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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, May 9, 2009 through Kim Michaels.

Transcendence is the key word for the eleventh ray. Transcendence of what? Transcendence of your present sense of self—whatever that sense of self might be. You can always transcend and become MORE, as even your Creator is becoming MORE by creating you.

So you see, transcendence is, again, a concept that the linear mind finds it impossible to categorize and put in a mental box. For the linear mind wants to go to the ultimate extreme and say, “There must come a point where no more transcendence is possible. There must come some end, where you have reached a state of perfection that cannot be transcended.”

Says who, my beloved? The linear mind may not be able to fathom that there is no end to self-transcendence—and that is precisely why the linear mind must be left behind by the student who comes to a point of wanting MORE, more self than what it has experienced so far.

There is no linearity in the spiritual realm; there is a spherical reality. And once you step out of the linear mind, once you transcend it, then perpetual self-transcendence becomes a living reality. You are not concerned about what might come in some future time. You are flowing with the River of Life, existing in the eternal NOW—that is perpetual self-transcendence. You are not projecting into the future what should or should not happen. You are not analyzing the past of what should or should not have happened. You are simply flowing with the River of Life. Something that the ego cannot do, for the ego wants to own and possess.

So, the question becomes, “Do you still want the experience of owning something, owning a particular experience, a particular sense of self?” And by so doing, also being owned by your own creation of that separate self, which then, in turn, wants to own you—wants you, as the unlimited, infinite spiritual being, to limit your self, your sense of self, your sense of identity to that particular limited belief from which the ego was born.

The descent into duality

How, my beloved, did all of this descent into duality begin? It began, as Maitreya explains, when a sphere had come to the point of ascension, where it could ascend and become a part of the spiritual realm. Where it had reached the critical intensity of light that made it possible to accelerate the entire sphere into the higher vibrations of the spiritual realm—the vibrations of unconditionality, of love. And yet, what was the condition for that acceleration to take place? Well, you see, my beloved, you had a great number of beings who had applied themselves in a very concentrated effort in order to raise their sphere to that level. They had made great efforts. They had truly worked selflessly, so to speak, on raising all beings in their sphere to that point.

But you see, even in so doing, some of them had retained a remnant of the separate self, thinking that by working so hard to raise up their sphere, they would receive what they perceived as some ultimate reward by God for their efforts. And so, it was a great shock to them when all of the beings who had been the forerunners for raising the sphere were called, and they were shown that the next logical step for them was not to enter the spiritual realm as some kind of superheroes – receiving position and recognition in that spiritual realm – but instead, their next logical step was to lay down their lives, their attainment, their self-awareness and give that momentum and self-awareness and attainment as the foundation for creating the next sphere that would start out as an unenlightened sphere—inhabited by beings with a limited sense of self-awareness. Thereby, the sophisticated beings in the ascending sphere would, so to speak, let their beings descend, and now they would become the ones who allowed the beings in the next sphere to do with their light according to their free will.

This was a logical step because in the sphere that was ascending, that sphere was created out of the beings of those in a higher sphere. And so, the beings who were now at the top of the ascending sphere were simply being asked to do for others what others had done for them. Many of these beings were ready to ascend – to shed the last remnants of the separate self – and gladly embraced this opportunity. Which is why the next sphere was created—leading to your own. You would not be here unless someone had volunteered to lay down their lives to give you the opportunity to have a sphere in which you could grow in self-awareness. Thus, it is only logical that as you come to having made maximum use of this opportunity, you are asked to extend that opportunity to others, my beloved.

Yet, there were a small number, among the beings that had the opportunity to ascend, who did not want to give up that last remnant of the separate self. So they rebelled against God’s plan. And they wanted to keep owning what they saw as a superior position in their sphere, which they believed they had earned, and therefore [they] were entitled to keep experiencing that superiority for a time longer. And so, they demanded to be exempt from this—to set themselves apart as their sphere ascended. And in so doing, of course, they automatically fell into the next sphere that was created. For they could not maintain an existence in the ascended sphere, and thus could only go into the sphere that was not yet ascended and therefore had room for the separate self to continue to exist.

And yet, these beings were not stripped of their attainment. And so, they did, indeed, come into the next sphere with a far greater attainment and awareness than the beings who were just starting out in that sphere. And so, naturally, they set themselves up as leaders—as precisely what Jesus called the blind leaders of the blind followers. Some of their followers actually having followed them from the ascended sphere where they had leadership positions. And those of their followers who were not willing to let go of their obedience to their leaders, they had to fall as well.

The initiations of the eleventh ray

And so, when you come to the eleventh ray, it is indeed the challenge you face to transcend, to let go of the last remnants of the separate self. And thus come to what we might call a sense of ultimate reality, ultimate realism, of knowing that the separate self is unreal. And only when you know that your separate self is unreal – and only when you see this from within your sphere of self – can you then see that everything that was created out of duality is likewise unreal.

This, then, is the state of reality, of realism, of asking yourself, “Why am I here?” And so far, especially during the initiations of the first seven rays, you might also have asked yourself that question many times. Such as, “Why did I come to Earth? Why did I volunteer to descend here? Why did I come back to Earth?” And it is always that you are here to do something, to bring something, to achieve some kind of result. But you see, when you come to the eleventh ray, you need to transcend the very concept that you are here to achieve any particular result.

This will be a shock to the ego. It will be a shock to the remnants of the separate self. Which is precisely why I give this teaching in such a manner as to shock your separate self into objecting to the teaching, thereby giving you an opportunity to see those remnants of the separate self.

Consider how we have, several times now, said that what brings you to a certain point will not bring you beyond that point. You cannot then rise beyond the challenge of the tenth ray unless you are willing to consider the question of, “Why I am here?” from an entirely new perspective. You need to ask yourself not, “Why am I here,” but, “What is the ‘I’ that is here?”

Is it an I that still sees itself as separate from its source, as separate from other self-aware beings? Do you think you are here to do something for God, for the Ascended Masters, or even do something for other people—saving them, setting them free, awakening them, or whatever it might be? Why do you need to consider this, my beloved? Because only the separate self can have the sense that it is doing something that affects others.

Do you see the subtlety? So many well-meaning spiritual people believe they are here to affect positive change on this planet. So many religious people believe their goal is to convert others to their religion. But even those who have transcended this need to convert others to a particular outer religion can be caught up in wanting to awaken others to the spiritual path, wanting to change them, wanting to change society, wanting to change the Earth and humankind.

But you see, my beloved, why does the world need changing? Why do people need saving? They need saving because they are trapped in the separate sense of self. The world needs changing because people have co-created numerous problems through the separate sense of self, thereby, reinforcing the illusion that the separate self has some kind of reality, some kind of permanence, some kind of real existence. And so, do you see that there comes a point on the path – when you go into the secret rays – where you need to come to the realization, the sense of ultimate realism, that you cannot fulfill the true goal of raising your sphere as long as you maintain even a faint remnant, even a shadow, of the separate self—as long as you think that you, as a separate self, are here to affect some kind of change to the separate selves of other people.

What is the Golden Age really like?

Do you see the trap? When you still have that remnant of the separate self, you think that your separate self is right and knows everything and therefore knows what should happen on this planet.

What is the plan of the Ascended Masters? You think you know what the Golden Age of Saint Germain should look like—what is God’s will and God’s kingdom for Earth. And so, you think that you need to go out and get other people to recognize the superiority of that view, so that they can validate it and agree with it and perhaps even raise you up to some position of leadership. Or recognize you as a spiritual teacher with more than ordinary wisdom.

But you see, the problem is the separate self and all of the entities created through those separate selves of humankind. Those separate selves will never recognize the reality of their own unreality. They will, therefore, never recognize a true teacher who speaks from the greater reality. That is why so many did not recognize the Buddha, did not recognize the Christ, but saw them as a threat to their sense of comfortability. So, if you are still dreaming of attaining some kind of public recognition, widespread recognition, for your spiritual world view or your teaching, well then that can only be a remnant of the separate self that has this dream. And thus, you are acting in an unbalanced manner, and thus, you are adding to the struggle and the energies that feed the struggle.

Take note of a subtle distinction. You are here to help in the true purpose of God – namely, to raise this sphere until it ascends and becomes part of the spiritual realm – but the challenge is to see that you cannot accomplish this goal by acting as a separate self, trying to change the separate selves of other people. You can raise this sphere only by awakening a critical mass of people to go beyond the separate self. And how can you serve in helping others come to this awakening? Well, only by first awakening yourself.

For there is, when you go into the realm of the secret rays, no hiding. How can you hide in transparency? And so, you must walk your talk. You must become your talk. Or rather, your talk must become an expression of your true Being, not an outer teaching that you have taken on and that you seek to force upon others.

