given by the serpents, by the fallen beings through the duality consciousness. The serpents will say this is an impossible task. And it is true that many people look at ascended master teachings and interpret them through their perception filters. But some will understand. Some do go beyond. Some do experience our Presence directly, and it changes you. For, once you have seen, once you have experienced our Presence directly, you cannot unsee it. And if you are willing, you can use the experience of pure awareness of an ascended being to question the perception filter.

Before you have the direct experience, we can only reach you through words. Therefore, you can only use our words to reach for the experience. But once you have that experience, you can use the experience as your frame of reference for questioning the words, questioning the perception filter.

Archangel Jophiel’s offer

Why am I telling you this as an archangel? What is the function of an archangel? Well, many things, but one function is to always be there as a frame of reference for a direct experience. From me, a direct experience of the Second Ray, from Archangel Michael, a direct experience of the First Ray, and so on.

If you will, during this coming year 2026, tune into my being, perhaps by giving my decree or invocations that mention me, I will offer you that frame of reference, a direct experience of the Second Ray of wisdom that will allow you to have a frame of reference for comparing everything you see in the world, everything that is happening in the world, so that you are not deceived by the serpents, because you have the direct experience.

Perhaps replay this dictation when you are facing a particularly difficult situation. You want to know, and you may make a simple call: “Archangel Jophiel, show me the reality of this situation. Show me your perspective on this situation.” For, you see, as an archangel, there is no separation in my mind whatsoever. There is no inroad for the serpentine mind. It has no impact on me whatsoever, any more than throwing a paper airplane at the sun could have an impact on the sun. Anything the serpentine mind would send at me would burn up before it reaches me.

Therefore, I am for you the anchor point for the Second Ray. And by experiencing my being, my Presence, you have the ultimate frame of reference for dividing the arguments presented by the serpentine mind, seeing what is real and unreal. This may be beyond words. This is ideally beyond words. And you may not be able to come back from an experience of my Presence and express in words what is wrong with a particular serpentine logic, argument. But nevertheless, you can free yourself from it because you sense that it is not at the same level of vibration as my being.

You may say that the function of an archangel in an unascended sphere is to constantly radiate the energies of a particular ray in a way that has not at all been distorted by the dualistic mindset. Beyond that, the function of an archangel is of course to make things work. You may say, if you use a rather crude comparison to how it is on earth, you may say that the Elohim are the architects. They design a building. They have a grand vision for how the building can be built. But then before the builders start digging, the engineers have to come in and make some calculations and say: “Could this actually be built? Would it stand or will it collapse under its own weight?”

Once the design has been set, the archangels are the ones who maintain it, who keep it functioning. That is why we are the constant that you can refer to. Of course, all ascended masters are a constant. If you cannot tune into my Presence, hopefully you can tune in to another ascended master, a Chohan for example, or Mother Mary. But the point is this: the serpent, the serpentine mind, will do everything it can to keep you in the state of mind where you see yourself as a separate subject studying a remote object. And you can never cross that barrier between subject and object. You can never experience it directly. They will do everything they can to argue that you do not need the direct experience. You need only the description.

A theory of everything

Look at what science has been attempting to do for over a century, for several centuries in a way: come up with the theory of everything. The theory that explains how the universe works, how it came into being, how it continues to exist and what will eventually happen to it.

They think they can approach this as separate subjects studying a separate object. And they can reduce the complexity of the whole to simpler and simpler components until they reach that ultimate particle, the God particle, that can explain how the whole functions because they think the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts, its physical, material parts. But what have we told you about the universe? It is one interconnected whole. You are part of that whole. First of all, you can never understand the universe as a separate subject studying an object. Second of all, the object is not something that exists only out there, separated from your minds. You are co-creators. If you want to understand how planet earth is going to evolve, you can never do this if you exclude the consciousness of yourself and humankind from the equation because you are co-creating the future of the planet.

You can never create a theory of everything that does not include consciousness. It cannot ever be done. It is a complete illusion, projected very persistently by the serpentine mind. The lie that you as a separate subject can ever come to understand the universe as a separate object. It can never, ever happen. What is the primary tool that scientists are using for seeking to understand the universe? Is it a space telescope? A particle accelerator? Nay. The primary tool that scientists are using in their attempt to understand the universe is consciousness. If they were not conscious, how could they study the universe? Here you are. You claim to be intellectually sophisticated and intelligent. You are striving to create a theory of everything, but you are excluding your own consciousness from the theory. You think you can understand the universe without incorporating consciousness, because consciousness can only be subjective. You will never be successful.

