MM 04. Power and love

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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels.

Master MORE, I AM. Let me give you another layer of understanding of your higher reasoning faculties. As we have said, earth is far below the ideal scenario. Thus, when you come to the Path of the Seven Veils and apply to me as the first Chohan, you do not come with a clean slate; you come with a certain amount of baggage.

This baggage has been picked up on your sojourn here on earth, which is a heavily polluted environment. It is heavily polluted not only by what humankind has co-created over the millennia, but it is especially polluted by the ideas and teachings of what we might call the false teachers, who have been allowed to embody on this planet now for a very long time—and who have therefore had an impact on every aspect of life on earth. There is no aspect of life on earth that has not been affected by the mindset of these false teachers, which is what we have also called the fallen beings. This mindset is the duality consciousness, the dualistic consciousness, which is represented in a symbolic form as the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

The lie of becoming as a god

Now, the serpent told Eve that if she ate the forbidden fruit she would not “surely die” but she would become as a god “knowing good and evil.” The explanation of this is, as we have explained in more detail before, simply this: When you become as a god, you think that you have the ability and the right to define what is good and evil. In other words, the essence of the serpentine mind is that it creates a false standard for what is good and what is evil, and then it says that if you live up to this outer standard – seeking to avoid the evil and act on the good – you are guaranteed to enter heaven.

When students come to me at my retreat at Darjeeling, they come with varying degrees of this fallen mindset. They all come having accepted some standard or other, and they now think that they can come into my retreat and, so to speak, impose their standard upon me.

My beloved, there are those who actually come to my retreat in their finer bodies, and they are so attached to their standard – so intent on imposing their standard upon me – that when I will not conform to their standard, they immediately reason that I must be a false teacher or not an advanced enough teacher for them—and they leave in a huff.

They leave feeling fully justified in rejecting me, even though their rejection is based on a complete illusion—whereas I am indeed real. For I have transcended the fallen mindset, in which the students are so trapped that they cannot even see that I offer them a frame of reference from outside that fallen mindset. They cannot even see the need for them to reach beyond the closed, mental box of their own minds. They cannot see the value of a teacher that offers them a frame of reference from beyond the fallen mindset. For they are only looking for a teacher that will validate a standard that is based on the serpentine mind.

Using your reasoning ability

Do you see that I cannot help such students? And that is why the first point I want to get across in this discourse is that in order for you to become teachable by an ascended master, you have to be willing to use your reasoning ability at whatever level of consciousness you are at. You have to be able to use your reasoning ability to realize one simple fact: Your current level of awareness forms a box around your mind, a mental box. The only way to rise from your current level of consciousness to the next level up is to reach for something beyond your current mental box. This is the only way that anyone has ever risen to a higher level of consciousness. It is the only way that anyone ever will rise to a higher level of consciousness. There is no way of cheating here.

Do you realize that this is one of the lessons of science and the laws of nature? You cannot cheat gravity. If you step out into thin air from a tall building or a tall cliff, you will fall down. How many times would you have to step out from a tall building in order to prove to your own satisfaction that gravity will turn you into a red dot on the pavement below? How many times do you then have to go through an entire embodiment being trapped in a certain mental box in order to prove to yourself that the false paths to salvation offered by the false teachers will not automatically get you to heaven after that lifetime?

What I am saying here is this: No matter what level of consciousness you are at, you have the reasoning ability to see that it forms a closed system – a closed mental box – and that the only way to rise to the next level is that you must reach up for a teacher who can give you something from beyond your mental box, from beyond your current level. Then, by grasping that lifeline, you can use it to pull yourself up to the next level of the path.

You see, when you are below the 48th level of consciousness, your current level of consciousness is like quicksand, and you know that the more your struggle the faster you sink. There is only one way to escape, and that is to stop struggling and let your mind fall still, so you can see that there is indeed someone who is offering a rope. When you grasp that rope, then you have a fixed point by which you can pull yourself up.

I am asking you to use your reasoning ability to see that I am a real teacher. I am offering you a rope. But if you allow some attachment to some false standard or false teaching to cause you to reject me or reject specific aspects of my instruction, then of course I cannot help you. I must simply respect the Law of Free Will, which I do with great love, and I must allow you to let go of the rope and therefore fall back into the quicksand of your current level of consciousness.

I am, however, an unconditionally loving teacher—because I have transcended conditions. So even if you do reject me, I will always be there if you desire to reach for me again and ask for my help. So for those who are willing to use their reasoning ability to realize that Master MORE must offer you something beyond your current mental box, let us look at how you can make the best possible use of what I offer you.

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MM 03. Power and wisdom

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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels.

Master MORE I AM. And I am the master of power. Thus, in this discourse, I will talk to you about the abuses of power and of wise uses of power. The trouble here is that, in your sojourn on planet earth, you have mostly encountered abuses of power and you have rarely seen a wise use of power. Thus, you have come to accept a false frame of reference, where it has often been portrayed on earth that the key to evaluating whether something is successful or powerful is the physical outcome, the physical result that is produced.

You tend to think that a person who is powerful is a person who can get things done, regardless of the human cost and the human consequences. You may, for example, look at a general who can defeat the enemy; but yet the cost in human lives and suffering is very high. You may look at leaders of nations who have achieved certain outer results but at what cost to the people of those nations or other nations.

You see I, as the Chohan of Power, do not evaluate power based on the physical outcome on earth. For to me, the physical outcome is not important at all. This is a statement that might startle some spiritual students. But it is because they have come to look at the First Ray of power through the filter of the earthly standard, the false standard of power.

Life’s purpose is your growth

What have we said many times? The material universe is a schoolroom, a learning environment. The universe is the cosmic mirror. What you send out will be reflected back in the form of physical circumstances. But what is the purpose of reflecting back to you what you are sending out? It is simply this: To make visible in a way that is difficult to deny that which you do not see in your own subconscious mind, or sometimes even in the conscious. And why does the universe do this? Because the purpose of life is your growth in consciousness.

You might consider the technology you have, where you wear these virtual reality goggles. You put on a pair of goggles and then you do not see the room around you. You only see what is projected in front of your eyes on a screen that is inside the goggles. What you are seeing is not the actual environment; what you are seeing is an environment that is created by a computer program—in other words a virtual, an unreal, environment. Yet I can assure you that if you could see as I see, you would see that the physical environment on planet earth is just as unreal as the virtual environment you see in these virtual reality goggles.

Outer results are irrelevant

Planet earth is simply a projection of consciousness. We have talked about the fact that there are spheres that have not ascended, but you are living in the latest unascended sphere. In an unascended sphere nothing is ultimately real, nothing has ultimate permanence, for it is an experimental environment. And as such, nothing will be permanent – nothing will gain ultimate reality – until the sphere ascends. Given that you live in an environment that is not ultimately real, why would I, or any other ascended being, be concerned about the physical results that you produce or fail to produce? It is irrelevant to us.

Do you not see that we have consistently taught that there is an outer false path to salvation and an inner true path? The outer false path is where you think, in its most primitive version, that by being a member of a particular outer religion, you are guaranteed to be saved. In the more sophisticated versions, you may think that if you are an ascended master student, and if you do all of these outer things right and produce certain outer results, then you are guaranteed to be saved.

But what we have said over and over again is this: It is your state of consciousness that determines whether you can be saved, whether you can ascend, whether you can enter the spiritual realm. You will not enter the spiritual realm until you reach the 144th level of consciousness. You will not reach that level if you think it is a matter of producing specific outer results. In fact, you will not rise from the 48th to the 49th level of consciousness if you think that all that matters is the outer results you produce.

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MM 02. Power and will

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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels.

More I AM. And a master, I AM. Thus, I am a master of MORE. And I am here to show you how to become more on the First Ray. Let me begin by giving you an overview. You are, of course, familiar with the teaching that there are 144 possible levels of consciousness. You are aware that the purpose of this series of discourses, and the purpose of the books we are bringing out, is to show you how to rise from the 48th to the 96th level of consciousness by mastering the initiations of the seven rays.

Yet, let me now consider what happens when you first descend to earth. As we have said, when you first descend to this planet, you descend to the 48th level of consciousness (if you are a new lifestream, that is). In the ideal scenario, what would happen to such a lifestream? Well, the lifestream would descend with a point-like sense of self, a sense of being connected to something greater – although it has no clear vision of the I AM Presence – and the lifestream descends with a desire to experiment with its creative abilities.

Thus, at the 48th level, the most important ability that you naturally have, in the ideal scenario, is the will to experiment. This is the will to try something new, and just see what response you get from the material universe, which we might consider a giant feedback machine. Whatever you send out, will be mirrored back to you by the cosmic mirror.

If you now look at this willingness to experiment from a slightly different perspective, what is this state of consciousness? Well, it is partly what the Buddha talked about when he talked about “beginner’s mind.” It is what Jesus talked about when he said that unless you become as little children, you cannot enter the kingdom. The state of mind that you have at the 48th level is that of innocence, holy innocence.

The importance of innocence

In the ideal scenario, you could walk up through the initiations of the seven rays without losing this innocence. You would, of course, gain experience, but this would not take away your innocence, although you certainly would become more mature and in some ways more sophisticated. But you would still be innocent in the sense that you would have no impure, self-centered intention about putting down any other form of life. And you would not have been exposed to other lifestreams who had an intention of putting down you and your creative efforts.

Do you see that in the ideal scenario, it is possible to expand your creative abilities, to grow in awareness of your creative abilities, without ever encountering the mindset – the consciousness – that seeks to put you down and judge you according to some relative, dualistic standard, according to which you must be either right or wrong? And if you do something wrong, then there is something wrong with you.

Now of course, you have all been exposed to precisely this state of consciousness, even in this lifetime—and, I can assure you, also in many past lifetimes on this planet. For just look back on planet earth and see how this very consciousness of judging, evaluating and putting down has infused life on this planet for as long as you have recorded history—and I can assure you: for much longer than that.

As we have said, you do not have the ideal scenario. The idea that I want to plant as a seed in your mind here is that the goal of walking the Path of the Seven Veils is not to acquire some sophisticated mastery of mind over matter, whereby you can produce visible phenomena that will impress other people. It is not even to acquire any specific wisdom or any particular sophistication in doing this or that. The primary goal of walking the path of the seven rays in the current conditions on earth is precisely this: To recapture your innocence, so that you are able to express the creative energies of the seven rays in complete innocence.

This, of course, is a new twist that not many spiritual students have been aware of. We have for now over a century taught openly the teachings of the ascended masters on earth through various messengers and teachings. Yet is has hardly been recognized at all that the real goal of walking the path is to recapture what was lost, namely that innocence that is truly paradise on earth.

The lost paradise

How will you manifest paradise on earth? Did not Jesus say that the kingdom of God is within you? So is it not logical that the way to manifest paradise on earth is to attain a certain state of consciousness? And what is the consciousness you have in Eden? Well, before you have eaten the forbidden fruit, and therefore cast yourself out of the paradise that was Maitreya’s Mystery School, you were in a state of innocence. This was a state of holy innocence, where you freely experimented with your creative abilities without evaluating them based on a standard created from the separate, dualistic mind.

You see, what you have encountered here on earth is the standard that was created by the fallen beings, and it was a standard that was created specifically to destroy the innocence of the holy innocent. It was created to make sure that once they had lost that innocence, it would be extremely difficult for them to recapture it.

For how difficult is it to regain your innocence in the current environment on earth, when you are constantly attacked either by other people or by dark forces? Or you are attacked by the many spirits, that the Maha Chohan has exposed, that are roaming around in the collective consciousness, always seeking to manipulate you into some kind of struggle, some kind of game, to prove something right or prove others wrong.

My beloved, just look at life. Can you not recognize this consciousness and see how it infuses every aspect of society, every aspect of human interactions, and how you have been exposed to it yourself? Well then, let me put it to you that we now have a certain reversal of the original scenario. In the ideal scenario you would start out in innocence, and then you would grow and retain your innocence while becoming more sophisticated and mature. But now, as you come to me and desire to take the initiations on the First Ray, then we have almost the opposite. You are now somewhat sophisticated and mature in the sense that you know many things and have many experiences with life on earth, but you have lost the innocence.

It is not realistic that I can – at the very 48th level of consciousness, as the first initiation – help you regain that innocence. In fact I, as the first Chohan, cannot do so. It is only as you go through all of the seven rays that you have the opportunity to regain that innocence, so that when you reach the 96th level, you will have fully recaptured the innocence with which you first descended.

That is why you can then pass the initiation on the 96th level without going into using your creative abilities in a self-centered way, or even in an aggressive way that is aimed at controlling others or fighting some epic battle or other. This gives you the long-term vision. And it is important for you to keep in mind – as you walk this Path of the Seven Veils – that for each step you move closer and closer to innocence. You need to consider: “What is it that takes away my innocence right now, at my present level of consciousness?”

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MM 01. Introducing the First Ray

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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels.

Master MORE I AM. Yet, I am more than the name. I am more than any name. For truly, how can a name – given in the words you can understand on earth – capture the fullness of an ascended, God-free being?

What does it mean that I am an ascended being? Does it mean that I am so different from you that you cannot relate to me? Nay, it does not. For truly, I was once embodied on earth as you are today. I have ascended because I have completed the process that you yourself are in the process of completing. And indeed, it is my only desire for the release of these discourses to help you become more consciously aware of the path that you have already been following, likely for many lifetimes.

So, again, I am not so different from you. I am simply further ahead on the path that all self-aware beings have the potential to follow.

The ascension is not evolution

Yet, while I do not want you to see yourself as being fundamentally different from me, it is indeed necessary for you to recognize that there is a fundamental difference between the ascended state of consciousness and the unascended state of consciousness. The ascended state of consciousness is not simply a further evolution of the unascended, or human, state of consciousness. For it is not possible to evolve the human state of consciousness to a point where it smoothly crosses over to the ascended state.

If you know anything about the latest discoveries of modern physics, you might know that there was a point, when scientists developed a branch of science called quantum mechanics. The basis for this science was the discovery that light, although a wave that propagates through space and thus has no fixed location, is not a continuous phenomenon. Light is emitted in discrete units, called quanta, and thus the name “quantum mechanics.”

This is important because, as we have explained in the previous two books in this series, human beings have the potential to be at 144 different levels of consciousness. You qualify for your ascension by rising up through these levels, until you reach the 144th level.

Yet the important point here is that this is not a continuous, smooth process. Every time you rise from one level of consciousness to the next, you are not simply going through an evolutionary process. You are, in fact, required to make a quantum leap in consciousness in order to rise from one level to the next. And of course, the greatest of all quantum leaps is when you have reached the 144th level and then take that final leap to the ascended state.

Nevertheless, as you rise through the levels and become more consciously aware of the process, you learn to quickly give up the current sense of self and thereby be reborn as a new and more mature sense of self. And the more you are used to this process, the less of a leap it will be for you to leap into the ascended state. Yet it must be recognized that it is still a leap. It will always be a leap. And what does it require to make the quantum leap from one level to the next? It requires a conscious decision.

Master MORE cannot teach everyone

Thus, I start this series of discourses by making you aware that I am a spiritual teacher. But I cannot teach just anyone on earth. There are many people who are not ready for the kind of teaching that I can offer. For naturally, as an ascended being, I offer a teaching that is aimed at taking you towards the ascension.

If you have other goals, as might be perfectly legitimate according to the Law of Free Will, then you may not be ready for me. For you might not be ready to make the decisions that you need to make, in order to take advantage of what I have to offer you.

Thus, you might need to find other teachers for a time, or you may need to spend some time studying in what we have called the School of Hard Knocks, where you experience the physical consequences of your frame of mind—what you are projecting out with that frame of mind. And you experience those consequences until you have had enough and cry out: “There must be more to life.” And when you cry out that there must be more, then I, Master MORE, can indeed come to your aid. But my ability to help you will be dependent on your willingness to make conscious decisions. And you cannot make conscious decisions without consciously looking at yourself.

Thus, I tell you: Even though I am the first master that people encounter when they start the Path of the Seven Veils – the Path of the Seven Rays – I cannot teach everyone. Yet, I do indeed try to teach as many people as possible. But because people are at different levels of willingness to look at themselves, I have devised different ways to teach people, according to their willingness to look in the mirror and honestly consider their own state of consciousness.

For the purpose of this discussion, I wish to make you aware that in my etheric retreat over Darjeeling, India, I teach at two major levels. I have a part of my retreat that you might compare to one of these large soup kitchens that you see in some cities on earth, where people who are homeless or disadvantaged can come in and receive a meal. The facility I have in my retreat is aimed at those who have come to the point where they have cried out: “There must be more to life!” Yet they are not yet willing to truly look at themselves and ask the conscious questions.

So I allow them – during the night in their finer bodies – to come to my retreat and enter the soup kitchen, where they stand in a line, coming up to the servers who serve them a bowl of soup—somewhat adapted to their individual needs and state of consciousness. And then they partake of that soup and leave my retreat, sometimes traveling to other places, sometimes going back into their bodies. And in most cases, they have no conscious awareness of having been to my retreat, only retaining certain fragments of the lessons that were, so to speak, built into the soup that they received. I am, of course, here speaking metaphorically—I trust you understand.

After having attended my retreat for some time, then there will come a point when people are ready to not simply eat their soup and then leave but to pause, to look around, and to ask themselves: “Where am I? What is this place? Is there perhaps more for me here than just receiving this bowl of soup and then leaving?”

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Isn’t it time to stop following the false path of empty promises?

TOPICS: 2012 was a difficult year – The spiritual people did not hold the balance – Christ discernment and the path to Buddhahood – The value of a guru – The illusion of an automatic salvation – The essence of Buddhism – The desire to be admired by others – What is enlightenment? – What created the 2012 hysteria – Setting the stage for discouragement – A reality check of how spiritual growth happens – Finding your personal Middle Way – The past did not give an ultimate teaching – No cosmic force or cycle will bring change – A seven-year cycle of new teachings – The Middle Way and peak experiences –

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, January 1, 2013 through Kim Michaels

Gautama is my name. The Buddha is my title. Lord of the World is the office I hold for planet earth.

What is in a name? What is in a title? What is in an office? What you put there. Meaning, what I put there. And what is in it for you? What you put there, also.

2012 was a difficult year

This is, perhaps, the best way to characterize the year 2012. When I say: “What you put there,” the all-important question is, of course, whether what you put there is of the ego or whether what you put there is of the higher self—the higher vision of the Christ mind and the mind of the Buddha.

I can tell you that 2012 was a difficult year for earth. It was a difficult year for those of us who are members of the ascended masters and who are working with the lifestreams on earth. It was a difficult year for elemental life. It was, of course, a difficult year for many of the lifestreams who embody on earth.

Why was it so difficult? It was difficult because 2012 was one of those years where a significant number among the top 10% of the people on earth expected some major dramatic change that would somehow happen automatically. There have, of course, been other years like this. In recent years, the year 2000, but others as well in both the distant and not-so-distant past.

Do you understand that those of you who are in embodiment and are somewhat open to the spiritual side of life, you are holding an important balance for the rest of humanity? How do you hold the best possible balance, the highest possible degree of balance? Only when you yourself remain in balance, of course. Is this not obvious?

When you have a year like this one – when many people expect that something dramatic will happen – there are many among the top 10% that go out of balance. Some go into fearing that the world will end or that there will be some kind of dramatic upheaval in nature or society. Others go into a false sense of elation, thinking that surely this will be the year where there will be a breakthrough and the rest of humanity will wake up and see what these people think they have seen all along, namely that their particular religion, or spiritual philosophy, or spiritual guru or a spiritual organization is the one and only that will bring salvation, or a higher state of consciousness, or the golden age or enlightenment to earth.

Both of these represent states of a lack of balance. How can you then hold the balance for others when you are not in balance yourself? It simply cannot be done. What we have had in this year of 2012 is that a fairly significant percentage of the people who normally hold the balance for earth have not been able to do so because they have been so unbalanced in their own beings, looking forward to this event that they think will happen, whether it was at midsummer, whether it was on December 21st or whether it was any other time they expected some dramatic event that no one could deny.