What is ultimately going to change the world? Not any amount of teaching given through a separate self to other separates selves. What is ultimately going to change the world is the bringing in of light—which can only happen when your lower being becomes the open door that is transparent, so the light can shine through in its pure form to the point where the conscious selves of other people can see it. And can see that it is beyond anything they see through their own separate selves—and thus, they are awakened to the potential to be MORE.

Beware of the desire for recognition

Examine yourselves. Examine your intentions, your motives. Do you have a desire for recognition by others? Do you have a fear of being ridiculed by others or even being ignored? Do you have a fear that the planet will suffer some ultimate calamity unless people recognize your world view, your teaching?

Only the separate self can have fear. Only the separate self can have a desire that requires, that wants, something from other separate selves. Thus, if you see any elements of these vibrations in your being, then you know that they must be transcended in order for you to pass the initiations of the eleventh ray.

But what truly must be transcended is that sense of self. This, of course, is, again, a big step for those who have been on the spiritual path for many years, many lifetimes, who have built a momentum, who think they have acquired great wisdom and knowledge. And now suddenly it seems like it was all … for nothing?—as you might feel. For you are now asked to give it all up. But you see, nothing is for nothing. Whatever you have learned, whatever you have experienced, has brought you to your present level of consciousness. There is nothing wrong with this. It is simply the progression of your personal path, where you have, for various reasons, desired to have certain experiences.

You have the free will, my beloved, to continue to have a certain experience of being a spiritual student of some status – perhaps even superiority – for as long as you desire it. I am not here to tell you that what you have done is wrong or of no value.

It is the path you have chosen, I champion your free will. I am only here to say that if you desire to pass the initiations of the eleventh ray, then you need to transcend. You need to be willing to lay down your life in order to rise higher. For you cannot rise higher with your current sense of self, whatever that sense of self might be.

Unconditional surrender

And so, on the eleventh ray, you need to very seriously ponder whether there are any remnants of a separate self that wants to accomplish something in this world—before you feel that you can leave this world behind. This was the initiation passed by this messenger, which he has described, of coming to that point of feeling that if he died at that moment, he could leave the Earth behind without any sense of regrets or unfulfilled business.

To the ego, this is the ultimate sense of loss. But to the conscious self, it is the ultimate opportunity. Does this messenger feel he lost something in that experience of complete, total surrender? No! He gained something far greater than his separate self could ever envision. And so, you see that many of you have come to a point on the path, where you are ready to step up in service to life. But you cannot see that service with your current sense of self. And in order to get beyond that sense of self, you must give up that sense of self without knowing in your outer awareness what will emerge in its place.

You see, my beloved, the eleventh ray represents an essential turning point of having to give up – being willing to give up – without seeing what will be there, what sense of self will be there, after you give up the present self. If you knew what was going to be there, you would not have the sense of giving up something, would you? When you go to buy a lottery ticket for a dollar, you give up the dollar. But if you knew with absolute certainty that you would win the grand prize, then you would not have the sense of giving up anything.

And so, the eleventh ray of transcendence represents that experience of giving up without knowing what will follow, of giving up as an ultimate expression of love—the unconditional love that is complete non-attachment. At this point on the path, my beloved, you have begun to see that you are more than the separate self. You have had glimpses of what that more is. If you took a person who had just started the spiritual path and asked him or her to go through the initiation of the eleventh ray, it would be a complete shock for such a person—which is why you are not asked to start with this initiation.

But when you come to the appropriate point on your personal path, then you know that by giving up everything, you will not end up with nothing. By giving up all sense of self, you will not end up with no sense of self. For there is a part of your self that is real. And that part that is real will come back to you. What you are giving up is the unreal part that obscures the real.

Do you see—as long as you are attached to the remnants of the separate self and the desire to accomplish something through that separate self, you cannot see the higher reality that you are and the highest potential of your divine plan. You cannot see it.

For the remnants of the separate self and the dreams of the accomplishment form a barrier that is not transparent, and thus does not allow you to see, nor does it allow the light to shine through in your outer being. And so, you cannot see at all before you give up.

That is the essential principle that you must come to realize in order to pass the initiation of the eleventh ray. You must be willing to give up the ghost, while hanging on the cross, not knowing whether you will be resurrected or not. In a sense, you can know that when you truly give up, you will be resurrected—as the real self that you are. But you cannot yet see what that real self is, and thus, you must be willing to give up—even if it means that you would disappear from the Earth and accomplish absolutely nothing on this planet.

Understanding the principle of surrender

Certainly, you can see that the Ascended Masters do not want you to leave this planet without accomplishing anything. But we want you to accomplish your highest potential—and that requires giving up your lower potential. There may be a part of your mind that says, “But I have studied the teachings of the Ascended Masters for decades, it cannot all be an illusion. I must know something that is real. I have had visions, I have had high experiences, I have had directions from this or that source, even from directly within, or directly from the masters. Some of this must be real.” And it is.

But in focusing your attention on the sense of self and the vision you have right now, you are focusing your attention at that level—and there is more to your divine plan than what you see. And if you want to see it and out-picture it, then you must give up your current vision, your current sense of self. It must be let go before the new can emerge.

The ego will never, ever, understand this principle. The linear mind also finds it difficult to wrap itself around it. But you, the conscious self, can come to that point of knowing that this is the logical next step. And it can then come to the point of simply letting go, releasing it all—releasing it all. All expectations. All desires.

Releasing.

The ultimate release.

How can you ultimately accomplish your divine plan? Only by becoming completely non-attached to accomplishing anything whatsoever. For only in that complete non-attachment can you let go of the remnants of the separate self—which cannot let go of the desire to accomplish something. And thus, [it] must be exposed, whereby you can see it and let it go, for now you see that it is unreal.

This, then, is the initiation on the eleventh ray. It is not an easy one for anyone. Yet, we who have ascended, have all gone through it. We can look back – as some of my colleagues, especially, look back – at how they procrastinated this initiation, sometimes for lifetimes—hemming and hawing about the necessity of doing it, reasoning and arguing with the linear mind as to why this could possibly be necessary, when the world was in such dire straights and there was so much to be accomplished.

Do you see how easy it is to fall into this, as an ascended master student? Thinking there is so much to do to save the world and bring the Golden Age of Saint Germain. “I have to be up and doing, I cannot sit around here and contemplate letting go of everything. What would that accomplish?” But you see, it would accomplish the ultimate result of you being the open door, being transparent, so that the light of God could enter the material realm and do its work.

Yet, what is it you give up? You give up the sense that you, as a separate self, are accomplishing or contributing to God’s work. But, as I have said, the problem is the sense of separation. How can the separate self do God’s work when God’s real work is to awaken people from the illusion of separation?

And so, you can then do God’s work only by transcending the separate self—seeing that you are one with the All and that your entire purpose for coming to Earth is not to give your separate self some sense of accomplishment, even the ultimate accomplishment of feeling you have done God’s work. No, your real purpose for coming is to raise up the All—that is your real self. For there is only one self that has many individual expressions. And the only way to raise up that one self is to raise the All.

And thus, as long as there are those parts of the self trapped in duality, there are parts of your self trapped in duality. And so, you desire to awaken them—not by causing a change in their separate selves, but by being who you are, being the One Self in manifestation. Knowing this, demonstrating it, letting it shine through all of your words and actions—that they may see that there is something more than the separate self. For you have happiness, joy, true peace of mind that comes from being transparent, so that nothing in this world can take you out of that state of ease, of flowing with the River of Life.

There is no shortcut

You may think, my beloved, that we of the Ascended Masters should be able to come up with a shortcut that could help you pass this initiation on the eleventh ray. But there is no shortcut.

This is the point on the path where you must face your own demons—the demons, the entities, that you have created by giving the life force to certain images that are not springing from oneness, but from separation.

You must face them. You have created them.

You must face what you have created, and you must separate your real self from your own creation and the creation of others. You may think it sounds illogical that you have to give up the separate self, but at the same time I talk about you separating yourself from the mass consciousness. But they are one and the same. You separate yourself from the mass consciousness by giving up the separate self. It is the only way to separate yourself, for it is the separate self that pulls you into the mass consciousness.

And so, at the lower levels of the path, you build that upward momentum, where you actually hold on to a part of the separate self, even turning it into a spiritual persona that takes on the characteristics demanded in your spiritual environment. But that is what must go, that is what must be left behind for you to be free and be free to express your Higher Being, the being that is the real you. So there is no shortcut. You must wrestle with this, until you come to the point, where you are no longer wrestling with the demons, for you see through the illusion that created them. And you simply let it go, let it fall away from you.