Furthermore, can consciousness only be subjective? Well, in duality, consciousness can only be subjective. But when you reach for the Christ mind, you can go beyond the dualistic subjectivity. You will still experience the universe from a particular vantage point, but this is still objective compared to the duality consciousness. Everything is relative to something else in duality, whereas when you connect to the Christ mind, everything you experience is relative to the underlying oneness of the Christ mind. Therefore, you are relating to reality.

Now, you may still say: “Could you, even with the Christ mind, create a theory of everything?” Well, you could actually create a theory that allows you to understand how the material universe functions, that will allow you to create what Saint Germain has called non-force-based technology that could improve life on earth tremendously. You can create a theory with the Christ mind about the basic functions of the universe, and this will, of course, happen as you move into the golden age. But still, it would not be a theory of everything because you could never create a theory expressed in words or mathematical formulas that incorporates everything because everything must incorporate experience. And therefore, really, only the Creator knows everything. And the Creator is experiencing everything from the outside and from the inside at the same time. And therefore, why does the Creator need a theory?

The holy grail of the neutral observer

You might say that in the Christ mind, with the Christ mind, you are actually not creating a theory. You are just recording your observations of how the universe actually works. You are not having a theory in your mind that you are seeking to project upon the universe. You are observing how the universe actually works in a neutral way, not colored by any theory, any ideology, any fanaticism. That is far more objective than anything science has so far come up with. Why is it so? Because what has science done, as other masters have explained? They have looked at current conditions, on this unnatural planet where matter has been densified beyond its original state. They are scientifically investigating current conditions and then they are projecting that what you see here on earth can be used to formulate a theory that is valid for the entire universe. This is not possible, for the rest of the universe is not as dense as earth.

There are conditions on an unnatural planet that are fundamentally different from conditions on a natural planet. You cannot look at conditions on an unnatural planet and use them to understand conditions on a natural planet. Nor can you use the conditions on an unnatural planet to discover laws that are valid for the entire universe. It is a futile and misguided quest, colored by the serpentine logic of the neutral observer, observing a phenomenon without interacting with it. And science, quantum physics, has proven this to be an invalid approach, for the mind of the scientist affects the phenomenon being observed. But what quantum physics, most of them have not yet realized, is that not only does the mind of the scientist interact with, for example, subatomic particles, but the mind of the scientist also can be a filter that colors the observation made and the conclusions drawn based on those observations. A few scientists have begun to realize this and explore what that actually means for the future of science. But most people are still so trapped in materialism that they are not even willing to seriously consider this, because they will not give up that holy grail that they can be neutral observers who can come up with a theory of everything. The serpentine mind. Of course, the serpentine mind does not only work through science.

The kingdom of God is right now, right here

What have mainstream religions been for thousands of years? A quest to come up with a theory of everything based on some ultimate revelation from God. For many fundamentalist Christians, the Bible is the theory of everything. Well, then how come it cannot answer all of your questions? For others, it is the Hindu scriptures or the Buddhist scriptures, or this or that.

It is this, again, something here on earth can tell you how to go beyond the suffering on earth and enter a higher realm. What is the whole idea of entering heaven, the kingdom of God? You are a separate subject. The kingdom of God is a distant object, place. You have to travel there and enter. What is the reality? The kingdom of God is within you. What does that mean? The kingdom of God is an energy field, a state of consciousness. You are already inside of it. The spiritual path is not about entering a remote kingdom, but breaking down the perception filters in your mind that allows you to finally give up this illusion that you are a separate subject, that you are separated from the kingdom, so you can accept: “I am in the kingdom.” And then you ascend. Well, you can even come to a very high degree of acceptance of this while you are still in embodiment and overcome that separation.

And this, of course, is our goal for our direct students, that you can come to that acceptance that you are already in the kingdom. If you are experiencing yourself as being in the kingdom, how can conditions on earth disturb you, whatever they might be in this coming year 2026, or in the next years after that in the 12-year cycle? How can it disturb you if you are experiencing yourself as being in the kingdom of God?

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you, and I am grateful for your presence, for your willingness to receive this yourself, and to be the broadcast stations for projecting it into the collective consciousness where, as we always say, there are people who have been set free by these impulses that we have co-created together, so they can now accept, or at least begin to accept, some of these ideas. You are enhancing your own growth towards being in the kingdom, but at the same time, allowing me to perform my function of helping as many people as possible move closer to the acceptance that you are in the kingdom of God, right now, right here.

Archangel Jophiel, I AM.

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