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Ascended Master Saint Germain 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 Saint Germain. What was it that Jesus actually talked about had happened with the Catholic church as they formulated the Nicene Creed and perverted his true teachings? What actually happened was that the Catholic church violated the first two commandments of the Law of Moses. “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not take unto thyself any graven image.”
The idols of the mind
“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” means thou shalt not create any gods besides the one God, the God beyond form. By raising up Jesus to this status of being God, of the same substance as the Father, they have created a co-equal with God. A violation of the first commandment. By creating a graven image, a man-made image of Christ as being equal to God, even the Holy Spirit as being part of the Trinity, they have created a graven image. They have turned Jesus into an idol.
Now you may know that in my embodiment as Francis Bacon, I talked about the idols of the mind, the idols of the tribe, the idols of the cave, the idols of the marketplace and the idols of the theater.
You can go and look up the specific teachings I gave back then about it and compare it to the teachings we have given today and you will see many similarities between the idols of the mind and the subconscious selves. Of course, we go beyond it today as is fit with progressive revelation.
The need for an excuse
But why do people have this tendency to create idols? Well, it is for the people because they are not willing to take responsibility for themselves and realize, acknowledge that all self-aware extensions of the Creator have a Christ potential, have the potential to become the Living Christ in embodiment. They are not willing to do this. They were not willing to look at the beam in their own eye that blocks the manifestation of their Christ potential.
They abandon their responsibility to raise their awareness to self-transcend. But they need an excuse for this because as Jesus explained, the Christ mind is pulling on all people. And who is better at delivering excuses than the fallen beings and the serpentine mind?
The need for superiority
What the fallen beings desire to do, as we have explained many times now, is to set themselves up as being like gods on earth. They want to set themselves up as being superior to God, knowing better than God, or at least being rivals with God, equals with God, equally important.
The fallen beings want to idolize themselves. They want to be the God here on earth that is seen as the superior God by people, or at least the one who can define what is the superior truth and reality. And you see people trying to set themselves up like this by being leaders of nations, by being leaders of religions, by being spiritual gurus, by being scientific materialists, philosophers, political ideologists, all kinds of things. You see people wanting to set themselves up as having some ultimate authority on earth.
The unholy alliance
And they do this by taking advantage of so many people not wanting to take responsibility and exercise Christ discernment. There forms an unholy alliance between those who want to raise themselves up to have some ultimate status on earth, and those who do not want to take responsibility, but who still feel the pull of the Christ mind so they want to accept some philosophy that says: “If you follow me, everything will work out. You will be saved and enter God’s kingdom. You will be the superior race. You will belong to the true communist system. You will be rich and powerful, or you will be right because you could see that I am right.”
There are many versions of this, but do you not, based on all the teachings we have given about psychology, the ego, the duality consciousness, do you not see the basic dynamic? There are fallen beings who want to set themselves up as somehow being ultimate in some way and so they make this claim to have some authority, some special ability that other people do not have. They are somehow special.
Whatever their justification is, this is just variations over the theme, there is always this claim of being special. And there are those who do not want to exercise their Christ potential, their Christ discernment. They want to believe that by following this very special person, they will reach whatever goal they can see in their minds.
By following the authority of the Catholic church, you are guaranteed to be saved after this one lifetime. By following this guru, you will enter a higher state of consciousness. By following this political leader, you will manifest a utopian society on earth.
It is always the same dynamic. Many of you have seen this, but I am again speaking into the collective consciousness. We can say that one of the characteristics, one of the outcomes, so to speak, of the serpentine mind is the creation of these idols, and they are created in the mind.
Idols of the tribe and the cave
When you are brought up in any society, any culture, even family, you are indoctrinated, you are programmed to accept the idols of your tribe. How they see the world, what they consider the highest truth, the highest authority, what is their idol that they have raised up?
Then you have your own psychology. What you have taken on of these serpentine lies over many lifetimes are being programmed by various societies that you have embodied in? What you have taken on yourself, if, for example, you have in periods been unwilling to exercise your Christ potential, you have taken on and created various subconscious selves as a result of this. These are the idols of the cave.
Idols of the marketplace and the theater
Now the idols of the tribe are put upon you from without, but they only enter your mind if they correspond to some of the idols of the cave that you have, so you will accept them. Then there are the idols of the marketplace, ideas that are floating around out there, in religions, philosophies, ideologies, whatever you have. These you have also accepted over many lifetimes.