What am I talking about here? There are many demons, my beloved, many entities that have been created. And you may, as ascended master students, have thought of them as being somewhat evil or dark in appearance. But it is time to face reality that there are also demons and entities that are disguised as being benevolent, spiritual, religious. What you have created, as you have walked the path up until this point, is an entity. That is what the separate self is, an entity that has spiritual characteristics, that seeks to appear so good that God simply has to accept it into its kingdom.

But it can never be accepted. Only you, the real you, can be accepted. No man has ascended to Heaven, save he that descended from Heaven.

What descended from Heaven was the conscious self. And only the conscious self can ascend back. But it does not ascend back as the same that descended, but as the greater being it has become through its experiences in this world. Yet, the greater being that it has become is not the separate self. It is the being that has transcended separation by seeing through it and thus gaining a different perspective on oneness—that you could not have if you had never been outside of oneness.

Surrender whatever sense of self

And thus, ponder the need to transcend any sense of self that you have right now. For it is an eternal reality that you only grow by transcending the sense of self.

And you can come to a point, my beloved, where you realize that there is the self and there are the objects, the characteristics, of self-hood. Right now, most of you do not have a clear sense of the self as a pure state of awareness. You identify yourself with and as the characteristics, the objects.

We might say that your self is a container, and through your journey in the material realm, you have filled that container with objects and you identify yourself with and as the objects. But the real you is the self. And once you give up those remnants of the separate self, you lock in to that self—and you see that the self is more than the objects and the characteristics.

The self is a flowing stream of consciousness that is constantly transcending—and therefore never identified with any characteristic, never seeking to own or possess, never seeking to stand still at a certain level, but finding its joy and fulfillment in constantly transcending its creative expression, becoming MORE than it was a second ago. Not seeking to repeat a certain experience, not seeking to step into the same river twice. But, instead, always seeking the newness of expression, the newness of the creative flow in which there is no separation.

And thus, there is no desire to accomplish something in order to overcome a lack. There is no sense of lack, but only fullness and the desire to express more of that fullness. And this is when you experience the joy, the transcendent, unconditional joy that can never be experienced through the filter of the separate self. And thus, when you pass that initiation on the eleventh ray, that joy will be yours—and your joy will be full.

The twelfth ray of rebirth

The tenth ray of transparency

Copyright © 2009 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, May 9, 2009 through Kim Michaels.

Thus, I come again to discourse on the next ray, the tenth ray. But be aware, that we are giving you numbers for practical reasons. Do not become so attached to the linear mind – as I have now attempted to explain to you in many different ways – that you think the secret rays are as linear as the first seven. They are not, my beloved.

It is not that you have to go from the eighth to the ninth and then on to the tenth and on from there. When you go through the initiations of the eighth ray, you go into the realm of the secret rays—which is spherical, not linear. Thus, in a sense, we could say that you are going through the initiations of the secret rays all at once. But there may be times when you need to focus on one particular ray more than another, and that will depend on your individual path. Do not feel that you have to force yourself to follow a linear path through the secret rays. But tune in to your heart and feel which ray is the one that you need to focus on right now.

The ego cannot fathom transparency

The next ray is the tenth, which is the ray of transparency. Again, a concept that the linear mind finds difficult, and that the ego, of course, finds completely impossible and unworkable. For how can the ego maintain an existence, when there is complete transparency? As explained in the Book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve had eaten of the forbidden fruit of the duality consciousness, they attempted to hide themselves from God. Well, my beloved, why is it possible to believe that you can actually hide?

Logically, of course, it makes no sense, that you can hide from God—who is everywhere and in everything. So, in order to even believe in the concept that you can hide, you must go into the state of separation, the state of duality, where there is a distance between you and God. You can now set up the belief, that there is something that is not transparent. And thus, you can hide behind that something.

As an example, imagine that someone is playing hide and seek with a group of children and the children all go hide. One hides behind a house, one behind a bush, but another attempts to hide behind a pane of glass. Well, certainly that child cannot well hide, can it? And this is what you see, when there is transparency: there can be nothing hidden. And the ego can exist only when there is the illusion that something is hidden—that there is a distance from the oneness of God. And, of course, what could possibly be hidden, what could be separated from oneness?

This is what has happened, as Maitreya explains, after the co-creators of God separated themselves out from their spiritual teacher. For as long as they were in direct contact with the spiritual teacher, they could not forget that they are MORE, that they came from a greater source. Even if they yet had an imperfect understanding of that source and did not have a direct experience of their oneness with their source, they at least had some knowledge of this. And thus, they could not completely sink into the duality consciousness, of actually believing that there is no God, or believing that God is a remote being in the sky and not here on earth and that they are sinners by their very existence. All of these beliefs can exist only, when something has obscured the transparency, that is the underlying reality of all things. Someone has thrown mud on the pane of glass of humankind’s consciousness, and on the individual panes of glass in the consciousness of each person.

What obscures transparency?

What is it, then, that obscures transparency? In order to fully understand this, beyond what we have already given about the Ma-ter light and images projected upon it, you need to understand a concept that, again, can be difficult for the linear mind—and, again, the ego will rebel against it. The reality is, that everything is consciousness—everything is awareness. Thus, you are a co-creator with God. You are a self-aware being. But how do you co-create? You co-create by using the only reality there is, namely, what we have called the Ma-ter light. We have also explained that the Ma-ter light has consciousness, although few of you have truly pondered this. What exactly does this mean, my beloved? It means, that whatever is created, whatever is envisioned, whatever is imagined, is done with this basic consciousness of the Ma-ter light.

That consciousness of the Ma-ter light takes on a particular form. Yet, because it is conscious, it is possible to create enough intensity, so that eventually that which is conscious now becomes so concentrated, that it develops a rudimentary form of self-awareness. And thus, what has been created is a particular, conscious, living entity.

You have been so used to growing up in a society, that presents everything in the material world as inanimate forms and objects. This, of course, is an inaccurate image, as I explained earlier, that even quantum physics itself has proven to be incomplete. Consciousness is the underlying reality, my beloved. And so, when you, as a self-aware co-creator, impose a mental image upon the Ma-ter light, you are not simply projecting an image upon the inanimate object of a movie screen. You are projecting it upon the basic awareness of the Mother light.

And when you infuse that image with enough life force, through your attention, through your awareness, well then the image will reach that intensity, that complexity, where now it begins to take on a life of its own. It is somewhat like the old dream, where people believe they can create life, out-pictured, for example, in the movie about Doctor Frankenstein—who took various body parts, stitched them together, infused them with a higher force, and then it came alive.

This is essentially what all of you do when you co-create, for that is the power of your consciousness. You have the power, through your self-awareness, to impose that self-awareness, that life-force, upon the Ma-ter light, until it takes on enough of the life force, that the image that you have imposed actually comes alive. Almost like what you see in a cartoon, where the drawings are still images, but when played in sequence it seems as if the character comes alive.

Co-creating from oneness

So, the question now becomes, how do you use your co-creative power? Is it through the state of non-duality or through the state of duality? You see, when you use your co-creative power from that state of equilibrium – of oneness, of knowing the oneness of all life – then you can create distinct life forms that do take on a life, but not a disconnected, separate existence. They become part of the River of Life that is created out of the thrust and the Being of all the self-aware co-creators who have gone before you in the different spheres, as Maitreya explains. So as long as you are one with that River of Life, anything you create becomes part of the River of Life. For the purpose of this discussion on transparency, we might say that anything you create from the state of oneness has transparency—which means that the pure light of God can shine through it.

Consider how you look at a window in a house. If the window was not transparent, would it have any value whatsoever? Of course not, for you want the light to shine through. And that is precisely what happens, when you create from oneness. You create a life form that may take on life, but it is not separated, disconnected. And you can see that that life form owes its life, owes its existence, to the flow of life that comes from a higher source—even though it comes through your consciousness, it comes from a higher source. And therefore, you recognize that you are a co-creator, “I can of my own self do nothing. The father within me, he doeth the work.”

For you are using the light, the life force, of God, streaming through your mind. You cannot produce that light from your conscious self or your lower mind. You can only receive it from a higher source, from your I AM Presence, and from the hierarchy of light stretching all the way back to the Creator. “Stretching,” of course, implying great distance, which is not the reality, but yet, there is a certain reality in the different levels of vibration and frequency.

Now then, as long as you create from oneness, there will be transparency in what you create. Meaning that no one can actually look at what you have co-created and think that it can exist on its own. You know that nothing can exist without its source, that everything owes its existence, its life, to the source beyond it. And thus, no one can become trapped in that particular world of form, for they will know that there is always something beyond—for the light is shining through.