The spiritual people did not hold the balance

Let me take this opportunity, as Lord of the World, to make you aware that those of you who are open to the spiritual side of life, but who were caught up in the 2012 hysteria, as the Maha Chohan called it earlier this year, you have failed to hold your normal balance for the earth in this year. This meant that other people had to pick up the slack and hold the balance that you would normally be holding. On top of that, they had to hold the balance for you as well so that you would not be so unbalanced that you would go into some permanent downward spiral.

This means that there are many other people who have been more burdened than they normally would have been by the energy that has been hanging around this planet as a black cloud – a black cloud of illusion – nevertheless, a cloud that has affected this earth in profound ways.

Although many will not hear or read what I will say here, I will take the opportunity to speak this into the collective consciousness so that there will be a record that will stand as a lodestone for those who in the coming years might awaken and realize that neither will there be some worldwide calamity that will end the world or civilization, nor will there be some worldwide breakthrough that will make everyone wake up to the spiritual side of life or to that specific description of it found in their teaching. This might enable some to pull themselves out of this illusory state of consciousness.

When we look at planet earth today, we see that the vast majority of the population is largely asleep. They believe in all kinds of illusions that all is well and that they can just focus on the material life. They do not need to take responsibility or wake up and change their lifestyle.

Then there are, of course, those among the bottom 10% who are also trapped in the illusion thinking that they need to fight an epic battle against this or that other person, or group, or idea, or thought system, or nation, or race, or ethnic group or what have you.

There are even those who claim to be spiritual students and who still think they have to fight against someone or something. How can you help bring the planet closer to oneness, if you think you have to fight against other people or even against dark forces? You do not win by fighting. You win by manifesting the Christ consciousness and then the Buddha consciousness.

Christ discernment and the path to Buddhahood

Let us look beyond the general population and the bottom 10% and let us look at the top 10%. Most of the people in the top 10% are open to the spiritual side of life, but too many among them have not manifested what we like to call Christ discernment. Christ discernment is the ability to tell the difference between the mind of Christ and the mind of anti-christ.

This is not a matter of creating some label or pointing the finger and saying: “This is Christ and this is anti-christ.” It is a matter of gong within, of being still and letting go of the prejudices of the outer mind and the ego, the preconceived opinions and wishful thinking about how you would like things to be. Or you would like Christ to approve of your current beliefs and do not really want to know if Christ does not approve for you want to force Christ into your mental box, into your perception filter.

Too many lack this ability to read the vibration, the difference in vibration, between the mind of Christ, the mind of the Buddha, and the mind of anti-Christ, or even the mind of anti-Buddha. Even though there truly can be no such thing, there are those who in their arrogance think they can oppose the Buddha and set themselves up in opposition to the balance I am holding for this planet.

What is the result of this lack of discernment? It is that even though they are open to the spiritual side of life, many of these people are too open. They are open to so many of the ideas floating around on the internet that they swing to and fro, hither and yon, believing a little bit of this and a little bit of that, taking a piece here and a piece there, and trying to piece it all together until they end up with a gigantic patchwork in their minds where there truly is no overall theme for all the patches are different and scarcely fit together.

When they become confused, they follow what seems to be the strongest drive that tells them: “This is now going to happen, for this year is so special.” Now there will be a calamity, or now there will be an awakening where the earth will automatically be raised into the 5th dimension, or whatever the story may be. They become seduced by their own desires, which is truly their inner desire to overcome the confusion in their own minds by having some external event or guru or savior come in and tell them: “This is right, this is Christ.”

The value of a guru

How will you attain Christ discernment if an external guru has to tell you, in every instance, what is Christ what is not Christ? It is perfectly valid and legitimate to have a guru for a time who does give you a certain frame of reference and certain examples of what is Christ and what is anti-christ. You will not build Christ discernment by continuing to follow the guru, by remaining loyal to the guru, by being a blind follower even of a seeing guru.

You will build discernment only by daring to use your own inner faculties. Even though you may be wrong many times, you will learn from each instance where you do dare to evaluate. From there you will gradually grow in discernment. That is, if you fulfill one simple requirement, namely that you are willing to look at yourself, to look at what Jesus so aptly called the beam in your own eye—rather than focusing all of your attention on seeing the splinters in the eyes of your brothers.

Look at the many people I am talking about who have this patchwork in their minds of these disconnected beliefs that they have stitched together. You will see that in many cases they have come to accept these many different beliefs because they have not been willing to look at themselves and their own psychology.

The illusion of an automatic salvation

They have come to believe in the most common illusion amongst spiritual people, namely that there is some kind of automatic way to salvation whereby they can practice some kind of spiritual technique, or go somewhere, or take some course, or go on a mediation retreat, or do this or that extreme thing and then, magically, they will change without having to look at themselves.

Is this not also the case, as we have explained many times, for the religious people, who want an automatic salvation that by belonging to this or that religion, by being a follower of the Buddha, or follower of Christ, or Allah, they will all automatically be saved. Do you not see this psychological mechanism in the dream that on December 21st, 2012 the earth will magically rise into another dimension and all people on earth will suddenly see the spiritual side of life?

My beloved, it is good to be open to the spiritual side of life, but it is not good to be open to any idea that is out there. The vast majority of the ideas that are out there on the internet are deliberately put there by the false teachers who are seeking to deceive humankind. You need to get to a point where you have, almost like a scale inside your mind. When you come across a new idea, you put it on the scale. If one of the sides of the scale goes too far up or too far down, then you know that this idea is not balanced. There is something amiss, something that is not quite right.

What does it take to find balance? It takes that you are willing to use the most fundamental ability that you have as a self-aware being, the wonderful ability of being aware of yourself. You can step back and look at yourself.

The essence of Buddhism

What is the real essence of Buddhism as a philosophy or a religion? It is truly self-observation; that you step outside your normal self and you see that your outer self, where you normally express yourself, is not where you want to be and not where you want to focus your attention. You can then deliberately use some system or method to raise your consciousness, to change that self, to have it transformed, to have parts of it die, to let that ego die so you might be transformed into a higher sense of self.

Without this self-observation, you have not even started the path of Christ or the path of Buddha. So many are either focused on putting others down or on looking out there for some magic bullet that will make them enlightened or whatever the goal may be. How long will you keep dancing around this golden calf? How long will you keep chasing this pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Have you not had enough in these last several years where you have been expecting this dramatic event in 2012 and now you sit here and it did not happen?

I am not in any way trying to put you down, or criticize or find fault. I am simply asking you: “Isn’t it enough of chasing these golden promises of the false teachers that can never be fulfilled?” Isn’t it time that you step back and say: “What is the true path of the Buddha, what is the true path of Christ, of the ascended masters – those who have actually ascended from earth and therefore must have discovered the way – as opposed to those false teachers who have not discovered the way or have, deliberately, in their rebellion, decided not to walk that way but instead seek to prevent others from walking it?”

It is not difficult to discover the true path if you are willing to look at yourself. If you are willing to take that responsibility of realizing that you are the one who must change yourself, for I, or Jesus or any other guru cannot do it for you. It must be done by your choices, but it must be done by you making better choices than you have made in the past.

How do you make better choices than you have made in the past? By seeing something you have not seen in the past. How do you come to see what you have not seen in the past? By looking at yourself. By looking in the mirror. By asking your Christ self and I AM Presence, your ascended gurus or even other people, asking them to show you one thing at a time, one doable step at a time, that you need to overcome.

The desire to be admired by others

In that respect, it might be wiser not to ask other people because they sometimes tend to either project their unresolved psychology upon you or they tend to want to make you change all at once. We, who are your ascended gurus and your own Christ self, will only give you what you can handle. We will show you the one little step that you can take right now, that is not too much, that will not overwhelm you, that will not make you lose your bearings.

Look at the scenario out there among spiritual people. Look at how people have a tendency to think that the spiritual path is a matter of producing certain visible, measurable results, often results that can be seen by others so that they might admire you for being such a spiritual person. What do people then tend to think when they go into this frame of mind? They tend to think that in order to achieve extreme results, they have to take extreme measures or do something spectacular that no one else is doing.

Why did I, 2,500 years ago, talk about the Middle Way, my beloved? Do you think there is a way to take the Middle Way into some extreme? What would that extreme be? Do you not begin to see, at least if you begin to study the teachings on non-duality that we have given through this messenger and through other sources, do you not begin to see that the Middle Way is not in the middle between the two extremes. It is on an entirely differently level where it is beyond the extremes.

Quit thinking that you have to achieve some measurable result that others can see. This is an ego game. The ego wants to be seen by others. It wants to stand out. It wants to feel more spiritual than others. What did Jesus say: “He who would be greatest among you, let him be the servant of all.” When you truly achieve spiritual attainment, you do not go around and flaunt it in front of others.

What is enlightenment?

There are many masters who have achieved the Christ consciousness or the Buddha consciousness who never show it or demonstrate it in frivolous ways. What does it mean to attain the Christ consciousness and the Buddha consciousness? It means you begin to experience the underlying Oneness behind the surface phenomena that make it seem like you are a separate being separated from yourself and others. When you penetrate this illusion, you approach enlightenment. If you are truly enlightened, would you ever need to say that you are enlightened?

What is enlightenment? It is when you have let go of all the illusions and appearances created by the mind of anti-Christ. This means that you have no need to label yourself or others. Is this not what other people do when they look at the splinter in the eyes of another? They label and then they say: “This is that, and this is this, and this is good, and that is bad.” They are engaged in this labeling game for an entire lifetime or for many lifetimes. Many use a spiritual teaching – which was designed to liberate them from the labeling game – to become more and more “sophisticated” in labeling others.

What is the point of this? What is the purpose of this? What could the purpose possibly be? Well, it can only be an ego game. Do you truly see the Buddha going around labeling others or labeling himself as being enlightened? Being enlightened means that you no longer even evaluate whether you are in a higher or lower state of consciousness for you have no label left. If you say: “I am enlightened” what will happen is that those who hear it will use their own labels to project upon you. Then they may idolize you and put you up as someone special, as you see with so many gurus out there in the New Age or spiritual fields.

Yet, how does that help these people escape the consciousness that labels? Is it not so that when you raise up another, you must put yourself down? When you say: “Gautama is the Buddha,” you are automatically saying: “I am not the Buddha.” That means you are denying your Buddhahood. I am not thereby saying that by going around saying that: “I am the Buddha” through the ego you will be the Buddha. You are the Buddha when you come to the point where you neither affirm that you are the Buddha nor deny that you are the Buddha. There is no label left.

What created the 2012 hysteria

Do you not see the dilemma that I faced so many years ago that so many spiritual teachers faced. How can we help people without communicating to them in the only way that they understand, namely, through words?

Words are open to interpretation. People project their interpretations upon the words instead of looking beyond the words and using the words to go for the direct experience behind the words that is the key to unlocking what is being communicated. So many people out there in the spiritual field look at a teaching, but they only study it at the level of words. They do not go beyond and seek the transcendental experience beyond words.

What was it that caused so many to be deceived by this 2012 hysteria? It was, of course, an interpretation created at the level of words. Be honest. Be willing to look at how the entire myth of 2012 got started. One person chose the word ‘prophecy’ and from there others started quoting and interpreting and gradually, over the years and decades, they built this entire mirage – this entire Tower of Babel – that had almost no reality to it. It was a house built on sand. It has no reality whatsoever.

I am not denying that there are certain cycles. I am not denying that 2012 is a turning point in some ways, as we have explained. Nevertheless, it is not a turning point in the sense that there is some external force or external cycle that will automatically create change on earth. As we have tried to explain many times over, the only force that will create change on earth is a change in the collective consciousness of humankind, which must begin with a change in the consciousness of a critical mass of individuals.

A large part of what has made 2012 a significant year is what has been built up by the spiritual people who have expected it to be something special. Do you not see this? It is nothing but a house built on sand. You cannot create an expectation based on the consciousness of separation that will propel the planet higher towards Oneness.

Setting the stage for discouragement

It must, of necessity, end up in disappointment. What then happens is that those who have expected some drama – be it a worldwide disaster or some raising to another dimension – will inevitably become open to what has been described as the sharpest tool in the devil’s toolkit, namely discouragement. You begin to doubt, just as you have seen so many Christians who believed that the world would end or that Jesus would return on a certain date. Now the date has passed and the expected event did not come to pass and so they feel doubts.

Soon after comes discouragement and disappointment. You wonder if it was all worth it? Was it all just an illusion? Is all this spiritual talk just that, nothing but an illusion?

You see, behind all of these outer fascinations with phenomena there is a real spiritual path. We of the ascended masters have walked it ourselves. We have proven the path over and over again. What one has done, all can do. You cannot do it through the ego – through the expectations and mirages of the ego – you can do it only through the mind of Christ and the mind of Buddha.

A reality check of how spiritual growth happens

If you will go through a reality check, you will realize that you were not wrong for believing in the spiritual side of life. You were, indeed, led astray by your own ego and by the false teachers. It was your decision because you did not approach spirituality in a balanced manner.

This does not mean that you have to now criticize yourself or feel guilty. You do need to realize that your approach was not the highest possible and therefore you need to step up to a higher approach where you seek balance first of all. You seek balance over peak experiences or outer results. You stop measuring and you find a viable spiritual path and you apply it, even if it seems like you are making no progress for years. If you are applying a viable path, you ARE making progress at inner levels even though it sometimes may not seem so to the outer mind.

You have all been given a completely false image of what happened to Jesus and myself and other spiritual teachers. You think we were so special that we did not have to walk the same kind of path that you are walking. This is an illusion. We all had to walk a gradual path. We all had to deal with our own stuff – our own unresolved psychology – the illusions we had accepted over many lifetimes. We all had to deal with every, dirty detail of it. We all took a long time to complete the journey, and there were times when for years it seemed like we were getting nowhere.

Just look at even the rather illusory, glorified view of the world and see that I spent years sitting in the forest meditating. I can assure you that there were times when it seemed like nothing was happening except my hair and nails were growing longer and longer.

Finding your personal Middle Way

We all have gone through this, and we made it because we kept going. We kept putting one foot in front of the other. Yet, we did not simply blindly follow some kind of scheme where we decided: “Ah, now I have the right path and now I have to just blindly apply it for the rest of my life and now I will be saved.”

Did I not sit there for years, thinking I had to follow a certain path, and then at one point I was willing to step back and say: “Nay, this path of the ascetic, this extreme path, cannot be it. There must be a higher way.” And that is when I discovered the Middle Way.

You see, there is not just one Middle Way. There is a general Middle Way, but there is a Middle Way for each person. You must also come to the point where you say: “I have had enough of going from this extreme to that extreme, now it is time for me to discover the balance by stepping back and looking at what I have not looked at so far, namely myself, my own psychology. Instead of thinking that I have to apply this or that outer system, outer technique, outer teaching, outer guru.”

You are the ultimate guru in the sense that there must come a point where you are willing to look at yourself and then tune in to your own higher self and to the ascended gurus who will give you directions from within. Earthly teachers, earthly teachings, can only take you so far. There will come a point when you must use the teaching to gain your own inner attunement with your higher self. If you will go to and look at the AskRealJesus website and the AscendedMasterLight website and the AscendedMasterAnswers website, you will see that we have been saying this since 2002.

Indeed, this is one of the messages you can apply to discern between a false and a true teaching. Will it tell you to go within and seek your own inner attunement, or will they tell you to follow an outer guru and keep following that guru without ever applying your ability to look at yourself from outside your current sense of self?

The past did not give an ultimate teaching

There is a tendency among many of the students that you find in the field today to look back at my teachings or other teachings from the past and think that they represent some ultimate accomplishment, some ultimate teachings, and have never been surpassed. I can tell you that when I gave the teachings 2,500 year ago, I was very much limited by what people knew back then about the world and about, first of all, the human psyche. Words are tricky for a word only has value based on the meaning that people assign to the word. You cannot explain something with words beyond what people are able to grasp based on what they are able to understand.

It should be possible to see that in today’s world people know so much more that we have better opportunities to explain things today than we had 2,000 or 2,500 ago. Or even longer ago, as some claim to have the original teaching of this or that mystery school, or this or that temple on Atlantis or Lemuria or wherever.

Life is a process of self-transcendence. Life does not stand still. Death is what stands still. In trying to stand still, of course, you must go down in the downward spiral. We of the ascended masters are not standing still. I, the Buddha, am not standing still even though I am always in stillness.

The ascended masters are constantly transcending ourselves and therefore we are more today than we were in the past. We can give a higher teaching today than we could give in the past. Of course, humankind does not stand still for there is more knowledge today and thus we can also give a higher, more detailed teaching than we could give in the past.

No cosmic force or cycle will bring change

Everything is an upward spiral. I am not asking you to look at yourself with the negativity or the fallen mindset that wants you to think that you made a mistake by believing in the 2012 phenomena. I am asking you to realize that you have the potential to step up higher and engage in an upward spiral.

You need to follow the admonishments I have given here and that we have given in many other teachings. You need to transcend. You need to, first of all, let go of this idea that some cosmic cycle will do it all for humankind. This is nonsense.

Everything on earth revolves around free will. No cosmic force would ever be allowed to come in and force the earth into a higher state. It will have to be brought about by a critical mass of people. As we have explained many times, there is a limit to what even the top 10% can do. The bottom 10%, some of those must eventually be judged and removed from the planet, and the 80% must be awakened to a higher level. Everything is a matter of free-will choices, or rather, it is a matter of choices for the will is not free because the vision is not free.

The key to growth is to expand people’s vision so that they will make better choices. Then the earth can be accelerated into a higher dimension, so to speak. Of course, it will not happen as many among the 2012 so-called prophets have predicted. It is not a matter of this happening in some physical way. It is all a matter of consciousness and it happens first at the etheric, then at the mental, then at the emotional level and finally it begins to break through to the physical. This, of course, will take the longest so we focus on the three highest levels and gradually allow it to filter through into the physical.

A seven-year cycle of new teachings

You will see that we have been relatively silent for the last several months of this year. It is simply because the collective consciousness was so densified by these expectations that we preferred to let the year run out before we gave any new teachings. We have, of course, many new teachings to give, as we will indeed start an entirely new cycle of giving new teachings.

Some of you who may have studied our teachings for a long time may feel like we are going back to basics. In a sense we are. We are beginning to give a teaching that many more people can follow for many more people are ready to step up to the teaching. We will begin by giving teachings about the basic co-creative abilities expressed through the seven rays.

As we have laid the foundation by giving the decrees over this last year, we will continue this cycle over the next seven years where each year will be dedicated to one ray as the main ray, but of course the seven other rays in an integrated and balanced manner. So 2013 will be under the primary ray of the First Ray, and thus Master MORE, Archangel Michael, and Hercules will be the main masters. With Master MORE stepping forward, of course, and giving various teachings through this year, truly, with the blessing of all of us.

We acknowledge that Master MORE, who some of you may have known in the past as El Morya, has attained the Buddhic level of consciousness. Thus, indeed, I ask you in your hearts, to welcome the Buddha Master MORE. He is, truly, more than ever before and he will be more than ever before every moment, everything second.

You better watch out that you can keep up with him and do not fall for the ego thinking that even if we give a teaching that can be grasped by new people, you who have studied our teachings for a long time, are beyond this. I tell you, none of you are beyond what we will give for there are always levels. There is hardly anyone who could not benefit from considering whether there was a missed step here or there on the path between the 48th and the 96th level of consciousness.

We look forward to these coming years with great anticipation. We look forward to truly being more productive in bringing forth many new teachings now that we have set a foundation where our websites are ready in their basic structures so that they can accommodate this as well as new books that we intend to bring forth.

Yet, let me not get ahead of myself but leave this to Master MORE and other masters to reveal, as we will surely give you many pointers in the coming days, weeks, month and years.

