Let the Latvians be wise as serpents, without becoming indecisive

TOPICS: How to build a country without leaders? – The Latvian tradition for seeking peaceful solutions – The threefold flame of the Baltic countries – The international power elite created the Iron Curtain – The financial crisis was an accident by design – The need to speak out about Soviet occupation – Everything is a potential for growth –

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Ascended Master Lord Lanto, October 30, 2011 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given as the messenger was driving in a car towards Riga, Latvia.

Lord Lanto I AM, and I come to anchor a special flame here in the Latvian capital of Riga, in order to magnify the Latvian people’s potential to play a role in the Baltic region and also among the three Baltic countries.

There are, of course, different ways to classify countries, and one way – and certainly not the only way – to look at the three Baltic countries is as representing the threefold flame of power, wisdom and love. Thus, as my beloved colleague and brother, Master MORE, has already expressed so eloquently, the Lithuanian people clearly carry the blue flame. And for those who know the Latvian people, it is also clear that they carry the yellow plume—that has the potential to become wisdom.

Yet in order to be allowed to blossom into that potential, it is indeed necessary for the Latvian people to realize, that they face a delicate challenge in their nation. That challenge is how to be decisive enough to develop a clear vision for the future of their nation, while at the same time avoiding becoming too intellectual and linear in their thinking.

How to build a country without leaders?

Those of you who know something about the history of the Baltic countries, and about many of the other countries that were occupied by the Soviet Union, will know that in the beginning years of the Soviet occupation after the Second World War, virtually the entire elite of these countries disappeared. They were either liquidated in their own countries, or in most cases loaded onto cattle cars and taken to concentration camps in various parts of what was then the Soviet Union but is today Russia. Thus, the challenge faced by all three Baltic countries, and by all former Soviet republics, is how to build a country, when the very people who had the vision and the initiative to build a country have disappeared.

Of course, you will see, that immediately after the Soviet occupation ended, there were indeed people who stepped forward. And thus, it is clear from this observation, that even though the Soviet Union tried to brainwash and program people to be “good communist citizens” – meaning they would never take an initiative, would never question the system, would never question authority – there were still many people who did not buy into this programming, but immediately grabbed the opportunity to attain freedom and self-determination, when they could see that it could be done without major bloodshed.

The Latvian tradition for seeking peaceful solutions

Thus, certainly, the nation of Latvia has a tradition for peaceful action, for being peaceful. And it is important to recognize and acknowledge this desire to look for peaceful solutions. Anyone who does look for peaceful solutions, will of course not be so easily polarized towards either of the extremes that are always present in any issue. And thus, while you see that the Lithuanian people can more easily become polarized towards black and white thinking – as is exemplified by the Catholic church and its influence – you also see that the Latvian people do not have this tendency nearly to the same degree.

In fact, they have it to a very low degree, compared to many other nations, and this indeed gives them a potential to step in and mediate in difficult negotiations. Yet it must also be recognized, that the flip side of the coin, so to speak, is that those who are more balanced or fair-minded also have a tendency to be indecisive.

For it is indeed so, that those who are balanced are balanced because they can often see both sides of an issue. And therefore, they are good at understanding the arguments for or against this or that position, this or that theory. Yet, when this is not balanced by a certain amount of blue flame and the pink flame of love, then it can lead to a confused state, where there is no clear vision, because many options seem to be equally valid or perhaps no option seems to be truly valid.

And therefore, this leads to indecisiveness, where a nation fails to actually define a clear structure for how it will function, ranging from clear laws, a clear constitution or even the willingness to pay taxes in order to give the government a solid economic foundation for providing public services—rather than having to finance this through loans that cannot be sustained in the long run.

And so it should be obvious, then, that these signs can be clearly seen in the recent history of Latvia, especially what happened after the financial crisis hit and the bubble economy, that had been built in the preceding years, known as the Baltic Tiger, collapsed, as it was destined to do from the beginning.

And thus, you will also see, that because of the ability to argue convincingly for or against an issue, the Latvian people were willing to argue convincingly – at least to themselves – that the economy would not collapse. And thus, they were more surprised when it did collapse, than they might have been, if they had not had this more extreme tendency to argue for or against any issue without truly being willing to recognize, that there is always some position that is – while not necessarily an absolute truth – certainly the better course of action for this particular nation, given the culture, and the history, and the psychology of the people.

The threefold flame of the Baltic countries

For it is, of course, not so, that there is only one course of action that all nations should follow. Each nation has an individuality, has a culture of its own. And thus, each nation must find its own way,. And therefore, we are not in any way trying to raise up a standard that all nations should follow—for we leave that to the fallen beings.

And of course, it should be recognized, that the fallen beings on earth have an insatiable desire for power. And this desire is not easily fulfilled in a small nation, which is why you indeed see, both in Europe and on a world scale, that there are fewer fallen beings incarnated in the smaller nations. And this, of course, is precisely what gives the smaller nations an important role to play in bringing peace, cooperation and balance on a larger scale.

Thus, the flame that I anchor is indeed a flame that can enhance the Latvian people’s natural tendency to be able to see through varios smokescreens and issues raised by the serpentine mind and the duality consciousness. Yet it must be balanced, it must be balanced by the willingness to make decisions and by the love that gives you an inner sense of what is right, even though you cannot always argue for it in an intellectual, linear way.

And thus, you will see that it is no coincidence that Latvia is in between Estonia and Lithuania. For the Lithuanian people have the blue flame and the drive in abundance, but the Estonian people have the love flame—even though few of them recognize this as being so. And thus, the three Baltic nations could learn much from each other—if they were willing to talk together in a more open manner.

And of course, we of the ascended masters quite clearly realize the dilemma that the Baltic countries are in. After 50 years of brutal Soviet repression and occupation, they have now finally won their freedom as independent countries. And so, when you have such a history, it is not easy to sit down around the table and negotiate merging the three Baltic countries into one nation. This we clearly see, and thus we point to an alternative. And it is, indeed, what has been the theme for these dictations that have ringed the Baltic sea with a ring of spiritual fire.

The alternative is that instead of merging nations into one, so that the old nations cease to exist, you create a region. And this allows the individual nations, at least for the foreseeable future, to retain their independence, to retain their national characteristics, their languages. And this is indeed the vision that I anchor here, and that we have anchored wherever we have anchored flames in the nations that straddle the Baltic sea.

For it is a possibility that these nations can form a region, that can become a model of what can happen in other areas of the world, where there are geographical characteristics that make it feasible for countries to merge, in a spirit of cooperation, into a region while retaining their individuality, that often has a strong emotional resonance with the people. And thus, we propose the establishment of such regions, before taking the more drastic step of merging nations, so that some nations no longer exist.

The international power elite created the Iron Curtain

This, of course, is not to say, that this is the only course. For there are indeed some nations that could and will benefit from being merged with others, or even being split up into one or several regions. Nevertheless, the vision we give for the Baltic region is indeed one of cooperation across national borders and boundaries. It is one that will bring together East and West, and that will truly accelerate the process of merging East and West that has been going on since the Iron Curtain came down.

For truly, as we have mentioned before, this was an artificial division of the European continent. And it must be stated bluntly, that this division clearly was not in the better interest of the people. It was designed and perpetrated by the international power elite, who at the time had a strong influence on governments in both the Soviet Union, England and the United States. And thus, what happened at the Malta Conference, between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt was indeed not in any way the design of the ascended masters.

It was the design of the fallen beings, to divide and thereby weaken Europe, and thereby delay the process of unification and cooperation, that is indeed the design of the ascended masters, and has been so since Saint Germain took physical embodiment for the purpose of establishing a United States of Europe. Again, his attempts back then were thwarted by the fallen beings – the kings and the international elite – that had already then begun to think that it was able to run the world behind the scenes, without ever being noticed and therefore held accountable by the people.

The financial crisis was an accident by design

And so, it must be stated also that the financial crisis was not just an accident that happened. It was indeed an accident by design, for it was the international power elite that again precipitated the bubble economy in their attempt to delay the process of a unification of Europe. For they knew that by artificially pumping money into some of the new developing economies in the eastern european countries, then they could precipitate a crash that would delay the true unification and cooperation between East and West.

For you see – with all we have said about the duality consciousness – that the power elite must seek to create these artificial divisions wherever possible. And certainly, the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe was by their design. And even powerful people in the United States thought that this would be in the interest of the U.S., in order to prevent a united Europe from becoming stronger economically and politically, even militarily, than the United States.

For back then, the leaders of the United States thought they were so far ahead of the Soviet Union, that they could hold them in check. Yet they did not realize how the power elite behind the scenes manipulated events, so that the Soviet Union very quickly could develop nuclear weapons and therefore attain, not necessarily military parity with the United States, but certainly a strength that guaranteed that the Cold War would go on for decades and decades.

Just imagine, what would have happened if the eastern European nations had remained independent after the Second World War. Just imagine how much greater abundance there would have been in these nations, if personal initiative had not been destroyed by the Soviet brainwashing machine. Just imagine how the attempts of unification that you have seen in western Europe with the EU, could have spread East of the Iron Curtain decades ago. And how by now, the poverty that you see in the eastern european nations could have been completely unknown, as these nations would have been almost on parity economically with the western nations.

This would have been a great advantage, not only to the continent of Europe but to the world as a whole. For Europe has the potential to be the balancing factor between East and West. Thus, it was indeed the fallen beings who saw the necessity of precipitating the Bolshevik revolution, so that the Soviet Union would be formed and thereby Russia would be shut out from becoming part of Europe, as it was envisioned by Peter the Great so long ago.

The need to speak out about Soviet occupation

And so, you see how there are so many of these underlying currents of deception and manipulation, that need to be understood and exposed. Thus, the flame that I anchor is indeed also meant to stir up the recognition, not only in Latvia but in many other countries, of the need to talk openly about the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe and other former Soviet republics.

For although there have been attempts by a few to speak about this topic, it certainly has not yet reached the level that is needed for these countries to transcend their past. And thus, I therefore say: “There is a great need to speak out, and to write about what it was like to live under the yoke of Soviet occupation, what it was like to grow up as a young person under Soviet rule and what it was like, then, to gain freedom from this oppression.” This is especially a potential in the Baltic countries, and Latvia has an important role to play because of the sizable Russian minority in this country.

It should be noted, in the recent election, that the Russian people in Latvia are almost better organized and more decisive than the Latvian people themselves. This, of course, is not to say that we encourage the Latvian people to now form an opposition to the Russian people. We rather encourage them to find that delicate balance, where the Latvian people become willing to talk about Soviet times with brutal honesty, so that even the Russian people in Latvia will be faced with the opportunity to choose, whether they will distance themselves from the Soviet past.

For indeed, that is the only way that the Russian people will ever transcend the Soviet past. It is not realistic to expect that the Russian people in Russia will begin to analyze the Soviet past, recognize the errors of Soviet times and then decide to transcend them. But it is realistic to hope that the Russian people, the Russian-speaking people who still live in former Soviet republics, will indeed be willing to recognize the effect that the Soviet occupation had on these countries—and therefore will be willing to listen to the people who were the primary targets of this oppression.

This, then, gives the possibility that the Russian people can develop compassion, empathy and understanding for how the actions of the Soviet Union affected other people—and for that matter even affected themselves. And this could then – potentially – have an impact on Russia itself, and cause the Russians in Russia to be willing to wrestle with the past—as has not yet happened. As you even see young people who know virtually nothing about the Soviet past and have no desire to know. For they do not want to be bothered with thinking about the errors of the past.

Yet what then is to prevent you from repeating them? Nothing! For as Mother Mary said in Poland, unless the people say “Enough is enough,” there will be a power elite, who will be willing to take things one step further towards the extreme.

Everything is a potential for growth

Thus, I have anchored the light that is meant to be anchored. I have given the impetus and the vision that is necessary for all former Soviet republics – but especially the Baltic countries – to start talking more openly about Soviet times, and openly seeking to learn from the effects of communism upon the human spirit and upon a society.

For this is a lesson that needs to be learned in the West as well. For the West has very little understanding of what really happened to people under communist rule. And this is necessary, if Europe is to avoid moving towards a system that could also become oppressive, because it is ruled by the fallen beings. And they will seek to do what they always do, if the people are not alert.

And thus, you see, nothing is wasted, for everything it is an opportunity for growth. This is not to say, that we do not fully understand and empathize with the suffering of the people who were under the Soviet yoke for so long. But we also look forward and say, given that this did happen and that it cannot be undone in time – at least in the past – how can it be undone in the future, so that the people can transcend the consciousness and therefore move forward.

Yet you cannot transcend what you cannot see, and you cannot see what you are not willing to look at and openly talk about. For there are many people that need to give input, for the process of healing and transcendence that has the best potential of taking root in the Baltic countries.

Thus, I Lanto, am grateful for this opportunity, and I – as do all of us – look forward to the future, to see what will transpire and develop in the Baltic region. Lanto, I AM.

It is time for the women of Poland to say: “Enough is enough!”

TOPICS: Equality for the women in Poland – The persecution of women started with the fallen beings – How will the women of Poland get equality? – The women must say “STOP!” – Mother Mary was not a passive woman – Things must change in Europe – Mother Mary’s love for Poland –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, October 29, 2011 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given as the messenger was driving in a car through western Poland.

Mother Mary I AM, and I AM here to anchor light in this nation of Poland. Truly, this nation is dear to my heart; not only because so many people in Poland still have reverence for me in my role as the mother of Jesus, but also because Poland itself holds an important Mother Flame for the continent of Europe.

When you look at the history of the Polish nation, you can see how Poland has been invaded and occupied by armies from virtually every direction. From the North, the Swedes, from the West, the Germans, from the East, the Russians and so forth and so on throughout the centuries. Yet, think more deeply and see what this actually means?

For have we not said, that the Mother element is the one that has vowed to allow self-aware beings with free will to outplay their consciousness, so that the Mother will project back whatever self-aware beings project upon it—in order to make their state of consciousness more visible, that they might decide to finally transcend it. And thus, can you not also see that the Polish people throughout history have been willing to allow armies to invade them from all sides. They have been willing to endure much hardship, much persecution, and this is indeed a proof of the profound and intricate Mother Flame, carried by the Polish people.

Equality for the women in Poland

This then is, indeed, the potential that the Polish people can outpicture in the coming decades, both in Europe as a whole but also in the region of the Baltic countries, that we have now attempted to draw with this ring of Fire that we are putting around the Baltic Sea.

Yet, I must tell you that before the Polish nation and the Polish people can find their rightful place among the family of nations and outpicture the full potential, there are some hurdles that must be overcome. First and foremost, the Polish nation needs to recognize that Poland is currently far away from having manifested the equality among the sexes, that you see in most other nations in Europe and around the Baltic Sea. Women are still put down in Poland almost in an institutionalized way.

If the Polish people are to transcend this momentum – of not protecting women, of putting them down and of not allowing them influence upon important decisions in society – then it must be recognized where this comes from. And truly, it comes, in an immediate past, of course, from the Soviet Union, where it is clearly seen that the Soviet brand of Communism, as for that matter most other brands of Communism, put down women in a systematic way.

Women were considered second-class citizens, the ones who should do the work but otherwise keep quiet when the important men had to make the important decisions. Do you realize, my beloved, that when Gorbachev invited his wife on official journeys and functions, it was almost a shock in the eastern block? This should give you some sense of co-measurement, those of you who have grown up in the West and have been used to seeing women in more important roles. And thus, perhaps the Polish nation can get some sense of co-measurement, of how there is still not a willingness to allow women to be part of society on equal terms with men.

The persecution of women started with the fallen beings

Yet, of course, it must also be recognized that in the more distant past – and certainly also in the recent past and present – the real factor that has caused the put-down of women, is indeed the Catholic Church. For very few institutions on earth have endured for so long while persecuting women, ignoring women, putting down women, shutting out women from the priesthood. Even shutting out women from being able to marry the priests, and therefore still have at least some influence on the spiritual life of the nation, rather than sitting passively in church or doing passive work that is not related to the real, important church functions that are always performed by men.

Do you not see, that this goes back many, many centuries? It goes back to the Roman Empire, which had a clear persecution and putting down of women. But it even goes further back in the Jewish religion and the Old Testament. And thus, if you are willing to truly look at this, you will see that this, indeed, is almost written into the Old Testament, especially the Book of Genesis, where of course the Fall of Man is blamed upon Eve and thereby all women. This especially became pronounced after the Catholic invention of the concept of original sin, which of course was never there originally, even in the Old Testament, and most certainly not in the original teachings of Jesus.

And thus, if you want you go even further back, you must recognize that Genesis is partly written by the fallen beings, who have been putting down the Mother element ever since they decided to rebel against the Father and the Spirit. They determined that since they could not control Spirit, they could at least try to control matter, the Mother element. And they have done so in many subtle ways by seeking to put down women and the female element, even the concept of motherhood.

Thus, when you recognize how deep, how subtle and how ancient the persecution of women truly is, you can also see that much work is needed in order to overcome it. And this does in practical terms mean that Poland in order to overcome the persecution of women – even the outright abuse of women, such as the selling of women into prostitution – then Poland needs to be willing to question the Catholic Church and its influence upon Polish society.

How will the women of Poland get equality?

For it must be recognized, that the persecution of women, the discrimination against women, was institutionalized during Catholic times, before Soviet occupation. But it did not lessen at all during Soviet times, in fact in a way it almost became reinforced, because now both those who are religious and those who are non–religious have been programmed to put down women. And thus, where shall the women of Poland turn to get equal rights and equal representation in society?

Indeed, they shall turn to those, who have embodied in Poland as both men and women precisely to bring about the shift away from both Communism and Catholicism, and towards a more universal form of spirituality, a natural or inbuilt spirituality as we have talked about now for some time. This, then, is the potential, for there are many people who have embodied in Poland specifically to bring about this shift in the collective consciousness, and thereby bring about the shift in society that will lead to a recognition of the simple fact that Poland, as any other nation, cannot fulfill its highest potential unless women are given equal rights, and equal representation in the decisions of society. There cannot be a systematic shutting out of women, if a society is to make balanced decisions.

For when you look at the history of Europe, you will indeed see, how the male ego has outplayed its warring tendencies, when not restricted by the balancing female polarity. And thus, you will also see, that if Poland is to transcend that stage of being the doormat for invading armies and occupying forces, then Poland needs to find a new balance.

And this balance does not mean that the male element becomes as aggressive in Poland as it has been in neighboring nations. It means that Poland must find a new balance. But this cannot be found by the men alone. It can only be found by both men and women coming together to realize, that only together can they form the polarity, that will bring balance to the nation and also to the family. For truly, this change must start in the family. And while it has done so to some degree, I can assure you, that there is a great need for the Polish people to be educated about family matters and how to run a successful family, that transcends the old patterns of a male-dominated family.

The women must say “STOP!”

And thus, again, where can this change come from? It can come only from the women taking the initiative, and then also making contact to the men who in past lives have already transcended this state of consciousness. But nevertheless, even though there are many of those men in embodiment in Poland, they must wait for the women to truly take the initiative. For as has been seen in other nations, and even to some degree in Poland already, it is the women who must stand up and demand more equality before society shifts in that direction.

And thus, the light that I release, and indeed the Flame that I will anchor, is indeed the flame of women realizing that even though you have embodied in a female body, you are still an immortal spirit that is beyond human sexuality. And thus, you do indeed have a right to take a stand, while you are in a female body, and to challenge the male ego and say that this centuries and millennia old putting down of women must come to a stop, and it must come to a stop NOW.

Only when this determination grows and rises in the chakras of a critical mass of the women in Poland, will the men be set free to embrace the shift, that they are actually hoping and waiting for, but which they are not able to bring about on their own. For how many times do you see a codependent relationship, where an abuser and a victim are caught in a spiral, that certainly the abuser cannot break—and that in many cases the victim cannot break either. But in this case, it is necessary that the victim – the women – do rise up and say: “Enough is enough, we demand better conditions, better recognition, better representation in Polish society.”

Mother Mary was not a passive woman

For my beloved, when you consider the many women in Poland who have a devotion to me as the Mother of Jesus, it should be possible for you to make a shift and realize, that I was not the typical passive housewife that you see raised up as an ideal in many nations. I was not a passive mother for Jesus.

For Jesus was as I have said before, an unruly child. And he needed to be shown, that there was a limit even for a child with a certain Christ attainment. And it was, indeed, my role in the family to take that role, which might seem like the role of the man. And this is not to say that Joseph did not also fulfill a role, but it was precisely my role as the woman to stand up to the person who had some Christ attainment, but was tempted to think that he knew all and thus did not need to be corrected by anything in this world.

For such is indeed the plight of many with spiritual attainment. And this is why you see some of them go the way of becoming more and more egotistical and self–centered, and therefore fail their mission. And I was determined to do everything in my power, so that Jesus would not fail his mission for lack of parental discipline and example. And I can assure you, that there were times, where there was a battle of wills, and I had to mount all of my Christ attainment to take a stand and say: “No, you will not cross this line.”

And this is indeed the potential that all those who are devoted to the Divine Mother in general, and to Mother Mary in particular, have. And thus, I put out into the collective consciousness of Poland this thoughtform of the women taking an absolute, unyielding stand; not out of anger but out of true determination. The determination that says: “I will not be moved by anything less than the purity of the Christ vision.”

For, even though matter, and the Mother element, has vowed to outpicture whatever is put upon it, there comes a point, where those self-aware beings who embody in matter do indeed have a right to stand up and say: “This is the line; do not cross it! Or you will incur the wrath of Kali, the wrath of the Divine Mother.” Which has nothing to do with human anger, but is indeed the absolute determination that if you do cross that line, then the Divine Mother will mirror back to you what you are sending out without any delay and without any mitigating factor. So that you reap the full return of your own projections and not receive the grace that normally comes through the delay in time or the reduction in intensity that allows you to do certain things and still survive.

For I can assure you, that there are many forms of karma, that would normally cause the instant destruction of the perpetrator, were not in this delay factor. And this delay factor is not inevitable, but is indeed tied to the free will of those who are the victims of abuse. For whereas you vow to allow some to abuse you in order to outpicture their state of consciousness, there also comes a point, where you must stand up and say that now this is enough and you must change.

Things must change in Europe

This is indeed the potential for the Polish people to stand up—to take a stand and say that there are certain things that must change in Europe, so that the old patterns cannot continue to be repeated. And thus, the Polish people have an important potential for helping to bring about a more permanent, a more stable peace.

For do you not recognize, that there are things brewing in the big neighbor to the East? Which still has imperial ambitions, and which has now come close to re–electing a president who has flirted with the idea that he is almost like the emperors of old, who have or should have unlimited power. And thus, there is a need for Europe to make it clear, that if these ambitions cross a certain line, there will be instant retribution. Not so much with military power as with simply the determination, that this will not be tolerated and that this will be stated clearly.

And thus, I have anchored here the flame of the determination of the Divine Mother to stop the abuse of her children. And it is indeed a flame that, if accepted and embodied by sufficient numbers of people in Poland, can have a significant impact on the future of this nation. For certainly, we of the ascended masters have no desire to humiliate, punish or exclude Russia, which also borders the Baltic Sea.

Yet I can tell you, that if Russia is to find its role as an equal in the region around the Baltic, then there needs to be a very drastic shift in the collective consciousness, where Russia begins to realize that its aggressive past is over for good. And the only realistic way forward is cooperation on equal terms and not cooperation on our terms. And thus, you will see, that Poland has something to say about this, as you indeed see that it was the Polish workers in the “Solidarity” [“Solidarność”] movement who mounted the first real challenge to the Soviet Union and its almost insane preoccupation with power and thinking it could get away with anything.

Well, the workers at the shipyards in Poland demonstrated, that the Soviet Union could not get away with everything. And therefore, there were some among the Soviet Union who could read the handwriting on the wall and realized that a shift had happened, and that the old days were over. And this was, indeed, a great factor in the eventual shift, that caused the historical events in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

We can safely say, that had it not been for the Solidarity movement, then the Soviet Union would not have been dissolved as quickly as it did. Although we can also safely say, that no matter what did or did not happen at that time, the Soviet Union in its original form, would not have existed today. For other events were indeed potentials, that would have lead to either the dissolution – voluntarily – of the Soviet Union or its complete destruction, either through economic collapse or a war of a magnitude not seen in the recent memory of humankind.

Mother Mary’s love for Poland

And thus, truly, while you may think, I sound determined or strict, it is simply to cut through the density, so that those among the Polish people, who are open to my Immaculate Heart, can be set free, that they can feel the Love I have for them or their nation.

Truly, the Love that I have is the Mother’s love. It is unconditional. But as long as your mind is fixated on conditions, how can you receive unconditional love? For you are so busy trying to live up to the conditions you have created in your own mind, that you never have a moment to fall still and just feel the love that I radiate towards you at every moment.

And thus, after the storm comes the stillness, after the firmness comes the silence. And if you will go in your heart, not only now but in the coming time, and simply focus on me in stillness – and seeking to transcend any conditions you may have in your relationship with me – well then, you might indeed be able to experience a glimpse of the unconditional love, the perfect love that will cast out all fear.

The fear, that springs from the consciousness that defines conditions, and that says that you have to live up to them before you are worthy to receive God’s love. If this were true, then God would have to be a conditional being. And naturally, God cannot be a conditional being, for if God were a conditional being, then he would be the false God created by the fallen beings, as the opposite polarity to the dark God, the devil or Satan, that they have also created in order to confuse the children of light with their serpentine logic.

Thus, the light is anchored, the teaching has gone forth, and I am indeed happy and joyful for being able to deliver this release in the Polish nation, while my messenger is going at breakneck speed though the Polish countryside. For we of the Spirit like to move quickly, for we know how quickly the human ego projects conditions upon us. So that people stand still, looking at and worshiping the conditional images, rather than the true Spirit that is ever-moving, ever-self-transcending.

And thus, Mary, the Mother, I AM. Yet I AM forever Mary the MORE, for I am more now that when I started this release. And before you can even think how this release has affected you, I will be more still. And thus, you had better not use this release to create any graven images of me, for in that case you will lose your synchronicity with my ever-moving Spirit.

It is time to accept the unconditional forgiveness of Christ

TOPICS: “I do not need you, Jesus” – What the German people volunteered to show Europe – The true forgiveness of Christ – Nation states have outlived their purpose – It is time for the Germans to ask for forgiveness –

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Ascended Master Jesus, October 29, 2011 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given as the messenger was driving in a car through Northern Germany.

“Deutschland über alles!” as the saying was during those years, where the collective consciousness in Germany had been hijacked by one individual, and a group of people around him, who had managed to create such a fog of deception, that they had literally managed to create an energy vortex, that had captured the focus of the collective consciousness of almost the entire nation.

When this happens, as it has indeed happened in many nations before and since, there are very few people, who have a strong enough individuality to go against the current, the maelstrom in the collective consciousness. And thus, you see them getting sucked in, and you see them standing by the military parades and the speeches, raising their right hand and with mindless faces and empty eyes, shouting “Heil Hitler!”

“I do not need you, Jesus”

You may think, if you have grown up outside of Germany, that this was caused by some flaw in the character of the German people. You may even think this if you have grown up inside of Germany. Yet I tell you, that what I said 2,000 years ago, when I walked the earth as Jesus, was: “Judge not, that ye be not judged!” For it is easy to create a dualistic standard and apply it to judging other people, while refusing to look for the beam in your own eye. This is truly the oldest game in town, the oldest ego game, for it is started by the fallen beings several spheres before this one.

And so, if you desire to go into that state of consciousness and judge, then I, Jesus, will respect your free will. For I know that when you enter that state of consciousness – of judging, condemning and putting down another human being based on your self-created standard or based on the standard defined by your religion – well then you have in effect said to me: “Jesus, I don’t need you right now, I don’t need your Christ discernment, I don’t need the Christ discernment that enables me to see that all life is one. And therefore all people are of equal value and have equal opportunity to self-transcend. And thus, I do not need to see, that if I truly want to raise myself, I seek only to raise others. For I have decided that I want to experience what it is like to be above others by putting them down.”

For do you not see clearly outpictured in the entire Nazi era, that the Nazis had created the illusion that the German people belonged to a super race? But they could do this only by defining another race as sub-humans, as non-humans. And thus, is this not an extreme illusion of what happens in the duality consciousness? And so, if you want to apply the same dualistic judgement – the value judgement as applied by the Nazis and their master minds, so to speak – well, then, I will let you do this.

What the German people volunteered to show Europe

But if you are willing, then I would take you to a higher vision of the Christ mind, where you might begin to see, that when a people outpicture something, it is not necessarily because of a flaw. But it is also because those people have volunteered to take on and outplay a certain state of consciousness, so that others might see this. And they might, then, set an example that the world finds it difficult to ignore.

For if you do look honestly at the history of the European continent – not that the European continent was unique at this regard, but let us focus on Europe for the purpose of this discussion – then you see that Europe has a history, going back several centuries, of certain nations developing a sense of superiority and predestination, and feeling they had a right to forcefully subdue others and set themselves up as being the masters of a certain territory.

And thus, you will see, that the extreme scenario you saw outplayed in Germany could also have been outplayed, and was indeed outplayed in a milder form, in several other European nations. Do you not see clearly, that the British Empire also believed it had some superiority, that made it perfectly legitimate that it subdued the colonies? Do you not see that during those times, many people in Britain had the sense that one Brit was better than ten foreigners, or whatever the number was in the individual mind?

And so, you see the same tendency in France, in the Austria-Hungarian Empire and, as Saint Germain mentioned, in Sweden. You have seen it in Spain, you have seen it in Italy, you have seen it in Greece. And thus, can you not also see, that if there was ever to be a united Europe, then this state of consciousness had to be exposed? Yet given the long history, where various nations had outplayed this consciousness without seriously questioning it, can you not see why it was decided by the Karmic Board that it was necessary to let the knocks in the school of hard knocks become so severe, that it was virtually impossible to ignore?

The true forgiveness of Christ

And thus, can you not begin to gain a new sense of appreciation for the German people’s sacrifice in being willing to be the focal point for the exposure of this consciousness? And thus, perhaps, you might begin to forgive, as the German people have begun to forgive, but have not truly forgiven. For they have fallen prey to exactly what Saint Germain just talked about across the border, of the fallen ones’ plot, that once you have made a certain mistake, then you can never truly be redeemed.

Yet, my beloved, what was the central message of Christ, when I came to earth 2,000 years ago? It was, indeed, that there is nothing from which you cannot be redeemed, through the light and the love of Christ. And thus, I, Jesus, am indeed here, and I have directed my female and male messenger here at this hour, to release a great impetus of light, that the German nation might wake up and truly begin to accept the forgiveness that is possible through Christ. And that I, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene with me, are offering the German nation.

Not that I have not been offering this before, but I offer it from this day forward in a stronger manifestation than ever before, in the hope that many among the German people will begin to tune in and begin to seriously look at the past in a way they have never looked at it before. For if you do not look at the past and acknowledge that you need forgiveness, then how can you ask for forgiveness? And if you do not ask for forgiveness, you cannot receive forgiveness. For it is not that some being in heaven, be it Jesus or God, it withholding forgiveness from you. For the Spirit of Forgiveness is constantly raining upon the just and the unjust, as the sun is shining upon all who will receive its rays. And thus, forgiveness is offered to all, but there are many who reject it, because in their minds they have fallen prey to the fallen beings and the whole mindset that in order to receive the forgiveness of Christ, you have to live up to certain conditions.

Well, I tell you, this is the lie of the fallen beings that I, Jesus, shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter this day for the four winds. And I shatter it in the etheric and spiritual realm as well. I shatter this consciousness, that all might see that Christ is forgiveness, complete and unconditional forgiveness. There is no mistake you could have made, there is no deed you could have done from which you cannot be forgiven, when you accept Christ, when you accept the reality of Christ over the unreality of anti-christ.

And thus, I say: “Arise Germans, for you have made great strides towards overcoming the consciousness of superiority. You have been willing to humble yourselves, you have been willing to be a team player, you have been willing to go through great strides in the reunification after the fall of the Iron Curtain. And you have been willing to reach out and make great efforts to keep together the European Union.”

Not that this has always been done for self-less purposes, but nevertheless it has been done. And there has been a great measure of selflessness. And thus, I say now: “Arise, not to superiority, but to the fact that all life is one, to the greater recognition that you truly only raise yourself by raising others.” For if you go into trying to raise yourself by putting others down, there will come a point, where all have been put down, including yourself.

And thus, this is the consciousness that I shatter, this lie of the fallen beings that you can be a superior person as long as you think that anyone else is inferior. For truly, he who would be greatest among you, let him be the servant of all—out of the recognition that all is one. And thus, you raise up yourself only by seeking to raise the All.

Nation states have outlived their purpose

Wake up then, reach out and recognize that there is a great potential for establishing a regional awareness around the Baltic Sea, and that the Germans have a role to play in this, by reaching out to the nations to the East and the Baltic nations that used to be occupied by Germany. Reach out, then, with a new Spirit of Cooperation and the sense of oneness. So that there might be established a region that goes across the divisions that have been outpictured as national boundaries, the national boundaries that truly were drawn artificially in the first place and therefore have long ago outlived their purpose.

For what Europe and the world have not seen is that with the end of the second world war, the nation state had outlived its purpose. This was outpictured in the division of Europe into the eastern block and the western block, where it was necessary for nations to look beyond themselves, for no single nation could withstand the threat from the other block.

Can you not see, that this was, again, the school of hard knocks outpicturing itself? But it is time to realize, that even the school of hard knocks teaches you a valid lesson, when you are willing to transcend and look at the mindset that caused you to receive the hard knocks, [then] and say: “Why would we want to keep learning from the hard knocks? Let us instead be willing to look beyond the knocks and look at our own consciousness and what the hard knocks are seeking to expose by getting you to take them to the extreme.”

And thus, I release a great light of the true forgiveness of Christ, the unconditional forgiveness that will even allow people to persecute it, to say all manner of things falsely against it for my sake, in order to be part of the drama, where people outpicture their state of consciousness to such an extreme that many begin to see it. And thus, as I have said before, forgiveness is the key to passing the initiations of the Year of the Mother. For I tell you, that what you have not forgiven is something you hold on to.

And if you are to move into the Year of the Holy Spirit and flow with the Spirit even beyond this coming year, then you cannot hold on to anything from the past. For it will be a dead weight that will slow you down. And then, the rushing waters of the Spirit will begin to flow around you. And it will become harder and harder to withstand their pull, until you feel like you are in a whirlwind, a maelstrom, and that the waters of the Spirit are your enemy instead of your greatest opportunity for self-transcendence.

It is time for the Germans to ask for forgiveness

And thus, I say also to the German people: “It is time that you go back and look at these old ghosts from the second world war and before. It is time that you look in the mirror of the past honestly, and that you begin to talk freely and honestly about this, so that you can quickly move through it, within a few years.”

“For I tell you, in the coming decade, there is much work to be done in Europe, and you, the German people, have a great opportunity to be part of the transcendence that will be outpictured on the European continent. Thus, be willing to forgive yourself and be willing to ask for the forgiveness of others, so that you may give them an opportunity to either give that forgiveness and move on or reject it and be left behind.”

You are not humbling yourself by asking forgiveness, for truly, asking is an opportunity for those that you ask. And thus, be willing to play also this part of the game of asking. For the time has come, that Europe might look at the second world war and finally transcend it. Thus, I have had my say through this messenger, and it is finished.

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 –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, October 29, 2011 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given as the messenger was 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 talk, 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!

Let the Swedes come out of their shell and grasp the vision of integration for the Baltic region

TOPICS: A vision of the Baltic region – Finding the pearl in the Swedish oyster – Equality cannot be attained through sameness –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, October 22, 2011. This dictation was given as the messenger was driving in a car through southern Sweden, approaching the Öresund strait and the city of Helsingborg.

I AM Saint Germain, and I welcome this opportunity to use my status as a Buddha to anchor an accelerating impetus of Light for a particular purpose, a particular mission. This is a blending of the 7th Ray of Freedom and the 8th Ray of Integration. For, indeed, it is my intention to anchor, through the journey of my two messengers, a Light that rings the Baltic Sea and therefore can build upon the freedom that has been achieved by the nations that border the Baltic Sea—and cause them to step up to a higher vision of how they might integrate themselves into an economic and possibly, in the long term, a political region. [This] might, then, begin the process, that I have spoken about before, of transcending the nation state and the many problems, wars and conflicts that have been generated by nation states over the course of history.

This, then, is the anchoring of the light in the nation of Sweden, but particularly in the southern part, where there is the greater possibility of integration, as there has, along the strait of Öresund, already been the start of a process of integration between Denmark and Sweden. So that the blurring of the national border has taken place, by the building of a bridge and tunnel, that might be supplemented with another bridge, to connect a complete circle for this region. Which might then can be the starting point, that can grow beyond and encompass more of Sweden, all of Denmark, spreading to Germany, Poland, the Baltic nations and Finland. Perhaps even in some future time begin to encompass even Saint Petersburg, as it also borders the very eastern edge of the Baltic Sea.

A vision of the Baltic region

Back centuries ago, when land travel was much more difficult than today, the Baltic Sea served as an important link between the nations that border it. Now that land travel and air travel has become much easier, the sea is to some degree a dividing factor. Nevertheless, from a spiritual level, there is always the possibility that certain geographical features – such as a valley or a sea, or other particular regions – can serve to unite the peoples that live in that area. An ocean will, of course, always link through the element of the emotions. And this, of course, has the potential to go into the negative emotions or to be transcended into higher positive emotions.

Thus, the vision I give is indeed that the nations who border the Baltic Sea have received and attained a certain status, where through their dedication to freedom, they have made great progress in overcoming the lower emotions. And thus, the Baltic Sea then has the possibility of becoming a connecting link for higher positive emotions, based on a sense of freedom and a desire to integrate with those who are, after all, of like mind, even though they speak a different language and come from a somewhat different culture.

