TOPICS: The closed circle of conditions – There is no ultimate system – Duality as a closed circle – The dream of the fallen beings – Become a representative of Freedom’s Flame – Anchoring the Freedom Flame in Saint Petersburg – You need no structure – A golden-age vision for Russia – Progressive revelation – The core belief that imprisons you – The plot to suppress spirituality – Form has no power over Spirit – How your influence multiplies – Killing Christhood –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 12, 2010 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The closed circle of conditions

Saint Germain I AM and I AM free. Why are you not free? Because you are not me. Why are you not me? Because you are not free. So you see, this is an illustration of the duality consciousness, where there is a closed circle and you cannot see how to break out of it, because you think that in order to break out of the circle created by conditions, you have to live up to some kind of condition. Yet, of course, when you look at this with the logic of the Christ mind, you see that it makes no sense whatsoever. For what ultimate condition could ever overcome the consciousness of conditions?

Do you not see, that the more you apply yourself to fulfilling a particular condition, the more you actually reinforce the consciousness that is focused on and trapped in conditions? And therefore, you will never overcome the consciousness of conditions by fulfilling any condition whatsoever, not even what you have defined as the ultimate condition. And this is precisely the illusion, that people have been trapped by for so many years.

Look at the Soviet Union, look at the consciousness of communism, the attempt to create a system where everything is organized, so that everything lives up to certain predefined conditions. And then, they think that suddenly you will have some kind of utopian paradise on earth, where the economy will run perfectly, where the production will always be in line with demand, and where everything will go according to the latest five-year plan. And so, they cannot understand why this is not working, why the system is not producing the results that it was designed to produce, why there is not enough, why the shelves are empty in the stores—and the people do not have money to buy anything anyway.

There is no ultimate system

Why is it so, that the Soviet Union – with all of its outer physical power – cannot even sustain itself and its own people? The reason, of course, is this: You cannot create the ultimate system. The attempt to create the ultimate system has been the bane of many civilizations both in known history and beyond known history. This is a pattern, that I have seen and observed over and over and over again. Were you to go back in the records of Akasha and look at the past of this planet, you will see how this has happened over and over and over again. Take the example, where I was the leader of an advanced golden-age civilization, that was located in what is now the Sahara Desert. You have the story of how I realized that the consciousness of the people now had to be put to the ultimate test. Would they – instead of looking to me as a leader – would they find the Christ within themselves, or would they become open to a false leader who would then come in?

So, I did what the spiritual teachers have done throughout the ages: I brought the civilization as high as I could bring it, and then I withdrew. This is a pattern you see over and over again. The true teachers will always withdraw to give the students an opportunity to find the Christ, find the Light, find the creativity, find the Spirit within themselves. That particular civilization was taken to a much higher level than anything you see on earth today. Yet, still a critical mass of the inhabitants of that civilization were not ready and willing to become self-sufficient, and therefore they were open to a dark prince coming from the outside who came in and took power. And what did this dark prince attempt to do? He attempted to turn the civilization into the ultimate system.

What did the civilization have before? It did not have a system. It had the constant creative flow of the Spirit, that was constantly transcending itself and changing and therefore able to adapt to any condition, any problem that came up, and find a creative solution—instead of seeking to destroy problems by imposing a system that would shut out the unpredictable. For this is, indeed, the ultimate aim behind the system: to shut out any unpredictability. So that everything therefore can be foreseen and therefore the society can be run like a machine.

You know very well that Isaac Newton started a period in physics, where many scientists looked at the entire universe as a giant machine, as a giant clockwork, and where they believed, that everything was predefined by the initial conditions. And once the machine had been set in motion, if you knew the laws of the machines and the initial conditions, you would be able to predict everything that would happen in the future, because everything was set on a predefined track. Then, you know also – if you have studied physics – that with the advent of quantum physics, this mindset was finally challenged, although it has not been abandoned by a lot of the people in the world, even many in the scientific community.

Yet the essence of quantum physics is precisely, that nothing can be predicted with ultimate certainty. You can only predict probabilities; you cannot predict with certainty. And why can you not predict with certainty? Because everything depends on free will, and you cannot predict in advance what choice a being with free will can make. You can predict the probability that, given that this being had made these kind of choices in the past, it is likely that it will make these kind of choices in the future. But you cannot know for sure, because there is always the possibility that a being will surprise even itself and therefore make a choice it has never made before.

Duality as a closed circle

This, then, is the only way out of the closed circle that I started by describing. The closed circle of the duality consciousness will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and it will remain a self-fulfilling prophecy – an unresolvable enigma – until you come to the point, where you make a choice that you have not made before, where you do the unpredictable, where you beat the odds, where you beat the statistics. And suddenly you say: “Is there a different way to look at this? Is there a different way to do this?”

And that is when you reach up for the direction from your higher being, from the ascended masters, from a true teacher—whether in embodiment or not. That is when your mind is open to the true teacher who will give you, not a direction of what to do but will give you a frame of reference, that there is a reality outside the mental box of the duality consciousness or outside the system in which you have grown up. And therefore, you can make different choices.

Do you see, as Kuan Yin attempted to explain, that what was attempted in the Soviet Union was indeed to destroy the potential, that someone would make this kind of unpredictable choice, this kind of creative choice. The fallen beings behind the creation of communism, especially Soviet communism, wanted to destroy individuality and creativity, so that nothing could overthrow and overturn the system, so that the system, like a machine, would keep grinding away into the distant future. They attempted to create a system that was immortal, just as individuals attempt to make their egos immortal.

This was an attempt to do on earth what only God can do. For only God can make things permanent, and yet, that permanence cannot be manifest in the material realm, in the world of form, but only in the world beyond the material, in the ascended realm. And yet, even then things are not permanent, for they are constantly ascending, transcending themselves.

The dream of the fallen beings

So you see, the attempt to create something permanent on earth is the ultimate dream of the fallen beings. For they think that if they could manage to create this system that could not be overthrown – but would keep sustaining itself – then they would have created, they think, a viable alternative to God’s creation. This is their logic. It is, of course, not the Christ logic, for in the Christ logic you know that nothing in the world of form can be permanent. Nevertheless, this is what they believe in their duality consciousness, in their sense of separation from the reality of God, but they cannot fathom the reality that even God is transcending itself. And therefore, they think that God is permanent. And they think that it is possible to create something in this world that is permanent, because they think that they have created a permanent graven image of God that can be maintained.

So then, what is the deeper reality? How do you break out of this closed system of the separate self? How do you become free? Well, only by realizing, that you are a formless being—and therefore you cannot be trapped in, cannot be limited by, any form whatsoever. For you are more than any form in this world, and therefore, you cannot be bound by any form. And therefore, no matter that you have grown up in a repressive system, such as Soviet communism – that has hammered into your mind and being that you are nothing but a material being, that you have come from dust, that you will return to dust – no matter all of this propaganda, all of this brainwashing, nevertheless, you are the Conscious You. And you can at any moment leave behind that limited sense of identity, for you have not become that identity. You have only projected your being into it, so that you look at the world through the filter of that identity.

But when you realize, that you have only projected yourself into it, then you realize you can also withdraw your being from it, and therefore return to that pure awareness, that pure state of consciousness that you are, that is beyond any form. And when you realize, when you re-align your attention, your focus with that formless reality, that formless pure consciousness, then you are free of that form, that form-based sense of self. Nevertheless, that does not mean that you are one with freedom.

Become a representative of Freedom’s Flame

And thus, I wish to discourse with you about the possibility, that you can become a representative, an example, of the Freedom Flame on earth, that you might bring into society the Freedom Flame. So that you can give people a frame of reference, that they may see and experience that it is possible for a human being to be truly free, while still expressing itself through a physical body.

For you realize, of course, that the physical body is not the same as a separate sense of identity. It is possible to be in a physical body – or rather to express yourself through a physical body – without being blinded by the illusion of duality and separation. This is what Jesus demonstrated, this is what Gautama and other spiritual teachers have demonstrated, including myself when I was given the dispensation of appearing as the Wonderman of Europe, where I took on the physical body but was not strictly speaking in physical embodiment.

So, this is then one of the ultimate forms of service you can give on this planet, that is, to withdraw your sense of identity from the dualistic identity, the separate self, to first come to the point, where you know you are the formless self. Where, as Serapis Bey spoke about, you have no opinions, you have no need to project anything, you are not evaluating things in terms of good or bad, right or wrong. You are simply experiencing things as they are without any judgment, without any analysis, without any evaluation. You are just observing and focusing your consciousness. Yet, you can then take the next step. You can take the step of becoming one with one of the flames of God, be it the Flame of Freedom or another flame, as is your individual choice, and according to your I Am Presence and the lineage out of which you have come.

So you see, my beloved, I, Saint Germain, do not desire to come back into physical embodiment, or even to take on a physical body. For I desire YOU to be the embodiments of the Freedom Flame that I AM—those of you who feel this calling. And thus, this is indeed my thrust: to help you awaken to the reality, that when you know you are a conscious self that is beyond form, you can then project yourself into the Freedom Flame that I AM. You can become one with that Freedom Flame to the point, where you become that Freedom Flame in embodiment. And therefore, in a very real sense you become Saint Germain in embodiment, although you still retain your individuality, but you are an extension of myself in embodiment. And that is when you become the ultimate example of freedom to the people on earth.

Anchoring the Freedom Flame in Saint Petersburg

And I give this dictation precisely here in Russia because I come with a gift to the Russian people and the Russian nation and those who are part of the former Soviet Union. I, Saint Germain, have been given the dispensation to anchor a portion of the Freedom Flame here in the city of Saint Petersburg. It is not anchored in a particular physical location, so you do not need to go out and look for the place where the Freedom Flame is anchored. You need to instead tune in to it in your heart, for of course the Freedom Flame is beyond form and cannot be confined to a particular physical location; not even a temple built in its honor can confine it.

So you see, you then have the opportunity, you who are part of the former Soviet Union, you have the opportunity to tune in to this Freedom Flame, to embody it, to a larger or smaller degree as you are able right now, and therefore to bring that Freedom Flame with you wherever you go. So that you can give the people who have been oppressed by Soviet communism an example of someone who dares to be free. Of course, for you to embody that Freedom Flame, you must do what other masters have said before me. You must take a look at yourself, you must take a look at the structures in your mind. And then you must use the cosmic wrecking ball to shatter those structures, so that you can be free of the structures—for only then can you be Freedom in embodiment.

How did I become one with the Flame of Freedom? By systematically looking at the structures in my mind, seeing how they imprisoned my Spirit in a form, that I thought I could not go beyond. And then, when I noticed such a structure, I would look at it with absolute honesty and determination, until I understood the belief that made me create that structure and that made me maintain it—thinking it was somehow permanent, inevitable, had power over me or that I needed it for some reason or another.

You need no structure

You are a god-free being. The Conscious You is a god-free being. You need no structure. You do not need a structure in order to define your identity, for you have the ability to project yourself up to the I Am Presence and know your divine identity, your divine individuality. Neither do you have need of a structure in order to express yourself in the material world. For again, you can do what Jesus described in the Basilica of Saint Peter’s: you can be in tune with the I AM Presence and allow the I Am Presence to express itself through you without knowing ahead of time what will be done.

It is only the ego that forms the structure of what you should do or what you should not do. It is only the ego, that makes you feel the need to follow some outer religious teaching, whereby you can say, that if I do what this religion says, or if I do what this ascended master teaching says, then I am always good, then I am always right. And then, one day God will simply have to accept me into heaven, even though I have not only maintained the structures I had before I found the path, I have actually built this elaborate structure of how good and spiritual I am and how much I know, and how much I understand about the spiritual path, and how I can recite this or that teaching endlessly without seeing that the Spirit is not in the teaching, the Spirit is beyond the teaching.

A golden-age vision for Russia

What then, is my golden-age vision for Russia? Well, it is indeed that Russia becomes a land of freedom, a land of creative freedom, a land of creative expression. This is what you saw in the early days and decades of this city, where it was founded on a greater vision. It was founded on creative freedom, although at the time it was creative freedom only for the few, for the leaders of society. But what I envision for the Golden Age in Russia is, that there will be creative freedom for the many. Certainly not for everyone, but that a very large percentage of the population will feel that creative freedom flowing through them. And therefore, Russia will be a center of culture, art, music, but also of innovation in many areas of life.

What you have seen in the Soviet Union was that Russia became an industrial power, but it did so in a mechanized way by reducing people to a kind of machine, that could run other machines and therefore produce certain goods in a certain way, mostly military hardware, that could be used to project the military power of the Soviet Union. But what you have the potential for manifesting in Russia is a new approach to industry, that is not mechanized but based on greater creativity and creative expression.

What I also see for Russia is that Russia will be concentrated in the western part of the current empire, West of the Ural Mountains, whereas the lands East of the mountains will become separate republics. And then I see this western part of Russia, the core of Russia, become more open to the world and especially to Europe. So that it will eventually merge into not only the European Nation, the European Union, but the European unified whole, that I envision as part of the Golden Age. Where, as I have spoken about in Europe, there will be a dissolution, gradually, of nation states and a greater union will begin to emerge. This, of course, will take time. We are not talking years but decades, nevertheless it is the Golden Age vision that I hold.

For you see, what is the heart of Russia? Is it a territory? Is it a country? Or is it a certain state of consciousness? If you go to the very core of what has become the nation of Russia, you find a consciousness, that is not really the consciousness of Russia but the consciousness of a certain mandala of spiritual beings that has been focused over this area but not limited to it. This, of course, is the same with many other nations, and so what can truly help dissolve the nation states is that people begin to tune in to that greater spiritual consciousness out of which they are extensions. And then they see, that it is meaningless to be limited by national borders that are often artificially drawn on a map, drawn with ink the color of blood.

And when you begin to tune in to that greater consciousness, that is when the love of the Spirit will flow like healing waters, that will begin to dissolve the lines on the map. The ink will start running and spreading out until it is no longer a firm line, but there are openings and eventually they all start blending together. So that what used to be nation states now see how they can have much greater advantage by cooperating beyond their borders, cooperating first in regions an then gradually expanding those regions to encompass eventually the entire planet, where humankind realizes that it is one big family, so to speak, but a spiritual family tied together by the Spirit and not by blood relations.

This then, is part of the vision I hold, but my entire vision will not be revealed through this messenger or any other single person, whether it be a messenger from outside of Russia, or inside of Russia. It will be revealed through many different people, some of whom have even never heard the name Saint Germain but nevertheless have tuned in to the Freedom Flame. But there is certainly a potential, that those who are the spiritual people and who are willing to tune in to my Freedom Flame and embody that Freedom Flame, can indeed become the open doors for the revelation of greater and greater detail about the golden-age plan for Russia.

This is something that will happen gradually, for you must also understand, that even though I have in my retreat a detailed plan for Russia, I cannot reveal that plan in its entirety right now, for there is not a single one among you who will be able to grasp the fullness of it at your current level of spiritual enfoldment, vision and imagination. Therefore, the plan must be revealed in stages, not only as you are ready as the spiritual people, but also as the Russian people, or at least the top ten percent of them, are ready to receive this plan and actually accept it as a possibility rather than some unrealistic utopia.

Progressive revelation

For you see, if you give people more than they can currently imagine and accept, they will often go into a state of rejection, and that rejection can then block their minds for a long time to higher ideas. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal only what the people can accept at their current level of consciousness. And then, when they have raised that level of consciousness, you can reveal more.

This, of course, is the entire principle behind progressive revelation. For as Jesus said 2,000 years ago: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.” Thus, you see, even among spiritual students there can be a tendency to believe, that a particular organization has brought forth some ultimate revelation, that will stand as the main religion or the main teaching for the entire Age of Aquarius.

My beloved, will you please realize, that this is indeed the reasoning of the ego, the desire of the ego to set itself up in a superior position because it is following an ascended master teaching. And thus, please realize that certain things can be said precisely to magnify the spiritual pride in the students—that they might have a chance to see it. And I can tell you that many did see it, for they noticed that when they heard or read such statements made in dictations, they felt the pride that was stimulated in themselves by those statements. And therefore, they came to see the pride, and they came to separate themselves from it.

These are the wise ones, the wise ones who look beyond the outer teaching and the outer word, and who realize, that we are never trying to make an absolute statement, for absolute statements cannot be made by words. Absolute images cannot be given in form. The absolute is found only by going beyond teachings, beyond images, beyond the structures in the mind, for only the formless is absolute. This was explained by Kuan Yin, and I encourage you to not only read and listen to this once, but to listen to it over and over again, until her words and the vibration embodied in those words have gone through all of the levels, all of the rungs, all of the steps on the staircase in your consciousness. And until they reach down to that very core belief you have, that makes you believe that form has power over your Spirit.

The core belief that imprisons you

And therefore, it is this core belief that keeps you from being free, for you think you cannot – that you have no right to – just project your conscious self away from that limited self. Do you understand, my beloved, what I am trying to tell you? The forces of this world are trying to make you believe that form, that matter, has power over Spirit and that this power is permanent or at least extends beyond your current lifetime. And therefore, you cannot be free in this lifetime, you cannot be the Christ in this lifetime. It is something that is out there in the future, possibly after you ascend.

Do you see that even an ascended master teaching, that talks about the possibility of the ascension and personal Christhood, can be used to create the mindset, that we only have to continue to give Violet Flame and give decree services for the rest of this lifetime, and then after we leave the earth, then we will ascend, then we will manifest Christhood. My beloved, what good will it do the ascended masters and mankind that you attain Christhood after you ascend? We have no use for Christed beings in heaven, for we have plenty of them already. We have use for Christed beings on earth, where you can provide people that frame of reference, that is the only way that they can begin to see that there is something beyond the duality consciousness.

