Ascended Master Sanat Kumara through Kim Michaels, May 24, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Sanat Kumara, and I come to give you some remarks, some deliberations based on my experience of being part of the 144,000 who came from Venus to embody on earth to hold a certain balance for the earth. This, of course, is not in principle any different from all other avatars who came from other planets. In some cases, avatars came in groups. In others, they came alone. But, of course, the Venusians were the largest group to ever come to earth from another planet. What I am going to say here is not specifically aimed at those of the 144,000 from Venus who have not yet ascended. It really applies to all avatars and also, of course, has some bearing on the original inhabitants.

Phases of the co-creative effort

What we have attempted to help you see and what Maitreya especially helped you see is that in the original situation of an unascended sphere, co-creators are experimenting freely with their co-creative abilities. This is what has given rise in a way to the myth about a lost paradise that you find in various variations on the earth because they were just innocently experimenting without using the duality consciousness.

The fundamental difference that occurs when you go into the duality consciousness is that now you are starting to evaluate based on a dualistic scale with two opposite polarities. We can say that when you are an innocent co-creator who is not experimenting with duality, you are formulating a mental image with a conceptual mind. You are projecting it out. You are neutrally observing what is coming back. And you are then evaluating: “How can I refine my image that I am projecting out?” But as you gain more experience, you begin to realize that what you are projecting out is really what is going on in your identity, mental, and emotional mind. Then, instead of just looking at what is coming back, you start looking at yourself also. You project an image. You are not really aware why you created that image the way you did. You project it out. You evaluate what comes back and you evaluate: “Do I want to change what is coming back?” Because you know, then, you have to change what you are sending out. But as you mature, you begin to say, well, “Why did I formulate the image exactly that way? What was it in my psychology that formulated the image exactly that way?”

Now, to give you an illustration of this, you can say that your three higher aspects of the mind are like a kaleidoscope. You know a kaleidoscope is a tube with certain glass walls in it and there are certain divisions and there are glass beads inside the tube. And when you turn it, you turn the division so that the pattern formed by the glass beads changes. You can say that in the beginning you realize that as you have interacted with your environment, you have formed certain beliefs and images and experiences that form the glass beads in the kaleidoscope of your mind. And when you are formulating an image, it is like turning the tube and the glass beads form a pattern. And in the beginning, you are not aware of this. You are not in a way deliberately creating the pattern. You are sort of letting it form in your mind—in response to your environment. But as you mature, you become more conscious and you begin to look at yourself and say:“Why did the kaleidoscope form that exact pattern? Are there certain of these glass beads in the kaleidoscope that I want to remove? Are there others I want to add?”

In other words, you are beginning to look at yourself, take more responsibility for the co-creative process. This is part of maturing towards the point where the next phase in your co-creative efforts is to then experiment with duality, co-creating through the duality consciousness. And as we have said, this gives you various—or can give you various—experiences that you cannot have outside of duality.

Going into duality

What is special about duality is, of course, that you can form these value judgments. And one of them is right and wrong, which you do not have at all before you experiment with duality. You can evaluate what comes back. You can look at the kaleidoscope of your mind, but it never crosses your mind that there could be anything wrong with what you are sending out, with what is coming back, or with you. It just does not occur because it is not a natural condition. It is not created by God. It is not created by the ascended masters.

God, the Creator, does not judge this way, the ascended masters, we do not judge that way at all. It is exclusively, exclusively a product of duality, and it is a complete illusion, illusion, but it is, of course, part of duality. And it is part of learning what you can do as a co-creator, how you can use your free will as a connected being, as a separate being.

In the beginning, you innocently experiment with duality. And in the beginning, you are just formulating an image in your mind based on duality, projecting it out, and you experience what comes back. But inevitably, actually—let me expound upon this thought—you formulate an image based on duality, it comes back, and one of the things you can experience, for example, is that it makes you special. You are good compared to others. You are more capable of certain tasks than other people. In the beginning, duality seems to have only advantages because it can make you special compared to others. And that is a new feeling that you have not had before. It is interesting to explore that.