Of course, what we especially look to see is an integration between East and West, where indeed the former members, so to speak, of the Soviet Union can become an important link for bridging the gap between East and West that has divided Europe for so long. And if this gap in Europe could be transcended, then it could open up for the potential of bridging East and West on a planetary scale. And therefore, creating even more integration than you see today, where the primary link between East and West is cheap goods produced in China, exported to the West, and western capital going the other way.

Nevertheless, even this has begun a process of integration, for you see that whenever there is an exchange of knowledge and goods and money, it breaks up the old patterns – the old thought patterns, the old emotional patterns – that tend to divide peoples because they think that their culture is superior or is being threatened by another culture.

Finding the pearl in the Swedish oyster

Thus, you will see that there is indeed a potential that, starting in this Öresund region, there can be a greater integration. And this could become, then, an important impetus for bringing the nation of Sweden out of the shell, the self-created shell, that it has been in for so long.

For my beloved, under the sea, you see a particular shellfish, called the oyster. It has a very hard and rugged shell, that it always attempts to keep closed. Yet if you open the shell, you might find a pearl within the oyster. And certainly, you have a pearl in the Swedish nation, but it is too covered over by the hard shell that the Swedish people have been taking on over the centuries.

This goes back not entirely to the Viking age, where there was more openness and commerce. But it especially started with the Swedish kings in the Middle Ages, who because Sweden holds the Father Flame for Scandinavia, went into a perversion of the Father Flame and thought it was their potential and their right to establish a large empire and thus conquer other nations around the Baltic Sea through force. This, then, has continued even to modern times, where Sweden has maintained its neutrality, even in an economic sense, and has attempted to create a very comfortable society, where security – trygghet – is indeed the byword.

Yet when you know what we of the ascended masters have taught, namely that transcendence is the very force of life, you can see that the intent to create a very comfortable welfare society is in direct opposition to the force of life itself. And thus, the second law of thermodynamics will take effect, unless a country is willing to transcend.

So far, the Swedes have walked a very delicate balance between the willingness to transcend and the attempt to create their own little haven on earth. Yet I tell you, that in the coming decades, the Swedes can only fulfill their highest potential by opening up far more to other nations. This might, of course, begin with Denmark, which has always had close ties, even had parts of southern Sweden under the Danish kings. Nevertheless, Sweden also has a potential to reach out to both Norway and Finland, but especially to the Baltic republics.

It is extremely important that Swedes overcome not only their desire to be their own masters in their own country, but also another perversion of the Father Flame, which is the sense of superiority. There are indeed many Swedes who would be surprised if they heard this, for they have become so filled with the idea of creating a society that has equality, that they are not very open to recognizing that the Swedish nation and the Swedish people have a very subtle and unrecognized sense of superiority.

Equality cannot be attained through sameness

Sweden is, of course, the largest and most populous country in Scandinavia. Sweden has the greatest natural resources, and has therefore had a fairly thriving economy. Sweden has had its sense of neutrality because it was not conquered by Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Nevertheless, if the Swedes were to recognize honestly that they do have a sense of superiority, and if they were to decide to transcend this, then Sweden has an immense potential for reaching out to other nations, especially the Baltic states, which tend to look to the West in their desire to integrate with nations that are as far from the old Soviet culture as possible. A culture, of course, that Russia itself has not even begun to seriously transcend.

And thus, even though some Swedish banks have bought up other banks in the Baltic nations, you will see even there that there has bot been the willingness of the Swedes to acknowledge, that when you go into other countries, you cannot expect other countries to think like you do, to act like you to, to talk like you do. And thus, if you are the one who moves out of your shell, you should be willing to realize that you also need to learn something from these other nations. Instead of expecting them to always adapt to you.

This is not integration, for integration does not require sameness. And this is precisely where the Swedish people have an important lesson to learn. For what they have attempted to create in their nation is a welfare society with great equality. Nevertheless, they have attempted to attain this by to some degree discouraging individuality and individual creative expression, and instead creating people who think the same way, because they have been brought up with the same vision of themselves, of life, of their country, and even of history.

And so, you see that there is great resistance in the Swedish nation to truly integrating with other nations, to integrating with other nations as equals. The Swedes believe they are willing to cooperate, but they do not see – for they are not willing to acknowledge – that true cooperation cannot be attained if you expect the others to cooperate on your terms and according to your culture and vision.

This is not to say that there is anything particularly wrong with Swedish culture and vision. But as everything else, it needs to transcend itself, or it will start to self-destruct. And it can transcend itself only by integrating with other cultures, as of course is the case for every nation. And that is indeed why there is a need for the Swedes to begin to recognize that they have something important to learn from other nations and other cultures.

And if this shift in perception, this shift in self-image and self-awareness could happen, then Sweden would have a very important role to play in the integration around the Baltic Sea, that could have important ramifications for creating a truer, a higher, integration in the European community, and ultimately, as I said, a higher integration on a global level.

Yet for this to happen, the Swedes need to be shaken out of their complacency, their comfortability. And thus, I predict that if the Swedes will not be willing to look at themselves, then certain events in the coming years will indeed shake the Swedes as much as the shooting in Norway shook up the Norwegian people. Of course, it remain, as Jesus so eloquently said, to be seen whether the Norwegians will truly look at themselves, or whether there needs to be other events before they begin the process of honest self-examination.

Thus, I have anchored the impetus of light that I desire to anchor here in southern Sweden. I anchor it here because the potential for integration is greater here than in the capital Stockholm, where you still see the old Swedish isolationist mentality anchored in greater measure. Thus, we must begin where the opening in consciousness is greates.

And therefore, I, Saint Germain, have had my say of what I wanted to say on this side of the Öresund strait. Thus, it is finished, and the Light shall prevail. For the pearl within the oyster is indeed the Light of Saint Germain. For without the Light from above, how shall any nation transcend the old. Thus, guard the pearl, for it is the Pearl of Great Price, for which it is worth it to sell everything that thou hast.

Shattering the serpentine lie of freeing the people through Communism

TOPICS: Lenin was an arch-deceiver – Nobody can be free through death or by killing others – Jesus anchors the Sword of Christ over the city of Arkhangelsk – Mercy can break through the serpentine logic – Forgiving means giving up – The need to forgive up everything – You can never be free through an external authority –

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Ascended Master Jesus, September 24, 2011 through Kim Michaels. In Arkhangelsk, Russia

I AM He! I AM Jesus Christ! And I AM here to shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter in the four planes of matter the entire serpentine lie, promoted by Vladimir Lenin and those others who were behind the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Let this entire lie be shattered, starting at this point, which is the focal point for the retreat of Purity. For truly, no greater impurity has ever been put upon humankind than this lie of the freedom of the masses through Communism.

Lenin was an arch-deceiver

It has been said by some historians, that the concept of the meek inheriting the earth was promoted to the greatest extent by Lenin himself. Yet, I, Jesus, hereby witness, that this is a complete misunderstanding of not only the concept that the meek shall inherit the earth, but also of what it truly means that the masses, so to speak, shall be free.

For certainly, Communism as envisioned by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and others was not designed to set the masses free. It was designed from the very beginning to entrap the masses even more firmly than ever before. For I can witness to the fact, that Lenin himself is the highest ranking arch-deceiver ever to take embodiment on planet earth. Thus, there are no more subtle deceptive lies than what you find in the writings of Lenin. Not that I hereby encourage you to study them. For unless you have attained a fairly high degree of Christhood, even reading the words of Lenin will be like a toxin to your mind.

Yet, the reality is, that the meek are not the ones who are downtrodden. The meek are the ones who have transcended duality. Truly, the word “meek” is not the ultimate translation of the original words I used in Aramaic, where a far better translation would be to talk about those who are non-dualistic, those, who see the vision that all life is one. And so, when you see that all life is one, you can never be ensnared by the dualistic logic, that in order for one group of people to attain freedom, another group must be killed.

Nobody can be free through death or by killing others

Death can never lead to freedom! This is one of the messages of my mission to earth: that you are not set free through death. You are set free only when you transcend death. And thus, even though Lenin himself denied the existence of a God, the existence of anything spiritual, and thought that he would be liberated by death, I can assure you, that the lifestream of Lenin was not liberated by physical death. For this lifestream was, of course, attracted to the very level of hell, that corresponded to his consciousness. And thus, he has been in constant torment there ever since. A torment that continues because of his own unwillingness to realize what lies he has perpetrated upon humankind—and to realize the consequences of what he truly set in motion with the Soviet Union.

For even though he knew, that Stalin did not live up to his image of a more refined leader, and even though Lenin himself would have been shocked over the extent of the killings perpetrated by Stalin, it is nevertheless a reality, that Stalin is a product of Lenin’s philosophy. For it is not possible to free the proletariat through Communism. And this is proven by the need to kill so many people in order to uphold the communist state. It is proven by the need to kill freedom of speech, as even instituted by Lenin himself. And thus, you will see, that the typical characteristic of the arch-deceivers is, that they are deceived by their own logic. And thus, they are the last ones to see through that logic.

Jesus anchors the Sword of Christ over the city of Arkhangelsk

I, Jesus, come to anchor – here in the city of Arkhangelsk, which is the closest city to the retreat of Purity – I come to anchor here the Sword of Christ. I shall anchor it over the central square with the heroic statue of Lenin, so that this statue will be – on the spiritual level – the focal point for the Sword of Christ. And so that the statue may eventually either be taken down by the awakened people or be swallowed up by the earth itself. For truly, this abomination of desolation shall not stand against the Sword of Christ.

What then is the Sword of Christ? It is the Sacred Word, but it can be depicted as a shaft of light, that is almost like a sword, in the sense that it can cut through the densest lies perpetrated by the mind of anti-christ. Yet, it is a sword that has a double edge, so that when you seek to point the edge at someone else, there is an edge, that is pointed towards yourself. And that is why I said to judge not, for you will be judged by what you send at others.

And thus, indeed, the lifestream that was embodied as Lenin is judged by what he has sent out towards others, and his attempt to enslave the people even more than they were enslaved under the previous rulers of Russia. For he saw, that the very fact that the so-called proletariat had submitted to these leaders in the past, proved how easily they would submit to his own leadership and that of the state. The entire promise of freeing the workers was nothing but a sham—the serpentine logic of saying one thing, while doing the opposite. The serpentine logic of accusing other rulers of enslaving the people, while you, indeed, yourself have every intention of enslaving the people even more. This is a characteristic of the serpentine mind. It cannot accept responsibility, and thus it always projects responsibility and blame upon others.

Mercy can break through the serpentine logic

Thus, you may ask: why the Flame of Judgment, why the Sword of Christ, anchored next to the Flame of Mercy offered by Kuan Yin? Well, it is indeed because there are many people on earth who cannot receive mercy, for they cannot accept that they need mercy. They have been so enslaved by the lie, that they think they have done nothing wrong. And thus, what is holding back Russia from transcending its communist past is not the workers, not the proletariat. It is the many people who were part of the Soviet past or who have not let go of it—the dreams, the lies, promoted in the Soviet past. And therefore, they do not think they have any need for mercy. For they think they have only done what was right for the greater cause of freeing the people.

According to the Law of Free will, you cannot receive mercy until you accept that mercy. And you cannot accept mercy in your being, until you acknowledge, that you have something for which you need to be forgiven. And thus, it may be all well and good to tell people to forgive others, but as I said 2,000 years ago: do unto others what you want them to do unto you, but the hidden meaning is, as said before, that before you do to others, you must first have done to yourself. How can you truly forgive others, until you forgive yourself? And how can you forgive yourself until you realize, that you have the need of forgiveness—for you have done something, that was not according to the reality of Christ. And how can you have this realization, until you see the reality of Christ? And this, of course, you cannot see through the veil of duality.

Something must cut through that veil, so that people might be awakened, so that their third eyes might be touched by that shaft of light, that suddenly awakens them to the fact, that there is a reality beyond the dualistic polarities, and the dualistic struggle, and the dualistic logic of the serpents. For thou shalt not surely die by eating the forbidden fruit, but thou shalt not surely live either, for there is nothing sure in the logic of the serpent. Only Christ is sure! Only Christ is life!

Forgiving means giving up

And thus, let me give you a new word to ponder. You have heard of forgiveness, but I ask you to ponder a new expression: “for–give–up–ness.” For you cannot forgive; you can only forgive by giving up. You cannot forgive by letting go of something—if you think that letting it go means a loss for yourself. For as long as you have remnants of the ego in your being, you cannot bear the sense of loss, that the ego will have when it feels like you are letting go of something.

And, of course, as long as you are in embodiment, you will have elements of the ego in your being, or you will not be able to stay in a physical body. I know well that people have portrayed the idolatrous image, that I had no ego during the last three years of my life, or perhaps that I never had an ego in that embodiment. I know well, that there are spiritual people all over the world who believe that their guru is the only enlightened one.

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, that I had elements of the ego with me until the moment when I gave up the ghost. And such is the case for anyone else who ever has taken embodiment and ever will take embodiment. This is part of being the meek: that you have the humble realization, that you are not a perfect human being. And thus, you do indeed have a need for the reality of Christ and the mercy and forgiveness of God. And therefore, you can extend that to others.

You cannot forgive, if you think that forgiving another means that you lose something; whether it was a desire for revenge, a desire to punish the other, a desire to prove them wrong or to prove yourself right or to prove yourself superior. But you will not be able to let it go as long as your ego thinks it will require a loss. And thus, how can you truly forgive up? Only when you realize, that by forgiving, by giving up, you are not losing something, you are gaining something.

The need to forgive up everything

You are losing what seems valuable to the ego, but you are gaining what you now see is more valuable to yourself. For you are gaining freedom from the very condition, that you think you could not forgive in another. For that which you cannot forgive in another is naturally what you have not forgiven in yourself.

And therefore, I can assure you, that what you cannot forgive in another, you do indeed have in yourself. For otherwise you would not even think you needed to forgive the other for that condition. And that means, that what you cannot forgive in others, is what you have at hidden levels of your psychology. And it is holding you back from following Christ, for did I not say: “What is that to thee; follow thou me.” Well, as long as there is something that is important to you, then you cannot give up that something and follow Christ.

And therefore, you will be able to give it up only, when you see, that following Christ is more important to you than holding a grudge against your brother or sister. Only when you truly see this, can you give UP. And you will only see it, when the shaft of the Christ light touches your third eye, and therefore the scales fall from your eyes and you see the reality that I AM. This then is the gift I bring on this day. For I assure you, that as a spiritual being, if you want to avoid being pulled into some kind of negative spiral, then you need to truly pay attention to the need to forgive UP anything you hold against another human being or even yourself. And truly, in order to have the wind of the Spirit in your sails, you need to forgive UP everything.

You can never be free through an external authority

No one has ever done anything to you, for you are the only one who can do something to yourself—for you are the one who has free will in your being. And, of course, this is what people will not acknowledge, this is why the masses have submitted to leaders, and this is why leaders have fed them the lie, that they can be freed without taking responsibility for themselves, for the state will do so.

Do you not see, that Communism is not based on telling the workers, that they have the seed of Christ within them, and thus they can become spiritually self-sufficient, they can rule themselves? Nay, the proletariat needs someone to rule over them, namely Lenin and his consorts. Show me a person who is seeking to truly free the proletariat, so that the proletariat can rule without being ruled by anyone, and then I might grant you, that this person has a measure of Christ consciousness.

But certainly, anyone who says, that you will be free by following me, is not out to set the people free. For you will never be free by following anyone who sets himself or herself apart from you, by making themselves superior to the very people they claim to free. Only those who have the Christ vision – and therefore see the oneness of all life – can be the open doors for setting people free. All others will be the false gurus, who will lead the people from one calamity to another, until the people have finally had enough and thus say: “We can no longer follow these external authorities; we must go within and find the kingdom within. We must find the true Christ within ourselves, rather than the false Christ, that is hanging on those wooden crosses in so many Christian churches around the world.”

For certainly, while Communism is one expression of anti-christ, most orthodox or mainstream Christian churches form another expression of anti-christ; the Russian or Eastern Orthodox Church certainly being no exception to this. Even though some will argue, that it has less of a perversion of my original teachings than the Catholic Church – and while I will grant that this is the case – this still does not mean, that Eastern or Russian Orthodox churches represent me, represent the consciousness of setting the people free from any external or earthly authority.

You can never be free
through an external authority,
THAT is a key.

And with that, I thank you for your attention, as I have completed the anchoring of the Sword of Christ in this place. Thus, it is finished, and I AM HE.

Make an effort to stop making an effort

TOPICS: Control by taking away hope – Christianity and soviet power – The creators of the Soviet Union had no higher principles – The true power to transform the world – The catch-22 of purity – Marx defined both Communism and Capitalism – A new approach to the economy – Stop thinking you are more sophisticated than others – Incomparable self-worth –

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Ascended Master Elohim Purity, September 23, 2011 through Kim Michaels. In Arkhangelsk, Russia

Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity!
Accelerate into purity…
… the purity that I AM. Indeed, I am the masculine counterpart of Astrea, the Elohim of the fourth ray, we are. Inseparable, we are. Although Astrea has traditionally been the one speaking for the Elohim of the fourth ray, I will put in my two cents worth, as they say. Or perhaps, I should say my four cents worth.

Thus, what is it, that can enable you to lock in to the flame of purity? Well, my beloved, take a look at this area, where this little flock has gathered, in Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, which is close to the location of the etheric retreat of Purity and Astrea. Take a look at this town, which is like an empty shell, compared to what it was in its heyday under the Soviet Union, where it was an important naval base and military center. Yet, even go back further, where it was a prosperous trade center as the only port to the Russian nation, at least the only port from Europe.

So, see then today, how there is a heavy cloud of hopelessness hanging over this area. And you may see, if you look carefully, that this cloud is indeed impurity, a special form of impurity, that takes away the hope that the people can accelerate the condition they are experiencing in matter through their own power.

Control by taking away hope

This, of course, is one of the primary conditions of the fourth ray, and you will indeed see, that the Archeia of the fourth ray is named Hope. And thus, those who are seeking to control humankind through a perversion of the fourth ray of purity, will always, as their primary order of business, seek to take away hope, the hope that you can transcend the current conditions by your own power.

It does not matter if people believe it is possible to transcend current conditions, if they believe it can only happen through some external power. For this will still keep the people trapped in the bind between the rock and the hard spot, meaning the rock as the matter world and the hard spot as the power elite. And thus, you see so many societies – in so many historical periods, in so many parts of the world – where the common man, so to speak, the broader population have always felt, that they were limited between these two elements. One is the matter world itself, which seems to be inflexible and beyond their power to change. For so they had been told by the power elite who was ruling their thought world, their identity world, the way they looked at themselves and their opportunity to transcend their current sense of self, and thereby transcend their current state in the matter world.

For, as we have explained many times, it is indeed your sense of self in the identity body, that filters down to the mental body, where you think what you can and cannot do in this world. And then, it filters down to the emotional body, where you begin to feel hopeless, because you think you cannot do anything to change your situation. And this, of course, then filters down into your actions, where you submit yourself to some external authority or another.

Christianity and Soviet power

And thus, see how in this area you find a peculiar mixture of both Christian Orthodox churches and these monuments to Soviet power. Go back before Soviet time, and you will see, that the Eastern Orthodox Church was indeed one of the primary factors that limited the people, their sense of self and their sense that they had power to improve their condition in matter.

What did the traditional Christian churches in both East and West give to the people? They gave to the people the sense, that they could not transcend their conditions in this world. And thus, they had to submit both to the conditions in this world and to the power elite that had taken over the church, or at least was in a peaceful coexistence with the church and its hierarchy. And thus, Christianity has been used as an effective tool by the power elite to suppress the people, by getting them to focus on the next world. You might say, that people had some hope under Christianity, that there could be an improvement of their situation. But it was a hope that was inevitably linked to the future, to an existence beyond this world.

The people did not think they had the power, nor that it was even their obligation, to improve conditions in this world. And thus, they did not speak out against their overlords in this world, be it the church or the Tzar, or the king or the emperor—or whomever it might be that was in an alliance, an unholy alliance, with the church. So then, look at what happened with the communist takeover of this nation. You will see, that most people did indeed have their faith in Christianity erased. Yet, you will also see, that even the Soviet Union allowed some existence of Christianity, because they realized, that those who will not believe in Communism, would indeed still be pacified by believing in the next world and improvement of their situation in the next world, rather than in this world.

The creators of the Soviet Union had no higher principles

What you see here is indeed a very simple realization, that most people in Russia have simply not come to, as of yet. And it is the fact, that those who were behind the Communist takeover and the establishment of the Soviet Union, did not have any higher principles. They did not believe, that there were higher principles behind the philosophy of Karl Marx, as even Karl Marx did not believe so. Even though Marx to some degree was so in love with the product of his own mind, as he thought it was, that he believed in at least some of it. Yet those who formulated the Soviet Union: Lenin, Trotsky and later Stalin and other leaders did not believe in Communism. They simply used Communism as a tool to suppress the people.

And if the Russian people, at least the spiritual people among them, could come to this realization and begin to consider what it truly means, then they could at least begin the process of separating themselves from the communist mindset, and therefore becoming the forerunners for allowing the Russian people to throw off the subtle thoughtforms, that have been put into the collective consciousness during the years of open Communism. Whereas today, of course, you have a more hidden, a more camouflaged form of Communism.

For as many people will know, there is still very much a power elite in Russia, and even though the church has now become more prominent in society, we are actually not moving forward. We are just moving backwards to the old era, where the church and the power elite formed an alliance, that suppressed the people very effectively.

What I endeavor to explain here is, that when you look at this from the perspective of the fourth ray of purity, you realize, that what the power elite will always do, is to seek to take away the hope, that the people can affect change in their material situation by their own power. And thus, they will seek to take away the belief by the people, the realization by the people, that they are more than matter, that they are spiritual beings who can be the open doors for a higher power, a higher vibration, to stream through them.

The true power to transform the world

Truly, as has been said over and over again by both Christianity and Communism, the people do not have the power on their own to transform material conditions. As even Jesus himself recognized: I can of my own self do nothing. Yet the people do have the potential to become the open doors for the power of God, that can indeed transform material circumstances.

They can indeed transform what has become realized in matter, but has not thereby taken on any permanent reality in the mind of God. And thus, when the people embodied in matter realize, that they are more than matter, then they can become the open doors for the process of true materialization, whereby matter is realized according to the thoughtforms of God, and therefore transcends the thoughtforms of the fallen consciousness, that seem to have reality and permanence. Yet they are nothing more than mirages, that could be whisked away by the power of the Spirit through the fourth ray and the other rays in a surprisingly short period of time, as you measure time on earth.

Thus, if you were to look at the invocation that you gave before this dictation, and some of the ideas expressed in it, and then compare it to what the people in this area and the people in Russia – and for that matter the people in many nations of the world – believe about themselves and the world, you would see, that they would scarcely be able to fathom the concepts encapsulated in this short invocation. For the concepts are so revolutionary, compared to both a materialistic thought system and the closed religious thought system, represented here by Christianity and Communism, but having many outer representatives throughout the world.

And thus, the people would scarcely be able to fathom the reality, that they are spiritual beings, that matter does not have power over them. And that therefore, no matter what conditions they face in the matter world – or in their physical bodies, or in their personal situation, or in the national situation on the world scale – no matter what conditions they face, they always have the potential to become the open door for the power of Spirit, that can accelerate those conditions into a higher state.

The catch-22 of purity

Yet of course, how shall the people become the open doors? For here we have another example of the typical catch-22. How do you become the open door for the stream of purity? Well, indeed, when you are trapped in the consciousness of duality and separation – when you are trapped in the impure self-awareness of thinking you are a product of matter or trapped in matter – then you cannot be the open door for the stream of purity. And how will you ever transcend that self-awareness, unless indeed you encounter the energy of purity, the Spirit of Purity?

So you see, once you have lost the experience of purity, you cannot even believe, that you could be an open door for the stream of purity. And if you do not believe you can be an open door for the stream of purity, how can you then experience purity? For you will see many spiritual people, who have followed the spiritual path for many years, even decades. And they give rosaries and invocations and decrees and do other spiritual exercises, and they think that one day they will become open to this flow, to this experience, of a higher form of energy. But they do not realize, that this experience will not come from some external savior or their guru, who claims to be the embodiment of some deity. Nay, it will never come from an external source.

You can experience this flow of the Spirit, only when you experience the Spirit flowing through you, by you becoming an open door. And so again, how can you cut that Gordian knot, how can you escape this catch-22? Well, you can do so only by coming to an understanding and acceptance of some teaching, that portrays you as what you truly are. And this teaching has been given by the ascended masters in many variations over the years and millennia. But it has always been in a veiled form, although in some cases very thinly veiled.

We recently directed this messenger to find a teaching by, Padma Sambhava,* given in the eighth century, where he at that time talked about concepts, that are strikingly similar to what we have given through this messenger today, namely the concept, that when you still the thoughts, when you go beyond the outer identity created by your mind, created in your mind, then you see, that behind these outer confusing thoughts, there is only pure awareness. This of course, is an expression we have used recently through this messenger, and before it we have even used the concept of a Conscious You, that is also simply pure awareness—and therefore is the open door.

So you see, the fallacy of so many religions and spiritual movements is that they think, that in order for you to experience the flow of the Spirit, you have to perfect be outer self, you have to perfect the self, that the mind has created. But as Jesus himself said, no man can ascend to heaven save he that descended from heaven. Thus, what can be the open door is not the outer self, no matter how sophisticated our spiritual you think it might be, no matter how well it lives up to some standard created here on earth, a standard that will inevitably have originated with the fallen beings and their attempts to deceive humankind.

There is only one way to experience the flow of the Spirit, and that is to realize, that you need to return to your original form as pure awareness. And then you can realize, that even though you have built an outer self, that you have to a large degree identified with, you can still at any moment – if you can find a way to transcend your fixation on the outer mind – you can still step outside of that identity and experience glimpses of pure awareness. And once you experience even a glimpse of pure awareness, then you have a new frame of reference, and then that pure awareness becomes your frame of reference. And this will then allow you to gradually – and perhaps through many intricate and subtle steps – free yourself from the standard of the fallen beings, where your frame of reference for escaping what the fallen beings have defined as impurity is a standard, that they have defined as purity.

So in order to transcend one form of impurity, you are striving to attain another form of impurity, that the fallen beings have simply called purity, because they have captured what might be called the privilege of formulating the problem. Which is certainly something that Karl Marx, Hegel and many of the early communist philosophers understood and made use of.

Marx defined both Communism and Capitalism

What did Marx do? He defined Communism as an ideology, that was locked in a battle with its polar opposite, namely Capitalism. But who was talking about Capitalism before Marx? It was not a common understanding, and thus you see that what Marx did was not simply define Communism as opposed to something that was already existing. Nay, he defined both opposing polarities, both Capitalism and Communism.

And if you look honestly at this, you will see, that even in the West, there are many people who will swear all day and night, that they are true–blood capitalists. Yet they are still trapped in the dualistic thought system of thinking, that Capitalism is opposed to Communism. Which of course it is, because Capitalism has no reality, it has no existence in the mind of God. It is entirely a creation of man, namely the power elite. And so, what you see, when you look at this honestly is, that the power elite have defined both Capitalism and Communism and the struggle between them, in their attempts to pacify the people, so that they will submit to the elite.

My beloved, why did Communism fall, so to speak? Well, this is not a question that is truly relevant. The relevant question to ask is: why was Communism allowed to fall? Well, it was simply because the power elite, the global power elite, realized that Communism was not the most efficient way to suppress the people. Communism was an attempt to suppress the people through direct force by state control, where the state was clearly seen as the controlling agency. Capitalism, on the other hand, was an attempt to suppress the people in a subtle way, where the state is still the controlling agency but the people do not see this. They even think that the state is there to protect them against the capitalists. But in reality, of course, the capitalists control the state behind the artificially created façade in the theater that the fallen beings have created on earth.

So you see, for decades it was an open question who would end up ruling the world. Would Communism be able to forcefully take over most of the world, or would it eventually self-destruct? After the fall, so to speak, of Communism, it was believed, that Communism had failed. And it was believed by many in the West, that this had proven the superiority of Capitalism. Yet beginning with the financial crisis in 2008, would it be unreasonable to say, that Capitalism is also in the process of failing? And thus, can we really say, that Capitalism proved its superiority to Communism, or should we rather accelerate the entire debate and realize, that both Capitalism and Communism are impure expressions; they are perversions of the Alpha and the Omega, the expanding and the contracting forces.

A new approach to the economy

It is necessary to step away from this fixation on the polarized dualistic debate and realize, that you are pure awareness. And thus, those of you who know a little about the economy can, by making contact with that pure awareness at your core, become the open doors for the bringing forth of the ideas, that will accelerate the economy beyond Capitalism and Communism—and thereby have an opportunity to finally set the people free from being dominated by the elite through money and the entire financial system and the production apparatus of society.

This then, would certainly be a great gift for those, even though they may never hear this dictation, who have the knowledge and the experience of the financial world, and who also have the ability and the willingness to tune in to their own pure awareness, regardless of what they call it, regardless of whether they have any spiritual understanding or framework in their outer minds. Thus you, who do have an awareness of your spiritual nature and of the ascended masters, might volunteer to hold the immaculate concept, to hold the vision, that the very people who have the potential to bring forth these new financial realizations, will indeed be able to tune in and will indeed have the courage to speak out.

And that they will indeed be heard by those who have the potential to spread these ideas in the fields of science, in the economy, in the media and in the political field—even among the people. Who will finally have had enough and stand up and demand more, by using their own built-in power to know, that if they are pure awareness, they are not bound by the material conditions they face, they are not bound by the overlords of the power elite, for they have the potential to be the open door. Whether they have any outer expertise, they can be the open door for the light, and as the light increases, there will be transcendence in society—it cannot be any other way. And thus, I Purity hereby release a mighty impetus from the Astrea and Purity retreat. We release it throughout the world; we release it to all of those who are open to the fourth ray. And there are many millions of people on earth, who are open to the fourth ray.

Stop thinking you are more sophisticated than others

Thus, let me give you one final thought, that will enable those of you who are willing to transcend your current image, and to be an open door for the stream of purity. For you may look at the people throughout the world, who are not spiritual and would never be open to spiritual teachings—or so you think. You may look at those, as I said, who would find it extremely difficult to even fathom the concepts given in this rosary, for they are so far away from their common beliefs about life. And you may think, that these people are at a lower state of consciousness than you are. You may think they are not as sophisticated, because they do not have your spiritual understanding.

Yet my beloved, I can assure you, that if this world is to be accelerated into a Golden Age, it will not be done by the people who know about the AskRealJesus website alone. It will not be done by the people who know about the ascended masters alone. It will not be done by the people who know any spiritual teaching. There are not enough people who have an outer knowledge of spiritual teachings, so that they can accelerate society by themselves.

For the Law of Free Will would not allow it, unless a critical mass among the 80% of the general population are likewise accelerated. And thus, the vision you can hold is this: no matter how sophisticated you think you are, no matter how sophisticated you think your knowledge and understanding of ascended master concepts might be, you are not more sophisticated that any other person on this planet.

Why is this so? What is it that could be considered sophisticated compared to someone else? My beloved, it can only be your outer self, the outer self you have built in this world—and that most of you have even used a spiritual or even an ascended master teaching to build, making you think you are sophisticated because you can explain this or that concept. But what have I said is the key to transformation? It is the stream of the Spirit. What is the key to being the open door for the stream of the Spirit? It is that you return to the pure awareness with which you descended.

And I can assure you, that the pure awareness with which you descended is no more or no less sophisticated, than the pure awareness of any other human being. Do you see: in pure awareness there can be no comparisons? So how can you even talk about the Conscious You of one person being more sophisticated, or more evolved, or more spiritual than the Conscious You of another person? It is not possible; it is not meaningful for those who have begun to see beyond the veil of duality.

And thus, as spiritual people, you can hold the immaculate concept, that all people on earth have pure awareness at their core. And you can hold the vision, that they will gradually come to a realization, or that they will have a spontaneous contact, a spontaneous experience, of this pure awareness. And thereby, they will, even if they do not consciously understand it, be the open doors for a measure of light to flow into the physical octave. And this is what will bring about the change.

For you see, what you have the potential to do – those of you who have a spiritual understanding – is that you can hold the vision for how the light should be directed into specific conditions on earth. But even though you can also be open doors for the light, you are not allowed by the Law of Free Will to provide the entire impetus of light, that will accelerate society. It is only when a critical mass among the population also become the open door, that society will truly be accelerated. And of course, I am not saying, that this has not already happened to some degree, which is why you have seen positive change in society.

Incomparable self-worth

Nevertheless, I encourage you to ponder these ideas, for I tell you, that far too many spiritual people, far too many ascended master students, are still trapped in the superiority game of seeking to establish some sense of self-worth, by feeling they are more sophisticated than others spiritually. Yet, when you begin to experience yourself as pure awareness, you establish a natural sense of self-worth. Because you realize, that you do not need to live up to any conditions on earth, any standard defined by the fallen angels, in order to have self–worth in the eyes of God. God is holding the immaculate concept for you with infinite, incomparable self–worth.

And the only way to have true self-worth, is to accept yourself as that Conscious You, that is simply pure awareness—and therefore cannot be defined by any conditions, by any words, by any images, by any standard. There may be those who think they can apply some standard to the Conscious You, to pure awareness. But it is only because they have not understood it, and they have not understood it because you cannot understand it.

You either experience it, or you do not experience it. If you do not experience it, you think you can understand what it is by projecting your own standard upon it. But that only proves, that you have not experienced. And those who do not experience, do not actually understand—even though they think they understand. But they understand only according to their own standard, or to the standard they have accepted from the fallen beings.

Once you begin to experience pure awareness, you have that ultimate frame of reference. And now you begin to see how unreal, how impure, the standard of the fallen beings truly is. For this is, of course, the essence of purity, that there is no standard that can divide purity into two spheres: what is pure, what is impure. It has been said for many centuries, that to the pure everything is pure, and it is because everything is a matter of perception.

When you see, when you perceive, the world through the separate self – that is trapped, defined, by the dualistic opposites – then you see the world with polluted perception. And as the Buddha said so many centuries ago, then suffering will surely follow. Only those who see with pure perception, will not be suffering. But what does it mean to see with pure perception? It means that you see with the purity of being the open door, where you see, that all of the conditions in this world are ultimately unreal, impermanent. And thus, they have no power over you.

It is not a matter of avoiding what is impure and striving to outpicture what is pure. It is a matter of dropping the whole ball of wax of the fallen beings. And this is indeed what the Buddha explained 2,500 years ago, what Padma Sambhava explained in the treatise that I mentioned earlier. For those who have eyes to see, this truth has been there in a physical form for thousands of years.

Thus, make an effort to stop making an effort to become a sophisticated spiritual being. Instead, step back from all your desires to make an effort, and realize that what it takes is the non–effort of stopping the outer mind, that always wants to make an effort to reach some goal. And thus, allow yourself to just be the open door, and then flow with the Spirit, as it flows through you. For this is indeed the highest form of purity you can express in this world.

NOTE: The title of the Padma Sambhava treatise is: Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness.

Make matter real–either by materializing your perception or by seeing that all life is ONE

TOPICS: Avoiding the downward spiral – The riots in England – The need to go beyond material welfare – You are psycho–spiritual beings – The “problem” with young men – Everything is a spiritual activity – Barriers exist only in the mind – Forcing your perception upon others – Universal spirituality – A wave of new jobs –

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Ascended Master The Divine Mother, September 9, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

Materialization. Ponder the word: materialization. To materialize something. Indicating the process of starting with an image, a thought matrix, in the mind, bringing it forth into the matter world as something that human beings conceive of as having reality. For is it not so, that seeing is believing. And thus, for many people only that which they can see, touch, hear, smell, taste with their physical senses seems to have reality.

Yet, now give the word materialization a slight twist. Does it not indicate making matter real, real–izing matter? How then, do you make matter real? Well, that is the question to ponder. For, as we have given teachings before, a year can be divided into four quadrants, each of a duration of three months. The first three months corresponding to the identity level, the second three to the level of thought, the mental realm, the third to the level of the emotions and the fourth to the level of the physical.

So, you are now nearing the end of the emotional quadrant of the year. And I am sure, that those who are sensitive among you – and even those who are not so sensitive – will have felt an increasing emotional turmoil in these last couple of months. This is because humankind as a whole has not passed the initiations of the year, and thus the intensity keeps building. The tension that has been created by the resistance to the initiations is creating more heat, more friction, and this is felt in the collective consciousness as emotional turmoil. Which, when the cycles turn to the physical quadrant, will turn into physical turmoil on a greater scale than you have seen so far during this year, which certainly has brought many kinds of upheaval in various areas of the world.

Avoiding the downward spiral

So then, how can you avoid being pulled down into the downward spiral, created by the collective consciousness? Well, you can avoid this only if you ponder and come to truly understand – through an inner vision – the deeper meaning of making matter real, of real–izing matter. For is it not so, my beloved, that for a very long time on this planet, humankind has been programmed with a dualistic view of the world? Which makes them think, that there is a division, a veil of separation – or perhaps a wall of separation – between the matter realm and the spiritual realm. This has even caused many in the modern western world to believe there is no spiritual realm, there is nothing beyond matter.