We are, all of us, grateful for the many people who for the past 10 years have supported this release of teachings through this messenger. Those of you who have given the rosaries, the invocations and the decrees we have released, those of you who have studied the teachings, and those of you how have supported our work in many ways, we are grateful. You have, indeed, been instrumental for setting a foundation that is built upon the Rock of Christ and therefore will allow us to build higher without having it all crumble or tumble over under its own weight.

The Middle Way and peak experiences

You must always remember balance. Balance is the key. It has always been the key since I made it a primary key in the collective consciousness so many centuries ago by bringing out the concept of the Middle Way. Without balance there is no achievement for you will eventually go so far that you fall down under your own weight. You therefore have to start over again, often with severe wounds or misqualified energy, although in some cases wiser from the experience.

Nevertheless, we do not desire our students to grow by going to the extremes and experiencing a crash. We desire to see you grow through a gradual, even, balanced path. For this to happen, you must be willing to give up many illusions, including the illusion of some major breakthrough into some fantastic, epic, higher state of consciousness. I tell you, on the Middle Way, there are no breakthroughs. There are no peak experiences.

What makes a peak experience? Contrast, my beloved, contrast between the extremes. Do you not begin to see this? This is what the false teachers offer you. They offer you a dramatic high, a dramatic breakthrough. But it can only be so in contrast with an equally dramatic low.

If this is the path you desire to continue following, then by all means follow it. We can only bow to your free will. The path we offer is the path where you transcend the contrast and so there is no peak. There is no high, there is no low. There is only what I called Bliss, which is not in contrast to anything. There is no anti-bliss, even though you can come up with the word. Bliss has no opposite. Bliss has no contrast. This is why the Buddha is in peace. What is there to be upset or down about when you are always on the Middle Way?

I give you this thoughtform for 2013. You are sitting in the Buddhic position with my Presence, my Being, superimposed upon your own. You feel how this gentle, gentle rain is falling upon you. It is the rain of the seven rays that form a waterfall of multicolored raindrops, almost like a curtain that gently falls without any great contrast.

You should all have remembered the experience of being out in this gentle spring rain that is soft, warm, and just gently falls – without any big splashing – but gently, peacefully, falling. It descends from above, filling up your entire aura, with the multi-colored light of the seven rays in balance until you are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

The gold is the golden peace of the Buddha, that peace that I am. A peace that I will give you if you will use our tools and spend a little time on meditating on this thoughtform that I have given you.

Thus, with the gratitude of all of us, especially for those who gave these vigils through 2012. You were the ones who held the balance for those of your spiritual brothers and sisters who were taken into the extremes by the 2012 phenomena. Without you, without these decree vigils, various calamities would have come to pass in the physical. The year could have been very, very different, my beloved. No need to go into detail for what did not happen did not happen, and you are all the better for it.

Allow yourself to feel that even though it may not seem so, it was all worth it, and you did make a difference. Thus, in the peace of the Buddha, I seal you for the peace of the Buddha I am.

09. Co-creating consciously

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I AM. Let us summarize the message that I want to get across in this book.

The main message is, of course, that you are a co-creator with your God. You are designed to co-create. And how do you co-create? You co-create because you have self-awareness. As a result of having self-awareness, you have the ability to formulate an image in your mind—an image of something that you do not experience through your physical senses and the outer consciousness. In other words, you can formulate a mental image, a mental matrix, of something that does not yet exist in physical manifestation.

The mental image you formulate will, of course, be limited by your imagination. And for many people their imagination is limited by what they see, what they experience through their physical senses and their outer mind. Nevertheless, you are a self-aware being, and you have the potential to formulate any mental image, any mental matrix, that is conceivable and possible.

God has not defined any limitations for your self-awareness and your imagination. They are free, they are infinite, they are unlimited. The only thing that can limit your imagination is the limitations that you allow to be in the sphere of your consciousness.

So you co-create by formulating a mental image and then using your self-awareness to project that image upon the Ma-ter light. When that projection goes all the way through the four levels of the material universe – the identity, mental, emotional and physical – then you will co-create a physical form. The Ma-ter light will take on that physical form, and you can perceive it with your senses and outer consciousness.

Yet whenever you start the co-creative process, you are creating something. If you are creating a mental image in your identity body of who you are, it is inevitable that your self-awareness – the stream of consciousness flowing through you – will flow through that matrix. And thus, it will be projected upon the Ma-ter light in the identity realm. The same of, course, applies in the mental and emotional realms.

You cannot stop co-creating

What I need you to realize here is, that you are constantly co-creating. The price you pay, so to speak, for being a self-aware co-creator is that you cannot stop co-creating, because you cannot stop being conscious. Of course, you can look at planet earth and see that many people use many things, including chemical substances, to make themselves unconscious or to alter their consciousness, so that they are not really consciousness.

Nevertheless, even if you are asleep or physically unconscious, your emotional mind, mental mind, and your identity mind are not asleep or unconscious. There is always a level of your being, where you hold mental images and where the stream of consciousness coming from your I AM Presence is flowing through these images, and therefore being projected upon the Ma-ter light at that level. So even if you are not co-creating a physical structure that you can detect with your senses, you are co-creating an emotional structure, a mental structure, and an identity or etheric structure.

The point I have tried to get across in this book is that all of the things that you co-create at the identity, mental, and emotional levels form what I have chosen to call spirits. And these spirits then become part of your total being, part of the lower being that many people call the soul.

Thus, when you have created such a spirit, then the light from your I AM Presence – the stream of consciousness from your I AM Presence – will stream through it, and therefore you will continually be co-creating through that spirit. This does not mean that you will be co-creating a new spirit at every moment, but it means that as the stream of your awareness flows through a particular spirit, you will be reinforcing that spirit, and thus it becomes stronger and stronger.

And so the value of having this teaching is that it makes it possible for you to do what I have explained in earlier discourses, namely to walk the spiritual path in a much more conscious manner. In most previous teachings that have been released on this planet, people have been given only a partial understanding of what the spiritual path is about. And therefore, they have not had the concept I have given you, that you have in the past created these spirits, that these spirits have become part of your being, and that if you identify with the spirits, you cannot actually free yourself from them.

For as long as you are identified with a given spirit, your consciousness will stream through it. This will have two effects. As the stream of your consciousness is streaming through your spirit, you cannot at the same time see the spirit as a spirit and see it from the outside. But if you do not see it, you cannot free yourself from it. At the same time as your consciousness is streaming through this spirit, your energies are tied up in the spirit, and you are reinforcing the spirit, making it more difficult for yourself to pull your consciousness away from that spirit and look at that spirit from the outside.

A spirit is not who you are

The saving grace in this scenario is what we have explained many times, that the Conscious You truly has the ability to project itself anywhere it wants. This means that you can at any time project yourself outside a given spirit, or you can pull yourself away from a given spirit, so that your self-awareness is not focused in the spirit and the stream of your consciousness is not flowing through that spirit.

Now, as I tell you this, it is obvious that you still have spirits in the sphere of your being, the sphere of your consciousness. Just hearing or reading these words will not mean that you will automatically pull away from them. But what I am telling you is that by having the concept in your mind and by accepting that concept, you can take your path to an entirely new level. Once you become conscious of the fact that these spirits exist in the sphere of your consciousness, you can consciously make a decision that you will engage in the process of pulling yourself away from identification with the spirits, so that you can indeed come to see a spirit from the outside.

Now, I can assure you that if you are ready for this teaching, then you have already done this. You have been willing to look at the beam in your own eye to some degree. That means that in this lifetime, and probably also in past lifetimes, you have had incidents, where you have suddenly come to see a spirit. You may not have identified it as a spirit the way I am explaining it here, but nevertheless you have suddenly shifted. You have looked at yourself and said, “I do not want to be like this anymore. I do not want to continue to repeat these old patterns anymore. I want to change. I want to be more than this.”

And perhaps you are aware of having experienced this in this lifetime – where you consciously saw something – and you have probably also experienced that by consciously seeing something, seeing that it is not you, you have almost instantaneously been able to shift out of it, so that you are no longer identified with it. And of course, the essential step to rising to a higher level of the spiritual path is to come to a point, where you do not identify yourself with the spirit that is the primary spirit that represents the level of consciousness you have right now.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

08. Ongoing Self-mastery

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I AM. And I come to give you another hint, that will assist you in navigating the spiral staircase of the seven rays under the seven Chohans.

I have already talked about the fact, that you are facing the journey, whereby you confront and transcend the spirits you have created, or that have been created in the collective consciousness through humankind’s misuse of the seven rays. Thus, what I wish to bring to your attention today is two things: First of all, I want to reinforce what I have said earlier about the very nature of the Holy Spirit, which is that it is always flowing; it is a stream. It is not a static spirit. It is an ever-flowing, ever-self-transcending Spirit, that never remains the same for even a split second.

The second thing is the need to keep in mind, that you are overcoming these separate spirits. And as I have said before, this will for some mean that they build a new self, a new spirit. And there is no way around this between the 48th and the 96th level of consciousness, for this is indeed your charge: to experiment with your co-creative abilities, to experiment with the seven rays, and to build a self that has some mastery of the seven rays. Nevertheless, what I would like you to keep in mind is that you are not building a self that is static. You are building a self that can flow with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

Perfecting a spirit

You see, the false teachers on this earth have attempted to come up with many clever schemes for how to cause those who are the sincere spiritual seekers – those who have risen above the 48th level, those who have not gone into duality – how they can cause those to go into a blind alley, that will stop their growth or even cause it to keep going down further and further into separation. And one of the main schemes they have come up with is these many subtle variations, that you can create a separate self, a spirit, that can actually gain entry into the spiritual realm.

You will see, when you think about this in light of what I have taught you in the previous discourses, that this is, of course, the ultimate dream of the ego, of the fallen beings, and of the separate spirits. A separate spirit is by definition mortal, but it dreams of immortality. It dreams of living up to some condition, whereby it becomes acceptable to God and therefore gains entry into the wedding feast with Christ.

But as Jesus said, “No man can ascend to heaven, save he who descended from heaven.” The only being who can ascend to heaven is the Conscious You, and it can do so only when it sheds all of the snake skins of the separate spirits, those false serpentine spirits that slither along the ground with their subtle serpentine logic, making you think that you will become as a god who can enter heaven.

Thus, you can see that the Greek gods on Mount Olympus were obviously not very high beings, given the infighting and the schemes that they came up with. This is indeed a symbol for how the fallen beings have attempted to create separate selves, that they think will gain immortality. Yet nothing can enter Heaven except what came out of Heaven, which is pure awareness. So you will never be able to take these separate spirits with you, no matter how perfect they may be according to some earthly standard or another.

The false view of perfection

Do you see the problem with the separate spirit? A separate spirit may indeed grow for a time. Think about this very carefully. A separate spirit may indeed be designed to grow and to expand and to, in a sense, perfect itself. Therefore, it is perfectly possible that you come into a religion or a spiritual teaching, and now you create an ideal in your mind, that if you keep applying the teaching, you will at some point have reached a state of perfection – some ultimate state – and then you will be allowed entry into heaven. Or you will reach enlightenment, or whatever the goal is defined as being.

But you see, you will not be saved, you will not be enlightened, you will not ascend, by building a stationary, perfect self. Perfection in Heaven is not the same as what most human beings see as perfection. For human beings tend to see perfection as static. For if something is perfect, well, how can it possibly improve? If it is possible to improve it, then it could not be perfect—so reasons the serpentine mind.

Yet we, who have freed ourselves from the serpentine mind, know that true perfection is flowing with the Spirit. The only ultimate state is the self-awareness at the Creator level, but you will not reach that while you are in embodiment on earth. Nor will you reach it until you have gone through the initiations of all of the spheres that are above the one in which you live right now. And so, this is not something you need to be concerned about right now; reaching the level of the Creator consciousness. For even the Creator consciousness, of course, does not stand still. For if it did stand still, why would it create the world of form out of its own Being?

You see, there is no standing still. Perfection is constant self-transcendence. This is the true definition of perfection. This is why the Holy Spirit is perfect. It does not have a goal of reaching some ultimate static state. It has a goal of continuing to transcend itself indefinitely. So it never seeks to hold on to the old, for it is always willing to shed the snake skin of the old and transcend into a new state.

This then, is what I admonish you to ponder. For there is a very fundamental difference between walking the Path of the Seven Rays with the goal that you are creating some perfect self according to a static definition of perfection, and then having the goal that you are creating a flexible self, that can constantly and easily flow with the Holy Spirit in ongoing self-transcendence beyond the 96th level.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

07. Going beyond aggressive intent

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I am. And I come to carry on, by building on the foundation I have set in the previous discourses. I have said, that there is a tendency to form an aggressive intent of seeking to change other people. This is a tendency that started with the original fallen beings but has been perpetuated both in previous spheres and in this sphere by them, and by people who have been ensnared by them into taking part in this downward spiral.

What is the plan of these fallen beings? It is simply to drag as many people and lifestreams as possible into their downward spiral. If they can, they will drag every self-aware being into the downward spiral, which of course cannot be done, as there are already so many beings in this sphere who have entered the upward spiral, the ascension spiral that is the Holy Spirit.

Nevertheless, there are relatively few planets where fallen beings are allowed to embody, as an act of mercy towards them and as an act of testing towards the lifestreams who need this kind of test. They can maintain the illusion, that one day they will be successful and prove God wrong by causing all self-aware beings to fall. And thus, God will be forced to change his design for the plan of raising awareness, self-awareness. So you need to see, when you are a spiritual student on the path, what is the modus operandi of the fallen beings.

The tendency to ignore dark forces

As I have said before, in the ideal scenario you would be able to walk the Path of the Seven Veils between the 48th and 96th level of consciousness without dealing with the fallen consciousness, without dealing with anyone aggressively seeking to influence you. It would be all between you and the spiritual teacher. But because planet earth is not an ideal scenario or environment, you will have to recognize – and you need to recognize as a spiritual student – that you will have to deal with the fallen consciousness on each level, up until the 96th level, and even beyond, but you deal with it in a different way after the 96th level.

I would like you now to take a look at the many spiritual movements that are out there on this planet, and you will indeed see that many of them have no teachings about fallen beings and dark forces. You will see that many spiritual people prefer to ignore these topics and indeed become kind of squeamish, when they are confronted with the potential that there could be dark forces.

There are some who say that you should focus only on the positive, for if you focus on the negative, you give it power. Well, my beloved, you do not necessarily give the dark forces power by being aware of them. You do give them power if you engage them with fear or seek to battle them. But I can tell you with absolute surety, that you also give power to dark forces by ignoring and denying them.

For you see, ignorance, ignoring something and denying its existence, these are not passive measures. They are active measures for one very simple reason: the dark forces are aggressive. They seek to influence anyone on this planet. Therefore, you cannot be in existence on this planet without having an aggressive force directed against you.

And how can you ignore or deny this force? Only by directing a force back that blinds you to what is being directed at you. This should be known by simple wave dynamics, where you need to have a certain basic understanding, that everything is energy and energy moves in waves. And when two waves meet, they create an interference pattern. This means that one wave can cancel out or change the vibration of another wave.

What is coming at you from the fallen beings of the mass consciousness is a wave of energy. If you are neutral and attentive, you will notice this energy. So the only way you can go into a state, where you ignore it or deny it, is that you are sending out energy, which will not neutralize the negative energy, it will only neutralize it at the level of your conscious awareness, so that you are not consciously aware of it. And therefore, you can ignore or deny the dark forces.

Yet they will still influence your subconscious mind. And I can tell you with all honesty, that I can look at the millions of sincere spiritual seekers on this planet, and I can assure you that if they are not consciously aware of the dark forces, then they are indeed influenced by those dark forces.

Earth is one of the lower planets

This, of course, does not mean that they feel this influence, because many of them don’t. And the reason is partly what I just said, that they have created an outgoing energy that prevents their conscious minds from noticing the attack from dark forces. But it is also due to the fact, that once the dark forces have directed you onto a false path, a path that cannot lead you to the Christ consciousness and the ascension, then they will tend to not necessarily leave you alone, but they will allow you to stay in the illusion that you are doing exactly the right thing.

That is why you can see in the Western world many Christians, who are absolutely convinced that Jesus will come and save them, because they are the chosen ones by being members of a particular church or by declaring Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Likewise, you will see many spiritual people who have similar beliefs, that if they are only kind and loving towards everybody and don’t put their attention on anything negative, then they are guaranteed to one day become enlightened.

This is all a lie created by the fallen beings specifically to trap those who are beginning to awaken, but have not yet awakened to the absolute reality that the spiritual path, the path towards enlightenment or the ascension, is a conscious path. You cannot walk it by being unconscious. You cannot walk it by ignoring or denying. You can walk it only by looking at anything and everything.

And you cannot, my beloved, walk the spiritual path on planet earth without recognizing and acknowledging what kind of planet you have landed upon. This is not an ideal planet. This is a treacherous planet. This is one of the lower planets in the material universe; not the lowest, but one of the lower ones. And you need to recognize this, and you need to be aware of it. I am not saying you need to be afraid of dark forces. I am not saying you need to battle them. But you need to be aware, because only by being aware can you follow the call of Jesus: “Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

There are many spiritual people who think they are harmless as doves, but you cannot be harmless as a dove unless you are wise as a serpent, wise to the serpents and their attempts to direct you into a blind alley that does not lead to true self-transcendence. It leads to the automatic path, where you think that because you follow certain outer requirements, you no longer need to look at the beam in your own eye, and that you can be saved automatically by belonging to this or that church, following this or that guru or doing this or that technique. It simply does not work that way.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

06. Affected by death

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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I am the Maha Chohan. Let us now take another look at the death consciousness. I need you to start looking back at your life. I need you to start recognizing, how you have been affected by the death consciousness in many ways, some obvious, some not so obvious. You may think – and this is in fact a common occurrence among people on earth, even the spiritual people – that death is a passive thing. You may have come to believe, that after death there is nothing. It is just like an eternal sleep, as indeed some scientific materialists say.

Yet I can assure you, that the death consciousness is not a passive force. It is an extremely aggressive force, although it is in fact capable of camouflaging itself, so that most people do not even see the attacks to which they are being exposed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for an entire lifetime. And even throughout all of their embodiments on this planet, where everything is so influenced by the death consciousness, that it can be extremely difficult for people to see something that is not influenced by the death consciousness.

And thus, of course, the most profound and subtle effect of the death consciousness is that when people have been enveloped in it for so long, they have no longer any frame of reference, that there is something outside of the death consciousness. And they hardly ever see it, they hardly ever experience it in their daily lives.

Inner experience of the Holy Spirit

This, of course, is one of the primary functions of religion, or rather, spirituality. It is indeed to take people to the point, where they have a direct inner experience of the Holy Spirit, the consciousness of life, the River of Life. So that they not only know intellectually that there is something outside the death consciousness, but they have experienced it. Until you have experienced that there is something outside the death consciousness, you do not actually have a frame of reference. Intellectual knowledge will not shift your consciousness; only that direct inner experience of something beyond the death consciousness.

And thus, what is truly meant to happen is that all true religions are meant to take people on a path, where they raise their consciousness gradually through many levels. Where they shed certain illusions of the death consciousness, until they finally come to that point, where they can go through some kind of ritual or ceremony, and then they have that experience of snapping out of their normal state of consciousness, so influenced by the death consciousness, and experiencing something more.

Even that something more, that you can hear in my voice, that you can “hear” between the lines in the words, if you are reading them. And you can know, from what I am saying, that there is more, that I AM MORE. That I am more than the death consciousness, and that because I am not in the death consciousness, I feel no obligation to conform to it. I have no intention whatsoever of conforming to it, and I will not conform to it.