The shock of being wrong

But inevitably, as you continue to experiment with duality, you come across this value judgment of right and wrong. And this is always a shock. We are not here talking about on a natural planet. We are talking about even unnatural planets. It is always a shock because now the first thing that occurs to you is:”What if what comes back to me is wrong? There is something wrong with it.” But you know that what comes back to you is a reflection of what you are sending out. You know this because this has been your experience so far. And you are not trapped in duality yet. You know that if what comes back is wrong, that means what you send out is wrong. But who sent it out? Well, you did. Does that mean there is something wrong with you with what is going on in your mind? And see, you have the momentum of looking at yourself to change what you are sending out. But now, horror of horrors, you confront the potential there could be something wrong with you. This is a shock to all co-creators. And of course, one of the reasons you need an initiator is, as Maitreya explained from a different perspective, that the initiator has already gone through this shock, has already experimented with duality and has ascended.

Hiding from the teacher

The initiator can help you deal with this shock. But you can only be helped by the guru if you are willing to connect with a guru, to interact with a guru. What inevitably happens to all co-creators is that there comes a point where they are shocked by the potential that they could have done something wrong, but more than that, they could be wrong. And now, the crucial question is, will you be willing to go back to the guru and say: “Am I really wrong? Does this really mean I am wrong, there is something wrong with me?” Or will you say: “Oh, there is something wrong with me, I do not want the guru to see this, so I am going to hide from the guru.” Some, in fact, most co-creators go back to the guru, receive help so they can overcome this. But obviously, some do not. And on earth, there came a point where most did not.

Now, of course, the guru must respect free will. But what is the dynamic that happens here? Well, so here you have a co-creator who has experimented with duality and has decided: “There must be something wrong with me, I do not want the guru to see this, so I am going to withdraw from the guru.”

Creating the ego

But this idea that there could be something wrong with you is really unbearable. It is unbearable to think there could be something wrong with you for just existing, for being who you are. You must cover it over. And how do you cover it over? Well, by creating the ego as a separate self. But what is the characteristic of the ego? How does it cover over the sense there could be something wrong with you? By attempting to create the self image that you are very special because of something in this world. You are special compared to others. You are special compared to some standard where if you live up to these outer criteria, for example, if you follow all the rules and doctrines of a religion, then there cannot be something wrong with you because you are so good in this world. Really a quite simple psychological reaction. The problem is that when you are in duality, you cannot see this. You cannot see that you have created this self because you as the Conscious You identify yourself with the self.

Making a god out of the separate self

Now the question is, how far will you continue to expand and refine this separate self?How sophisticated will you attempt to make it? And here is a sort of an interesting twist on this. On most natural planets, there is a concept of God. It is very different on different planets. But most planets have a concept of some God-like figure, perhaps more than one, as you see on earth. But there is a God-like figure. And before you go into duality, you have a sort of neutral view of God. But after you go into duality and adopt this value judgment of right and wrong, well, you transfer this to God, however, you conceive of God. And now you say:”Well, God is perfect. God can never be wrong.” And this means that now the separate self, the ego, is created with the job of covering over the fear that there could be something wrong with you. And it seeks to execute that task by creating this very sophisticated separate self that first is better than other people in your environment, then lives up to some ultimate standard. But what is the ultimate outcome of building the specialness of this separate self? Well, what if the separate self became like God that can never be wrong?

You see how this relates to what we have told you about the purpose of creation. We have said our world of form is designed to be an educational institution for other Creators. That means we have the potential to become God. But the way we do this is to expand our sense of self until we connect to the hierarchy of ascended beings that reaches all the way up to the Creator. And we keep transcending our sense of self towards higher and higher levels until we reach the Creator consciousness. But we reach this through higher and higher levels of oneness. But now, when you go into duality, you have a perversion of this process because the separate self is seeking to become like a God, knowing good and evil. But it is seeking to accomplish this through separation rather than oneness. Instead of surrendering into oneness, surrendering into higher and higher sense of self, you seek to build by force, by the things of this world, that God-like status. You, basically, instead of seeking to become a God, you seek to create the image that you are God, because you think that the conceptual mind can create any image projected into the cosmic mirror and the cosmic mirror will reflect it back. Why should not the conceptual mind be able to create an image of God that then becomes a lie, that becomes a God?

And now we focus specifically on the fourth sphere where certain beings had gone through this process, had set themselves up with a very, very high sense of self-importance, a very high sense of being special. And once again, the law of free will requires that they are allowed to do this for the entire, very long time span of the fourth sphere. But when the majority of the beings in the sphere were ready to ascend, they had to be given that one opportunity to change their direction and come back to the path to oneness. And the ascended masters had then to do this. You understand? First, there was the choice to hide from the guru. Then you go through this long process of building this sophisticated separate self. But when your sphere is ready to ascend, you must be given an opportunity to abandon that quest to make a God out of the separate self.