And finally there are the idols of the theater, which is comparable to what we have called the epic mindset, the epic stories that have been created by the fallen beings over eons, over a very long time span on earth, by using the serpentine mind.
What is it these idols of the theater, these epic mindsets are saying? Well, they are saying in one sense that because of this epic cause that is so important, it is justified to override, for example, the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”, but really overriding the basic instinct of human beings, which is a survival instinct to not kill members of your own species.
Idols of infallible leaders
And this can be justified by an epic cause, but who defines the epic cause? Oh yes, the leader who has become an idol. They can override even God’s commandments in the scriptures. Even Jesus’ commandment to turn the other cheek and forgive seventy times seven can be overridden by these idols that define that it is justified by Christ to go to the crusades against the Muslims and conquer Jerusalem for the sake of Christ, as if Christ needed a spot of dry land on earth, or for that matter a spot of wet land, any kind of land on earth, to manifest God’s kingdom.
One of the aspects of the serpentine mind that you need to recognize as you rise in Christhood is precisely this tendency to set up these idols of these supposedly infallible leaders who have some authority, some truth, some special ability. But you need to recognize here that not everybody is susceptible to submitting to one of these idols. It depends on how willing you are to take responsibility for yourself, for your own state of mind, for looking at the beam in your own eye.
But it is not just that people are unwilling to take responsibility for themselves. It is actually that by being unwilling to take responsibility for yourself, you open yourself up, you open your energy field, your emotional, mental and identity body up to being invaded by the collective entities created by these fallen beings.
Submitting to collective entities
You cannot understand this phenomenon unless you know about these non-physical entities that can invade people’s energy fields and literally overpower their minds, causing them to be blind in certain areas. Now they might be very intelligent and knowledgeable people, but they are blind when it comes to this idolatrous figure that they have come to submit to.
Take note that I am not saying believe in, even though most people would say it that way, but I am saying submit to. Because when you accept that a human being in physical embodiment on earth has an almost God-like status, you are not believing, you are submitting. And part of what you are submitting to is this collective entity that the fallen beings have created over a very long period of time, and it has become quite strong on earth.
Spiritual blindess
I know this can sound abstract, but I am going to use some practical examples. But what you have to recognize first is that here you have these people, and they might be, as I said, knowledgeable, they might be intelligent, they might be good at using their analytical minds, for example, but now they come to a point where they accept the claim made by one of these idolatrous or idols of leaders that this person has some special ability.
This opens up their minds to being invaded by this collective beast or entity created by the fallen beings, and it causes people to be blind in the sense that they see only what validates the idolatrous view of this leader, and they do not see anything that challenges it, or rather, they may see it, but they do not recognize it as valid. They use their minds, their intelligence, to argue against it, to argue for upholding the illusion.
They are literally spiritually blind. They are using the duality consciousness, the serpentine mind, to validate the claim, the special status of the idol, and to invalidate anything that questions it.
They are literally refusing to use Christ discernment. They may even have a certain development spiritually, a maturity spiritually. They may have a certain Christ discernment in other areas, but once they submit to the leader, they suspend their Christ discernment when it comes to this leader.
Submitting to Hitler
Now you may have grown up with a traditional view of Hitler and the German people. You may look back at this and think that the German people must have been lacking somehow. Perhaps they were less mature, less developed than the people of other nations. Many countries in Europe, for example, would like to think that Hitler could not have come to power in their country, and in many cases that is true for various reasons. But the point they are overlooking is the German people in the 1930s were not very different from the people in other European nations.
And that means that the German population had a mixture. There were people who were not particularly educated, not particularly intelligent, and there were people who were well educated and very intelligent. And both kind of people submitted to the idolatry created around Hitler.
Now you can ask yourself when you look at the people that were attracted to Hitler, you see that many of them were uneducated, not very knowledgeable, not particularly intelligent. They felt they were the outsiders or the downtrodden in society. And Hitler had an ability to appeal to them and say: “Follow me and I’ll make everything right. I’ll make you superior.”
And he did, when he came to power, take many of these people and give them positions of power as the henchmen for carrying out his policies, or even as the soldiers or medium leaders in society, in the army.
But he also attracted some very intelligent, knowledgeable people who believed in his idolatrous vision, who believed in the serpentine logic, because they also, for various reasons, had suspended their Christ discernment, at least in certain areas. And we have explained why this is, that over time you can become afraid of making a mistake, and therefore, you would rather not exercise your Christ discernment.