Yet even many spiritual people see a division between ma–ter and spirit. And this is the division, that you need to overcome, if you want to sail through these last months of the year with the winds of the Spirit in your sails. And thus, what does it mean to make matter real? For, truly, as we have explained many times, the matter world is made out of the Ma-ter light, which takes on the mental images projected upon it. And thus, one can look at the physical earth and the physical universe and say, that it has no inherent reality; it is like a mirage, as the images on a movie screen, only projected there many times a second by the mental images held in the minds of human beings, in the collective consciousness of humankind, and in the minds of the spiritual beings who are holding the spiritual vision, the spiritual balance, that allows planet earth to continue to exist—and not implode into the downward spiral created by humankind.

And thus, these spiritual beings are holding the balance, so that the downward spiral exists only in the emotional realm and does not fully engulf the material realm, thereby pulling the earth apart. So therefore, we can say that in those instances, where there are physical, material disasters or upheavals of various kinds, it is because the spiritual beings who are holding the balance for the earth are allowing certain events to take place for the awakening of humankind, by allowing humankind to experience the physical consequences of the collective state of consciousness.

The riots in England

Can you not, therefore, look at an incident, such as the riots that took place in England not so long ago, and see, that this is but one example of this process. Surely, the spiritual beings that are holding the balance for the earth could hold back all such incidents. But if they were to do this, how then would humankind learn a lesson? For is it not so, that when you look honestly at humankind, you can see, that most people are not in a state of mind, where they are willing to listen to spiritual teachers of any kind? Thus, they can learn only from the school of hard knocks, where they experience the physical consequences of their state of consciousness.

And thus, when you look at the riots in England, at the incident in Norway, or other incidents similar to it – including the upheavals in certain Muslim countries – can you not then realize, that this is an indication of the fact, that the collective consciousness is resisting the process of materialization, of making matter real?

For what does it mean, that matter becomes real? Surely, it does not mean, that the conditions that are currently outpictured in matter become permanent. For “permanence” is not the same as reality. This, my beloved, is a common misconception, even among spiritual people.

The reality of life is that everything in the world of form is engaged in the process we have called the River of Life, of constant self-transcendence, of constantly being accelerated into a higher state. THAT is reality. Self-transcendence, acceleration, is reality. And when you are flowing with the River of Life you realize, that nothing can remain the same, for everything is constantly transcending itself. And thus, you see there is no connection between reality and permanence. So what sees this connection? Well, of course: only the ego.

When a society is resisting the process of growth, resisting the process of transcendence, tension will be building. And then, there will come a point, where the tension begins to spill over into the physical octave. And this will then cause those who are in a lower state of mind to act out on what is hidden, unnoticed, unrecognized, in the collective consciousness of a country or even humankind as a whole.

In some cases, this might be one individual, as you saw in Norway. In other cases, it might be many individuals, such as the young people in the British cities, who have nothing to look forward to. And why do they have nothing to look forward to? Because they look at their situation and they see no possibility for transcendence, for acceleration. They feel they are boxed in by society, that has put them in a certain little box, from which they have very limited opportunities to accelerate themselves beyond the boundaries defined by society.

The need to go beyond material welfare

My beloved, you go back a generation or two, and the focus in society was on creating decent material living conditions for the majority of the population. And this meant, that people needed to have jobs that could give them a reasonable standard of material living. Yet what has happened in the last generation or less is, that the focus has shifted. It has shifted spiritually, it has shifted in the realms beyond the material, but it has not yet shifted in the material realm, because society has not been willing to make the shift.

And what is the shift I am talking about? It is the shift, where western society realizes, that the goal of creating material welfare was perfectly valid, but it was only one stage in the ongoing process of transcendence in which society is engaged. And thus, society cannot stand still, society cannot allow itself to become frozen in a pattern, where quite frankly the elite and those who have risen to the status of the middle class want society to continue, so that they can continue to live a good, secure material life.

And if this means, that a new generation of young people grow up without jobs or job opportunities, then they think they can pay their way out of this through social services. And thus, when a situation shakes a nation, the response of the prime minister is that since these riots were against the law and caused the destruction of property, this is a law enforcement problem. And in order to make sure that people do not have the motivation to riot, then it is also a social problem. And then, it needs to be approached and solved as if it was a law enforcement and social problem.

But you see, it is not a law enforcement problem, neither is it a social problem. It is what we might call as psycho-spiritual problem, because the reality is, that the western democracies, the rich nations of the world, are entering into a phase, where it is no longer enough to focus on material welfare. It is necessary to now begin to look at the fact, that human beings are NOT material beings. This can be proven by simply looking at reality. Scientific studies have shown in several nations, that the severity and the quantity of mental illnesses is increasing rapidly, to the point where in several of the rich nations, mental illnesses, as they are currently called, are becoming the biggest health concern.

This is, however, only an indication of the reality, that human beings are not material beings. And therefore, of course, the current approach of seeing mental illness as a material phenomenon, looking for a material solution, will not address the problem sufficiently. On the contrary, the current approach will only accelerate the problems. For it is only through an acceleration of the problem, that society will be forced to reconsider its approach to the problem. How severe does the problem have to become, before a society becomes willing to step back and say: Is it perhaps the way we look at the problem, that is blocking a solution? Or an even deeper realization: Is it perhaps the way we are looking at the problem that IS the problem?

You are psycho–spiritual beings

And this, of course, leads to the awareness, that human beings are not material beings; they are psychological and spiritual beings. They have needs that go beyond the material, and thus they cannot be fulfilled, either by giving people jobs or by enacting social programs. It is not enough to create programs, that keep the minds of young people busy and thus keep them off the streets, as the saying goes. What is happening in society is, that more and more people are beginning to realize, that they have a basic need to have a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.

And of course, western society, with its focus on material welfare, has done little to bring up young people with any sense of purpose and meaning, any sense of a purpose that reaches beyond their immediate situation or even this lifetime. This is, of course, because western society is trapped in the no–man’s land between the old religious views of the perverted Christian religion and the equally perverted view of scientific materialism. Most young people today cannot find anything of value in the kind of Christianity they have encountered as they grew up in all western societies. Look at the Church of England and how it has virtually lost the young generation. But then look at the fact, that atheism and materialism provides nothing, that young people can use to reach beyond the narcissistic view of themselves as the center of the world.

As we have said many times, in any closed system the principle, called the second law of thermodynamics, will cause a breakdown of the system. Thus, the human mind, when it has no purpose that reaches beyond itself, will inevitably break down and you will have mental problems, you will have social problems, you have upheavals of all kinds.

The “problem” with young men

Go back a century or two and realize, that there has always, in any society, been a certain “problem” with young men having energy, having a drive to reach beyond their present situation. In previous societies, this problem has, so to speak, been dealt with by turning these young men into soldiers and then sending them off to war, so that they were killed off in sufficient numbers, that they did not upset status quo in society.

Yet, now look at what is happening in a country like England, where you have, actually, a special situation, in that many of the young men in the current generation have reincarnated in England, precisely because in a past life, perhaps several lifetimes ago, they were killed by the British Imperial troops in the colonies. And so, you now have a number of young men incarnating in Britain, who do not have an entirely positive view of British society, having been killed by that society in past lives—and now seeing that there are certain aspects of British society, of the British national mindset, that truly have not changed since colonial times.

Certainly, that might seem like a startling statement to some, but I am not talking here about the obvious, but the deeper, hidden layers of the national psyche, which you can even see outpictured in the tendency to hold on to certain traditions. For example, has the Church of England truly changed since colonial times? Has the monarchy truly changed since colonial times? Has the basic structure of the Parliament, with its different houses, truly changed since colonial times?

So can you not, then, use these outer indications to see, that there is something in the national psyche that has not changed, and the same goes for most western democracies. Look at Norway, and go back and see, that there are certain things that have not changed for centuries. You can even go back and see, that there has been a certain national psyche of wanting to isolate oneself from the rest of the world. And certainly, this then attracts an incident, that suddenly shatters the sense that all is well as long as we live in our own little bubble.

Everything is a spiritual activity

This, then, is what you will see on a larger scale, and you will see it intensified during the last three months of this year. You will also see it in your personal lives—if you do not take a look at yourself and ask yourself the question of what has not changed in your inner view of yourself, your inner view of life.

There are those in the spiritual and New Age movement, who are talking about a personal story, that you carry with you, even from lifetime to lifetime. This is what we have explained as the ego, as the sense of identity, that you carry with you and that colors the way you look at everything, becoming the filter that even colors your perception. So you think, that what you see through this perception filter is not simply a perception, but it is reality.

Matter realization, the process of making matter real, has two aspects. If you will not question your perception of life, then your perception will become real in the sense, that it will become outpictured in matter. And this will be accelerated for the last three months of the Year of the Mother but also in the coming Year of the Holy Spirit, where the Holy Spirit will accelerate the process of your perception becoming your physical reality, so that you might be forced to reconsider your perception and the power it has over your life.

And then, when you do decide to step back and look at your perception – instead of seeking mindlessly to defend your perception – then you can come to the higher understanding of materialization, of matter realization, where you make matter real in the sense that you realize – you acknowledge, you see, you experience – that matter is not separated from Spirit. Matter is an expression of Spirit, for Spirit is within everything. Without him was not anything made that was made. Do you see the deeper reality that life is oneness? Everything is one, for everything is an expression of the one God, the One Spirit, the Creator itself.

If you do not perceive this, then your perception is not real. And thus, you have not risen to the level, where you can make matter real by realizing that every aspect of your life in matter is a spiritual activity. Just look at traditional religion, and how many people think they can live their lives any way they want during the week, and then they go to church on Sunday and say some prayers, sing some songs, light some candles, or go into a little box and tell to the priest some glorified version of how they have supposedly sinned; not being willing to even acknowledge the sin of perception, of polluted perception. And this, then, they think is sufficient to make them right with the remote God in the sky. Yet how could it ever make them right with the God within?

Barriers exist only in the mind

Look at the New Age and spiritual movement, and how many people have made spirituality a part of their daily lives. Nevertheless, they still see a difference, a distinction, between what they call spiritual activities and everyday activities. They think they have to go to some retreat in order to be truly spiritual. They think they have to come apart from their normal lives, in order to be truly spiritual. Or they think they have to engage in some form of meditation, or chanting, or prostrating themselves on the floor, or whatever, in order to do something spiritual, that can somehow compensate for the lack of spirituality in what they see as everyday activities.

And although this is a necessary phase to go through, if it becomes a permanent state of mind, a permanent perception, then it will hold back your growth. For what is the higher growth? It is that you accelerate to the higher level, where you break down the barrier between spiritual and everyday activities. Because you realize, that this barrier – as any barrier, as any division – is created only in your perception.

My beloved, did you notice what I just said? Any barrier, any division, can be created only in perception. For the deeper reality is, that all is one, and in oneness there can be no divisions. Life is one. When you know that life is one, your victory is won. That, my beloved, is the thought to ponder for the rest of this year. For I will tell you, that if you go into this physical quadrant of the Year the Mother seeking to uphold, magnify or defend the perception that creates divisions between you and other people, between you and the matter world, or between you and God, then you will experience an increasing pressure to reconsider that perception.

Look at those, wherever they are found, who have a desire to harm others, to punish others. Look at those who precipitated the event, that took place now almost 10 years ago in New York. And look how the leader of this movement had escaped capture for almost 10 years, but in the Year the Mother his own perception became realized in matter. And by the very fact that he perceived himself as an enemy, those whom he perceived as enemies caught up with him in the night—and then he was out of embodiment.

Look at your life. Do you carry resentment, do you carry anger, do you carry a desire to punish, a desire to bring justice, a desire that other people should be made to see what they have done wrong, whether to you or to the world? In that case, this then is the perception that you project onto the screen of the Ma-ter light. And what can the Ma-ter light do, but give you what you say you want?

This, of course, is always the case, but I am telling you, that in these last three months of the Year the Mother, this process will be accelerated to the point, where it will challenge people who will not let go of their old momentums, their age–old momentums of seeking to control other people and resenting those, who will not be controlled.

Forcing your perception upon others

Is it not so, that the basic problem seen on earth is that there are many people who believe their perception filter is reality? And who – out of their own fear – are seeking to force others to accept their perception filter. Was it not, for example, so, that the British Empire seriously believed, that its perception filter was superior to all others, and thus it was seeking to force that perception filter on its colonies, or even on other nations? Was this not the reason for the wars in Europe between Britain, France, Germany and Russia? What was communism but a perception filter, that those who thought it was reality felt compelled to seek to force upon the world?

My beloved, you who are the spiritual people must surely be able to see the vanity of this, and thus rise beyond it in your own lives, so that you no longer seek to force your personal perception filter upon others. This not only is important in your personal life; it is important for the planetary growth.

For you who are the spiritual people, are the ones who have the potential to become forerunners for the process I have described, of spiritualizing western society, of helping western society make the transition from its current focus on material welfare to a new focus on psycho-spiritual welfare.

But you see, you will not be able to be the forerunners for this process, if you are attached to your perception filter. For what will you then do? You will seek to force your perception filter upon society, thinking that you have to convert other people to your particular spiritual philosophy, guru or movement, and get society to recognize this as the one superior guru, philosophy or organization. My beloved, the spiritualization of western society will NOT happen the same way it happened in the Piscean age, where one religious organization took control of society and boxed people’s minds in for over a thousand years, burning books, banning as heresy every viewpoint that challenged church doctrine. This will not be repeated in the Age of Aquarius.

Universal spirituality

There will not be one guru, organization or philosophy, that will come to be seen as the primary one in the Aquarian age. It is a fallacy to believe this. What needs to happen is an awareness of what we might call a natural, a built-in, or a universal form of spirituality. This is where science has made an invaluable contribution, by coming up with certain laws, that are independent of the beliefs of human beings, be they political or religious beliefs. Gravity works the same, whether you are a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian or an atheist. Jump up in the air, and you will be pulled back down to the ground. This is, or it should be, a humbling realization.

Yet of course, you must also recognize, that science itself is in the process of acceleration. Isaac Newton was the first one to formulate a description of what he called the “force” of gravity. Of course, since time immemorial human beings have been aware, that there is something that ties them to the earth. Yet no one had to truly attempted to explain it until Newton. And what Isaac Newton did was to explain it as a force, that pulls you towards the center of gravity in the center of the earth. Yet, as you should be aware as a spiritual person, Albert Einstein came up with a higher view of gravity, that goes beyond the force-based view. And yet, even quantum physics has indicated, although not yet fully realized, an even higher view. And so, there is room for improvement, but nevertheless the point is that spirituality must likewise become seen as a set of universal principles, that guide how the human mind works.

You see that, so far, science has attempted to describe universal principles for how the material world works. And when this is supplemented with a study of the universal principles for how the mind works, then you have a complete view of reality. And that is what can take western society to the next evolutionary level, where now society becomes able to provide all people with a sense of purpose, a sense of meaning, and a sense of how they can improve their situation by improving themselves, by working on their minds.

A wave of new jobs

For it is not enough in the modern world to work on your practical, physical skills in a certain job. In order to find your place in the psycho-spiritual welfare society, you need to also have developed your mind and the powers of the mind to a certain level. And this is precisely the dimension that is missing, that will allow these young men and young women, who have been brought up with no sense of meaning, to transcend the level of consciousness of the warrior and become those who are the administrators of society or the sages who hold the spiritual balance for society.

My beloved, the major wave of jobs, that could be created in the western world would be jobs related to the psycho-spiritual welfare of individuals and the psycho-spiritual welfare of society. This could potentially be the new wave of job creation. And until society breaks through to acknowledging the need to focus on psycho-spiritual welfare, you will continue to see this chronic unemployment, that condemns many among the young people to either a life of unemployment, or at least a decade of unemployment.

Thus, I have given you something to ponder, that can help you prepare yourself for the changes that might indeed happen on a world scale in the remainder of this Year the Mother. And therefore, this release is almost complete, as I have released the light that we, who represent the Divine Mother, desired to release.

I have not given you a name, for what is a name but a way to create a division? And I tell you, that those of us who are representatives of the Divine Mother for planet earth are not divided amongst ourselves. We not only see ourselves as one, we are ONE. For this is how WE won our ascensions—by accelerating our identity beyond the separate self, simply leaving it behind. Leaving it behind. Transcending the separate self, and thereby realizing that matter is Spirit; that all is ONE.

Is there any injustice in the universe?

TOPICS: How can you know reality? – What is divine justice? – It is essential to understand free will – No choice without consequences – How planetary units evolve – How the ego projects responsibility – How the fallen beings trap you in the dualistic struggle – How planets are pulled up by the universe – The definition of Satan – How to know divine justice – The cause of all human conflict – An opportunity to escape the struggle –

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Ascended Master Portia, the Goddess of Justice, May 30, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

Vajra Vajra Vajra Vajra Vajra! Thus, let it be known, that, I, the Goddess of Justice, have taken up my abode on this earth in a more tangible manifestation than ever before. For I have decided, that it is time to add a momentum of divine justice – the flame, the living flame, the streaming flame of divine justice – to this earth. For indeed, one of the major challenges facing humankind, and facing individual spiritual seekers, is to solve the enigma of justice, to find out what is justice and what is injustice. And indeed, to ponder the larger question: “Is there are any injustice in the universe?”

The Goddess of Justice is the office that I hold. Portia is the name you have been given, but I am, of course, far more than you can fathom by hearing a name or by hearing the title of an office. For indeed, is it not so, that one of the things we have attempted to help you see is, that the major challenge on earth is indeed the fact that people’s perception has distorted their view of reality. Because people have come to believe, that a limited, a colored, a biased perception is the same as reality.

Thus, one might indeed talk about the spiritual path as a process, that has several turning points. And one of the major turning points is when you come to that level, where you are willing to begin pondering the question: “Is what I see truly reality? Or is what I see, a distorted image?” And then, beyond this, the even larger question: “Can my current perception show me reality? Or do I need to go beyond my current perception in order to know reality?”

How can you know reality?

And as we have attempted to help you see, the answer to these questions is, indeed, that your current perception is not showing you reality, and that you can never know reality as long as you think you have to look only through your current perception. For it is, indeed, your perception that you have to overcome before you can know reality.

For how do you know reality? You do not know reality through the outer mind, through the separate, linear, analytical mind, that can only operate with objects, that it sees as being remote and separate from itself. The outer mind can only know at a distance. Yet in order to truly know, you must come into oneness with what it is you seek to know. But you cannot come into oneness with an object.

You can come into oneness only by you letting go of the outer mind – the separate sense of identity – and coming back to the state of pure awareness. And from that state of pure awareness, you can come into oneness with the consciousness behind objects or with the consciousness that is beyond objects. And thus, you can know through gnosis; not through perception and understanding.

So then, how would you come to know divine justice? Well, only through gnosis, through becoming the open door, whereby this spiritual flame of divine justice can stream through you into this world. But you see, becoming the open door for a spiritual flame requires you to completely empty yourself from the outer perception, based on your view of the flame with which you are seeking to come into oneness.

What is divine justice?

So, let us take a look at the concept of justice, even the concept of divine justice. The image that most people have in their minds concerning divine justice, is of a female figure, in flowing robes who is holding the scales, one being lower than the other. And then, this female figure has a piece of cloth wrapped over her eyes, for she is supposedly blind.

Well, my beloved, is this an accurate depiction of divine justice? Am I, the Goddess of Justice, really blind? Do I not see? Oh indeed, I do see everything that is going on on earth. It is, indeed, the dream of the ego, that divine justice should be blind, so that the ego can hide itself behind an outer facade, an outer definition, a mental image of what is divine justice. From the very moment, that the first beings fell in that fourth sphere, they have attempted to set themselves up as the ones who define what is divine justice and what is not. And thus, it is their dream – the dream of the fallen beings – that the Goddess of Justice should be blind.

But I am not blind. I see all, and there is nothing, that you or anyone else can hide from me. Do you really think, I can be fooled by anything on earth? Oh yes, my beloved, there are many people in embodiment who believe, that I can be fooled—who believe that they can hide from God what they can hide from each other. This is a state of consciousness, that colors your perception, because you think you have become as a god, defining good and evil.

Do you not realize—well perhaps you do not realize, but then it is time, that you begin to question, whether the Bible is the infallible word of God. For indeed, I can tell you, that the story in Genesis about how the serpent tempted Eve into eating the forbidden fruit was not written by God. It was written by the fallen beings. It is the fallen beings who have attempted to create man in their image and likeness. For, if you take on the image and likeness of the fallen beings, then you too are trapped in the duality of knowing good and evil, of thinking you are a god, who can define what is good and evil—what is just an unjust.

Yet, this is a state of consciousness, that is based on separation and duality, and therefore it is fundamentally different from divine justice. For what is divine justice? Well, you cannot understand divine justice unless you understand free will. And yet the fallen beings have done everything they could think of – and in fairness, they can think of quite a lot – to make sure that no one on earth understands free will.

It is essential to understand free will

Again, of course, you cannot truly understand free will as a remote concept. You can come into oneness with the River of Life, so that you are flowing with it. And then, you will know that free will truly is free. It is free to express whatever the Presence wants to express on earth, and it is free from all the constraints created by the fallen beings, by the mass consciousness and by your own ego.

You cannot be free to express your will freely, as long as you think you have to live up to any standard on earth. And of course, when God first gave self-aware beings free will, it was not the Creator’s intention, that they live up to any standard on earth, as the earth was not even in existence. And as the first beings had not fallen, and so there were no beings in the fallen consciousness to impose any standard upon the beings with free will.

But do you not see, that it is only the dualistic mind that can create, that can define, a standard for what is good and evil, just and unjust? It is only the separate mind that creates a standard. This is what we have attempted to help you see, since Mother Mary first released her wonderful books about the abundant life, where she gave the concept that you are not a self that can be defined according to any standard or mental image on earth. You are a self that has no earthly, no worldly, no form-based definition. For, you are pure awareness. You are designed to be the open door and nothing more.

You see, my beloved, as a wise student on the path, you need to come to another turning point, where you realize, that words have inherent limitations. Read the beginning of Maitreya’s book, if you are not fully familiar with the limitations of words. Any word can be twisted and turned, and you can use words to support just about any argument you desire.

There are those, my beloved, who love to use words as weapons against their fellow man, playing some power game of trying to convince them or force them. You will see these throughout history, you would see Jesus being up against them, you will see the Buddha engaging them somewhat without engaging them at all. And you will see, that they always come up whenever the Living Christ appears in any form. There are the wordsmiths, the word twisters who will seek to use clever interpretations of words against the Living Christ. You find them everywhere, you find them anywhere, where the Living Christ appears. So you have a choice to make: will you twist and turn words, or will you go beyond words? Will you become the open door, so that you may experience the reality of what it is you seek to know, such as divine justice?

Is there any injustice in the universe? How can there be, when the ultimate law of the world of form is free will? Do you not understand, that free will is free? And it is individual. You are an individualized extension of the Creator—you were not created as a separate being, but as an extension of the Creator. Yet, the moment you were individualized, you were given completely free will to experience anything you desire to experience. And you were then sent into a world, that has the potential to give you any experience you desire, because the Ma-ter light can take on any form that is projected upon it. And the Mother – the Divine Mother – has vowed to take on any form, so that you can have any experience you desire. This is the simplest, the most basic form of divine justice.

No choice without consequences

You are free to create any mental image you like, and to project that image upon the mother light, and then the mother light will reflect back to you circumstances in the world of form, that reflect the image you have projected. This is the most basic form of divine justice—what you sow that shall you also reap. Can it be any more simple? Yet, those of you, who have been willing to study and apply the teachings on non-duality, that we have been giving now for several years, should be open to understanding a secret, that very few people have understood. It is the essence of how the fallen beings – or should I even say: the fallen consciousness – has tricked self-aware beings into the endless struggle.

Do you not see, what I have just told you? You can take two different viewpoints, my beloved. You can look at life from the inside of your current situation, your current state of consciousness, your current perception. Or you can use your ability to return to pure awareness, so that you can see the big picture and look at life from the outside.

So let us then step outside of the mental boxes and look at the big picture! What have I just explained about how free will and the universe works? You have completely free will, but how do you actually exercise your will? You exercise your will by making choices! But what are choices? If you are walking down the road and you come to a point, where the road forks into a Y, you are now facing a choice: Should I take the right or the left road.

Yet, what if this road simply forks for a time, goes through two tunnels that are exactly alike, and then the two branches of the road merge back into the same point. In that case, do you actually have a choice, given that following either road gives you the exact same experience and brings you to the exact same place. In other words, whether you choose the right or the left, there is no difference; it has no consequence! And in that case, do you really have a choice?

Yet, if the roads now go off in different directions, give you different views, different experiences and take you to different places, then you can indeed be said to have a choice. But why do you have a choice? Because there are different consequences, depending on which road you take. So what makes it possible for you to exercise your will, is that there are consequences of whether you do this or do that. If there were no consequences, you could not exercise will!

How do you produce consequences? You make the choice, to form a certain mental image, then you project it upon the Ma-ter light, and the Ma-ter light takes on the form of your image. Thus, you produce your own consequence, my beloved. This is a truth that is very difficult for most people to accept.

It is completely impossible for the ego and the separate self to accept this concept. For the ego will never – ever – take responsibility for producing consequences. And in a sense, you cannot blame the ego for this, when you understand why the ego was created. So, let us take a look at this.

How planetary units evolve

Of course, it is all well and good for me to say, that you have individual free will and you produce your own consequences. Yet, as the old saying goes, no man is an island. The reality is, that you were not created as a single individual, sent into an entire world, where you are the only being and therefore you are the only one making choices. You were created as part of a large group of beings, that were sent to some planetary system in the material world. And thus, you would exercise your free will within the context of a larger whole, where there were many other individual beings also exercising their individual will.

This is actually a mechanism, that ensures more rapid growth, because if you were all alone in your own separate world, it is very possible, that you would get yourself into a state of mind, where you were highly comfortable and you could stay there for an indefinite period of time. And thus, how would you fulfill the original purpose for creating you, namely that you grow in self-awareness, until you reach the level of God consciousness? In the infinite wisdom of the Creator, it was clear, that by creating many individual beings and putting them together in some greater whole, such as on a planet, then they would make more rapid progress by observing each other or even, if they chose to enter a certain state of consciousness, clashing with each other.

What has happened in most of these – should we call them planetary units – that you find in this material universe is, that after a long period of experimentation and conflict, a certain coherence has emerged. There are, of course, millions and millions of planets with intelligent life throughout the material universe. And the vast majority of them have indeed gone through this period of initial, what scientists like to call chaos. But which is truly just the outplaying of free will, until you have seen, as scientists have even observed can happen in certain gases, that the molecules, the individual molecules, gradually or even suddenly come into alignment.

And this is what has happened on most planets, where beings have experimented for a time, clashing with each other, challenging each other, conflicting each other, but then they have gradually realized, that there is greater joy in working together on a higher union, a higher vision. And so, they have come into coherence, and now they have put their planetary unit in an upward spiral—in an ascending spiral.

So you see, indeed, that the entire material universe is in an ascending spiral. Yet, when you look at this universe, you see that there are still some planets – not a large number compared to the total, but a large number if you look at just the number – that have not entered this Ascension Spiral or have not passed this point of the phase transition, where coherence emerges. Planet earth has entered an ascending spiral, but humankind has not yet come to this point, where there is the phase transition, that aligns the consciousness of most people to a higher vision, a higher oneness, a higher unity. And so, what is it you see, then, on these planets, where there is still chaos, where there is still conflict between people?

How the ego projects responsibility

Well, what you see is this: the conflict is a product of the mental images, that the beings on the planetary system are holding in their minds and projecting upon the Ma-ter light. The Ma-ter light is simply taking on the form of what is projected upon it, and thus it creates a planet with physical conditions and a society with certain conditions, that outpicture these mental images.

Do you see, what I am explaining here? You, as an individual, have created a mental image in your mind. You are projecting that mental image upon the Ma-ter light and the Ma-ter light is simply reflecting back to you the consequence, that you have chosen to produce by the way you have exercised your free will.

Now, of course, you may say: “But I have not single-handedly produced the situation that exists on earth!” And you are quite right. Humankind has collectively produced the current situation, but why are you on earth? Well, because you have taken on the same kind of consciousness, shared by the majority of the people on this planet.

You have been part of creating the current situation on earth. What you see on earth is a consequence of the exercise of free will. Yet, of course, this might be possible to see when you project yourself outside of your current state of consciousness, your current sense of self as a separate being. But it is not possible to see this, when you are looking at life from inside your separate mind, your separate sense of self. When you are looking at things from the inside, you will think, that the situation you experience on earth is not the result of your own free-will choices, or even the choices made by humankind. You will be susceptible to believing in the lie projected by the fallen beings, that what you are experiencing is something, that was forced upon you by an external force—be this the angry, remote God in the sky or other people or some immutable laws of nature created by mere chance.

How the fallen beings trap you in the dualistic struggle

Do you not see, that the main thought systems – be they religious or scientific-materialist or political – found on this earth, portray you as a victim of circumstances beyond your control? And what does this victim consciousness cause you to do? Well, it causes you to think, that the only way to improve your situation is to seek to change the outer conditions, to change the consequences. And thus, the most simple mechanism – applied by the fallen beings in their attempt to tie you into the ongoing dualistic struggle – is indeed to get you to struggle against consequences. Yet, do you not see, why this will never give you peace of mind?

My beloved, imagine that you are in a movie theater. You are looking at the movie that is playing on the screen, and you decide, that you do not like the movie. But since the movie is appearing on the screen, you now get it into your head, that the only way to change the movie is to change the screen. So, you get out a bucket of black paint and a paintbrush, and you start painting the screen black. And yes, that does change the movie somewhat, but it is still the same image that is being projected at the screen. So, how much can you really change the movie by changing the screen?

For is the movie not produced away from the screen? Is it not so, that the image on the screen is a consequence of a cause that is found somewhere else? And in a movie theater, that cause is the film strip in the movie projector. But, do you not see the parallel? What you experience on earth is a consequence of a cause. And the cause is found in your consciousness and in the collective consciousness.

If you think you have to fight the consequences – instead of changing the cause – you will inevitably turn your life into an ongoing and potentially never-ending struggle. Although the struggle will certainly end at some point, as mandated by the Law of Free Will, where although you have free will to have any experience you want, you do not have the right to have that experience, to remain in a certain experience, forever. Divine justice is simply that you have free will to make choices, but that you will experience the consequences of your choices. Because when you go into a certain state of consciousness, you will magnetize yourself to a planetary unit on which a majority of the beings have that same state of consciousness. And thus, you will inevitably be tempted to go into a struggle against other people with the same state of consciousness, struggling against consequences produced by the collective state of consciousness on that planet.

How planets are pulled up by the universe

Yet, it is also divine justice, that no planetary unit is an island. And therefore, the inhabitants of a planetary unit cannot do whatever they want without being connected to the whole of the material universe. If the entire universe is in an accelerated Ascension Spiral, then the inhabitants of a planet like earth, will be connected to that spiral. And thus, in order to resist the Ascension Spiral, they must exert greater and greater force. And this again intensifies the struggle.

Now, you may say – if you look at this from inside the struggle – that this is then forced upon you by this external God, who is forcing you to be connected to the Ascension Spiral. But things are not quite that simple. For the reality is, that if a planetary unit was an isolated unit, and if the inhabitants of that unit really could take their planet into a downward spiral without being connected to a greater whole, well, then that downward spiral would very quickly accelerate to the point, where the planetary unit would be destroyed. And the beings who were then responsible for that spiral, would have no other way to go than through the dissolution of their individuality in what has been called the second death.

And thus, if the earth was not connected to the whole, then the earth would long ago have self-destructed, and the beings who brought in into that spiral would have destructed with it. And thus, they would no longer have free will—the opportunity to choose. There is no self-aware being that can exist independently, for it is an expression of the Creator’s own Being. And of course, the Creator prefers that all expressions of its Being go through the Ascension Spiral. The Creator has given you an incredibly long time span, and has given you free will to decide, which road you want to travel on the way to the ascension point.

But there is an underlying law that states, that you must go either up or down, that you cannot stand still. For that would be against the purpose of creation itself. And it would indeed be against the purpose for which you have chosen to enter this spiral that is creation, that is the world of form. For regardless of the images created by science or various religions, the world of form is not static. It does not stand still, nor is it cyclical in nature, going from one state to another and back to the first, back to the second and so forth indefinitely. The world of form is an upward spiral, that has a clear direction and a clear purpose. You may fight against it – that is your choice – but you are not fighting against God or God’s plan. You are fighting against the consequences that you have created and that those on your planetary unit have created collectively.

The definition of Satan

And thus, do you not see what is the simplest definition of Satan? It is the consciousness, that causes you to fight against consequences, instead of taking the Christ perspective of simply changing the cause and thereby also inevitably changing the consequences. What has happened to those who have gone into this consciousness of fighting consequences is, that they inevitably get sucked into the epic mindset created by the fallen beings. Which is indeed, that something has gone wrong with God’s plan, with God’s original design. And this, of course, can exist only when you believe, that there is a standard for evaluating what should or what should not happen. And you are the one who can define that standard, or those whom you consider to be the ultimate authority on earth can define that standard for what has gone wrong with God’s plan.

And once you accept, that there is such a standard, you are easily sucked into the epic struggle of now seeking to change what has gone wrong according to your definition. And this inevitably leads you to the conclusion, that what has gone wrong is that some people have exercised their free will in a way, that threatens God’s plan for the universe. And thus, it is your job to change these people, either through direct physical violence or through persuasion, of seeking to in any way persuade or manipulate them into conforming to your standard, your mental image, of how the earth should be.

This, then, is the consciousness of Satan, that Peter attempted to put on Jesus in that crucial situation described in the gospels, where Jesus turned to him, looked him sternly in the eye and said: “Get thee behind me, Satan!” For Jesus was committed to the greater process of God’s plan for the universe. Jesus had volunteered to take on the role of the Living Christ, to come into embodiment and to let people trapped in the dualistic consciousness do with him whatever they wanted, yet demonstrating that whatever they did to him, they could not change him. For he refused to see himself as being bound by consequences, ever remaining true to the reality, that you as an individual being are not a consequence. You are a co-creator, which means you have the potential to be a cause and to change the consequence on earth.

But how do you truly change the consequence on earth? You do not change it by fighting current conditions. You change it by taking responsibility for yourself and saying: “I am an individual, existing in this planetary unit. I do not have the right to violate the free will of others, but I do have the right to not let their choices violate or limit my free will. And therefore, I have a right to take responsibility for my own state of consciousness and to change my state of consciousness and to express a higher state of consciousness, regardless of what the majority on this planet are doing. So that I may be a light in the world—a light that is set on a hill and cannot be hid. So that those who are willing, may see it as an example and be inspired by it, without me having to fight them or force them or persuade them in any way. I am simply the light of the world. I am the open door for the light to shine through my being, and thus I am the open door for the flame of divine justice.” Or whatever flame you desire to be the open door for, that will stream through you.

And it is not that the light goes in and becomes some specific teaching, that challenges other teachings. For, as I said, that which is expressed in words has its limitations. The entire teaching, given by the ascended masters throughout the ages, has no value in itself, for once it becomes a disconnected teaching that exist only in the form of words, then it is just another teaching, and words that can be argued against indefinitely. It has value only when people go beyond the teaching and use it as only a tool to attune themselves with the consciousness of the ascended masters and then become the open door.

How to know divine justice

For how will you know the Goddess of Justice? Not through an outer teaching formulated in words. You will not know me as long as you see me as an object, that you can know from a distance. You will know me only when you go beyond your mental images; become pure awareness, when you become the open door through which the being that I AM – the stream of consciousness I AM – may flow through you and express itself on earth. And then, you will know me, then you will know the Goddess of Justice. But I am an ever-flowing stream, and I will be who I will be at any moment. And in any situation, I will express something different, for my goal is not to express some ultimate truth. My goal is, in any situation where I am given an entry into this world, to challenge people to come up higher, to transcend their current state of consciousness, their current mental box.

And thus, my expression will be adapted to the current mental box and adapted in such a way, that it gives them an opportunity to transcend it, to take the next step. Not some ultimate step, that they are not ready to take because it is far beyond them. This is how the Living Christ expresses itself on earth. Whenever someone becomes the open door, then the greater consciousness that is the ascended masters, will express itself according to the situation, always seeking to raise up all life, never seeking to put down any form of life. Do you not see, that there are so many people who are attempting to put down others? First, they are attempting to control others, and then, when some people will not be controlled, they attempt to put them down, even destroy them or punish them. And this is, indeed, because the fallen beings have projected this false image of divine justice which says: there is a standard for how you should exercise your “free” will. Well, if there is a standard, then your will cannot be truly free, can it?

They have even projected, that God has set a standard for how you should exercise your free will. And thus, they say that if you do what is wrong according to the standard, then you deserve to be punished. And thus, you will see that on planet earth, the concept of justice is inextricably linked to the idea of punishment. Yet, God has no desire to punish anyone. God has no need to punish anyone, because God has given you free will and God has set up the Ma-ter light to reflect back to you the consequences of your own choices.

So, who is punishing you, my beloved? You are! You are punishing yourself!

Who is punishing humankind? Humankind is collectively punishing itself through the choices made. And until a critical mass of people awaken to this reality – and decide to stop fighting the consequences and instead change the cause, which is their own state of consciousness – well, until that happens, humankind will not reach that coherence point, where they can unite around a higher vision. Instead, they will remain in the current state, where they will continue to struggle against each other. Only, of course, given that the entire rest of the universe is moving on, the struggle will become intensified, until it eventually becomes so much that people say: “Enough, we have had enough of this, there must be a better way.”

The cause of all human conflict

And of course, many people have already reached that point. And thus, we are indeed optimistic that, as the planet moves forward in the coming years and decades, we will get ever closer to this turning point. Yet of course, there may be some very serious confrontations, that will take place before then. For there certainly are many people on this planet who are blinded completely by the consciousness of Satan, where they think they have to fight the consequences of their own choices, instead of changing the consciousness that led to those choices.