And the ascended masters do this. Now, as we have said, some of these beings did decide to go back to the guru and the path of oneness. But some did not, and so they fell into the next sphere.

Avatars coming to earth

Now, I want to focus specifically on earth here, where you have avatars coming from natural planets. You come to earth, and you have experimented with duality on natural planets. You are an experienced co-creator. You have experience with duality. You have some sense of what duality is, but you have not encountered fallen beings. In a sense, when you look down at earth, you have at least some awareness that the reason why the people on earth are suffering is that they are trapped in a duality consciousness.

You have some feel for what duality is, and you feel that you have experimented with duality. You have pulled yourself out of it. But because you have not encountered the fallen beings, you think that the people on earth who are trapped in duality, oh, they want to escape their suffering, so they want to escape duality. If you come down here and explain to them what duality is, oh, they’ll be willing to listen to you. Why would they not if they can escape suffering?

And even though you have been told by your spiritual teachers who are seeking to prepare you that there are fallen beings, you have not really grasped what that means. And this is not said to blame you, because it is virtually impossible to grasp what a fallen being will do to you until you experience it. But my point here is, you think because you have experimented with duality, you can come to a planet that is dominated by duality and avoid getting lost in it.

And now, I want to expound upon what Maitreya explained. You understand here, there is nothing wrong with you and what you did. There is nothing wrong at all with your decision of coming to earth. It was a perfectly valid, legitimate decision, not only for your own growth, but also for the growth of the entire sphere and for the potential to raise the unnatural planet of earth back to a natural state.

It was not a mistake. There is no judgment from the ascended masters that you made a mistake by coming to earth, or that you had failed the initiations on a natural planet and that is why you have to come to earth. There is no judgment like that from the ascended masters.

Fallen being feeling threatened by avatars

But now look at what happens. You descend to earth. You have to descend to the 48th level in order to take embodiment. You, therefore, forget the attainment and the experience you had with duality before you came. You forget this in the process of taking embodiment. The Conscious You is essentially a new co-creator at the 48th level here on earth, which is much denser than on a natural planet. Your I AM Presence has the experience in your causal body from a natural planet, but your Conscious You cannot access that at the 48th level. Now you are coming and even though you descend to the 48th level, you still have more spiritual light and more awareness than most of the original earth inhabitants.

It is as if you imagine earth being in a twilight, almost dark, and most of the inhabitants of the earth have grey bodies. But you are coming in with a bright light shining, so you immediately stand out to the fallen beings. And when the fallen beings encounter an avatar, what happens? The fallen being experiences itself as being very special, very special compared to the inhabitants of the earth that they are seeking to subdue and control. And they feel very special because they have this attainment in this world, they can do this, they can do that. They have all this power, they have these abilities, all of these abilities to do things in this world. But here comes you as an avatar and you have spiritual light. And before they saw you, they did not realize that they do not have light because nobody on earth has it. But now there you are, standing out with your light and suddenly the fallen beings see their own lack, their own inadequacy. And because they are so trapped in duality, because they have almost made themselves believe they were gods on earth, they feel extremely threatened by this.

Being accused and attacked by fallen beings

They use their sophistication, their experience with using the duality consciousness, against you. They want to destroy you, they want to put you down. And you did have some experience with duality on a natural planet, but the fallen beings have much more experience with duality than you have, because they have fallen and that gives them a deeper experience with what duality can do than you have when you have not fallen. Therefore, they are successful in targeting you in some way that now essentially gives you the same shock that you had the first time you experimented with duality. Namely: “Could there be something wrong with me, could I be wrong?” But it is just that back then it was sort of a thought that came to you from inside your own mind as you were exploring what duality is. You just thought: “Oh yes, could there be something wrong with me?” But now what you encounter is this extremely aggressive, extremely intense direct accusation and attack, that there is something wrong with you, for what you are doing on earth, even that you are wrong for being on earth.

This gives you the birth trauma. In order to deal with this you create the primal self which is designed to suppress this shock that there could be something wrong with you. You can live with it because you cannot live with a thought that there is something wrong with you.