Even avatars can fall into this pattern, maybe even especially avatars, because you are deliberately attacked by the fallen beings in a very personal way. Were there avatars that were the intelligent, aware people in Germany who submitted to Hitler? Yes. Were there many? Well, how do you define many? There was a considerable number. And they were part of what gave him the light and the energy to create this momentum that even carried the German army through the first years of the war.
Hypnotized by the vortex of an idol
What you can do as an ascended master student is you can look at this phenomenon and you can recognize that there are two elements here. There is a very cleverly formulated serpentine set of ideas and then there is the raw overpowering of people’s minds once they have come to believe in these ideas. The ideas are, so to speak, the bait. But once they accept that the leader is superior to them, their minds become overpowered by the collective beast, and now they are trapped. They are literally hypnotized.
You see this in some of Hitler’s rallies, but you even see it in how after the war was lost and the leaders were put on trial, they still had that specific look in their eyes, in their auras, where they were as hypnotized by this collective beast.
This is, of course, what you, as an ascended master student who is aspiring to Christhood, want to avoid. You want to avoid being pulled into such a vortex created by one of these leaders. You want to avoid adding your energy to it. You certainly want to avoid submitting to it, because it will be detrimental to your Divine plan and the manifestation of your personal Christhood.
How can you avoid being pulled into this? You need to recognize the essential feature of the Christ mind and the essential feature of the serpentine mind. And I am going to explain this in a provocative way that many will take offense to, because what I will say is that there is no truth in the serpentine mind, but neither is there any truth in the Christ mind.
No truth in the the serpentine mind nor in the Christ mind
And many will, of course, say: “Oh, this can only be a false teaching. An ascended master would never say this.” But if you say this, you have been trapped by serpentine logic, and I will explain why. You see, the Christ mind is contrary to what some people believe, not here to bring truth to earth. I know Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
Yes, the Christ mind is the truth. But any expression of words, even if it comes from the Christ mind through a person in embodiment, is not aimed at bringing forth truth. What have we explained is the essence of the Christ mind? To unify the Creator with the self-aware extensions of the Creator, or rather, to unify the extensions with the Creator, because the Creator does not need to be unified.
Those who have exercised their co-creative abilities, those who have experimented with duality, perhaps become trapped in duality and separation, the Christ mind is there to offer them a way back to oneness, and greater and greater oneness until you reach the full Creator consciousness.
The goal of the Christ mind
What is the goal of the Christ mind? To meet you at whatever level you are at, and help you transcend yourself, to take the next step up, and meet you again, and help you take the next step up from there, as you are able to do, based on the level of consciousness where you turn around and open yourself to the Christ mind.
Contrary to one of the popular serpentine illusions projected upon Christ, the Christ mind is not here to bring some absolute truth. The Christ mind is not saying: “Here we have earth, there are problems on earth, let us bring forth the highest, the absolute truth, in the form of this or that teaching or religion.” That is not what the Christ mind is seeking to do. The Christ mind looks at earth, or rather the representatives of Christ, the ascended masters, working with earth, we look at earth and we say: “Well there is no one truth that could reach all people, because they are at so many different levels of consciousness, they believe in so many different illusions.”
Therefore, we must take an individual approach, not necessarily every person, but certainly groups of people, and say: “What level of consciousness are these people at? What is the specific illusions they have right now? What is their ability or willingness to question those illusions?” And then we give a teaching adapted to their current level of consciousness, so they can connect to the teaching, and it will take them higher in consciousness. It will free them from some of the serpentine illusions, the dualistic illusions. It will help them tune in to some higher reality beyond their own minds. This is the goal of the ascended masters, to raise all people up. To free them from being trapped in their present state of mind, and the serpentine illusions, the dualistic lies, the maya, that traps them at that state.
The goal of the serpentine mind
What is the goal of the serpentine mind? Well, the serpentine mind may very well claim that here is the ultimate truth. But the goal, of course, for the serpentine mind is not to give an ultimate truth. The goal is to trap people in the duality consciousness, in the death consciousness, in the separate consciousness, in the maya, and to keep them trapped. To either have them go deeper and deeper into the maya, or, once they turn around, to prevent them from getting out of the maya. To prevent them from escaping.