And therefore, they think they have to fight other people and seek to change other people’s state of mind, instead of changing their own state of mind. Do you not see, that this one mechanism is the cause of all human conflict? You think you have to change other people’s minds instead of changing your own mind. Right there, my beloved, you have the cause of all conflict and the cause of all so-called injustice on this planet.

For do you not see, that the law of real, free will mandates, that you have no right to seek to change other people’s minds? When you do so, you are violating their free will, and they will feel this as a violation of their free will, even if they do not understand the Law of Free Will. And thus, if they cannot escape your violation of their free will, then they will sense this as an injustice. And of course, this is all designed by the fallen beings to trap people in this endless struggle of fighting against each other, because they seek to force each others will, thereby violating each others free will and creating the sense of injustice. And so it goes on and on and on.

How will it ever change? Only by those who are the spiritual people, coming to see, that you are not here to change the minds of anyone else. You are here to change your own state of consciousness, until you become a light that is set on a hill and cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see that this light cannot come from you; it must come from a greater source. You have not produced it, you have become an open door for it.

Ahh, my beloved, this is the true goal of a Christed being! It never has been and it never will be, the goal of a Christed being to fight against others, to punish others, to put down others, to expose others according to your standard, to judge them or to change their minds in any way. If you will experience the greatest form of personal freedom, that can be experienced on earth, then you need to give up the idea, that you are here to change anyone else. This is an incredible freedom, my beloved!

An opportunity to escape the struggle

Do you not see that I, Portia, have also been called the Goddess of Opportunity? What is the greatest opportunity for you? It is that you let go of the desire to change others. For when you have a desire to change others, where does your attention go? It goes outside yourself! But where did Jesus say, that the kingdom of God is to be found? Did he not say that the kingdom of God is within you?

So, as long as your attention is directed out, seeking to change others, how can you find the kingdom within yourself? And thus, giving up the desire to change others is the greatest opportunity for you to go within and realize this simple fact: you have been given individual free will, and the ultimate meaning of this is that you have complete freedom to choose your state of mind. Because your state of mind does not depend on anything outside yourself!

Yes, you are living on planet earth, yes there are many things on this earth that are impinging upon you, even seeking to force your free will! But you still have the potential to go through those things and retain your peace of mind. But you cannot attain this peace of mind as long as your attention is directed outwardly, seeking to change others. You will attain peace of mind only, when you direct your attention inward and seek to change yourself—your own state of mind.

That is when you have the opportunity to manifest Christhood. And then, when you become the open door for the light to shine through you, then you will give other people an opportunity to see that light and either accept it or reject it. But you are not giving other people an opportunity by going out there, trying to force them, trying to enlighten them, trying to make them see, what you think they should see.

This is not giving them an opportunity to escape the struggle, this is only enveloping them or yourself more deeply in the struggle. Become the light, become the open door, then you give people an opportunity—and then you have the opportunity to be in the world without being affected by the world, but truly being the open door for the joy and the love of the Presence to flow through you, whereby you will feel at peace. You will feel fulfilled in expressing and experiencing the God quality of your Presence flowing through you. This is your greatest opportunity!

And yet, we of course know, that this is not simple to attain for people who have been in embodiment over many lifetimes in the density of this struggle consciousness. Those of us who have been in embodiment know this full well. For many ascended masters have indeed spent many lifetimes in the consciousness of the struggle, even thinking that they have to work for some ultimate good by struggling against other people, as you see in the lives of several masters. Nevertheless, how did they become ascended masters? They did so by coming to the realization, that you can never win the ultimate battle, for the struggle will never end until you transcend the consciousness that created the struggle.

In order to give you an opportunity to transcend that consciousness, we have decided to release these latest four invocations. Look upon these four invocations as a supreme opportunity for you to make a contribution to helping the rest of humankind transcend the consciousness of the struggle. This is our hope: that you will look at them this way, that you will make use of them and that you will allow these very intricate invocations, very intricate statements, to change your state of consciousness.

For truly, it is one thing to read a book or a dictation, but it is another to have a teaching expressed in the form of an invocation, where you do not read it with the intellectual mind, but it goes into your consciousness at a deeper level, and therefore has a much more transformative effect than anything you just read.

For again, you will not be enlightened by thinking that enlightenment is some object, that you can study at a distance. You will be enlightened only by becoming first pure awareness and then the open door, whereby the stream of consciousness that is enlightenment can flow through you. For enlightenment is not a static state, despite what many spiritual teachings portray it as. It is indeed the living, flowing River of Life, that is ever-changing ever self-transcending, because it is always in the process of being more—at any moment being more than it was before.

This is life! Life is constant self-transcendence. Death is stillstand! Therefore, I say, as has been said before: CHOOSE LIFE! Choose wisely and use these invocations to help you transform your state of consciousness, until you are not making this choice with the outer mind—you are connecting to the deeper choice that brought you into embodiment. And thus, you are not actually making that choice with the lower mind, you are flowing with the River of Life. You are flowing with a choice already made by your higher being and with those of your brothers and sisters in the world of form who have also joined this River of Life.

Thus, my release is complete! Make use of it as you see fit. For I give you complete freedom! Yet, I will let you know, that I have also given you – with this release and these four invocations – a complete opportunity to escape the consciousness of the struggle—the consciousness of Satan. So that you can come to the point, where you do not even need to say: “Get thee behind me, Satan!” For Satan is no longer in front of you. For what is in front of you, is your I AM Presence and beyond that the ascended masters and the hierarchy of beings, leading all the way to your source—the Creator itself.

A golden-age view of what it means to be President

TOPICS: The need for the president to surrender – Why we are not anchoring a flame in the White House – Will the United States be an empire or an example? – How to manipulate the President – The President is not God – You cannot have a Reactionary president –

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, February 13, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Outside the White House, Washington, D.C.

Gautama I AM, and I come to seal this series of dictations and the releases of light, that we have brought forth here in Washington, D.C., and even far East of here in part of the former Soviet Union. Thus, I come to give you the answer to a question, that some of you might have formed in your minds, as you read or listened to this series of dictations here in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. For you have heard us give releases at the Lincoln Memorial, at the Jefferson Monument, at the Federal Reserve, at the Washington Monument, at the National Archives, at the Capitol Building and at the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress. Yet if you are somewhat familiar with the layout of Washington, D.C., you might have wondered why we passed by one location, that seems like it should have been included on the list.

We have anchored the light, that will help this nation transform itself to a higher level, in many of the important locations in the Capitol, but we have not anchored the light in what some would argue is the most important location of all, namely the White House. And so, you might think, that I am here to anchor the light in the White House for this release, which is given outside of the President’s residence. Nevertheless, I am not here to anchor a flame, as we have done in the other locations. Yet, I am here to explain why we are not anchoring a flame in the White House.

The need for the president to surrender

It is indeed for several reasons, but one of them is, as Godfre has so eloquently explained, that when you are President of the United States, the only way to be successful is to recognize, that you cannot govern this nation out of your own power. And thus, you must come to that point of absolute and total surrender to a Higher Power, as you see it. Whether you see it as this God or that God, or your higher self, or the Great Architect of the Universe or whatever you will want to call this Higher Power, you need to surrender your human ambition, your human expectations, your human pride, that makes you think that you have – somehow – the capacity to run this large and complex nation. A capacity that sets you above most other people.

This is, of course, one of the lies, that is easily believed in, once you have been sworn in, and it dawns on you, that you are now the holder of what many label as “the most powerful office in the world.” And you might even think you are the most powerful man in the world, as some have thought—and as many among the people would like to think, that their President truly is. And so, it is easy – if you have any kind of personal pride – to come to believe in this. And of course, if you had no personal ambition, why would you even aspire to the office, given how conditions are today with the political machinery in the United States? For quite frankly, would anyone who had Buddhic attainment, or even Christ attainment, want to put himself through the political machinery of these United States in this age?

Well, surely, he would not want to, but he might do so, if the people had reached a level of consciousness, where they were able to recognize such a candidate. This, of course, has not yet happened. And thus, what you see is, that the people who are attracted to run for office – and who are willing to set aside their lives and give up their privacy forever – are those who have an ambition. And with ambition, of course, comes pride. For when you achieve your ambition, there will be a sense of pride. You will see this in every President. When you look back through the ages, there are very few who have not had this pride.

You will see it in the current President, if you look honestly at his demeanor, at his facial expressions, you will see a certain pride. This is not to say, that the current President is worse than so many others that you have seen. I am simply pointing out that it, so to speak, goes with the territory. And of course, this pride is precisely what makes you think, that you have the ability to govern. And this is, therefore, also what blocks you from achieving that total surrender, where you are willing to throw yourself on your knees and give up all human, worldly ambitions and expectations and graven images, and simply say to the Higher Power as you see it: “Show me the way to go, show me how you would act in this situation.” This was what Abraham Lincoln was willing to do. It was what George Washington was willing to do. It was what Thomas Jefferson was not willing to do. And of course, many other Presidents have not been willing to do so either.

Why we are not anchoring a flame in the White House

Yet, it is precisely this inability or unwillingness to go through this total humility of the complete surrender, that is the reason why we are not anchoring a flame in the White House. For once we anchor a flame, all who pass through the flame will experience the light. For some it will flush out their darkness, for others it will inspire and uplift them, but there will be an effect.

Thus, what we want for the White House is, that as long as the President thinks he has the power to govern, then he must be left alone, so that he does not receive the light or the sponsorship from Above as an automatic grant. But he only receives it the moment he humbles himself, surrenders, and asks for assistance from Above. When he comes to that point, the assistance will be given in full measure. But until that point, he will literally be on his own, or on the power of those around him. And so, you see that there will be a horizontal form of government, until there is the willingness to reach up for that vertical assistance from Above; until there is a willingness to be the open door, the clear pane of glass, so that you can be “here below as Above.”

And this, of course, is another aspect of what you need to achieve as President, again as Godfre talked about: the practical realism. Well, when you have the personal ambition, you also have – inevitably – a personal value judgment based on a relative dualistic standard. For your ambition is to raise yourself to a certain status, and that can only be done according to a dualistic value judgment.

When you have this pride, you are likely to be deceived into doing things, that you think will be good according to your personal ambition—which might be to leave a certain legacy. And thus, you are likely to be deceived into pursuing goals that are simply not realistic from a practical viewpoint, because they cannot be achieved, they cannot be manifested, given the state of the collective consciousness and the practical situation that you face as President. And this is, then, when you become overly idealistic, wanting to hold on to the mental structure in your mind, the mental image, and wanting, with all the power available to you as President, to force the nation, and even the world, to fit into your mental box.

And thus, you lose the practical realism of what is the highest good for the highest number in the given situation. And you will not acknowledge what the given situation truly is, for you want the situation to live up to your ideal, to your mental image. And in your pride, you will not listen to the advisors around you, or to the media, or to the people, or to foreign heads of state, who tell you that your goal, while noble, simply is not realistic. And this is another trap of the Office of President of the United States.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

What it takes to be a good president of the United States

TOPICS: Could the United States have been established without bloodshed? – The eagerness for armed conflict – The young George Washington – The maturing George Washington – Not wanting to be king – How to be a good president – Practical realism – George Washington’s law –

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Ascended Master Godfre, February 13, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Given at Mount Vernon, which was George Washington’s personal estate in Virginia. Georg Washington was one of the incarnations of the Ascended Master Godfre.

I am the ascended master Godfre, and I welcome you to the grounds of this historical national landmark, which used to be my gentleman’s estate here in Virginia. Many happy hours were spent here, some of the happiest riding on my horses, alone or accompanied only by my personal attendant. Who was not to me a piece of property but was a trusted friend, truly also seeing himself as such.

Nevertheless, was there not an amazingly sharp divide back then between different groups of people? You may look at this nation and see the divide between slaves and free men, but there were many other divisions in American society. Divisions that truly, from the very outset, formed the greatest threat to the establishment of this nation, to the survival of this nation. And even today, they form the greatest threat to the ongoingness and the acceleration of this nation towards its golden age potential.

Could the United States have been established without bloodshed?

Thus, it was in this place, that I was able to withdraw somewhat from this divided, fragmented dualistic society and the ongoing dualistic struggle—that was such a big part of my life in that embodiment as George Washington. Truly, even from a young age, I was brought into this dualistic struggle by serving in the British army, and – during the revolutionary war – just another phase of this struggle.

Thus, when I had occasion to walk or ride on this property, I would sometimes contemplate a question, which very few Americans today bother to think about. It was the question of how we might have achieved nationhood without the spilling of blood. Would it have been possible, indeed, to establish the United States of America as a free independent nation without the revolutionary war?

Certainly, at the time I could not see how. Neither could Jefferson or any of the other founding fathers. Even though many of the so-called founding fathers of this nation had a background in freemasonry – and therefore believed in universal spiritual principles and divine providence – we still were not able to see, how we could achieve greater independence from England without incurring the wrath of the King and the subsequent military clampdown that was – or at least seemed – inevitable in those days.

You, who have grown up in societies or in a time, when there was less warfare – or at least without being directly involved with it yourself – will find it difficult to understand the mindset back then, where armed conflict was such an almost natural part of life. And it was often taken for granted, that there simply was no other way to work out solutions to what seemed like major conflicts.

Yet, of course, when you look back with the perspective of an ascended master, you can begin to see just how many opportunities there were for actually having forged a separate nation. When you look today, you can see, that had a different course been set, there would still have been an independent nation on the North American continent today. It would surely have taken longer; it would not have been established when the United States of America was established. Yet, it would have been there today. And in the process of pursuing a peaceful transformation, England itself would also have been transformed faster than it otherwise was.

The eagerness for armed conflict

Of course, hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. Nevertheless, there is always validity in looking at and learning from the lessons of history. Back then, we were – those of us who started the process of independence and fought in the revolutionary war – we were not only quick to call for armed uprising, we were eager for it. For we saw it as a decisive way to further our own careers, even our sense of personal honor and pride.

This is a mindset, that most of the spiritual people of today will find alien to the way they have grown up. But that is because so much has happened in the collective consciousness of humankind since then, that you have been fortunate to grow up in a part of the world, where the collective consciousness is not as steeped in conflict as it is in certain other areas.

Look for example to the Middle East or Africa or other parts of the globe, where there is much more tension and conflict. And consider, that the mindset in which I grew up as George Washington, was fairly similar in some ways to what you see in the world today. Where people are ready to engage in conflict, almost at a moment’s notice, because it is always there as an underlying reality in their world view. They see it not only as inevitable, they see it as desirable for a variety of reasons.

The young George Washington

I was born in a not wealthy family in that lifetime, but a family that had ambitions. Even though my father died early, I had absorbed enough of the consciousness that he embodied, the ambition to improve his status in society and become somebody. This was, of course, a mindset that was unique to the colonies, for in Europe people were born into certain stations and most of them would die in the same stations. But here in the United States, there was a new consciousness, even though it was not the United States at the time but the colonies.

There was a new consciousness of realizing, that you could improve your station in life. You could be born in a relatively poor family, and you could climb the social ladder and achieve status. Of course, this could not be done if you were a slave. But if you were born free, then you had this opportunity, through your skill and initiative and your willingness to take a risk. Thus, if you look at the young George Washington, you will clearly see that kind of mentality. I wanted to achieve in my life, what my father had not achieved in his, and I was willing to take a risk to achieve it by joining the armed forces, as that was one of the ways to improve your status back then.

And so, I joined. I threw myself into the uncertainty of armed conflict, and I learned many lessons, that became valuable to me, not only in my role as leader during the revolutionary war but about life in general. How fragile it is, how easily it is lost to those who are not, as I came to see it, favored by divine providence. For there were battles, where I saw my friends die around me and where I had bullets flying through my coats—and yet I escaped unharmed.

And I knew – I had a growing realization within me – that it could only have been divine providence that spared my life, because I was selected by that divine providence for some greater mission. Of course, not knowing what it was when I was young, but it became gradually clearer as I grew into a position in the revolutionary war and eventually, of course, as president.

So you see, then, how I started as a young man, having little regard for the lives of others, being willing to further my own personal career by essentially having an occupation, that required me to take the lives of other people. This was simply the mindset of the time: kill or be killed, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, whatever was required to prove your valor in battle.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

The true alchemy of freedom

TOPICS: Self-government requires knowledge of self – International bankers undermining democracy – Virtual slavery through mortgages – The fear of a free economy – The descent of the Freedom Flame – The inevitability of change –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain with Portia, February 12, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Given in an open area East of the Capitol and between the Supreme Court building and the Library of Congress building in Washington, D.C.

Saint Germain with Portia I AM, and I AM here! I am here to anchor the Flame of the Seventh Ray, right here between these two buildings of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Library of Congress. Why does the Goddess of Justice carry the scales? Because there are two sides to justice: you cannot have justice without freedom. You cannot have justice without having the freedom of knowing what you need to know, in order to meter out justice. And thus, you see on one side the Supreme Court building, with the Supreme Court judges. But how can they sit in this Greco-Roman temple – that they have erected to keep them boxed up – and meter out justice without having full knowledge of what is going on in the nation or in the material universe? And thus, they need what is next door, the knowledge that is stored.

Of course, when you see the symbol for justice – the scales – you see that there are two bowls. But are they not hanging from a central point, the top of the triangle, the top of the pyramid? And so, is it enough to meter out justice to have the horizontal knowledge stored in this Library of Congress, the knowledge of this world? Nay, of course, it is not enough! For there must be the singularity, the open door, so that a higher knowledge, a higher vision, a higher matrix can descend. And it should indeed – under ideal circumstances – descend upon both the Congress and the Senate – or rather the one legislative chamber that is all that is needed – and the Supreme Court and of course also upon the President.

Self-government requires knowledge of self

Yet if we, indeed, could get the Supreme Court judges, and the Senators and Congressmen to be open to a higher knowledge, then we would have made considerable progress towards this higher union that is “of the people, by the people, for the people” but truly is “of God, by God and for God.” For can there be self-government, unless there is an acknowledgement of what the Self is?

What is the Self that is capable of governing? It is not the separate self; this I trust you can see. And thus, as Hilarion so eloquently explained, no one below the 48th level of consciousness should be involved with the government of a free, truly democratic nation. For how can you be free, when you are identified with the separate self, that can never fathom freedom, but only wants to restrict freedom based on its own vision, the vision it has created by taking upon itself the power to be a god, who defines good and evil.

This can never lead to Freedom, but only to one form of tyranny after another. And thus, you saw the Founding Fathers who were, most of them, above and well above the 48th level of consciousness. You saw them be able to receive a higher vision of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this nation, and they attempted to embody it. But when faced with the actual reality of administering things in the physical octave – dealing with the laws that have been created through humankind’s collective consciousness – well, then they found it very difficult to implement their vision, as the initial chaos of this nation clearly demonstrates. And as you see demonstrated throughout the history of this nation, where no sooner had a nation been established based on rights, than those rights started to be undermined by elite groups, who saw no reason to give the people rights. For they wanted the people to remain as the slaves of the elite.

International bankers undermining democracy

And thus, they have attempted to enslave them by undermining the democratic institutions and democratic freedoms. And they have especially attempted to do this through the money system. Do you not recognize, that there were international bankers who financed the British in the Revolutionary War, and even in secret ways, found ways to finance the revolutionary forces? George Washington was one of the few who acknowledged this and attempted to keep himself and the nation independent of it.

But not long after his presidency was over, indeed some of these international bankers managed to write themselves into American government and American life through an unholy bank charter, that should never have been given to anyone and was from the start unconstitutional, against the spirit of the revolution and the constitution. And so, you see how even up to very recent times, these bankers have managed to deceive the government into letting the people once again guarantee the loans from the elite with their life-blood, with their labor, that is all they have to give.

What is, then, to prevent a collapse of the financial system of this nation, when the people are faced with the inevitable situation of either no employment or higher prices on necessities? Was it not, indeed, the higher prices on daily necessities that sparked the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt? And is it not, indeed, foreseeable by anyone with common sense, that this will spread beyond these two nations? For there are many other nations, where the people are living under such poor circumstances, that they can barely feed their families.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

I challenge the people to stand up to the elitist tendencies in the United States’ government

TOPICS: The veils of secrecy will come down – The two main failures of Congress – The challenge to transcend gridlock – How many more pointless wars? –

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Ascended Master Nada, February 12, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Given in front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Nada I AM, the Chohan of the sixth ray. Ministration and service. Peace. But even the higher vision of the beginning of the integration of the knowledge, that you are part of a whole that is greater than yourself and any other part of the whole? For truly, the whole is more than the sum of the parts—when a critical mass of the self-aware beings who are part of the whole are willing to acknowledge, that they are more than the lower self, more than the separate self.

And this of course is the critical ingredient to make this Capitol building, and the government that resides within it, work. Will these representatives recognize, that they each are more—more than their personal selves, more than the special interests that are impinging upon them from all sides through the lobbying groups or the bureaucracy, or even more than the people they represent in their home states? For truly, is there any one state in this Union, that can dominate the Union? Is it not so, that the Union is more than the sum of the states? And if there is not this awareness, then how can the Union function, how can the government function?

The veils of secrecy will come down

And thus, I come to anchor here the flame of the sixth ray, throughout this entire building, as the Omega supplement to Gautama Buddha’s presence in the rotunda. This flame will go out into every nook and cranny of this building, above and below ground. And it will penetrate all aspects of the American government, even those that they think they have hidden from the people, under some justification, so to speak, of secrecy.

There is nothing secret for the Chohan of the sixth ray. For I have been involved in God government for a long time, and I know how to look through even the most hidden compartments of human government. You think you can hide from the ascended masters? You can hide nothing! There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, as stated by Jesus, the foremost representative of the sixth ray to embody in known history.

Thus, I predict, indeed, after the anchoring of this flame, you will begin to see the unveiling of all the secrets that they think they can keep hidden from the people. For this flame will challenge those veils of secrecy. As indeed Gautama Buddha said at New Year’s, how they will start coming down, and how you will see, that the Mother itself will spew out of her womb those who think they can stay in there longer than their allotted time. Those who think they can hide in the womb, and thus not having to transcend themselves and their comfortability.

“Let it all hang out,” as they say. For you can no longer hang out in the mother’s womb, if you are not willing to work for raising the all of the entire cosmos, that resides in the Mother’s greater womb. You may think you can create your own little compartment, set apart from the whole. You cannot, for these separate compartments will begin to crumble around you, and the walls of secrecy will come down. Let this be a word of warning to those in this building, who think they can hide from their own people how they are pursuing the interests of special groups, of elite groups, who have the money to finance the lobbying groups or buy favors. This will not be allowed to stand anymore, as the people will not tolerate it and will demand openness. And they will demand the service of the All.

The two main failures of Congress

The two most spectacular failures of the Congress and the Senate to fulfill their mission, in recent times, has indeed been, that they failed to stand up to President Bush, when he presented the false evidence that seemingly, at the time, justified the invasion of Iraq. And the second incident was when they also failed to stand up to President Bush and the bailout of the big investment banks on Wall Street.

In both cases, neither the Senate nor Congress were willing to fulfill their roll of balancing the President, making sure that the President would not go on some ego trip, mislead by special interest groups. This is their true role in the constitutional system: To make sure that no branch of government can go too far. They failed spectacularly on both occasions, and this is what needs to be seen by the people, so that they demand that this will not happen again.

There is, indeed, a need to rethink this government and make sure it is of the people, by the people and for the people. And of course, it is necessary to go many steps up towards that ultimate goal of self-government. Is the American nation a self-governing nation? Do the American people govern themselves, or have they allowed their so-called elected representatives to form an elite, that is not governing based on what is the will of the people? How can it be, that this institution – which is meant to represent one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all – is still divided between Republicans and Democrats, and now adding the discordant voices of the Tea Party?

How can it be, that they have not voluntarily transcended this dualistic system and realized, that it is not viable to have this institution constantly ping–ponging between the extremes, of the extreme Democratic position and the extreme Republican position, when in reality the majority of the people are squarely in the centre of American politics, doing the best they can according to their state of consciousness to pursue the middle way — that is not in-between the extremes, but transcends the extremes based on a higher vision.

This is not the will of the people, nor is it the will of the founding fathers. And I challenge all of the elected representatives, the media, the bureaucracy, and the people themselves to openly acknowledge this. And therefore to look at this building and say “But the Emperor has nothing on.” The senators and congressmen who claim to represent the will of the people but have sold out to special interests — they have nothing on. Even if they believe they are serving some greater cause or just plain reality politics, they still have nothing on.

And thus, it is time to say: “Gridlock be gone! You have no power in this house of the people. We do not want gridlock. We want you to lock in to the grid of the ascended masters and the grid of Saint Germain for the matrix, for the Golden Age in America.” This is the grid you need to lock in to. Not your own, self-created grid, based on your dualistic state of consciousness, that you are not willing to transcend for the good of the Union.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

The true purpose of democracy is not affluence for all

TOPICS: Do democracies secure the rights of the people? – Is any truth self-evident to all people? – Defining rights based on a limited state of consciousness – The key to a true democracy –

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Ascended Master Hilarion, February 12, 2011 through Kim Michaels. At the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

Hilarion I AM. The Chohan of the fifth ray of higher vision. Thus, I am here to anchor the Flame of Higher Vision over this building of the National Archives, which houses some of the foundational documents of this nation, and thereby of the principles of modern democracy in its present form.

First and foremost, of course, the Declaration of Independence, signed by fifty courageous people, who were willing to risk their lives and their earthly fortunes for the sake of manifesting a higher vision, a vision of a higher society, a higher form of government. Nevertheless, what could be brought forth at the time – in that fateful year, 1776 – was indeed only what could be brought forth given the level of humankind’s collective awareness at that time. And thus, there is indeed relevance, as we have already said, in questioning the very foundations of modern democracy. As well as the Omega aspect of how well modern democracy is actually functioning, in terms of doing what is said in the Declaration of Independence: securing the rights of the people.

Do democracies secure the rights of the people?

Are modern democratic governments truly securing the rights of the people? Or have they allowed themselves to become undermined or partially controlled by special interests, the interests of the few, the interests of the elite? And so, there is a need for a debate. Is a democracy supposed to take care of the interests of the majority of the people, given their level of consciousness, so that a democracy at any time out-pictures the collective consciousness of a majority of the people? Or is a democracy supposed to challenge the majority to continually come up higher in consciousness, so that both the people and the nation itself can manifest a higher state than what is currently manifest?

And thus, of course, you see, that when you are willing to fulfill the Alpha requirement, you can see that there is no ultimate vision that is possible on earth. For as the collective consciousness is raised, and the level – the range of consciousness that is possible on earth – is therefore also raised, there is a need to reach for a still higher vision. And you need to continue to do so on an indefinite basis, until the earth reaches the ascension point. And even then, of course, after the ascension point, there is continued growth.

Is any truth self-evident to all people?

Take a look a this Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Indeed, a bold statement, when you consider the fact, that there are 144 different levels of consciousness possible on earth. Is it realistic to say, that a truth that seems self-evident at a certain level of consciousness will seem equally self-evident several levels of consciousness below?

Can those who are currently at, say, the 77th level of consciousness, can they really allow themselves to believe, that those who are at the 5th level of consciousness will see as self-evident the truth, that these people think is obvious? As we explain in the new book, a new co-creator first comes into embodiment on earth at the 48th level of consciousness. This is the level where you have some sense, that there is something beyond yourself, the self that you use to express yourself in the material realm.

At this point, you have not yet created a separate self. So the choice is: will you accelerate from where you start, and keep going up from the 48th level towards the 144th level, or will you choose to decelerate by going into the duality consciousness and the illusions of creating a separate self, that can act without seeking attunement with your own higher self—or any higher vision or principles to guide you, but only letting yourself be guided by the fact, that you define your own truth?

For do you not see, that when you go into duality, you fulfill the prophecy given in the Book of Genesis? You have taken the forbidden fruit, so to speak, and you have now become as a “god” who knows good and evil, in the sense that you define what you think is good and evil based on your present level of consciousness. And so, can you not see, that anyone who is below the 48th level of consciousness has defined his or her personal truth, possibly by accepting a truth defined by the false leaders, namely the fallen beings in embodiment?

Yet nevertheless, each person has his or her personal vision of what is real and unreal. And therefore, when you speak a truth that seems self-evident from above the 48th level, well, that truth will not seem self-evident to those who are below the 48th level. And thus, indeed, the truth that is expressed in the Declaration of Independence was given from the 77th level of consciousness, quite a bit higher than the 48th level where new co-creators start.

And thus, is it not obvious that for anyone below the 48th level of consciousness, it will not be self-evident, that all men are created equal? It will not be self-evident, that all human beings are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights; it will not be self-evident what those rights are. For indeed, those who are below the 48th level of consciousness may claim to believe in a God, but it is not a God that is transcendent; it is a god that is defined based on their own level of consciousness.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

The true alchemy of acceleration

TOPICS: Understanding Christ light – Being an alchemist – The light that penetrates the thickest walls –

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Ascended Master Serapis Bey, February 12, 2011 through Kim Michaels. This teaching was given at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Serapis Bey I AM, and I AM here through the physical presence of this messenger to anchor the light of the fourth ray, but not the fourth ray of purity as many students think. I AM here to anchor the higher aspect of the fourth ray of purity, namely that of acceleration.

Light is the alchemical key. Light is the philosopher’s stone. Light is the missing ingredient, that the alchemists have been seeking, mostly in vain, for centuries. Light is the ingredient, that can accelerate what is below, but it must be light that comes from Above. And thus, it is the Christ light that they seek; those who have an honest desire for self-transformation, as opposed to those who have a self-centered, the separate self centered, desire to attain power—and thus want to take heaven by force and use the light to advance some personal agenda, that seems important to the separate self but does nothing to raise the All.

Understanding Christ light

Surely, light is the key. This you can all see, but many of you who have been students of the ascended masters for a long time tend to think, that there is only one Christ light, that the Christ light might have a certain vibration or certain qualities, that can magically transform whatever is below. Yet this is, while not incorrect, not a complete understanding. There is not one form of Christ light; there is not one vibration of Christ light; for what is the purpose of the Christ light? It is to accelerate any condition in the material realm, not to some ultimate level, for that would in many cases burn and destroy what is below. It is to take any form that is below and accelerate it to the next level up, so that the people who are at a certain level of consciousness will transcend that level and be accelerated to the next level—if they are willing to take in the Christ light and let it perform the alchemy, that it has the potential to perform.

And thus, there are many forms of Christ light. For each manifestation that you have in the lower realm, there is a certain form of Christ light, that will help that manifestation transcend the level of consciousness from which it springs; out of which it is a manifestation. And thus, in the new book that this messenger has been the open door for bringing into the physical, we give the teaching that there are 144 distinct levels of consciousness possible in the material frequency spectrum on earth. And thus, there are 144 different levels, different vibrations, different aspects of the Christ light.

And thus, you might, if you want to have a visible representation of the Christ light, see it as a pyramid, a pyramid that ends up being multi-faceted, like a diamond that has 144 facets. Yet what is that pyramid – as you see on the top of this Washington Monument here in Washington, D.C. – what is the essential characteristic of a pyramid? Well, it is the Alpha and the Omega. It has four sides, representing the four levels of the material universe, the circle that has been squared into manifestation. And yet, at the top of the pyramid, you find what? You find the single point, you find the singularity that represents the fact, that you come into a state where your awareness, your sense of self, is not pulled into any of the four levels of matter and has, in fact, transcended identification with any of the 144 levels of consciousness possible in the matter realm.

And thus, you have become the singularity, the open door, the Conscious You experiencing itself as pure awareness instead of experiencing the world of form through one of the 144 levels of consciousness. This is the alchemical symbol, and it is only when you step away from a certain level of the 144 possible – transcend that at least momentarily – and experience the pure awareness of coming into the single-eyed vision; the single-eyed sense of self, that you become the open door for the Christ light to descend in a manifestation, that can transform you, that can help you accelerate to the next level of consciousness up. Or can help other people, even an entire society, accelerate to that next level up.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

The need to transcend representative democracy

TOPICS: An outdated governmental model – Transcending representative democracy –

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, February 11, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Given in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building, Washington D.C.

Gautama Buddha is the name I have used now in connection with my service on this earth. I am taking this opportunity – as I have a messenger who is in physical embodiment, and who is in this physical location in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol – to anchor a greater amount of my Presence than I have anchored here earlier, a greater intensity of the Light that I AM, the Light of Integration.

The Light of Integration, not only of the Seven Rays but also of the so-called Secret Rays, the higher spiritual rays, that shall now be anchored through the light that this messenger feels, as I am speaking these words in this public location, unbeknownst to those who are going by on their curiosity tours and unbeknownst to those who will be going by here in their work as Senators and Congressmen and members of the American government who have, of course, very little awareness of the Buddha or very little allegiance to the Buddha.

Nevertheless, is not one of the principles of this nation precisely, that out of the many, out of the diversity, is formed a Union? A Greater Union, that is allegiance to higher principles and to the absolute God Victory of the completing of the circle. Whereby you first have the one Indivisible God, that divides itself into many self-aware extensions of itself; and then through the process of the growth in self-awareness, those self-aware extensions come together, transcend their differences without losing their individuality, and then form a greater union here below, that is a reflection of the Greater Union that exists Above.

This is indeed the purpose of this nation, as it is the purpose of any nation and of the Family of Nations throughout the World: that Matter becomes a reflection of Spirit through the free-will choices of each human being, aligning itself with its Presence, with its I Am Presence, with its I Will Be Presence. And then, through that Union with the Spirit, that is vertical, sees also beyond the outer differences and therefore can come into a horizontal union, that is beyond anything, that could be achieved through the outer mind, through the separate self, through the ego.

“One Nation Under God” means precisely, that this nation is built on the recognition, that there are higher principles that must transcend anything that comes up, and/or is defined here below. It is truly a reflection of the fact, that there are higher principles that transcend anything, that can be brought forth and defined through the fallen consciousness, the consciousness of separation, the consciousness of duality, that is always focused on dualistic polarities.

An outdated governmental model

You do indeed see this consciousness reflected here in this United States Capitol building and in the fact that this nation, supposed to be One Nation Under God, still has this outdated model of having two chambers, that need to debate endlessly, sometimes, and often cannot come to a resolution, because they cannot see beyond the outer differences. And thus, would it not be possible then to have a new approach, a higher approach, whereby we seek to find a new approach to union, a new approach to coming together and finding a way to go beyond the differences?

That way would, of course, be to just have one legislative chamber but also to make sure, that this chamber does not have as much power as is currently enjoyed by the Senate and the Congress. For they are simply administrators who administer the will of the people, and it is the will of the people, that is allowed to make the major decisions and the major laws through a direct vote by the people. There are indeed many in the United States who are hung up on the idea, that the United States is a Republic, that does not necessarily reflect the will of the majority, but is based on certain principles that the majority cannot overrule, and that Congress and the Senate and the President and the Supreme Court supposedly cannot overrule either.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to take this democracy to the next logical step in its evolution. It is necessary to recognize, that with modern communication and information technology, there is no longer the need for the kind of representative democracy that this nation has had so far. There is a need for a more direct involvement of the people. And indeed, if the people will disregard or overrule certain eternal principles, then they must be allowed to do so and feel and experience the consequences of their choices. For in the end, how are the people to learn? For again, of course, the absolute purpose for this nation is not to produce a certain outer result; it is to further the growth in awareness of the people. That is why this nation is of the people, by the people and for the growth in consciousness of the people.

They will grow only by governing themselves and seeing the consequences, so that they decide to educate themselves and make better choices in the future than they have made in the past. This is the one and only way that growth can happen. It is the only way that this nation can fulfill its destiny. It is the only way that this nation can grow beyond the current state, where too often a single word is used to characterize the current state of American government and that word is as you know: gridlock.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

Let the era of fiat money come to an end

TOPICS: Willingness to submit individuality to the system – Money must flow as love – Do you need a money system? – Everything that is wrong with the money system – The intensity of the Ruby Fire – The myth of equality –

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Ascended Master Paul the Venetian, February 9, 2011 through Kim Michaels. At the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C.

Paul the Venetian is the name of the Being, that you know as the Chohan of the Third Ray. Yet I come not alone. For this is a task that is beyond the level of the Chohan. Thus, I have enlisted the assistance of the Archangels and the Elohim of the third ray of God Love, and they come in the full intensity of God Love, which is indeed the Ruby Fire. I have also enlisted and received Sanat Kumara and Lady master Venus, who will also anchor their Presence here, as we indeed shall endeavor to complete a task as this messenger walks the perimeter of this building, called the building of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.

We will anchor here, and in other centers around this Capital that deal with the economy and the finances, we will anchor here the Ruby Fire, that will serve as the dividing line, as the light of such intensity, that it forces people to make the choice between life and death. And thus, we indeed say, as the Word has gone forth from ancient times, “Choose Life!” Choose the life that will get the economy flowing into the golden age matrix, that Saint Germain has prepared for this nation and the world. Yet before this can happen, these monolithic institutions, that attempt to control the money system, must indeed either transform themselves into non-elitist institutions, or they must be allowed to fail.

Willingness to submit individuality to the system

You have all heard the saying “hidden in plain sight,” and indeed here in the center of Washington, D.C – on what is called the National Mall, that houses the monuments and institutions of American democracy – here in this, what we might call sacred place, sits this building that houses the Federal Reserve system. Its architecture very similar to that of many government buildings, thus to give the impression, that this is indeed part of the government that was charged by the ascended masters through Abraham Lincoln with being a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Yet I assure you, that within the walls of this building, there is very little willingness to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. For how do you gain access to this building? How do you become one of the insiders in the Federal Reserve System? Well, you become so only if you have already demonstrated a willingness to submit your individuality to the system. You cannot be a strong individual and enter the banking system that is tied to the Federal Reserve System; it simply is not possible.