So if you have projections that you project upon me as a spiritual teacher, or that you project upon the seven Chohans, then we cannot help you—unless you are willing to reconsider those expectations. And unless you are willing to, as our first order of business, allow us to shatter your expectations, by not living up to them, by challenging them, by deliberately going beyond them. Do you see, that this is an essential, an absolutely essential, point on the spiritual path?

You cannot escape the death consciousness on your own, once you are enveloped in it. Your mind has become a closed system. For the overall effect of the death consciousness is that it is a closed system, that is shut off from the life-giving power of the River of Life, from the Holy Spirit.

From separateness to oneness

The death consciousness is made up of innumerable false spirits, innumerable separate spirits, and they cannot see the Holy Spirit. If they were to see and acknowledge the Holy Spirit, they would instantly cease to exist as separate spirits. Do you see this, my beloved? Do you begin to at least glimpse this? You cannot be separate and in oneness at the same time. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

This is one of the essential turning points on the spiritual path, where you realize, that if you want something more than what you have right now, you cannot stay in the state of consciousness you are in right now. You cannot remain comfortable, if you want spiritual growth. For the death consciousness can indeed make people so comfortable, that they are absolutely convinced, that if they keep doing that which they are doing right now – and keep believing what they are believing right now, and keep going to church every Sunday – then God simply has to save them and take them into heaven.

Yet the death consciousness can, of course, also make people extremely uncomfortable. And this will happen because of the second law of thermodynamics, which is actually the reinforcing spiral, where everything is reinforced, whether it is separate or out of Oneness. And thus, the death consciousness must become more and more extreme, until it makes you more and more uncomfortable.

But nevertheless, they are the two aspects of it, the Alpha and Omega, where some people become extremely comfortable and other people become extremely uncomfortable. And of course, those who are comfortable are not likely to change, are they? For why should they, when they are comfortable thinking that one day Jesus will arrive in the sky and save them? Or some other external savior will come and do the work for them.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

05. The death consciousness

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I am, and I come to give you a discourse on the death consciousness, and how you might begin to build a better way to react to it, or rather, to stop reacting to it. For of course, what the death consciousness wants more than anything else is to get you to react, to engage, or even to fight or seek to destroy it.

This, of course, is in stark contrast to the Holy Spirit, to the Spirit of Life, which does not want you to fight, does not want you to oppose, does not want you to destroy anyone or anything or to put down any part of life. It wants you to flow with the Spirit, to flow with the Spirit that is life.

For truly, as I have said, in all previous spheres – and in the very long time span that has passed since your sphere has come into being – the combined effort of all self-aware beings, who have transcended themselves and become more, has formed the upward flow of the Holy Spirit. It truly is the River of Life, that carries everything with it. And truly, even the earth is carried with the stream of the Holy Spirit.

The River of Life never stands still

As you might know, if you think about this more deeply, your planet is not simply revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit, and therefore coming back to its starting point every time it has completed one revolution. For you must know, I am sure, that the entire universe is expanding, with all of the galaxies moving away from each other. That means that your sun is not stationary in the universe. Your sun is moving along a line, which is not even a straight line.

This means that as the sun is moving and dragging the planets with it, then, when the earth is moving in an elliptical orbit around the sun, it is not stationary in that orbit, it is not a stable orbit. The sun is moving, and so the actual path formed by the earth through space is more like a spiral, a very complex spiral, which can nevertheless be described mathematically. And which will, at some point in the not-too-distant future, be described mathematically. This will open up important new scientific discoveries, but this is beside the point of this discourse.

What you need to realize is simply this: the River of Life is an ongoing, moving stream. There is nothing in the River of Life that stands still. But you also need to consider, that the River of Life is not simply moving, as you consider movement in the macroscopic universe of your senses. For you have the concept, that you can move from one place to the other and remain the same. But this is not the kind of movement you find in the River of Life. For in the River of Life, movement is always transcending itself.

It is not just a horizontal movement, where you remain the same. You are transcending, you are growing, you are accelerating and you are multiplying the talents and becoming more. And this is the essence of the life consciousness, the consciousness of life, the River of Life.

What is the consciousness of death?

So, with this in mind, let me now give you a concentrated teaching about what is the consciousness of death:

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So you have now received a taste of what is the consciousness of death. For the consciousness of death is what you experienced in this interval of silence. For of course, whether you were reading or listening to this, you were expecting that after my introduction, something more would follow, some teaching, some image, some description of the consciousness of death. And therefore, when your expectation was not met, because there was an interval of silence, you had a reaction in your mind, did you not?

And this reaction, if you would care to look at it, to observe it, you would see that this is part of the death consciousness. For what did you expect? You were tuned in to the flow of my delivery, and I was giving you to understand, that I would give you a description of the death consciousness. So in your mind there was an expectation. And so you see, the death consciousness has two aspects here, that you can identify, if you think about this carefully.

One is that there is a knowing behind the death consciousness that life is an ongoing process. You know deep within your being, that life is meant to be the River of Life that is constantly transcending itself. This is an inner knowing, that comes from the fact that the Conscious You is an extension of your I AM Presence, and then an extension of ascended masters, reaching all the way back to the Creator.

The Creator extended itself as self-aware extensions of itself precisely to give them an opportunity to accelerate their sense of self awareness. So this is your entire purpose for being: to accelerate your self-awareness and flow with the River of Life. And therefore you cannot – even though you can dull your conscious faculties – you cannot escape this inner knowing that life is an ongoing process, life is meant to be an ongoing process.

And thus, the death consciousness cannot completely remove this inner knowing. It can cover it over. It can camouflage it. It can misdirect it. But it cannot completely silence your inner knowing that life is meant to be an ongoing process.

But now what is it that the death consciousness can do? It can cause you to build an expectation of what that process should be like, where it should be going as the next step, and where it should be going as the ultimate goal. This is what the death consciousness can do, but how can it do this?

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

04. The spiritual scenario on earth

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I AM. In this discourse we will look at the contrast between the ideal scenario for the growth of a new co-creator, and the scenario that is the current reality on planet earth.

As we have said, a new co-creator first descends at the 48th level of consciousness. At this level you have an intuitive, inner sense, that you are connected to something greater than yourself. And this something greater is, of course, your I AM Presence. You also have the availability of a spiritual teacher—that is, of course, in the ideal scenario. You therefore have conscious contact with a spiritual teacher, who can guide you on the First Ray and then on the other rays as you move forward.

What happens in the ideal scenario is, that you rise from the 48th through the 49th level of consciousness. And as you rise, you create a spirit. Then you allow that spirit to be reborn into a higher spirit, and this allows you to rise to the next level of consciousness. Take note that in this ideal scenario you are not actually dealing with the concept, that you on earth today see as death. It is not truly necessary for you to let the old spirit die, in the sense you understand death on earth.

A spiritual view of death

You see, the way you have come to look at death is that this is something that definitively ends your life, that breaks it off, that stops it. You have come to see it as something that is forced upon you by some outside force.

Yet in the ideal scenario, you do not have to go through the process of letting the old spirit die, in the sense that it ceases to be, that something is forced upon you, and that this is a loss or a cessation of consciousness. Instead, you realize that you can simply allow yourself to be reborn into a higher sense of self.

Therefore, one could say that what you do between the 48th and the 96th level of consciousness, is that you very smoothly allow one spirit to transcend itself into the next spirit—and the next, and the next, and the next. This is a process that does not entail any abrupt stoppages, as you associate with death today. You are simply flowing from one stage to the next, and therefore it is easy for a co-creator to get the sense, that you have continuity between the spirit at one level of consciousness and the spirit at the next level of consciousness.

This can then give you, as I spoke about previously, the sense that you are building a continuous spirit instead of going from one spirit to the next. Yet at the same time, if you have contact with a spiritual teacher, then the teacher will prepare you for the fact, that when you come to the 96th level, you do have to go through an abrupt change. Because at that point you actually have to “lay down your life for a friend,” as Jesus expressed it.

You have to have that greater love of being willing to lay down the spirit, that you have created at the first 48 levels of consciousness. For this spirit cannot take you beyond the 96th level, as it is a spirit that was focused on raising itself as an individual spirit. In order to transcend and go beyond the 96th level, you need to start creating a new spirit, that is aimed at raising up more than your individual self, that is aimed at raising up the whole.

In the ideal scenario, this is a more abrupt change than you have experienced before, but it is still not what you see as death today. Because truly, it is not a loss for the Conscious You. As you have become more and more conscious, as you grew towards the 96th level, you have also become conscious of the fact, that you will not die if your spirit dies, because you are more than the spirit. The spirit is not you. You have not created a “self;” you have not even recreated yourself as the spirit.

You are conscious of the fact that the spirit is just a vehicle, that you are using to express yourself in the material world. Therefore, you will know that even if this spirit dies, you will not die. There will not even be a cessation of consciousness. There will not be an abrupt change or loss. This means that you can, when you are aware of this, smoothly let go of the old. You can lay down your life for a greater cause than raising up an individual self. You can therefore smoothly transition into that next phase.

Ideal versus current scenario

We will now look at the scenario that you face today, as you begin the path in a more conscious way than you have done before. What you have on planet earth today is not the ideal scenario by any means. It is very far from the ideal scenario. Of course, my purpose for bringing out this book before I allow the seven Chohans to bring out books for each of the seven rays, is indeed to prepare you, so that you can more successfully navigate the seven rays and the initiations of the seven rays.

Truly, in the ideal scenario, you would not be confronted with what I, in the last discourse, talked about as the aggressive spirits. In the ideal scenario, you are creating a spirit, and a number of spirits, as you grow from the 48th to the 96th level. But these are spirits that have two interesting characteristics. One is that they know that you can draw enough energy from inside yourself to drive your creative efforts. Thus, you do not need to take anything from outside yourself, from other lifestreams, meaning there is nothing aggressive in this kind of spirit. Furthermore, the spirit you are creating has the overall goal of growing towards a higher state of consciousness. You are not creating a static spirit; you are creating a spirit that wants to grow, that wants to transition into a higher phase.

This is in stark contrast to what happens after you fall into the duality consciousness, where you now begin to see yourself as a separate being. In order to go through this process, you have to be aware of a subtle psychological mechanism. Before you fall into a lower state of consciousness, you do have some inner sense that you are connected to something greater than yourself. This means that in order to enter into the consciousness of separation, where you now see yourself as a separate being, you have to deny your connection to something greater than yourself.

Yet the Conscious You is created as an extension of the I AM Presence, as an extension of the ascended masters and ultimately as an extension of the Creator’s Being. So you have to go through a deliberate denial of this connection to something greater. And in order to do this, you have to justify the denial.

You have to find a way, in your own mind, to justify that you are departing the path towards greater and greater oneness with something greater, and instead switching to the path that takes you deeper and deeper into separation. This is where you then seek to raise up your separate self – not as a connected being with greater and greater creative powers – but as a separate being with greater and greater powers to forcefully control your environment.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

03. Letting old spirits die

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I AM. In this discourse we will again consider the question: “What is the Holy Spirit?” We are approaching the topic and answer gradually, that you might have a greater understanding of this extremely important topic.

We go back to the concept of the 144 levels of consciousness and the fact that a new co-creator starts out at the 48th level. And then – if it chooses to raise its consciousness and engage in the Path of the Seven Veils, the Paths of the Seven Rays – it gradually works its way up through the seven rays towards the 96th level of consciousness.

Spirits and the seven rays

As I explained, anything you do is done with energy. Anything you do is done with consciousness. The energy aspect is what we have called the Ma-ter light. You form a matrix in your mind, and then you allow your consciousness to flow through the matrix and thereby project that matrix upon the Ma-ter light, which then takes on the form.

Anything that has consciousness flowing through it, becomes animated by consciousness. What you are actually doing is you are creating a spirit. We have given various teachings on this topic already. We have talked about how a new co-creator often takes on what we have called a pre-defined role in order to have a foundation for starting its creative efforts. Yet as you continue to co-create through that role, you gradually begin to create a spirit. This spirit, of course, does not have self-awareness as you do, but nevertheless it is a spirit. It is a being that has a certain sense of awareness, a certain survival instinct, and therefore a built-in desire to grow.

What happens is, that as you work your way up through the first three rays, you are simply experimenting with your creative powers. There is the joy of experimenting with the First Ray. There is the desire to evaluate on the Second Ray, whether the results you produce are the results you want. Then there is the love of the Third Ray, which can be the pure love of creating, but eventually becomes the love for creating for some higher purpose.

This can lead you to the point, where you accelerate yourself on the Fourth Ray and begin to evaluate your co-creation based on something outside yourself. For you are striving for some greater sense of purpose, something that has a positive effect on life beyond your own sphere of self. This continues through the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Ray, until you end up at that 95-96th level consciousness, where you then face the initiation of whether you will take a giant leap – a quantum leap – or whether you will continue to seek to reinforce what you have created up until this point.

You are not the spirit you create

And what is it that you have created? You have created the outer self that is a spirit. The extreme importance of the concept of the Conscious You is, that it is the Conscious You that has created this outer spirit, but the Conscious You is not the spirit. The Conscious You has not become the spirit and has not been changed by this spirit. The Conscious You is still what it always was created to be, an open door and nothing more—and nothing less.

The test that you face at this point – when you have completed the initiations of the seven rays – is simply this: Will you now let that spirit that you have created die, so that you can be reborn into a higher sense of self? This is what Jesus alluded to in a mystical way, when he told Nicodemus that only the man who descended from heaven can ascend back to heaven. This refers to the Conscious You. Only the Conscious You can ascend back to the spiritual realm.

The spirit that you have created, what many people call the soul, cannot ascend. It cannot ascend, my beloved. What can ascend are the positive experiences that you have had through that spirit, and that becomes part of your causal body [ See The Power of Self ]. But the spirit itself cannot ascend; it must be allowed to die in order for the Conscious You to be allowed to rise to the next level, and go beyond the 96th level, moving towards the 144th level.

What needs to happen at the 96th level is that you actually allow the spirit you have created to die, so that you can – as Jesus put it – be born again, be born of water. When you are born of water, you take on a new self, which is, of course, not completely different from the old self. Yet it is a distinctly new self, and you consciously know that it is a new self.

Then you start growing towards the 144th level. As you do so, you are again creating a self, a spirit. When you come to the 144th level, you are – like Jesus demonstrated on the cross – you are paralyzed, you are crucified, and you realize you are crucified by your own creation. Therefore, you can, while hanging on the cross, realize that nobody is going to come and save you from your own creation and free you from the spirit you have created. You are the one who must give up the ghost and let that spirit die once more, whereby you can then be born again, be reborn of fire in the ritual of the fire of the Ascension Flame, that completely accelerates your being but does so by shattering the matrix of the spirit that took you to this point.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

02. The two types of spirits

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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I AM the Maha Chohan. In this chapter we will consider the question: What is the Holy Spirit, the One Spirit, the River of Life?

You know the teaching we have given [See The Power of Self], of how the Creator first manifested a void by withdrawing itself into a singularity, then projecting itself out as the first sphere. And after the first sphere ascended, it became the foundation for creating the second sphere, and so on until the sphere in which you live, in which the material universe is found. What you need to understand here is this: God has not singled-handedly created the world of form.

The Creator has not sat there as the almighty, remote Creator and created the world of form, so to speak, from the outside. Creation is a two-fold process; it is a process whereby the One Creator creates individual self-aware extensions of itself, sends them into the latest sphere, and then they co-create the world of form from the inside, forming a figure-eight flow with the Creator.

And thus, what we see is that these self-aware extensions of the Creator create, essentially, in the same way as the Creator creates. For what exactly is it that the Creator creates, when it creates an extension of itself? What is the Creator?

How Spirit creates

The Creator is Spirit. How does Spirit create? You look at this process from the vantage point of the material universe, where you have – for a variety of reasons that we need not go into here – been conditioned, programmed, to see the material universe as being separate from Spirit. You have the subtle image in your minds that God is a Spirit, but God created a world of form that is not Spirit, that is separated from Spirit.

This is highly inaccurate, and it is non-constructive for your spiritual growth. Surely, we of the ascended masters understand full well that there are levels of consciousness, and that there are some levels of consciousness, where you are simply not ready to grasp the truth that I will give you here. So we understand that there are people who need to hold on to the image, that matter and Spirit are separate. For this is the only way they can have the experience that they desire to have; the experience of being separate, disconnected beings. Of course, the Law of Free Will must be allowed to outplay itself, so that they can have that experience until they have had enough of it.

Yet the deeper truth that I wish to reveal to those who are ready, those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, is that Spirit cannot create something that is separate from Spirit. Spirit cannot create something that is not Spirit. So, how does Spirit create? By creating spirit.

The Creator itself is beyond form, as you can conceive of form from inside the world of form. Yet in order to create the world of form, the Creator does not create a form that is separate from itself. The Creator, which is Spirit, can create a form in only one way, namely by creating a spirit, a spirit that is created in two distinct elements or phases.

First, the Creator must envision a matrix, a form, a geometric shape, which is what Saint Germain calls a symbol. Then, the Creator allows the stream of its own Being, consciousness and Spirit to flow through the matrix. This matrix then becomes animated by the Creator’s Spirit, and therefore becomes a spirit that has a distinct form. This spirit is now charged with the task of maintaining that form.

Spirits and self-awareness

Now then, as you look at life from inside the material sphere, you are used to thinking in terms of inanimate matter and animate life forms. This is comparable – with some latitude for not taking things literally – to what the Creator does. The Creator creates inanimate forms that are upheld by a spirit that has consciousness but does not have self-awareness. Then, the Creator creates co-creators, who also have a form and therefore also started out as a matrix in the Creator’s mind endowed by Spirit, endowed by a portion of Spirit so concentrated, so intensified, that it makes them self-aware. So we now have spirits with awareness but no self-awareness, and Spirits with self-awareness.

Thus, you see a very important distinction. An “inanimate” spirit, so to speak, cannot transcend the basic matrix according to which it was created. It cannot consciously and deliberately transcend itself, recreate itself, redefine itself. This does not mean that the spirit cannot evolve; it can indeed evolve as you conceive of evolution in nature. It can evolve within the parameters set by its original matrix, which means that it can become more of that matrix. It can gather to itself energy, even consciousness, and therefore it can grow in power, in sophistication. But it cannot change itself deliberately and consciously.

In a sense, it cannot bring forth something that is new in a revolutionary or transcendental way. Yet a self-aware “animate” Spirit, a co-creator, does indeed have the ability to step back, look at itself and decide that it wants to be something different than what it is right now. And therefore, it can remake itself, recreate itself, transcend itself.

This means something profound. The co-creative Spirit has the same ability as the Creator, which is to formulate a matrix in its mind and to direct the stream of its consciousness through the matrix. Thus, a co-creative Spirit can create form, a new form not seen before. The inanimate spirit does not have the ability to envision or imagine something beyond its own matrix. It has enough consciousness to know that it exists, that it wants to survive and that it wants to grow by gathering to itself more energy, more consciousness, and it can even expand itself within the matrix that defines it.

A co-creative Spirit can envision, imagine, a new matrix. But of course, there are limitations to what a co-creative Spirit can envision, and the limitations are set by the matrix that defines the co-creative Spirit. So you see, there are two phases in the evolution, the growth, of a co-creative Spirit. The first phase is that you are focused on creating forms, and the second phase is that you realize, that in order to create forms that are completely new, you need to recreate yourself.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

01. You are more than your mind

Ascended Master Maha Chohan through Kim Michaels.

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The Maha Chohan I AM. The Maha Chohan is the title I have, the name of the office I hold. It is not my name as an individual God-free being, but my name is not important, as my identity – individuality, characteristics – are not important for the office I hold.

Truly, when you hold this office, you are transcending the individuality and personality, as it can be seen from the vantage point of a being that is embodied on earth. You have left this separate self, this lower self behind. You have so integrated all of the seven spiritual rays that it is almost meaningless to talk about individuality, when you talk to and for human beings in embodiment.