Co-creating from duality

So then, what happens when you begin to co-create from the state of separation, the illusion of duality? Well, what happens is, that what you create is also a life form that takes on, in this case, a life of its own, a separate life.
You may have heard in various spiritual teachings, there is talk of entities, of demons, of various dark beings. Well, my beloved, such beings are created through the duality consciousness. But do not be naive and think, that what is created through the duality consciousness can only appear as dark or scary. The reality is that people have created many beings, many entities, that are seemingly good and that they believe are good or necessary or beneficial or even serve God’s purpose. Yet they are based on the sense of separation, the illusion of separation.

You see, what is the illusion of separation? As we have explained, God is everywhere and in everything. You cannot be separated from God—it is impossible. It is like a drop in the ocean claiming to be separated from the ocean. Yet, because of free will, you can create the appearance, the illusion that you are separated. And how can you do this? You do this because you live in a universe, in a sphere, that, as Maitreya explains, has not yet reached the critical intensity of light. If your universe had reached that intensity of light, the light would be so intense, that it could shine through anything and everything. And thus, everything would be transparent, nothing could block the light, and the illusion of separation could not exist.

But because the intensity of light is yet below the critical level in the material universe – at least in certain pockets of that universe, such as your solar system – well, then it is possible to use the co-creative powers of the mind to go into a lower vibration – a vibration that vibrates below the frequency of love – and use one of these lower vibrations – be it fear, anger, hatred, judgment, criticism, or whatever you have – to co-create something. And it is almost as if that something becomes so dense, that the light cannot shine through it. The reality, however, being that it becomes so dense, that when you look through that screen, you cannot see the light.

The light is still there. There is still light everywhere in the material universe. But when you, the conscious self, step into an environment created from frequencies below a certain level, then the conscious self cannot see the light. For you have used your free will to create a sphere, that has no real existence, but it has existence in your mind—so that it forms a screen that you see through. It is as if you put a piece of colored paper onto your window, and it reduces the light intensity, that can shine through and it gives that light a certain coloring. And if you keep putting enough paper on the window, eventually you will block the light entirely.

Yet, take note of what I said. You co-create by directing the life force, that is streaming through you. You have the right, according to the Law of Free Will, to impose any image, any mental image, upon that light, as you project it onto the Ma-ter light. If you want to connect to what I said in the previous discourse, you may say that the Ma-ter light represents the Mother aspect of creation. And the expanding force is the Father aspect, which streams through your consciousness and is directed onto the Ma-ter light, where it then causes the Ma-ter light to take on the form of the image you hold in your mind, as the light flows through it.

You have the power to create a living entity

But because everything is consciousness, what you create is not just an inanimate form; it is not just a dead form. It will eventually start to take on life, and the more it is infused with the life force through your attention, the more life it takes on, the more of a survival instinct it begins to develop. Which is why you can have an ego, that has a survival instinct, and as such seeks to control the Conscious You. And you can have mass entities, that have enough of a survival instinct to seek to control people, and pull them into an addiction – such as tobacco – that forces their light, so that the entity can absorb it and use it to survive, and even grow in intensity.

Ever since the first beings in a previous sphere descended into duality – because they were not willing to transcend themselves – they have used their co-creative abilities to co-create through the illusion – the filter, the maya – of the duality consciousness. But what they have created are these entities, these beings that do not have self-awareness as you do – as an extension of the Creator – but they have enough awareness that they exist and that they need something in order to continue to exist. They are sort of like an animal life form that, while not having a sophisticated self-awareness that you see in humans, they have at least some rudimentary self-awareness that causes them to seek to control anyone that can be controlled by their particular frequency. For all of the entities that have been created, form what Jesus called the “prince of this world.”

And if they have something in you, they will pull upon it, in order to force your attention into certain patterns, into certain images, so that you misqualify the light and keep feeding the life force to these entities—that have a hold on you and essentially milk you, as if you were a cow, ready to be milked twice a day by going into a certain state of consciousness. This is what you see, not only with physical addictions, but with so many people who go into anger or fear, or judgmentalness, or criticalness—of criticizing or always judging and analyzing everyone and everything, using the analytical mind, but imposing that value judgment of the ego upon it. Which then causes the misqualification of the light, causes the light to take on a lower frequency, according to this dualistic relative value judgment, where something is good and something is bad. Whereas, in the transparency – the purity of the transparency – everything is an expression of the one, so nothing can be good in a relative sense to something that is bad. It simply IS.

The initiation of the tenth ray

When you come to the tenth ray and the initiations of the tenth ray, you need to become aware of this. A topic that many people, even many spiritual people, would rather not know about, would rather not think about, would rather not talk about. For it is uncomfortable to them to recognize, that perhaps they could have used their co-creative abilities to create something that has taken on a life of its own and is now seeking to control them—and is even seeking to control other people. And perhaps they could even be controlled by a mass entity, created by humankind over thousands and tens of thousands and millions of years—so that that mass entity has become so strong, that it is very difficult for the individual to withstand its pull.

Which, precisely, is why, as you go through the initiations of the seven rays, you need to create the momentum, that keeps you going beyond the downward pull of the mass consciousness. But it is also why you need to go back, as Mother Mary explained, and recover any aspects of your being, that are trapped in these lower states. But you cannot, in most cases, fully recover this until you go beyond the seven rays, go into the eighth, go into the ninth, come into that equilibrium, for the equilibrium forms a foundation. When you know, that there is equilibrium beyond the struggle, well, then you have a foundation for taking a closer look at the struggle. And that is when you can realize, that the struggle is not really what it seems to be from a surface awareness.

It is actually a struggle between principalities and forces that are not visible to the senses and the outer mind—it is between all of these entities that have been created. And precisely because they are created out of the duality consciousness, they must be locked in a struggle with each other. The pure light of God that remains transparent, that remains at the vibration of love, is unlimited. But when the light takes on a lower vibration than love, it becomes finite, it becomes limited. So now there is only – even though six billion people on this planet are constantly misqualifying light – there is still only a finite amount. Which means that all of the entities, that inhabit the forcefield, the energy field, of earth, must fight. Just like you see, when an animal dies on the African savannah, the hyenas and the vultures immediately start fighting over the carcass. For they know that it will only last a short time, and if they don’t get it, someone else will. And this is the real cause of the struggle.

Why are people struggling

You may look at people and say, “Why are they struggling?” And you may look at what so many people that are well-meaning have done—trying to find a psychological cause, looking at the individual, looking at a particular group, looking at their beliefs. For example, you will see a wave of people who have come to conclude, that the real cause of all warfare is religion and religious beliefs. And they think, that if only we can get rid of religion and get people to disavow their belief in religion, then we will have peace. But they fail to realize, that it is not religion that is the cause of war—that religion is simply being used as a tool to agitate people, so that they misqualify their light. Whereas the real cause of the struggle and the war is, that there are entities beyond the physical, who need the constant misqualification of light in order to survive. And if people do not misqualify that light, well then, they will die out.

Which is why they must continue to keep people in their grip, so that they will continue to fight each other in a senseless struggle—as you see in the Middle East and elsewhere. This surely can never be construed as being the will of the real God, but could only be the will of a graven image of God, projected upon God through the duality consciousness. And so, again, there are numerous of these living entities—born from a certain image of God, a certain image born from duality. The most dangerous of these entities are precisely the ones that relate to a graven image of God. Because those are the ones that people find it most difficult to abandon.

You may take an entity, such as the tobacco entity, and see that it is obviously very dangerous for the people who are addicted to tobacco. Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly easier for people in the modern world to see the dangers of smoking. Which is why more and more people have given up this habit, after realizing that it destroys their bodies and perhaps even sensing that it has negative spiritual ramifications as well. Yet, look at how many people are still trapped in believing, that there has to be one superior religion and that this religion is given by God. And therefore, it is mandated by God, that this religion must take over the world, for it is the only way to save people. And all non-believers will not be saved but will be condemned to live in eternity in hell.

Consider how difficult it is for people to give up this belief, this illusion, so that they will stop feeding their light into this mass entity—whether it be the mass entity of Christianity, the mass entity of Islam, even the mass entity of Buddhism. For each religion, each belief system, has created such a mass entity, that is struggling with the mass entities of other religions—even feeding an even greater entity that simply feeds on the struggle itself and will use anything to create the struggle. Certainly, materialistic science has created such a mass entity, that is also seeking to strengthen itself and take over, even to the point of taking the light from the mass entities of religion, by getting people to distrust religion and give up their religious beliefs.