If you are not willing to submit to the system, to surrender your individuality in order to gain access to the system, then you cannot gain entry. And thus, indeed, what you see is, that there is hardly anyone in this entire system who is able to receive the higher vision and the love of the third ray. For what you will see here is, that there is no openness to letting the light flow, to letting money flow.

Money must flow as love

You might wonder, why is it the representatives of the third ray of love who are anchoring their light in the money system? Well, it is indeed because the money system represents love; or rather it should represent love. What is love? It is the drive to always transcend, to never stand still—this is what money should be. Money should be always flowing, always multiplying, always adding real value. So then, there should be a constantly growing money supply, but it should be tied to the addition of something that has real value, that raises up life.

What has happened in this nation, and in most other nations, is indeed that life, that the money system, that the flow of the money system has been perverted by the power elites into being a system that stands still, that sits still where there are those who are attempting to control the money supply and the flow of money. You will see that there are many in these United States who advocate a free market economy. There are even those who will claim, that the United States has a free market economy. There are even those in the Federal Reserve System who will advocate this, even though they surely know better.

For there is no other institution in the world who is more dedicated to controlling the free market economy than the Federal Reserve System—because they control the very lifeblood of the economy, namely money itself. And so, what you see is quite simple. The stark reality is, that those who scream the loudest about a free market economy are those who are the least dedicated to making it a manifest reality. For indeed, they are the ones who will say, that a free market economy will lead to chaos, and thus the government must step in and prevent the collapse of financial institutions that have been built on the clay feet of greed, uncontrolled, unrestricted greed. And so, the reality is that the money system is the problem, not the solution.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

The dilemma for the modern man and modern nations

TOPICS: The human dilemma – The limitations of the intellect – Balanced wisdom – Spiritual pride – The time to stand still is over – The dilemma of the United States – Stilling the mind –

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Ascended Master Lord Lanto, February 9, 2011 through Kim Michaels. At the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.

I AM Lanto, Chohan of the second ray. And I am here to anchor a special flame of the second ray in and around this memorial, called the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Yet truly, from a spiritual perspective, it is not a memorial to one person. As, of course, one of the problems seen in this United States is indeed the tendency to glorify, to almost deify, one person who has stood out from the crowd.

Yet what is the true message, that Christ came to bring to this earth? It is the potential of the individual to transcend any outer individuality, and simply be an open door for the true God-given individuality of the Presence. So that the I AM Presence can have an open door, whereby it can flow through its Omega aspect, the I Will Be Presence, into the material universe. And thereby, it can manifest the higher vision, the higher wisdom, rather than the false wisdom of the fallen beings based on the dualistic consciousness.

What you do indeed see here is, that Thomas Jefferson represented precisely the dilemma of modern man. Will modern man deify the intellect, the reasoning mind, or will modern man be willing to recognize, that there are limits to the intellect? There are limits to analysis, there are even limits to reason. One cannot look at the conditions in the material world – in the matter realm as it is right now – one cannot look at these conditions and use the analytical faculties of the intellect, or even the higher faculties of the reasoning mind, to extrapolate what is the higher vision of the Spirit.

The human dilemma

For, the fact is simple: once conditions in the material realm have gone below the vision of the Spirit, you cannot go the other way through the intellect and the reasoning faculties, because they can only look at what is known. And then, they can seek to extrapolate from there, but that will not get you back up to the higher vision, once you have gone below it. This is the eternal human dilemma!

Once you have eaten the forbidden fruit – once you have started to define truth on your own, because you have set yourself, or rather the separate self, up as a god who can define, who can know, good and evil – well, then you are trapped in that dualistic reasoning. And you can never go beyond it through the reasoning, through the intellect, through the separate self. You cannot, my beloved. It simply is not possible!

And it is, indeed, the wise ones who realize, that it is not possible, and therefore accept the fact, that there is a need to do something different, that we cannot continue to intellectualize and analyze and reason forever. For indeed, it will only get us so far, and we cannot go beyond a certain level. And so, this is indeed the flame, that I am here to anchor, as my messenger walks the periphery of the Jefferson monument, as I flow through the open door that he has provided.

The limitations of the intellect

Listen well, for indeed Thomas Jefferson exemplifies perfectly the person, who had gone far with the intellect, gone far with the reasoning mind, who had a strong reasoning mind, a strong intellect and had developed it to a remarkable degree. Nevertheless, he also represents perfectly the limitations of this approach, that you can go to a certain point, and then you simply cannot go higher. And this is outpictured in the fact, that Thomas Jefferson was the open door for bringing forth the Declaration of Independence, which says that all men are created equal without specifying any exceptions to this. And yet, Jefferson himself – in his gentleman’s farm in Virginia – had his entire financial existence based on owning slaves.

This, then, illustrates the perfect dilemma, that the intellect presents to man. It is so easy to see a higher principle; a higher truth at the level of the mind. But it is an entirely different matter to carry it into physical manifestation through the emotions. Jefferson knew very well, that slavery was not compatible with the Declaration of Independence. But when he came home to his beloved farm, high on that hill in Virginia, and when he sat there and looked out over this vast landscape; he knew also, through his reasoning mind, that there was no way for him to survive economically – given the times – without owning slaves. And thus, he was faced with a choice: Will you give up your convenient lifestyle in order to follow your higher vision, or will you cling to the familiar, cling to the convenient, in order to maintain that lifestyle?

Many have indeed faced this choice. All people on the spiritual path must and will face it; it is an initiation that no one can escape. For indeed, only those who have been willing to make the choice to forgo the convenient in order to follow a higher truth, only those can be the open door for this higher vision. Now this is not to say, that you all have to go out and do exactly what someone else has done with his life, for you each have a unique path to follow. You do not have to sell everything you have and stand there with nothing, for many of you are meant to serve in the positions you are in. And there is nothing wrong with maintaining a lifestyle, as long as you do not let it control you and hold you back from taking the stand that you need to take.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

Rethinking American democracy is the will of God

TOPICS: The need to make decisions – The will of God is self-transcendence – Emptying yourself so there is room for the will of God – The need to rethink American democracy – Reflect on democracy –

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Ascended Master MORE, February 9, 2011 through Kim Michaels. Outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

MORE I AM. Master MORE I AM. And I am present at this Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to anchor the Flame of the Will of God in and around this monument to a person, who had a considerable momentum on embodying and applying the will of God. This topic of the will of God is illustrated in many overt and subtle ways in the life of Abraham Lincoln, who understood that you cannot take a black-and-white view, but that you must be balanced, you must look at the nuances. For indeed, the will of God is not set in stone, cannot be defined by a certain scripture or even by a certain principle, that is always applied in the same way.

The will of God must be applied through Christ discernment, through a vision of a higher goal, a higher principle, a higher union. And indeed, what Abraham Lincoln did see – before and especially during his presidency – was the absolute need to preserve the United States as one nation under God. It was imperative for the future of democracy and freedom in the world, that the United States was not split up into two or more separate nations, that then could have been set at war with each other. Not only for the profit of the international bankers; but indeed also to divide and therefore allow the communist forces to conquer and take away freedom on a worldwide scale.

This, then, was the great credit of Abraham Lincoln: that he saw this need to preserve the union. Yet he also saw the need to balance this with the individual rights of each human being: the right to liberty, the right to life, and the right, of course, to be so free, that each person could pursue happiness as he or she saw fit, without violating the same rights for other people. This, then, is indeed the delicate balance that must be found, if America is to make a smooth transition into the Golden Age. There is no way that America can move from where it is now to the Golden Age without Christ discernment. And as we have attempted to explain many times, Christ discernment is a balanced view, the middle way that is beyond the dualistic extremes—that always want to take any issue into one extreme or the other or into a no-man’s land in the middle, where no decisions can be made.

The need to make decisions

Lincoln, then, also understood the need to make certain decisions. Certainly I can, as an ascended master today – even though I was not an ascended master back then – I can look back at the time of Abraham Lincoln today and see, that some of the decisions he made were not necessarily the highest possible, seen from a timeless perspective. Nevertheless, they were the highest possible that he could make, given who he was, given his knowledge and psychology and given the conditions he faced.

This, of course, is exactly the situation I faced in my embodiment as Thomas More and in several other embodiments. You are in the physical octave, you are in the matter realm, the Mother realm. And there are certain decisions, that must be made based on the current conditions. If those conditions are not ideal, as they quite frankly rarely are, then you must make the best possible decision based on your knowledge, based on the conditions, based on who you are; meaning your personal psychology and your state of consciousness. No one can do any more; no one is asked to do any more. You are asked to make the best possible decision, then learn from it, and then transcend your level of consciousness.

Those who make decisions and then look back with regret or self-condemnation, or look back with denial and refuse to learn, simply will not grow. This, unfortunately, is also the reason why the lifestream, that was embodied as Abraham Lincoln, has not yet qualified for his ascension. He had the potential to have qualified for this by now. But again, there is an unwillingness to learn, an unwillingness to transcend that level of consciousness, a desire to justify certain decisions. And thus, a lifestream can then be stuck for several embodiments without being willing to simply look at the facts, admit what could have been done better, learn from it; forgive oneself, forgive others and then move on.

It is, truly, a model of what has happened to the entire nation of the United States. The United States has a relatively short history compared to many other nations. Nevertheless, the United States also has a tendency to look at its own history with denial, not being willing to acknowledge the lessons that need to be learned, and the state of consciousness that needs to be transcended. This is very obvious, if you walk from this Lincoln Memorial a short distance to one of the most visited war monuments in Washington, D.C., namely the Vietnam War Memorial.

The Vietnam War is still a stain on the national psyche, which the United States has not been willing to openly debate. They have not been willing to learn the lessons, to look at the lessons, to even consider that there are lessons to be learned. This, then, is a state of denial, that is out of touch, again, with the will of God. For the will of God is not to hold you in some hell forever, as has now been projected into the collective consciousness for 2,000 years, almost, by the Christian religion—and before that by other religions.

The will of God is self-transcendence

The will of God is that you transcend yourself constantly, that you are never stuck for very long. And thus, it is not the will of God to point out your mistakes in a condemnatory manner, where you are told that you are wrong and that you can never rectify yourself in the eyes of God. On the contrary, it is the will of God to point out, that what you did was the expression of a certain state of consciousness. And if the consequences are not the highest possible, then there is an obvious need to transcend that state of consciousness. And of course, you only transcend your state of consciousness by being willing to look at it and learn the lessons.

This is indeed the entire fallacy of the fallen consciousness: that you can follow an outer path that will qualify you for entry into heaven, without you having to look at your own consciousness. It is the path that has been promoted by the false teachers of East and West, and is still being promoted by those false teachers, be it the Indian gurus of today – who are promoting themselves as being God on earth and that you will be saved by just following them blindly – or be it the western false gurus, who in many cases are also promoting an outer path or even promoting that there is no path, for there is no God.

Neither of these two can, of course, be correct. How can you qualify for salvation by blindly following a guru, that you see as being outside yourself? You can follow a guru for a time, but the purpose of a true guru – a true external guru – is to put you into oneness with your internal guru, your higher self, your Presence, your I AM and your I Will Be Presence. So that you become the open door for that Presence, instead of sitting there with the mind, analyzing and thinking that you have to have a standard for what you will do or what the Presence can do through you. So that you first have to analyze whether the Presence lives up to this standard, before you are willing to let the Presence act through you.

This, my beloved, is not the will of God; it is not the power of God. The will of God is not definable by an external standard. You will never follow the will of God by having an external standard that you compare every situation to, and then you think you can mechanically determine what is the will of God for you to do in that situation. You become one with the will of God by being the open door for the Presence, so that it is the will of your I Will Be Presence, that is free to express itself spontaneously through your lower being, without having to go through any filter that comes from the separate self and the fallen consciousness.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book A Spiritual Clearance for America.

If you hide from Maitreya, the Serpent becomes your teacher

TOPICS: The difficulty of grasping the purpose of the spiritual path – On the true path you cannot hide – The false path of initiation under the Serpents – Comparing your beliefs to observations of reality – The false quest for status and false self-esteem – The delicate balancing act of the ascended masters – True self-esteem comes only from oneness – Learning to see Maitreya everywhere – In the end, it is the means that matter –

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Ascended Master Lord Maitreya, January 8, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

Maitreya I AM. And I shall for this release drop the customary title of “Lord.” For this is, of course, a title that has been misused even in the recent history of this earth, where there were people in embodiment who claimed, that they were the lords of others, the lords over others, the overlords of others. They even claimed, that they had a divine or a spiritual justification for this superiority.

Let me give you a different view of kindness. For as I have given you what you normally associate with kindness through my feminine messenger, I will give you a different shading through my masculine messenger, who himself has always been a very practical realist. And indeed, the opposite polarity to the soft-spoken and gentle kindness is not, as some of you think, the very direct and stern, rebuking voice. The opposite polarity to the gentle kindness is indeed the complete honesty and transparency of practical realism. This is the practical realism which looks at a given individual, and without any nonsense or excuses or fanfare assesses that individual’s current level of consciousness, and then gives a very practical path for how the individual can raise itself above that level of consciousness.

When you begin to tune in to this practical realism, you begin to gain an entirely different perspective on life, on God and especially on the spiritual path, the path of initiation. Practical realism is completely beyond the main characteristic of the duality consciousness, namely value judgments based on a relative standard, with good at one end and bad at the other end. In practical realism, there are no ends—which is why the ends cannot justify the means.

For when you see no end, you realize, that it is not the end that is important; it is the means that are important. It is not the result that you achieve or do not achieve; it is the way you seek to achieve whatever result you have defined for yourself. For the way you seek to achieve the result – the means that you are willing to employ in order to achieve the results – says everything about your state of consciousness. And it is, as I have just explained, your state of consciousness that is the deciding factor for your entry into the spiritual realm, for your ascension.

The difficulty of grasping the purpose of the spiritual path

Why is it so difficult for people in embodiment to understand the essence of the spiritual path? Why is it, that there are people who have studied ascended master teachings for two or three or four decades, and yet they have not understood the essence of the path? Well, this is a complex topic, so I recognize that it is not possible in one release to give a thorough discourse on the many subtle aspects of the state of consciousness, that keeps people trapped on the false path. Jesus recently gave an absolutely ground-breaking discourse, but even he recognizes that this, of course, was not a complete examination of the factors, that make it so difficult for people to see exactly what the path is about.

Nevertheless, for this particular release, I shall take the approach of a practical realist and mention just a few—just enough to get you started on questioning your view of the path of initiation. I have already spoken about this through my feminine messenger, but let me give you the same explanation from the masculine perspective. The view of initiation that most people have, when they find an ascended master teaching, is actually a view that is based on the false path created by the fallen beings and the false teachers. It is the view that is based on the idea, that you are exposed to something that you clearly know is a test or an initiation.

It is also based on the idea, that you clearly know and understand what the test is about, namely that you live up to a predefined standard and produce a certain result. Which will then be evaluated, either based on the clearly dualistic standard of whether your answer was right or wrong, or another standard where you will be graded according to, for example, the kind of grades that you get in school—that are clearly divided into several levels, where some levels are lower than others. And therefore, it requires a grade above a certain level to pass the exam and get your diploma.

This is, of course, clearly what Master MORE spoke about, namely the mechanical consciousness. If you know enough to fulfill the requirements, you will pass the initiation with flying colors by giving the right answers. And if you follow the process outlined, for example, in the educational system – or in secret organizations, such as the Freemasons – well, then you will advance up through the grades, until you reach an ultimate level of initiation. And then you get a diploma.

This is what you see in virtually all universities around the world. If you are a good student, according to the criteria defined by this particular institution, or even by a country as a whole, then you will automatically get a diploma. It is assumed, that if you can pass the initiations in the schoolroom, then you will be suited for doing the task that your diploma authorizes you to do, such as being a doctor or a psychologist.

Yet what does it take to be a good doctor or a good psychologist? Does it take only intellectual learning, only book learning? Is being able to memorize and recite certain theories and facts a sign, that you will be good at dealing with human beings in life-and-death situations? Nay, it is not, as just about any doctor or psychologist could tell you, if they were willing to have the honesty of practical realism about themselves and their profession.

So what is this entire path of initiation based upon? Ahh, when you take a closer look, you see that it is based on being able to hide something. You can follow the educational system of most countries – or even follow initiatic systems such as the Freemasons or other esoteric organizations – and by passing the predefined requirements, you can reach the top level and get a diploma or degree—while still hiding your basic personality, your basic state of consciousness. Are you a truly sincere and kind and honest person, or are you at completely self-centered egomaniac, who only seeks the outer position because of the prestige or the money that it supposedly gives you. You know, of course, that there are doctors who seek prestige, and you know that there are people who have become doctors because doctors make a lot of money. You know the same holds true in most other professions. So you see, that deceit is a fundamental element of this false path of initiation.

On the true path you cannot hide

What, then, is the true path of initiation, that I offered in Maitreya’s mystery school, and that I still today offer in Maitreya’s mystery school? It is the path, as Jesus explained in his discourse, where you cannot hide your true state of consciousness, your true inner being, for the teacher. You cannot fool me, for I will see through anything and and everything in your psychology, that you are seeking to hide.

As I have just said, the Serpent will also see through what it is in your psychology, that you are seeking to hide. The difference is that whereas I will see what you are seeking to hide, expose it to you in a very realistic way and then offer you a very practical way to transcend it, well, instead of this approach, the Serpent will see through what you are seeking to hide and will offer you the perfect justification for continuing to hide it—if only you will submit to certain other things, that the Serpent wants you to do.

And precisely because you are attached to hiding what you thought no one could see, including the Serpent, it will seem to you as a low price to pay, to submit to the Serpent’s recommendations or conditions in order to be able to feel, that you can continue to hide while in the end still being allowed into the kingdom of heaven. For this, of course, is what the Serpent promises.

You do know, that if you are not willing to go to Maitreya, or any other true teacher, and let the teacher expose your psychology, well, then you cannot enter into the mystery school, and you cannot enter into the spiritual realm that the mystery school is set up to give you access to. So if you thought that there was no other way to get into heaven than through the mystery school, then you would know, that if you were not willing to submit to the requirements of the true teacher, you had no way of getting in. So naturally, the Serpent must promise you, that there is another way to get into the kingdom of heaven than following the true teacher and his strict requirements. For the Serpent has discovered a shortcut, an alternative route that can get you into heaven—if only you live up to these outer requirements, that the Serpent will show to you and will help you fulfill while still being able to hide your basic psychology. Oh, how tempting this is for those, who have not been willing to take responsibility for their own state of mind.

How difficult, my beloved, is it to see the lie here? What have we been telling you in the dictations we have released, beginning with Gautama Buddha? We have been telling you, that the one and only key to entry into the ascended realm is your state of consciousness, and that you are the only one who can change your state of consciousness. Yet when you decide, that you are not willing to take full responsibility for changing your state of consciousness, then you become susceptible to the serpentine lie.

Of course, in order to fully come to believe in this lie, there are just a few conditions you have to accept. These are very subtle conditions and might seem very unimportant to you—at least when you are in the frame of mind of wanting to hide something. And so, deceived by your own desire to hide, you accept a teacher who will hide something from you—instead of the true teacher who hides nothing from you, and therefore allows you to hide nothing from the teacher or from yourself. The false teachers also will not allow you to hide anything from them, as they are quite skilled at seeing through your psychology. But they will allow you to believe, that you can hide something, not only from them but also from God, or at least from the beings who judge whether you will be allowed into heaven.

For the Serpents will tell you, that the beings who judge whether you should be allowed into heaven will not look at the things you are seeking to hide. They will only look at how you fulfill the outer requirements, defined by the Serpents. How difficult, my beloved, is it to see the deception here? The reality is, that getting into the ascended state is not a matter of fulfilling any outer requirements. It is a matter of changing your state of consciousness. Changing your state of consciousness cannot be achieved by doing or not doing certain things in the matter realm. It can be achieved only by you looking into your own consciousness. There is no other way.

The false path of initiation under the Serpents

What have we said in previous dictations in this series? The doorway to the ascended realm is the open door which no man can shut. How do you enter the open door to heaven? By you becoming the open door. Do you see what this means? There are no conditions that determine, whether you can walk through the doorway to heaven, there are no conditions you need to fulfill in order to walk through that door.

In order to walk through the door, you need to overcome all conditions in your own mind, so that you are the open door. My beloved, what is an open door? Is it not a door that is transparent, meaning that you can look through the open door and you can see what is on the other side of the door—without your vision being obstructed by anything or colored by anything. So what will it take for you to become the open door? Well, will it not take that you remove anything in your own being, that will obstruct or color the light of God and thus prevent yourself or others from looking through you and seeing, what is on the other side of the door that leads to the ascended realm?

And how can you remove the conditions in your being, that obstruct or obscure the light? Well, you can remove them only, when you are willing to look at them. For guess who put those conditions into your own mind and being? It was not Maitreya, and neither was it the Serpent—or the devil, or Satan, or the prince of this world, or your aunt Agatha, or anyone else. It was YOU, my beloved.

This is not a judgment against you. This does not mean, that I blame you. On the contrary, it means that I empower you. For what is it that has happened, as you have started to believe in the illusions of the Serpent? Well, you have actually walked a path of initiation under the Serpents, the false teachers. Yet instead of walking the path of initiation, that helps you gradually remove the conditions from your being, you have walked a path of initiation, that has increased your skill in justifying these conditions.

Of course, this false path is not subject to the same laws as the true path. The false path is subject to the law of karma, to the law of action and reaction, and to what we have called the second law of thermodynamics. So what happens is, that when you accept that there are certain things in your consciousness, that you want to hide, then it is inevitable that you project mental or psychic energy through those conditions into the cosmic mirror.

And what will the cosmic mirror do? It will mirror back to you conditions in the material world, that reflect what you are not willing to look at. Only, of course, these conditions will not entirely confirm the belief that you are not willing to question, and therefore the conditions you encounter in the material realm will somewhat challenge your worldview, will somewhat challenge the initial illusion that you accepted from the Serpent.

Comparing your beliefs to observations of reality

You see, the Serpent can only offer you illusions. They are clever illusions, they often contain some degree of truth, but in the end the second law of thermodynamics will ensure, that they will be challenged. This, then, is your opportunity to say, that if the material world challenges my belief, does it mean that my belief is not correct, that it is out of touch with reality? This, for example, was the initiation, that the Catholic community faced during the Middle Ages, when the first scientists came up with the observations, that contradicted the Catholic doctrine that the earth was the center of the universe, with the sun and all the other planets moving around it.

They had the opportunity to compare their beliefs to observations of reality, and thereby take the approach taken by any practical realist, which is that if my beliefs contradict my observation of reality, then I must re-examine my beliefs. Yet the path of initiation offered by the Serpents is, that when reality challenges your beliefs, you simply change your beliefs, so that you can still justify continuing to to hide, while feeling that you still have some superiority or authority in this world. Instead of adjusting your belief to reality, you adjust your belief system so that you can justify ignoring or explaining away reality.

This is what you saw in the Catholic religion. You have seen it in many other religions. You have seen it in political systems. You have seen it in scientific materialism, which even to this day denies the connection between consciousness and your observations in the matter world. Even though science has proven that any observation is influenced by consciousness, materialists will deny it—and so will most religious people. For they do not want to admit what any practical realist will readily admit, namely that perception is not the same as reality—until your mind has become the open door.

For as long as there is something you are seeking to hide, you will have to “see through a glass darkly,” you will have to see through a filter colored by the things you are seeking to hide. And here is a simple illustration of how this works. You know that a kaleidoscope is a tube in which there are several panes of clear material, and in between those panes there are pieces of colored glass. The pieces of colored glass will either color the light coming through or they will, if they are dense enough, completely obscure the light.

So now imagine a kaleidoscope, that has completely clear panes of glass as divisions, so that you could see through it unhindered if the kaleidoscope was empty. And this means, that if there were no glass pieces in the kaleidoscope, you could see reality as it really is. Yet now you begin to fill glass pieces into the kaleidoscope, and naturally they will either color your view of reality, or they will completely obscure certain aspects of what you might otherwise see through the tube.

When you have certain aspects in your consciousness, that you are not willing to look at, then your perception will be affected in such a way, that there are certain things you simply cannot see. For you cannot admit, that reality contradicts your beliefs. The reason you cannot admit this is, that you have decided that there are certain things in yourself, that you are not willing to look at. And as long as you uphold that decision to not look at something in yourself, well, then you cannot admit when the outside world challenges your worldview.

The false quest for status and false self-esteem

And what is then the worldview that you have, when you follow the path of the false teachers? It is the worldview that you have a value, a status, that is dependent upon the outer initiations, that you have followed on this false path.

Think of how a person who has a diploma as a doctor or architect instantly gains a certain status in society. People with a diploma can sometimes get a job, even if their personal psychology makes them completely unsuited for that job. Yet in many cases, the diploma is enough—and only later does the employer or co-workers find out how completely unsuited the person is because of his or her human qualities, or lack of qualities.

This then, is what you build when you follow the false path. You build a self-esteem based on your outer accomplishments, your knowledge, your understanding. Yet what most spiritual students do not realize is, that even though it is the false path that allows you to build this self-esteem, it is also the false path that requires you to build this self-esteem. For the false path cannot give you true self-esteem, because you cannot acquire true self-esteem as long as there is something in your own being, that you are not willing to look at. That which you are not willing to look at, prevents you from seeing through your own being, until you can see through the nexus of pure awareness and project yourself into oneness with your Presence—so that you can see yourself as your Presence sees you.

Seeing yourself as your Presence sees you is the one and only source of true self-esteem. For it is beyond anything on earth. So when you are not willing to project yourself into oneness with Maitreya or oneness with the Presence, then you cannot have true self-esteem. The Serpents know this, so they very cleverly offer you an alternative. But once you begin to even consider that alternative, you will be very softly pulled into accepting not only the seemingly beneficial aspect of the false path, but also the clearly dysfunctional aspect.

For the entire idea of the false path is, of course, that there is an outer standard, a standard that can be defined on earth, which will determine your entry into heaven. And this means, that those who live up to the standard, will be accepted into heaven, whereas those who do not live up to the standard, will not be accepted—and therefore would either have to stay on earth or will burn forever in some fiery hell. And so, not only does the false path prevent you from achieving true self-esteem, but it also gives you the urgency, that you need to avoid this terrible fate of burning in hell. And this makes it even more urgent, that you build the false self-esteem by living up to the outer requirements.

The delicate balancing act of the ascended masters

Can you now perhaps begin to appreciate the situation, that we of the ascended masters face? When we are dealing with students who are not affected by the duality consciousness, then explaining the true path of initiation and helping a student walk that path is a very straightforward matter. Yet when we are dealing with students who are affected by the duality consciousness – because they still have something they want to hide – then we are facing an infinitely more complex situation.

We simply cannot give you an explanation of the true path in its practical, realistic form. We need to give you a path, an explanation, that is adapted to your current level of consciousness and to the dualistic illusions that you are not yet willing to question. If we give you a clear description of the true path, you would either completely fail to comprehend it or you would likely reject it, or at least aspects of it.

In many spiritual movements, you find students who are still seeking to hide the fact, that they do not have true self-esteem. And therefore, they are seeking to hide, or to avoid questioning, the very conditions that allow them to feel, that they have this false self-esteem by belonging to an organization or by having followed a certain path of initiation offered in that organization. Look at the leaders or those who have been in such organizations for many years, and see how they feel that this entitles them to some status and some admiration and respect from the new members, or from those who do not have an outer position.

You will see it everywhere, as you see it in most religions or political or scientific organizations: this quest for an external status, this quest to be thought wise among men. So do you then see, that we of the ascended masters face a somewhat delicate challenge? How do we, given all we know about the true path, take students who have so many subtle beliefs that come from the false path, and still get them to start transcending their false beliefs, so that they will come closer and closer to recognizing the true path?

What has happened in many spiritual organizations is, that we were able to take the students to a certain level, and then a majority of the students were not willing to go further. They came to a point, where there were certain convenient beliefs from the false path, that they were not willing to give up. For they were not willing to take full and final responsibility for their own state of mind. They were not willing to recognize, that their perception was fundamentally colored by the beliefs they were not willing to look at, and that they would only go further on the path, if they were willing to question their most fundamental perception of that path.

They started taking certain statements out of context, and using them to justify why they did not have to question their beliefs about the false path. And my beloved, the danger of giving you any teaching expressed in words is precisely, that words can be used and interpreted in ways that justify just about anything you want to justify. So it is entirely possible to take the words spoken by an ascended master – through a sponsored messenger who gave forth those words in the purest possible way – and still use those words to justify certain beliefs about the path, that were given by the fallen beings, by the false teachers.

This is not only possible; it is very easy—when there are certain things in yourself, that you are not willing to look at. For the very things that you are not willing to look at, will prevent you from seeing the deeper reality behind the outer words. And therefore, you will very conveniently be unable to see – or be able to justify ignoring – the words that do not confirm what the fallen beings are telling you. You will instead focus on the words, that do seem to confirm what you want to believe. And therefore, you feel completely justified in following the false path—while thinking you are in reality following the true path defined by the ascended masters, a path that will guarantee your ascension.

True self-esteem comes only from oneness

If I could, I would offer you true self-esteem, so that you will be able to look at anything in your own consciousness, without feeling the need to judge or condemn yourself, as the fallen beings judge and condemn you. For this, of course, is another subtle aspect that you – without realizing it – come to accept when you accept the false path. For the very fact, that there are certain conditions that must be fulfilled for you to enter heaven, means that you must also believe, that it is not only right, but it is necessary, to judge based on the very standard that defines the conditions.

When the fallen beings have captured the privilege or formulating the conditions for entry into heaven, they have also defined the standard, by which everyone should be judging themselves and everyone else. And this is what creates the catch-22. The more you follow what you think is a true path sponsored by the ascended masters – the more you convince yourself that you are superior to others because you are following this path – the more difficult it will be for you to actually come to acknowledge and admit, that you have been following a false path. For if you were to admit, that you had been fooled by the false teachers, then you would also have to judge yourself according to the standard with which you have been judging those who were not in your organization, or who were not as high up in the organization as you thought you were yourself.

So I cannot simply offer you true self-esteem, I cannot even offer you to see how I judge you. I cannot even help you see, that I do not judge you, for I have no standard defined by the fallen beings. I see that it is not the conditions you have in your mind, that will get you to heaven. I see that it is precisely the conditions in your mind, that will keep you out of heaven. And so, I only want to see you become free of these conditions.

So what is the reality of the true path of initiation? It is that it is not a path that I, Maitreya – or any other ascended master – has defined for you. For you are the one, who has defined your own personal path. You are the one who has defined the path by accepting certain conditions, formulated by the fallen beings. You are the one who has decided what it is in your consciousness, that you are not willing to look at, and that is what has decided the conditions defined by the fallen beings that are appealing to you. Because they justify why you do not have to look at yourself, and why you can continue not to look at yourself and still believe, that you will make it to the ascended state.

So do you see: we of the ascended masters have not defined conditions for you. You have defined conditions for yourself. And you have defined those conditions not based on the true teachings of the ascended masters, but based on the false teachings of the fallen beings. What we of the ascended masters offer you is a path, where we will – if you are willing – help you see beyond the conditions in your mind, help you see the unreality of those conditions, so that you can simply let them go, so that you can simply walk away from them.

Do you see, that the conditions make you fixated on the end, on passing this ultimate initiation? And as long as you are fixated on passing this initiation, you do not have the awareness to step back and say: “Is there perhaps something wrong with my conditions? Is it possible, that I do not have to pass this final initiation, for it is defined by my conditions? But what I really have to do in order to be free is to examine my conditions and see them for the unreality they are— and then simply walk away from the entire false path and be completely non-attached to the fallen beings, who will howl at me that I cannot leave until I have fulfilled the ultimate condition. For now I see, that I will never fulfill the ultimate condition defined by the fallen beings, for it is completely unreal.”

Learning to see Maitreya everywhere

This is the true path of the ascended masters, which very few students on earth are ready to accept. Yet it is precisely the role of the Cosmic Christ to offer you this true path, this path of practical realism, instead of the false path of acquiring some artificial status by going through these outer initiations. What did I say through my feminine messenger? I am the Great Initiator, not because I am this elevated teacher, that you can only reach by going through many layers of initiations, before you are worthy to enter my elaborate retreat.

Nay, I am the great initiator because I am the one you do not see. You do not see me as an initiator, you do not see that this seemingly ordinary situation in your daily life is truly Maitreya appearing in disguise, in the form of certain conditions or other people. And thus, instead of treating the situation with the respect, that you would give to this great initiator that you imagine in your mind, you treat the situation with indifference or contempt, or various other dualistic judgments.

There is an ancient story of a seeker in the East, who had been seeking Maitreya for a long time without finding him, without having a direct encounter with me. Yet after many years of wandering around India and the Himalayas, he one day came across a dog lying by the road with a great open wound on its leg, and the wound was infected by maggots. He felt compassion for the dog, and wanted to remove the maggots from the wound. But yet realizing that they were also a form of life, he then felt compassion for the maggots and did not want to kill them. So he decided to bend down and lick the maggots from the wound, so as not to harm them and yet still free the dog from them. And doing this act of complete humility, he then encountered by living Presence, for now he saw me in the seemingly most humble or disgusting material conditions.

If you are willing to step up your personal path to a higher level, if you are willing to pass the initiations of the Year of the Mother, then ponder these words. Ponder how you can make a fundamental shift in your consciousness, so that you overcome this artificial division between what you consider ordinary or worldly activities and what you consider a spiritual activity on the path of initiation.

Most of you will know that it was my vow to attempt to win the people on earth with kindness. What is kindness? It is not simply soft-spoken; it is not simply gentle. It can range to a very direct form of kindness, but it is not anger, it is not fear, it is not judgment. It is practical realism. And the practical realism of kindness is precisely what Jesus taught 2,000 years ago, when he said: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Yet you can take that even further and say: “Do unto others what you would do to Maitreya, what you would do to the Spirit of Kindness.” See the Spirit of Kindness in everyone and in every situation, and then tune in to my Spirit, that you may be the open door for expressing precisely the shade of kindness, that will have the greatest opportunity to raise up all life in that situation.

Get over the idea, that you need to evaluate or judge other people based on outer criteria, or based on whether they believe this or that worded teaching, or whether they belong to this or that organization, or whether they are fallen angels or other kinds of angels, or have this or that status according to some spiritual teaching, that sets one person up above another. Kindness knows no judgment, for kindness knows no relativity. And thus, kindness cannot put any part of life down, kindness is a magnet that pulls on all parts of life. Because it truly does not see “parts” of life; it sees only the underlying oneness of all life.

How can you be truly kind? Only when you see beyond the outer form and see the underlying oneness of all life. And thus, you seek to raise up all life instead of seeking to judge and put down any part of life.

In the end, it is the means that matter

You realize that it is not the end that matters; it is the means. It does not matter what great accomplishments you might have achieved in the eyes of men or in the eyes of the fallen beings. All that matters is to what degree you have embodied the Spirit of Kindness.

For do you not realize, my beloved, that if you really want to talk about a standard, then the only standard that matters on earth is kindness? Why is this so? Because I, Maitreya, am the planetary Buddha, the Cosmic Christ for the earth. Thus, it is the Spirit that I am, that is the higher standard for how you make your ascension on earth. Only those who become one with the Spirit of Kindness, will make their ascension from planet earth.

If you do not like this prospect, well, then you have an alternative. If you really want to continue to hide from my kindness for another round of eons of time, then you can continue to embody on earth and hope that at some future time, I will move on and another ascended master will take my place—who has some other God quality that he or she embodies. And thus, this becomes the higher standard, which you might find more convenient than my kindness. Of course, you might also not find it very convenient. For truly, whether you call it kindness or love, or power, or wisdom, or purity, or truth, or peace, or freedom, or any other God quality, they are all the same, in that they do not allow anything to remain hidden.

For they are not qualities in the sense that they block the light. They are qualities in the sense that they magnify the light of the Creator. And therefore, they magnify all life. If you are not willing to magnify all life, but wants certain parts of life to be judged and condemned to hell according to your standard, then you do not have kindness. Telling you this is not unkind on my part. It is simply practical realism, and that is indeed the highest expression of kindness, that you must pass through in order to ascend from planet earth.

And I thank you especially for having been willing to raise your own consciousness. For unless someone on earth is willing to raise up the chalice, we cannot pour the living waters of the Spirit into it. For there must be a chalice, that can receive the release of light, as it will not be allowed to be spilled on the ground or given to the dogs. The dogs that howl in the need to judge and condemn, instead of simply tuning in to the Spirit of Kindness, that will make any person realize, that none are excluded from the true path of initiation—if they are willing to change their consciousness, so that they can begin to respond to every situation with at least one of the 144 kinds of kindness.

Can you perhaps sense my immense, unbound, unconditional joy? A joy that is full to overflowing. If you can sense it, you can catch what is overflowing, and thus you have been given a talent that you can multiply, so that you will be given more in the future. Go with kindness, and BE kindness. For the world needs kindness—all kinds of kindness.

Knowing the will of God in the Year of the Mother

TOPICS: Are you looking at reality or an image? – What is mastery? – You think you need to know ahead of time what is the right decision – The race between the masters and their students – The illusion of the ultimate truth – Transcending the need to raise up yourself – Knowing the will of God as the will of God is – Understanding non-decisions – Why the devil cannot judge the Christ –

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Ascended Master Master MORE, January 5, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

Are you looking at reality or an image?

Master MORE I am, but how do you Master MORE? Step back now and think about how the human mind has a tendency to create certain images of everything. And then, once you have created that image, you are no longer – as we have now attempted to explain in several ways – you are no longer looking at actual conditions.