You can indeed know me as an individual being. I do of course have individual characteristics, but you cannot know them through the perception filter of the separate self. You can know them only by transcending that perception filter, by coming into oneness with me. And of course, the same is true for each of the Chohans of the seven rays.

How to truly know a spiritual ray

How can you know a particular Chohan? How can you know a particular spiritual ray? Yes, we have given you certain characteristics, but if you focus your attention on those characteristics, they will actually become a hindrance to you knowing that ray. For the ray cannot be confined to the outer characteristics.

You can know a ray only by coming into oneness with it, into oneness with the Chohan or the Archangel or the Elohim of that ray. Then, when you come into oneness, you are not looking at a particular ray as you normally look at things on earth, where you look as if you were a separate subject studying a separate object from a distance, seeking to know its characteristics from a distance.

Instead you have made use of the most basic ability that you have, the ability of the Conscious You to withdraw itself from its identification with the lower self and instead come into oneness with something greater than that lower self. And of course, when you come into oneness with a particular spiritual ray, or the Chohan of that ray, you are not looking at that ray from a distance. You are not looking at it as an object for study.

You are forgetting yourself as a separate subject studying something distant from yourself, separate from yourself, set apart from your self. Instead, you have blended your consciousness with the consciousness of the Chohan. Thus, you are not looking at the ray from the outside; you are looking at it from the inside. You see what life looks like from the perspective of that particular ray.

This is how you get to know that ray. This is how you get to know what life looks like seen through that ray. When you blend into oneness with the First Ray, then the First Ray no longer forms a veil. Do you see, that as long as you are looking at the First Ray as a separate subject studying a distant object, you cannot see through the light of that ray? It forms a veil, and you cannot see through the veil; and thus you cannot see the spiritual realm, you see only the material realm.

Applying the rays

Although the material realm is made from the energies of the seven rays, they have been lowered in vibration to the point, where they have taken on a density that actually hides that they are expressions of the seven rays. So you may look at a rock or a mountain, and you cannot see that this seemingly solid substance is actually made out of light. And it is not made out of only one kind of light, but a blending of all seven rays. And therefore, the mountain looks massive, looks solid, to you, and it obscures your vision.

Likewise, when you become aware that there are seven rays, they will at first seem like distant objects available for study. There is nothing wrong with taking the approach of studying the rays. However, as I said, it is possible for a spiritual student to focus so much on studying the outer characteristics of the rays, that you fail to see the light itself. You fail to come into oneness with the light, being so focused on studying the outer characteristics.

You see, when you look at the spiritual rays from the perspective of an unenlightened human being, you will see them as seven veils, that prevent you from seeing into the spiritual realm. You may realize – you may even have some intuitive experience – that there are energies beyond the material substance that you detect with your senses. But when you attempt to see beyond the veil of matter, you only see another veil, made up of the seven spiritual rays. So it is entirely possible to become so focused on studying these rays and their characteristics, studying an outer teaching, that you either do not see the ray, or that you forget to go beyond study and strive for gnosis, meaning “oneness with.”

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Freedom from Internal Spirits.

Freedom beyond symbols

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, October 19, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come with a momentum of the Seventh Ray of freedom that is little known and little understood, even to ascended master students, and that is the momentum of victory. For truly, when you have gone through the initiations of the six rays, you have built a momentum. You know you can pass your tests, you know that whatever we, the Chohans, throw at you, you are able to deal with it, to step back, to look at yourself, to overcome anything in your psychology that stands in your way and then to surrender, to let go. And in letting go, you begin to feel a new energy rising within you, and that is the momentum of victory on the Seventh Ray of freedom.

For truly, when you realize that you are more than anything in this world – when you realize that you are more than any sense of self you have built through all of your embodiments – how can you fail to realize, that you can overcome and transcend and be free from any condition on earth, and any condition in your own psychology? And how can you then fail to feel this bubbling joy of victory coming up from the depth of your being?

Meeting Saint Germain face to face

That is, then, when you and I can meet, and I can appear to you, stand before you, not as this God-like figure high above you, but I can stand before you and look at you as an equal. And you can accept me as an equal, and we can therefore share in a moment of oneness, total oneness, of knowing that we have united in freedom!

For we are both god-free beings. I am a unique individual; you are a unique individual. I am not requiring you to be something you are not, and you are not afraid that I will require you to be something you are not. And that is, indeed, when we can transcend into a new awareness, where we both go beyond the student-teacher relationship. And we, indeed, unite in that Flame of Freedom, whereby you as the one in embodiment become an open door for giving that Flame of Freedom to all that you meet, the Flame of Freedom that I AM, and that I am willing to stream through you when we attain that oneness. This, then, is the vision of your potential, when you attain some mastery on the seven rays.

A special opportunity to attain freedom

And surely, those of you who have gone through this vigil of giving the decrees to the first six rays for one month each, you have made mighty strides towards this ultimate victory of freedom. And thus, as you give this decree to myself and to the Archangel and Elohim of the Seventh Ray for the next month, we desire to give you a special opportunity, where you can come to see all of the blocks to your freedom, especially your creative freedom.

For I am sure you realize, that from the moment you were born, and of course going back many lifetimes on this planet, the culture and the fallen beings, and even well-meaning human beings such as your parents and teachers and siblings, have done almost everything possible to hammer down your creative drive and your creative freedom. They have made you so afraid to express yourself, that most people dare not even be creative. They have even put upon you that your creativity should live up to a standard predefined by some institution or authority on earth.

But how can freedom be predefined? Creativity is the unknown – is that which has never before been seen – so how can creativity follow a predefined standard? It simply cannot be done, my beloved, and thus you will never be truly free until you dare to go beyond all of the man-made standards, even those that have been created based on a valid spiritual teaching. For even students of the ascended masters have created a standard for themselves and each other, and in many cases they built even an organizational culture that limited the creativity of the members. And this, of course, will not get you to the point of knowing the freedom of victory on the Seventh Ray.

How can you know victory, when you think you have to blindly follow an outer standard—that is not the Christ-standard but a standard based on the consciousness of anti-christ? This of course, will never lead you to freedom, and it will never lead you to victory.

The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Freedom.

Becoming peace is the highest level of service

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Ascended Master Nada, September, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Nada, I AM. The Chohan of the Sixth Ray is the office I hold, not out of necessity, but out of love. Some of us who are Chohans could long ago have ascended to higher offices in the spiritual realm; but we have chosen to remain with earth out of love for the lifestreams on earth, for the planet itself, for Saint Germain and his Golden Age, for Jesus to see the fulfillment of his mission, and for many other reasons. One of which is that earth truly is an experimental planet, where if we are successful in raising the planet and its inhabitants to a higher level; we will create a matrix that can be used to raise other planets that are also lagging behind the acceleration rate of the material realm as a whole.

How many planets are there in the entire material universe, how many planets with life, where there are self-aware beings, who although very different in physical appearance, are indeed similar to humans in the sense that they have used their free will to descend below the 48th level of consciousness? Well, my beloved, we are not talking millions of planets, but we are talking multiple tens of thousands of planets. Of course, there are billions of planets where the inhabitants have chosen to raise their consciousness and follow the acceleration rate, in fact co-create the acceleration rate of the entire universe.

What is peace?

And thus you see, the Sixth Ray has often been called the ray of peace and the ray of service. What then is peace? It is not the absence of conflict, as many among human beings think. They think that if they can just remove conflict or remove the causes of conflict, or remove the people who are in conflict, then there will be peace. But you see, there will not necessarily be peace, although, certainly, it takes human beings and dark forces to embody the consciousness of anti-peace. But, nevertheless, the absence of conflict is not peace. What then is peace? It is a vibration, an energy of God, an active ingredient. Peace is not passive, peace is not sitting back, doing nothing.

You may look at the Buddha sitting in meditation. You may look at him as the epitome of peace, but he is not sitting there passively meditating. He is sitting there in oneness with the divine quality of peace or another divine quality, and he is radiating that peace as an active vibration to the entire planet, and that is how he is holding the balance for the entire planet. Holding the balance is not a matter of being passive; it is not a matter of being in some equilibrium where you are not radiating conflict, but not radiating anything else either. Holding the balance means that you are actively emitting, sending out as a sun, a particular God quality; which then holds the balance for the perversions of that God quality.

Thus, when students come to my retreat, the retreat that I share with Jesus and other ascended masters over Saudi Arabia; they will first go through some instructions about what I have told you. We will take them up to a place where they can, so to speak, look down over the earth as a whole. And they can see the particular areas of anti-peace. Of course, our retreat is located over Saudi Arabia because the Middle East is one of the most active areas of anti-peace on the planet, as you can truly see, going on right now as I give this dictation. For there is fighting in Syria, unrest in other countries, and then, of course, the absolute, the meaningless, protests and demonstrations against a movie that seemingly insults the Prophet Muhammad.

As if an insult to a true prophet of God could ever justify the killing of other human beings. And thus you see, it is very simple. Either Muhammad was not a true prophet of God or the modern followers who want to kill in the name of Muhammad are not true followers of a true prophet of God. It can be no other way. For killing in the name of a true prophet is impossible; it is simply impossible. There can never be any justification for killing in the name of God, killing in the name of Muhammad, killing in the name of Jesus, killing in the name of the Buddha, killing in the name of Krishna or any other true representative of the light of God.

And thus, we show the students, not only where there is unrest, but we show them the psychology, the psychological mechanisms, that cause people to be the open doors for the forces of anti-peace that exist beyond the physical, so that people in physical embodiment are simply like marionettes, like robots. And the dark forces in the astral plane are pulling their strings, stirring them into conflict at the least provocation, for they are always stirred. They are never at peace.

My beloved, out of the seven billion people on this planet, over eighty percent of them are constantly in a state of unpeace. Some call it stress, others call it other names. But there is a constant agitation in their chakras and especially in the solar plexus chakra, that is meant to be the sun of peace in your auric field. And thus, we show the students that anti-peace is a force, is a vibration. And we show them also – which they already know from the previous rays they have been on – that the only way to consume such a vibration is with a higher vibration.

And thus, many of the people who come to our retreat for the first time have been given, or have acquired, a misunderstanding of peace; seeing it as something passive. They think the best way to promote peace on this planet is to be a pacifist, like for example exemplified by Gandhi and others. But you see, was Jesus truly a pacifist? For if he had been, would he have been arrested and crucified and condemned by the authorities? Nay, for they are not threatened by those who sit in a cave and meditate upon God. They are threatened by those who go out and play an active role in society by challenging the lies that the elite is using to trap the people and to keep them indefinitely trapped in their schemes of anti-peace.

The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Peace.

Completing the teachings on the fallen beings

TOPICS: Hastening the judgment of the fallen beings – The ultimate plan of the fallen beings – Defining innocence – What it means to be a fallen being – Physical force versus psychic force – The force of Satan –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, August 27, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Mother Mary I AM, and I come to provide, so to speak, the Omega polarity to the more strong Alpha polarity of Astrea. Surely, even we who are feminine masters can form an Alpha and Omega polarity. But we are not feminine in the way you see us on earth. We are, in fact, not feminine at all, but manifest ourselves that way most of the time, although we certainly have the capacity to be as outgoing, strong and masculine as any of the ones you call male masters.

Hastening the judgment of the fallen beings

I would speak to you today on the topic of the murder of the holy innocence, or rather, on the murder of innocence itself, innocence as a state of consciousness. When Jesus said ‘ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father will ye do for he was a murderer from the beginning, for he had no truth in him’ then what did Jesus mean with those words? What did he mean by challenging those he was speaking to at the time?

He meant precisely, what was stated by Astrea, that when you rise up, take a stand and in various ways speak out against those who attack the innocence, then you bring about or hasten their judgment. You are not judging them, you are not the judgement for only God can be the judgement. It is not your vision, your outer vision, your outer perception, your outer opinion on what they are doing that makes any difference. It is that you take a stand for something beyond your own outer mind, even your own outer self and perception. They keep attacking you and that is what gives the representatives of God the authority to shorten the lifespan and the opportunity of these lifestreams.

You do realise, do you not – when you look at the world and see how there are those that repeatedly attack others in violent ways – that when we talk about a karmic opportunity, we are not saying that the fallen beings have been given an opportunity to attack others. They have been given an opportunity to turn around. But if they continue to demonstrate their willingness to attack others rather than look at themselves and their own actions, well then their opportunity to turn around can be squandered and therefore they can be removed from the earth. Or they can be allowed to live out their natural lifespan, or they can be given the full karmic return of their past actions which often paralyses them, or paralyses their ability to attack others.

The ultimate plan of the fallen beings

Yet what is the murder of innocence? Well, it is of course the ultimate plan of the fallen beings and their desire to prove God wrong, to prove that God was wrong by giving you free will. Thereby, as Astrea mentioned, they seek to punish God by trapping the extensions of God’s own being in these lesser manifestations. They are of course not trapping God, they are not punishing God, for God knows that everything in the material universe is unreal.

Although God experiences everything that you experience, God does not experience it through the perception filter that you have and thus God is not affected by it as you are. Even though the fallen beings think they can punish God, well of course they cannot punish God for God is not inside their perception filter—they are. And it is not even the Conscious You that experiences what the fallen beings experience, it is the outer self they have created.

I can tell you that even though I have now, since 2005, given teachings on the concept of the Conscious You, it is of course only a concept. I have not given the fullness of what can be given, but still it is only a concept. You will not know the reality of the Conscious You without experiencing it directly.

Any concept we give is not for the purpose of giving you some absolute truth. It is for the purpose of stirring you to reach beyond your present mental box, your present perception, and then you will experience directly the reality that can never be expressed in words. How would you describe the taste of an apple with words, my beloved, to a person who has never tasted an apple or any other fruit and therefore has no frame of reference, no point of comparison? You cannot do this with words. You can hand the person an apple and say: “Take a bite!” And then the person will experience the taste. This is also why it was impossible for Maitreya to sufficiently warn people against partaking of the serpentine consciousness, for how could he describe with words or concepts what it was like to be in the serpentine consciousness?

Defining innocence

You can only know this by experiencing it and that, my beloved, is the key to understanding the fall. How do you grow as a self-aware being? You do not grow through theory. We of the ascended masters are limited to giving you teachings through words, unless you are willing to go beyond the words and have an inner experience that is beyond words.

The words themselves can never give you the experience, nor can they give you a full picture of the spiritual reality. Words can only give you a mental image and then they can give you, perhaps, the impetus to transcend your mental image. Certain words can challenge your current mental image and therefore give you the impetus to question it, to try to step outside of it. Then you will have an experience and that experience gives you growth.

So you see, the reality of free will is that the Conscious You has the ability to project itself into any condition or self, any perception filter, that is possible. This goes for any perception filter whatsoever even those based on the illusion of separation, duality, even the serpentine consciousness. The reality here is this: You can actually be in a self that has a perception filter which is partially affected by the serpentine consciousness. You can be a human being on earth who has certain beliefs about God, or about the spiritual realm, or about life that are affected by the serpentine consciousness. You can even be an atheist, but yet you are still a holy innocent. This may seem contrary to what has been given in the past, yet it is not contrary; it is progressive revelation. Progressive revelation is given for a higher state of consciousness than what was given in the past.

If you will not let go of the perception filter you built based on the prior teaching, then you will see the new as being contradictory. If you are anxious to justify why you will not let go of your former perception filter, then you might seek to discredit or put down the teaching. This is your choice but if you seek to discredit or put down a teaching you are not in a state of innocence.

For what is innocence? It is simply this: You are a self-aware being, you have been given free will, you have used that free will to create your current sense of self. Your current sense of self forms a perception filter and you live life, you live your personal life, through that perception filter. As long as you are identifying yourself with the self you have created, you are perceiving everything – including yourself, including God, including the material world – through that perception filter. This is perfectly valid. Even if your perception filter is limited or distorted, it does not matter which perception filter you have, you can still be in a state of innocence.

The whole purpose of life is a growth in self-awareness, and you grow by creating a perception filter, projecting your light, your consciousness, upon the Mat-ter light through that filter and experiencing how the Mat-ter light outpictures your perception filter. When you see the return, you can evaluate and most of the time you will evaluate through the perception filter. But once in a while the Mat-ter light will give you a return that either surprises you or seems to contradict what you believe at a surface level of consciousness. When you run into these contradictions, or repetitions, or a situation where you want to change but you cannot seemingly change your circumstances, that is when you have the opportunity to say with the words of Einstein: “But if I keep projecting out the same thing and expect a different return, then am I not insane?”

“What is the only way to change what is coming back? It is to change what I am sending out and what is the only way to change what I am sending out? It is to question my perception filter and then step beyond it.” You see, you grow by first immersing yourself in a certain sense of self, a certain perception filter, and then awakening from that immersion, realizing you are more. Then gradually, for each time you have this experience of transcending a certain self, you realize you are more than the self you have created. As you continue this process, you come to the point where you realize you are more than any self that could possibly be created in the material realm. That is when you can give up the ghost that has kept you on the cross created by your perception filter in the four levels of your mind. And when you give up that last ghost, that last belief that you can be confined to a perception filter in the material realm, then you ascend. This is the ascension.

What it means to be a fallen being

It is entirely possible for a lifestream to come into embodiment – even to go below what we have called the 48th level of consciousness, even to descend into a selfish state of mind, to some degree of selfishness – and yet still be innocent. Because you are just experiencing life through your perception filter and you are acting based on your perception.

Do you understand what I am saying, my beloved? You may look at many events in the world, both today and in history. You may look at a person who went on a crusade and killed other people, feeling absolutely convinced he was doing the work of Christ and that he would be rewarded in heaven for doing so. He would not be rewarded in heaven, he would make karma but he could still be in a state of innocence because he sincerely believed his perception filter was real and he was acting based on that perception filter.

There were people who did this. There is almost in every war and conflict some people who have been – admittedly – fooled into taking on an impure perception filter, a perception filter based on the serpentine consciousness that the ends can justify the means. But they are still in a state of innocence in the sense that they are simply acting based on their perception filter. And they have no other intention than to fulfil their mission as they see it through their perception filter.

Surely it is never ultimately justified in the eyes of God to kill another human being, because it is interfering with their physical life but nevertheless it is still a physical action. Now my beloved, now take Jesus’ words again: “ye are of your father the devil.” Not everyone who kills another human being are the sons of the devil, in the sense that they have not made themselves the offspring of the consciousness that Jesus referred to as Satan, or the devil, or the prince of this world. They have been fooled by that consciousness, they have taken on a certain state of consciousness for they have not fully aligned themselves with the fallen beings.

Now then, what does it mean to be a fallen being, to be a son of the devil? Well, it means that you have a clear intent not simply to live life through your perception filter, but to force other people to live their life through your perception filter rather than their own.

This is the essence of the serpentine consciousness, the intent to manipulate others to live their life based on your perception instead of their own. What is it you have to do to force people to live their life based on your perception that comes to them from the outside rather than their own perception which is what they see inside their own minds? Well, you have to be able to control their minds, you have to be able to enter their minds and why would they give you access to their minds, my beloved?

They would do so only because you have destroyed their innocence, their inner sense that they have a right to live their life based on their own perception. This is what the serpent destroyed when he manipulated Eve into eating that fruit. This is what the fallen beings have attempted to destroy both in this material realm and in previous spheres before they ascended, beginning with the fourth sphere.

They have attempted to destroy the holy innocence of those who are just living their lives based on their perception but are not seeking to force that perception on others. The fallen ones are getting into people’s minds and manipulating their minds by sowing that seed of doubt whereby you begin to doubt the instructions you have been given from the teacher, namely that thou shalt surely die if you eat of the forbidden fruit. Or you doubt your own ability or right to live your life based on your perception and to gradually refine your perception as you are willing and able and ready. No one has the right to force you to change your perception if you are not ready, but likewise you have no right to seek to force another. Do you see the subtle distinction?

You have a right to live your life based on your perception. You have a right to express your perception and to tell another person: “This is how I see this aspect of life.” But you do not have the right to demand that another person should live his or her life based on your perception.