Do you understand that being the Christ is not actually the same as being an ascended master? Ascending means you leave earth behind permanently. Being the Christ means that you stay in embodiment and you go out in society to demonstrate Christhood. You go out and give people whatever they need, be it a cup of cold water in Christ’s name or a higher teaching. But whatever you give them, you demonstrate by your vibration, that there is something beyond duality and that that something can be embodied by a human being, can be embodied and expressed through the human form. And therefore, it is possible to bring the kingdom of God to earth, to bring the Golden Age into manifestation.

What would be the point in bringing the Golden Age into manifestation in heaven, where everything is golden already? So what would be the point of getting all spiritual people to ascend, and then the earth is left in some lower state? Then the earth would self-destruct. That is not the plan of the Elohim, that is not why the Elohim focused their attention for many, many cycles in order to create the physical platform of this earth. They wanted to see not so much the earth ascend but the inhabitants of earth ascend in consciousness, so that the kingdom of God would be manifest on earth, not in heaven.

The plot to suppress spirituality

For when the kingdom of God is manifest on earth, then earth becomes a magnet, that pulls up the entire sphere to a higher level, instead of being a dead weight that pulls it down, as it has been for some time. So you see, it is indeed a deliberate plot of the fallen beings and the false teachers. They know that there are certain people they cannot prevent from discovering the spiritual path. When you look at the Soviet Union, when you look at many of the initiatives in the West, such as materialism, you see how they have attempted to create these systems and structures that suppress spirituality. But they know they cannot work for all people, so what do they attempt to do? They attempt to create a diversion, so that those who are spiritual or religious think that salvation only comes after life on earth.

And what does this do? It leaves the earth in the control of the fallen beings, for there are none who attain Christhood, whereby they can challenge the fallen beings right here on earth. And then, of course, the earth will not progress. It will go in a downward spiral, and the second law of thermodynamics will cause it to self-destruct. This is not our plan. This is not why I have vowed to stay with earth for the next 2,000 Years. I am the God of Freedom. There are many things I could do in this universe other than staying with this little planet.

Not that there is anything particularly wrong or unattractive about this planet. It has its charms. Nevertheless, when you consider the entire vastness of the spiritual realm, even the vastness of the physical universe, where there are many other planets that need raising, there are many other things I could do with my attention for the next 2,000 Years. So I have, of course, no desire to see, that the Age of Aquarius becomes an age, where a few people from earth ascend but the rest go into a downward spiral, and the entire planet self-destructs. I have no particular desire, after the end of the Age of Aquarius, to come to the Cosmic Counsels and they ask me: “So Saint Germain, how did things go on earth?” And I can only say, “Well, a few dozen people ascended but the earth destructed in a fiery spiral.”

This is not my vision of the end of the Aquarian Age. My vision is, of course, that the earth is raised up to a much higher level. This will still mean, that many more people will ascend, but it also means, that there will be enough people in embodiment with a high enough level of Christhood to raise up the entire planet, and those who are not willing to be raised up, they will then have to go elsewhere. And therefore the entire planet can shift into a higher orbit, into a higher level.

This is my plan. This is my vision, and for that to happen, it will take that some of you will realize the reality, that you do have the right to walk away from the separate self, to walk away from the structures you have built in your society, in your families, in your relationships, in your jobs or whatever you have that is holding you in a certain matrix. I am not thereby saying you now have to go out and leave these structures. What I am saying is that you have the right to transcend the consciousness with which you have engaged in these structures up until this point. You have a right to transcend the self-image that has kept you feeling like you were trapped in these structures.

I am not particularly saying you have to leave the structures behind, although in some cases that will be the case. Nevertheless, there are many of you who can stay in a certain structure, but stay there with a new state of consciousness and thereby bring the light into that structure—so that other people might actually see, that there is an alternative to the structure and the consciousness behind it. But you must come to the realization – if you are to fulfill this role – you must come to the realization, that the structure, the form, has no power over you, because you are a formless Spirit.

Form has no power over Spirit

As long as you deny or refuse to experience pure consciousness, you will believe that form has power over your Spirit. This is the oldest illusion on earth—the oldest illusion. Do you see what is actually happening? You were sent into the world of form, into the material universe as a co-creator. You started co-creating, which was perfectly acceptable. You co-created based on the state of consciousness you had. But what you co-created was a structure that reflected that state of consciousness. But then, instead of transcending that state of consciousness – transcending the structure, letting the structure crumble – you became attached to the structure. And now the structure started owning you. It started exercising power over you, for you felt you could not just leave it behind and see it all crumble, as if it had been for nothing.

This is the idea of letting things die, of surrendering things. Do you understand? The purpose of co-creation is not to create a particular structure and to then maintain it. The purpose is to expand your consciousness, and you can expand your consciousness even by creating a limited structure and then honestly seeing how limited the structure is, learning from that, and then transcending the level of consciousness that created that limited structure. And then, once you have transcended that state of consciousness, what is the point in maintaining the limited structure?

You cannot perfect it, you cannot build onto it. This is the dream behind the Tower of Babel. We will build a tower that will reach into heaven. It cannot be done, for heaven is not a physical location. The only way is to let the structure crumble and then build a new structure from your higher state of consciousness. And then, when you see how that structure works, you transcend that level of consciousness. Now you let that structure crumble, and then you are reborn into a higher sense of self. And this is how you keep building: Letting it crumble, transcending, building again, letting it crumble, transcending, building again. Until you come to the point, where you create a structure, that is not truly a structure for it is so transparent – it is so in alignment with the Laws of God and with the River of Life – that it does not hold your Spirit. It is actually just a vehicle for the expression of the Spirit, and so it will never hide the Spirit.

For do you see, that the structures that are created out of a limited state of consciousness, have density, and therefore hide the Spirit? Look at the physical forms you see here on earth. Can you look at a building, as the one across the street that is all crumbled, and see God behind that structure? No, because it hides the Spirit. But it is possible to create structures that are so transparent, that they do not hide, they reflect the Spirit. And therefore, they make the Spirit visible to others.

How your influence multiplies

This is the way structures are in the Golden Age. In a truly Golden Age there are no structures that hide Spirit; they all reflect, multiply, make visible that, clearly, this is an expression of Spirit. This is what Jesus told to his disciples; to not hide their light but to go out and express it, so that people could see that this could not be a normal human being who was the open door for this kind of expression. This could only be an expression coming from the Spirit through a human being. And that is, then, how people are awakened to a higher potential, the true potential of the human being transcending the human, becoming a Christed being. A being who is free to be the Spirit and to express the spirit in manifestation, instead of having all these conditions that limit the expression of Spirit.

This is what Jesus attempted to show by performing his miracles, by refusing to be held up by rules and traditions, such as the Sabbath and doctrines and dogmas. This is what you can all demonstrate. Here in Russia, look at how many people have not transcended, as Kuan Yin said, the communist consciousness, the communists mindset, making them think they are so limited. Look at how many people have accepted that living in a small, cramped, dilapidated apartment in a concrete apartment building is their lot in life. And they think this is how they will live for the rest of their lives, and they have somehow accepted this. For they think that in their lifetime society could not change so much, that they could have a better existence.

Demonstrate to them that they are not limited by these outer conditions. Not necessarily by you becoming millionaires, but by you becoming millionaires of the Spirit who show them, that your Spirit is not limited by these physical conditions. This is the service you can give. Even though you are few – and you often look at the fact that you are only few, and how can you have an impact on society – but I tell you, that by demonstrating these things in any way you can, your influence can start spreading like rings in the water.

And you will be surprised – when you look back at the end of this lifetime – how many people you have actually influenced by just being the example. For you may see only one person you influence, but that person will carry part of your vibration, part of your Freedom Flame, and that person will meet three others. And they will carry a portion of that flame, and they will each meet five others—and suddenly it spreads exponentially. But you see, someone had to start or the upward spiral could never have taken off, it could never have started accelerating.

Someone must begin, someone must take the first step. Someone must dare to stand out from the crowd and demonstrate, that there is a higher potential. It is possible to let your imagination soar beyond the limitations, that have trapped most people in your society. Look at some of the states that were part of the Soviet Union, who are now not under the Soviet Union, yet they still have some totalitarian form of leadership with presidents that were not truly elected. This is because after being under the Soviet Union for so long, the people could not envision a more enlightened form of leadership. But it will not take that much to make at least some people imagine a higher form of leadership, a higher form of society. And once that starts spreading as rings in the water in the collective consciousness, you will be surprised at the changes that can start occurring in a society.

For as we have attempted to explain to you, everything is a creation of consciousness. And when you change the consciousness, the outer conditions WILL change. It cannot be any other way. This is, of course, again one of the things, that the fallen beings and the false teachers are doing all they can to prevent you from accepting. They do not want you to truly believe, that if you change your consciousness, and help others change their consciousness, then your society will change. They want you to think, that the only way to bring change is to engage in the dualistic struggle. They are even willing to have you struggle against themselves in order to keep you and others in duality.

Killing Christhood

For some of these false teachers do indeed understand, that if enough people raised themselves beyond duality, then their power over that society would quickly come to an end. That is why they are so anxious to destroy the potential for people manifesting their Christhood. That is why King Herod killed all the male babies to kill the one Christ. That is why the Catholic Church have done everything they could to kill Jesus’ example. That is why the communist system did everything they could to kill individuality, so that no Christed being could rise and challenge them.

Dare to be the Christed beings. Dare to envision, imagine and accept that you can manifest a high degree of Christhood in this lifetime. It is not an impossible goal for those of you who have gone through the initiations in Christhood that you have experienced. For many of you have experienced throughout your lives these Christhood initiations. Do not deny your attainment. I am not talking about being unrealistic, for many of you are able – if you are willing – to look at the difference between the pride of the ego and a realistic self-assessment. For do you understand that if you deny the attainment you have at inner levels – because your outer mind cannot accept it – then you are denying your Christhood. And that is not what will help me manifest the Golden Age.

I need those who are not jumping the gun and thinking they have Christhood before they have seen the ego. I am looking for those who will have a realistic assessment of their attainment and who will not deny it. I am not saying you have to go out and proclaim to the world: “I Am the Christ.” I am just saying you need to acknowledge it in yourself, so you are not afraid to express that Christhood in whatever situations you encounter.

And so, in ending this discourse, I simply ask you to remember in the days, weeks and months and years ahead that I have anchored a portion of the Freedom Flame here in the city of Saint Petersburg. Tune in to that flame wherever you are. Feel how it streams from this focus into your own being and chakras and then out to your local area. Make yourselves electrodes of that Freedom Flame wherever you are, and then feel that oneness with me, that oneness with my Being, with my Flame of Freedom. For the more one you dare to feel with me, the more you can be the open door, the more I can step through the veil through you.

So again, do not accept these beliefs of the false teachers that form can prevent you from being one with the God of Freedom, or that you have to wait until after you ascend to attain oneness with me. Dare to recognize, that you have the potential to be one with me right now while you are in embodiment. Then focus on building and expanding that sense of oneness, until you are able and willing to face me openly and fully, to look me straight in the eye and say: “Saint Germain, I want to be one with you, I want to be free, I want to be Freedom in embodiment, and there is nothing in myself, that I am not willing to look at in order to attain that oneness.”

That is when I will indeed begin to help you in an accelerated way, and that is when you will begin to see changes appear in your being, until you look back at yourself and realize just how much freer you are than what you used to be. Dare to imagine yourself as one with the God of Freedom. Dare to imagine, until your imagination begins to become acceptance, and that acceptance then leads to oneness. Imagination, acceptance, oneness. That is the new higher formula for alchemy, that I wish to release for the Golden Age. And thus, my release is complete. I thank you for your attention, for your Being, for your openness to the Flame of Freedom, and I bid you a very fond, a very loving and a very joyous adieu.

Copyright © 2010 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: There if a forward progression to life – This marks the official beginning of the Aquarian age – How civilization has changed – Understanding the challenge that Jesus hurled at humankind – The consciousness of elitism must be transcended – Overcome the attachment to outcome and stop judging yourself – Understanding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – Question your preconceived opinions about the Aquarian age – Moving away from force-based technology – Shifting into the Aquarian age consciousness – In the Golden Age, diversity will be seen as the greatest potential – Become an expert in one area – Democracy is the most demanding form of government – Christ proved the triumph of individuality over structures – Pessimists will not bring the Golden Age into manifestation –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, March 22, 2010 through Kim Michaels.

I have been known for some time now as the ascended master Saint Germain. Yet, Saint Germain is but a name, and I am more than a name—for I am a Living Spirit, constantly transcending myself as an expression of the Flame of Freedom, that I have chosen to merge into, to become one with, to become the embodiment of for planet earth. This is how I earned the office of the Hierarch of the Aquarian age—by being willing to transcend myself, until I had raised my self-awareness to the level, that is required for one to serve in the position of being the main hierarch for a 2,150 year cycle on earth.

Jesus had done so before me, likewise raising his sense of self-awareness to the point of being able to serve as the hierarch of the Age of Pisces. I received great inspiration from Christ—not from the outer life of Christ that was preserved in the image given by the official Christian churches, but I received inspiration from within, through my own ponderings over many embodiments on the true inner message of Christ. A message that I tried to express, as best I could, through various embodiments, including through the works of Shakespeare and the writings of Francis Bacon, seeking to always instill that drive for self-transcendence as the very key factor, that will bring about a new and better age—no matter where you are.

There if a forward progression to life

For is it not so – and is it not obvious to those who have opened their minds and hearts – that the key to growth is always self-transcendence? Life is transcending itself; everything is constantly transcending itself. You may look at nature, you may look at the cycles of winter, spring, summer, fall, winter and so on, and you may think, that this is but a repetitive cycle. But look at history down through the millennia, down through the eons, and see that it is not just a cycle that repeats itself, for there is a forward progression. There is a progression that brought forth, gradually, more complex life forms, until a physical body had been brought into existence with a brain and nervous system sophisticated enough to support the embodiment of the living spirits, the individualizations of the Creator’s Being, the co-creators that we are.

Look even at the earth revolving around the sun. Look how you might have grown up with the image, that the earth simply moves around the sun, and when it has moved around the sun one time, it returns to the same position that it was a year ago. This is the common perception—or rather the common misperception. For my beloved, you do not seriously believe, do you, that the sun is stationery in space? Have not your scientists told you that the universe is constantly expanding, have they not told you, that your sun is one star in a larger system, called a galaxy, and that it moves along with that galaxy? Even the entire galaxy is moving in space, so you see – when you think deeper about this – that when the earth has revolved around the sun one time, it does not come back to the same position in space. For the sun has moved, meaning that the trajectory, the path, of the earth around the sun is not an elliptical orbit: it is a spiral that moves in a clear direction.

And such it is with everything in the material universe. Everything is moving, not in circles but in spirals—spirals that have a clear direction. It is either upwards or downwards. It is either an expanding spiral or a collapsing spiral, for there is nothing in between. The dream of the elliptical, stationary orbit is but a dream. Where does this dream come from? It comes from the human ego, which wants to preserve itself by stopping the forward progression of the entire universe, if it could. And given that I cannot, it seeks to create the impression of something stationary. And because of free will and the density of the matter realm, it is indeed possible to create the image that something is stationary, something can be preserved, something can survive for a time in its present form. Indeed, this is the central challenge of life but it is especially the challenge faced by humankind right now.

This marks the official beginning of the Aquarian age

For I, Saint Germain, come with great joy to tell you, that this day, March 22, 2010, marks the first day of the Aquarian age. The changeover from the Piscean to the Aquarian taking place at midnight, between the 21st and the 22nd of March, 2010. And thus I, Saint Germain, greet you as the Hierarch of the Aquarian Age on this first day of the Aquarian age. What is the significance of this day? Well, this can be viewed from two different perspectives. First, from the overall perspective, the significance is simply this: everything has changed. Everything has changed. Everything on earth has changed in an instant, and nothing will be the same.

Yet will people notice that everything has changed? Not for a while—for some of them for a long while. Let me take you back, if you will, to the day before I, embodied as Columbus, discovered America. After a long struggle with the crew on my ships, I was relieved to wake up to the discovery of land. When you look back, you will see that that day, October 12, 1492, truly marked the beginning of a new era, with the colonization of America and everything America stands for in the world today. Nevertheless, the day itself hardly seemed significant at all. It was a day that most people did not notice as being any different from any other day.

I, of course, noticed it, chiefly because through the discovery of land, there was less risk that I would be thrown overboard by my own crew. And that was a fate I preferred to avoid at the time, being somewhat attached to my physical body, even being somewhat attached to the desire to make a significant discovery. For I was, of course, back then an unascended being and not free of ego. There was a certain amount of ego in the entire desire to discover new land. There was even a certain amount of ego in the desire to prove the old mindset wrong, to prove once and for all, that the earth is not flat, even to prove the fallacy of the Roman doctrines—that I was not much in favor of in that embodiment. Having, of course, suffered from the abuse of the Christian churches for several embodiments, and having clearly seen how – during those times of the Middle Ages – it was indeed the Catholic Church, that was the major hindrance to progress in Europe and to the dawning of a new age.