For you are only looking at the image, that you have etched on the inside of your glasses, or that you have etched inside the mind. Instead of truly perceiving what is happening in the world, or perceiving what is coming from Above – from your I AM Presence or the ascended masters – you are only perceiving the graven image, that you have set between you and the matter world, and you and the Spirit world. How can we, who are your spiritual guides and teachers, how can we reach you inside your little image bubble—that you are so in love with, that you will only let us in, if we meet the conditions that you have defined?

What is mastery?

So look at the word “mastery.” What does it mean to master something? Well, in human terms it means, that you acquire a certain skill, so that whenever you perform that particular activity, you are guaranteed to produce a certain outcome. What have I just talked about, of how you have surrounded yourself with mechanical devices, that always produce the predefined result, when you push the right buttons. Can you see, that there is a clearly mechanical element in this? Can you then see, that when you look at someone who is a master craftsman or a master sportsman or a master politician, you think that mastery means, that you can always produce a certain result—and often that the master produces a result that is better than other people who have less mastery.

You would think, based on this definition, that a master is someone who is constantly in competition to be ahead of other people, or to live up, as closely as possible, to a predefined ideal. Yet is this true mastery, or is it only mechanical skill? Who is it that can actually attain this mechanical ability to perform a certain result over and over again? Is it not the kind of people, who have been willing to kill the creative flow in their beings, for the sake of being able to mechanically produce a certain result?

Look at sportsmen and women, who train for years in order to be able – competition after competition – to run 100 m in less than 10 seconds. Certainly, they are always striving to break the record and run a little bit faster. And when someone knocks a few hundredths of a second off the old record, then the world is supposed to cheer and see that this was a great result. Or when someone makes a little more money than the person who was previously the richest person or the greatest, so to speak, investor, then that is supposed to be commendable. But is it commendable to be able to produce the same result over and over again, as opposed to bringing forth something new, something that will not reproduce but will be rebirth, where new ideas come forth, new solutions to the problems that seem to have no solution?

Is this not what is true mastery? And so, how do you become the master of MORE? Is it by producing more and more in a mechanical sense, or is it by producing more and more within a certain framework, such as running 100 m faster and faster but still doing the exact same activity? Or making more and more money by investing the same way as others have done? Nay, this is not the mastery of MORE, that I am. I did not become Master MORE, the Chohan of the first ray, by being better and better at doing a mechanical skill. Nor did I become the chohan of the first ray by being better than Jesus, or Kuthumi or Saint Germain.

We of the ascended masters do not compare ourselves, for how can you compare uniqueness? I became Master MORE, I won my ascension as El Morya, by becoming the open door. Master MORE, is always the open door. How do I know what the Spirit will bring forth through me one second from now? Do I need to know? Nay, I do not need to know.

You think you need to know ahead of time what is the right decision

Do you need to know what the Spirit will bring forth through you one second or one day or one week from now? Yes, you do; you do need to know. For in your mind you have a graven image of how the Spirit should or should not express itself through you or anyone else. And so, you want to make sure, that the Spirit will live up to that graven image, before you open the door in your mind to the flow of the Spirit. And that, my beloved, is why I am Master MORE and you are not Master MORE, or the master of any God quality. Because you still worship the graven image in your mind, instead of worshiping your I Will Be Who I Will Be Presence, that wants to express itself through you every moment, and BE MORE through you. This is the only difference between you and I.

If you look at my embodiments, only some of which are known, you will see, that I too had mental images in my mind, to which I was at times very attached. Look, for example, at my embodiment as Thomas More. Read just a few of the books, read a little history, about that embodiment. And you will see a person who was very attached to certain ideas and beliefs, even to the point of being willing to persecute others for their religious beliefs being different than my own. Even being willing to use the power that I had to send them to the scaffold, as I ended up going to the scaffold myself. Again, partly because of an attachment to an idea.

This is not to say, that there are not times, when you need to take a stand for an idea. But the stand must be taken based on true perception, and not based on the mental image you have in your mind. Did I, as Thomes More, have true perception? Nay, I had partially true perception, but I did not have the fully clear perception. And thus, even though I did take a stand, I did not win my ascension after that embodiment but had to embody again several times in order to purify my perception, in order to let go of the mental images, that I had created of what it means to take a stand for the will of God.

Was it the will of God, that I was so inflexible that I ended up being executed? Was that the will of God, or was that my own will through my partially colored perception? Well, read the story of that lifetime and then go within and ask me to show you, when you know more about the actual circumstances, what exactly was the will of God and what was not.

So many people on this earth have created an idolatrous image of what is the will of God, that there is no way that the real Creator, the Living God, or any of his representatives in the ascended masters, could communicate to them what is God’s true will. Even if the Creator spoke to them out of a burning bush, they would not be open—unless the Creator’s words conformed to their mental images. You see this in many who look at our words and reject them because they do not live up to their predefined conditions.

The race between the masters and their students

This is, indeed, the race, if you will, that we of the ascended masters have been engaged in since we have been able to release teachings on this planet in a more direct form. The question is simple: We release a teaching. It attracts a certain amount of students. They are attracted to the teaching because it resonates with something within them. Yet, if these students had already had clear perception, they would have ascended and therefore would not have needed the teaching. So the very fact that they have not ascended means, that they do not have entirely pure perception. They have a partially pure perception, which is what allows them to recognize the teaching. But then the real question is: will they use the teaching to purify their perception and give up all their graven images? Or will they use the teaching to reinforce certain of their graven images, especially the images that make themselves seem somehow superior to other people?

Take note of what I said. There is the concept of mastery being someone who can do something better than other people or who have understood more than other people. And there are many of those who have found ascended master teachings, who have a partial perception, a graven image, where they have a need to see themselves as being in some way superior to the average person on this planet. And so, these people use the ascended master teachings to reinforce that image. And the more profound the teaching is, the more complex the teaching is, the more these people will think, that they are surely superior to those who cannot understand the teaching.

We are seeking to always stay ahead of our students and their ability to use one teaching to create a mental image, that prevents them from moving on, as our expression and as our flow of the Spirit moves on. Read again Jesus’ latest dictation on what it means to be the Living Christ. You are not here to validate peoples’ egos or mental images; you are here to shake them out of their mental box by challenging their perception.

The illusion of the ultimate truth

So many people have become attached to another mechanical idea – another satanic idea – namely that there is some ultimate truth, that can be given through a specific teaching, or religion, or scientific method. There is no ultimate truth, that could ever be given on earth, for as long as the earth has not ascended, how can ultimate truth be expressed here? As long as there is a gap between your perception and reality, how can there be given an ultimate truth? And when there is no longer a gap between your perception and reality, you have no need for an outer teaching expressed in words, for now you are experiencing reality directly within yourself—so what is the need for an outer teaching.

Even if we gave a teaching through one messenger and organization, and even if that teaching was very pure and very valid, it does not mean, that the teaching was or could ever be the ultimate teaching that could be given. For if a large number of students took the teaching and used it to reinforce their mental images, well, then what would we have to do? We would have to give another teaching, that would challenge the former teaching we had given, even though that former teaching was valid. We would still have to challenge it, in order to shake people out of the mental boxes, that were now slowing down or aborting their progress, rather than doing its intended purpose of speeding up their progress.

For what is progress? It is that you transcend your mental boxes, that you become the open door by letting go of your mental images. If you are not letting go of your mental images, then you are perverting the teaching. It does not matter how pure the teaching is. You have created your own mental image of the teaching, and it is a perverted image. For the reality is, that the true goal of any ascended master teaching is not to get you to focus on the teaching, but to get you to embody the teaching to the point, where you have attained such attunement with the beings who gave the teaching, that you no longer need the teaching or an outer messenger. For, as I have already said, you are now the open door.

Transcending the need to raise up yourself

This is what Jesus also talked about. There comes a point, where you attain a certain level of Christhood, where you do not want to raise yourself up further. For your goal is now to raise up others. This is a very important turning point, a very subtle turning point, that very, very few have actually attained.

You can take two approaches, and if you are honest you might find reason here to look at yourself and learn something important about yourself. Those of you who are open to me speaking through this messenger might find, that when you listen to or read the teachings given through my new messenger, who is the female counterpart of this messenger, you might find that your mind is evaluating or analyzing: Does this sound like what we are used to?

This is a sign that you have used the teachings given through this messenger to build a mental image, or at least reinforce a mental image you have had all along. And this should give you cause for concern, for it is precisely this kind of mental analysis and evaluation that is what Jesus called the “judging after the appearance.” For you are not judging righteous judgment by perceiving what is, you are only perceiving your mental image, that you have overlaid on everything in the material world or everything that is coming from the Spirit world.

This, my beloved, will not get you through the initiations of the Year of the Mother. There are two ways you can go in this coming year. You can make a conscious decision, that you are willing to look for the mental images that you do not see, because you take them for granted. Or you cannot make this decision, and thereby subconsciously make the decision, that you will seek to hold on to, to cling to, those mental images. The first decision can lead to tremendous growth. The second decision will lead to tremendous strain, and possibly a breakdown of some kind, where you feel like you have lost your grip on reality.

For truly, during this year, many things in the matter realm will be challenged. Many conditions will challenge the graven images that people have. And thus, it will be very difficult for you to hold on to these images. As always – as we have now said several times – the choice is yours. I, of course, have no desire to tell you what to choose. For indeed, I know that the will of God is not that you make a certain choice that produces a certain outcome.

Knowing the will of God as the will of God is

The will of God is that you grow in self-awareness, and any choice you make can bring growth. Even making a choice that leads to strain or suffering, can in the end bring growth. And if you made that choice, then it was because you needed to go through that strain and suffering in order to experience what you needed to experience, before you were ready to let go and transcend the old self-image.

A number of years ago, this messenger went through a period, where he contemplated the will of God. At the time, he had an inner conflict, because he had all of his life felt, that there were certain decisions that he had to make. Yet because he had heard certain teachings about the will of God, he had created the mental image, that perhaps his own decisions were not right or were not the highest possible. And therefore, he had come to the point, where he was – reluctantly – willing to submit himself to the will of this external God, that he had a graven image of. An image that was created not exclusively because of certain teachings, but because of the traditional monotheistic image of the angry being in the sky.

He did not realize consciously, that he was going through a process of having to let go of this mental image of the external God. Yet as he contemplated the will of God – and felt the conflict of not wanting to let go of his own will in order to blindly follow an external authority – he eventually came to a point, where he realized, that a person’s will can be the will of the ego. And so, he decided that because he did not want to make ego-based decisions, he was willing to submit himself without conditions to a higher authority, as he saw it. One day, he came to this experience of completely letting go, of completely surrendering any predefined idea of what his own will should be or what the will of God should be. And so, in this willingness to surrender, he said: “God, show me your will and I will do it.”

And the answer that came to him was this: “What if God wants you to make your own decisions?” This was a complete shock to his being, but instead of rejecting it based on a mental image, he accepted that this was indeed a message from Above, that he needed to internalize. And so, he did what he has done many times in his life. He deliberately surrendered his preconceived opinions and ideas and beliefs. And he seriously pondered the answer that he received. And after some time, he came to a higher resolution than he had before, where he realized, that, yes there is indeed a will of the ego, that you need to learn to see and see through. But there is also a legitimate will of your own, where you truly need to make your own decisions based on the knowledge and the perception you have at any given time. And then, you look at the results of those decisions, and then you learn from that.

He also realized, that in a sense what he had done, was that he had built this image, that if he submitted to the will of the external God, then he could do nothing wrong—if he always followed this will of the external God. And he then realized that this was actually not true surrender to the will of God. For it was simply the easy way out; the easy way out for a student who has begun to realize, that his will is partially colored by the ego, but he has not yet attained the Christ discernment to see what is the coloring of the ego and what is not.

It seems difficult to part the veil of Maya and to know what is right and what is not right. And so, it seems easier – in order to avoid making mistakes – to just say to the external deity: “”Tell me what is your will, so I can do that.” And do you see how this ties in with what I said about the mechanical mastery? For so many students think, that if only they follow the will of God or the will of an ascended master, then they will always do the right thing and produce the right result. But what is the right result? Is it that you produce a particular outcome here on earth? Or is it that you grow in self-awareness?

What does it matter to the process of your ascension, or to the process of the ascension of the planet or the entire material universe, that you produce a particular result in a particular situation? Do you really think, that the decisions you make in certain situations in your life here on earth have an impact on the entire universe? Nay, it is not a particular outcome – whether you do this or do that, whether you run 100 m in 9.1 seconds, whether you marry this person or divorce that person or take this job or lose that job – these are not the things that matter in your ascension. What matters is how your consciousness shifts as you go through certain situations.

It is not the external outcome that is important; it is the internal outcome. If a situation reinforces your mental image, then that situation did not help your growth, regardless of the external outcome. But even if the situation has a seemingly wrong or undesirable external outcome, but the internal result is that it shifts your frame of reference and purifies your perception, well then that situation was a success in terms of bringing you closer to your ascension.

This is what this messenger realized: that there are many decisions in life that he had to make himself. Because it was the only way for him to grow in self-awareness. If he had a booming voice from heaven telling him what to do, and he did it, what would he learn from that? And so, there are many of those, who have been students of the ascended masters for years or decades, who have still not come to the point, where you are willing to make your own decisions and take responsibility for your state of mind, or the way you react to the outcome of those decisions. And even then go beyond and take responsibility for the state of mind with which you make your decisions.

Understanding non-decisions

What did I say earlier through my female messenger? I said that you must be willing to be creative, to experiment, rather than always seeking to just push the button and produce a mechanical result. If you want to know ahead of time what the results of your decision will be, then you are not in the right frame of mind as a student of the ascended masters. There are many times, where you are in a particular situation on earth, where you have a particular perception of the situation, and where you simply need to make a decision based on that perception—and then learn from the outcome. For that is how you grow—by experimenting.

Of course, as you experiment, you will learn to make better and better decisions. But if you do not experiment, how can you learn to make better decisions? If you stand there, still, paralyzed, out of your fear of making a mistake, and you say, subconsciously: “Oh, I will not make that decision now. I will go study the teachings of the ascended masters and give decrees or rosaries. And then, hopefully, one day I will know what is the right decision before I make it.” Well, this is your right to take this approach, but then you have essentially said to me, Master MORE: “Don’t bother me now, Master MORE. Let me give my decrees and study the outer teachings; don’t try to tell me something from within. For am not willing to hear it; I am not willing to be your student, for I am not willing to experiment with the creative flow.”

You see, my beloved, there is a delicate balance to be found. We have talked about you being the open door for the I Will Be Presence, expressing itself through the lens of the Conscious You. We have talked about the Conscious You becoming a clear pane of glass by experiencing pure awareness, so that it knows it is not the outer personality, the separate self. But how do you come to that point of being the open door? You come to that point only by experimenting, by making decisions. You see, making a decision and learning from it is better than making no decision.

The concept I wish to introduce to you here is, that there are decisions and there are non-decisions. A non-decision is where you want to know ahead of time what the outcome will be or what is the right decision. And therefore, you are not willing to simply make a decision and experience the outcome. You want to postpone the decision until you know what the outcome will be, so that if you do not want to experience a certain outcome, you can either refuse to make a decision or make a different decision. This is a non-decision, and you do not grow spiritually by making non-decisions. You think you are not making a decision, but you are making a decision. It is just that it is a non-decision, which postpones your growth. People who make non-decisions are not students of the ascended Master MORE, nor any other ascended master.

You will know, of course, that the first ray is the ray of the will of God. What is the will of God? It is that you make your own decisions, for it is by making decisions, that you learn and grow and expand your self-awareness. So you will not move further on the spiritual path until you master the initiations of the first ray. And you will not master the initiations of the first ray, until you stop making non-decisions and become willing to make true decisions, where you make a decision regardless of whether you know the outcome, or even if you know that the outcome might not be pleasant.

For, or course, I acknowledge that there are situations on earth, where it will seem like any decision you make will have an undesirable outcome, and thus you would rather not do anything. But you see, as I have just attempted to explain, any outcome is a potential for learning, so what does it matter whether it is pleasant or not, according to the standard, the mental image, you have created for what is pleasant or not? If something brings you closer to your ascension, does it really matter whether it was pleasant or not at the moment? For certainly, it will be pleasant when you walk through that gate into the ascended state, and I and other ascended masters will be there to greet you; not any longer as our student but as our brother and sister of Spirit. For you have become what we are, and that is the ultimate joy and the ultimate experience you can have at the end of your sojourn on earth.

But you will not get there without making decisions, where you take responsibility for the decision, for making the decision based on what you know now, and then you take responsibility for evaluating the result, not the outer result but the effect it has on your consciousness. What will help you grow is that every time you make a decision, you evaluate: “What is my reaction and what does my reaction show me about my state of consciousness?”

If you react to a certain decision by condemning yourself because the result was not pleasant, or did not live up to some outer standard, well, then you can use that reaction to see, that you have taken on some worldly standard. And you have taken on the satanic tendency to judge yourself based on an external standard. Instead of being willing to be the Christ, for which there, is as Jesus said, no standard.

Why the devil cannot judge the Christ

Do you see, that the devil cannot judge the Christ, for the devil can only judge – as anyone can only judge – by having a standard, by creating a standard? And a Christed being is one who has transcended all standards, all graven images. And so, when the devil comes to tempt you – by wanting you to live up to a certain standard – then you do not accept the judgment projected at you by the devil, perhaps through other people, perhaps even through those closest to you. But you can, in your own mind, say: “Get thee behind me, Satan, for you have nothing in me.”

Any decision you make can show you something about your reaction. And when your reaction is not in peace, you know that the only thing that can take away your peace is, that you have some standard in your being. And then, you should know, as an ascended master student, that any such standard will keep you out of heaven. For it is precisely one of the more subtle satanic lies, that you will get to heaven only by living up to a standard defined on earth. And as long as you think, that you will get to heaven only by living up to a standard defined on earth, then you will not be able to step through the door that leads to heaven.

For the door that leads to heaven is the door that no man can shut. No standard on earth can shut the door and keep you out of heaven. But how can you go through the open door to heaven? Only when you become the open door, so that you have no standard to which you are attached. And then your openness allows you to pass through the open door to heaven. For only those who are open – who have become as little children – can pass through the door to the spiritual realm.

The oldest lie, promoted by so many religions, is, that you will get to heaven only by living up to a certain standard defined by that religion. It is one of the most successful plots applied by the fallen beings to keep people from attaining their ascension, or from manifesting and expressing their Christhood while still in embodiment. This Year of the Mother is a unique opportunity for you to question, whether you have such a standard to which you are attached. Those who will honestly question this, can experience a fundamental shift in their consciousness. And thus, they can truly begin to express their Christhood during this year. These are the kind of students that I am looking for. Will you be one of them? The choice is yours!

The key to being the open door in the Year of the Mother

TOPICS: Uniting the feminine element of your being with the masculine element – The I AM and the I Will Be Presence – The immaculate conception in the Year of the Mother – What it means to be truly free – Do not allow freedom of some to limit the freedom of others – There is no opposition to freedom –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, January 4, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

I AM Saint Germain, and I shall express the gentleness, but yet the intensity, often associated with the feminine. For indeed, what is it that will make the Age of Aquarius, the Golden Age of Saint Germain, a manifest reality? It is that we break down the veils. And is there any veil that has had a more profound impact on this planet, than the artificial veil set up between men and women, between the Father and the Mother. Is it not, indeed, the separation between Father and Mother, that has caused all of the problems you see on this planet?

Consider, therefore: “What, truly, is the year of the Mother?” What is the Mother, what is the concept of Mother? Is it not that which brings forth new life? Yet, is it the highest possible vision to always associate Mother with women? For can the Mother, can a woman, bring forth new life on her own? You might say that with today’s technological advances, a woman can be artificially inseminated and thus not need the physical union with a man. Yet the sperm has to come from somewhere, does it not? And so, you see that what is outpictured in the physical necessity of a male and female union in order to bring forth a physical child, is only the symbol for the Spiritual union between the Father element of Spirit and the Mother element of what you see as matter, but which I see as simply another expression of Spirit—that is not separated from Spirit.

Uniting the feminine element of your being with the masculine element

What then, will it take for you to pass the initiations of that Year of the Mother? It will take that you attain a union between the feminine and masculine aspects of your being. How can this union be attained? It can be attained when the feminine realizes its rightful relationship with the masculine. When the Conscious You realizes, that it is not an end in itself, that it truly has no separate, objective existence, that it truly is an extension of the Presence. And it is only when the Conscious You recognizes who it is, that it can find its right relationship with the Presence.

For the Conscious You needs to recognize, that it is not the body, the outer mind, the images and structures it has built in its own outer mind—or that has been put into that outer mind from without. Instead, the Conscious You, in its very core, is what we have called pure awareness. Pure awareness is, of course, only a word, that we have attempted to use in order to describe what cannot be described with words, but can only be experienced. It will do you little good to have a description, if you are not willing to go beyond the words and have the experience.

Pure awareness is the experience of being the open door for the Presence, so that the Presence can express itself through you—freely, without being stopped or colored by any filters or veils in the outer mind. It is when you think, that you have to adapt yourself to the structures created in the material world, that you will – subconsciously or in some cases even consciously – refuse to be the open door for the Presence. Or you will want the Presence to conform to the images of this world. And now take note of a subtle distinction.

The I AM and the I Will Be Presence

The I AM Presence, the I AM aspect of your Presence – that we have taught now since the 1930s – can only be experienced when the Conscious You returns to pure awareness. If you have not experienced pure awareness, then the I AM Presence is simply a concept, and you can project any image you want onto the I AM Presence. For it is – as long as you are not experiencing it – simply a remote entity “up there.” And when there is a gap – because there is not the direct experience – then you can project any graven image upon the Presence, as people have been doing upon God for millennia.

Yet the subtle distinction is, that you cannot project images upon the I Will Be aspect of your Presence. For the I Will Be aspect cannot even be grasped by the outer mind. The I Will Be aspect can be experienced only when it is flowing through you. And it can flow through you, only when you have been willing to become the open door. It is therefore not possible to describe the I Will Be Who I Will Be Presence, for there is no concept you can put upon it—as it will always, and at any moment, be who it will be, and not who you or the fallen beings want it to be.

This is also the key to understanding and embodying the Flame of Freedom. You may form images of what freedom is like, but freedom is that which is expressed and is always breaking boundaries. Any image you create becomes a boundary, and the Flame of Freedom will break it. That is why the structures have to come tumbling down, for after a certain time, they become a limitation, that will hold back the flow of the Spirit that wants to bring forth something new, whereas the structure and those people who are attached to the structure wants to maintain what is.

The immaculate conception in the Year of the Mother

So then, when you understand this, you understand that the Conscious You is meant to be the open door. And when you become the open door, you become what Mother Mary represented in the holy family, namely the virgin who was pure in mind and Spirit, because she was willing to be the open door for the immaculate conception.

The immaculate conception did not mean, that Mother Mary was physically impregnated without the assistance of a man, namely myself as Joseph. It meant that she was impregnated by the Spirit, because she was willing to be the open door for the descent of a lifestream with a Spiritual attainment higher than her own. She was thus willing to bring forth something that was more than she could have imagined and envisioned with her own level of Spiritual awareness and attainment. This then, is what it truly means to be the Mother.

And now you see, that both male and female people bodies can indeed become the Mother. Not in the sense, of course, that men will bring forth physical children, but that men can also give birth to new life, to new ideas, to new inventions, to new ways of looking at the old problems. Yet for both men and women to fulfill that role of bringing forth new ideas, they need to become the open doors for the immaculate conception. So that the new ideas they bring forth come directly from the Spirit, and therefore are immaculate ideas and not the ideas I have just talked about, that have only the purpose to create a system, that can supposedly control the economy, or control a nation, or the people, or the world.

Control will shut off the immaculate conception. When you become attached to seeking to control something, you become the closed door, and that shuts off the flow of freedom. For is not a closed door the symbol of a prison, and how do you escape a prison, how do you become free from the prison? Well, obviously the door has to be opened, does it not? For how will you escape the prison of your own mind? By opening the door for the expression of the I Will Be Who I Will Be Presence through you. That is how you become free—not by creating this spiritualized ego, that can imitate a spiritual person or even imitate a free person.

What it means to be truly free

You are not free even if you have the power to do anything you want on earth and get away with it, as indeed some of the greatest egomaniacs of history have attained—but only for a time. For look at the emperors of history, look at the emperors of industry or finance, and see that they can maintain their ability to do whatever they want and hide from the consequences only for a time. And then, this old law of the second law of thermodynamics, will inevitably catch up with them. And this, of course, is not freedom, for it cannot last. Whereas when you are the open door, there is infinite, everlasting freedom.

When you are reacting to conditions in the material world, you are not free as the Buddha said last year in his New Year’s address. And this is especially pertinent for the Year of the Mother. The challenge will be, as Jesus explained, that the tempter – what is truly the symbol that has been named Satan – will come to you and demand, or persuade, or reason, that you should adapt to this or that condition. And you should not, or do not need to, connect to the Spirit. Nay, you can and should react to these material conditions with your outer mind, and according to whatever expectations and images the tempter presents to you. For the tempter I will present to you exactly what you have in your own subconscious mind, that you have not yet been willing to look at.

The key to passing the initiations of the Year of the Mother is to keep in mind the immaculate conception. When you face a situation or problem, you may look at what is involved on a physical level. But then, before you make a decision, before you decide to react, you take time to go aside, to go into your closet to pray, and to become the completely open door, where you let go of all preconceived opinions, images or expectations. And then you ask the Presence: “How do you look at this situation? How do you want to act in this situation? What do you want to bring forth in this situation?”

This will not be what you expect with the outer mind. It will not be what makes you comfortable. It will not be the easy way out. It will be what it will be; what the Presence wants it to be. And you may never understand with the outer mind why the Presence wants to be what it wants to be in that particular situation.

And this is, indeed, another aspect of the test of the Year of the Mother. Can you be willing to be the open door and let the Presence express what it wants to express? And then not afterwards evaluate, and analyze, and question, and doubt, and reason, that this should not have been that way, and that should not have been this way. But it should have been according to some standard, that you still have in the outer mind.

Be willing to be the open door. Be willing to bring forth the new ideas, that the Presence wants to bring forth through you. And then do what the Mother does, when she has carried her child to term. She gives birth, she pushes it out of her womb, so that the child can take on a life of its own and grow from there. This is what you must do with your actions and ideas in the Year of the Mother. Be willing to bring forth what the Presence wants to bring forth, and then let it go, let it take on a life of its own. Do not overanalyze, do not seek to control, do not seek to limit. And do not use what has been brought forth in one situation to build a new expectation and structure for what should be brought forth in other situations—that may seem similar to the outer mind but may not be similar at all when viewed from the perspective of the Spirit.

Do not allow freedom of some to limit the freedom of others

Freedom to be the open door in one situation, should never be used to create a resistance or a structure, that restricts your freedom in coming situations. This is also the challenge, that I spoke about through my feminine messenger, about the corporate world and the governments. There has been now, for a very long time, this tendency to divide the world into the unfree world and the free world. And the West, and especially the United States, sees itself as the free world. And the United States prides itself of being the leader of the free world. Well, if you aspire to be the leader of the free world, should you not look in the mirror and make sure that you are free, before you attempt to lead the world into greater freedom? For how can you lead the world into a state of freedom that you have not attained yourself?

Indeed, the question that needs to be brought out into the open in this coming year is: “Can we claim to be the free world, can we claim to have a free enterprise economy, if we allow certain entities, and conglomerates, and corporations to use the freedom we have given them to limit the freedom of the people?” Can we be a free society, if we allow a small elite the freedom to take away or limit the freedom of the people? Is this a free society? And if you apply that evaluation to the world today, you will see that the United States of America is indeed one of the least free nations in the world. For there are few nations, where a small elite has greater control of the economy and the government than in these United States.

In fact, there is in some areas greater control in the United States today than what King George had in England before the Revolutionary War. And this would indeed make the Founding Fathers rotate in their graves, except for the fact that the key members of the Founding Fathers of the United States have ascended—and therefore have no graves in which to rotate. For they have left it all behind, merging into the Freedom Flame, that they were the instruments for attempting to give to this new nation. This then, is another thing to bear in mind for the United States in the coming year. It is not a matter, as certain people will say, to return to the mindset of the Revolutionary War. The Tea Party is not in tune with my Freedom Flame, for you cannot truly embody the Freedom Flame, if you are protesting or in opposition to anything.

There is no opposition to freedom

How can freedom be in opposition to something, even something that is anti-freedom? You may look at things on earth and say, that this or that is anti-freedom. But I tell you that from my perspective, as the representative of the Freedom Flame, there is no such thing as anti-freedom. How can there be something “anti” to what is free? If it is free, it has no opposition.

It is not a matter of going back to the days of the Founding Fathers or the spirit of the Revolutionary War. It is a matter of once again letting go of all the structures and expectations, and becoming the open door for the bringing forth from the Spirit of the immaculate concept for what is the next step in the evolution of the United States—or other nations, or the planet as a whole, or certain corporations or even the entire financial and economic system. If you think, that you can keep patching on to the old, patching up the holes or the cracks in the system, then this might just be the year, where you will get the message that it is too late to patch up the old. And that it is time to see beyond the old and tune in to the new ideas that are waiting to be born.

This world is not about to go down in some ultimate disaster or catastrophe. This world is about to be reborn into a new and higher state, that most people cannot even imagine today, because their minds are not free to imagine it. And so, the image that I encourage you to hold for this coming year is, indeed, that of being reborn. Of society being reborn according to the immaculate vision, the higher vision of the Spirit, that you may not grasp before it is actually expressed.

So do not seek to get a vision with the mindset of wanting to know ahead of time, so that you can evaluate and fit it into your mental box. The challenge will be to let go of the box, so that you do not evaluate. But you allow the Spirit to bring forth what it will be at that particular moment in that particular situation. And then, when the Spirit has brought forth what it wants to bring forth, you set it free to continue to be what it will, be. And you set yourself free to continue to be the open door, so that the Presence can be what it will be through you.

That, my beloved, is a lot of “be what it will be,” but be that as it may, for it is nevertheless the key to being Freedom in the Year of the Mother.

Putting Satan behind you or putting Satan between you and God

TOPICS: Many have misunderstood Christhood – There is no standard for Christhood – Christhood is not the same as spiritualizing the ego – Understanding why the Spirit will not conform to matter – Serving to raise up all life – The true initiation of the Year of the Son and a dispensation – Ponder why the Spirit will not conform – The key to passing the initiations of the Year of the Mother – The lie of the reality of matter –

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Ascended Master Jesus, January 3, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

I am the ascended master Jesus Christ, and I do have a right to have taken embodiment 2,000 years ago, and I do have a right to speak through a physical messenger today. There are many – embodied or disembodied – who would deny that right, the right of the Christ to take incarnation, to enter this material world and to bring forth the light from Above by being the open door.

They do not want to be disturbed. They believe – in their spiritual pride – that they have some kind of ownership of this planet, at least in the material realm. Yet they do not have that ownership, for everything on earth is subject to free will. There is the collective free will, but there is also the individual free will. Surely, a planet cannot rise higher than the collective free will. But an individual has a right to rise higher than the collective is willing to go. And thus, an individual has the right to attain Christhood, to express that Christhood and also to be the open door for the Living Christ to express itself through that individual. This is a right, that can never be taken away, no matter how many schemes or philosophies the fallen beings come up with.

They have attempted – since the beginning of their descent on this planet – to prevent any individual from attaining the level of Christhood and beyond. They have, in numerous cases, been successful in either intimidating people into not even attempting to express their Christhood, or in physically preventing them from doing so, through myriad schemes that they have come up with. Nevertheless, it remains an eternal right of the individual to manifest Christhood and to be the open door for the flow of the Spirit.

Many have misunderstood Christhood

What is, then, Christhood? There are many who have looked at Christhood and completely misunderstood what it is about. First of all, there are of course the Christians, who believe, that I was the only one who ever was or ever could be the Christ in embodiment. They have created a completely idolatrous image, whereby they think, that I had the full measure of Christhood before I even took embodiment, before I even entered my mother’s womb. This, of course, was not the case, as I have explained on my website. I had indeed embodied before that incarnation. I had gradually grown in consciousness, and even during my last incarnation as Jesus, I went through a process of gradually attaining and claiming my Christhood. And truly, it was not until the wedding in Cana, that I dared to express it publicly—at least in the country that was to be the main focus of that embodiment.

Another misunderstanding comes about by the people who have gone beyond the official doctrines of the Christian religion, doctrines that are clearly defined by the fallen beings for the purpose of making me the exception, so that no one dares to follow in my footsteps. Many have – either through an ascended master teaching or through other teachings – dared to realize, that I was not the only one who could attain Christhood. Yet many, even many ascended master students, have also misunderstood what it means to attain Christhood. They think that it means some superior attainment, that you have to acquire through a long and arduous process of initiation. They believe it is somewhat comparable to any skill you acquire on earth, such as the ability to perform certain sports or to perform any other complex task. Yet Christhood is not a PhD program, that one can follow from start to finish and then the result is guaranteed. Christhood is a highly individualized process.

There is no standard for Christhood

Why is there no standard? For a very simple reason. For you, as an individual, to be the Christ means, quite simply, that you are the open door for your I AM Presence to express itself through you. And this expression happens through the Omega aspect of the Presence, the I Will Be Who I Will Be Presence. This is where your true, God-given spiritual individuality and identity is anchored. It is not a matter of you – with the outer mind here in embodiment – acquiring some sophisticated skill or passing a set of sophisticated initiations.

This is not to say, that manifesting Christhood cannot be represented as a path that leads you from a lower level towards higher levels. Certainly, the path can be pictured this way. Nevertheless, the process of acquiring, attaining, Christhood is not the same as attaining some outer skill. The process of becoming the Christ in embodiment is a process of unlearning everything you have learned with the outer mind.

Christhood is not the same as spiritualizing the ego

Why is this so? Because being the Christ means being the open door for the Presence, whereby the Presence can express itself through you, unhindered of any filter in the lower mind. Unfortunately, many ascended master students have fallen prey to a very subtle illusion promoted by the fallen beings, namely that becoming the Christ means creating a sophisticated ego, that has taken on the appearance of a spiritual person.

If you look at the Christian religion, you will see, that for centuries it has raised up a certain image as the ideal for how a human being should be or behave—if that human being is spiritual or saintly. Many ascended master students have built onto this and have created an image for what it means to be the Christ, to attain Christhood. They think that this can be defined through some outer standard, such as looking a certain way, walking a certain way, talking a certain way. Nevertheless, as the old song goes, “walk like the Christ, talk like that Christ” but this does not make you Christ. I realize there is an old book, called The Imitation of Christ. And although there can be some validity to imitating a spiritual person, I must tell you, that attempting to adapt your outer behavior to a certain ideal, can only take you so far on the path—and it will not take you to Christhood.

Certainly, you can look at the world today, and you can find many people who have a behavior or a way of life, that is not conducive to any kind of spiritual growth, because it traps them into repeating certain patterns over and over again. So there can be value in for a time imitating a higher ideal, so that you free yourself from these worldly patterns of behavior. Nevertheless, if you think that continuing to refine your behavior according to some external ideal will get you to Christhood, then you are mistaken.

For there comes a point, where you need to recognize, that as long as you have an external standard, there will forever be a gap between your current state of consciousness and Christhood. For the external standard can only be a graven image, that you set before the true God of your I AM Presence. And if you think that you have to adapt your behavior to this external standard, you will also automatically think, that the expression of your I AM Presence through you must be adapted to this external standard. And thus, you will not be the open door for the Presence. You will not be open door to the winds of the Holy Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth.

Understanding why the Spirit will not conform to matter

What is the purpose for the Holy Spirit? It is not to conform to peoples’ ideas, mental images and beliefs. If the Holy Spirit were to conform, how could the Holy Spirit awaken anyone from their current state of consciousness? The Holy Spirit has only one purpose, and that is to initiate and accelerate the process of self-transcendence. For the Holy Spirit is the force, that has been created by all of the self-aware beings in your current sphere, that have transcended their state of consciousness. They have formed this giant force, this mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit, that is indeed meant to help all who have not yet awakened to awaken to their full potential as spiritual beings.

Therefore, the Holy Spirit will never conform to any mental image, any belief, any doctrine, any system, any structure, that keeps you in a certain state of consciousness. So can you see why it simply is not possible, that you can have a structure in your mind for how you should be as the Christ, and then at the same time be the open door for the Holy Spirit? It cannot be done. It cannot happen.

There are, of course, some – particularly in the Christian movement of the Pentecostals and other similar movements – who have managed to gain some flow of certain spiritual powers while they still have a structure in their minds. But this is not Christhood. And as long as they will not let go of their structures, they will not go beyond a certain level. And after a certain time, they will no longer be open to any flow of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, but they will be open to the flow of lower spirits, that howl through them and still attempt to perform miracles. But this is not Christhood, for even if you can perform signs and wonders, you are not the Christ—if you simply heal people without awakening them to the power of God within themselves.

Yes, when I walked the earth, I healed the sick, I raised the dead. Nevertheless, there were many who were not healed, and I only performed these miracles – so-called – for a time. For I was not here to take upon myself all the sins of the world, so that I could do all the work for humanity. I was here to awaken people to their own built-in potential. This is the purpose of the living Christ, of the flow of the Holy Spirit: to awaken those who are willing to be awakened to their own potential to be the Christ, to transcend their current state of consciousness.