That is why there is no one absolute truth in the serpentine mind or the Christ mind. The serpentine mind: “Whatever keeps people trapped or makes them more trapped, we are willing to put out there.” The Christ mind says, the ascended masters say: “Whatever can help people free themselves from the traps of duality, we will formulate a teaching adapted to their current level that can take them higher. Then once they reach higher, we will formulate another teaching that will take them further up the staircase of consciousness.”
What is truth?
It is not that we, of the ascended masters, do not have truth. We do. But it is not that actually we have truth. We are truth. What did the Christ mind say through Jesus: “I AM the way, the truth, and the life.” It did not say: “I have the way, the truth, and the life.” Because as the Elohim Apollo explained, we of the ascended masters have transcended the subject-object duality.
Truth for us is not an object we are studying or formulating. What is truth for Saint Germain? It is my being, my Presence, the individuality that I AM. That is truth for me. That is the only truth I can impart to you. It is not so that we of the ascended masters are sitting up here and we have one teaching for everybody that is the absolute truth or even the highest truth we can bring forth for earth.
We are giving many different teachings through many different people at the same time, hoping to reach as many people as possible. There is not this objective truth out there. Different ascended masters are working with different groups of people at different levels of consciousness. We may give a certain teaching expressed in words because that is what people can attune to, but we do not see that this teaching is the highest truth or the absolute truth.
The highest teaching for each ascended master is its own being, its own Presence. The highest that an ascended master could attain with a certain group of people was to have them have a direct experience of the master’s being. The highest that the fallen beings are seeking to attain is to set themselves up here on earth as these idols that people submit to so that they cannot see anything wrong with them.
Again, the Christ mind is not dualistic. We have said it over and over again, but we observe that even people who have heard or read this over and over again do not go beyond intellectually understanding it to the point where they experience why this is so.
You cannot understand why there is no right or wrong or other polarities in the Christ mind. You can only experience the oneness of the Christ mind through a particular ascended master. Some of you have, of course, experienced our beings. Some of you have not. A few have even experienced it but not really allowed the experience to challenge this belief that you have: There must be some ultimate truth.
Knowing Donald Trump by his fruit
To make this less abstract, let us look at the, right now, very obvious example of a person who has set himself up as an idol, namely, Donald Trump.
Now Jesus said 2,000 years ago: “On their fruit ye shall know them.” And this could be one measure for evaluating a leader on earth. You might look at what has he actually done. And you can take a previous dispensation called the Summit Lighthouse, where there was a focus on abortion as an important issue, both for the ascended masters and for the planet.
The abortion issue
What allowed abortion in the United States was the Supreme Court decision, Roe versus Wade. Donald Trump, in his first term, appointed three Supreme Court judges that were quite conservative. They then overturned Roe versus Wade and left it up to the states whether they would allow abortion in the states.
There are still those who are members of the Summit Lighthouse who believe that even this one issue qualifies Trump as a very important leader, sponsored by Saint Germain, in tune with Saint Germain and the ascended masters, because they are fixated on this one issue.
But is that Christ discernment? Is it Christ discernment? What is Christ, the Christ mind? The unifying element. What does the Christ mind do when it looks at specific situations on earth? It looks at the whole of society. It does not focus on one issue and say: “This issue can be viewed from a particular angle,” and it specifically does not look at an issue and say: “This issue can be viewed from a black and white perspective.”
To the Christ mind, abortion is not an issue that stands alone, because it must be seen in the greater context of American society, and specifically women’s situation in American society, and children’s situation in American society. And the Christ mind wants to not simply say: “Yes, now we have overturned Roe versus Wade, we have taken care of the abortion issue.” The Christ mind wants to say: “How do we raise up American society to a higher level?”
And this has a myriad of implications. The attitude towards women, the attitude towards children, the attitude towards marriage, women’s ability to improve their situation, a woman’s ability, for example, to be a single mother and still raise a child. You cannot just simply say: “A woman should not be able to have an abortion, which means that if she gets pregnant, she must give birth to the child, and either give it up for adoption or raise it herself.”
But what if she does not have the opportunity to get an education, which is the case for many people in the United States? What if she is condemned to work for minimum wage the rest of her life, or at least for the next 18 years when she raises the child? And she is a single mother, she cannot pay for childcare, she does not have a family to support her, and this and that. All of these things are part of the equation, and that is why in the Christ mind, the solution to an issue like abortion is not black and white, it is not gray either, but it is all-encompassing.