If sharing your perception helps expand or shift the perception of the other person, so that the person now begins to live his or her life based on the same perception that you had, this is legitimate. But if you seek to force the other person by saying that the other person is wrong for having the perception he or she is having and that the other person should submit to your perception even though he or she does not have your perception, that is the essence of the serpentine consciousness and the fallen mindset: the attempt to use force, to influence, the mind of another person.

Physical force versus psychic force

Do you see that it is legitimate according to the Law of Free Will to use physical force because you are in the physical octave. Take note of what I said: It is legitimate according to the Law of Free Will. This does not mean it is justified, this does not mean that you will not make karma and be held responsible for your actions.

Take note of Jesus’ words: “Fear not him who can kill the body but fear him who can destroy the soul in hell.” Well, the only person who can ultimately destroy your soul is you because you created the soul. What the fallen beings are attempting to do is manipulate you into such a state of mind that you are no longer willing to take responsibility for your soul, to be accountable for your soul. You are not willing to make decisions so you give up and you let your ego and the fallen beings manipulate you further and further down in a downward spiral until your soul is so scattered that it is, so to speak, destroyed in the fires of hell, which is the fire of the intense anger that the fallen beings have against God.

This attempt to destroy the soul, the perception, the sense of self of another human being is a clear violation of free will. It is not justified by the Law of Free Will, and anyone who does this or attempts to do this will reap karma, will lock themselves more firmly in the fallen consciousness. If it is kept up in an aggressive manner, it will of necessity shorten their opportunity to be in embodiment on earth even possibly shorten their opportunity to exist as a self-aware being in any realm thus facing what we have called the second death.

This truly is the murder of the holy innocent and the murder of innocence itself. Before the fall in that unascended fourth sphere the majority of the lifestreams in that sphere were not perfect, they were not ready to ascend, they were not in a perfect state of consciousness, they were not saints—they were acting out the selves they had. But before the fall, before the first fallen beings rebelled, no one was aggressively seeking to destroy the innocence of another. Not even the beings who fell were doing this at the time.

They were seeking to control people at what we could compare to the material level today, but they were not seeking to control people in their minds, in their inner beings. This only started when they made the decision to rebel against God and God’s plan for growth through free will.

The force of Satan

This was the shift where they now became the force that has grown into what Jesus called the devil, Satan and the prince of this world. Why is it the prince of this world? Because, as Astrea said, not enough self-aware beings have taken the stand of coming back to innocence. They have not taken a stand for their right to live their lives based on their current perception and then constantly seeking to transcend that perception. But doing so from within themselves based on their own decisions—not based on being forced or manipulated or being divided in themselves by those with an aggressive intent to destroy them in order to punish God or prove God wrong.

I have now given you, starting all the way back in 2003 and 2004, the entire teaching I desired to give about the fall and the fallen beings. Those who cannot heed or understand that teaching, I cannot help at this point and thus I can only say that the teaching is complete. We have given enough opportunities to beings in that particular state of consciousness that we have addressed during this cycle, and thus we will move on and move these two messengers on, to give teachings for a higher level of consciousness.

We have in an earthly sense almost unlimited teachings that can be brought forth, and surely, as Saint Germain has said: “We have yet other worlds to conquer.” Thus, take heed. Putting down a teaching given by the ascended masters to set people free from the fallen consciousness can only be done from the fallen consciousness.

It is finished for the mouth of the Divine Mother has spoken it. Thus, be in innocence in the inner sense of oneness with the I AM that I AM.

How to overcome doubt

TOPICS: The poison of doubt – Experiencing the Christ light – When the mind is like a merry-go-round – There are no problems you have to solve – The mind cannot ascend – Exposing those with impure intent –

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Ascended Master Lord Maitreya, August 27, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

The Buddha I AM.
Maitreya is my name,
Kindness is my flame
And it consumes all shame,
Never leaving you the same.

My beloved, a cycle has turned. The earth will never be the same for there are sufficient numbers of people in embodiment all over this planet who have embodied a sufficient level of the kindness, the flame of kindness that I AM. They have been – often mercilessly – attacked by those who have embodied some shade of the fallen consciousness instead of one of the flames of God, but they have responded with kindness, one of the 144 shades of kindness as they were able to embody it. This, indeed, has been accelerated by this vigil to the decrees to the seven rays which even though we have not announced it with great fanfare, is a significant dispensation.

The poison of doubt

Christ light is the cure of this I am sure but are you equally sure? Most human beings are not for the simple reason that the aim of the fallen beings who rebelled against God and embodied the serpentine consciousness has been to divide you in yourself with the poison of doubt. You doubt that Christ light truly is the cure that can cure all ailments on earth.

The Christ light is everywhere and in everyone. Without him was not anything made that was made. The Christ light has the potential to rise up and throw off the shackles of the fallen consciousness. Yet for this to happen in you, you must be sure, as Jesus demonstrated that he was sure when he healed the sick, rose up the dead, cast out the evil spirits, walked on the water, transformed the water into wine and performed these other feats that demonstrated that the Christ light has mastery over matter because matter is made out of the Christ light. That which is made out of the Christ light can accelerate beyond any lower manifestation and manifest the matrix that comes through the sacred geometry of the Christ mind.

The Christ light in you can throw off the shackles of the human consciousness, and the fallen consciousness, and the ego consciousness and any other consciousness that exists on earth. But it can only do so if you are sure, and this of course is the existential problem, as they say. For how can you be sure that the Christ light is the cure when you look at everything through a filter that is coloured by the consciousness of anti-christ – the consciousness of division and separation.

Ahh so many people have looked at the Christ through that filter and come up with an image of Christ that has nothing to do with the reality of Christ, as witnessed very clearly by the development of the Christian religion and its willingness to even kill in the name of Christ. It would kill and torture its own members in the name of Christ which had only the effect, as Jesus said, of splitting the soul.

Do you realize that the very church that claimed to represent Jesus on earth was guilty of countless murders and tortures that split the soul? And they thought they did it in the name of Christ. How can you be sure that Christ light is the cure when you do not see the Christ light as pure but only see a mirage? You see that there is something moving behind the curtain as in those theatres where you have a white sheet and the light behind it and you see the shadows of puppets moving behind it. You see through a glass darkly. How can you ever be sure?

Experiencing the Christ light

You see my beloved, there is a common misunderstanding among many spiritual students that we of the ascended masters are seeking to bring forth some ultimate teaching, but no teaching formulated in words can make you sure. For any teaching in words can be counteracted by a false teaching formulated in words. Thus, the serpentine mind can sow doubt about any teaching, as witnessed by the illustration of even the serpent where he just needed to insert one word ‘thou shalt not surely die’ and then there was doubt.

She was not sure, because she did not believe she would ‘surely’ die. So what is the key? How can you be sure? Only when you experience the Christ light. And at first you cannot experience it in yourself so you must experience it in someone else, someone who has embodied it and become the open door for it.

That is why Jesus took embodiment, that is why we have in various ways attempted to give people that experience of the Christ light. Which you can experience also through our dictations, but not exclusively through our dictations for it manifests in many ways and they are not all openly spiritual or given by spiritual gurus or teachings. You may even encounter people in seemingly ordinary situations in life who can be at least temporarily the open door for an expression of the Christ light.

Then your job is to take in that Christ light, to accept it into your being and to keep using it as a frame of reference when you encounter the fallen consciousness so that you are pulled back into oneness, seeking oneness with the light. Then you can gradually build the momentum that brings you to that point where now you are sure. You do not even need to declare that you are sure for you know within that you are sure and that you stand upon the rock of Christ. You cannot be moved by the rains and the winds of the fallen consciousness or by the subtle temptations of the serpent.

You continue to move forward according to your vision for you have, as Mother Mary said, regained and reclaimed your innocence, your inner sense of what is Christ reality that does not depend on anything outer, including an outer teaching, or religion, or science, or political party philosophy. Nothing in this world will make you sure. Look at those who have attempted to elevate some religion to this ultimate status and see where it has gotten them.

When the mind is like a merry-go-round

Let me explain to you the effect of what has been talked about by other masters of the fallen consciousness in your being. Words can be used to argue for or against any point. When you focus on words instead of the Word, you will be divided. The faculty of your mind that deals with words is the analytical, intellectual, linear mind. It uses words to make distinctions between various forms in the world of form. This is perfectly legitimate, but the serpentine mind takes advantage of this useful ability and turns it into a trap.

How can you know whether you are affected by the fallen consciousness? By observing yourself and seeing how often you are trapped in these situations where your mind keeps going around and around, arguing for or against this. I shouldn’t have done that, I should have said that instead of what I said, this person did something wrong, this person said that, this teaching is not right.

You are seeking to use words to argue for or against any point. This is the effect that the serpentine mind has. It causes you to doubt, and you frantically seek with the mind to come up with some ultimate argument that no one can defeat, that no one can reject, that no one can cast doubt upon. My beloved, those of us who have been in embodiment in a sphere as dense as planet earth know that it seems very alluring, very tempting, that if you have some superior teaching, if you have the Christ light, if you have a connection to the ascended masters you should be able to come up with some ultimate argument. But it cannot be done with words.

There is no ultimate argument. There is no ultimate teaching. Christ light is the cure. When you are in the Christ light, experiencing the Christ light, when the Christ light is your frame of reference you are sure that this is reality. You are also sure that no matter what argument anyone might come up with for or against a certain point, it is not ultimate reality for nothing expressed in words can be ultimate reality.

If you seek to find surety through words, you will never be sure. Only the light will make you sure. Only through oneness, through experiencing the light, will you know for sure what is true, what is real, what is light and what is not light.

There are no problems you have to solve

Be willing to observe yourself and see when the mind starts these loops and when the mind goes into this mode of presenting you with a problem and projecting that you have to solve it. There is no problem on earth that can be solved through the analytical mind. This is one of the lies projected by the fallen beings, heavily reinforced by modern science but existing long before science entered the scenario on earth.

Words cannot resolve any problems or conflicts or disagreements, only the light can bring resolution, only light can bring the solution to end the confusion. What can you do then when you observe that your mind is going round and round in these endless loops? Well, certainly you can realize that you have energy of a lower vibration accumulated in your four lower bodies and you can use the decrees and tools we have given to begin to dissolve it so that you lessen the pull on the mind.

Beyond that, you can appeal to us, the ascended masters – Jesus, Mother Mary, Gabriel, Raphael, Maitreya, Gautama – any Master that appeals to you, any Master that is close to your heart. Appeal to us to help you transcend the loops of the mind, the frantic analytical mind. Appeal to us to help you to step outside of the mind loop, the closed trap of the mind, the serpent swallowing its own tail that you may experience the Christ light that is the cure. Then be willing to open yourself, be willing to look beyond all these statements with words that you think are some ultimate truth, or some ultimate teaching.

Be willing to look at yourself and catch yourself when you find yourself arguing about some element of a spiritual teaching. Perhaps you are even using an ascended master teaching to argue with someone else about some point that has no ultimate significance for your own ascension but only keeps you from your ascension because it keeps you trapped in the endless loop of the mind. Be willing to catch yourself and then make the decision: “Ahh! there is the mind doing its thing again, but I am not the mind I am more than the mind and thus I will reach up to my spiritual teacher and say:”

Show me the way,
show me the way out of the fray
of this endless mind
that can never be kind,
so the truth I may find
and no longer be blind,
blinded by the mind,
that can never be refined
to become the Christ light that I AM.

The mind cannot ascend

The mind will never be raised up so it can enter heaven. The mind thinks that if it can find some ultimate teaching, some ultimate solution, then it will be acceptable in the eyes of God. But you will not enter the wedding feast unless you put on the wedding garment, and you will not put on the wedding garment through the mind no matter how sophisticated you might become. The scribes and Pharisees thought that their sophistication of knowing the scriptures had qualified them to enter the kingdom, and what did Jesus say: “Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father will ye do for he was a murderer from the beginning, seeking to murder innocence, the inner sense of oneness with Christ, that can never be attained through the mind.”

The mind can only deal with divisions, therefore it must raise up some argument over another and you cannot enter oneness with Christ by seeking to put down another form of life and raising yourself up in comparison to them. In Christ all are one for there is no value of lesser or more.

Exposing those with impure intent

It is time, it is time in earth’s history that the serpentine consciousness be exposed, and this shall be done in the cycles of time for cycles have turned and nothing will ever be the same. Maitreya I AM. I hold the office of the Cosmic Christ for the earth. Thus, I have the authority to declare, based on the number of people embodying the flame of kindness, that the cycle that the fallen ones have been allowed to direct their unkindness towards the holy innocent has come to an end. Thus, there will be a new release of light to flush out into the open those who have an unkind intent, an evil intent to destroy and put down innocence itself.

Innocence is the only thing that can open up the door to the kingdom of heaven. And where is door? Where is the kingdom? Did he not say: The kingdom of God is within. The door to the kingdom is within the innocence of oneness. The mind can never be one. The core of your being, the Conscious You, can be one for it is out of the One. Thus, when you know this, your victory is sure.

You actually know that beyond the Christ light being the cure, the Christ light is the cure because it enables you, empowers you, to see that the disease was never real. You are real and I, Maitreya, am real. My son, Jesus Christ, is real, Mother Mary is real, Astrea is real, Master MORE is real, Saint Germain is real, Hilarion is real, we are all real.

Thus, we can all be that frame of reference that can allow you to step outside your own mind and therefore be sure of what is real. We are here always. Make use of us if you will! If you will not, then I trust that the School of Hard Knocks will give you the experience you desire until you have had enough of it and desire that you want more than this.

What a joy it is for us to see the many people who over the years, now almost 10 years, have been touched by the ‘Ask Real Jesus’ website and the teachings we have released there. Surely, it has gone through many different stages, speaking to different levels of consciousness. Surely, many have come only to reject and refuse, but still receiving an opportunity to go beyond the closed loop of their own minds.

Surely, even though no teaching can give an ultimate argument, a teaching can have a transcendental quality that means it can open the mind to experiencing the Christ light from within. Surely, the teachings we have given on our websites and the books have that quality, which is why they are sponsored by us and why we will continue to release further teachings through this messenger and his divine companion.

Life on earth is not a goal in itself. It is merely a phase where you learn to recognize the difference between the mirages of the serpentine consciousness and the reality of Christ, the reality of oneness. Thus I, Maitreya, extend to you an opportunity. My seed syllable is MAIM – m-a i-m as you would spell it with the Western alphabet. MAIM.

You may use this if you will as a mantra so that every time you catch your mind going around in its loop, you start silently repeating this mantra, or perhaps reciting it, chanting it aloud. Whenever you use this mantra, this sound, I will be there to offer you a frame of reference from beyond your mind. I will give you a piece of my mind, as they say. Thus, I seal you in the flame of kindness that I AM. (Recites MAIM 40 times)

Guidance at the Temple of Truth

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Ascended Master Hilarion, August 24, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Hilarion I AM, and I am indeed the Chohan, meaning the Head Teacher, of the Fifth Ray. The Fifth Ray has often been called the ray of truth or healing but it can also be seen as the ray of wholeness through enlightened vision, purified vision. Thus, I wish to discourse to you on the opportunity that we extend to those who will dedicate the next month to using the Fifth Ray decrees that we have released. The dispensation I will extend to you is that if you will give a certain amount of decrees every day for the next month, the angels of the Fifth Ray will guarantee that you will each night be taken to the retreat of the Fifth Ray, more specifically the Temple of Truth located in the etheric realm over the island of Crete in the Mediterranean.

Here you will be given instructions suitable for your state of consciousness, and you may find that this may shift your consciousness dramatically in just one month. So the minimum decree requirement is that you give two of the Fifth Ray decrees per day. You must give each of these decrees nine times at least, but preferably 24 times. You may for example give the Archangel decree in the morning and the Elohim or Chohan decree in the evening before you retire.

This then is a dispensation, for I tell you that under normal circumstances, the vast majority of people on earth, including many of those who see themselves as spiritual people, do not qualify to enter the Temple of Truth. It will of course be a great help if you have completed a vigil to the first four rays before you start this vigil. Nevertheless, we will still guarantee that anyone who will give this vigil for a month will be taken to our retreat. The benefit of course will depend on your willingness to look at what you cannot currently see in your own state of consciousness.

The purity of your vision and God vision

Consider the old statement “Without vision the people perish.” The background for this statement is, of course, that your co-creative abilities are exercised by formulating a mental image, directing the stream of your self-awareness through that image, and thereby stirring the Ma-ter light to take on the form of the image. And where do you formulate the image? Well, you formulate it in the totality of your being, which involves all of your seven chakras. But it is in the third eye chakra that you finalize the image and then project consciousness through it. Thus, if there are impurities in your third eye chakra, you will not be able to formulate a pure image, an image that is in alignment with the higher principles used by the Elohim to create the material realm.

And if you formulate an impure image, then you will inevitably create circumstances in your life that are not the highest possible, and it will cause you resistance, suffering, perhaps even physical disease. For what is physical disease? It is in one sense when the cells of your body begin to vibrate with a vibration that is lower than a certain level. You have been brought up to think that the cells of your body are like miniature building blocks, small spheres with a membrane around it and complicated machinery inside. This is not an invalid view, but it is a partial view, for it focuses on that level of vision that sees everything in terms of matter, matter particles. Yet as you know, or should know, in 1905 Albert Einstein formulated the theory of relativity, which says that even though your senses detect what you call the matter world, that matter world is made from a finer substance called energy, and energy is vibration.

The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Vision.

Saint Germain

Saint Germain is the hierarch of the Aquarian Age who holds the Flame of Freedom for the Earth.

During the 1500’s and 1600’s Saint Germain worked with many of the kings of Europe, seeking to establish a United Nations of Europe. He was known as the Wonderman of Europe because he performed various miraculous feats, such as removing flaws from diamonds, appearing out of nowhere and maintaining a youthful appearance for over a century.

During the 1930’s Saint Germain released a number of violet flame decrees and affirmations through the I AM Movement. Later he gave additional decrees through the Bridge to Freedom and the Summit Lighthouse. Up until then, the violet flame had been known only to initiates of secret societies and orders. Saint Germain received a special dispensation to release the knowledge of the violet flame to the general public.

Saint Germain has said about himself:
“… I, as the Being known on Earth as Saint Germain, chose to embody the quality of God Freedom. For this seemed to me to be the most desirable quality. Thus, of course, I recognize that there are other God qualities, that are equally valuable, but I chose to embody Freedom, as my individual choice. Thus, I AM a spiritual Being, who is holding what we might call a spiritual Flame for the Earth, a Flame of Freedom, my beloved.

Everything on Earth, as your scientists have already discovered, is made from energy. Energy is a form of vibration. But your scientists have not yet fully understood energy. For, energy truly is an expression of a finer quality. Physical energy is an expression of what we might call spiritual energy. But spiritual energy does not take the form of a physical something that can drive your electrical motors or have other effects.

Spiritual energy will appear to you as a fire, as a flame. Thus, you saw that when Moses, on the mountain, encountered this spiritual energy, you saw the bush burning without being consumed. And thus, the saying, “Our God is a consuming fire,” that consumes all unlike itself, all that would trap you in a lesser sense of identity. And thus, the Flame of Freedom is indeed a form of spiritual energy that has the potential to burn away all limitations that trap you in a limited sense of identity. Yet my beloved, you need to recognize that, on planet Earth, everything revolves around free will. I am a spiritual Being, and I have become one with the Flame of Freedom. That flame is an expression of the infinite God. It has infinite potential. It can consume anything and everything that is limiting you.

But I, Saint Germain, will not consume your limitations unless you use your free will to give up those limitations. Which not only involves, simply saying, “Saint Germain, take away my limitations,” but it involves you recognizing that you have created those limitations by accepting imperfect beliefs and images about yourself, God and the world.