Nevertheless, beyond a certain ego involvement, a certain desire to prove them wrong, there was also a deeper desire to be part of the River of Life that brings civilization forward. And so it has been with many other people throughout history, who have brought forth new ideas, new ideas that brought civilization forward. In some cases the people were driven by selfish motives of fame or fortune or writing themselves into history. Yet they were still open to being the recipients of a particular new idea, that brought society forward. And this is indeed how civilization has progressed, in the past 2,000 years, from the stage that you saw back then to the stage that you see today.

How civilization has changed

Let us look at the civilization of 2,000 years ago, and let us look at the dominant civilization of the time, namely the Roman Empire. You will see, that the Roman Empire and the Roman church have provided the major challenges – they illustrate the major challenges – that humankind must transcend – were meant to transcend – during the Piscean age. The challenges people must transcend in order to move into the aquarian age consciousness, and therefore manifest the golden age, that is the highest potential for the Aquarian age.

What is it indeed, that the Roman Empire and the Roman Church represent? They represent the consciousness that started with the original fallen angels, when they fell in a higher sphere, out of the arrogance of thinking they knew better than God how to run God’s creation. They thought that they formed an elite with special powers, with special wisdom and insight and intellectual prowess. And therefore, they thought that they deserved to rule the people. They deserved to rule the new co-creators in the sphere into which they had fallen, after they refused to self-transcend and ascend with their original sphere. They thought that in their sophistication, they were better suited for ruling over the co-creators, who were yet new and yet experimenting. Yet the co-creators were simply the children of God, and as Jesus said: “Unless you become as little children you shall in no wise enter the kingdom.” And so, they were not nearly as unsophisticated as the fallen angels thought—and as they think to this day.

You see, what the fallen angels did was they created a standard for sophistication, that was based on themselves and their own state of consciousness. This was not a universal standard, it was not a logical standard, it was not a natural standard, it was not a standard set by God—it was a standard set by the fallen consciousness, the consciousness and duality and separation. It was a standard that attempted to make a virtue out of necessity, the necessity that you are in when you enter duality, and therefore cannot be one with the River of Life. And therefore, you must take everything by force, for it will not come to you easily when you are not willing to surrender yourself, your separate sense of self, into that flow of the River of Life.

This is the very consciousness of taking by force, and the fallen ones had no other option. And thus, they attempted to make it seem like taking by force was a virtue, and that those who were the best at forcing others were the ones, that were best suited to rule, and were indeed the ones that should be seen as the most sophisticated—even as the representatives of God on earth. This is the height of their arrogance. The Roman emperors proclaimed themselves as gods on earth, requiring the people to worship them as such and accept that everything they said or did was infallible.

Ahh, the dream of infallibility. Is that not also the dream of a stationary orbit, that something stands still and can be preserved. For the emperor’s word is always infallible, no matter what it is and no matter what the consequences. And this is precisely the consciousness, that was carried from the Roman Empire, and as the Roman Empire began to crumble was transferred to the Roman church, the Roman Catholic Church. Where it also was declared that the Pope was infallible, that he was speaking for God, that he was the only true representative of Christ on earth.

Understanding the challenge that Jesus hurled at humankind

So then, this is the consciousness that humankind has been up against for these past 2,000 years. Certainly, they have been up against it before, but they have not really been up against it; they have been subjected to it. For it was only 2,000 years ago that humankind received a true opportunity to see and transcend this consciousness. And what gave them that opportunity to transcend the fallen consciousness, the consciousness that something on earth can be infallible, can be permanent? Well, it was, my beloved, the incarnation of Jesus as the living Christ. When he walked the earth those 2,000 years ago, he hurled the challenge at humankind: there is a higher reality than the fallen consciousness. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father will ye do, for he was a murderer from the beginning.” He murdered truth, the fallen ones murdered truth, murdered innocence, murdered the very transcendence of life.

For life is transcendence. Without transcendence, there is no life. Life is not in a stationary orbit; life is constantly transcending and renewing itself. And a species that will not adapt and renew itself, will become extinct. That is the one valuable lesson, that can be learned from the entire concept of evolution and the survival of the fittest—meaning the most adaptable, those who are most willing to transcend the old matrix.

Look at the life of Jesus. Born in humble circumstances, born like any other man—despite the myths that were added later about a star appearing. I was there as Saint Joseph – or rather, as Joseph the carpenter – when Jesus was born. You have seen the images of a manger with a star appearing above it. Well, I was there and I saw no such star, my beloved. This was an entirely metaphorical thing, that could only be deduced by those who had inner sight—not a physically visible star, as the legends would have it.

For what have they done to Christ? He embodied as an “ordinary” human being in order to show the potential that all have. The fallen ones, of course, did not want people to realize their true potential, so what did they do. Well, first the Roman emperors tried to suppress Christianity. And then, when it became clear to one pragmatic emperor – one political animal by the name of Constantine – that it could not be suppressed, what did they do? Well, they said, “Let’s use it then—if we can’t kill it, let’s use it. Let’s accept it as the official religion, but of course in doing so, let us add a few subtle conditions that no one will notice—a few conditions that twist and turn Christianity.”

Not that this was an invention of the emperor Constantine; it was already started by other fallen beings who had joined Christianity, and who had started to glorify Jesus and set him up as an exception rather than as an example. And so, it was easy for Constantine to magnify this, to put the support of the Roman Empire behind those who had the view of Christianity, that most suited his political ends. Gradually, you saw the formation of a church which elevated Christ to the status of God, thereby being fundamentally different from other people on this planet, therefore being completely unsuited to serve as an example for them and their potential, for he was so different. He was of the same substance as the father, he was God from the very beginning.

Well, my beloved, you are all God from the very beginning, because without him was not anything made that was made. And thus “ye are gods” as Jesus himself said. And that, of course, is precisely what the fallen ones do not want you to realize. They do not want you to realize your true co-creative potential.

Not that you are gods in the sense of the fallen ones wanting to set themselves up as god on earth. You are not God in the fullest sense; you are individualizations of God. That does not mean, that anyone of you is superior to any other, for how can one expression of God be superior to another expression of God? You are all individualizations of God, you are all equal in your uniqueness. Yet what the fallen consciousness has done is, it has imposed that value judgment, whereby it now becomes possible to say, that due to certain characteristics here on earth, one person is unique, one person is above all others—be it an emperor, or a pope or Christ himself.

The consciousness of elitism must be transcended

This is the very foundation for the consciousness of elitism, the consciousness of exclusivity. And this is the consciousness, that humankind has been faced with the challenge of transcending during the past 2,000 years. For by the very embodiment of Jesus himself, the challenge became absolute, in the sense that no human being on earth has been able to ignore it completely. Yet of course, many human beings have ignored it to a very large extent.

And what you see in the past 2,000 years is indeed the pattern, that the majority of the population have wanted strong leaders to rule them, precisely because that meant, that they could ignore the challenge of acknowledging and expressing their true creative potential. Look at the teachings we have brought forth about the human ego, about dramas personal and epic. Look at the teachings and read between the lines, and you will see, that what we have given you are the very keys to overcoming this precise consciousness that I am addressing here. Whereby you overcome your own reluctance to acknowledge yourself as a co-creator with God, to acknowledge your co-creative potential.

We have given you the keys to overcoming this consciousness. Yet the problems here is, that this requires a certain effort, as it seems. It is not truly an effort, in the sense, that you have to struggle against something. But it is an effort in the sense, that you do have to go through a process, that will seem like a struggle. Because you do have to go through the process of raising yourself beyond the downward pull of the mass consciousness—that simply wants to live an unconscious life, an unawakened life. And thus, you have to follow the process – demonstrated by Jesus, demonstrated by the Buddha and other spiritual examples – of raising, of accelerating, your consciousness, your sense of self beyond the level of the mass consciousness. So that you can accept, that you are not simply a human being, you can accept that you are a co-creator with God, you are an individualization of God.

And therefore, you do have the potential to be part of the Golden Age of Aquarius, be part of co-creating and manifesting that age as a physical reality on planet earth. This is somewhat of an effort. Many of you have been engaged in this effort for decades, but you have not fully engaged it—yet. You have fallen prey to a subtle state of consciousness, that we have also exposed in our many discourses and dictations, namely the belief that you can follow an outer path. As we have said before, even in spiritual organizations, there is that consciousness of believing, that if we only study the outer teaching, give decrees or prayers or rosaries, do this or do that, then we will one day ascend.

But as we have explained, most recently by Serapis Bey, the ascension is not an automatic or mechanical process. It will never happen by you doing outer things. The outer things may have a beneficial effect of transmuting energy, but they will not raise your consciousness. For raising your consciousness can only happen as the result of a conscious will, a conscious decision, a conscious choice.

You have been given free will by God, and what has enabled the fallen beings to rule the earth is precisely that they have found ways – clever ways – to subdue free will, to make people give away their free will, to give up their choices, and leave the choices to the rulers, the emperors, the kings and the potentates of this and that system. You have been given an individual free will. It can be exercised only by you, and it can be exercised only consciously. And given the current state of the mass consciousness on earth, it is indeed a certain effort, that is required for you to consciously choose beyond the mass consciousness.

This I freely admit, as it was an effort for me as Columbus to choose to go against the mass consciousness and say, “No, the earth must be round.” We all understand this in the ascended realm, yet we have all raised ourselves above it, and we know you can do the same. We also know, that you can do it only by doing it as we did it: by consciously making the effort, making the determination, that you are willing to be conscious, that you are willing to make conscious choices—conscious choices, instead of blindly following the mass consciousness, or the leaders who claim to have superiority, even infallibility. This is the choice faced here at the beginning of the Aquarian age. Will you begin to make conscious choices—for which you take full and exclusive responsibility? Or will you find some guru or leader, who claims to have some infallible characteristic, and then blindly follow that leader?

For as the Great Divine Director, and my own guru, has recently explained, divine direction is not a straitjacket; it is not that you have one choice to follow divine direction and then you make no more choices, for now you just do what you are told from above. Instead, the reality is that divine direction has only one purpose: it is to help you make better choices and thereby grow in self-awareness and the use of your co-creative abilities.

Overcome the attachment to outcome and stop judging yourself

You see, an aspect of the fallen consciousness is the attachment to specific outcomes and results on earth. And therefore, they have set up this entire consciousness, that certain of your choices are wrong according to some standard. And they use this to get you to judge yourself, until you have had so much pain of making these so-called wrong choices, that you finally reason: “I’ve had enough of making these wrong choices—I will no longer make any choices.” I will follow an outer leader, I will follow a religion, I will follow a guru or messenger. Or, I will seek for some divine direction from someone who will tell me what to do. Well, my beloved, if you are looking for some nonmaterial entity to tell you what to do, I can assure you, that that nonmaterial entity will not be a member of the ascended masters.

For we do not have the goal to get you to a point, where you never make wrong choices on earth. Our goal is your overall growth in self-awareness. And as we have said many times, you can grow equally from any choice you make, whether it is “wrong” or “right” according to some earthly standard. Our only concern is to help you learn and grow, and thereby transcend and grow in your co-creative ability and awareness. That is our concern.

Do you, really and truly, my beloved, believe, that we sit up here and watch your every move and judge you harshly? Do you believe, that for every choice you make, the karmic board is sitting up here with a scorecard, and they put a little check when you make a good choice and they put a minus when you make a bad choice? And they add up all the minuses, until you reach some critical mark and then “Bam” you are going down into that fiery hell, that the Christians have portrayed so vividly for so many centuries. Do you seriously believe, that this is how the karmic board works? Because if you do, I can tell that you, that you have fallen prey to the fallen consciousness and their mind control and their brainwashing, and their projection of these false images into the collective consciousness.

And if you seriously believe, that this is how the karmic board and the ascended masters work, then it is time for you to realize, that you have been had by the fallen angels. And it is time to wake up and throw away these preconceived image, based on duality and judgmentalness. It is time to go within and be honest and say: “I am beginning to see how the fallen consciousness has affected my view of God and my view of the ascended masters. And I am hereby determining – by my free will choice – that I am willing to know God and the ascended masters as they really are. I am willing to know reality.”

My beloved, ask and you shall receive. Ask with a willingness to look beyond your mental boxes, your preconceived opinions, your epic dramas, and we will reveal our true beings to you. For we are right here with you all the time. It is only in your mind, that there has been created the impression, the image, of a distance, of an unbreachable gulf between you and us. And that unbreachable gulf was created precisely in the fallen consciousness. For there is an unbreachable gulf between the fallen consciousness and the ascended consciousness. There is no question about this. There is a gulf between the fallen consciousness and the ascended consciousness. But you are an individualization of the Creator’s Being, and you have a choice: Do you want to step into the fallen consciousness; do you want to step into the ascended consciousness?”

To which station do you want to attune the radio of your consciousness? Turn that dial of consciousness. It may have been stuck on a certain station for many embodiments. The dial might have gotten a little rusty, my beloved. It might be stuck on a station, that it has been tuned in to for so long, thinking perhaps it was the only station—or that it would get you to heaven if you just kept tuning in to it long enough. So make that effort to wrest the dial free from the corrosion, to get it moving again. Turn it back and forth perhaps for a little while, just to clear the rust and the dirt. But then turn it towards the higher stations, until you reach us. For it is not that difficult, but it has become much easier, as the planet has shifted from the piscean to the aquarian mindset.

It requires less of an effort today to tune in to the reality of the ascended masters than it did yesterday. And, as time progresses, and as the collective consciousness continues to progress, it will require less and less of an effort. But it will still require the choice, that you are willing to question your old mental images, the graven images. Without a willingness to question your graven images, no progress is possible. This is the way it has been always—always. For free will is the essence of growth.

Understanding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—these are three of the rights defined in that document, the Declaration of Independence. But what is life? It is that which does not stand still, but is constantly transcending itself. If there is no self-transcendence, there is only death, which is why Jesus said, “I have come that all might have life and that more abdundantly manifest.” Life is Christ, Christ is transcendence—self-transcendence, constant, constant, ever-flowing self-transcendence. Without self-transcendence, there is no life, only a repetition of that which is. And that which is is death—this is the death consciousness.

My beloved, if you are a spiritual student of any kind, then I tell you: the cycles of time have turned. You are now in the Aquarian age. You have an unprecedented opportunity to tune in to the aquarian age consciousness, the golden age consciousness. And thus, it is time to let the dead bury their dead. Let those who will not question their mental boxes—just let them be. Move on. Question your mental box, raise your self-awareness, start making conscious decisions. Go within and find the point of stillness, as I have said. And start acting from that point, as Gautama Buddha explained at New Year’s.

Now then, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Life is self-transcendence, then what is liberty? Well, men think that it is some permanent state, where they have a certain form of government that gives them certain laws and rights. But I tell you, again, nothing can stand still, everything must be transcended. So liberty is also self-transcendence. Only in constant self-transcendence, will you remain free. For, my beloved, you may think that in the past there was a tyrant, who did not give the people certain rights. You may think that you have now created a government, even a constitution, that gives certain rights to its citizens, and that these rights are written into certain laws. And therefore, you may think that you have it made. But I tell you, that it is not so, for as you can see, even in the United States today, the constitutional freedoms are constantly being eroded. And in fact, the very laws that yesterday seemed to set you free from some tyrant, will now become a limitation in themselves. They might hold society back from transcending, going to a higher level. And thus, again, only in self-transcendence can there be continued liberty.

Which then leads us on to happiness. And what is happiness? Can there be happiness without self-transcendence? Nay, there cannot. There can be, perhaps, some impression of happiness, and that is what people seek two create on earth by defining an outer standard for happiness and saying, “When I have this or that, then I must be happy!” And then they seek to spend their entire lives acquiring what will supposedly make them happy. And when they get it, they end up realizing, that they are not in a permanent state of happiness, for now the main concern is to defend and maintain that which supposedly makes them happy.

So, while they didn’t have it, they were striving to acquire it, and now that they have it, they are striving to maintain it. And either way, this takes them away from happiness. For what is happiness? It is constant self-transcendence, and what is self-transcendence? It is that you are not attached to anything on earth, for you know you are more than anything on earth, and whatever you have on earth only serves as a vehicle for your self-expression. And any day, your self-expression might go in a different direction, spontaneously, without you knowing ahead of time, as Jesus so recently explained in Rome. And therefore, if you are surrendered to the flow of the River of Life, you are not attached to any outer possessions. You are willing to flow and to take your self-transcendence in new directions, in new spheres, that you may not have been able to even dream about before, when you were so focused on a particular form of self expression.

Question your preconceived opinions about the Aquarian age

There is nothing wrong in being focused on a certain sense of self-expression right now. But when you become attached to it and think, that it has to be this way for the indefinite future, or even for the rest of your lifetime, well, then that self-expression has become a limit to the expression of your Spirit. And thus, I tell you: if you have any preconceived opinions, any preconceived images, of what the Aquarian age should be – or what your life and your contribution to the Aquarian age should be – then this day marks the start of the cycle, where it would be highly advantageous for you to reconsider those images. If you truly are to make the shift from the piscean to the aquarian age consciousness, then I can assure you, that all of your preconceived images about the aquarian age and your own self-expression must be questioned.

Many of them must simply be transcended, for they are obsolete. They were based on the old consciousness and what you could see and what humankind could see in that old consciousness. But that consciousness is gone, the old cycle is gone. And therefore, it is time for a new vision, it is time to open your imagination to see the reality of what the Golden Age can be—not what it seemed like seen through the filter of the piscean mindset and the piscean cycle.