The Christ mind does not say: “How can we get American society to outlaw abortion, and then we have won a victory for Christ?” The Christ mind says: “How can we use the abortion issue to raise awareness of people, and thereby raise the entire society to a higher level where there is a social safety net, so that children do not have to grow up in poverty?”
How can we improve education, even sex education, which many of those who are against abortion do not want to give to women? How can we improve society in all ways? How do we use a particular issue to raise up the whole of a society? That is what the Christ mind says.
The serpentine mind says: “Oh, this is such an important issue, this is a life and death issue. It can be seen as black and white. Abortion must be outlawed. No other concerns need to be made here. The life of the unborn child is more important than anything else.”
But you see, Christ’s discernment sees the one-sidedness of this view and looks at a broader perspective, looks at the whole. I am not going to go into all the details of this. I am simply giving you an example here.
Dismantling the rule-based world order
Back to Trump as an example of a person who has set himself up as an idol. On their fruit, ye shall know them. He has now been in office for 11 months. What has he done? What was America before January 20th, 2025? It was, in most of the democratic world, seen as a partner that democratic countries could trust to support them in their democracy, to help defend them against anti-democratic forces. America was seen as a force of stability in the democratic world.
Donald Trump has almost single-handedly dismantled that trust in 11 months. Most of the democratic world no longer trusts not only Trump, but America, because the first time Trump was elected, he was not as extreme as he is now. Maybe that could be just a one-time thing people were thinking, but when he was reelected again and became as extreme and unbalanced as he has been, many democratic nations said: “How can we ever trust America again? How can we see America as a stabilizing factor when Trump has basically uprooted any kind of stability?”
Nobody knows what he is going to do next week. Is he committed to NATO? Is he not committed to NATO? Does he look at the United States as an empire, or does he look at the United States as a democracy dedicated to maintaining democracy in the world? Or does he look at America as an empire that is justified in using its considerable force to take whatever it wants and to divide up the world between itself and other empires such as Russia and China? Is NATO’s Article 5 worth the paper it was written on?
Those are the fruits when you look at it with a neutral evaluation of the Christ mind: Instability. Is that what I want? Is that what will help bring forth my golden age more quickly? Well, what have I just said? The Christ mind looks at every situation and says: “Regardless of the situation as it is right now, how can we use that situation to raise people’s awareness?”
I, of course, do the same thing. How can we use the situation to raise people’s awareness? Does that mean this is what I wanted? Does that mean this will bring my golden age in the quickest possible way? No, it will delay it. It was not the ideal scenario that I envisioned for the United States. But I recognize that since there was enough people in the United States that voted Trump into office again, that means the American nation needed to go through the experience of having Donald Trump as a president and having him act out the way he is doing.
Again, I am looking at how can we then raise things up from here? But that does not mean that I approve of dismantling the rule-based, principle-based world order that has stood the test of time from the Second World War to Donald J. Trump, the second.
Uncertainty in the economy
Beyond this, look at the economy. Trump has focused his entire economic policy around tariffs. He has declared that he knows better than anybody else how tariffs work and that tariffs is a good thing. He has set himself up, calling himself a stable genius, and it is implied that he knows better than 95% of the economists in the world how tariffs work.
But as we have said, has foreign nations paid even $1 to the American treasury? No. American companies and in the end, American consumers have paid in all the money that had come in as a result of tariffs. How will that lower prices?
The other promise is bringing American manufacturing back to America. Let’s imagine here is Apple Computer. They have promised Trump that if he will lower taxes on the iPhones they are building in China and Vietnam and India, they will build a factory so they can build iPhones in America.
But building such a factory and the ecosystem that goes into producing the first iPhone is a billion-dollar investment. What do companies do when they evaluate the feasibility of making a billion-dollar investment? They evaluate, first of all: “How stable are the conditions that are causing us to even consider making this investment? How stable are the conditions in America with tariffs, given that Trump has already changed his mind several times about imposing tariffs on this or that?”
Would they not evaluate: “Well, is Trump going to maintain the tariffs throughout his term? What is going to happen after his term is over? Are there still going to be tariffs or is the next president going to get rid of the tariffs? Are we risking here making a billion-dollar investment building a factory in America that then when it is operational, we do not need it anymore because it will be so much more expensive to build our products in America than it is to build them elsewhere?”
You see, what Trump has done is create uncertainty in just about every aspect of life in America and the world.