Thus, before you can actually let go of those limitations, you must take ownership of your limitations by recognizing that you have created them by accepting imperfect beliefs and images. You must then see through those imperfect beliefs and images, see through the reasoning and the consciousness behind it, and then replace those limiting choices with better choices that set you free from your current limitations. And when you have been willing to make that shift in consciousness, well, then you have the potential to make the choice to let go of what limits you, my beloved. For until you have seen through the limitations and why they limit you, well then you simply cannot let go of them. And thus, only when you let go can I then step in, and through my Flame of Freedom burn away the imperfect energies, so that you are now free to walk higher on your personal path toward freedom. This, then, is my purpose for creating this website for my Golden Age. It is to set you free individually, to give you teachings and tools that can set you free. But, more than that, to set humanity free, so that this Earth can rise to what I call my Golden Age—that I envision for the Earth. Which is an age in which, I can assure you, you do not find the limitations in human society that you see all around you, and which I am sure you have experienced up until this point in your life. Thus, my purpose here is to give you, not simply a hope, but to give you teachings and tools that will allow you to come to the point of an inner knowing, where you know that this planet has the potential to rise into a Golden Age.

And you personally have the potential to rise, not only to a Golden Age but to rise above any limitations in the material realm and win your freedom as an immortal spiritual Being. Thus, the basic message of this website is that, I, Saint Germain, have risen above the limitations on Earth and the motto of the Ascended Host is, “What one has done, all can do.” Thus, learn from me, learn from other members of the Ascended Host and see that you too can be free!”

Mother Mary

We all know from the Bible that Mother Mary is the mother of Jesus. But most people don’t realize where she is today and who she is today. I am not here to bash any particular church, but if you look at history, you will see that there was a period about 3-400 years after Jesus completed his mission when the orthodox church, the Roman Catholic Church, started forming. And if you look at the historical facts, you see that part of what happened was that the church elevated Jesus above and beyond any other human being.

One of the reasons Mother Mary is still relevant to us today is that she represents the divine feminine. Why is the divine feminine important to us today? There is a universal principle that you see in many other religions. I am sure all of you are familiar with the Tai Chi. It shows the two basic forces of the universe, namely a masculine and a feminine, or Yin and Yang. Mother Mary has explained through me that the masculine is the expanding force, and the feminine is the contracting force. They work together, and only when they work together in harmony do you have a harmonious creation. If there is not the right balance between the two forces, you will have an unbalanced state. You can have that in your own being or you can have it in society. And I don’t think it takes a lot of imagination to look at our society and see that we have a lot of imbalance. Part of the reason is that for several thousand years the Judeo-Christian tradition has been so male-dominated, so male-focused. And the feminine has been downplayed. She can help us feel the Mother flame of God, which empowers us to accept that we too are sons and daughters of God and that Jesus is our brother, not some idol to be worshipped.

The main thing Mother Mary can do for you on this website is to give you the teachings and the practical tools you need in order to change your approach to God from the passive to the active approach. What Mother Mary offers you here is the opportunity to become a self-sufficient spiritual being who is taking responsibility for your life, your outer situation, the inner situation of your psyche and your spiritual growth—what some call salvation.

Jesus

The ascended master Jesus is a planetary Christ, a world teacher who has described his role as the following:

“I am come that all might have life and that they might have it more abundantly manifest. Truly, I am the real Jesus, but I do not come to you today as the Jesus that many people have known through the Christian churches, not even as the Jesus that many of you have known through a previous dispensation of the Great White Brotherhood.
I am come to you as the Living Christ and the emphasis is on the word “living,” because I truly desire to impart to you the flame of the Living Christ that never stands still. ”

As Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is at hand!” Let us simply walk away from the official fraudulent image of Jesus and embrace him as our brother, teacher an wayshower. Let us take back our power to be who we really are and become instruments for bringing a better society into manifestation, a society built on the reality of Christ rather than the many illusions of anti-christ.

For each planet there is a being who holds the office of Christ. Regardless of the sectarian nature of the Christian religion, “Christ” is a universal word that signifies oneness between the Creator and its creation. Thus, you can ascend only by attaining the Christ consciousness and overcoming the illusion of separation. When Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the father save by me,” he was not talking about his outer person but the Christ consciousness. Currently, Jesus is holding the office of Planetary Christ for earth.

Gautama Buddha

For you recognize the eternal truth that everything is the Buddha Nature. And therefore, you too are the Buddha Nature. And you are more than just the Buddha Nature, for you are a self-aware being. And when you awaken to this reality, you see that you cannot be self-aware and simply be the Buddha Nature—your only option is to be the Buddha.

Gautama Buddha is the Lord of the World, who attained the enlightenment of the Buddha in his final incarnation as Siddharta Gautama.

Gautama Buddha has said about his role as the Lord of the World the following:
“…, I know that there are many among you who are working on rising to the parallel universe of the Christ consciousness, and thus it is beyond your present level for you to see yourselves as the Buddha. And I am not asking you to go beyond that level of consciousness. For my beloved, you are partly here to out-picture and exemplify that level of consciousness of the Christ to the many people on Earth who must grasp the Christ Consciousness before they can truly grasp the Buddhic Consciousness.

Yet, what I come to offer you is a deeper understanding and realization of my office as the “Lord of the World.” For you see, even though some traditional Buddhists see me with a female consort up in a remote heaven; the reality, my beloved, is that when I took up my role as the “Lord of the World” for planet Earth, I renounced my female consort, set her free to ascend to a higher realm.

Then, who is the female consort of the Buddha? Who is the female polarity to the masculine polarity of the Buddha? Well, the entire planet Earth and all who live upon it have that potential to become the female consort—or rather, to see themselves as what they already are, namely the female consort of the Buddha. For, as the “Lord of the World,” I hold the masculine polarity for planet Earth; meaning that all who are part of the consciousness that is planet Earth, well they are part of the feminine polarity for which I hold the balance—even being the open door for the very life-giving force that sustains all life on this Earth.”

El Morya – Master MORE

El Morya is the Chohan (‘Lord’ in Sanskrit) of the first ray. El Morya changed his name to Master MORE in 2007. In previous dispensations he is also known as El Morya Kahn, Morya, Master M, M, or Bapu.

In order to walk the spiritual path and qualify for the ascension, we must attain mastery on all seven rays. Thus, we can see the spiritual path as a structured process, where we learn from each of the seven rays.To facilitate this learning, each ray has several ascended masters who are seeking to help us pass the initiations represented by their ray. The leaders of this group of teachers is called the “Chohan.” Thus, each ray has a Chohan, who is kind of like the headmaster of a particular school.

El Morya – Master MORE gives us the initiations on the first ray – traditionally as the ray of power and will, yet from a deeper understanding the first ray represents the creative drive. This is the desire for self-expression, a willingness to experiment, even when the outcome of the experiment cannot be known ahead of time. Also a willingness to flow with life and learn from every experience. The first ray gives rise to the sense that everything matters, that life is exciting and that the individual truly can make a positive difference. The first ray is also the key to your willingness to work for raising the whole, instead of raising only yourself.

The Flame of Acceleration

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Ascended Master Serapis Bey, July 16, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Serapis Bey I am, and in the decree I have released, there are a couple of lines that I wish to draw to your attention. They say: “Serapis Bey, your life a poem, that calls me to my starry home.” My beloved, ponder this statement, ponder what is implied here, ponder the feelings that it might arouse in you. Then consider when you look back at world history, that from the earliest civilizations and beyond, people have looked up into the heavens and longed for something, longed for being somewhere else, somewhere out there among the stars, somewhere away from where they are right now here on earth, in these limited physical bodies, in these limited situations that human beings have collectively created. And so, when people face the return of their karma or the limitations of the matter realm, they often look up into the stars and cry out for freedom. And I will not deny, of course, that some of you who will be hearing or reading this teaching, will have come to earth from other planetary systems in other galaxies, and therefore you might even look up and have some inner memory of a starry home.

But nevertheless, I put these lines in my decree to help you get in contact with the inner longing, so that you might come to a higher discernment that there is a false longing and a true longing. The true longing is indeed for oneness with your I AM Presence. Your true starry home is your I AM Presence, not somewhere in the material realm in this physical universe, not some other star system, not some other planet somewhere, where life is supposedly better than on earth. And I am, of course, not denying that there are planets where life is indeed much better than it is on earth, because the planetary collective consciousness has been raised to a higher level.

Accelerate your sense of self

Nevertheless, my point is this: as long as you long for some better place in the physical realm, you cannot transcend the physical realm, you cannot ascend. But not only that, you cannot truly accelerate into a higher state. You cannot accelerate beyond the state you have when you have passed the initiations of the first three rays and therefore come to the retreat of Serapis Bey, saying: “Serapis, take me further. I have heard that you are the one who can take me further.” And I look you squarely in the eye and I say: “Nay, you have heard wrong. I, Serapis Bey, cannot take you further. You are the only one who can take yourself further by accelerating your sense of self. I may play some role in inspiring you to come to the point, where you are willing to go through this acceleration, but I can do nothing for you. You must be the doer – without being the doer with the outer mind – and therefore you must crack the enigma of what it means to accelerate, to truly accelerate but not in the ego’s way; in the way of the Christ.”

And thus, you must ponder the longings that spring from the ego, the longing for somewhere else, where things are better, which is really a longing away from where you are. You see, you cannot accelerate as long as you long to get away, for acceleration does not mean that you take what is and accelerate it. Acceleration means that you transcend what is by letting go of it, by surrendering it. And therefore, the key to acceleration is to first surrender that to which you are attached.

You see, my beloved, it is very simple. You may get the idea that what is holding you back on the spiritual path are certain energies that have been absorbed into your auric field. This is not untrue. There are energies that are holding you back. You might think that you ascend or rise higher by accelerating these energies. Indeed, you must accelerate the energies, for until you have purified the energies, they will be a dead weight that will hold you back.

But even if you accelerated all of the energies in your auric field, you would not automatically ascend. For what must you do then? You must accelerate your sense of self! But here is the difference: your sense of self is not made of energy, therefore it is not a matter of taking a lower vibration and accelerating that vibration gradually until you reach a higher vibration by crossing the threshold between love and fear. The acceleration of self does not work that way. The acceleration of self is not by accelerating your sense of self from the level it is at to a higher level.

The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Intention.

Finding what you want on this site

The teachings on this site are given in the form of messages from the ascended masters, called dictations. In most cases a dictation is a spoken message, that is later transcribed. The text of a dictation is then put on a page, each dictation having its own page.

In order to read the teachings in a dictation, you have to bring up the specific page. You can find a specific page in two ways, by browsing or by searching.

Browsing

If you are not looking for a specific dictation

In the menu on the left side, click the link: Dictations by DATE or Dictations by MASTER. This will give you a list (of years or the names of masters). When you click one of these links, you get a list of dictations given either in a specific year or by a specific master, with the most recent first.

Click one of these links to bring up the specific page. At the top of the page you will normally see a list of the TOPICS covered in the dictation. This gives you a quick overview of what the dictation contains.

If you are looking for a specific dictation

If you know the date and the master, click Dictations by DATE. Then click on the year and find the dictation in the list that comes up.
If you only know the name of the master, click Dictations by MASTER, then find the dictation in the list of all dictations by that master.

Searching

If you want to find dictations that talk about a specific topic, enter one or several keywords in the Search box on the left.

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Expressing the immeasurable

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Ascended Master Paul the Venetian, July 3, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Paul the Venetian. What is in a name? Only what you put there. The Third Ray of love. What is in love? Only what you put there. What is in a work of art? Only what you put there—unless you have become an open door for the stream of the creative fount of love to be expressed through your art or through your daily life.

For shall we not realize that art has become, as almost everything else touched by man, a concept that people seek to understand. And shall we not then realize, that when people seek to understand based on the mind that is steeped in separation and duality, well then, what they understand is not true art or true love. It is only what they put there, or what has been put there by other beings steeped in duality. And so you see so much of the art in the world that is indeed adapted to a certain time period, to a certain culture, to a certain view of what is and what is not art. Even in some cases with a certain overlay, such as what was imposed by the Inquisition, of what was acceptable and not acceptable to put in a painting, or that imposed by a certain political regime, such as the Soviet Union, for what was considered the true art of the socialist utopia.

True art cannot be expressed within the framework of a certain man–made mental box. For true art is ever–transcending. It is creative but not as you normally understand creativity, for even creativity has become a concept upon which human beings project their mental images of what it means to be creative. But I tell you, you cannot say what it means to be creative, for creativity is that which transcends boundaries, even the boundaries of what has been expressed before.

The Chateau de Liberté

And thus, some of you will know that I am the hierarch at the retreat called the Chateau de Liberté. You will know that it is located in the etheric realm over a certain physical location in France. You might even know that there is a physical castle and that this castle has a certain look, a certain design. And you might do what human beings are so good at doing: take their own mental images and project it upon that which is beyond the physical.

Look at how people throughout history have projected their own mental images upon God. And certainly, when you see pictures of the building that is that Chateau in France, you might think that my etheric retreat looks somewhat like that building. Well, think again, my beloved, for in the etheric realm things are not solidified, as they are in the physical. When you take a great amount of rocks or stones and start stacking them on top of each other in order to build a building that will stand for a long time, then you obviously create a matrix in the physical. And it will not easily be broken down and will not easily be changed, for what are you in essence doing? Well, when you set out to build a building that will stand for a long time, what is it that wants to build that building? It is the ego, my beloved, that wants to create a monument to itself that will stand for a long time, longer than the physical body through which it is expressing itself and which it knows has a short lifespan.

And so, you see so many things in the world, that are simply an attempt of human egos to immortalize themselves. And when you look at the art world, you likewise see so many of these attempts of the artist, or the person commissioning the artist, to immortalize their egos. Take for example one of the monumental paintings of the inauguration ceremony of Napoleon Bonaparte, and you will see exactly what I mean. A gigantic painting painted for the sole purpose of immortalizing the ego of Napoleon. And so, of course, given that my retreat is located in the etheric over France, you will indeed see that France as a nation, has a certain tendency to want to immortalize certain aspects of its national ego. But of course, this is not limited to France, as many other nations have the exact same tendency and do indeed want to raise monuments to themselves that can stand for a long time, and be recognized and admired as, so to speak, great works of art. But are they great works of arts?

The rest of this dictation is available in the book The Mystical Initiations of Love.

I claim Denmark for the Age of Transcendence

TOPICS: Denmark’s unrecognized spiritual potential – Recognizing the need to go higher – Dare to tell your stories with honesty – Let not the false teachers put you down –

Saint Germain, October 29, 2011. This dictation was given as the messengers were driving in a car through southern Denmark, approaching the border with Germany.

Let there be light in the land of the Danes. Let there be light in the minds of the Danes. Let there be light in the hearts of the Danes. Let there be light in the chakras of this nation. For I, Saint Germain, come to claim Denmark for the Golden Age.

How shall I awaken a people? How shall I awaken them, not to the errors they have made, but to the opportunities they have not taken, for the fact that they are not willing to stand forth and proclaim their talents? How, then, can you multiply your talents, if you seek to hide them under a bushel? Naturally, this cannot be done.

Which is, indeed, why you see that this nation has not had the impact in the European community or on the world stage, that it might have had, if the people had been more willing to recognize that they carry with them from very ancient times certain matrices and thoughtforms, that provide them with a unique opportunity to give an impetus, to give new ideas, that can shift the perception of other nations, even the world.

This, of course, is in no way to imply that Denmark itself can save the world, as the danes would be the first to say, with their self-deprecating humor. Nevertheless, it must be recognized that Denmark has a role to play, as of course do many other nations. For Denmark has a unique role because of the ancient matrices carried by the Danish people, which actually were the thoughtforms that attracted them to the geographical location in what might be considered the nexus of the figure-eight between Scandinavia and Europe, but also the nexus of the figure-eight between the Baltic Sea and the greater oceans.

Denmark’s unrecognized spiritual potential

And thus you see, Denmark sits in the nexus of both a horizontal and a vertical figure-eight. And while the Danes have certainly made good use of their ability to communicate and to trade with other nations, so that they have to some degree lived up to their position as the nexus of the horizontal figure-eight, they have not even begun to recognize or acknowledge, that they also have a position to play in the nexus of the vertical figure-eight between Spirit and matter.

For of course, you see that a thousand years ago, the Danes were into the old Nordic religions. Nevertheless, Denmark was the first country that converted to Christianity and thus became the key to the opening up of Scandinavia to what was, certainly not a perfect religion, but certainly a step up in many, many ways from the Nordic religions.

And so, you see again today, that Denmark has fallen into a state of non-religiousness. And of course, I am in no way looking for the Danes to adopt some formal religion. But they do have a potential to embrace the universal form of spirituality that will be the main form of religion or spirituality in the coming age.

For certainly, the Age of Aquarius, the Golden Age of Saint Germain, will not be dominated by one religion, not even an ascended master sponsored organization or teaching. For there will be a multiplicity of teachings. And this is precisely what is needed, for how can there be a Golden Age unless the people have established a true inner connection to their higher beings, so that they have the true inner discernment, based on vibration, and not an outer claim to authority. Where someone sets himself or herself up as being the guru who has the truth or perhaps even the only truth.

Those who believe that truth can be expressed in words and codified into a dogma or doctrine, even a teaching, will not be successful in the coming age. What will be successful are those who simply put out the teachings and then let people do with them whatever they want, without putting any restrictions or conditions upon them, other than what is reasonable due to copyright and other such concerns.

Nevertheless, in the coming age, people will eat from many tables, and only a few will be willing to limit themselves to one table only. And this is indeed what you see outpictured in the Danish people and their unwillingness to embrace a formal religion and their unwillingness to embrace the equally formal religion of materialism.

But what you also see is the dilemma of then, if you reject both extremes, then what is left? Is it going to be the muddled area in the middle, covered by a dense fog, so you cannot see through it? Or are you going to be willing to reach through the fog, above the fog, and find something higher, a higher discernment that then gives you a vision, that can take you beyond the fog between the two extremes.

For, certainly, when you climb the hills represented by the two extremes, you may climb above the fog, but because you limit your vision to one system, all you really see is the fog from above, instead of seeing life from inside the fog. And that truly is not an improved vision, for you need to reach beyond even the level where there is the fog and the hills that claim to reach beyond the fog but truly do not.

Recognizing the need to go higher

And so, we see then the necessity of a people coming to realize that there is more between heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, as I had the character in Hamlet say so many years ago, supposedly on this soil. Yet so far, the Danes have been reluctant to acknowledge that there is more between heaven and earth than the comfortable lifestyle they have attempted to build for themselves.

They have been unwilling to question what comes after the welfare society, what comes after the oh-so comfortable lifestyle, where we think we are all so nice and we look after each other. And if there is a problem in society, then we can throw money or social services at it—and then we can ignore it while feeling good in our cozy little houses around the fire.

This is not the highest potential of this nation. And thus, I give an impetus of light that might stir up the pot, so to speak, and shatter this comfortability that what we have attained is good enough. You see, when you look at the nations of the world, you see many nations where it is clearly recognized that something is lacking.

You even see this around the Baltic Sea, where you see some of the nations that have been under communist rule for many years, and they know they have catching up to do. They know they are not where they want to be, so they are willing to strive. For you see, some of the older nations that escaped the communist yoke, and you see that they have become so comfortable in their welfare societies, that they do not recognize the need to transcend.

For you see, when you are clearly aware that you are lacking something, it is easy to recognize the need for transcendence. But when you are oh-so comfortable and cozy, then it is much harder to acknowledge that you need to transcend. However, this is also the potential that the Danish people carry with them from ancient times. And thus, I am in no way speaking something here that cannot be attained by those who are willing. For of course, there is a growing awareness in Danish society, that what we have attained is good, but that there is more, and it is time we start reaching for that more.

For, while it may be regrettable that you made mistakes, I can tell you, that when people pass from the screen of life and look back on their lifetime, it is not so much the mistakes that they regret; it is the opportunities not taken. The potential that was not fulfilled, because people became comfortable at a certain level, where they thought this was all they had to attain for that lifetime.