This is also what Christ represents to you—the challenge of Christ to always look beyond your mental box, to leave your nets and follow Christ for a time, until you begin to see from within what is the self-expression, that you desire to bring forth in the Aquarian age. Whatever you have done up to this point was what you needed to do; you needed to have that experience. I am not asking you to blame yourself or think, that you have been wrong in doing what you have been doing. It is not a matter of blame. You have done what you have done because you needed that experience, and it was a necessary step on your path. What I am asking you to consider here is, that the cycles of earth have irrevocably changed, and therefore if you want to unlock your true aquarian potential, you need to rethink everything.

You need to realize, that the way you have looked at yourself and the Aquarian age and the teachings of the ascended masters so far has been, in subtle ways, affected by the Piscean mindset and by the consciousness of humankind. And if you really want to make this shift, you need to rethink, you need to question everything. Question everything, be willing to question—not in the sense that you evaluate that something was wrong. I am not asking for a dualistic judgment; I am only asking you to question by saying: “Is there possibly more? Could there be more to understand, could there be more to envision, could there be more to imagine? Is there a higher form of expression, that is possible for me in the Aquarian age? Is there a higher expression of some aspect of society, that is possible in the Aquarian age? Is there a higher expression of some form of technology, that is possible in the Aquarian age?”

Moving away from force-based technology

For I can assure you, that in the Aquarian age you will see the emergence of a new form of technology, based on a new state of consciousness, that is not forced-based. Look at so much of the technology you have in the world today, especially in the field of energy. Look at how it is force-based. Take oil; how was oil created? Organic life gathered, died and was put under pressure until it became a liquid, black substance. How is oil extracted? By force, by drilling into the earth. How is it refined; again by force. How is it used to power your cars? In an internal combustion engine, where the force of an explosion forces the pistons to move. Force, force, force—everywhere force.

Contrast this with the statement made by Jesus at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, “Fear not little flock, for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This is the antithesis of force-based technology and a force-based economy and a force-based world. Certainly, there is a potential that humankind will one day reach a level of collective consciousness, where they do not even need technology but can manifest their needs directly through the powers of the mind. Yet that stage is some ways off. It would be a potential towards the end of the Aquarian age, if the Aquarian age unfolds to its highest potential. But until then, there will be a need for technology—a new form of technology, however, that is not based on force but is based on a higher understanding of nature, of the material universe and of the spiritual laws behind it. So that people can work with life, with Spirit, with nature—and therefore develop technology, that will truly allow you to produce energy without burning any fuel whatsoever.

This is a real possibility in the not-too-distant future, but it will require a major shift. First of all, it will require humankind to begin to question the fallen consciousness. For I, as the Hierarch of the Aquarian age, am not about to release technology that, at the current level of consciousness, would instantly be monopolized or suppressed by the power elite. I will not release this technology until I can be sure, that it will benefit all people equally, and will not be used—not only for profit but even for political control purposes by the power elite.

You may think that they are already certain forms of technology in existence, that have been suppressed by the elite—I am not even denying that. But what I am saying here is, that there is technology in my etheric retreat, that is far more advanced than anything that is even dreamt of, save by a very few individuals who have attuned their consciousness to the potential for the Aquarian age. And that technology will enable you to produce unlimited amounts of energy without having a centralized production facility or even requiring a centralized distribution network. And therefore, it cannot be monopolized by any corporation or any country.

It is truly liberating technology, for you realize, do you not, that the reason why humankind has been limited to force-based technology is, that humankind has been under the fallen consciousness. The fallen consciousness, off course, cannot conceive of a non-force-based technology. But even if they could, they would not want it, for force-based technology is precisely what allows them to monopolize technology. For those who can conquer the force, or the right to use force, can also gain a monopoly.

And surely, you recognize that no ordinary family can build a nuclear power plant in their backyard. And this is another example of the complexity of force-based technology, that requires such huge and complicated plants, that they can only be built by governments or huge corporations—and therefore, by their very nature, are open to being controlled by the power elite. The technology I am talking about is so simple, that it can be built by anyone and that you can have a generating plant, a small plant, right in your own home, that can meet all of your energy needs, without requiring you to ever pay the oil companies, or the electric companies, or the gas companies ever again. This is the kind of technology I desire to release. It is in existence in the etheric realm, but until the consciousness shifts, it will not be released.

Shifting into the Aquarian age consciousness

And how is the consciousness going to shift? Well, only by those who see themselves as the forerunners of Aquarius being willing to question the way they look at everything, to question what limits their imagination. Be willing to question what limits your imagination. This is, right now, possibly the greatest service you could render to the ascended masters and to humankind. Question what limits your imagination, including questioning what already limits your perception. For if you will not question your current perception, how could you ever free your imagination to soar beyond what you perceive as the limits for life? How then, will you question your perception? Let me suggest two areas, where you might begin: church and state, religion and politics. These two are like two sides of the coin of life. They truly represent the Alpha and the Omega, the masculine and the feminine.

Politics may be a too limited word, for truly what it involves is everything that is the feminine aspect of life, the practical, outer expression of life in your personal life, in society, in politics, in technology, in education, in the family—in every practical aspect of life; this is the Omega aspect, the Divine Mother. The Alpha aspect, the Divine Father aspect, is not simply religion – as it has traditionally been conceived – but every aspect of how you imagine your potential. As we have recently said, the masculine is “what can be done,” the feminine is “how it can be done.” And this is the highest potential of church and state, where church, religion, is meant to represent the masculine, that gives you a vision of what to do. And then, state, or the feminine, gives you the practical vision of how it can be done, how you desire to express it.

What, then, is the primary preconceived idea, that you might question? Well, it is another aspect of the fallen consciousness, namely that there is only one right way to do it. This is, again, tied in to what I have explained about the judgmental consciousness, that wants to set up a standard for what is right and wrong, and evaluate everything based on that standard. Take that consciousness, make an effort to see it as an expression of the fallen consciousness, and then realize, that I am not here talking about going into the opposite extreme of saying that anything goes. For, when you reach for the Alpha of the vision of the Spirit, you know what can be done, what should be done and what is not right because it will not provide growth for yourself or for other aspects of life. But even when you see what can be done, and what is right from a higher perspective, there are still many ways that it can be done.

Many times we see our spiritual students have a correct vision of what should be done, but they cannot agree on how it should be done. And then, what do they do? Well, they fall prey to the belief, that there can only be one right way to do it, and that even we of the ascended masters have only one right way to run an organization, for example. And thus, what happens? There is the inevitable division into factions, where one faction will say: “Our way is the way the masters want.” And the other faction will say: “No, our way is the way the masters want.” And so, they are locked in a battle, they are divided amongst themselves, and therefore the house cannot stand, their organization cannot reach its full potential.

Realize, that there will be many different ways to do the same thing, that can all be valid and all be a contribution. For we realize, that in the fallen consciousness there is this underlying mentality, that there is only one right way to do it, and that all should conform to it. Is this not, my beloved, what we have exposed recently in Rome, in the Roman Catholic Church, of the suppression of individuality by the structure? The submission to the structure, thereby the individual suppressing its individual creativity in order to conform to the structure.

Well, if you are ascended master students, question the idea, that in the Aquarian age there will be only one valid religion. Question the idea that we of the ascended masters want to see the emergence of one religion. Question the idea that we of the ascended masters want to see all people recognize the ascended masters and one particular teaching of the ascended masters as the superior religion of the Aquarian age.

In the Golden Age, diversity will be seen as the greatest potential

Do you see the fallacy of the fallen consciousness? What is the essence of the fallen beings and their desire for control? They must suppress not only free will, but individual creativity. Each one of you is an individualized extension of the Creator’s Being. What makes up your individuality? Certain characteristics, a certain crystalline structure, as the Great Divine Director explained recently. Your individuality is the crystalline structure, and when the light of God shines through it, your individual crystalline structure can bring forth an expression that is unique, that is not in competition with others, that does not exclude or destroy or obscure the expression of others. But they all compliment each other, forming a beautiful facet of life.

This concept cannot be fathomed by the fallen consciousness, for to the fallen consciousness diversity can be seen only as a threat—whereas in the ascended consciousness, diversity is seen as the ultimate expression of God. Why did the Creator choose to individualize its own being? Because the Creator wanted to express itself as many individual facets, having them all form, each, a facet of the diamond mind of God. The Creator has given you free will, because the Creator desires to see variety, individuality, diversity.

This is the Creator’s desire; that is why the Creator has expressed itself as many individual co-creators. The Creator could have sat there, as the Creator, and created an entire world – it could even have populated it with robots – where everything was perfect. But the Creator did not desire to do this, partly because the Creator realizes, that such a mechanical creation gets awfully boring after a while. Nevertheless, the Creator decided to express itself through diversity. And so, we of the ascended masters are committed to seeing that expression.

And what is it, that is the essential challenge of humankind? You look back at history, and you see, that what has brought about progress is diversity. The Egyptian civilization may seem to have built great structures, but it did so by suppressing individuality, except for a very few. And the Egyptian civilization collapsed, as did the Roman civilization and other civilizations of antiquity. What have you seen in western civilization of today: a greater and greater expression of individuality, of diversity.

This is the vision that I hold for the Aquarian age. This is the age of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit bloweth where it listed, the Holy Spirit does not like to be confined by these monolithic structures. It wants to express itself through individuals, yet an expression where the individual does not see itself as a separate being – which is the product of the ego and the duality consciousness – but sees itself as an expression of the whole. And therefore, the individual expressions on earth will see their expressions as facets of a whole. And that is how the Age of Aquarius also becomes the age of community.

Come ye into unity by knowing, that you are expressions of the same source. It is not “come into unity by being the same,” that is what the fallen ones have attempted to achieve on this earth for eons. That is precisely what Christ embodied in order to challenge—to show that you as an individual have a right to go against the power elite, to go against the mass consciousness, to go against everything that wants to suppress individual creativity. You have a right to do as Jesus did, to express your individuality, even if it flies in the face of all conventions of your society. You have a right to go into the most holy temple and overturn the tables of the moneychangers, who have set themselves up in that temple, where they have no right to be.

This is the promise of individual creativity, this is the potential. Christ demonstrated it 2,000 years ago, you – who call yourselves spiritual people, or ascended master students, or whatever you call yourselves, but you who consider yourselves to be the more aware people in this age – you are meant to demonstrate today what Christ demonstrated 2,000 years ago. You are not meant to demonstrate, that you can do what people have been doing for 2,000 years, namely submit yourself to a Pope or a structure. You are meant to demonstrate individual creativity and your willingness to express it.

Become an expert in one area

How, then, will you express it? Well, we have given you so many keys in these last couple of years, where we have been talking about the duality consciousness and non-duality, that I see no reason to give you more, but I will make one suggestion. If you look back hundreds of years, you will see, that people back then lived a very simple life. The majority of the population had accepted a certain station in life. They were peasants, or whatever they were, but that was their station in life. They were content to follow the power elite that ruled their society, they were content to go to war and sacrifice their lives if the king told them so. They were content to live on the lands appointed to them by their overlords, and that was the way they saw life.

Why had they submitted to this? Because they did not want to be awake and make conscious decisions. Therefore, they wanted some overlord to make decisions for them. What has happened in society since then? Look at your society today—what is it characterized by? The one word is information. There has never been more information available at any time in recorded history. Why did the medieval people not revolt against their overlords? They did not have the information, but why did they not have the information? Because they did not want it, they did not want to take responsibility and educate themselves and open their minds. They wanted to remain where they were comfortable, even if they were not truly comfortable.

Yet, they were still comfortable in feeling, that there was nothing more they could do about life. Therefore, they were content to whine and complain about things, instead of doing something about them. This is precisely what needs to change today. If you will be part of the change to the Aquarian age, stop whining about conditions in society and start being part of the solution, instead of being part of the problem. Stop whining, thinking that there is nothing you can do and that other people must do something. Start looking at yourself as a part of the change—and see that you can do something.

What can you do? Begin by educating yourself, begin by making an effort. This has two aspects, again an Alpha and an Omega. The Alpha is, of course: raise your own consciousness, overcome your own psychological limitations, free your imagination. But then educate yourself about some aspect of society, that is close to your heart. Become an expert. Study what there is to know. I am not saying you need to get a formal education and some position, but study the information that is available in such abundance. Filter it, sort it out, become an expert, so that you know what you are talking about—and then talk about it. Start talking, start speaking out. There has never been better opportunities, through the Internet, through forums and chat rooms and so many other avenues that are available to you today. Start talking, but know what you are talking about.

Democracy is the most demanding form of government

You must overcome the fallen consciousness, saying that only the elite have something valuable to say. What has happened in your society? Look back a few hundred years and you will see that 99.9% of the people were ruled by a very small group of people. Sometimes just one man and a few dozen people around that leader would rule an entire nation. What do you have today: democracies. Again, there is a tendency to think, that the government should rule, the government should make decisions, and so people in America or in other democracies are constantly whining and complaining about their government. But it is, after all, their government.

Where, my beloved, can you show me a contract that says, that when you have a democratic government, all you need to do is go into a little booth every four years and put an X in some predefined box? And then you have fulfilled your responsibility as a citizen in a democratic nation. Do you have such a contract? I am not aware that anyone has such a contract. But then why do 99% of the people in democratic nations act as if they have such a contract?

Democracy is an extremely demanding form of government, for it is not a form of government where the people can remain asleep. If they do, then their democracies will not be democracies, for they will very quickly be ruled by a power elite. Yet take note of an essential difference. A democracy is still a democracy, which means that the people have a far better opportunity for taking back their government than they had under a totalitarian form of government, where it often required bloodshed.

There are so many people in today’s world who are beginning to awaken to the fact, that there is something wrong in their democracies, that there are hidden forces that are ruling their democracies, and it is not truly ruled in the open or ruled by the people. This is true. I applaud these people for being in the beginning stages, but when are they going to move from the beginning stages to the more advanced stages? For you see, in the beginning stages you realize that something is wrong, but you still think you can do nothing about it. And therefore, all you can do is whine and complain and hope that someday somebody else will do something about it.

Well, let me ask you for a little bit of logical reasoning here. Let us say you are a citizen in a democratic nation, and you come to the realization, that not everything is as it should be in your government. There is a hidden conspiracy, there is a small elite, who is doing things behind the scenes, that is not honest and not straightforward and not in accordance with what is in the best interest of the people. You become aware of his—I am not disputing that this is happening. But now you become aware of it, and so how do you expect that this might change?

Do you think – in your mind, do you envision – that someday one person will come in – as the hero riding on the white horse, riding into one of the old towns in the American West – pulling out his sixgun and shooting all the bad guys, and then they live happily ever after? Is this what you envisioned? Do you think Barack Obama was that man on the white horse? Or that anyone else could be that man on the white horse?

Do you see, that you cannot overcome the problem of elitism, if you are envisioning that another elite is going to come in and throw out the bad elite? For whether it is a “good” elite or a “bad” elite, it is still an elite. And you will not overcome elitism even if a “good” elite is running your society. You will overcome elitism only when a critical mass of the people in that society wake up and decide to take responsibility for their own nation, for their own government, for their own lives, for their own destinies.

Christ proved the triumph of individuality over structures

This is the change, that has been underway for the past 2,000 years and beyond, but especially initiated by the coming of Christ. For what did Christ do? He proved the ultimate potential of individuality—the triumph of individuality over structures built by the fallen consciousness. The triumph of the individuality of God over the death consciousness, that denies individuality and individual creativity. This is the change that has been happening over these past 2,000 years.

If the Aquarian age is to be a Golden Age, this change must be greatly accelerated. And it will be accelerated only, when all of the people who are beginning to wake up – realizing that there is something wrong in their democracies – go beyond complaining about it, go beyond longing for some other elite to take them away from the bad elite – and realize that the man on the white horse, the woman on the white horse, that is going to ride into town and make a difference is YOU. You are the person who must make a difference, by educating yourself, by speaking out, by taking responsibility.

Do you see, as I have hinted at before, that even the concept of conspiracies and conspiracy theories can be used by the fallen consciousness to make you feel, that it is so overwhelming for an ordinary person to fight against this worldwide conspiracy, this secret society, that you do nothing. Do you see, that throughout the ages, the fallen consciousness has always done this exact thing: put out some idea – depending on the moods of the time – that there is some overwhelming force running your society and that you, as an individual, have no opportunity to make a difference, that you cannot stand up against it. But did not Christ demonstrate, that the individual can stand up against it? Even if the power elite kills him, then Christ will bring about their judgment and thus society will progress.

But in today’s democracies, it is not necessary, that you stand out as one individual and is killed—this is not necessary if many people will stand out at once. For you realize, of course, that a power elite can kill off one or a few individuals. But they cannot kill off tens of thousands of people who are all speaking out. Then they will give up their power—they will because they realize, it is the only way they are going to survive.

Look at even the Roman emperors, the most megalomaniac leaders you have seen – just about – in history. They thought they were gods on earth, but why did a Roman emperor build the Colosseum? It was to entertain the people, but it was really to divert the attention of the people. And what does this show you, my beloved? It shows you, that even a Roman emperor – who thought he was God on earth – was still afraid of the people. Because if the people had woken up in sufficient numbers, he knew he would have lost his power. This was true 2,000 years ago; it is equally true today. Whatever secret conspiracy you might envision that is running this world behind the scenes, I tell you: they have no power to stand up to the people—when the people wake up in sufficient numbers and decide to take responsibility and demand, that their leaders be held responsible for what they do.