Many of the people who voted for Trump were farmers, but the tariffs have obliterated the market for soybeans. He is now giving them subsidies that are much smaller than the actual losses. How can these farmers look at their future? How can they plan for their future? How can they invest in next year’s crop because of the uncertainty?
Even for Trump’s supporters, those who voted for him, he has created uncertainty. But what did he promise them? “We are all going to be so rich. We are all going to win. We are going to be tired of winning.” Where is it? What are the fruits?
Then you look at the speech he gave before Christmas. Basically a campaign speech like he would give when he was running for president. But he is now president. Why does he need to say with words instead of saying with actions? He has the power to act. He has a majority in Congress and the Senate. Why are not you acting so that people will see you as a good president instead of telling them that despite what they see at the grocery store, at the gas pump, they should still see you as a great president?
Experiencing reality through Saint Germain
What you see when you look at this from the perspective of the Christ mind is that Donald Trump has created this aura, this idol around himself. And the people who believe in this are literally hypnotized by it. Because despite all of the fruits that you see after 11 months, they will not reconsider their support for Trump. That is being hypnotized by the fallen beings and a serpentine mindset.
If any of these people were to read or hear what I have said here, their minds would be constantly going, trying to refute what I am saying, trying to latch on to some specific way I said this and say: “Oh, this cannot be right. This is not right.” Or if they are ascended master students: “Oh, the real Saint Germain would never say this.”
But this is the serpentine mind. Because what I am giving you here is, mind you, a worded expression. But I am not saying you should settle for my worded expression. Tune into the Christ mind, tune into my being, and you will experience Trump and his presidency through my vision. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to set aside your outer viewpoints, your idolatry of Trump to tune into my being? Or will you nitpick the words?
The most extreme form of denial of your Christhood
You see, the serpentine mind has one goal, to keep you trapped in the separate mind. It is especially for those who are getting closer to have the potential to exercise Christhood. It will cause them to deny it. What is the most extreme form of the denial of your Christhood? It is that you believe you have Christ discernment, but what you think is Christ discernment is actually the serpentine logic. That is the extreme form of denial of your Christhood.
Some people have what we might call an innocent denial because they do not even know what Christhood is or they do not see how they could possibly attain it. But those who know what it is and still refuse to let those separate selves die, they are in a more deeper denial of it.
Freeing people from the idolatry of the power elite
I am not saying this to put you down, but in the hope that some will understand. Some will listen. Some will grasp what I am saying and the scales will fall from their eyes and they will wake up and say: “Oh, but now I see it. Why could not I see it before?” I am not only talking about ascended master students, but all of those who are hypnotized by Trump.
Because in this coming year, with the Second Ray of wisdom, there is an unprecedented opportunity to see through this idolatry. I am not really only concerned about freeing people from the idolatry of Trump. I am concerned about freeing them from the idolatry of the power elite, especially the financial power elite. Because the real problem in America, as we have said many times before, is elitism.
What is elitism based on? Idolatry. Oh, these people must be special. That is why they have all this money. Elon Musk must be so intelligent. That is why he is the richest man in the world. This is what America needs to transcend in order to enter the golden age. This deep-rooted idolatry of people with special abilities.
The disappearing middle class
America is the land of opportunity. Yes, there are people who have had initiative, who have been willing to work hard, who have been smart, who have been able to make use of that opportunity and make money or attain certain positions. But what America fails to recognize is that America also gives opportunity to those who are seeking to exploit others.
And yet, what is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? To create an egalitarian society that cannot be dominated by a power elite as the old countries of Europe were at the time America was founded. Look at Britain. Hardly any country on earth has been more elitist than England. Do you really think that this is what I and the founding fathers wanted to recreate in America? Then you have not read the Constitution or the Declaration.
We wanted to create a society that could not be dominated by a small elite. Yet, so many Americans are still trapped in this idolatry of thinking that an elite is necessary, that it is beneficial, that that is why America is so rich and so powerful, because we have this elite that are just so smart and so much better than the average person.
It is not the elite that has made America great, nor is it the poor, uneducated people who are not willing to take responsibility for themselves. What has made America great is the middle class of people who have some willingness to take responsibility for themselves. What has happened to this middle class in the last 40 years, as detailed by this report by the Rand Institute that I referenced before? Money, wealth, has been funneled away from the middle class towards the upper class, the elite, the top 2%.