So those scientists who believe they are working for a greater cause are simply working for the same cause that they see religious people working for. Thus, they see the fallacy of religious people, feeding their light into this beast, but they do not see that they, themselves, are doing the same thing—simply working for another beast. And they, too, have this belief in the supremacy of their own world view and the drive to impose it and enforce it upon others—which cannot come from God.

How to create unity among people

Why can this not come from God? Why can you not truly say, that the one God has created one true religion and wants all people to go into it? Well, because the true God, the Living God, has given complete free will to all extensions of itself. And thus, the true God does not want people to come into unity by being forced to adhere to a particular outer belief system. There is only one way to create true unity and oneness among people, and that is to increase the transparency, so that more and more people can begin to see that they come from a higher source. And when you see that you come from a higher source, you will eventually come to see, that all other people must also have come from that source, and that, then, is the foundation for true unity—based on transparency.

As the consciousness is raised, then the light will shine through the screen of people’s consciousness. And as more and more light shines through, then the light is the unifying factor. Not a particular religion, not a political ideology, not a scientific world view – or rather, belief system – but the light is the only unifying factor. The light that exposes the darkness for what it is—unreal, temporary, impermanent.

For when you see the light, you see that only the light is real—and only that which is real can be permanent. Whereas anything else must be temporary, a fleeting image projected upon the screen of the Ma-ter light. But only sustained as long as enough self-aware beings are feeding it through their attention, through their identification with it—seeing it as part of their identity. Instead of seeing the transparent reality, that they are more than anything on earth, for they are spiritual beings, and they can instantly withdraw from these patterns of unreality. They can instantly rise above them, walk away from them and refuse to keep feeding them their light.

The lie that you cannot transcend

Do you see, how the prince of this world has attempted to create a belief that says, that once you have created this entity, you cannot simply walk away from it? But you can, my beloved. How else will you stop feeding it your light? Consider my previous discourse on action. You take an unbalanced action—how do you undo it? You cannot undo it by taking another unbalanced action. You can take one action through one dualistic polarity, but you do not undo it by taking an action from the opposite dualistic polarity. You undo it only by rising above duality, so that you no longer feed it through your attention. You neither feed this dualistic entity, nor that dualistic entity. You simply transcend it. And you then allow the second law of thermodynamics, or the wrath of Kali, or the dance of Shiva, to consume it.

Your Creator was not ignorant. This is one of the greatest traps of the duality consciousness, that it creates a world view, which it believes is perfectly logical. And thus, it believes it is smarter than even God, and God could not possibly have foreseen this sophisticated world view. But God did foresee exactly what would happen by giving self-aware beings free will—that some would go into the duality consciousness and become trapped there. And thus, God set up a perfect system for making sure that it was as difficult as possible for a being to become trapped in duality so long, that it would eventually face the possibility of a second death. Thereby, God gave people as many possibilities as anyone could possibly want to transcend and come back to the reality of oneness. And that is why, indeed, the system is such, that when you go into an unbalanced state, you will create the struggle. You will create from the realm where the struggle is inevitable, and thus your creation will break down, will be threatened, will be opposed by others—and so you can never have permanence in that creation.

You cannot step into the same river twice

But now let us take this one step further and consider why you want permanency? For as we have said before, the ego was created because the conscious self perceived that the ego could give it some advantage. And so, consider the saying, “You cannot step into the same river twice.” For what is a river? It is a stream of water that is constantly moving. And if you step into the river, you are stepping into certain water molecules. If you step out and step back in, other molecules have moved into the place of the previous ones. And thus, you are not – technically, in reality – stepping into the same river.

So it is with the River of Life, my beloved. The River of Life is constantly moving on. It is set up so that those who are willing to be part of that forward movement are constantly becoming MORE, instead of standing still or becoming less. Why is this so? Well, because the goal of a self-aware being is, of course, to start out with a limited, localized self-awareness and expand it to the level of the Creator itself. We might say – by using images with which you are familiar – that God thought that you might be bored by being the same being over a long period of time. And thus, God gave you the option of being in the River of Life where everything is constantly new.

Even though God has given you the right to create any experience you want, when you are in the River of Life, every experience is new. There is growth, there is transcendence. And so, there can be those who cannot fully accept or adjust to this constant flow and transcendence. They want to own something, they want to own an experience and keep it for a time, instead of transcending it. The only place where you can own something is in the realm – the sphere, the illusion – of separation, where things can be perceived as standing still. The reality is, of course, that nothing stands still, neither in the realm of oneness, nor in the realm of separation. For in the realm of oneness, you have the constant drive to become MORE, to transcend. And in the realm of separation, you have the contracting force of the Mother – the second law of thermodynamics, the power of Shiva – that breaks down everything.

You can either transcend, which is life, or you can attempt to stand still, which is death. There is truly no other choice. Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. Choose life! For, unless you choose life, you will choose death. And you will suffer loss. You will be less, until you eventually forget who you are and believe, that you truly are a lesser being, be it a sinner or be it a sophisticated ape.

What you think you own owns you

The desire for ownership can be very subtle. It is what I called an attachment, when I walked the earth. It is the desire to own or posses something, to pull it out of the constant self-transcendence of the River of Life. And you can create the illusion that you own something, but that which you own is precisely an entity created through the power of your attention. And that entity wants to survive. And how can it survive? Only when you keep feeding it your light, which means that the entity wants to own you. And as long as you believe it is real, as long as you allow it in your sphere of identity, then it does own you. What you create in separation will own you. You may think that you own it, but it is the other way around.

What is the beginning of the spiritual path? It is when a person comes to the point – whether it is consciously aware of this or not – but comes to the point of deciding, “I cannot do this anymore. There must be a better way. There must be more to life.” And thereby, the person is essentially saying, “I do not want to be owned by my own miscreations. I want to be free. I want to be more than this.” And thus, it begins the upward climb, where it gradually shakes off the snake skins of that lesser identity, until it can stand free and recognize that, “I AM a spiritual being. I am a co-creator with my God.”

Entities and diseases

I have explained to you, that every disease of the physical body can be traced back to one of the perversions on the seven rays. What is it you create through those perversions, when you take one of the seven rays, mix it into a dualistic polarity and then co-create through that filter? Well, you create an entity, a separate entity, that then begins to own you.

And thus, you will see that for each disease known to humankind, there is a particular entity, that is sucking the light, the lifeblood, out of people—through the pain and the discomfort and the infirmity caused through the physical body. Thereby forcing your attention to focus on the physical body, in many cases even getting people to believe, that there are certain limitations for what they can accomplish or how they can live their lives, because of the limitations of their physical bodies. In many cases, people believe that they cannot attain true happiness or peace of mind while their physical body is not in some perfect state.

But then, when is your physical body ever in any perfect state? For as you are growing up, you want your body to be fully grown, so you can do with it what adults can do. But when you become an adult, you immediately start worrying about getting older, so that your body is no longer as beautiful or as agile, or as capable as it was when it was younger. And so, is there ever a perfect state for the body? If your inner happiness, your peace of mind, depends on anything in the body, then you are not likely to ever attain peace of mind. And thus, what you have come, as the spiritual people, to demonstrate is, that one can go beyond the limitations of the body, even the diseases of the body, and still find ease, find peace of mind, find happiness.

For some of you it is not in your divine plan to overcome a particular limitation or disease. It is in your divine plan to demonstrate peace of mind regardless of that limitation. You can reach a point, where you have demonstrated this sufficiently, and you can choose to throw it off and rise above it. But be aware that some of you, in fighting a disease, are actually fighting yourself—fighting against your own divine plan to outpicture peace of mind in spite of this or that physical condition—which can be more than simply diseases.

Understanding wholeness

And therefore, I tell you, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Seek first the transparency, where you see beyond your physical conditions. You see beyond that part of your being – your lower mind that wants to escape the pain, or the discomfort, or the difficulties – and then say, “My primary goal is wholeness. And wholeness is an inner condition. It is a state of mind. And there will always be some material condition, that will oppose my wholeness in embodiment. Whether it is a disease of my body or some physical limitations, or other people, there will always be some condition that will oppose it, and thus, the only way to attain wholeness is to attain it regardless of any physical conditions.”

For truly, spiritual wholeness has nothing to do with physical conditions. It is a spiritual condition, that transcends all material circumstances. And thus, when you come to the tenth ray, you then see – when you lock in to that Presence of Transparency – that there is something beyond the physical condition. And thus, the physical condition can no longer own you—your Spirit, your conscious self.