Do you not, if you are honest, see this, my beloved, in spiritual people and spiritual movements? Where there is a clear tendency that people use the teaching to build some fantasy picture. And they think that if they continue to follow this teaching and practice its practices, then they are guaranteed to ascend or reach enlightenment, or whatever the goal may be defined as being.

Yet I tell you, as long as you are in physical embodiment, you would be wise never the think you do not have to transcend your current state. And this is true whether you believe yourself to be a student, or whether you believe yourself to be a teacher.

Dare to tell your stories with honesty

Thus, be willing to learn from those who have acknowledge the need to always transcend, to not stop where you are comfortable, as this messenger describes in his latest book, with an honesty that even us who have ascended must admire. For when we were in embodiment, some of us were not quite as anxious to expose our own mistakes or our own thoughts. For we still lived in an age, where we thought image was very important. So although we did not lie, there were things we did not say.

And that was, indeed, the Piscean dispensation, where in spiritual movements, starting with Jesus and forward, there were many things that were not said, many things that were not explained. But you see, in the coming Age of Transcendence, this will no longer fly.

For this is the age of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit does not like to be confined by these mental boxes, these black boxes, where people do not want anyone to see what is within. And thus, only those who are willing to be honest, straightforward and expose themselves to the ridicule and anger of the world, will be the true teachers, or rather the true examples. For is there really a need for teachers in the Age of Transcendence, teachers who talk the talk but often do not walk the walk? Nay, there is a need for those who walk the walk, and therefore their talk reflects what they have experienced, what they have been willing to see in themselves.

Certainly, no one can see everything while he or she is still in embodiment. And certainly, one of the things that must be overcome from Pisces is likewise the idolatry of the perfect guru. For there is a need to recognize that no one is above anyone, for it is the same God who is within all. And the more you begin to acknowledge God within you, the less you have a need to set yourself up above others.

For you also begin to recognize God in others, and you see that it is the same God who wants to be expressed through many different facets of the diamond of life, and will not confine itself to only one expression. In other words, even though God might be able to give a complete teaching through one person, why would God do so, when it actually would make it harder for other people to come up and recognize, that they too can be open doors for something from beyond the fog, or from beyond the black-and-white extremes?

This then is the need: that many in the coming age will start telling their story of how they went beyond the common lifestyle in the West, or wherever they are living, that they saw something more in whatever form, and they describe their journey, so that others may be inspired, not only to start their own journey but to also tell the tale. For it is always so, that when a new idea starts gaining foothold in society, it is not because one or a few talk about the idea, but it is because many people start talking about the idea. That is when the shift happens in the collective consciousness. And thus, it is indeed necessary that many people dare to tell their story, honestly and openly, instead of thinking that they have to be perfect before they can allow themselves to say anything.

Let not the false teachers put you down

Do you not see, that in the Piscean age, the challenge for humankind was indeed to not let themselves be put down by the false teachers, those who were so in love with power, that they thought they were wiser and could tell other people how they should live, what they should believe, how they should walk their path. Nay, this is no longer the cycle. It is the cycle where all find the teacher within, and where the outer teacher only becomes an example for how to find the teacher within.

And so, what the power people, the fallen beings, the power elite did in the Piscean age was to intimidate people with the standard of perfection – as this messenger describes with clarity in the new book – so that people thought that unless they were perfect, they had no contribution to make to society, and they especially could not speak out against the elite.

And thus, so many people missed the opportunity to tell their own stories, because they allowed themselves to be intimidated by the fact, that because they had made this or that mistake or had this or that imperfection, they should remain silent. For they knew they would be ridiculed and put down by those who are so wounded in their psychology, that they have no ability to emphasize with other people. And thus, they can only criticize that which they either do not understand, or which they understand but recognize that they are not willing to do. And thus, when they see someone who has transcended what they are not willing to transcend, they must put it down.

This is a mentality that is widespread in many countries, and it is certainly a mentality that you find in this country of Denmark, where there has been a tendency to want to put down anyone who stands forward and proclaims his or her talents. And this, then, is what the light I release will challenge, so that the Danish people might realize that the Danish nation and the Danish people do not have to be perfect in order to make a contribution to the world. They just have to dare to stand up and say: “Maybe, we could do it this way, for we have found that it worked for ourselves?”

And so in closing, be willing, if you consider yourself a spiritual person, to tell your story. Tell the tale, not in a convoluted form, as I did it in the Shakespearean plays. But do it in the straightforward, direct way that is the primary way of expression in the Age of Transcendence. Tell the story of your transcendence, that others may see that it is possible to transcend, and that it is worthwhile to transcend. For when you are willing to work through whatever holds you back, be it fear of ridicule or something else, you gain a new freedom.

For after all, it is only when you have been exposed to the attacks of the fallen beings and lived through it, that you realize that that which is unreal has no power over that which is real.

And I, Saint Germain AM real, and my Golden Age is real. Thus, I claim this nation of Denmark as a forerunner for the Golden Age. It is done!

Violet flame diplomacy for higher vision in Europe

TOPICS: A realistic assessment of the situation in Europe – What works and what doesn’t work – The Alpha aspect of higher principles – See yourself as an open door –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 23, 2012 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have a messenger in the physical octave who can be the open door for the anchoring of the portion of Light that I wish to anchor here in this capitol of Brussels, Belgium, which is also the headquarters of much of the European Union’s headquarters and the Parliament and Commission. I will anchor, therefore, a certain flame over the central buildings here in this capitol and also in Strasbourg, France and in all of the European nations where there are facilities for the European Union, as well as national parliaments. The flame that I come to anchor is an aspect of the violet flame, which we might call the violet flame diplomacy. It is the flame that I carried when, as the wonder man of Europe, I travelled throughout Europe, coming to many of these capitols that are still standing today.

It is not the diplomacy, of course, that you normally see on earth. I have no desire to anchor a flame that will reinforce the tendency, that you see so much in diplomatic circles, where there are certain holy cows that cannot be talked about, certain topics that cannot be brought up for fear of alienating the other side or insulting some sensitivities and sensibilities that all, of course, sprang from the human consciousness—for it is only the ego that can take offense.

Neither do I, of course, desire to reinforce another tendency seen in human diplomacy where the aim is to keep something hidden. Or the aim is to manipulate the other side into doing what we supposedly want them to do. But often, of course, people are not even aware of what they want, of what is the highest solution. It all becomes a big game where they are all seeking to get what they think is best, but none of them have bothered to reach for the higher vision of what I, Saint Germain, know is best for Europe or for the world.

A realistic assessment of the situation in Europe

The flame that I come to anchor is the violet flame of diplomacy, mixed with the honesty that comes from the First Ray so that it will therefore supplement the flame anchored by Hercules in Berlin LINK and other flames that we have anchored before.

Honesty is the foundation for true diplomacy: a realistic assessment of the situation. Then, when you have that realistic assessment, all of a sudden it begins to become clear that it does not really matter whether you look at it through the glasses of the French perspective, or the German perspective, or the Greek perspective, or the British perspective, or any other national perspective.

When you have a realistic assessment of the problem, it becomes obvious what is the way forward and it will transcend national interests. We are in an age where the interests of the whole clearly transcend the interest of any single nation. Wise are the nations who can see this. And there are, indeed, nations in Europe who can see this, although certainly not all who are members of the European Union.

The question that must be debated is whether these nations – that cannot see the overall interests because they are so focused on their narrow national interests – whether these nations really are worthy to remain in the European Union or become members of it. How can we ever reach any higher goal, if we have to always tiptoe around these national sensibilities or these nations that are unwilling to look for the greater perspective?

It is exactly as it was with the kings back when I travelled this continent as the Wonder Man of Europe, who would not look beyond their narrow self-interests. In many cases, these were not even their national interests, but simply self-preservation for their own position in society. Because they were not willing to look beyond these narrow interests, they could not and they would not grasp the vision that I held for a United Europe. And of course, it is the same today.

If you are not willing to look beyond these narrow interests, then how can you possibly grasp the vision for the whole, the vision for a true European Union that is not simply based on money, but is based on a higher vision? This higher vision can come in two different shades, the Alpha and the Omega.

What is beginning to emerge in Europe is, as I have said, this realistic assessment of the financial problem and the problem with the entire money system. This has not yet become widespread in terms of the willingness to question the money system itself, but there is certainly a growing awareness that new and more practical solutions are needed and therefore an entirely new approach to the economy is needed.

What works and what doesn’t work

This is the Omega aspect where through the experiences you have in the Mother realm, in the matter realm, you gradually begin to see what works and what does not work. Therefore, it is not a matter of national interests, it is not personal preference, it is not a matter of ideology or religion; it is a matter of simply looking at what is the practical solution, what works and what does not work. What will stand and what will collapse under its own weight in a shorter and shorter time span as cycles are accelerated. This awareness is beginning to grow among many European leaders and this is, indeed, a credit to those who are willing to take a realistic look at the current financial system.

Of course, there are many other aspects of the European Union that must be looked at in the same light. Indeed, we look forward to seeing that the rather forced solution, or the forced impetus, to take a look at the financial system will spread to other areas of society. What works, what does not work?

As I have said before on this European continent, there will come a point where it is necessary to question the value of nation states. For what is it you see in United States? You see one national state that has many local states that do not see themselves as individual countries, but only see themselves as defined as part of the union.

This is, of course, what we need to reach for in Europe, if the European Union is to live up to its full potential. Of course, we have a ways to go because we have so many nations in Europe that can trace their history so far back, some of them a thousand years. How do you throw away a thousand years of history in a matter of one generation? Well, it cannot always be done. I am realistic in seeing this.

Nevertheless, I do say that it is necessary to start considering whether nation states are practical in this day and age. Is it practical to talk about nation states or is it perhaps more practical to begin to talk about regions that have such geographical similarities and similitudes that they really should be looked at as a unit that transcends the national boundaries? What is really in the higher interest of all the people who live in that union, whatever language they speak, whatever national flag they see flying over their capitol buildings.

Indeed, the violet flame, a realistic and honest diplomacy, will begin to spread from these focal points as it is released on this day and will begin to work its way through the mass consciousness and through the consciousness of those in the government and in the administrative circles. You will begin to see that questions will creep up here and there.

Those who are the seers, the visionaries, the writers, they will begin to express new ideas as has already, to some degree, happened. They will see that the only way forward, based on the financial crisis, is to look for a stronger political union that is more apt at making the difficult decisions that must be made in situations that no one has faced before. Therefore, there are no models, there are no political theories or ideologies that will work. It is a matter of looking at what is practical.

The Alpha aspect of higher principles

Beyond this, of course, I look forward to seeing, at some point, the emergence of the Alpha aspect where you see that a higher union can also be based on higher principles. This does not mean religion or religious principles. This means, as we have said many times now, the emergence of a universal spiritual approach to life.

With spiritual, I simply mean that you recognize that there is something beyond the material universe. There is a mind, a consciousness, that can define certain principles that are beyond what can be defined by human beings who, as even the philosophers who have grown up on this continent in various ages have said, cannot always know reality, or at least cannot know reality from a certain state of consciousness.

If you are an ascended master student, you might take, at least a quick look at some of the major philosophers of the world who have dealt with this problem of perception. They have looked at how people can actually know anything and how you can know what is reliable knowledge. See what the philosophers have said about this, and it might give you a different perspective on what we of ascended masters have said over the last couple of years.

Certainly, our talk about perception does not suddenly appear out of nowhere. We are very well aware what the philosophers have been saying, going all the way back to Plato and Plato’s cave, which we have mentioned before. But also many of the philosophers during the Middle Ages, during the enlightenment, and even in modern times, have dealt with the problem of perception and knowledge.

Where does knowledge come from? Does it only come from this world or does it come from a higher realm? If it does not come from a higher realm, then we must recognize that there are limits to what the human mind can know because the human mind is inherently subjective. If we want to find objective knowledge, we must reach beyond the human level. How do we do this? Well, we can only do so if we recognize that there is something to reach beyond, that there is something beyond the human consciousness and the human level.

There are philosophers who have dealt intelligently with this, and although sometimes their language and their reasoning is somewhat obscure, it is not beyond what an ascended master student should be able to grasp. I encourage you to cast at least a cursory look at this and not remain ignorant of what has been going on in philosophical circles. Indeed, there are philosophers that have been open doors for being inspired by the Ascended Host. We do not only seek to work with people in the religious context, we seek to work with people at all levels of society.

See yourself as an open door

This is, indeed, why we look for many ascended master students to become the open doors for the energies and the light that can be released through your chakras, as we have said now in China. Indeed, it is necessary for you who are serious ascended master students to begin to see yourselves in this capacity. Wherever you travel or wherever you live, you can be alert and be aware of what is happening in the world around you. When there are certain situations where you can tune in and realize that we of the ascended masters want to realize light in order to balance that situation, well then, you can be the open door.

You can either give the calls, you travel to certain places and give the calls, or you can simply meditate and visualize and feel how the light is flowing through you and you are directing it through your conscious attention into these situations where, suddenly, the light becomes the missing ingredient, the missing link between the human and the divine level.

Someone in embodiment must be the open door, or the light cannot descend into the physical octave. This is the law. It is time you recognize that you have the potential to fulfill the law and to be the open doors. This is your lawful right. This is your lawful inheritance. This is part of your divine plan. This is why you are here. At this dawning of the Aquarian Age and the Golden Age of Saint Germain, I have need of many who will be the open doors.

Therefore, begin to shift your perception of yourself. Overcome your tendency to be so focused on yourself and your own lack of worthiness, thinking you have to live up to some superhuman standard in order to be an open door for Saint Germain. Recognize that right now this messenger is sitting in a public airport, undisturbed by the people and the humdrum buzz and the hustle and bustle around him, and simply being the open door for the spoken word.

Even if you are not the open door for the spoken word, then you can certainly be the open door for the light through visualization. We have given many invocations and decrees that if spoken in certain public places at certain critical times – when decisions are being made or events are taking place – can have a major impact because you then have a chalice that the light can flow into.

Of course, we look for many of you to also go beyond needing an outer structure where you simply can be in a situation, can tune in to the situation through your ability to tune in to the Mother realm. You can tune in to us in the ascended realm, and then you become the open door for spontaneously making the calls that need to be made or releasing the light that we desire to release. This is your potential.

Jesus said: Go into your closet to pray. This is perfectly valid. But I say: Once in while get out of your closet to be an open door for the light. Give your decrees in public places, wherever you can. I am not telling you to make a spectacle of yourselves, but as you can see, it is possible to sit in a perfectly busy place without being noticed. I will give you a tool, which is that you can invoke the cloak of invincibility, invisibility and invulnerability around you. That will, in many cases, seal you from other people even being aware of what you are doing.

I have anchored the Light I desire to anchor. My release is complete. The release for this journey of our messengers from the Baltic countries to Germany to China, to Beijing, to Shanghai, to Melbourne, back to Shanghai, back to Beijing, and then now to Brussels, and back to the Baltic countries, is coming to an end. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity we have had to release light, and we look forward to even using the experience, especially the experience in China, to give further teachings on that nation and its potential future. I seal this release and this, what we might call epic, journey in a higher sense. Therefore, I say: Saint Germain I AM. And the release is complete.

Anchoring the flames of Freedom and Liberty in China

TOPICS: Igniting the desire for something more – The propaganda machine and individuality – Why freedom will win over control –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 22, 2012 through Kim Michaels

Saint Germain I AM, and I am the God of Freedom, come to this place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in a double action with the Goddess of Liberty. We then, will manifest an extraordinary dispensation of a combination of the Freedom and Liberty Flames right here in this square that has become a symbol both for the communist takeover and for the attempt to set this country free from the communist leaders.

Igniting the desire for something more

Therefore, we aim to manifest a double action of our flames right here so that all of those who come here may be infused with the one ingredient that is so lacking in the Chinese people, namely the desire for freedom. If there is no deity that desires freedom within the individual, how then shall a nation be free? How then shall a nation overcome the oppression that is even beyond the physical oppression, but is an oppression of the mind, the heart, the feelings?

There simply is no imagination – there is no I-magic in action – that can help people see a better future. If you do not see the value of freedom, how can you long for anything beyond the life that you have in your daily lives? How then can you focus on anything more, if you cannot even imagine that there is more?

If you are content with the level of existence you have, how shall you ever go within, realize that you have a spiritual flame, and multiply that flame? If there is not a critical mass of individuals in a nation that will multiply their spiritual flames, then how indeed shall there ever be an awakening on the national level? How shall there ever be freedom? How can a nation possibly be free, if there is not that critical mass of people who are willing to be the forerunners for the Flame of Freedom by embodying it in their hearts?

I am here to say: “No more shall it be possible for this willful ignorance of freedom to be sustained. Our flames anchored in the physical, the emotional, the mental and the etheric will indeed challenge all who come here. As these words are spoken, I release an infinite release of Freedom’s Flame so that all people who are here right now will feel a jolt in their hearts. They will know that something is different. Many will not notice consciously, but at inner levels they will know that a change has occurred.

The propaganda machine and individuality

You may think it pompous to make a declaration that this nation of over one billion people will be changed just by one person standing on a square and speaking physical words. Nevertheless, I tell you one simple equation. The fallen beings on earth have attempted to create all kinds of control schemes to suppress the spiritual flames in people’s hearts. This is what you see enacted in this nation on a massive scale not seen since past ages long forgotten.

The propaganda machine is so efficient that it squashes the individuality of the vast majority of the people. But there is one thing that they can never, ever predict and therefore never, ever defend themselves against. And that is one individual going within him- or herself, therefore embodying the flame in their heart, and then suddenly being willing to travel to a certain place and give expression to that flame. This is the power of individuality.

When one person becomes a focus for the flame, then that person becomes the open door for all those who are one with that flame in the spiritual realm, and even those who have embodied that flame in the physical realm. Suddenly, there is a connection, there is an antahkarana that forms a net all around the planet of all people in embodiment, who have some embodiment of the Freedom and Liberty flames.

Suddenly, that one person standing in that particular place and being the mouthpiece, now becomes the open door for the collective momentum for all the people below and all the masters above. Suddenly, there is indeed a release of light that no force on earth can ever squash.

This is in no way to say that there is only one person who can be a focal point for this, for all who have embodied a spiritual flame to a critical degree can be that focal point wherever you are. I look for millions of people in this dawning of the Age of Aquarius to embody the various flames and therefore, wherever you are around the earth, you can do exactly what is done here.

Why freedom will win over control

Whether you speak words in the physical or not, you can be an open door for the anchoring of the light that will overthrow the schemes of the fallen beings. Their control cannot control what you cannot predict. You cannot put down what you cannot predict, and you cannot predict the actions of a single individual who is an open door for the spiritual flame. This is uncontrollable and that is why freedom will win. The more you attempt to enact control, the more you blind yourself to the infinite and unpredictable creativity that can shine through one individual.

Thus, indeed, I am grateful to be able to speak these words through a physical vehicle. As I look around through physical eyes, I literally see the potential for this nation. I radiate the love I have for all people, not only in China but on earth. I radiate that love so that they may feel that I have a higher vision for the Aquarian Age than they can even imagine. I envision that something may stir within them and then they may begin to feel that there perhaps can be better times ahead, if they are willing to search for something they cannot even define.

Nevertheless, if they start moving, if they start looking, they can be gradually led to find that something that is an outer focus and that will suddenly jolt their inner memory. Now they remember their divine plan that they formulated before coming into embodiment. Suddenly, they begin to be willing to move to put themselves in the right place, physically and spiritually.

When enough people do this, there will come that critical mass. Suddenly, there will be a phase transition where the people now come into alignment, not with a false vision of the propaganda apparatus of the power elites of this world, but with the true vision of Saint Germain for the golden age.

Thus, I say: I AM Saint Germain. I AM Freedom, Freedom, I AM—and Freedom you are.