Everything for sale
That is the problem in America. When I say wealth, it is not just money, it is also political influence, because you now have a system where you can buy whatever you want. Consider the irony, just one example of many, that here is a president who claims to be stricter on immigration than any other president. But if you have $5 million, you can buy a Trump gold card and become a citizen, no questions asked. Is there anything in Trump’s America that is not for sale?
He recently admitted that the motivation for capturing Maduro from Venezuela was to open up Venezuela for American oil companies. Is the American armed forces now mercenaries, guns for hire to the highest bidder, or do they serve to protect democracy and human rights? You see, an elitist society is one where the elite has a privileged position that no one can challenge.
Failed responsibility
The most important function of the American government, as it is envisioned in the Constitution, is to prevent the emergence of an elite that can run American society, regardless of what the people want, what serves the people. Has the American government fulfilled that responsibility? No.
Is it the fault of the Republican Party alone? No. The Democrats are just as hypnotized by the elite. It is a clear failure, and it has never been more obvious than in the presidency of Donald Trump, which is why I say in this coming year there is an unprecedented opportunity for Americans to come to see that :”We have gone completely off the track defined in the Constitution. We have gone completely away from creating a society or a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
There is an unprecedented opportunity for this awareness to break through, carried by the release of the energies of the Second Ray, that allows people, that empowers people to look at the results of the exercise of power and say: “is this really what we want? Do we want more of this, or do we want more than this? Was this what we voted for? This is clearly what we are getting, and we are likely to get more of it, but was that what we voted for? Is that what we want?”
The greatest president in history?
You can see again the serpentine logic being used here. Make America great again, implying that all the presidents who came before Trump, they were taking America downhill, maybe with a few exceptions. But he is the one who is going to restore American greatness. The whole idea of terrorists being paid for by foreign countries, serpentine logic, a complete lie. The whole idea that Trump knows better than all the economists of the world, serpentine logic. The whole idea that billionaires know how to run a country better than anybody else, serpentine logic.
If you stand back from all of the specifics, and you reach for the Christ mind, and you look at Trump’s presidency, you see very clearly that all of these outer things of changing America, making it more authoritarian, concentrating power in the presidency, all of this is not Donald Trump’s primary motivation.
His primary motivation is to raise himself up as the greatest president in history. To raise himself up to having an almost godlike status, an idol. His image is what matters to him more than anything else. It matters to all those who are hypnotized by the collective beast that is not created by Trump, but is created by the fallen beings over a long period of time, and has been used to create vortexes around many other leaders.
Exposing idolatry around special people
In Russia, they have a vortex around Putin that many people are still hypnotized by. They have the same in China. They had the same in Japan about the emperor. They have had it in many societies throughout history. Just look at how many times that beast has overpowered people, thereby sucking up their energy so it becomes even more powerful. It is a very powerful beast. We can call it the beast of elitism, the beast of idolatry.
If you want something to make calls for in this coming year, make the calls for the exposure of this beast, for the judgment of Christ upon it. Call to the masters of the Second Ray. Call to Astrea, Archangel Michael, myself, for the exposure of this elitism, this idolatry around people being special.
What do you see from the Christ mind? You see that all people have a Christ potential, therefore, none are more valuable than anyone else. Sure, they have different levels of consciousness, different practical abilities, and so forth. I am not saying you could take a person off the street and make them a general in the army and they could do well. I am not saying that they could not do well, but you see that all have a potential.
What the fallen beings have created, mind you, is this idea that certain people are special. Therefore, you do not need to look at their actual abilities, their qualifications. You do not even need to look at their fruits, for they are right by the mere fact of who they are.
Stalin was the father of the nation, he could do no wrong. Killing 21 million people of his own people must have been necessary, or you would not have done it. Putin, well, it must be necessary to invade Ukraine, or he would not have done it. “We are not capable of understanding his motivation and his reasons, but we know he is the leader, and therefore, he must be right.”
You go back to the feudal societies of the Middle Ages and even later times, where you had the kings that were the almighty rulers, all power concentrated in the hands of one man. How do you become king? Well, you must be the oldest son of the previous king. By the very fact that you were born as the son of the king, you were qualified to do the job.
You did not have to look at the person’s psychology, their abilities, their leadership abilities. Were they mad? Some of them were mad, but they were the son of the king, so he had to become the next king. This is what the fallen beings want to create.