You no longer identify with it, and thus, you see that you are so much MORE. And by bringing that MORE into your conscious awareness, you identify yourself as that MORE, regardless of the outer conditions. For you see the reality, that you are always going to be limited by the physical body. And thus, it is not a matter of finding some perfect condition, where your spirit can then express itself through the body and everything is perfect. The reality is that everything will never be perfect, for there is no such thing as perfection.

The entire purpose is to express your spiritual being regardless of outer conditions. That is Christhood, that is Buddhahood, that is true spirituality. Where you see beyond the outer conditions, where they become transparent to you, so you see the underlying reality of who you are, the underlying reality of the oneness with your source, the oneness with all life. And how you, then, by finding that peace, can demonstrate to others how to find that peace, and can thus raise up the entire Body of God. You, then, become the open door.

Becoming a messenger

What does it mean to be the open door, if it does not mean to become transparent? How can a person serve as a messenger? What quality do you need to strive for to become a messenger? Well, let me tell you, that until you have attained some mastery on the tenth ray of transparency, you cannot become a messenger.

For what will you do if you are not transparent? Well, you might let some stream of consciousness and light stream through your outer mind, but you will impose images upon it, the images that you hold on to in your mind. And thus, what comes through you in the end, as words, will not be pure. And it might, indeed, be so colored, that it obscures the original message.

Jesus has explained how some people can catch a general outpouring of the Holy Spirit, yet, they can color it by the images in their outer minds, to the point where it no longer is transparent enough to empower others to trace the light back to the source. And therefore, it becomes an end in itself, where a messenger sets himself or herself up with a following, and wants those people to remain followers who are dependent on the messenger for a particular release of light. Instead of seeing, that if they see something spiritual in one person, then they should use that as a springboard for seeing the spiritual reality in themselves. As I said in my beginning discourse, the idolatry of the Buddha is the ultimate irony. For, the purpose of the Buddha’s coming was to help everyone see the Buddha within themselves.

Unless you have attained that transparency – not a complete transparency but enough of a transparency that you recognize, that you do not have a monopoly on the light, you do not have a monopoly on the ascended masters, you are simply a tool, an open door, for setting others free – until you recognize that, you cannot be a true messenger. You cannot give the liberating message, you cannot give the gift of life, that awakens people to the reality of life within themselves—instead of seeing it in some external person or external deity, having created an idol that, again, does what? It obscures the transparency that the light is in everything, and therefore also in themselves. For they think the light is only in the idol and that they can only receive it through the idol. This, then, is essentially being a false messenger, for you are not serving to liberate the people but to keep them trapped in a certain mental box.

And thus, you will see – if you take an honest look at many spiritual and religious organizations – you will see that from this higher perspective, there are many people who have been false messengers. This is not to say that they did not do some good. I do not want you to impose a linear judgment here. But what I am saying is that from the higher perspective and understanding of transparency, you can see that if you impose such an image on the release of light from the ascended masters, that the image obscures the reality of the light within every person, then you are not helping people grow beyond a certain point.

One can be a true messenger for the first seven rays but not have the awareness and consciousness to serve as a messenger for the secret rays. For one has not been willing to attain sufficient transparency in one’s own consciousness—knowing, therefore, that one does not need a following, one is not dependent on a following. For if one is the open door, then one is seeking, first, the kingdom of God, and then God will give you all these things that you need—not your followers. You are not dependent upon your followers, when you see the transparency that God is the only source. You will not think you need anything from this world. You will not think you need to own people or keep them around. You will give freely what you receive freely, and let people do with it whatever they want.

And if you come to a point, where you no longer have enough members to support you, well then, you will do whatever is necessary. But you will not seek to manipulate others in order to stay where you are comfortable—in a position as messenger or priest or pope or whatever authority figure you have. Such as the temple priests that Jesus challenged so many times, for they were comfortable. Such as the Brahmins that I challenged when I walked the earth, for they had become comfortable, thinking that they were the mediators between God and the people. But there is no mediator if the mediator has a sense of ownership. There is only a true mediator, when that being is transparent—knowing that it owns nothing, for you cannot own God. You cannot own the River of Life, you can only flow with it by constantly transcending yourself.

And if you are constantly transcending yourself, how can you then own anything at all? It is not possible to own, for there is no need to own or possess when you are constantly transcending and becoming MORE. Why would you want to own any one thing, when you can instantly transcend yourself and become more than that one thing? It makes no sense—except it makes perfect sense to the ego, which cannot flow with the River of Life. It cannot exist when you flow with the River of Life—and thus, it must keep you attached to something that you are not willing to give up, some illusion, some belief, some sense of self.

You think that if you give it up, there will be nothing left of your identity. For you have not yet experienced that your real identity is a transparent identity—where the light is constantly shining through. There can be no true identity that obscures the light. Thus, ponder the mystery – to the linear mind – that your true identity is still an individuality, but it is transparent—transparent for the light that can be traced all the way back to your source, your Creator. And when you experience this complete transparency – that comes from complete surrender – then you will be at peace. Then you will be at ease. Then you will be a true messenger, a true open door for the light. For if an open door is not transparent, then it is not open—is it, my beloved?

The eleventh ray of transcendence

The ninth ray of equilibrium

Copyright © 2009 by Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, May 9, 2009 through Kim Michaels.

I, Gautama, come to discourse with you on the ninth ray. But let us begin by taking another look at the teachings about the eighth ray of integrating what you have achieved by passing the initiations of the first seven rays.

As I said, you come to the point, where you need to step back and see the larger picture. What does this exactly mean in terms of personal healing? It means, my beloved, that you see beyond the physical body itself. You see that healing is more than healing the physical body. Healing truly means wholeness, attaining wholeness. And that means, my beloved, that when you have gone through the initiations of the first seven rays, then you need to shift your focus, so that your first and foremost – in fact, your only – goal from this point on becomes the attainment of wholeness in your entire being.

As I said in my previous release, there are those who have gone through the initiations and have not attained healing of a particular physical condition, or have not overcome a particular situation. And so, the next step must be to see that there must be something that is not whole in the higher bodies—not only in the emotional, mental and identity, but even in your very perception of what it means to be a co-creator with God. Which is not simply the outer identity body, but the core of your identity body, the higher levels of your etheric body.

And so, you need to seek this wholeness, my beloved. And this is what you find when you abandon the outer approach—when you seek the inner approach. For my beloved, why would you even think that the outer approach to the spiritual path can have any relevance whatsoever when it comes to the secret rays? Which, as I have explained, are beyond not only the dualistic mind, but also the linear mind that wants to analyze and categorize everything.

Thus, my beloved, you cannot actually understand the secret rays—you cannot understand them intellectually. You can, of course, create an intellectual concept, a graven image that you project upon the concept of secret rays and upon a particular ray. But you cannot truly understand with the linear intellectual mind what the secret rays are about. Which means that there is, again, a calculated risk that we take in releasing any teaching in words about the secret rays. For as always, there are those who will look at it through the filter of the linear mind, will want to analyze it, will want to fit it into their database, which they have created based on whatever spiritual teachings they have practiced or studied up until this point.

Nevertheless, we also know that there are always those who will read between the lines, who will realize that the outer words are not truly as important as the inner meaning that is conveyed beyond the words. And thus, it is not truly a matter of understanding the secret rays or the characteristics of the secret rays. It is a matter of tuning in to them, experiencing their vibration directly, even becoming one with that presence, Spiritual Presence, that is each of the secret rays.

Apply to Archangel Uzziel

How do you truly pass the initiations of the eighth ray? By becoming one with the spiritual Presence of the eighth ray. This, of course, is the Buddha. But for many this will be a difficult step, and thus you have Archangel Uzziel who has offered that those who want to pass the initiations of the eighth ray can become his twin flame. [They can be] tutored by him at inner levels until they come to see themselves as the Omega polarity in matter of the Alpha polarity of the archangel in the spiritual realm. You may also see yourself as the Omega polarity of your I AM Presence.

In order to pass the initiations of the eighth ray, you need to go beyond that linear mind. You need to experience what in the olden days was called gnosis, coming into oneness—oneness between the knower and the known. But do you see, my beloved, that the linear mind is born from and depends upon the duality between the knower and the known, between the one who is perceiving and the object that is being perceived?

Which then means that when you see through that filter of the linear mind, every topic that you study becomes an object of perception, of analyzation, categorization, labeling, judgment. There is you and there is a topic that is not you, that is separate from you, that is distant from you. And you are studying it from a distance. This, my beloved is the Holy Grail of modern science, the objectivity as they call it, where the observer is not part of the observation, but is remote, as an astronomer looking at the stars through at telescope, thinking that he has no influence on the stars whatsoever, but is simply a neutral, objective observer.