If you could see it from my perspective, you would see that the camel’s back, the Dragon’s back, has already been broken. The control of any power elite group of this planet has already been broken. The people have not realized this, but it would only take a slight shift in consciousness, before the people could wake up and once and for all break the stranglehold of any power elite, no matter how powerful you may envision it to be. As a visible example, look at what is happening to the Catholic Church. Look at how people, after decades of silence, are finally speaking out against the abuse by Catholic clergy. One of the most entrenched institutions that this earth has ever seen, can no longer stem the tide of them being held responsible.

Do you see what is happening behind the scenes here? Do you see what we have talked about, how a structure requires the suppression of individuality? But, a structure also offers something for those who are willing to submit part of their individuality to the structure. It offers them, that they can hide behind the structure, as you have seen Catholic priests hide for decades while they were abusing children. If these priests had been abusing children out in secular society, they would have been caught and put in jail decades ago. But they managed to hide behind the structure for decades. Yet the fact that they can no longer hide, and that this scandal will spread worldwide, shows you that a shift has happened.

And if you could see what I see at inner levels, you would see, that even the worst conspiracy you could possibly imagine cannot survive in the Aquarian age consciousness. The Holy Spirit will blow where it listeth, the Sword of Christ, as Gautama Buddha said at New Year’s, will cut the veils, that will expose these hidden power elite structures one by one. And they cannot survive once they can no longer hide. The power elite can only thrive in the darkness, they cannot survive when the light of Christ shines upon them. And the light of Christ is being shined upon them by those who are willing to raise their consciousness and make the calls through our invocations.

Pessimists will not bring the Golden Age into manifestation

Thus, it is a new day. If you cannot sense my joy and my optimism, then I suggest you do some serious rethinking. For it will not be pessimists or fatalists who will build the Golden Age of Saint Germain. It will be the optimists, who are willing to question their mental boxes and question every idea, that puts a limitation on the creativity of God, expressed through the individualizations of God. That is the final sentence.

The Golden Age will be built by those who are willing to acknowledge, that with God all things are possible—when the creativity of God is expressed through the individualizations of God. And with that, my beloved, I bid you adieu for now. But I look forward to speaking to you many times in the years to come. I have much to unveil about the Golden Age of Aquarius. And I am anxious, I am eager, I am filled with joy at the prospect of unveiling my vision for those who have eyes to see.

Open your eyes, and you shall see Saint Germain’s vision for the Golden Age of Aquarius. Oh what a vision it is, oh what a vision it is. Not fashioned exclusively by me, but by the entire spirit of the ascended masters who work with planet earth. It starts at the central sun, filters down through cosmic beings, through archangels and Elohim, through ascended masters, holding various offices, through the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha, through the cosmic Christ, Maitreya, through the individualized Christ, Jesus, through that beloved being, Mother Mary. And then through the office that I hold, that of the Hierarch of the Age of Aquarius.

We are all one. There are no divisions in heaven, there are no divisions in the ascended realm. There are no different lineages, my beloved, that can be in competition with each other. We are all one, we are one in this vision of bringing about God’s kingdom in physical manifestation on earth. And then we will move on to numerous other planets, that are ready to be awakened to the reality that there is MORE. Be sealed in that Flame of MORE, that flame that will never stand still, for it is always MORE.

Copyright © 2010 by Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, February 13, 2010 through Kim Michaels. This dictation was preceded by a dictation by Shiva.

The Golden Age is effortless manifestation

Saint Germain I am, and I too am manifesting my Presence is in this place. For you see, without the clearing of the records of the Roman Empire, there can be no Golden Age. Why is this, my beloved? It is so because the Roman Empire represents the exact antithesis to everything that the Golden Age stands for. What is, indeed, the reality of the Golden Age; why is it a Golden Age? It is a Golden Age because people have come to the realization, that Jesus spoke 2,000 years ago: “Fear not little flock, for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” When you are in the flow of the River of life, everything will manifest for you effortlessly. When you have followed the eternal call of Christ, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you,” then, indeed, all things that are right for your growth and for your expression will be added unto you effortlessly.

What is then the antithesis of effortless? It is, indeed, taking heaven by force; seeking to take heaven by force. As Christ said about the fallen angels who, after they separated themselves from the oneness of God, had to struggle for everything. But do you not see, that when the one is divided into two opposing extremes, then there must be a struggle between the extremes, until one seemingly eliminates the other? And then, just as the one thinks it has triumphed by having killed the other extreme, well, then it turns out that you, by killing the other extreme, have become everything the other extreme represented. And thus, there is no oneness.

There is no peace through force or through murder. That which is out of duality can never create oneness. Even if one dualistic structure managed to gain the whole world, there would not be oneness, there would not be peace. Even if the entire world was surrendered to the Roman Empire – or the Communist empire, or the American empire, or the corporate empire, or the Catholic Church – even so there would be no peace. For that which is built on division cannot create peace. Only that which is out of the oneness – and still one with the oneness, and thus the All – can manifest peace.

Decoding the myth about the founding of the Roman Empire

Thus, let me explain the significance of the entire myth about the creation of the Roman Empire. There are those who will take any myth literally, and thus will want to believe, that there was a certain vestal virgin who became impregnated and gave birth to twin boys, Romulus and Remus—who were then left in the forest, raised to a certain age by a shewolf, and then raised to adulthood by a peasant. This, of course, is not reality whatsoever. There is no reality to it. It is the myth, that was given to the Roman people, as the Roman Empire was beginning to attain the power that made it clear, how perverted and force-based it is. It was given to them as a symbol, that could be decoded by those who were willing, those who had the awareness to see beyond the outer manifestations.

So what does the symbol represent? Well, the vestal virgin represents the feminine aspect of God, that is striving for purity. Yet as Mother Mary explained at the basilica of St. Peter’s, when the female has been separated from the Creator, from the divine masculine, then the true polarities of Alpha and Omega, masculine and feminine, will become opposites. And thus, the vestal virgin does not represent one who is pure, but actually represents the female polarity to the other polarity of the Creator. And thus, the Vestal Virgin represents all of you—each human being is represented by this. The one who has gone out from oneness or who – by choosing to leave oneness to partake of the forbidden fruit – now becomes impregnated and gives birth to the twins, as the dualistic consciousness with its two opposite polarities that can only be in rivalry.

When it realizes it has fallen, it wants to get rid of that division within itself, that impurity within itself. And thus, it wants to leave it; it wants to go out into the forest – representing the subconscious mind – and leave it, where it will never be seen again. And then it wants to try to return back to its normal life, instead of facing what it chose to manifest and thereby resolving it. And so, the vestal virgin represents each and every one of you, who have created the ego and thus seen it, but then trying to run away from it instead of facing it—facing yourself in the mirror and resolving the duality in your being. Instead you seek to run away from it.

And then, what you create when you run away is, that you create the ego, the ego that has two opposite polarities, that are always in competition as to which one will dominate you and dominate your soul and your being. And thus, there will be the rivalry that you saw between Romulus and Remus, and out of that rivalry springs the consciousness of thinking, that you cannot simply receive everything from God, but that you need to take it by force, by forcing your dualistic vision – your dualistic images, your graven images – upon the Ma-ter light. And thus, the entire desire to create an empire based on force, is what you see represented in the empire supposedly founded by the twins Romulus and Remus.

And then, you see also, that when you refuse to face the dichotomy, the division, in your own being, then the rivalry must continue until one of the polarities seems to kill the other polarity, as Romulus killed Remus. And then you have, supposedly, the Pax Romana, which is the peace that seemingly comes, because now you have reestablished some illusion of unity in your being. Because the ego has managed to go so far into one dualistic polarity, that it seemingly has suppressed the other, to where you can forget about it. And thus, you have established what we have called a state of equilibrium in your being—a false equilibrium, where you sense you have this peace, but it is a peace that is based on suppression by force of all creativity, of the life force itself.

You must face the structures in your mind

Do you not see, that what has happened – precisely – is that you have done what Jesus said; you have built a structure in your mind? And that structure is symbolized, then, in the outer empire, the Roman Empire that seeks to conquer the entire world in an attempt to avoid facing the divisions within itself. And yet, even though for a time it seemed like the Roman Empire could be successful in suppressing the entire world through force, did there not come a time – inevitably – where the division from within, the insanity of the emperors and the leaders of the Roman Empire, created such corruption in the top – such divisions, such rivalry, such infighting – that eventually the empire was weakened to the point, where it was now conquered by the barbarians, so to speak, from without.

This is, indeed, a symbol for the process that is going on in the consciousness of every human being that has descended into duality. There will be times, where it seems like your ego has managed to quell the division. But it is a peace that is obtained only through force, and therefore it cannot last, it cannot be maintained, it cannot survive for long. And there will come a point, then, where out of the subconscious mind comes the beast of the earth or the beast of the sea, that suddenly sticks up its ugly head. And now, your peace is shattered. And now, you are in a negative spiral, and even those who are on the spiritual path can – almost in an instant – switch from being seemingly going upward on that path, to now being caught in a negative spiral, where they are focused only on the negativity in others and in judging others. And again, not looking at themselves in the mirror.

I must tell you, as the hierarch of the Age of Aquarius, that this going from one extreme to the other, with periods of relative peace in between, can continue indefinitely, until you run out and stand before the second death. And what is it you must face at that second death? It is the death of the mortal self, and the question now is: will your conscious self, will the Conscious You, be willing to give up that mortal self? And in many cases this is extremely difficult to do, if you have been trapped by that illusion of duality for so long, and have been unwilling to question it for so many lifetimes. How can you, then, suddenly question it, when you stand before that final opportunity? Many cannot, and that is why we of the ascended masters have done everything we can think of to give the teachings, that will empower you to face it now, rather than later.

Will you wait another 2,000 years before you face the division in yourself? Will you reincarnate again and again throughout the Aquarian age with this division in your beings? For if you do, I must tell you, that you will become a dead weight, that will not help build the Golden Age of Saint Germain. And so, I say to you: Learn from the Roman Empire. Do not project that this was some crazy emperors that did all of this, but see the parallels to what is going on in your own being, as I have described them for you. Be willing to see it; be willing to see the structures you have built in your mind. And then, begin to question those structures. If you can, then look beyond the surface and go deeper, until you reach the foundation and question that foundation—until the foundation itself begins to dissolve and the structures built upon it, then easily, easily crumble, my beloved.

Go to the core of your being

And the foundation, of course, is found in your etheric body, in your identity body. That is where you must go and question, for if you question at the higher levels  – meaning the surface levels, closer to conscious awareness – then you will be confused and get nowhere for a long time. Go to the core. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, the right use of your discernment, that you may see beyond the dualistic extremes—and not always find the dualistic argument that supports what you want to believe. But in reality, go beyond what you want to believe, and go into the reality of truth, as Mother Mary spoke about. The truth that will heal you, so that you can be free to again have that free imagination to imagine who you are in God and accept who you are in God. And then, you can imagine what you can bring to this earth as your contribution to the manifestation of the Golden Age, when you are flowing with the River of Life instead of being based on force, the force that always seeks to destroy something, to put down some part of life. For it cannot conceive of raising up all life all at once.

And thus, it must seek to raise up itself by putting another part of life down. And this is the curse of duality, that has been hanging over this earth now for so long, that I would prefer not to tell you how long it has been here, for you would be discouraged and think that it could never be dissolved. Yet I tell you: with God all things are possible. With God in you, all things are possible. And thus, this is my call to you this day: Rise up and win your freedom by looking at the very thing you are not willing to look at, by looking at the very thing you are afraid to look at, by looking at what you left in the forest so many lifetimes ago, when you supposedly left the Garden of Eden.”

But you were not cast out of the Garden of Eden; you left it because there was something you were not willing to look at. Look at it now, for it is only in looking at it – and going right into it – that you will be free of it. Because it is only by going into it instead of running away from it, that you will see the duality of it, that you will see the fallacy of the dualistic arguments. And therefore, you will see the reality, that all life is one. You will see the one truth of Christ, that will set you free, that will set you free from the dualistic illusions, that have created a veil around you, so that you think what you see through the veil is reality.

I, Saint Germain, come to rend the veil, and I say, “It is not reality—it is unreality.” I am outside the veil. I am free! Raise your mind, so that I do not have to speak to you through a messenger who has raised his mind. Raise your mind, so that I may speak directly to you, in your heart, mind and being. For what one has done; all can do. If one can rend the veil and make contact with the ascended masters, then so can everyone—if they are willing to follow the process, to see what others are not willing to look at. It is in seeing that you are set free. Look how they say that “seeing is believing.” No, seeing beyond the dualistic mind is not believing; it is knowing, it is experiencing, it is being one with truth.

What is the need for belief, when you have reality, when you are one with reality. Do you think Christ believes in God? No, Christ experiences the reality and oneness of God. Belief has been transcended, for belief only is needed in the dualistic mind, that cannot experience truth directly—for it sees everything through the veil that it is not willing to question.

Question all structures—within and without

Thus, question your perception, question your perception. This is where you find the key to the kingdom of heaven. Question the structure. The structure is not the key, as the Catholic Church claims. It is questioning the structure – allowing the structure to crumble – that is the key to the kingdom of heaven. And THAT is the key that Jesus gave to Peter, the willingness to question. Yet Peter was not willing to use it, and thus, again, you see the folly of an organization based upon Peter, instead of being based upon Christ.

What, indeed, is the folly of saying, that an organization can trace its succession back to Peter and Peter was the first pope? Do you not see how this is a complete perversion of the teachings of Christ? What is the need for a pope, when each person has the kingdom within him? How can there be an outer person, an our organization, who holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven, when the kingdom of heaven is within you? How can you need someone outside yourself in order to unlock that inner kingdom?

It is a complete perversion of the teachings of Christ, and thus you see – right there – you see the admission by the Catholic Church, that they do not represent Christ. They represent Peter, who denied Christ three times by not being willing to use the key of discernment to answer those questions from the perspective of the Christ, instead of from the perspective of the human, where he feared to be crucified with Christ. Instead of going within, unlocking the imagination, that would allow him to give a Christlike answer.

Thus, you see – from the very inception – the Catholic Church represents, indeed, the fallacy of the duality consciousness, where you are recognizing, that there is something beyond duality – and it is Christ – but then you immediately accept the false belief that you cannot reach it on your own. And therefore – because you are not willing to look at what it is that stands between you and Christ – you create a structure on earth. And then you begin to believe, that the structure itself will take you to heaven, that the structure itself will unlock the door for you, that if you just submit your individuality to the structure, then the structure will take you to heaven. But who are you—what are you? You are a co-creator with God. You were given the gift of individuality, of individual free will, of individual creativity, of individual imagination. How do you imagine, that you will get to the kingdom of heaven? By expressing your individuality and your creativity and imagination to its full measure.

This is how you will get to the kingdom of heaven: by expressing your creativity to the point, where you are so filled with the creativity of God, you have seen everything on earth through that clarity of the Christ vision. And thus, you are ready to transcend everything on earth and enter into the Ascension coil, for you have nothing left, that you want to do or experience on earth.

You do not enter heaven by denying your creativity

It is not by denying your creativity, that you enter heaven? You only postpone your entry into heaven by denying it. It is only by expressing it, that you enter heaven. Yet what is it that is demanded by these earthly structures? Look at the Roman Empire: everyone had to submit to the Emperor. Look at the Catholic Church: everyone has to submit to the Pope and the church. What is it that is demanded here? It is that you submit your individuality, your creativity, your imagination to the structure.

And what is the structure? It represents what you have created, what the ego has created in your own mind. And thus, as the monster of Doctor Frankenstein – the monster that you have created out of being unwilling to look at yourself and your choices – that monster comes back to demand that you submit to it—and that you destroy, that you kill, the very life force, the very creativity, imagination and individuality that could take you away from it. The structure you have created demands that you kill creativity, that you kill the reality of who you are, that you kill the key to the kingdom of heaven.

And yet, at the same time the structure claims, that it can take you to heaven. When, my beloved, will you wake up from this folly? When will you wake up from this illusion and see the reality, that we are telling you over and over again in so many different ways, that it should be possible for each and every one of you to find one way we have said this, that will unlock this vision and understanding for you. Yet the reality is, that if you are not willing to go back and look at yourself, look at that original choice to go into duality, then there is nothing we can do for you, nothing we can say, that will cause you to open your mind. For you can always find a dualistic argument, that seemingly justifies why you do not have to look inside yourself, why you can continue to look outside—for there is this and that evil in the world, that must be corrected, or judged, or criticized by you.

Nay, stop looking outside yourself and look the only place where you will find the key to the kingdom of heaven. Look inside yourself, look at your own structures of the mind. And then go down to the very foundation, go down into the tomb, where the Peter consciousness is buried deep below in the crypt. Find that sarcophagus, and shatter the lid of it—that you may see inside. And what will you see? Nothing but illusion, nothing but illusion! Do you need to fear an illusion? Nay, you do not. Only the illusion makes you think you need to fear the illusion.

Appeal to us for help

Appeal to whichever ascended master is closest to your heart, so that we will take you by the hand, that we will go down those stairs into the catacombs, into the crypt, where that sarcophagus is, where you left your creativity, your individuality, your imagination in God. Shatter the veil, shatter the lid of the sarcophagus. Be willing to look at the original decision you made—to leave it out there in the forest. And then reclaim the reality of who you are, reclaim your individuality. Accept it, accept that you are a worthy co-creator with God. Accept it and merge into it, that you may be who you truly are. That is freedom, and that is the key to manifesting the Golden Age of Saint Germain, rather than another 2,000 years of struggle.