It is possible to attain what looks like certain spiritual powers without having fully let go of the ego and the desire to be thought wise or outstanding among men. Yet this is indeed taking heaven by force, and it will be allowed only for a time. And then, those who are not willing to step up to a higher level of selfless service, will become subject to the second law of thermodynamics. Which is indeed why you see, that certain preachers might have a following for a time, yet suddenly something happens, where their congregations see them for what they are: egomaniacs who think they are above the law and can do anything they want from a self-centered perspective.

Serving to raise up all life

Those who truly manifest Christhood, cross a very subtle threshold in their own minds. This threshold is where you realize, that although you have raised your state of consciousness beyond the level of the average person, it is not your true purpose to be seen as an idol by human beings. Your true purpose is to inspire others to do what you have done, so that instead of you continuing to raise yourself up to greater and greater heights of being idolized by human beings, you will instead seek to raise up others.

This is why I took on 12 disciples, as the Bible describes. Yet the reality is, that I had many more disciples than the 12, for I had people I worked with on a more irregular basis, but some of them did indeed make more progress than the 12 disciples. And the reason was, of course, that each of the 12 of my official disciples represented one of the tribes of Israel, and thus the disciple’s ability to transcend was somewhat dependent on the collective willingness of the group they represented.

Nevertheless, the point that I want to make here is this: there are many people on this planet who have reached this crucial turning point on the path. Where they have attained some insight, some attainment, even some openness to the flow of the Spirit through them, and they now face this very subtle choice. Will they use this to try to set themselves up and gain a position, fame, respect, recognition—or will they become completely selfless in their service to life?

Will they attempt to use the flow of the Presence to reinforce the spiritualized ego that they have created, or will they be willing to let that ego die, so that they can become the completely open door? The being that does not seek to get the Presence and the flow of the Spirit to validate and raise up the ego, but instead allows the Spirit and the Presence to raise up all life in whatever way the Presence and the Spirit sees fit to do so.

The true initiation of the Year of the Son and a dispensation

This was the deeper, underlying initiation of the Year of the Son. Why did I not tell you this at the beginning of the Year of the Son, instead of telling you after the year has already passed? The reasons is simple. Even as a spiritual teacher, I cannot take an initiation for you. You are the one who must be initiated, you are the one who must come to certain conclusions and insights on your own. There is a limit to how much I can tell you, for where would the initiation be, if you knew everything in advance? So then, why am I telling you now? Because I am giving you a grace.

Those of you who are willing to be honest with yourself have a period of time from when you hear or read this dictation – whenever that might be – where you have an opportunity to have my personal Presence with you. So that I will work with you individually from the spiritual realm and give you whatever insight you are open to receiving into actually seeing where you have created a spiritualized ego and where you are not yet the open door.

This is a dispensation I have been granted, because it has been deemed necessary by the Karmic Board to make an extraordinary effort to help those, who are close to breaking through and manifesting true Christhood—but who have not yet made this shift in consciousness on their own during the Year of the Son. So it has been determined, that we will extend this offer to those who are willing to see what they have so far not seen, to see where they have raised up a structure, a graven image, that they are worshiping before the true God of their own I AM Presence.

If you are willing to take advantage of this dispensation, then we do not need any outer ritual or any great fanfare. However, you need to make an inner commitment, where you in your own simple words apply to me to show you what you have not seen. You need to do this daily, and I suggest that before you retire at night you make a simple prayer to Archangel Michael to protect yourself, your lifestream, the Conscious You, that it might separate from the body and be taken during sleep to the retreat that I have over the desert of Saudi Arabia, and that you might learn there what you need to see in yourself.

Now I suggest also, that in order to stimulate the process, whereby I have a chalice in your mind, that will help me to pour in the living waters of the Christ consciousness, you will make an effort to study the teachings I have given on Christhood. This may be on the website, in the course on personal Christhood or through other sources, that you might be aware of or that might come to your attention.

Yet do not become trapped in thinking, that the outer study itself will give you the insights you need. Do not become trapped in thinking you have to study frantically or spend extraordinary amounts of time on this. But spend a little bit of time every day – five minutes, 10 minutes before you retire – to read something that puts your mind in tune with the Christ perspective, the perspective that is different from your normal state of consciousness.

Ponder why the Spirit will not conform

I especially encourage you to consider what I have said already, that the Christ, that the flow of the Spirit, will never conform to the mental images and the mental boxes that you, or other people, or the fallen beings have created on earth. If you are to take advantage of this dispensation, you have to be awakened from your current state of consciousness. I am not hereby saying, that you are in an unacceptably low state of consciousness. It is not my intent here to reinforce the fallen beings’ image, that there is something wrong with you if you are not living up to a certain standard. My point is simply this: no matter what level of consciousness you are at, the role of the Living Christ, the role of the Holy Spirit, is to take you to the next step up.

Throw away all value judgments about whether you are in a high enough state of consciousness or not, whether you live up to this or that or the next standard or image defined by any spiritual movement or religion on earth. Throw them all away, but we willing to recognize, that whatever state of consciousness you are in right now, my job is to help you rise to the next step up—and then go beyond that as you are willing.

For me to help you rise beyond your current level of consciousness, you must be willing to think outside of the mental box created by your current level of consciousness. And thus, you must be willing to recognize, that the Christ will not conform to that mental box and the mental images you have inside the box, the mental images that make up the box. If you think that being the Christ means living up to a certain standard, then I can only help you rise higher by challenging that standard. If you think that the directions I should give you from within yourself should live up to a certain predefined expectation that you have, then I can only truly help you by not conforming to that expectation.

Can you see what I am saying? I cannot help you, if I conform to your expectations and mental images. If I did indeed conform, then I would only validate and reinforce the spiritualized ego that you have created. And this I will not do. You will not get the ascended master Jesus Christ to validate your ego. Millions of people who have seen themselves as good Christians, have attempted to get me to validate the Christian, so to speak, egos they have created. You have no right to ask me to do this, and I have no obligation to conform to those who do ask.

I will not conform to your mental images. I will remain true to my vow to draw all men and women unto me, because I was lifted up from the earth. And I can draw you unto me, not by lowering myself to your expectation but by lifting you up beyond your expectation. How can this be so difficult to grasp? It can be difficult to grasp, when you look at the spiritual path, even the teachings of the ascended masters, from inside your mental box.

And therefore, anything we say, anything that comes to you, will be colored by your graven images before it reaches the conscious mind. That is why it is possible for a spiritual teacher to say something, that carries truth and wisdom, but the student does not receive it the way it was given. And this is what you saw in the situation, where Peter tells me that what I am telling him about me going to Jerusalem and suffering many things shall not come to pass—because it is beneath me according to his standard for what the Christ should be like. What did I say to Peter? I said: “Get thee behind me Satan!” For this is precisely the satanic consciousness, that wants the Christ to conform to its expectations—that wants the Christ to conform to the current conditions on earth instead of being the open door for raising up those conditions.

The key to passing the initiations of the Year of the Mother

Do you see how this relates to the Year of the Mother? Do you see why this dispensation has been given on the threshold to the Year of the Mother? What is the essential initiation of the Year of the Mother? It is that you overcome the perversion of the Mother, and that perversion is that Spirit should conform to the current conditions in the matter realm, the Mother realm. That Father should become subject to Mother, instead of the other way around, where Mother conforms to Father, to Spirit. This is what it means, that the man is the head of the household. Not that the man in embodiment is the head of the household, but that the Spirit should be the head of the household of the psyches of beings in embodiment.

Your I AM Presence represents the masculine aspect of the polarity with the Conscious You and your lower being. And your I AM Presence should be the head of your personal household. But what has happened is, that people have fallen prey to the satanic delusion that Spirit should conform to certain conditions defined in matter.

“Get thee behind me Satan!” This is a statement that you might find use for during this Year of the Mother, when you will be confronted with many temptations to conform to what is manifest, and to therefore adapt or limit the flow of the Spirit through you to prevailing conditions or expectations. I am not thereby saying, that you need to go around blasting other people, saying: “Get thee behind me Satan” whenever they do not behave the way you want them to behave. For again, be careful not to apply your own expectations to other people or yourself.

What I am encouraging here is the awareness, that you will, in this coming year, be tempted to conform, and that in your own mind, you need to learn to recognize when the tempter is there. And then you need – in your mind – to say: “Get thee behind me Satan,” whereby you recognize and acknowledge, that this is simply the temptation of the material world to get you as a spiritual being to conform. And I suggest you study the story in the Bible of how I was tempted by the devil to conform to his expectations, to behave in the way he thought a Christed being should behave.

The lie of the reality of matter

There is, as I said, no standard for what a Christed being should be like, for the role of the Christed being is precisely to shock people out of their current sense of equilibrium, the false equilibrium that comes, because they think their egos have managed to force the entire material universe to function according to its world view, its doctrines, its belief system, its expectations. This is the lie of the perversion of matter. It is the lie that there is anything in the matter world that has continuity, that has permanence. You think the material universe has existed for 15 billion years, as your scientists claim. But I tell you, there is no “thing” that has existed for any length of time. For any “thing” that exists has no independent existence; it exists only because Spirit allows it to continue to exist. Yet it still has no independent existence, any more than the image on a movie screen has an independent existence. For the moment you shut down the projector, the screen goes dark.

And so it is with the material universe. What you think has permanence is simply images projected onto the screen of the Ma-ter light. It is the satanic lie, that these images are not projections but are actual things, that have a continued existence independently of Spirit. This is the lie of matter. This is what I meant when I said: “Judge not after the appearance but judge righteous judgment.”

Question the entire idea that matter is real, and that matter has power over you as Spirit. Be willing to question it continually during this Year of the Mother, and you can experience tremendous growth during this year. In fact, if you will question this illusion in its many subtle forms, you can – during this coming year – experience a growth, so that at the end of the year, you will look back and scarcely recognize yourself as you are today.

This coming year is an immense opportunity for questioning the illusion of matter. Of course, this has been possible all along, for those who were able to go far beyond the level of the collective consciousness. But in this specific cycle of the Year of the Mother, it will be easier than ever before on this planet to question this illusion. And thus, I say to you: make use of this opportunity. Do not look upon this year as just any other year. Look at it as an absolutely unique year, where you have the potential to break through to a new level of consciousness, a new level of awareness, of what life is and what it is about.

Be willing to question the very subtle beliefs, that you either think you should not question or that there is no point in questioning—for surely they must be right. They seem so self-evident, but they only seem self-evident because you view them from inside your mental box. Thus, be willing to reach for the Christ perspective, that looks at them from outside the box and therefore sees their unreality.

This is my offering to you. I hope that those who have been open to my website, perhaps for years, will make use of this offering. For I will continue throughout this year to give other teachings – as will other masters – that will help you make the maximum use of this Year of the Mother. So that in your own being, the year of our 2011 will be the year, where the Mother of your own being unites with the father of your own Presence. So that the Presence, the I AM Presence, now will have an open door, so that through the open door that you are, the I AM Presence can say: “I will be who I will be.” And then you, as the Conscious You, will allow the Presence to be what it will be through you, without putting any expectations or limitations on the Presence.

This is the opportunity that I put before you. It is my challenge to you, as it is my challenge to humankind. You will either put Satan behind you, or you will end up putting Satan between you and God—even more firmly than he is already seated in that position. And so, I will say as Gautama and Mother Mary have said before me, for this is a phrase that you might hear many times during this year: The choice is yours!

Matthew 4

1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Beginning to understand Hatred of the Mother

TOPICS: Understanding the cosmic mirror – Is there a period of time? – What people truly hate – Why people do not get what they say they want – The role of the subconscious mind – The illusion that you are the doer –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, January 1, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

I am indeed the same Mary, the same Divine Mother, speaking through a masculine messenger, whereas I have just spoken through a feminine messenger. I am the same Being, and I find great joy in expressing myself through different messengers, and thereby experiencing how the being that I am flows through – and therefore is somewhat shaped by – the prism through which my light shines. Why is this a joy? For surely, many people on earth will find this difficult to understand. Yet I tell you, it is only the ego, that cannot understand the joy of diversity. For it wants everything to be controllable and therefore to be predictable, to be repeatable, to be the same.

Yet why is there diversity in the world of form? Have we not attempted to explain to you, that everything is an expression of the Creator’s Being and that there is only one Creator. So is it not also true, that the one Creator is allowing its light to flow through many self-aware extensions of itself, in order to create the diversity and in order to experience how the light of the Creator is changed, as it flows through different prisms, different expressions of itself. This is the joy of the Creator.

It is the joy that you will also feel, when you begin to truly immerse yourself in the River of Life. Suddenly, you will begin to feel, that you do not need to judge yourself based on an external standard created by the fallen beings. And then, you will feel more free to express your creativity, or rather the creativity of your Presence—and to let it flow freely without judging ahead of time how it should express itself.

And when you dare to express yourself freely, you will be able to also let other people express themselves freely. And therefore, you will begin to look at others and their diversity – their differences, their creativity – in a different way. Where you no longer look at it as a threat, where you no longer need to go through his constant, relativistic evaluation: “Is this person better than me, are they bringing forth something that I could not bring forth, will people like them more than they like me, will God love that person more than he loves me?” And all of these subtle evaluations, that you might not have been conscious of, but that nevertheless are there, running in the background, almost like this music, called Muzak, that you had in many factories or offices or stores some time ago. The music that is meant to be there without truly being noticed.

Understanding the cosmic mirror

And this is exactly how the ego and the fallen beings would like to insert themselves into your consciousness, so that they are constantly running in the background, constantly affecting your state of mind, but doing it in such a subtle way, that you do not actually notice. Because there is nothing that suddenly jolts you awake and makes you realize, that this noise, this background noise, is not natural and you do not want it anymore. Thus, there are people who have lived their entire lives with this background noise of the ego, constantly judging, constantly evaluating, based on a standard, that they are not even aware of, that they have not created, that is truly the standard of the fallen beings, adapted to their particular society or culture or even family background.

This is one of the things, that will be challenged in the year of the mother, these subtle, almost unconscious, judgments, beliefs, world views, that people have accumulated individually and collectively for years, for decades, for centuries, for millennia. They will all be challenged by the Wheel of the Dharma hurled by the Buddha. And they will be challenged by the mirror of the Mother, who will mirror back to people more and more extreme expressions of what they are projecting into the cosmic mirror.

For indeed, what is it that the Mother has vowed to do? You may think, that matter has vowed to give birth to your expression, to your physical body, to a planet. And while this may be so, you need to realize, that there is a reason why matter has done this. It is not, as some of you may think, to allow you to create and do whatever you want. For free will, the Law of Free Will, does not exist alone. It exists in a polarity with the law that says, that you will reap as you sow. You will be able to create anything you want, but you will also be required by the law to experience your own creation.

And so, matter does – as the Alpha aspect – allow you to create any mental image you want and to project that image upon the Ma-ter light. But as the Omega aspect, matter will also require, that you experience what you project onto the Ma-ter light, as it is then outpictured in a physical form, that you cannot escape. And this is what we have called the cosmic mirror, which through this outpicturing of your thoughts in physical form mirrors back to you what you are projecting out in the form of mental images, charged with the emotions that set the energy in motion.

What is then, hatred of the Mother? Well, it is indeed when you are not willing to acknowledge, that what you are experiencing in the matter plane is a reflection of what exists in your own mind and that you have projected out. And thus, by not being willing to take responsibility for yourself, you project that it is matter that has created these conditions. Or it is other people who have created these conditions. Or it is the devil who has created these conditions. Or it is God who has created these conditions.

And now you begin to resent, to resist and to hate this external force, which is forcing these conditions upon you—for so you think. Yet the reality that we have attempted to explain – now for years and especially for these last couple of years with our talk about the dramas and the epic consciousness – is that what you experience in matter is not created by an external force. It is all a creation of consciousness.

Is there a period of time?

Now then, take this one step further and realize something, that most people have not even begun to sense. Take the teaching by Gautama that time is not. Why is time not real? What is it that time does? Time gives you the illusion, that something has an existence that can be maintained for a period of time.

Yet my beloved, what is a period? Is it not a dot, a single point? Then, can there be a period of time? For when you extend a dot, what do you get? You get a line, but what is the line? It is a series of dots that are so close together, that you cannot see the space between them. You have all gone into a movie theater and watched a movie on the screen. And your eyes are telling you, that what you are watching is a continuous movement on the screen.

Yet if you think back to the early days of movies, you will see, that they were not actually called movies but moving pictures. Because the reality is, of course, that a movie is not really moving, It is created by a series of still pictures, that are projected onto the screen at such rapid succession, that your eyes do not see the individual pictures but sees only a fluid movement.

This is precisely what happens with time. You think that science is correct, when it tells you that the planet upon which you live has existed as an independent entity for 4 1/2 billion years. Yet there is nothing physical that has existed for that time span. If you could look at planet earth, or even the entire material universe, as I see it, you will see, that there is not a clump of dust that has been moving around the sun for 4 1/2 billion years. What you see as the earth, I see as a mental image, that has been projected onto the screen of the mother light many times every second.

Yet, I also see, that it is not the same image that has been projected onto the Ma-ter light from the beginning to the present. The image that was created in the minds of the Elohim was far purer, far more refined, than what you see today. That image has been overlaid by another image, created by the collective consciousness of humankind. Yet this image has not changed a physical planet; it has only changed the image, that is being projected through the collective mind, that is being projected onto the movie screen of the Ma-ter light.

What people truly hate

And that is precisely why, as I have just said through my feminine messenger, anything in the matter world can be changed—when you are willing to change the images in your mind. Yet what is it that has happened to most people? They have – as we have now explained in many different ways, most notably in Jesus’ latest discourse – they have refused to take responsibility for themselves, for their state of mind, for the images that they project through their minds. And thus, when you refuse to take this responsibility, you instantly fall prey to the illusion, that started with the fallen beings and has been upheld, and even built on to, ever since that original fall.

This is the illusion that there is a world, that has an existence by itself, a world that is created based on certain natural laws, that are invariable and therefore beyond the powers of the human mind to change. Do you see, that this is the dream, not only of the fallen beings but of the ego? For when there is such a world – that is not subject to change through consciousness – then it is possible for beings to not only exist in this world and think they have permanence, but it is even possible for them to think, that they can attain mastery of this world without transcending their state of consciousness. They can maintain the separate self and they can perfect the separate self, until it has mastery over the world as it is today.

Yet as I have said, there is nothing that is not subject to change. As Gautama Buddha said, the earth is moving through absolute space, and if you are not moving along with the background acceleration rate of the entire universe – that is indeed pulling the earth through that absolute space – then you are lagging behind. And in order to lag behind, you must resist. And the more you lag behind, the greater the resistance that is required, and this eats up your energy, your attention. And this, then, is what people begin to hate. They begin to hate the resistance, but the resistance is their own refusal to transcend, to let the old self-image die and be reborn many times every second into a new image. So that they can project a new mental image upon the Ma-ter light and thereby change their outer situation.

Do you see, that the joy of the Creator is in constantly expressing itself in ever new forms? When you flow with that River of Life, there is no resistance, and therefore you are constantly in the joy of transcendence. But when you refuse to flow, when you seek to maintain a self-image and a worldview – when you seek to maintain a graven image, meaning an image that stands still and when you put that image before the living God – well, then there will be resistance.

This is what people hate. And since they experience, that the resistance comes from the matter realm, then they hate the matter, they hate the Mother. But it is not the Mother that is creating the resistance, for the Mother is simply doing what it has vowed to do, namely to outpicture in form the mental images, that people are projecting upon it. The Mother is simply reflecting back what you are projecting into the mirror.

Why people do not get what they say they want

When you flow with the River of Life, you are constantly projecting images that have transcended themselves and become more. And thus, the Mother reflects back abundance and nurturance. Yet when you are seeking to continue to project the same image over and over again, then the Mother also gives you back what you are projecting out. Only it is not exactly what you are projecting, as you see it in your mind.

For you see, when you are flowing with the River of Life, you do not have a mental image of what you want reality to be. Why would you have a mental image, when you are constantly transcending yourself? What is the point of having a mental image that you see as fixed, as graven, as permanent? You truly are not holding a mental image in the outer mind; you are allowing the Presence to express itself through you. And thus, the image that is being projected through the clear pane of glass of the Conscious You is not held in the outer mind, is not created in the outer mind. It is created at the level of the Presence and projected from there.

And thus you, as Jesus said in Saint Peter’s, are not having a structure in your mind, that you are seeking to uphold. You are allowing the Presence to express itself through you, and you are experiencing it as it is being expressed. And thus, there was no need to uphold a mental image of the world or a mental image of a separate self, that you are seeking to maintain over time. You have become as the little child, as Jesus said, for whom every new day is a new discovery, a new unfoldment of ever greater joy.

It is only when you separate yourself from the flow of the River of Life, that you now begin to experience the world through a mental image, created in the outer mind. And thus, you are thinking, that you are projecting onto the mater light what you see from inside the separate self. But the reality, that so few spiritual seekers have understood, is, that what you are seeing from inside the separate self, from inside the role, is not what you are projecting into the cosmic mirror.

My beloved, I am perfectly aware that the teachings we have given up until this point can lead some people to ask the question: “Why is it that I am seeking to project a positive image, but I do not get the positive circumstances back that I envision?” Well, the reason is, that you have not begun to question your perception and realize, that there is a difference between what you see – what you perceive – with the conscious mind from inside your role and what you are actually projecting into the cosmic mirror through the filter of that role—much of which is below the level of conscious awareness.

Do you see, that you might be thinking – as many of you have done – that at the conscious level you have adopted a positive mental attitude and you are projecting thoughts of abundance into the cosmic mirror. And then, you do this on a daily basis, and after a certain amount of days has passed, you are wondering why the universe is not showering you with abundance, as the many false or superficial teachers out there in the world are promising you will happen—if only you follow their program, their quick-fix, their guaranteed path to salvation.

The role of the subconscious mind

Yet the reality is, that even though you may be projecting with the conscious mind, the conscious mind is like the tip of an iceberg. And below the threshold of conscious awareness, you do not have a positive mental attitude. For I can tell you, that the ego, the separate self, can never have a positive mental attitude. For the ego can never escape the fear of death, and when you have the fear of death at subconscious levels, you will be projecting out the fear of death, the fear of lack, the fear of loss. And thus, how can you receive back what you are projecting out with the conscious level of your mind, when you have not taken responsibility for the subconscious levels?

Do you not see, my beloved, as we have now explained, when you decided to hide from your cosmic teacher, you could do this only by deciding, that there was something in your own consciousness that you are not willing to look at. For you were not willing to project yourself into oneness with the teacher, so that you could see your own mind – the images in your mind – the way the teacher sees them. You decided to maintain these images, and therefore you did not want the teacher to show you their unreality.

And yet in making this decision of wanting to hide these mental images from the teacher, what did you do? Well, you also had to hide them from yourself, and this is what created some of the subconscious levels of the mind. You forced certain mental images below the threshold of conscious awareness, a threshold that was not there while you were still willing to be in oneness with the teacher. And so, that is why there is a gap between what you are perceiving and projecting out with the conscious mind and what is being reflected back to you from the cosmic mirror.

And do you not see, that this is, in fact, exactly what the Mother has vowed to do? The Mother has vowed to reflect back to you whatever you are sending out through your mind. You are the one who has chosen to create a division in your mind between what is conscious – and what you like to look at – and what you have made unconscious, because you do not want to look at it and take responsibility for it. You may think, in your naiveté or spiritual pride that there is nothing but what you like to look at. Nevertheless, the reality, is that you are projecting the totality of your mind into the cosmic mirror. And the Divine Mother is simply reflecting back to you the totality of what you are projecting out.

And why is the Mother doing this? Out of love for you, so that the Mother can show you what is hidden beneath the threshold of conscious awareness. This is the stark truth that very, very few spiritual seekers have been willing to acknowledge. Yet I tell you, that those who have been willing to acknowledge it, have attained freedom from their own subconscious prison. They are the ones who have – by being willing to look at their subconscious images and replace those decisions with better decisions – they have attained enlightenment.

This is the process, that every ascended master has gone through. So many of the students who have followed ascended master teachings have built this idolatrous image, that those who have ascended have done so because they have always focused on the positive. But the reality is, that we who have ascended, have ascended because we were willing to look at everything in our own minds—and to transcend that which is unreal. We were willing to let the old die and to be reborn so many times, that there is no point in even putting a number on it, for it is the perpetual rebirth, the perpetual self-transcendence.

When you do not even consider, that there is some kind of goal you have to reach; you are simply willing to die daily, as Paul said it. But not only that, you die many times a day and you are reborn over and over again.

Whenever something comes up, you look at it, you see the unreality, you replace the unreal decisions – the decisions that took you away from oneness – you let that self die, and you accept that you are reborn, that you are no longer that old self. You are a new self, and as you continue to expand that self, you will gradually rise to the point, where suddenly you cross that threshold into the ascended state. And even though it may seem like a dramatic change from a human perspective, when you actually experience it from the inside, it is only one more experience of death and rebirth.

For now you no longer fear death. You realize that death can only happen to that which is unreal. Which means, that when a part of the unreal self dies, the real self is liberated, is set free, becomes more. And so, as Paul said, death is the last enemy. It is because so few people have been willing to realize, that only the separate self can die, for the Conscious You cannot die. But what can be reborn is the Conscious You’s awareness, that it is the open door for the Presence, and not a separate self, that can act on its own, that can do things on its own.

The illusion that you are the doer

What is the demand made by the fallen beings? It is: “We want to experience what it is like to exist in a world that is separated from God, so that we exist as separate beings in that world, who have power to act in that world and who can therefore attain mastery and become as gods in that world.” This is what they demanded. And as we have said, the Law of Free Will mandates, that if you want a certain experience, you will have that experience. Yet of course, you cannot have the experience forever, for that would prevent you from coming back to the greater experience of oneness with your source.

And that is why time allows you to have the experience of being of God on earth—but only for a time. And then the Mother begins to break down that sense of self, so that the real you can be liberated and reborn into a true sense of self as one with its source and one with the All. What is the essential illusion you have to overcome on the spiritual path? What is the essential illusion you have to overcome in order to become an ascended being? It is indeed what Jesus expressed when he said: “I can of my own self do nothing; the father within me, he doeth the work.” The essential illusion is, that the Conscious You has become a separate entity that exists independently of the I AM Presence.

As long as it sees itself as a separate entity, the Conscious You thinks it can act on its own, that it has wisdom on its own, that it knows things, that it can figure things out, that it can figure out how the world works and therefore attain mastery in this world as a separate being. This is an experience you are allowed to have. If you want to have this experience, then the world is here for you. But do not pretend to be an ascended master student, who is striving for your ascension, if you still want to continue to have the experience that you, as a separate self, are doing something spiritual and thereby qualifying for your ascension as a separate self. For this cannot be done. This is the lie of the false salvation, the path of anti-christ.

The reality is, that you will ascend only by returning to the reality that you are pure awareness, that the Conscious You is the open door for the Presence, that it is the Presence that can act in this world, that it is the Presence who knows how this world works. And that you, the Conscious You, has no inherent wisdom, has no inherent power, has no inherent love, no inherent purity, no inherent truth, no inherent peace, no inherent freedom. Unless ye become as little children, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom. Unless you become the clear pane of glass, that the Presence extended into this world, you shall not return to oneness with the Presence in the process of the Ascension.

This is the lesson of the spiritual path. It is the lesson that needs to be learned in the Year of the Mother. It will be learned at many different levels, corresponding to people’s state of consciousness. Whatever people trust, whatever they see as permanent, will be challenged. Whatever they think should not or cannot be questioned, they will be “forced” to question. Whatever they hold on to, will be taken away. For indeed, he who seeks to save his life shall lose it, but he who is willing to lose his life for the sake of self-transcendence, will find eternal life in that perpetual self-transcendence.

Thus, I intend to give further teachings throughout this year on this and other topics. And so, I will not get ahead of myself, but will give a gradual release throughout the year, as I deem that those who are the students of our teachings, have internalized the teachings we have already given to the point, where they are ready to receive a higher teaching. Thus, I will end with the same words as Gautama: “The choice is yours!”

The choice is yours: increased resistance or increased transcendence

TOPICS: The illusion that matter is separated from Spirit – Seeing the stream of consciousness behind all form – The acceleration rate of the universe – The driving force is the transcendence of consciousness – Overcoming resistance – See this year as an opportunity – Questioning the illusion of matter – The thoughtform of the Wheel of the Law – Breaking down the barrier between spiritual and worldly activities – Understanding the reality of time and space –

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, January 1, 2011 through Kim Michaels.

The Buddha I am. Gautama is the name that people have associated with the lifestream that I am, now for over 2,500 years. My beloved, this may seem like a long time, but to the Buddha is there any meaning of speaking about time? For this is indeed the grand illusion, that springs from the consciousness of separation: that there is the possibility of dividing the stream of life into segments, labeling them past, present and future. Or should we even say, that they are labeled only past and future, for indeed those who are blinded by the duality consciousness can never live in the present. They live either in the past or in the future, for they never take their attention within—that they might actually experience the present moment, and therefore experience that the present moment is the eternal now. The now that is beyond past, beyond future—for it moves as you move through the space of the Buddha.

You see, the illusion created by the duality consciousness is, that there is a movement through time. But the reality, seen from the Buddhic perspective, is, that time is not. Which means what? It means that space is all there is for you to move through. You are not moving in time; you are moving in space, the space that gives room for different forms to exist, and that allows you to move from your starting point towards what is not the ending point but is indeed the merging into oneness with your source, with your Creator, with all that is.

If you could see what I see, you would see that the year 2011 is now rolling around this planet, as new time zones celebrate the New Year. This is, as I have explained, the Year of the Mother. And if you could see what I see, you would see the energies represented by the Year of the Mother rolling around this planet. And you might envision, that the planet has been covered by a blanket, that is being rolled aside by the new energies of the mother, the new energies that represent the initiations, that humankind will face during this Year of the Mother. And thus, the old energies from the Year of the Son are rolled aside, as if you started with one line from North to South, started rolling the blanket that covered the earth around that line and then kept going, almost like you open a tin can, by rolling the lid into a scroll.

And so, as these energies move around the planet, there will be a clearing of the old, and this is indeed why people often feel a surge of new energy, of new optimism, a new perspective at the New Year’s celebration—at least when the hangover clears and they again are able to think with whatever clarity is their normal state of consciousness. This, of course, is not to say, that most people are able to think clearly, for truly they are not, as they were not 2,500 years ago. Yet, truly, during that span of what you call time, there has been progress because the earth has moved through space in that time.

The illusion that matter is separated from Spirit

As you know – if you think about what your astronomers have told you – the earth is moving in an elliptical orbit around the sun. But how many people think about the fact, that the sun is also moving in space? And thus, the sun is following a much larger orbit around its center of gravity than the earth. And so, if you were to look at the orbit, that the earth is following through actual space, you would see, that that orbit is not elliptical. It is more like a spiral that moves in a clear direction. Of course, if you were to step even further back and look at the actual orbit of the sun, you would see, that even though the sun is moving around a center of gravity, that center is also moving through space. And thus, even the orbit of the sun is following a spiral.

Meaning that there is nothing that stands still, there is nothing that goes around in a circle, there are no closed circles, for the entire universe is expanding. And that is why time is not real. Time is the illusion, the trick played by the mind that it blinded by Maya, by the illusion that matter is real, by the illusion that Mother is real by itself, exists by itself, exists independently of father. And thus, you see – as I expounded upon last year at the New Year’s time – the Year of the Son was the challenge of learning to discern between what is unreal and what is real, seen from the Christ perspective. But in the Year of the Mother, this discernment needs to be taken to a deeper level, if humankind is to pass the initiations represented by this year.

For indeed, the discernment that you need to acquire in this coming year, in this coming cycle of initiation, is that you learn to see through the illusion that Mother, the matter energy, is separated from its source—which is, of course, Father or Spirit. Look at this planet, and see how many people are completely blinded by the illusion, that you live in a world that is separated from its source, that is separated from Spirit. Look at how many people are blinded by the illusion, that there is no Spirit, that there is nothing beyond the material world. Look at how many people deny their own spirituality, their own reality as spiritual beings, who are only temporarily abiding in a world of matter.

Yet is this a world of matter, or is the even deeper reality, that you are a spiritual being abiding in a world of Spirit? For as you are an expression of Spirit, so is everything in the material world an expression of spirit. Without him was not anything made that was made, as the Christian Bible says. And you will find the same concept in Buddhism, in Hinduism, in Taoism, in Islam and in most other religions or spiritual philosophies.

Yet despite the fact, that these teachings are there for those who have eyes to see, most people do not have eyes to see. Most people follow a religion, and they may study its teachings, they may believe in an outer sense, but they do not believe in the sense that they experience, as an inner realization, what the teachings are actually saying. And thus, people may read a scripture time and time again without truly experiencing the deeper truth beyond the words, the truth that cannot be captured in words, that can never be encapsulated in the imperfect vehicles that words are.

For how can words contain Spirit—unless, of course, they are interpreted by a being who is aware of its own built-in spirituality, and therefore can imbue the words with a deeper meaning, with a subtler energy. And therefore, you can use the words as stepping stones to cross the stream of consciousness and reach the other shore, where Spirit is waiting to give you the experience of itself. So that you may glimpse, that even beyond this veil of matter, there is only one reality. Even beyond the myriad of forms that titillate your senses, that pull on your attention, there is only one reality, one Spirit.

Seeing the stream of consciousness behind all form

And when you see this, even in glimpses, then you may begin to pull back the veil, so that you no longer have to step across the stream. For now you see, that it is not correct that Spirit is on the other side of the stream and that matter is separated from Spirit. For you see that Spirit is also the stream, and Spirit is also a matter. You begin by seeing that Spirit is a stream of consciousness, not the unchanging God that has been depicted falsely by many of the outer religions—or rather of by the false preachers of those outer religions, who have come up with their doctrines and interpretations, that go so far beyond the actual scriptures and their inner meaning. Thus, one must wonder how people can continue to believe in these interpretations, promoted over and over again by those who want to set themselves up as controlling the people by reinforcing the illusion, that the people are separated from their source, from their God. And thus, you need these power elite false preachers in order to get to God, for you cannot find God on your own.

The deeper reality is indeed, that God is the living God. God is a stream of consciousness, and when you begin to see God as a stream of consciousness, you can gradually come to see yourself as a stream of consciousness. And then, you can go beyond and see, that even the material world is a stream of consciousness. And this is when you begin to realize, that God the Father is a stream of consciousness that has expressed itself as material forms. But even though those forms may appear to be separate – to be distinct, to be separate from Spirit, to be separate from each other – they are not truly separate. And even though they may appear, these forms, to have some continuity, even some permanence, they are still only streams of consciousness.

For the very fact, observed correctly by your scientists, that the entire material universe is expanding, is indeed proof that it is a stream of consciousness. For my beloved, look at the scientific myth – and take note that I say “myth”– about the Big Bang. Consider the concept, that at some distant point, the entire material universe as you know it was compressed into a single point, into a singularity. And then, everything that has ever existed and will ever exist – in the form of matter and energy – was hurled outwards in a giant explosion.

Well, if that really was the case, how can you explain, that the material universe is not only expanding but is expanding at an accelerated rate? There is no way you can explain, that the initial energy of the explosion of the Big Bang can cause the universe to expand at an ever accelerating rate. For where would the energy come from, that drives the acceleration? It could not have come from the initial explosion, for surely logic will tell you, that if all the driving force was released in the beginning, then the universe would have to stop accelerating at the same rate and would eventually start contracting. But yet, observations and measurements have proven, that this is not the case—the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. So the question is: “What drives the acceleration?” It cannot be a material force, for no such force exists. And thus, the only rational, logical explanation is indeed, that the real force that drives the universe is the fact, that the universe is a stream of consciousness.

The acceleration rate of the universe

And this, my beloved – pay attention now – is indeed the essential quality of consciousness: it can do what matter itself as a separate entity – that you conceive of – cannot do. Matter cannot transcend itself, matter cannot go beyond the state in which it was created. Yet consciousness has this ability, consciousness can reinvent itself, consciousness can transcend itself, consciousness can choose to let the old die and be reborn and be resurrected into a higher state.

This is what drove the Creator to create, and this is what drives the Creator’s creation to expand at an ever accelerating rate. Just as the entire material universe is expanding at this ever accelerating rate, so you as an individual self-aware being are being compelled by the very life force itself to expand your consciousness, in order keep up with what is happening to the universe. And this, of course, is precisely what is also propelling the earth through space at an ever accelerating speed.

And yet, what is it, then, that gives birth to what I have called the illusion of time? It is precisely the fact, that the inhabitants of earth are not expanding their consciousness at the same rate that the earth is being pulled through space by the expansion rate of the entire material universe and the entire unascended sphere in which you exist. You are not alone in this universe. The people on earth are not the only self-aware beings in the material universe. There are numerous, numerous planets with intelligent forms of life, and the vast majority of those planets are in an accelerating spiral, where the inhabitants of those planets are accelerating their consciousness. This is what has created what is comparable to what your scientists call the cosmic background radiation. There is a cosmic background expanding force, that is what Christians traditionally have called the Holy Spirit, which is created by all the self-aware beings in the material universe who are expanding and transcending their state of consciousness.

This is the acceleration rate for the entire material universe. This expansion of consciousness is what drives the material universe, the physical planets and galaxies, to move away from each other at an accelerated speed. This is, so to speak, the background growth rate of the universe in which you live. The inhabitants of earth are not expanding their state of consciousness at that rate; they are expanding it at a slower rate. And this means, that the earth is lagging behind the position in absolute space, where it would have been, if it had followed the expansion rate of the universe as a whole.