Yet when you come to that point, where you start going beyond the seven rays, going into the eighth ray, and beginning to go into the higher rays, well then you need to overcome this illusion, this fallacy of the neutral, separate, distant observer. There is no scientist who has ever made a truly objective observation. For the scientist makes an observation through his or her consciousness. And as long as you are trying to make an observation, as long as you see yourself as an observer, observing a distant object, then you cannot be objective.

What is true objectivity? It is gnosis—where the subject-object duality dissolves, and you experience oneness with what was formerly a distant object. How can this be possible? How can you, for example, meditate on a mountain or a lake or the ocean and go beyond being an observer who is meditating upon this—which is clearly not you as a person, you as a body, you as a being in embodiment? Well you can, my beloved, when you recognize a very simple, underlying fact of all life. You see, when I, as the Buddha, came out of Nirvana and was asked by people “What are you,” my answer was “I am Awake.“

The underlying reality behind all appearances

When you are awake, you recognize that the fundamental underlying reality is not matter, is not energy, but is consciousness. Everything is an expression of consciousness. There is nothing in the material world that just exists. Everything is a projection upon the Ma-ter light, and that projection happens through a specific state of consciousness.

Therefore, if you try to perceive a particular material object, such as a distant star, only through the physical senses – or the extension of the senses that is what scientists have created as scientific instruments – well then you will not truly know the object. You will know its material characteristics, but you will not know the consciousness that projected the object onto the screen of the Ma-ter light. And until you know that consciousness, you will not truly know what a star is, you will not truly know a particular star. You will not truly know the star of your own Sun and the specific consciousness of the spiritual beings who projected that image upon the Ma-ter light and who are still upholding it through their consciousness.

I would, thus, recommend that those who desire to go beyond the eighth ray, into the ninth ray, that you spend some time meditating upon the Sun, your own Sun of this particular solar system. Do not meditate on it as a physical Sun, but meditate on it as a spiritual Sun, as the expression of a spiritual being, a set of spiritual beings—an Alpha-Omega polarity. And then allow your mind to merge with the spiritual beings that occupy the space of your Sun, currently called Helios and Vesta. Merge with them, so that you know their vibration, you know their Presence.

This is the only way to know, truly know, the secret rays—which is why they have been called secret. For those still stuck in the linear mind, those wanting to objectify everything, cannot unlock the secret of the higher rays. As I said, there is nothing for the ego to magnify. There is nothing for the ego to use to confirm and validate its world-view, to raise itself up in comparison to others.

You see, my beloved, as I explained, the first seven rays are the rays that have been used to build the material universe. And thus, they have a certain expressive power, which – when perverted by the duality consciousness – the ego can then take in its perverted, unbalanced form and actually use to build its power or go into the opposite dualistic polarity of diminished power, but nevertheless thus keeping the ego alive through the dualistic struggle.

Of course, the ego can project an image onto the secret rays, creating a graven image of them, which then makes them seemingly dualistic. Yet, you need to understand that the secret rays were not used to build the material universe as such. They are higher expressions beyond the material. Which is why you must beware of the linear mind and its tendency to want to pull the secret rays down into the sphere that the linear mind can deal with and thus categorize and analyze according to its relativistic perspective on everything.

The relative mind and the dualistic mind

My beloved, let me give you a subtle distinction that few understand. We talk about the dualistic mind and we talk about the linear, analytical mind. Sometimes we even use them as interchangeable terms, but when you come to a higher understanding, you see that there is a subtle difference. The difference is that the linear mind is relative, whereas the ego mind is dualistic.

The analytical, linear mind is, in its essence, neutral. This is why scientists who are very focused on the intellect and the analytical mind have come to believe that they can achieve objectivity through the analytical mind. You see, the analytical mind will categorize everything according to a relative standard, a relative standard that has two opposite polarities. But what the analytical mind will not do is impose a value judgment on the opposite polarities. That is what the ego mind does. The ego mind is based on a value judgment. The analytical mind might say that something is this or something is that, but it will not say that this is good and this is bad—that is the ego.

And so, what you see is that the analytical mind is not necessarily your enemy—it is simply a tool. It is when the ego imposes a value judgment on top of the analytical mind—that is when people get trapped in the dualistic struggle, where they ultimately think that one side is good and the other side is evil. And therefore, they must align themselves with good and seek to destroy evil.

What you can do – when you separate the ego mind and the analytical mind – is [that] you can actually use the analytical mind, within certain boundaries, as a tool for exposing the ego. The analytical mind can be used to see that the value judgments of the ego are contradictory, do not make sense, will only tie you to a dualistic struggle. And so, to some degree the conscious self can use the analytical mind to expose the ego, as some of you have already done in various ways.

But you must also be aware that the analytical mind can never go beyond the level at which everything is seen in relative terms. There must be two polarities, there must be a tension between them. To the analytical mind, the tension is not necessarily a struggle, the struggle comes from the value judgment. But there is still a tension, and that tension can never be resolved through the analytical, linear mind. For example, we have talked about the one Creator manifesting itself as two opposite polarities, the expanding force of the Father, the contracting force of the Mother. To the analytical, linear mind, expansion is an outward process, contraction is the opposite direction. And therefore, right there you have an inherent tension between the two. This cannot be resolved by the analytical mind. The linear mind cannot come up with a reasoning, with an argument, that resolves this seeming dichotomy between these two basic forces of creation. They will be seen as opposites by the linear mind.

This is why, in order to progress beyond the eighth ray and to start on the ninth ray – the first of the secret rays – you must come to that point, where you understand the limitations of the linear mind, and where you realize that you – as a conscious self – are more than the linear mind. [Thus] you do not have to experience the world through the filter of the linear mind, but you can, in fact, go beyond it and have an intuitive experience – an Aha-experience – that cannot be expressed in words, that is beyond words, that is beyond concepts. But yet you know that you have experienced something that is real.

The qualities of the ninth ray

This then brings us to the ninth ray. What are the qualities of the ninth ray? Well, again, by putting a word upon it, I give fodder for the linear mind, so be careful not to be pulled into this. For the linear mind will do its thing and seek to analyze and categorize. But yet recognizing that, we must use words to communicate.

The word I will give you to describe the ninth ray is equilibrium. This is a concept that the linear mind finds it difficult to deal with. It is a concept that the ego does not want to deal with and does not want you to deal with. And you might recognize – if you monitor your inner state – that the ego will rebel against this, will come up with all kinds of reasonings that this cannot possibly be the case. “Why, this cannot possibly be the big secret that has been talked about by the Ascended Masters for so many years. There must be some kind of secret power in the secret rays.” And there is, but it is a power that cannot be grasped by the ego. For you see, the ego can work only when there is imbalance, when there is tension. The ego cannot work unless there is tension, opposition between the two polarities, created in the act of separation from oneness. The ego cannot use oneness, and thus it cannot use equilibrium for anything.

This, then, brings us to the concept that has been known in eastern religions for centuries, for millennia, and it is becoming gradually more and more known in the West, the concept of karma. Karma is often seen in very dualistic terms, of good karma and bad karma. This is a concept very parallel to the western concept of sin, where you have sinned by doing something wrong, and then somehow the debt, the sin, must be paid before you can be free.

Thus, my beloved, you have billions of people on this planet who believe in this concept in some form, and who believe that if they do something – which according to some standard, be it religious or otherwise, is considered wrong – they must compensate for this by doing something else.

But you see, what does it mean to make karma, what does it mean to sin? It means performing an unbalanced action. Now realize something subtle, a subtle distinction. Consider what I said about the linear mind, which is relative but has no value judgment, and the ego then imposing a value judgment upon it.

If you take the ego out of the equation, the linear mind simply becomes a tool for acting in the material world. You can act through the linear mind without making karma, without sinning—when you recognize that you are more than the linear mind. But when the ego comes in and sees you as a separate individual –where you lose your sense of oneness with your own Higher Being, your sense of oneness with all life – well, then you now have the ego acting—still through the linear mind, but imposing a value judgment about what is good for you as a separate individual. Instead of the higher way of seeking only to raise the All by expressing your divine qualities, which is not unbalanced, my beloved, does not create karma, is not a sin.

This is something that both the ego and the linear mind will find it difficult to comprehend and impossible to accept. For the linear mind will say, “Well, but if two people perform the same action, then both must be sinning.” But it is not so, my beloved. Two people might perform the same outer action; one is in the illusion of duality, of separation, and thus the action is unbalanced, it is aimed at raising up the separate self. Whereas another might perform the same action, but the person is beyond the dualistic mind, seeking to raise the All, and thus it is not a sin. It is a balanced action—an action that springs from equilibrium.