The 96th level

All of this long explanation leads up to the initiation at the 96th level because the primal self that you create in order to deal with the birth trauma is actually the self you carry with you even as you rise from the 48th to the 96th. It is what we have called the self-focused self. For a while you might have gone below the 48th level and refined that self, made it more sophisticated. But then you discovered a path, now you started going up, but you are seeing the path through the filter of that self. And the self, mind you, is always looking for a reward in this world, namely that it becomes infallible so it could not be wrong. And that view is carried up with you to the 96th level. Now you give up this self, it drops away, it disappears. In a sense you are now back to the state you had when you descended as an avatar. Of course you have all the experiences you have, but the self you created in reaction to earth has dropped away.

“Was I wrong to come to earth?”

But now you have to deal with some selves that were created as a result of the birth trauma but you were not conscious of them. And these are the selves that are based on this evaluation that: “If I was attacked by the fallen beings and accused that there is something wrong with me on earth, in other words, I am wrong here on earth, if that is the case that I could be wrong here on earth, does that mean I was wrong for coming to earth?” You see, first there is the shock, [that] you could be wrong for what you are doing here or for being here, but then there is the evaluation: “Does that mean my decision to come here was wrong? Does that mean there was something wrong with how I looked at earth, how I looked at coming to earth, how I looked at free will and all of this?” You can say we have said you had not solved the enigma of free will on a natural planet, but now you are evaluating was that then wrong? “Does that mean I was wrong, I was deficient, I was not good enough?”

And my entire point for this long discourse is to say to you, from the viewpoint of the ascended masters, there was nothing wrong with you for making the decision to come to earth, there was nothing wrong with that decision, there was nothing wrong for you coming to earth and you are not wrong for being here because this is all part of the unfoldment of this unascended sphere. And you are giving a service to life by doing this.

“Can I step up?”

And the reason I am bringing this up is that as we have said, the 96th level is a very black and white binary initiation, you either lose the self-focused self or you do not. However, we have also said, going to the 96th level does not mean you are home free. You still have selves to deal with and some of these selves are precisely what I have described here. This whole evaluation: “Could I have been wrong for coming to earth?” And the shift I am hoping to help you make is, no, there was not anything wrong with you or with the way you looked at earth, it was not wrong.

However, there is always a higher understanding, a higher sense of self possible. There is always a higher realization you can come to in an unascended sphere, but even in the ascended realm. My point is to help you shift so you can look at what was the view you had before you came to earth, the view of earth, the view of suffering, the view of free will, the view of yourself. Could you refine it? Could you step up to a higher level? You see, it is not a matter of was it right or wrong, it is just a matter of: “Can I step up?”

But in order to step up you have to let go, first of all, of the self that projects at you that you must have been wrong. But also the specifics of how you looked at earth, how you looked at suffering, whether you, for example, as the messenger described, you thought suffering was wrong. You thought if people are suffering on earth, something must have gone wrong on earth and that means there is a problem that needs to be fixed and someone needs to fix it: “Who might that someone be? Oh yes, I volunteer.”

It is all just an experiment

Again, nothing wrong with it, it was just the decision you made. It was just a decision you made, it has helped you grow, it has helped others and it has helped the ascended masters. Do you understand what I am trying to say here? The whole evaluation of right and wrong is a product of duality. It has no reality in the mind of God, in the mind of ascended masters. Everything you have done—growing on a natural planet, experimenting with duality, going out of duality, coming to earth, going into duality on earth, climbing back up to the 96th level and beyond—everything here has just been an experiment with co-creation and with self-transcendence. It is all an experiment. There can never be anything wrong with experimenting because it is only through experimentation that we raise our sense of self.

In a previous dispensation where they talked about the 144,000 from Venus, and Sanat Kumara and Lady Master Venus coming to earth, they thought, oh, these were perfect beings, more highly evolved on earth and they came with a specific purpose.

But in reality, for us, this was just an experiment. We did not know how it would turn out. We did not know if we could help earth. We did not know if some would be trapped in duality or not. It was an experiment. There was no evaluation of right and wrong.

Duality is unreal, not wrong

You see, all value judgments of right and wrong can only come out of duality. And it is only when you are in duality that the evaluation of right and wrong seems right. It is only in duality you can believe that God is an angry and judgmental God who is judging whether you are right or wrong and who will punish you by an eternity in hell for being wrong. That can only seem right in duality. Does that mean I am saying it is wrong? No, it is just unreal. It is out of touch with the reality of the world of form. It is just unreal. It is a smokescreen designed to give co-creators the experience with duality until they have had enough of it. It is not wrong to go into duality. It is just an experiment.