This lagging behind is what creates the illusion of time. This lagging behind is what creates the friction, that creates so many problems on earth that seem to have no solution. The reality is, that the earth is being pulled by the background expanding force of the universe to move through space at an ever increasing speed. But what will it take for a planet to move through space at an ever-increasing speed? Well, look at what happens to an object on earth, such as a car, when you increase the speed. There is increased air resistance, there is increased friction, and therefore it takes more force to overcome that. So it would then seem, that in order for the earth to grow, there would have to be an ever increasing force, and this is indeed what is currently the case. But there is an alternative to this scenario, for the ever-increasing force is necessary only to propel a body of the same density. Yet what if the earth was becoming less and less dense, so that – as it was propelled to move faster – there was less friction, less resistance. And therefore, the earth could effortlessly move through space at an accelerated speed without there being an increase in force.

The driving force is the transcendence of consciousness

What can make this possible is indeed the transcendence of consciousness, the acceleration of consciousness, whereby you let go of the old sense of identity, that was at a certain level of density. And when this happens on a collective scale – by humankind raising the collective consciousness – then the entire planet will become less dense. And therefore, it can move through space at an ever accelerated pace without the application of greater and greater force.

This will indeed bring about a revolution, not only in human thought but in society as a whole. Where you will see, that you will no longer need this force, this physical, mental, emotional force to keep the old structures alive. For they will be replaced, not by new structures but by the willingness to flow with the stream of life. So that you do not seek to encage and incase the stream of light in your structure, in order to give you a sense of permanence, of continuity. For you do not gain any longer your sense of identity from the structure, you gain it from seeing beyond structure, beyond even the structure of the earth itself.

For you now see, that you are an expression of the stream of consciousness. You are flowing with that stream of consciousness, and when you no longer feel like you are drowning in the stream, what is the need to hold on to a structure? Why would you seek to hold on to the banks or seek to grasp for a life-belt, if you are not afraid of drowning?

For you know, that it is indeed your greatest joy to flow with the River of Life, to flow with the stream itself, to just let go and be at peace in the flow of life, rather than resisting it, rather than seeking to force it to fit into your mental boxes, to fit into the mental box created by your perception. The perception that comes from the ego, the separate self, that is afraid that at some point in time it will cease to exist.

For this is indeed the price you pay for falling behind the acceleration rate of the universe. The moment you start lagging behind the rest of the universe, there will be a gap. And this gap is what gives rise to the fear of death, the fear that there will come a point where you, as a self-aware being, are no more.

But this fear can exist only because the self-aware being that you are is now perceiving life through the filter – the structure, the perception – of the ego, rather than perceiving life through the pure awareness, that you can attain when you recognize yourself as the Conscious You, as an expression of the Creator’s own Being. And thus, as the Conscious You, you see yourself as the open door, as the clear pane of glass, as Jesus has so carefully explained. And you know that the stream of life, the stream of consciousness that is your I AM Presence, can flow through you unhindered, effortlessly. And thus, you do not need to exert a force to uphold the illusory existence of the separate self. For you can flow effortlessly with the stream of consciousness that is your I AM Presence, seeking expression through you.

Overcoming resistance

What is the need for force, what is the need for resistance, when you recognize who you are: the open door for the I AM Presence. And you accept this, and you flow with the stream of consciousness, that is the Presence, that flows through your being. And instead of hearing the roaring of the stream as a threatening noise – that you feel might one day overwhelm you and drown you – you are now flowing with that stream. And thus, you hear, that it is not a roar that threatens to destroy; it is indeed the gently flowing, bubbling stream of the bliss of the Creator being expressed through you.

And thus, you would experience that bliss by simply letting go of the sense, that there is anything you need to resist—or anything you need to uphold, or anything you need to destroy. It is indeed the sense that matter has reality, that matter has permanence, that trips you up, that prevents you from flowing with the stream. For you think, that you need to look at matter and accept, that matter in its current form is permanent and thus has power over you. Or you need to accept, that matter in its current form is wrong and thus must be changed or destroyed by you. And thus, you are here to save the world or to destroy evil, and either way this requires you to change something outside yourself. And this is what gives rise to the dramas and the epic mindset, that we have talked about now for two years.

A time span, if you will again talk about time, long enough for even the most dense to begin to realize the deeper teaching behind our words. Certainly, you can distance yourself by arguing with our words at the level of the words and thus miss the point. And this is, of course your, right—if you wish to lag even further behind and thereby experience greater and greater resistance, greater and greater opposition to your being, to your flow, to your joy, to your happiness.

Resist if you will, but let me give you the realistic assessment that when you look at a planetary scale, you will see that in this coming year of 2011, the Year of the Mother, it will become increasingly difficult for people to resist the flow of the River of Life, the flow of change, the flow of acceleration, that will propel this planet to take a giant, quantum leap forward and therefore begin to catch up, to narrow the gap between where the planet is and where it could have been, had the inhabitants of it followed the background acceleration rate of the entire universe.

The gap must be closed before the year 2012 runs around, so that the cycles change. Not that it needs to be closed completely, but it must be shrunk considerably. For if not, then the resistance will become even greater after the cycle marked by the year 2012 turns. And this can then result in physical events, not exactly at the magnitude predicted by some, but certainly at a greater magnitude than what you have seen so far.

See this year as an opportunity

And thus, this Year of the Mother of is an extremely important opportunity for the spiritual people on the earth, to have a positive impact on society on a world scale. Take note of what I have just said. You will not have a positive impact, if you are trapped in the epic mindset and think that you have to go out and change other people or change society, based on the dualistic awareness that says, that something has gone wrong and this must be corrected.

It is not a matter of appointing a scapegoat in the form of other people, and then seeking to force these people to change. It is a matter of you taking responsibility for your own state of consciousness, accelerating that state of consciousness and then, as a natural expression of your own acceleration, you share your Presence, you share your joy, you share your insight with others—even on a greater scale with society.

My beloved, many of you have studied the teachings we have given through this messenger now for years. You have studied the AskRealJesus website for years. You have taken in, you have internalized, you have given rosaries and invocations, and this is all well and good. It is not my intent to say that what you have done has not been adequate. But it is indeed my intent to say that in this year of 2011, studying teachings, practicing rosaries and invocations will not be enough in itself. If you want to truly pass the initiation and embrace the opportunity of this coming year, you need to begin to express, to give out, to share. So that you share your Presence, you allow your Presence to shine through you and uplift other people. Not in the sense that you tell them what is wrong with them, or with society, or with the universe, or with God’s plan, but that you simply share your insights, your joy, your acceleration.

You demonstrate what others can do instead of blaming them for not doing it. This is the essential distinction between those who are in tune with the River of Life, with the ascended masters, with the movement of the Holy Spirit and with the background acceleration of the universe and then those who have fallen out of sync with the forward progression, and who are thinking, that they are helping to save the world. But they are simply continuing the age-old game – started by the fallen beings in a distant sphere – of seeking to force the universe into their mental boxes.

If you take that road – as is, of course, your right by your free will – then you will find, that in this coming year, it will become increasingly difficult for you to maintain the illusion, that your mental box is reality and that it is possible to force the universe to conform to it. This is also what you will see on a planetary scale. I last year gave the thoughtform that the sword of Christ would flash forth as the lightning and cut down the veil that was hiding reality from unreality, cut down the veil that would allow the power elite to hide. You have indeed seen this happen in various ways in this last year, including the leaking of many documents, that surely the power elite would have preferred to keep secret from the people.

Questioning the illusion of matter

Nevertheless, what you will see in this coming year is, that this will be accelerated to an even higher level, where people will be – if you will – “forced” by the acceleration to question many of the things, that they have not even started to questions so far. This is not about just questioning the power elite or questioning authority. No, it is indeed about questioning the very illusion, that is created by matter itself, or rather by the fact that seen from the duality consciousness, matter appears to be dense, matter appears to have reality, matter appears to have continuity, matter even appears to have permanence.

These are the illusions, that will begin to be threatened in this coming year. The houses of cards will start tumbling down. This will happen in many areas of society, including the financial world. You will also, however, see that there will be the need to question many of the institutions of society that have not been questioned, including whether democracy is truly functioning at its highest potential. Or whether there is a need to take it to a higher level, rather than thinking that the western democracies have achieved some level, that cannot be transcended.

This will especially be a challenge for the nation of the United States, which sees itself as the birthplace of modern democracy and thinks it is still the most advanced form of democracy in the world. An illusion that will be – and that needs to be – questioned in this coming year and the years to come,. For indeed, America has falling far behind the original vision of the founding fathers and especially the vision of Saint Germain—who of course has not stood still since the founding of America, and thus has an even greater vision today than what he could impart to the founding fathers back then.

Even beyond this, you will see the need to question whether matter truly is real. There is already a movement, that has been going on for a long time, where many people have begun to look at the findings of science—that we have adequately described in terms of the findings of quantum physics and beyond. And they have taken these findings of science and begun to question, whether matter has a separate existence or whether the underlying reality truly is consciousness.

This movement, this willingness to question, will be accelerated in 2011 and beyond, until it will become so strong, that most people on this earth will no longer be able to ignore it. And then, there will eventually be a shift, so that they will no longer want to ignore it, for they see that this is not a threat to their lifestyle or their worldview. It is indeed a great opportunity for expanding their lifestyle and their worldview, taking it to a distinctly higher level, that gives new opportunities that they could barely dream of before.

The thoughtform of the Wheel of the Law

So, what then is the thoughtform that I wish to give? Well, it is indeed the concept of the wheel of the Buddha, the Wheel of the Law, the Wheel of the Dharma, that is the traditional symbol for Buddhism. Last year I gave the thoughtform of the Sword of Christ cutting the veils that hide the illusion. But what I desire to give you this year is the thoughtform of the Wheel of the Dharma, that is rolling away the veil of Maya, the veil that matter is real, that matter is separated from Spirit and that matter has a density that can hide the Spirit from which it came. Envision – both in your life and on a planetary scale – how this veil is rolled up as a scroll and now exposes the deeper reality that matter – the matter world, the Mother world – is an expression of Spirit and that Spirit is the one reality behind all forms that you see.

This is a powerful thoughtform, that you will also benefit greatly from using in your personal life. For even you who are the forerunners for the raising of consciousness will face the initiation that humankind will be facing. You will face it in your personal lives, you will be challenged in many ways with conditions in your lives, that will seem to be beyond your power to change, that will seem to be real, that will seem to have some power over you. Something you must do, something you must adapt to, and you feel that it will limit you. So therefore, you need to envision how the Wheel of the Dharma, the Wheel of the Law, how I, the Buddha, hurl that wheel – if you will allow me – into your personal life to roll back the veil of illusion.

This, of course, can only have its full effect, if you are indeed willing to question the structures, that you might not have questioned before. Do you see why it was so important – as we have said before and as Jesus especially explained in his discourse in the Basilica of Saint Peter’s – that you question your structures? You let go of the structures, and therefore you become the open door. Yet despair not, if you have not let go of all of your structures. But be willing to step it up, so that you become willing to question. And so that when you encounter that obstacle, that resistance, then you step back and say: “What is it I have not seen? Mighty I AM Presence, show me the structure, show me the illusion. Gautama Buddha, hurl the Wheel of the Law to roll back the veil, that I may be able to see what is holding me back. So that I can become the open door, so that I can flow with the River of Life. And so that the rushing River of Life of my I AM Presence can flow into this situation, and roll away or dissolve the resistance, the obstacles. So that my spirit can be set free to express itself in this world, in this situation, and that I may not only be free but that I may be an inspiration for others that they might be free as well.”

This, then is indeed the thoughtform. Use it also in your own life to ponder the illusion of time, to ponder what I have given in this release. Go beyond the words, ask for that guidance from me, from your Mother Mary, who will give further teachings on this, and of course from your I AM Presence. Ask for the guidance, be willing to ponder the enigma of time.

Breaking down the barrier between spiritual and worldly activities

For truly, all of you will be challenged on time. You will feel, in this coming year, as if you have less time than ever. You will feel, especially, that it will become more and more difficult for you to find time for what you have so far labeled as your spiritual activities. For you will feel, that the so-called daily or worldly activities will pull on your attention, will demand your attention and your time.

And so, this is then the challenge, that is specific to the most spiritual people, those who have started walking the path of Christhood, even to the point where they are beginning to glimpse the path of Buddhahood. The challenge for you is this: can you uphold the illusion, that there is a division between what you call spiritual activities and what to call worldly activities? For do you not begin to see that this is, indeed, an artificial division?

If everything is an expression of the one reality of the Creator, if everything is a stream of consciousness, how can you say, that one activity is spiritual and another is not? The deeper reality is, that everything can be seen as a spiritual activity, and there is no real division between spiritual and worldly activities. If you are willing to let go of the veil, that you have created in your own mind – because you have taken in the illusion created by the fallen beings, that the world is separated from Spirit and therefore the world pulls you away from oneness with Spirit – and therefore you need to withdraw from the world and go into a monastery or go into a church on Sundays, where you feel that now you are being spiritual by going into God’s house. But the rest of the week, you cannot be spiritual because of your worldly activities.

Be willing to take a drastic step in your mind, be willing to envision, that the Wheel of the Dharma goes around the world and shatters all the churches and temples and places of worship, shatters them not in a physical sense but in your own mind. So that in your mind, there are no special places of worship, so that you can see that every place is a special place, that every activity is a special activity, that every time is a special moment. For the present moment is all there is, and it is in the present moment that you must be spiritual, that you must be the open door for Spirit to express itself. For you cannot be the open door in the past, you cannot be the open door in the future—you can be the open door only in the NOW.

And therefore, do not postpone your spirituality, so that you say: “Oh, on Sunday I can do it, or next year, or when I overcome this challenge, or when I reach this level of consciousness, or when I have given so many rosaries, or when I have prostrated myself on the floor 10,000 times or done this or done that.” Instead, recognize the reality, that you can be spiritual right now and that you will never be spiritual until you decide, that this is the “now” where I will be spiritual, where I will be the open door.

Understanding the reality of time and space

What is time? What is it that time has done? What is it that the veil of matter has done, the veil of Maya has done? Well, as Jesus has explained in his latest discourse, everything – everything – follows the Law of Free Will. What did the fallen beings say, when they rebelled against God? They said: “We demand to have a place, where we can feel separated from God and the stream of consciousness that is God, that is the rest of our sphere.” And so, in order to give them that, there had to be created a world, where there was the illusion that matter is real, that matter hides Spirit and that time exists. So that it is possible to postpone self-transcendence and uphold your current sense of self for a period of time.

When you separated yourself from the guru, when you refused to define your own role – as Jesus has explained – when you hid from Maitreya, you demanded the same as the fallen beings demanded: a place where you could believe, that you were separated from the teacher, separated from your source. A place where you could believe, that you could uphold your current sense of self for a length of time. This is what you demanded—not consciously, but in order to make the choices you made, you subconsciously demanded this.

If this is the way you want to continue to exist, then I, the Buddha – as all ascended masters – bow to your free will. I accept that choice, but I also say: then you are not ready to be in the Sangha of the Buddha. And thus, I have nothing further to offer you.

I have something to offer only to those who have come to the point, where they are willing to begin to question their previous choices, their current sense of identity, their current perceptions. Those who are willing to say: “I no longer want the space where I can believe I am apart. I no longer want to uphold my current identity into the future for a period of time. I want to transcend my current identity and come closer to oneness with my source. This is my desire, this is my choice, and I am willing to take responsibility for the fact, that I am the one who must choose. And I am the one who must be willing to let the Wheel of the Dharma roll back that veil of illusion, that has allowed me to uphold the sense of separateness, the sense of a separate self that can exist in time, or that can even exist at all.

Time is Mother; space is Buddha. Do you see, that the Mother in her love allows the children to uphold the illusion, that they can create something – a separate self, a form of life on a planet – and that that something can endure over time? Even the illusion that the separate self could gain some sense of permanence or immortality or be accepted into the kingdom of God. This is the illusion that the Mother allows you to uphold, so that you can experience it, until you have had enough of the experience and you are ready to make the choice to transcend it.

Yet on an even deeper level, how can you have the illusion that the matter world is separated from Spirit or that there is no Spirit? What allows this illusion to exist? It is the fact, that the Buddha holds the balance for you. The Buddha holds the balance for space, the space between where you are now and where you would have been, if you had followed the background acceleration rate of the world in which you live. It is the Buddha consciousness, that allows this to happen—again, so that you may have the experience of separation until you have had enough of it. And then you desire and decide, that you are willing to let it die, to let that illusory sense of self die, so that you may catch up to where you could have been, had you accelerated at the same rate as the rest of the universe—as indeed the Buddha has done.

But he has allowed himself to be put in between, so that he might fill the space between where you are and where you could have been. Only the Buddha’s love allows that space to exist. And if the space had not existed, you would either have had to follow the acceleration rate or cease to exist in the second death. And thus, the Buddha creating space is the background for the Mother giving you the illusion of time. Time truly is not.

Space is not real in the sense that the space between where you are and where you could have been is not real. But the deeper reality is, that space is indeed real, as that is what allows forms to exist and what also allows them to transcend by moving closer and closer to the ultimate acceleration rate, that will cause your entire sphere to ascend and become a permanent part of the spiritual realm.

Thus, even though I, the Buddha, do not exist in time, I will recognize that I have spoken for what for some people will seem like a long time. For they have not been willing to accelerate their consciousness as my release has unfolded. And therefore, there came a point, where they started feeling a distance between their state of consciousness and the state that I moved on with as the release unfolded. This might give you pause, if you never locked in to my state of consciousness and my acceleration rate, or if you started falling behind by feeling: “When will he ever stop, I cannot stand this any longer, this is too much.”

The reason it is too much is, that you have not been willing to flow with me and transcend your old state of consciousness. And thus, this can be a sign for you, that you have work to do, that you need to step back and look at yourself and see why you cannot hold your awareness on the Buddha for the space of an hour. For consider how many times you have watched a movie for more than an hour, and then ask yourself: “If I can be fascinated by a movie, why can I not be equally or more fascinated by the release of the Buddha?” It is because the movie in most cases does not require you to transcend your level of consciousness. It goes around at a certain level, and thus is circular, whereas my release is an upward spiral, the acceleration that the earth is following through absolute space.

And thus, if you want to move in your own temporary space instead of moving in an upward spiral through absolute space – the deeper space of the Buddha – well, then you cannot follow me even for an hour. And so, how can you then follow the upward acceleration for the next year? And therefore, how can you transcend the resistance that otherwise will increase? You see, it is quite simple: you will either experience an increased resistance or you will experience an increased transcendence. The choice is yours!

30. Transcending hatred of the Mother

Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels.

Gautama I AM. Gautama is my name, the Buddha is my title.

What does the Buddha have to do with a book, that is primarily given for people, who have grown up in what is normally called the Western world? Has not one of your major poets once written, “East is East, and West is West—and never the twain shall meet.” Well, my beloved, what exactly is East and what exactly is West? You live on a spherical globe. How can you divide that globe up by drawing an artificial line and saying: What is on one side of that line is East and on the other side is West? Does this not show exactly what the chohans and the Blessed Mother have attempted to explain throughout this book: the tendency to set yourself up as a God who says, “Where I am is the center of the world. And thus, everything is defined based on its position to where I am.”

This is what has created the division among human beings. And it was, indeed, one of my principal drives – when I walked the earth 2,500 years ago – to help people overcome this divisive consciousness, which is precisely what I called the veil of Maya.

Maya is often translated as illusion, but it is a specific kind of illusion, namely the illusion of separation, the illusion that reality – that what exists – can be divided into these segments. And that those who have set themselves up as gods have the power and the right to define the divisions based on some thought system or other.

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When you have passed the initiations of the seventh ray, you understand freedom, you experience freedom, you have become one with freedom. Yet what does it take to come to that point? It takes that you actually face and transcend every fear found on this planet.

There is, of course, a fear for each of the seven rays, and you can go through the discourses by each of the chohans and you can identify those fears. But in the end, there is really only one underlying fear, and that is what we might call the fear of freedom.

For have we not said, over and over and over again, that God has given you free will, and that you live in a universe in which everything is subject to free will? What does this actually mean? It means that you – as an individual self-aware being – have the capacity and the right to define your sense of self any way you want.

Yet can you perhaps sense – if you tune in to your own conscious and subconscious mind – that there is a certain fear associated with this? Before you reach the 144th level, you will go through a period, where you must face this fear—the fear of freedom, the fear of having the complete freedom to define who you are. And in order to help you face and walk through this fear of freedom, let me give you some thoughts.

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It is important for you to understand – as has been said before but as I will say again – that all fear is a fear of the unknown. What you fear is not reality; it is an illusion. So, all of your fears spring from the fact that you have come to identify yourself as a separate self. You have come to believe in the illusion of separation. And as we have said, the inevitable companion of this illusion is the fear of death, the fear that the separate self could be no more.

So as the Conscious You begins to free itself from identification with the separate self, the Conscious You faces the fear of freedom. Because the Conscious You begins to realize, that it is not the separate self. But the question then becomes: “Well, if I am not the separate self; what am I, what do I want to be?”

You now face the eternal dilemma, that has been faced by all spiritual seekers throughout history. The dilemma is this. While you are looking at the world through the filter of the separate self, you cannot fully see your I Will Be Presence. Therefore, you cannot come into full identification with the Presence. And this means that from your viewpoint – where you are looking through the filter of the separate self – it will seem as if letting the separate self die means that there will be nothing left.

Just look at how many people on earth fear physical death, because they fear there will be nothing left of them after they die. Then look at the many, many near-death experiences that people have had. And what is the one message underlying all of them? It is the message of continuity.

There is, indeed, awareness – there is consciousness, there is self-awareness – after the death of the physical body. Yet while you are still in a body, you are looking at the world through the filter of the outer mind that is associated with, and to some degree produced by, the body and the brain. And thus, you tend to cling to this life. You cannot know for sure that there is life after death, while you are still looking at the world through the body.

If you actually observe people who are dying, you will see that there are two basic reactions. There are people who keep fighting death to the very end, but then there are people who, when death nears, come to a sort of inner resolution, an inner peace, where they surrender unto death. Those who come to this inner resolution and surrender unto death are those, who have used the Conscious You’s ability to project itself outside the filter of the physical body.

Thus, instead of perceiving life through the filter of the body, they have gained at least a glimpse of how it is to perceive life from outside the body. They have gained an inner knowing, that there will be some part of them, that will continue an existence after the physical body dies. And this is why they can surrender to death and let go of the body and the one lifetime among many, that they are now coming to the end of.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Healing Mother Earth.

29. Individuality is the key to the Golden Age

Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM. In my first discourse, I attempted to give you the vision that there is indeed a potential that the earth can transcend its current level of struggle and conflict, of limitations and lack, and go into what I called a Golden Age. This is an image that I have attempted, through various messengers and organizations, to give to humankind since the 1930s. And indeed, there has been much progress since that time. And some of that progress has indeed been caused by the fact, that so many of my students have taken this vision and projected it into the collective consciousness. Thereby freeing other people to become the open doors for the bringing forth of new ideas and technology, that helped bring about the progress you have seen.

Nevertheless, there are also many of the students who have looked at my vision and have misunderstood the central point. For they have been so colored by the fallen consciousness, that they have actually transferred the fallen consciousness to the vision of Saint Germain. So even though I know, that many of these students are still so trapped in the fallen consciousness, that they will be unwilling to even acknowledge the validity of what I will say, I will still say what I will say. For I know, that there are students who will indeed be able to grasp the central point, that I will give you in this message.

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You see, my beloved, there are many people on this earth who are what you might call futurists and who have a vision that the earth is on the way to a better society. Yet there is indeed also many among them, who are still so colored by the fallen consciousness, that they think that this utopian future society can be achieved only by either forcing or persuading all people to come into compliance with a specific thought system or standard, defined on earth.

This is precisely the dream of the fallen beings, that they have projected out since their original fall. And it will never – my beloved, did you hear me, it will NEVER – bring forth the Golden Age of Saint Germain. I am not in compliance with the age-old, idolatrous image of the external God in the sky, who is sitting up here with a fixed standard, according to which I judge everything and everyone on earth. I am not sitting up here with a vision of the Golden Age that is defined in every detail.

Certainly, I have certain principles and ideas and visions, certain sketches and blueprints, for the Golden Age, but it is not set in stone. For I know something that the fallen beings also know, but that they do not want you to know. I know that the Golden Age will be manifest not through forcing or deceiving people into giving up their individuality, but only through allowing and encouraging people to express that individuality.

For you see, my beloved, we have so far attempted to give you a gradually increasing awareness of the problem represented by the fallen beings. That is, it might be a problem seen from your viewpoint, whereas it is truly not a problem seen from the viewpoint of the ascended masters—who know what is real and what is unreal, and know that that which is unreal has no power over that which is real.

What we have said so far is, that what the fallen beings rebelled against was that the Creator created self-aware extensions of itself and gave them free will. You might therefore surmise, that what the fallen beings rebelled against was free will. This is not incorrect, my beloved, but it is not the complete picture. For we have attempted to give you the understanding, that there is an Alpha and an Omega in everything.

Free will, therefore, is the Omega aspect. So what is the Alpha? Well, it is what we have called self-awareness. What do you need in order to have self-awareness? You need two components: awareness and self. Meaning that there has to be an individuality that can give you the sense of self, which is the basis for you having self-awareness.

Now my beloved, this is truly a subtle understanding, so be willing to stretch your mind. Or rather, be willing to go into your heart and let the Conscious You become an open door, so that you might receive an inner understanding from your I Will Be Presence, rather than seeking to understand my words through the outer mind.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Healing Mother Earth.

28. Being the open door for peace through oneness

Ascended Master Nada through Kim Michaels.

I am Nada, the Chohan of the sixth ray. One of the qualities of the sixth ray is indeed peace. What does this mean for your potential to give service in the environmental debate, or in any other part of the debate that can bring humankind forward?

Imagine yourself in a situation, where you are debating in some kind of public forum. Imagine that there are several political parties, or organizations, or representatives from various groups. Can you see, that what happens in most of such situation is that the various groups will each have their own agenda, and their entire purpose for entering the discussion is to further their particular agenda? And so, is it not easy to see, that this is why there is so often simply an endless discussion about what to do, and it is so hard to come to a consensus upon which all can agree?

Can you see, that this tendency to look at only a specific interest – and to even think that this is more important than the interests of any other people – is indeed what has caused most human conflicts? It is clearly the dualistic struggle outplayed in the political arena. This has led to many forms of violence, even wars. But in democratic nations it has been replaced, so that there is at least no longer violence. And indeed, this is a step forward, but what you see today is still that many democratic nations are trapped in these endless discussions and struggles between different political parties, who claim to be representing separate interests. But is it not because even in democratic nations, there is still the illusion that people can be divided up into particular segments and groups that have different interests?

Yet is not one of the principles of democracy that “all men are created equal” and that all people are endowed by a higher authority with the same basic rights? So if all are created equal and if all are supposed to have equal rights, how can it be impossible to reach a consensus? It can happen only when people are focused on a surface level, an illusory problem, an illusory division, that seems to split them into separate groups and segments that have opposing or contradictory interests.

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Yet what are some of the most basic rights upon which democratic nations are founded: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Do not all people have an interest in being alive, in being free and in being free to pursue happiness? So how can it be impossible to find consensus? Well, it can be impossible only, when people are blinded by the illusions of duality—that inevitably divide everything into opposing polarities and segments.

And, of course, as we have said, when people are below the 48th level of awareness, they are inevitably blinded by these divisions. When you look at the 144 levels of consciousness that are possible on earth, you will see, that as you go towards the lowest level, you find people who are more and more blinded by divisions, who are more and more convinced that divisions are real—and that therefore it has some ultimate, epic importance that one particular group gains superiority over all others.

As an example of a person who was at the lowest level of consciousness, take Adolph Hitler, who trusted no one, not even his closest advisers. It was him against everybody. So it was with Stalin, Mao Zedong and many other dictators that you see around the world. This is the ultimate state of division.

So what happens, when you go in the other direction and approach the 144th level of consciousness? Well, what happens is that you go through the process that you see in Jesus, of coming first to see “I and my father are one” and then to see your oneness with all life here below. First you attain the vertical oneness with your Presence and then the horizontal oneness with all life.

So when you reach that 144th level, you see yourself as a completely open door, for you are one with the Presence. And the Presence is an expression of God, and everything else is an expression of God. And thus, you see the oneness of all life. At that point – or even as you begin to approach these higher levels of awareness – you can begin to serve this greater cause, this non-dualistic cause, of promoting and furthering the oneness of all life.

This, then, is the ultimate service. But how do you further this cause? By having no cause, my beloved!

How do you ultimately prove anything? By not seeking to prove anything. By having no agenda, no expectations, no structures in your mind that you are seeking to prove right and get other people to accept. The way to the ultimate service is to be the open door.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Healing Mother Earth.

27. The immaculate vision for the environmental debate

Ascended Master Hilarion through Kim Michaels.

Hilarion I am. As the Chohan of the fifth ray, I will give you the perspective on what you can do to serve in bringing healing to Mother Earth, when you have come to and have begun to pass the initiations of the fifth ray. As Serapis Bey has explained, you will not pass the initiations of the fourth ray, until you begin to go beyond the duality consciousness and the desire to put down other people. So as you do let go of this entire desire to divide people into those who are right and wrong – and to put down those who are wrong – then you can move on to the initiations of the fifth ray.

The fifth ray has been called the ray of healing, because as you begin to pass the initiations of this ray, you seek only to heal all life. This, of course, must begin by healing yourself. Physician, heal thyself, as the old saying goes.

There is no way you can pass the initiations of the fifth ray, unless you are willing to do one simple thing: look at your own state of consciousness and take full responsibility for that state of consciousness. What is the essence of the fallen consciousness? It is that the fallen beings have gone into the consciousness of separation—but what does this mean?

When you are in separation – when you are blinded by the illusion of separation – you have a very simple division in your mind. That division is between what you consider your “self” and what you consider as being external to your self, as being “other” than “self.” And now, when you have this division, you can create the mental image, the illusion, that the self is not responsible for its own state of consciousness—because its state of consciousness is a forced reaction to that which is outside the self. In other words, the self that is in division can project responsibility outside itself. It can project responsibility upon the “other,” instead of accepting that the self is fully responsible for its state of self, its state of consciousness.

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This, then, is what the fallen beings have been doing since they fell in that first sphere. They have managed to seduce numerous other people into doing the same thing. And if you will take another look at the story of how the Serpent in the Garden of Eden deceived Eve, you will – perhaps – get an important insight.

We have said how the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is a symbol for the duality consciousness, in which you define your own truth, your own standard for what is right and wrong. Once you define this standard, you can define any problem and the solution to that problem in such a way that it will always seem as if you – meaning the separate self – are right, as if the separate self can never be wrong. For you have now defined a worldview, which is based on an underlying premise, an underlying paradigm, namely that the self can never be wrong.

Yet if you take another look, what is really being said here? What is being said is that the self is real, that the separate self is real and has some real existence. And thus, when you understand this – when you experience the reality of this – you, meaning the Conscious You, can return to the recognition that it is pure awareness. And therefore, it is not the separate self. And then, the Conscious You can begin to see, that it is not the separate self because the separate self is not. It is not real, it has no existence, it has no permanence.

What the separate self is doing – what the fallen beings have attempted to do since their original fall – is to portray the image that the separate self has reality, has existence, has permanence. Yet the deeper reality is, that everything is subject to the free will of the Conscious You. The separate self has existence, has permanence, only when the Conscious You has projected itself into the separate self, and thus looks at the world through the filter of that separate self—and thereby gives it existence and ongoingness through the power of its awareness.

Can you see, that the underlying message or belief that is being projected by the fallen beings – and by the separate selves of all beings who are blinded by separation – is that the separate self is real, has existence, has ongoingness? And the attempt to prove the separate self right, or to prove that it is never wrong, is really just a camouflage, is really just an attempt to engage you at a surface level of arguing certain points. And therefore never getting to the deeper level, where you say: “But the emperor has nothing on, the separate self has nothing on.” For no matter what argument the separate self might come up with, it all springs from duality—and thus it is all unreal.

“I do not have to argue with the separate self, I do not have to argue with the separate self of other people or the fallen beings. I do not have to continue to argue back and forth in this endless dualistic struggle, that is based on the fact that the fallen beings have captured the privilege of formulating the problem. And therefore have managed to get everyone on earth to debate based on a surface understanding of life, that camouflages and hides the underlying problem. I will never win the battle with the fallen beings, I will never win the battle with the separate selves of other beings. Yet I can transcend the battle by not seeking to win, by not seeking to prove myself right or prove others wrong, but simply walking away from the struggle and instead projecting myself, my Conscious You, into oneness with my I Will Be Presence and the Spirit of Truth.”

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Healing Mother Earth.

26. Accelerating the environmental debate to a new level

Ascended Master Serapis Bey through Kim Michaels.

I am Serapis Bey, and I come to give you the perspective on what you can do to contribute to the environmental debate, if you feel that the fourth ray of purity is the one that most resonates with your current state of consciousness. So what can you, indeed, do? Well, you can realize what is the essence of the fourth ray, namely acceleration.

So, it is not a point to look at the current environmental debate and identify the problems, and then try to solve those problems. The point is to accelerate the entire environmental debate to the level, where there is an entirely new way to look at the problems and to look at potential ways to rise beyond the consciousness that created the problems.

If you reread my previous discourse, you will see that the fourth ray marks a turning point on the path. Students come to the fourth ray only when they have passed through the initiations of the first three rays. And they will pass the initiations of the fourth ray, only when they have found a balance between the three first rays of power, wisdom and love. So in a sense, integration between the first three rays is necessary in order to find this balance. And only when you have balance, will you be able to reach for that something higher that allows you – and that will allow humankind – to accelerate beyond the level of consciousness that has created current environmental problems.

What happens to those that have not found balance between the first three rays is, that they will inevitably go into the perversion of those rays. Thus, they will seek to solve environmental problems based on one, or even more than one, of the perversions of the first three rays. Some will think that the only solution is to use power to overpower those who are the cause of environmental problems. Others will think that it is a matter of using science to find new ways to solve the current problems. And still others will use a perverted form of love to say that it is a matter of turning the clock back to some edenic state, where all the animals ran around, unhindered by man, loving each other. And where even the wolves or the lions ate grass and did not chase other animals.

What you see in all these people is that when there is a lack of balance, they fall right into the age-old dualistic struggle. This struggle is, as we have now explained many times, based on the concept that there is something that is right and something that is wrong—and that you and your thought system have defined the ultimate standard for judging what is right and wrong. People then inevitably become seduced into thinking, that they can use their standard for right and wrong to define who is causing environmental problems. And once you have appointed another group of people as the scapegoat, as the cause, well, then it becomes obvious that the only possible solution is that those other people must stop doing what they are doing that threatens the environment. And if they will not do so voluntarily, well then inevitably it becomes necessary to use some kind of force.

You again go into the age-old struggle of fighting other human beings, seeking to force them. And this has only one effect, namely to perpetuate the struggle, put more and more negative energy upon elemental life and thereby create more and more imbalances in the natural environment.

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How can you become a force for accelerating humankind beyond this age-old struggle? Well, you must lock in to what is the essence of the fourth ray, namely that there is something beyond the struggle and something beyond the duality consciousness that has created and that perpetuates the struggle.

This is the essence of the fourth ray. You may call it the ray of purity, as many have done. Yet you will only understand what purity is, when you understand that it cannot be defined by a standard on earth. For any standard that can be set up on earth, will – at the present level of consciousness – become just another dualistic standard for judging other people.

So, what can give you a deeper understanding of the fourth ray? Well, my beloved, my brother, Paul the Venetian, said that his love is for beauty. And indeed, one could take beauty and say that that which is pure is also that which is beautiful. Take, for example, an honest look at the animal species found on earth. You may look at the African savanna and think this represents an example of some unspoiled wilderness that should have been left as it was, untouched by the white man.

Yet is a hippopotamus beautiful? Is a rhinoceros beautiful? Is a crocodile beautiful? Is a wildebeest beautiful? Take an honest look at many of the animal species found on this planet and evaluate them based on your current sense of beauty. You will find, if you are honest, that many of them are not beautiful. You will find that there are many other things in nature that are not beautiful, even according to your current standard of beauty.

For truly, if you take a look, you will see that, of course, beauty can also be perverted and has indeed been perverted, especially by the advertising industry. Nevertheless, if you go beyond this outer, programmed sense of beauty, you will see that most people have an inherent sense of what is beautiful. And this sense is not really easy to define as an outer standard. It is ineffable, transcendental, hard to pin down. But it is an instant intuitive reaction, that you can learn to recognize whenever you view something. If you pay attention, you will find that in your heart you will have an instant sensation of whether this is beautiful or not.

And this sense can be developed, until you have a clear sense of what is pure and impure. For that which is pure, will also be beautiful. For surely, the Elohim could never envision something that was ugly, unbalanced or inharmonious. And so, you see that your intuitive sense is your connection to your I Will Be Presence. Your I Will Be Presence has a desire to express itself in the material world, but it was not the I Will Be Presence of any person that brought forth the many ugly things you currently see on earth, whether you call them natural or man-made.

The I Will Be Presence has a desire to express itself within the framework set by the Elohim and the Chain of Being, going all the way back to the Creator. And when you are in tune with this River of Life, this flowing stream of the Holy Spirit, you will bring forth only what is beautiful, what is harmonious and therefore raises the vibration of the All. When you have some sense of atunement with your I Will Be Presence, you will have that instant sense of whether something is beautiful according to the spherical sense of the Presence, or whether something is out of alignment with this universal sense of beauty, harmony and purity.

If you are willing to develop this sense – this intuitive sense of beauty, of harmony, of purity – then you can become the open door for bringing this element into the environmental debate. And when you realize that that which is not beautiful is not in alignment with the higher vision of the Elohim, then you can become the open door for bringing an impulse into the environmental debate that is sorely missing.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: Healing Mother Earth.