Has it created good things in history? On their fruit he shall know them. It has created some of the biggest disasters seen in history, because when fallen beings get in a position of power, they all fall prey to the illusion that they are infallible, and therefore, they cannot do what we have talked about. Look at their experiments with using power and evaluate was there a better way to do things?
Kim Jong-un takes over from his father. He is again seen as an infallible leader by the fact that he was born as the son of the previous leader. He was young. Yeah, he had education, but did he have the abilities to lead? What did he do in the beginning? He experimented, but was he or the people willing to evaluate, was it the best possible experience, was there a better way to lead the country? No, because whatever he did must be infallible by the very fact that he did it, and that he is the leader.
The need for infallibility
This is what the fallen beings want, a position where they can believe in their own infallibility and where no one can challenge that belief. No one can come up and say: “Mr. President, do you think this is a good idea?” Because Trump has surrounded himself by yes-men, as has Putin, as has Xi, as has Kim Jong-un, as has all other dictatorial leaders.
What is most important for these leaders? To maintain their self-image that they are right by the very fact of who they are: “If I make a decision this week to impose 100 percent tariffs, it is right just because of who I am. If I change those tariffs next week, it is still right just because of who I am. I do not need to look at the consequences. I do not need to look at the fact that nobody trusts America anymore, because I am who I am, and I am making America great again.”
In the eyes of whom, we might say? Well, in the eyes of himself and those who are hypnotized by the vortex around him. In the eyes of these people, Trump is making America great again. In the eyes of the rest of the world, Trump has taken down America’s status in the world more than any other president, more than most people would believe possible in 11 months. That is what you see when you are not in the vortex.
Transcending idolatry
How do you free yourself from the serpents? Well, you have to start looking at what they are doing. You have to start grasping what they are doing to trap people. Then you have to be honest and willing to look at yourself and say: “Have I taken in some of these serpentine lies? Do I have some kind of idolatry of certain leaders?”
If you are an ascended master student, you can ask yourself: “Do I have idolatry of the ascended masters? Do I have idolatry of a messenger? Do I have idolatry of myself? Do I think that because I have found the teachings of the ascended masters, I must be free of serpentine illusions? I must have the Christ discernment.”
In previous dispensations, if you look at them, there was a clear idolatry of the messengers, there was a clear idolatry of the masters. We allowed this in the age of Pisces. We even to some degree magnified it to give people an opportunity to see it and transcend it. In this dispensation, we have done everything possible to help you transcend that idolatry of this messenger, of the ascended masters, and of yourself and of the fallen beings.
Again, we are not blaming you. My purpose here is to help you see that in this 12-year cycle, if you want to avoid frustration, you need to overcome your idolatry, and you have a golden opportunity in this coming year. Instead of make America great again, how about make Christ great again? Again, of course, a silly saying, because Christ is not great. Christ is one, undivided, neither great nor not great.
There is no good or bad, but thinking makes it so. The idols of the mind are what makes things great or not great, good or bad. For in the Christ mind, there is no idols. A Christed being has overcome all idols of its own mind, for it is the idols that keep you from oneness with Christ.
For the idols do what? They set up an appearance in this world, a god that is before the one God, a graven image that you have taken unto yourself and that you worship, instead of worshiping the formless God that is always beyond. Any form that could be formulated on earth, in an unascended sphere, even on a natural planet, the Christ is always beyond. Of course, in the ascended realm, we know that there is always something beyond.
Do I see myself as having the ultimate level of consciousness? Nay, as I have said before, I have traveled to these higher realms and directly interacted with beings who have a much higher level of consciousness than I have, as the Ascended Master Saint Germain. I have experienced the Creator’s being, and it is much higher than what I have.
When you have this idolatry of a person on earth, you think: “Oh, there is no consciousness, no knowledge higher than what this person has.” When you have idolatry of yourself, you think: “Oh, there is no higher consciousness than my own mind. I am capable of defining what is real and unreal. Why do I need the Christ?” Or perhaps you even think you have the Christ, you are the Christ, because you are right about this or that or the next thing here on earth.
As Jesus said if you feel this way, then you have your reward. You have the experience here on earth that you are superior to others. But whatever you call it, that is not Christ, because when you unite with the Christ mind, you transcend all superiority and inferiority.
Am I superior to you? No. Am I inferior to the fallen beings? No. I AM the way, the truth, and the life, and the freedom for earth.
Saint Germain I AM. The Ascended Master Saint Germain I AM.
Copyright © 2026 Kim Michaels
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