Do you see what I am saying here? The Golden Age will not be manifest by some man-made structure conquering the entire world and forcing them to build something, that looks beautiful outward, but inwardly is full of dead men’s bones. No empire, no church, no structure will bring the Aquarian age. Only co-creators with God, using their full creativity and imagination, will be the open doors for the manifestation of the Golden Age. For only God will build the Golden Age, and it will be done effortlessly or not at all. Thus, what more is there to say with words? And thus, I again – as I did recently – encourage you: spend some time to find the point of stillness, and then you will receive the directions from there, from stillness, from stillness, from stillness—the stillness that I AM.

Copyright © 2010 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: What are you? – Acting from the point of stillness – How a limited imagination affects Jews and Palestinians – If you cannot imagine peace, you cannot create peace – Working hard to avoid working on the Sabbath – The ungodly dream of being God’s chosen people – Why the Jews want to be persecuted – The consciousness behind the creation of Israel – Israel is not truly for Jews – Seeing all problems from the point of stillness –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, February 3, 2010 through Kim Michaels.

Out of the point of stillness I come. Out of the point of stillness I AM. “Who am I?”, is the first question on your mind. Yet, would it not be more appropriate to ask, “What are you?”

What are you?

For indeed, I am the being, that you have known under the name, Saint Germain. But as Gautama has told you, I have recently attained the level of Buddhic consciousness. Thus, I am not only the fiery, fast-moving Saint Germain – that some of you have come to worship almost as an idol – I am also the Buddhic Saint Germain, who resides in the point of stillness, that is everywhere present. For indeed, it is the Buddha nature and everything IS the Buddha nature.

Thus you will see, if you are honest, that it is possible to find the point of stillness everywhere. And when you find the point of stillness, the question, “Who am I?” fades away and gives way to a new question, “What am I?” And you then see, that you are a Presence, a spiritual Presence. The word, “spiritual presence,” signifies something, that is beyond even a spiritual being. For a spiritual being is so easily seen as some ethereal counterpart to a human being. And we then stand before the classical problem – so prevalent on earth, but certainly not confined to earth – that human beings project their own self-image upon God.

It is true – as recorded in the book of Genesis – that God created man in his own image and after his own likeness. Yet perhaps we should even say, that behind those outer words recorded in Genesis, there is a truth. But the truth is not in the words, nor can it be fathomed through an intellectual or literal interpretation of those words. For certainly, it does not mean, that God looks like a human being. The God of Abraham is not an old man with a white beard sitting on a white throne up in heaven. The God of Abraham, as my beloved brother, Master MORE, LINK recently explained in Israel, is the formless God. Thus, creating any image of that formless God will obscure the reality, the Presence, of the formless God.

What are you, my beloved? Are you a human being? Are you a spiritual being? Or is there, even behind the concept of a spiritual being, something deeper? Are you a Presence? What then is that Presence? I can assure you, that the only way to know your presence is to enter the point of stillness, that is ever present wherever you are—for the point of stillness is within you. And thus, wherever you are on this earth, whatever activity you are performing, you can at any time, at any place, go within and contact the point of stillness, whereby you can gain a different perspective on what is going on around you, even what might be going on within your own being and consciousness.

Acting from the point of stillness

It is my intent today to give you some thoughts on the situation in the Middle East, specifically the nation of Israel. We stand at the point, that is always the dividing point between those who will understand and those who will not understand. I AM, by speaking from the point of stillness, facing the same test faced by Gautama, when he came out of Nirvana. He received the impulse, that because his new state of consciousness was based on entering the point of stillness – and because the vast majority of the people on this planet had never experienced that point of stillness – no one would understand his teaching. And thus, he had the choice to either remain silent or to give the teaching anyway—out of the knowledge that some will understand. Yet those who will understand are those, who have experienced the point of stillness and who therefore, beyond the words that I speak, can sense my Presence, the Presence of Saint Germain—but even beyond this name, the Presence of the Being who is the embodiment of the Flame of Freedom for the earth.

For what is freedom? Many human beings would say: “It is the freedom to do whatever I want.” But my beloved, is there – can there ever be – freedom in doing? Is there freedom in activity, or is there freedom truly in the point of stillness? So the distinction we arrive at is this: complete, total freedom is stillness. If you carry the stillness with you into activity, into doing, then you can be free in doing. But if you become so focused on the doing, that you lose the stillness, then you are lost in the doing. And no matter what you do – even if you have freedom to do anything you want on earth – you are no longer free, you are trapped by the doing. And thus, as Jesus said, what shall it profit a man, that he gains the whole world – or the freedom to do anything he wants in this world – yet loses his own soul, the point of stillness within him?

For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? What, from earth, can you give in exchange for stillness? For there is nothing required – no gift, no sacrifice, no suffering required – for you to experience stillness. There is only one requirement. You must give up, let go of, surrender, that which takes you out of stillness.

Some of you have become so focused on your spiritual growth – on changing your psychology, overcoming your ego, manifesting a higher state of consciousness – that this activity has become for you an act of doing. You are lost in the doing, always looking for the next thing to overcome in your psyche, the next illusion, the next aspect of your ego. But all that is required for you, is to stop doing, to stop approaching the spiritual path as a process of doing and surrender your attachment to doing—that you might experience the stillness within.

So many people on the spiritual path – especially from the West – think that the path is a matter of striving. And they think that the faster they run, the faster they get to the goal. But in reality, the faster you run – the more active and frantic you become – the faster you are running away from stillness. For in the end, what will make or break your spiritual progress is your contact with the point of stillness within you.

Stillness is a Presence. It is pure awareness. Not an awareness of this or that or the next thing on earth, but pure awareness. If you have not experienced it or recognized it for what it is – recognized the contrast between pure awareness and what human beings call normal awareness – well, then you will not go beyond a certain level of the spiritual path. You will get stuck at that level. And therefore, you will become more and more focused on – more and more attached to – something in the material world. And you will begin to believe, that this something is the key to your entering heaven—the kingdom of God, or whatever you want to call it.

You will think that perfecting this outer activity, performing it to a certain quantity – such as doing so many decrees, doing so much violet flame, doing so much meditation, prostrating yourself on the floor so many times, lighting so many candles or doing this, that or the next thing – you will think that this outer activity not only is the key to your entering heaven but in fact can guarantee your entry into the kingdom. For you have become a slave of the ancient epic drama that defines an activity on earth as the key to heaven. And then it says, that when you perform that activity a certain number of times, your entry into heaven is guaranteed.

This, of course, is one of the oldest epic dramas used by the fallen beings to trap God’s co-creators and prevent them from fulfilling their role to be co-creators on earth. The effect of this drama is twofold: it focuses you on what happens after you are no longer on earth, taking your focus away from the earth and what you are here to accomplish in the earth. And then it focuses you on a repetitive, mechanical activity, that takes your focus away from the reality of who you are—a co-creator who has access to the infinite fount of creativity right within yourself.

And what is that fount of creativity? It is stillness—but you have no need for stillness, you think, for all you need to do is to perform this external religious activity, and then you will get out of this limited realm and into this wonderful kingdom that awaits you beyond the veil. Yet why did Jesus say, that the kingdom of God is within you? It is because until you find the kingdom within yourself, you will not find it. Until you find the kingdom in the present moment, you will not find it. As long as you see the kingdom as being outside yourself, and as being achievable in some future time, you will never, ever find it.

The kingdom is within you—here and now. And until you find it in the here and in the now, it will remain far from you—or so it seems to the mind that has forgotten stillness and has been trapped in doing. Even thinking it is free because it has certain powers on earth—and can supposedly do anything it wants, which in reality means anything it can imagine from the limited human level of imagination. For if you go beyond that level and into the point of stillness, you will contact God’s imagination, which is infinitely greater and can imagine things for the earth, that hardly any human being on this planet can imagine right now.

How a limited imagination affects Jews and Palestinians

And this, of course, leads me to my topic of the Middle East, specifically Israel. What is the underlying issue in that part of the world—as for that matter is the case in every part of the world? Well, the underlying issue is that the physical conditions are limited by one thing only, namely the imagination of the people who live in that region. Everything is an expression of consciousness, and thus the consciousness of the people will be limited only by the imagination. Are they using the powers of imagination found only in the human mind? Or are they contacting the point of stillness, and therefore seeing what God can imagine, what God can envision for the place where they live?

Why did Jesus appear in that part of the world? It was to demonstrate to people, that when you are willing to go to the point of stillness, to go beyond the human mind, you can imagine, you can envision, far more than human beings can envision in their normal state of consciousness. And thus, you can perform what human beings and the human consciousness will see as miracles—and this is what Jesus demonstrated. Why could he heal the lame, why could he multiply the loaves and fishes, why could he turn the water into wine, why could he walk on the raging sea and calm it? Because he could imagine it—not only as a fantasy, as a dream. He could imagine – he could EYE-magic – it as a manifest reality.

What do you see in the Middle East? What is the first thing you think about, when you think about the Middle East and its natural environment? Well, is it not desert—dry, barren, devoid of much life? And this shows you precisely a reflection of the consciousness of the people in that region. Their imagination has dried out, become barren like the desert around them. Now, some will say, that the people’s imagination simply reflects the desert—and this is true. People’s imagination have been affected and limited by the desert conditions. But if you go deeper, you must ask where those desert conditions come from. And then you realize the reality, that so many people are not willing to acknowledge, namely that the desert was created by the imagination of the people. And then, when the desert was created, it affected the imagination of the people, limiting it even more. And now you have a self-reinforcing, downward spiral.

How will that spiral possibly be broken? Only when the people decide, that they are willing to change. They are willing to realize, that what limits them, what limits their life experience, is the beam in their own eye—and not a problem that is outside themselves, be it in the natural environment or in other people. Your life will change only, when you take responsibility for your state of consciousness.

If you cannot imagine peace, you cannot create peace

What is freedom? Is it freedom that your inner state of consciousness is tied to and depends on – is a slave of – your external conditions? Is that freedom? Nay, it is slavery—bondage, the oldest and only form of bondage known in the world of form. This is the bondage, that the original fallen beings entered into, when they separated themselves from the kingdom of God within them – from the point of stillness – and then started using the external, dualistic imagination. Thereby making themselves the subjects of the second law of thermodynamics, that will break down organized structures, until you reach the lowest possible energy state. And is this not precisely what you see in the barren sand dunes in the desert, where nothing can grow?

What is it I AM saying here? I AM saying that the people in the Middle East, especially the people in Israel, have one overarching problem that overrides everything else, and that is a lack of imagination. What is the greatest limitation for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, between Israel and the Arab nations? It is a lack of imagination! This lack of imagination is obviously found on both sides. But let us focus on the situation in Jerusalem, where the main conflict is between the Jews of Israel, the state of Israel, and the Palestinians who have no state. What is the major problem that prevents a peaceful resolution? It is a lack of imagination!

The Palestinians do not have the ability to imagine what a Palestinian state would be like. And thus, they have a dream about their own state, but there is a gap between that dream, that goal, and their current level of consciousness. And they have no ability to imagine a staircase that can take them step by step from their current level to the fulfillment of their dream. And as such, it remains an elusive goal. On the other hand, you see that the Jews in Israel have a lack of imagination to envision what the state of Israel could be like—they cannot imagine that in the state of Israel Jews and Palestinians could exist in harmony and in peace. And why can they not imagine this? Because their imagination has become trapped by certain beliefs, that have been put on the Jews in the past—and that they have not been willing to let go of, because they have used those beliefs as a justification for shutting off their imagination and blindly following tradition.

Working hard to avoid working on the Sabbath

Look at a simple example, such as the observation of the Sabbath. If you believe that the Sabbath day was set apart by God – as the result of a command from God – then would it not seem reasonable, that you use your powers of imagination to envision what might have been God’s purpose for creating this institution? Would that be an unreasonable thought? What could be God’s purpose for requiring people to set aside one day a week, as a day where they stop their normal busy activities and focus on God? Well, based on what I have told you in this discourse, is it unreasonable to imagine, that God knew full well, that the people on earth had been so caught up in doing, that he wanted them to set aside a day, when they could step away from doing and enter the point of stillness within them?

But now look at what the Jews have done with the Sabbath. They have created an elaborate tradition, an elaborate ritual, for how to observe the Sabbath day. Surely, you realize that when the Sabbath was instituted, there were no elevators. But does that mean, that one should transfer the consciousness that was found before the invention of the elevator to how one deals with elevators, now that they have been invented? Does that mean that one has to come up with the idea, that taking the elevator itself is not work but pushing the button in the elevator is indeed work?

My beloved, do you see – do you imagine – what I AM conveying here? The idea behind the Sabbath was to stop people from doing, so that they could go within and find the point of stillness. But what the Jews have done with the Sabbath is to turn it into an elaborate ritual of doing—they are so concerned about not performing work, that they enter into a state of consciousness, where in order to avoid performing what they define as work, they have to work so hard, that they forget all about stillness. Thus, instead of stopping their doing, they just transform their doing into a different form of doing, that still takes them away from finding stillness.

Can you imagine what would have happened, if the Jews had not created this completely misplaced tradition but had instead used the Sabbath day according to its original purpose? Can you imagine how the Jews would have been able to respond to whatever situation they encountered if, one day a week, they would contact the point of stillness, so that they might go out and do during the other six days from the point of stillness—rather than from the human level of imagination, where they are so caught up in their tradition.

Can you see even, that the idea of a tradition is a hindrance for, is in opposition to, the free flow of creativity, that is the intended role of God’s co-creators? What did Jesus say? “I AM the open door, which no man can shut.” All human beings – men and women and children – are meant to be the open doors for the free flow of creativity—of new ideas, of new ways of dealing with things.

The ungodly dream of being God’s chosen people

So why is it, that the Jews in the modern state of Israel cannot imagine, that they could co-exist peacefully with Palestinians within the state of Israel? Well, it is because the modern-day Jews have allowed their minds, their imagination, to be so confined by tradition, that they think that they themselves belong to a separate category of people, and they believe that the nation of Israel should be only for their category of people. And therefore, they cannot imagine, that the state of Israel could be for more than Jews, and they cannot imagine that the Jews could give up this age-old illusion of superiority and exclusivity—that they could stop seeing themselves as God’s chosen people. And instead, they could go to the point of stillness, where they realize that in God’s kingdom there are no Jews, there are no Muslims, there are no Palestinians, there are no Arabs, there are no white people, there are no black people, there are no Christians. For all of these divisions can exist only in a human state of consciousness.

And in order to enter the point of stillness, you have to be willing to surrender all of these human conditions, to transcend them. And then you come out on the other side of stillness as a pure Presence of God. Can you see, that when you are so focused on seeing yourself belonging to a separate race, or as God’s chosen people, it actually demonstrates that you do not know God? You do not know the true God, the One true God that can only be found through stillness—not through man-made conditions.

You will not find God if you see yourself as a Jew, as a Christian, as a Muslim, as white, black, yellow, red, or whatever color you want to attach to yourself. You will not find God if you will not let go of these conditions, and the reason is simple. If you will not let go of the conditions, that you use to identify yourself, then you cannot let go of the state of consciousness, that will also seek to project these conditions upon God. And therefore, you cannot even imagine the real God. For you are so locked in your imagination upon a man-made image, a graven image of God, that when you claim to be looking for God, you are looking for the man-made image of God. You are not looking for the One true God Who is beyond all form, all images, all conditions.

Stillness is pure awareness, where the man-made conditions fade away. God is pure awareness, and God is beyond all man-made conditions. And thus, the only way to experience God is through stillness. This is what the Jews have not been willing to acknowledge, and that is why they are not God’s chosen people.

This, of course, will be highly offensive to the human consciousness. But you see, I AM beyond the human consciousness. And as such, I am not the slightest concerned about what offends the human consciousness. You see, what I AM saying here? Any consciousness that is focused on setting one group of people apart from another, and then elevating them above others, is not a consciousness that comes from God. This is not what God imagines, this is what the human mind imagines. What God imagines is that all beings on earth – who call themselves humans – will wake up from the human dream and recognize, that they are spiritual beings—but that even beyond that they are spiritual Presences.

And they will then contact that Presence in the stillness, and then go out and act on earth from the point of stillness. For that one change, that one shift in awareness, is the only thing, that can bring God’s kingdom to earth, that can bring the Golden Age of Saint Germain to earth. I can imagine the Golden Age. Hardly anyone on earth can imagine it at their present level of consciousness, for they have not gone into the stillness and contacted, not only the Presence that they are, but the Presence that I AM, so that I might share my EYE-magic, my imagination, with them.

Why the Jews want to be persecuted

So what is the one underlying problem, that prevents a peaceful resolution in the Middle East? It is precisely the unwillingness to let go of the dream of human superiority. It is perfectly true, that many Jews do not want to end the persecution that they experience from other people. The reason is precisely, that they believe so firmly in the illusion that they are God’s chosen people. And because they are God’s chosen people, they believe, that all other people are jealous of them—and that is indeed why they are persecuting the Jews, out of their jealousy and their anger. And therefore, whenever the Jews are persecuted, it is a confirmation for them, that they are indeed God’s chosen people.

Do you see? When you, as an outsider – who has not grown up in the Jewish culture or in the state of Israel – when you look at the Jews and the state of Israel, you might think that, surely, the Jews want to end the persecution, they want to be treated as all other people without being persecuted. But you are not understanding the mindset, that right now rules the state of Israel like a tyrant that will not tolerate dissent. That mindset is the desire to be special. And certainly, that mindset would like to be treated as superior by all other people on earth. The Jews certainly can envision a dream, where all other people recognize them as God’s chosen people and treat them as such. However, they are just as happy being special by being persecuted by other people—for that also confirms to them the dream, that they are set apart, that they are special.

