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Ascended Master Serapis Bey through Kim Michaels, June 7, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Serapis Bey, as you might have guessed from the linear progression, even though we are talking about things that are not linear. This is one of the enigmas of the spiritual path. It is that it has linear aspects but also non-linear aspects. The challenge of this, which you see throughout the ages, is that some people focus on the linear aspects and ignore the non-linear. While other people focus on the non-linear and ignore the linear. The challenge is to find a balance between the two.

We have talked about before that there is the linear mind, there is the conceptual mind. You use the conceptual mind to co-create because the conceptual mind allows you to form a concept of something that is not presently in physical manifestation. You can conceptualize a form that is not yet manifest and therefore bring forth something new. The linear mind, on the other hand, is based on what is there, what is already in manifestation. Coming to understand this, now you may say: Is it only the conceptual mind that you use to co-create?

Which mind is used for co-creation?

Well, that depends on what stage you are at. You see, when you are a new co-creator in an environment that is also fairly new, then you use the conceptual mind more. When you grow in awareness, when you have co-created something, both in your physical environment and in your four lower bodies, that is more sophisticated, then you start using the linear mind as well. You actually find a certain balance between the conceptual and the linear.

The way this needs to work is, of course, that when you have a planet with many people on it, with a fairly old civilization (I am talking about here a natural planet), then you cannot just envision something with the conceptual mind that is completely disconnected from what is already brought into manifestation. You see how you can start out with the conceptual mind, envisioning new things, because there is not so much in manifestation. Then, as you manifest more and more, you need to use the linear mind so that you can see a progression from what is already there to what you want to co-create, so that you build upon what is there and create a continuity.

You see that even though we often talk about the linear mind as a problem, on a natural planet in the original state, there is no problem with the linear mind. The linear mind is clearly secondary to the conceptual mind. It is, so to speak, the servant of the conceptual mind. What happens on an unnatural planet is that when a majority of the people lose contact with their higher selves, they can no longer see themselves as co-creators. Therefore, they find it very difficult to use the conceptual mind to envision something that is not already manifest.

Becoming lost in the linear mind

What is it that the conceptual mind uses to conceptualize a new form? It is the Christ mind. Now when you have an unnatural planet where people have gone into separation, they tend to become more focused on the linear mind, seeing what is there, categorizing what is there, labelling what is there, applying the value judgment of the dualistic mind to it. Now they become very trapped in what is already in form in the physical realm. They tend to think they cannot go beyond it, that either God created it that way or the laws of nature mandated that it must be that way.

They also now start using the linear mind in a way that was not intended in the original state, in the natural state. Because now they want to say: If we take the linear mind and look at what is here now, this must be the effects of unseen causes; and if we keep going back to previous causes, we must end up with the original cause. Which can either be God or the laws of nature or the Big Bang or the Great Pumpkin Man or whatever you can envision. Then they want to take the linear mind and extend it in the opposite direction, pointing to some ultimate outcome.

This is not the natural use of the linear mind. As I said, it is just a servant of the conceptual mind. You look at what is already in manifestation, you look back some time to see why the society, for example, was structured that way, what were the thoughts behind it, what were the lessons that people had learned. Then you use that to direct the conceptual mind to bring forth something that builds upon that foundation. You, of course, also look at what the Elohim brought forth on a particular planet, what was their thoughts, what was the guiding principles that they used, and then you use that to form new concepts, but still within that framework.

The devotional mind and Christhood

When you are disconnected from the conceptual mind, the intuitive mind, then people become very linear in their thinking. That is what causes most people to think they can think their way to Christhood. This, of course, cannot be done, as we have already said. There are also people who are more attuned to the intuitive aspect of the mind, and they often tend to follow what has been called in the East, a path of devotion. They become very devotional, very loving, loving a deity, loving a master, and feeling like this is all they need to do. This, although it can lead to progress, also has its limitations, because as you cannot think your way into Christhood, you cannot love your way to Christhood.

There needs to be that certain balance where even the devotional people have a certain understanding of spiritual concepts, of the purpose of existence, of why the universe even exists—that it is a learning environment, that there is a path, a gradual path. Because people who become very devotional often feel as if they have gone beyond time, progression, a linear path, and they sometimes get trapped in this loop, we might call it a time loop, where they think their devotion is enough. They do not realize that there is unresolved psychology that was created in past lifetimes, and that this psychology needs to be resolved. This requires a certain linear process, because you cannot just do it randomly, you have to start somewhere and work your way back until you reach that original birth trauma.

Your intention for walking the path

What this all revolves around, from the perspective of the Fourth Ray of course, is your intention. What is your intention for walking the spiritual path? You may talk about intention at a lower level where, as we have said, when you first hear about the path to Christhood, your ego formulates an image of what this means. The ego does this based on what it can see, which is of course seeing itself as a separate being, walking the path as a separate being, achieving some ultimate end result as a separate being—an end result defined by the ego in this world, defined by what is already here. The problem with the ego is, of course, that it cannot transcend what is here in form, because it cannot conceptualize it. The ego cannot conceptualize what Christhood really means. The ego cannot conceptualize what the spiritual realm really is. It can create images of it based on what it sees in the material world, but that, of course, is not adequate.

You can have in the beginning, in fact you will have in the beginning, an intention for walking the spiritual path that is partially based on the ego and what the ego can see. There comes that point where you need to step back, reconsider your intention: Is there a higher form of intention for walking the spiritual path? Of course there is. You, the Conscious You, can see it, whereas the ego cannot. You need to have that willingness to realize the limitations of the ego and its intentions, its vision, its way of thinking about the spiritual path. You are willing to go into that neutral state of mind of the Conscious You and reach for a higher intention from the Christ mind, from an ascended master, from your I AM Presence.

Purifying your intention is extremely important. Again, each of us as Chohans are, of course, focused on our particular ray. We tend to think that our ray is the most important step. Of course, we all recognize that you need to incorporate all seven rays in order to qualify for your ascension. It is simply my role to make you aware that there comes a point where you cannot progress unless you are willing to step back and look at your intention: “How much of my intention on the spiritual path is colored by the ego? Am I willing to step up, to accelerate my intention to a higher level that is not ego-based? And am I actually willing to continue doing that as long as I am in embodiment?”

You need to continue doing it as long as you are in embodiment, because you may say, at a certain level, say the 65th level, you can see a higher level of intention than you could at the 48th. But at the 96th level you can see an even higher, and on the 124th you can see a higher intention that you cannot grasp at the lower levels. There is no ultimate grasp of your intention, no ultimate intention other than to continue to transcend yourself and be willing to take each step up and always take the next step.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.