Some, in fact many, would dispute this. Most religious people on earth who believe in the angry and judgmental God would dispute it. Some ascended master students from previous dispensations would also dispute it even though they do not really understand what duality is. But they would cling to this image that: “Oh, there must be sin. There must be something that is sinful. There must be bad karma.”

No right or wrong in the Christ mind

And they would say that the spiritual path of climbing to the 96th level means that you learn to do what is right and to avoid what is wrong. And this is how you qualify for Christhood. For surely the Christ is never wrong and is always right. But my beloved, the Christ tunes in to the ascended realm and in him is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. There are no shades of duality, no polarities, no shades in between. There is no black, there is no white, there is no gray. There is no right or wrong in the Christ mind because it is beyond duality. It is designed to allow you to experiment with duality but give you a way back out. You do not become right by being the Christ in embodiment. You do not become right by a dualistic standard.

Destroying Jesus’ example

If you doubt me, look at the life of Jesus. Was he proven right? He attracted relatively few followers. He was arrested, put on trial, tortured, crucified and died like a common criminal. Do you understand that crucifixion was considered the most humiliating form of execution at the time? At the time you could not be more humiliated than Jesus was by being crucified, in the minds of the people.

Then he dies and many of his followers scatter because they expected some glorious outcome. Some wanted him to be the king of Israel, banishing the Romans. Others wanted some kinds of visible phenomena. When they did not see it, they got disappointed and left. And then there were scattered communities that sort of attempted to hold some connection to each other and connection to Christ but they did not even have a written teaching. You could at a certain point, after Jesus was dead, have said he completely failed in his mission. It is never going to have any impact on earth. And then there are various groups that gradually grow but they are very different. They have very different views of Jesus and his mission and his teachings.

And then comes this year 325 where the Roman Catholic Church is formed. And what do they do? They create a fixed doctrine that is an almost total perversion of Jesus’ teachings, destroying him as an example, elevating him to the status of the only son of God. And from that point on very few people have grasped the true message of Christ. You could say that Jesus was a failure. In reality he was not of course, but from a worldly perspective is what I am trying to show you. From a dualistic evaluation of right and wrong, Jesus was not right.

What does it mean to be the Christ?

And therefore, some of the selves you need to deal with above the 96th level are precisely this: “What is your view of what it means to be the Christ? What is your view of what it means to express Christhood? Because if you think you are always going to be right and other people are going to recognize this, you will set yourself up for disappointment. And that we would very much like to see you avoid.

Because if you get disappointed you will reduce the co-creative process. You might still have some flow through you but you will be reluctant to go out and express your Christhood. And therefore, you cannot fulfill your highest co-creative potential.

Dealing with rejection as the Christ

My main task here is simply this. After you pass the initiation at the 96th level you still have selves to work on. Selves relating to you coming to earth and selves relating to the expression of your Christhood. How do you resolve this enigma illustrated by Jesus? Here comes Jesus. He has in past lives attained a high degree of Christhood. He prepares for his mission. He now goes out publicly and he is ignored or rejected by most. How do you deal with this when you come to dare to express your Christhood and you are rejected or ignored? How do you deal with it?

Well, that is what we have attempted to give you. Simply this. The only way to survive even as a Christed being on earth is to be willing to express yourself in a way that you and your mind disconnect from right and wrong.

The Christ is not right because the Christ can never be right. But neither is the Christ wrong because the Christ can never be wrong, because the Christ mind is beyond right and wrong. When you lock into this, when you overcome these selves that still want to evaluate the results you have then you can be in the flow and you can realize that just allowing the flow to flow through you is all that matters. Whatever people do with it has nothing to do with the flow. Whatever results you have or do not have does not make you or your expression of Christhood wrong. Even if you have results, it does not make your expression of Christhood right according to the dualistic standard. The expression of your Christhood is a goal in itself and a reward in itself. And this of course brings up a certain mystery but I shall leave that to my esteemed colleagues.

With this I thank you for your participation in this co-creative event. And again let us visualize that this dictation and your participation in it has had an impact on the water of the collective consciousness and it spreads like rings in the water as we give the Om together.

With this I seal you in the flame that I AM. The ascended master Sanat Kumara, I AM.

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