Do you see, my beloved? If the Jews were to overcome persecution, how could this possibly happen? Well, if the Jews were not persecuted by other people, what would that mean? It would mean, that these other people started treating the Jews as they treat anyone else. And if the Jews were suddenly treated like all other people, what would that mean? Well, it would mean, that the Jews were not different, were not special, would it not? And therefore – suddenly – the Jews are faced with a need to examine themselves and their dream of feeling special, of feeling like God’s chosen people. And this they are not willing to do. They are not willing to look at that beam in their own eyes, and therefore they focus on the splinter in the eyes of other people. And the more other people persecute the Jews, the more of an excuse the Jews have for looking at the splinters in other people’s eyes and “taking their eye off the ball” – the beam – in their own eyes.

This is how the human consciousness works, my beloved. It is not only working that way in the Jews, for you indeed see other peoples around the world who have the need to be special. Certainly, we should not overlook the many, many Muslims who also want to be special, by thinking that Islam is the superior religion, the one true religion. And certainly, we shall not forget the many Christians who have the exact same consciousness, thinking that Christ is the only way to get to the kingdom of God, and thus Christianity surely is the superior religion, making them special—actually wanting to be persecuted, like they were persecuted during the days of Rome.

There is a state of consciousness, an element of the human consciousness, that loves being persecuted, because it wants to see itself as a victim. It is another age-old epic drama—that we are the victims of an evil force over which we have no control, but one day God will appear in the sky and reinstate us to our original position. And then all people will see, that we were superior all along. And precisely because they have persecuted us so violently, they will feel so bad about themselves! This is an epic drama that millions of people have been caught up in over the millennia, and that millions of people are still caught up in today. Even many spiritual and New Age people are caught up in this drama, that one day something will happen that makes other people see that they were right all along.

Is this really all you can imagine for yourselves? For if it is, then I can tell you, that your level of imagination is so far from what I can imagine for you, that I truly feel almost at a loss to explain how we can breach the gap. For surely, you will not be able to fathom what I can imagine for you, and for your role in the Golden Age, as long as you are not willing to question, to look beyond and to let go of the epic dramas in which your imagination has become trapped. And thus, again, you see why it is so important, that we have given these teachings on the epic dramas. Pick them apart if you will. Criticize them if you will. But know that all you are doing is tying yourself more firmly to the consciousness behind the epic dramas. This is your choice.

The consciousness behind the creation of Israel

As the God of Freedom, I champion free will. And thus, I champion free will in the Middle East. It is perfectly acceptable, that people create for themselves any experience that they want to experience. And thus, what is the state of Israel? It is a matrix, a role, a theatre performance for the kind of souls that have an unfulfilled desire to experience, what it means to feel superior to others. Take note if you will – or fail to take note if you won’t – that I am not hereby saying, that all of the people in the state of Israel have this need, or desire, to feel superior. What I AM saying, however, is that the state of Israel is ruled by this consciousness. In fact, what I want you to understand is, that the state of Israel was created out of this consciousness.

For, as those of you who study the state of Israel will realize, it was not actually created based on the imagination behind the official international creation of the state. The creation of the modern state of Israel began back in the 1800s in the imagination of one person with the last name of Rothschild, an international banker who truly did not see himself as a Jew in the traditional sense of the word, but he was completely tied up in the consciousness of needing to feel superior, wanting to use money to create power and then feel superior through that power.

This was the kind of consciousness, that set the stage for the emergence of what would become the state of Israel. Study the history as it is even recognized by the state of Israel itself, and you will see the influence of not only the Rothschilds, but also of other international bankers and financiers. They financed and backed the creation of the state of Israel, not because they were concerned about the people – not because they were concerned about the Jews or the Jewish religion or the Jewish culture – but because they were caught up in the dream of superiority. And they saw, that this was indeed one way to set up a state that could fulfill that dream.

And they were perfectly aware, that this might lead to conflict with other states, other peoples, but they actually saw this as a bonus. Now, my beloved, there are those who are aware that the Rothschilds in Europe would often lend money to finance a military build-up in two nations, and then manufacture and sell the weapons and then provide the spark that caused those weapons to be used and used up, so there was a need for the selling of more weapons. But the consciousness that is behind the creation of the state of Israel is not simply to profit from conflict—it is truly that conflict gives the ultimate sense of power.

If you are trapped in the consciousness of wanting to feel that you are superior, that you have ultimate power on earth, then what could feed that consciousness more than feeling, that you have the power to plunge the world into a third world war, as you indeed believe you were instrumental in plunging the world into the previous two world wars? This is the ultimate outcome of perverted power—that you feel you have the power to destroy the world, to destroy God’s plan, to destroy what God has built up. So that you can prove the fallacy of giving co-creators free will, and at the same time giving them the co-creative power that can lead them to destroy an entire planet.

Israel is not truly for Jews

This is the consciousness behind the creation of the modern state of Israel, and if you look at it from the point of stillness you will see, that this has nothing to do with Jews. Most of the people who are Jewish are not trapped in this state of consciousness, but they have become the victims of it, the pawns of it, because of their own dream, that the Jewish race is God’s chosen people. Yet take a look at the state of Israel. It is a theatre for people who want to experience a certain state of consciousness.

Now then, go beyond the common beliefs amongst Christians, Jews and Muslims and recognize the reality that the soul survives the death of the physical body, and therefore it can inhabit more than one physical body over time. When you know and acknowledge the reality of reincarnation, you might at first think, that the people who are Jews today have been Jews for all of their previous embodiments, but it is not the case. You cannot trace the history of souls by looking at the outer history of the Jewish people. You can trace the Jewish people through history, but it does not mean, that it was the same souls who reincarnated over and over again as Jews. Certainly, a few souls have incarnated as Jews for many, many embodiments, but the majority of them switched to different experiences, for most people are not so stuck in wanting to have the same experience over and over. They desire variety, which is indeed what this planet is designed to provide in abundance.

What I am endeavoring to explain here is this: the state of Israel is not for one group of people, it is not even for the Jews. The modern state of Israel is not created for the Jews, whether you see them as just Jews today or as souls who have embodied as Jews for many lifetimes. The modern state of Israel is actually designed as a theatre for a group of people, a group of souls, who are still stuck in that consciousness of wanting to experience superiority—but even wanting to experience ultimate power.

There is a consciousness in Israel – tied to the consciousness of Masada – of wanting to take an ultimate stand, that supposedly is for a cause, such as freedom, but it is really the ultimate desire of the human ego to write itself into history, by performing an act of such shocking nature, that it attracts the attention of all coming generations. And there is also a consciousness in the state of Israel, that the state of Israel has the right to defend itself with all means possible, which of course involves nuclear weapons. Do you see, that when you combine these insights, you realize that there is a consciousness – a beast – in Israel, that wants to create a nuclear ragnarok in Israel, around Israel, in the Arab nations, so that this will be written indelibly into the history of this planet—that this was where the ultimate power of the ultimate weapon of nuclear technology was unleashed. And therefore, it will be looked upon with fear by all future generations.

This is the level of insanity that is lurching behind the surface in and around the state of Israel. It is not exclusive to Israel, in that you can find pockets of it in other places in the world, even still in Russia, where some people want to use nuclear technology to re-establish Russian superiority. And certainly, you can find it in some very narrow military circles in the United States, that also love nuclear weapons for the power it gives them. Certainly, you can find this consciousness in both Pakistan and India, you can find it in China, you can find it in North Korea—more like a lusting after than a reality. You can find it in Iran, you can even find it – although in diminished form – in England and especially in France. And you can find it in other nations who are lusting after it, even in the terrorist organizations, so-called, of Al Qaeda, where they would love nothing more than being able to unleash a nuclear weapon in a major city.

Seeing all problems from the point of stillness

This is the consciousness that needs to be exposed, that needs to be faced head-on. And right now this messenger raises his right hand with the scepter given to him by Surya. And the scepter touches the forehead – the third eye – of this beast. And so the beast itself is diminished by this action, but it is still recreated and kept alive in the consciousness of many people around the world. And thus, there is a need for those who are alert and awake to make calls on this particular consciousness, and this beast of wanting ultimate power and thinking that ultimate power is the power to destroy the earth and God’s purpose for the earth.

Thus, I have surely given you enough food for thought in one discourse—realizing that this can be disturbing teachings. Yet why did I start out talking about the point of stillness? Because when you are in the point of stillness, nothing on earth will truly disturb you. When you are in the point of stillness, you look upon the earth, and there is no sense of panic, no sense of fear, no sense of impending doom. These feelings can exist only in the human consciousness, and what is the basis for these feelings? It is again, limited imagination.

What is free imagination? What is unlimited imagination? What is the ultimate imagination—the ultimate EYE-magic? Well, it is, indeed, what Jesus said, “With God all things are possible.” And when you are in the point of stillness, you are with God and God is with you. And thus, you can look at the earth and know, that with God all things are possible, with God it is possible to overcome this tradition, this consciousness. And therefore, you do not shy away from looking at a condition, from looking at a certain state of consciousness. For you know, that if you do not look at it, you cannot use your Eye-magic, your imagination, to envision it gone.

You cannot use Eye-magic on that, which you are not willing to look at. And of course, you cannot use Eye-magic if you look at something from the level of the human consciousness. Which is precisely why the all-important distinction is, that you do not need to look at problems from the human consciousness, where you feel overwhelmed or panicked by them. You go into the point of stillness, and when you have found the stillness, when you have established yourself in the stillness, then you look at the problems. For now you do not see them as real, as permanent, but only as temporary mirages, as images projected upon the movie screen. And you see how easily they can be changed by changing the filmstrip in the projector.

And thus, you start by changing the filmstrip in your own mind, so that you are not projecting an image of fear or permanence or inevitability, but you project the image, that these conditions are transformed by the light of God, that the people are awakened from their limited consciousness. That they are awakened to a new vision of how these old and seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome, how the irreconcilable conflict can be reconciled, how the impossible problems can be solved with the knowledge, that through the stillness all things are possible.

Thus, I greeted you from the stillness. I bid you Adieu from the stillness, and I admonish you to spend some time to focus on this stillness, to experience your own Presence and then experience the presence that I AM. Call it Saint Germain or the Presence of Freedom or whatever you want to call it, but connect to it through your own Presence. Experience my Presence, and I will share with you my imagination of the Golden Age on earth, including the Golden Age in the Middle East. And thus, I bid you “Adieu” from the stillness that is not passive stillness, but an active stillness, for it is teeming with life—the Life that IS God!

Copyright © 2010 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: True alchemy is in the now – How it was to be a father of Jesus – Taking responsibility for yourself – Creativity is the essence of Christhood – The key to overcoming drama – There is no competition in creativity – Our teaching is a living teaching – Fearing an encounter with the Living master – Be willing to move in order to serve – A secret understood by few people – Ascending to a new level of teaching –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, October 29, 2009 through Kim Michaels. The dictation was given right after sunrise on the top of Mount Tabor, believed to be the site of Jesus‘ transfiguration. There is a Catholic church and monastery on top of the mountain.

My Beloved, Saint Germain I am. Known as Saint Joseph of old. For it was, indeed, a privilege and a challenge for me to serve as the father of the young Jesus. As Mother Mary has explained, he was, indeed, not born of an immaculate conception. But the Holy Spirit worked through both of us to help us realize – as Jesus explained yesterday – that when there is a special task to be completed, one must leave behind everything else and follow that direction from within. So one can be in the right place at the right time, where the outer situation becomes obvious to one’s mind, and one sees what is to be done, what is to be brought forth, what is to manifest.

So that one can – in that lifetime – have the opportunity and the privilege to do something, that reaches beyond a normal human life, that reaches beyond one’s own expectations and desires and wants for a particular lifetime. For one grasps a greater purpose, that greater vision, and one sees, that there is something more to life than most human beings see, envision and expect for a normal lifetime.

True alchemy is in the now

This, my beloved, is the key. Consider, how every human being has the potential to reach for something within themselves, something in the heart, something that brings out a quality—that ineffable, hard-to-describe something, that many people call love. But it is not, truly, the human, possessive love—it is a transcendent quality, a transcendent love if you will, but it is simply transcendence itself. It is that you touch a piece of heaven, you touch a piece of something beyond. You touch the master’s garment, and you feel the stream of the master’s consciousness flowing through you, bringing healing or awakening as the need might be.

And thus, you are all called to reach for that something, that is the quality of MORE, that is what the old alchemists sought and few ever found. That transcendence, that ability to transcend the old, to simply leave it behind, to take a leap forward and to say, “This is who I am now. And it does not matter what I was yesterday, or last week or when I was born. For this is who I choose to be at this moment.” The right to be who you will be at any moment, regardless of what you have been or not been before.

The lie, the lie of the false teachers, is that your past choices, your past state of being or non-being, should limit your future choices, or rather your present choices, the choices you make in the eternal now, when you decide that I am not going to wait for tomorrow. I am going to choose to be MORE, right now, right here. This is the essence of alchemy, the choice to be MORE—not in the future, to not see this as a process that goes on. And if you keep doing some outer ritual or reading a scripture or chanting a prayer, then some day something will happen.

No my beloved, alchemy, true alchemy, is when you decide that NOW, right now, right here I am MORE. I am not looking back. I am putting my hand to the plow of Christ, and I am moving forward, cleaving the real from the unreal, as I turn the earth over and reveal a new surface, a new surface for the growth of new life. This is what Mary and I did, when we had seen the vision, when we had met each other physically—we put our hands to the plow and we moved forward from there, regardless of the difficulties, moving from here to there to there, being on the move for years before settling down for a longer time in that tiny village of Nazareth.

How it was to be a father of Jesus

I desire to give you at least a glimpse into how it was to be the father for this young boy, that grew up to be Jesus. It was not easy, my beloved. Oh yes you have heard the stories, made up by human beings, some of you have even read so-called new revelation about the young boy, Jesus, and his ability to do this or that miraculous feat. Well, Jesus did have special abilities, but he did not manifest any of what you would call miracles during his childhood. What he did manifest was a very strong will, a very strong sense that he had something beyond the ordinary child of this day.

And my beloved, he was still a child. He was still a child. He had the inexperience with life, combined with that inner sense of self-worth of having something special—and you see a combination, that it could be very difficult for a father to deal with. Especially in that age where I, of course, was brought up in a traditional male-dominated culture, where the father was seen as the head of the household, which I can assure you that Jesus had no tolerance for whatsoever. He was a very headstrong boy. He was not anxious to listen to the elders. He wanted his own experiences in life, as many of you have seen with children in this day and age.

For again, you have many children who come into embodiment in this age, who have that inner knowing, that they are here for a purpose, that they are not here to live an ordinary life defined by society and their parents or their teachers or the elders. They are here to forge their own way. But of course, it would be much easier for them, if they would listen somewhat to the elder generation, to gain some experience, to learn from our mistakes, so that they did not have to repeat them all over again.

Yet I can assure you, that this was not Jesus’ approach. I am not thereby saying he never listened, but I tell you, that there were many a time when I was ready to pull my hair out in frustration over his unwillingness to listen—not only to reason, but his unwillingness to listen to anyone who had experience. Jesus was a hands-on kind of person. If you told him not to touch something because it was hot, you could be absolutely certain that he would go touch it, to make sure it was hot.

Why do you think Jesus is not talked about in the scriptures between his appearance in the temple and the age of 30? Well, you will recall the story of what happened in the temple. We had taken him there, Mary and I, expecting him to keep close to us. For indeed, Jerusalem back then was a busy place, as it can be today, where it would be easy for a child to get lost in the crowd, swept up by the crowds, as they moved through the narrow streets, that were even narrower back then than what you see today.

So here he was—suddenly gone. Mary thought he was with me, I thought he was with her, and we then met and realized, that he was with neither of us. Panic, my beloved—as any parent would experience. Running around, looking for him, finding him and then in our worry and concern hearing him say, with an absolute assuredness bordering on arrogance, “Wist ye not I must be about my Father’s business!” Well, I was about to show him right there what was his father’s business.

But nevertheless, what you see is, that he had reached that level of maturity, where he could not be taught by me—and I knew it. I knew there was nothing more I could teach him, and thus the solution we found was to send him with people we knew and trusted, including Joseph of Aramithea, on to the caravan routes, where he could gain experience with different cultures, different people. Where he could move around, be away from home, see something different and hopefully, through that, gain a perspective that he did not have living a somewhat protected life in a small village. For I am sure you realize, that regardless of the fantasies people have come up with, back then living in the village of Nazareth was living in a very small mental box. There was no television, no newspapers, no books, no way to know what was happening beyond what you could see with your eyes or where you could walk in a few days.

My Beloved, it was a very isolated kind of life, and we knew that Jesus needed a broader perspective. He needed to see more of the world. I had, indeed, travelled as I was younger and seen more of the area around here. Mary, of course, being younger, had not had the opportunity, and as a woman being more limited anyway in her ability to move around in those days. For surely, she could not travel alone; that was the privilege of men only.

So we knew that it was time to send Jesus out into life to gain experience. And hopefully he would come back with an expanded perspective, perhaps then settling down as we had our dreams about, for we did not have a clear vision of what his mission would be and neither, of course, did he at that time. So, we let him go! We let him go, not knowing whether we would ever see him again. Not knowing—and indeed not seeing him, for in my case I had passed from the screen of life before he returned to this area.

Of course, Mary seeing him again, when he came back as an adult, yet not still having reached that full awareness of his mission. And she playing a key role in guiding him on to start on that more than ordinary mission, which none of us really could grasp and understand fully – including Jesus – until it started unfolding. But Mary knew, that there was something beyond the ordinary, that wanted to be brought forth and expressed through Jesus. So at that fateful wedding in Cana, she was there to say the right words at the right time, so that he started his public mission, from where there was no turning back. My Beloved, I wish I could have been there to support him, but then again, I know that he did not need my support, for at that point he had found it within himself.

Taking responsibility for yourself

And that, of course, is the ultimate joy of a father: to see the children find it within themselves. Find it within themselves. What good is it, if you continually have to rely on outer measures – be it reading the stars or casting lots or looking into a crystal ball – in order to know, supposedly, what is the right thing to do? There must come a point, where you take responsibility for yourself. Which means what? It means realizing, that although you have a divine plan that outlines the broad steps, the broad strokes, the details – sometimes quite broad details – are up to you, and you are choosing your creative expression.

The divine plan is not a straightjacket. Divine direction is not a straightjacket. It gives you some outlines, and then within those outlines you are meant to fill in the details—not in a predefined way, but in a creative way. Oh yes, this is indeed the subtle difference, as Jesus spoke about yesterday, between those who follow the outer path and those who follow the inner path.

Those who follow the outer path believe, that somewhere up in heaven, there is a divine plan that is outlined in minute detail. And you need to use some kind of measure here on earth to get direction for how to take every step on that path. And then you simply follow it blindly, and then in the end – when having done everything you could do to get this direction and follow every step blindly – then you will be rewarded by entry into the kingdom of God, which you see as an external kingdom, where there is a gate somewhere that you can enter.

But you see, as Jesus explained, it is an inner path, and that means what? It means it cannot be mechanical. It cannot be predefined. It is a creative path, my beloved. Oh yes—I know that for so long, for so many centuries, Christians from all over the world have looked at the scriptures, have heard the stories of Jesus’ life, and they have thought that everything that happened was preordained. But you see, there are many ways to be the Christ. It is not that being the Christ means putting on a straightjacket.

There were many ways even for Jesus to have been the Christ. There were many ways. As he said himself yesterday, he did not give just one Sermon on the Mount. He gave many. Each one being slightly different, each one being a creative expression. Even the Beatitudes he gave yesterday for a more modern age and an expanded state of consciousness, even those could be expressed in many ways for different audiences, for different circumstances.

Creativity is the essence of Christhood

And thus, you see, creativity – creativity – is the essence of the path to Christhood. There is a certain stage on your personal path, where you can make some progress by following a somewhat mechanical path, where you give outer rituals and study outer teachings. This messenger can attest to it from his own life, where he made progress following this path. Although I must tell you, that he never followed anything mechanically, but always pondered it creatively, coming up with his own inner understanding, always directing it to how he could explain this to others and make it easier for them to understand.

For he knew that part of his mission in this life was indeed to bear witness to this ineffable something, that is beyond an outer truth that can be expressed in words, but it is a Spirit—a glimpse of something beyond, something ineffable. But something that makes you realize, that there is more to life than the ordinary, human existence that seems so bland, that it almost defies description, defies comprehension, how people can live in that state of consciousness for an entire lifetime and not even once cry out for something more.

My Beloved, alchemy is not a mechanical process; it is not a matter of finding the right formula or the right chemical ingredient. It is a creative process. It involves your consciousness. Do you not see, how quantum physics today has proven, that observation is not the passive observer observing external events? Observation is co-creation. Your consciousness is part of everything that happens in your life.

You may think you live in a world, that is independent of you and your state of consciousness. And certainly, there are things in the universe that are independent of your state of consciousness, for they are dependent upon the states of consciousness of other beings, some of whom being not even in embodiment. Nevertheless, your life, your circumstance, your life experience is indeed wholly dependent upon your state of consciousness. And that is why you have the choice to lay down the responsibility, to enter into a personal drama, to even be trapped in one of the epic dramas. And therefore, you live an entire lifetime in that mechanical state of consciousness, where you are not truly going within and taking responsibility for making creative choices, choices that seek something MORE, something deeper, something more profound.

Those of you who can grasp the true inner path will know what I am talking about, when I say this something MORE, this transcendent feeling, this sense that you have grasped something—you have grasped a glimpse of heaven, of what life truly could be. Well this is what you are here to witness to. You are here to witness to it, but how can you do that, unless you step outside of the dramas, unless you realize what the dramas are in your own personal experience and consciousness, so that you can reach for that something MORE?

The key to overcoming drama

And let me give you the essential key. The dramas have one effect, and what is it? To make you focused on your self, as the separate self defined by the drama, thinking this is all you are, this is all you can be. So, you must find a way to snap out of that focus on self, and what is it? It is to focus on something else beyond that self—other people, a greater cause, doing something that is more than the ordinary, more than what is defined by the dramas. It is the only way, my beloved.

Do you see what happened to Mary and I? We had the inner direction from the Spirit, that we were meant to do something beyond the ordinary. Both of us had our lives on a certain track, that had nothing to do with us coming together, with our great age difference, with our great difference in background, family and culture. We had never envisioned coming together and giving birth to a child and several children.

This was not our outer direction, the outer path that we had envisioned. But we grasped that something MORE. We took that turn and then we knew, that this was our opportunity, our calling, what we had volunteered to do—to bring forth something beyond the ordinary. And we did, in our own way, as best we could with our state of consciousness. And this does not mean that we were perfect, or that you have to be perfect. It means that you have to reach for that something MORE, and be willing to outpicture it in whatever way you can. And then keep expanding and expanding throughout your life, expressing more and more of it, until people can see it.

As Jesus said, they look at you and they see, that this is not an ordinary human being who is expressing what you are expressing. This can only come from something beyond, and this is when you can say with Jesus, “I can of my own self do nothing; it is the Father, the I AM Presence, within me who is doing the works. And your I AM Presence can do similar or greater works through you.”

There is no competition in creativity

You tune in to your Higher Self, and then you are not in competition with anyone else. You only want them to tune in to their higher selves, so that they can bring forth their unique gift. For there is not one or two people that are more important than others, even though they may hold a certain spiritual office. You are all important. The ten thousand, the millions more who can manifest some degree of Christhood, you are all equally important—or should I say, of infinite incomparable importance. For we of the ascended masters do not impose these value judgments, for we have transcended our personal dramas. And we have looked at the lie behind the epic dramas, and we have said, “You have no power over me, for I am free. I am more than this; I do not have to continue to play these dramas. And therefore, I transcend them right now, right here.”

My Beloved, life is such an incredible gift. And I know, that when you are in a dense physical body, when you are facing difficult circumstances, well, then it may be difficult to remember. But I tell you, life is an incredible gift. And although I started out by telling you the difficulties I had with the young boy Jesus, I can also tell you, that there were times when I looked at him, saw the light in his eyes – or even the light in his aura, that I did not see physically, but sensed – and I felt what a privilege it had been for me to be the father of this child.

Of course, sensing the same in my other children as well. And as I have described once before, sensing the incredible privilege it was for me to be the husband of this most ineffable being, Mother Mary. For I tell you, that she had that transcendent quality, that you could look upon her, and you could see something more, something that was not human, something that was not physical. Sometimes, I would look into her eyes, and I would feel I was in a different realm. The heat of the day would melt away, the aching of my muscles after a long day’s work would disappear, and I would feel that I was in the company of an angel.

Which of course was true, although I did not know it with my outer mind. But an angel not in the sense that many of you envision—as these beings flying around up there in heaven and blowing in trumpets. No, my beloved, what is an angel, really? Is it not anyone who is able to be here in this dense realm and yet show something that is beyond the ordinary—that is one definition of an angel. A messenger of God who comes to show, that there is something beyond the density of the material world. That, certainly, could be one definition of an angel, my beloved. A broader one, a broader one indeed, for we always desire to have you broaden your consciousness and to avoid having our teachings being turned into a mental box. Where the linear mind wants to take everything we have said about angels and turn it into some rigid teaching, so that this is the way it is supposed to be.

Our teaching is a living teaching

We are not trying to bring forth a teaching that is absolute, that could never change. When will you understand this and stop analyzing and trying to turn everything into that linear teaching, where you feel you have things under control? Give up, my beloved, the need to feel that you are in control and that you know everything. Flow with the River of Life and realize, as Jesus has recently said, you cannot be in embodiment without having some kind of mental box. And so, there is always something to give up. And if you take one of our teachings and say, that this is now the ultimate understanding of angels or any other topic, well, then you are using that teaching to create or reinforce a mental box. And this is not what we desire; this is not our purpose for giving a teaching.

We give a teaching to remind you, that there is something MORE, something beyond the outer religions of this world. There is an inner path, my beloved. The living path is what we seek to give you teachings about. Not that you may know it and analyze it intellectually, but you may tune into it in your hearts. That is our purpose. When you turn it into an intellectual, outer teaching, well you have shut off the heart. And thus, you have shut us out, for what are we, the ascended masters? We are not the outer teaching—this I trust you can see. And thus, what is it you want? Do you want just the outer teachings? Are you satisfied with the outer teachings?

Do you hear this bell* in the background; do you hear it? Do you see the structure they have built up there, the monument they have built on this mountain, that they have decided was the Mount of Transfiguration, even though I can tell you that it was not? Do you see, that if you go into that church, that monastery, you will find people there who, most of them, are satisfied with the outer teachings of Christ? And what does that mean? It means there is not room in their hearts for an encounter with the Living Christ.

Fearing an encounter with the Living master

They are afraid of the Living master, who would appear to them and speak to them in their hearts—if they only would give him room to enter, if there was only room within for the living Christ to be born. But they are afraid of it, because somewhere in their beings they know, that if they encountered the Living Christ, they would have to make the choice between life and death. They would have to make the choice to take responsibility for themselves instead of continuing in the drama.

For you go and see so many of these mainstream Christians today, and you will see, that they have defined a drama, where they only need to keep playing their part, and then they think they will be rewarded in the end by Jesus appearing—somehow taking away their sins. And that is the only requirement for them entering heaven: to have their sins taken away by Christ and to live a “good” Christian life, defined according to some outer earthly standard.

You who claim to be students of the ascended masters, you should know better. You should realize the difference between wanting only an outer teaching or wanting an encounter with a living master. You are free to do whatever you want. I have no intention whatsoever of forcing you. I only offer you my living Presence as the master of Aquarius. If you think that any teaching can capture and hold my living Presence, then I say: “May you live happily in your drama.” And then, when you are ready to give it up, I will still be here for you. For I cannot reach you, if you are focused on the outer teaching, and if you take any teaching given by Saint Germain, given under that name, and turn it into a mental box.

Because then you have no chance whatsoever of encountering my living Presence, that I offer to you 24 hours a day. For I too am with you always. We who are the ascended masters are with you always. Which does not mean, that we will be with you for an eternity. For some day your time will run out—whereas my time will never run out, for I am beyond time, for I have transcended my dramas. But it does mean, that while you are in embodiment, we are there at any moment at any time. You do not need to wait for this cosmic event. You simply need to decide, that this is the time where I want a more direct encounter with the ascended masters than what I can get through an outer teaching.

This messenger is a messenger because he decided that—he looked to us and said, “I want more. I want a more direct encounter with you.” And you know that the answer was instantaneous—if he was willing to serve in a greater capacity. And because he was willing, he got that encounter with Jesus. This was not for his own growth or for his own glorification. This was not for the raising up of that separate self to have some special status. For if you come to us from that perspective – of wanting an encounter with the ascended masters, so that your separate self can feel special – well, then you will still be wandering in the desert for forty years or more, without entering the promised land.

Be willing to move in order to serve

Instead, come to us with that openness of the heart, where you are willing to serve, to give something to others. Then you will feel our presence there, as we direct you to how you can serve. But be aware, that this might mean dramatic changes in your life. For there are so many times, where you cannot serve to your full capacity in the circumstances you are in right now. Has this not been demonstrated by all of us in our earthly lives, such as Master MORE LINK talked about in his incarnation as Abraham, where he had to leave his land – leave the circumstances where he was comfortable and felt in control – and move around, not feeling quite in control, but feeling nevertheless the Presence of that inner guidance with him.

This is indeed what we look for in our students: those who are willing to walk into the unknown, to take one step at a time. Those are true students, following the inner path, not some outer direction. For do you not understand, as Maitreya has explained, that there is a time where you can follow the guru, the external guru, but there is a time, where you must go within and follow the internal guru only. [A church bell rings in the background]

Ah, my beloved, for whom do the bells toll? Well, the bells you hear are outer expressions, but there is a symbol in the bell. For I tell you, that for each of you, your I AM Presence is sounding a bell, calling you to come up higher. Not to go into some outer church and worship some external image of Christ, but to go within the church of the heart – to go within your closet, as Jesus said – and there find the living Presence of the Christ in whatever form it is for you, whatever master is close to your heart. Is it me, is it Jesus, Mother Mary, Master MORE or any of the masters? Find that master, cling to that master, open your mind and heart to the living Presence of that master, and then be willing to be led wherever it takes you, even if it makes no sense for your outer mind.

Be willing to make those seismic shifts in your life, that will put you on the path of your service. Not the path TO your service, for be careful to realize, that this dream of some goal, of some ultimate service, is just another drama. The reality is, that your service is a process, an ongoing process, that will continue for this lifetime and possibly in other lifetimes or continuing in the ascended realm, when you have no more need or desire to embody. Life is a process. There is no ultimate result, for even when you attain the consciousness of the Creator level, you immediately start creating—and thus the process continues.

A secret understood by few people

Life, my beloved, is a process. This is true alchemy. It never stops, it never stands still. And it never goes back, for you cannot step into the River of Life twice and have the same experience. For the River of Life is always transcending itself. I am always transcending myself. I am always in search of new students, who will tune in to my heart. But as I have said before, you must be willing – as the one requirement I have – to question everything, especially your drama in which you are comfortable—even when you are miserable.

Question why that can be so. How can it be, that at one level I think I am miserable but at another level I am not willing to question why? And therefore, I am actually comfortable in that state of misery, for I do not have to take responsibility for myself and make creative decisions. Creative decisions means, that there is no predefined outcome, there is no right outcome, there is no wrong outcome. There is only an outcome, which then becomes a foundation for you learning something more and making better decisions, more creative decisions—and thus, spiraling upwards, ever spiraling upwards, into what eventually accelerates and becomes the ascension spiral.

I have said before, that I secured my ascension by making one million right decisions. But do you think those decisions were made at the same level, at the same state of consciousness? No, those decisions were made in an ascending spiral, and that means that the decisions became more and more subtle, more and more open-ended, more and more creative.

Let me give you a secret, that extremely few people have understood. For you see, it has been said, that as you ascend the path, the initiations, the tests you get, become more and more subtle. And many have understood this to mean, that it becomes more difficult to see the difference between right and wrong. For they still have the image, that even at the higher levels of the path of Christhood, there is a right choice and a wrong choice. And they think it becomes more difficult to tell the difference. But you see, right and wrong are dualistic concepts, defined by the epic dramas. And thus, when you reach the higher levels of Christhood, you realize a stunning truth. There is no longer the need to compare your decisions based on a dualistic standard of right and wrong.

It is not that you always make right decisions—it is that you throw away the dualistic measure of right and wrong; you transcend it. And thus, there are things you never do at that level of consciousness, such as harming people, but everything you do at that level, is RIGHT. For there is no standard any longer that can hold your ever-self-transcending Spirit.

This is a key to ponder for those who are willing to truly leave behind the epic dramas. What do the epic dramas do? They define a standard, a dualistic standard, and you think you have to live up to it. And if you do, you are right and if you do not, you are wrong. But you have to see this standard for the illusion it is and say: “I will no more let my life be imprisoned by the standard. I will be who I will be, regardless of what other people say or what the standard says. For I am the living Christ, and I flow with the River of Life, wherever it takes me, that I may serve to shatter people’s mental boxes, for that is my calling. It is not myself, it is not about me any longer, it is about serving the All, being the All.”

Ascending to a new level of teaching

Thus, I have spoken at length. But do not believe that I have exhausted my message. There is so much more to bring forth, so much more. For we are now free to rise to a higher level. We are now free, for we have brought forth enough teachings to address the Piscean consciousness and the epic dramas that have held humankind. And now, we can build upon that foundation and start giving the teachings, that will take people into the Aquarian age and the Aquarian age consciousness. And thus, even though you may sense that a certain cycle of progressive revelation has come to an end, it only mean that a new cycle is unfolding.

And I for one am excited about what can and will be brought forth in that new cycle, as I can assure you that all of us are. For there is rejoicing in the spiritual realm today, as I encourage you to rejoice in having come to this point. Thus, be true to who you are, for there is not one way to fulfill your divine plans. There is an infinite variety of ways for those who have come to the level of consciousness, where they know that creativity is life and there is no standard for life. It is an ever-flowing movement. It is the River of Life.

And thus, my parting words are these. Seek always to be in tune with that River of Life and move with it effortlessly—effortlessly, my beloved. Effortless, what a word to ponder. For is it not the dramas, that make it seem necessary to exert an effort in order to receive the kingdom—that Jesus said that your father will give you freely? For it is his greatest pleasure to give it to you. Can you, then, not accept it in the Spirit in which it is offered? For if you cannot accept it in the same Spirit in which it is given, how could you possibly receive it?

* A church bell from the nearby church and monastery.

Copyright © 2009 by Kim Michaels