And thus, you see that there are certain actions that can be performed from a state that is non-dualistic, that is nonjudgmental. And therefore, through the pure intent of raising the All, there is no imbalance in the action. I am not hereby saying that this applies to all actions. Clearly, when you are beyond the dualistic mind, there are certain actions you would not even think of performing, my beloved.

In this world, action is inevitable

Yet, you recognize that even though you have attained a higher state of consciousness, as long as you are in physical embodiment, you must perform certain actions. You cannot be in embodiment and not act, in some way or another. Surely, you can do as many spiritual people have done in the past, that when they reach a certain state of consciousness – where they are above and beyond the duality that so many people are trapped in – they see the vanity, the futility of the dualistic struggle. And thus, they withdraw from it, going into a monastery or a cave in the mountains, or in other ways isolating themselves from the dualistic struggle—so as not to partake in it, so as not to add to it, so as not to feed it. And certainly, this has had some validity and still does in the sense that a few people can hold a spiritual balance for the many by remaining in this pure state of consciousness.

Yet, holding a spiritual balance only buys time. It does not actually help bring the kingdom of God or the Golden Age into manifestation. And thus, we do not need – in the Aquarian Age – more spiritual people who will withdraw and insulate themselves from society. On the contrary, we need those who will actively engage in society but do so from a state of equilibrium, where their actions are not unbalanced. And therefore, they do not add to the tension, they do not add to the struggle—they demonstrate that there is an alternative to the struggle.

This is what is needed in this age. This is what many of you have come into embodiment for the purpose of outpicturing—the possibility of being actively engaged in society while not being in duality. And how can you manifest this? You can manifest this only when you learn how to act without acting in an imbalanced manner. For obviously, you cannot engage in society without acting.

In reality, my beloved, even a person sitting in a cave in the Himalayas is acting, is taking action in the material realm. The person in most cases needs to eat. The person might eat only fruit, but that fruit has to be picked by someone and brought to the cave. If the fruit had not been picked, what would have happened? It would have been eaten by animals, by other people, by insects or it would have decayed and become part of the cycle of nature. So by taking even fruit, by drinking water, by breathing air, you are acting. You are influencing the environment. You might have a relatively small footprint – as they say – but you are still acting.

And so, why not go out in society, where your actions can serve as inspirations for other people by you demonstrating that you have risen above the state of consciousness where you need to withdraw in order to avoid being pulled into the dualistic struggle? For you have instead come to the point, where you can engage actively in life without being pulled into the dualistic struggle—without allowing the world to pull you into the struggle, to pull you into the Sea of Samsara, the sea of suffering.

Ponder the unification of the basic forces

This is what you can attain by pondering the ninth ray of equilibrium. The Archangel for the ninth ray is Uniel, signifying unity, the unifying quality of the ninth ray that unifies the expanding and contracting forces by seeing that they are expressions of the One, of the singularity.

And as the seven rays have sprung from the singularity, so have the expanding and contracting forces. And when you see this, you recognize that the expanding and contracting forces are not opposites. They do not oppose each other, they complement each other. For if there were not forces that could interact, no distinct form could be created. That is why God manifested itself as the expanding and contracting force; there must be expansion for any form to be projected upon the screen of the Ma-ter light.

But take the scientific concept of the Big Bang. In a giant explosion, everything is hurled outward. Well, my beloved, what happens when you blow up a building with explosives? The orderly structure of the building is disintegrated, is blown apart into many bits and pieces. Thus, you see that had there only been the expanding force driving the Big Bang, no organized form could ever have been created. There must be something balancing the expanding force for a sustainable form to be created and maintained for any length of time.

The expanding force, then, is not the enemy of the contracting force. It is what starts creation and what continues to drive it to self-transcend. For again, if the contracting force is allowed to act in an unbalanced manner, it becomes what we have talked about with the second law of thermodynamics—that the structures begin to break down. Not by being blown apart by an expansive force, but by contracting so much that they are crunched into nothingness—and therefore, again, the form cannot be maintained.

And so, there is no permanence anywhere in the world of form. And this, of course, is what the ego finds it very difficult to deal with. In fact, the linear, analytical mind also finds this very difficult. For it wants to categorize everything and put everything into a database. But no sooner has it done so than reality has moved on, has transcended itself, has transcended the rules and laws, even the laws of nature that the intellect thought it had finally discovered. But in reality the intellect only defines rules that have no validity in the ongoing transcendence that is life.

Coming into equilibrium

So then, how do you come into that equilibrium? This is the challenge for spiritual students, and often those who have been the most eager students in applying the first seven rays and mastering the initiations of the first seven rays are precisely the ones that find it most difficult to move into the secret ray initiations. Why is this so? Because they have built a momentum that has taken them far beyond their previous state of consciousness—far beyond the downward pull of the mass consciousness.

Do you see that in order to be a spiritual student and rise above the mass consciousness, you must have an upward thrust, and that is your mastery on the first seven rays? Do you see that in order for the Elohim of the seven rays to manifest the material universe, they had to have that thrust, that they could project these images on the Ma-ter light and maintain them over a very long period of time.

And so, this is what you build as you master the initiations of the seven rays. But now, what also is built is the sense that you need to act, that you need to do something—even the desire to make a difference in the world, to make a decisive difference in bringing the Golden Age of Saint Germain, in bringing world peace, in eradicating disease, in creating the perfect political system, in eradicating poverty, or any other of the many valid and valuable goals that people have. I am not saying that these goals are not important, are not valid. But I am saying that they are only valid at a certain stage of the path, my beloved.

And when you come to the point of the eighth ray and the ninth, you need to step back, look at the big picture and see that even though you have built a momentum on doing right action, you cannot go beyond that level by continuing to do right action.

Consider the eightfold path—right this, right that, right the next thing. It is all well and good at a certain level. But you do not become the Buddha automatically by following the eightfold path as an outer path of seeking to conform to a certain standard. You go beyond this level only by seeing that you must stop acting from any sense of separation.

If you take an honest look at ascended master students from various dispensations, you will see that many of them still are trapped in that dualistic world view of thinking that they have to act, they have to be decisive, they have to eradicate communism, they have to overcome disease, they have to bring the Golden Age for Saint Germain by battling against some kind of condition.

Transcending duality to make evil irrelevant

But this will only take you so far; it will not take you into the secret rays. For in order to enter the secret rays, you must begin at the ninth ray, where you must overcome the sense of separation, the remnants of duality where you think that you have to perform an action that somehow compensates for the opposite action—that in order to overcome evil, you must perform an action that is good. On the eighth ray you must come to the realization that in order to truly overcome evil, you must make evil irrelevant. And you do not make evil irrelevant by battling it, by conquering it, by destroying it.

You make it irrelevant only by transcending the level of duality, so that the prince of this world comes and has nothing in you, whereby he can pull you out of ease, whereby he can pull you out of equilibrium. And so, up until you have mastered the initiations of the seven rays, you think that the goal is to build a momentum, a thrust, so that when the prince of this world comes, he cannot stop you in your tracks. We have given the analogy, my beloved, that if you stand a wheel on the ground and push it on one side, it will fall over. Whereas if the wheel is rolling and you push it on one side, it merely changes direction. But the faster the wheel is rolling, the less it will change direction.

And this is what you do through the seven rays—you build that momentum where nothing in this world can push you away from going in the direction that you see, of your spiritual growth. But now you come to the point of the eighth and the ninth ray, and this will not carry you any further, this will not carry you into the secret rays.

You need to, instead, see that equilibrium is not a balanced state between the two dualistic extremes, it is beyond the level of duality, where there is a value judgment between good and evil, where there is even the possibility of opposites. Equilibrium does not actually mean, in its truest sense, that you have balanced the opposites. It means, that you have transcended the entire consciousness in which there can be opposition.

Do you see, again, that if you look at the expanding and contracting forces of God – the Father, the Mother – with the linear mind, you will see them as opposites? When you impose the value judgment of the ego, you will even think that one can be good and the other can be bad. Which is why there are so many spiritual people who think that matter is the enemy of their spiritual growth, that the Mother is the enemy of their union with the Father, and therefore they resist matter. They try to in all ways withdraw from the material life, even the body. And yet this is not balanced spiritual growth.

When you go beyond this level, you see the true forces of creation as the Creator sees them—not as opposites, but as simply different expressions of the one. Expressions that are different, just enough different in order to allow the emergence of distinct forms out of the One, in which nothing is divided.

Acting from equilibrium

The indivisible God cannot create a distinct form out of itself, as the indivisible God. The Infinite must allow itself to manifest as a finite interplay of two forces for form to be created. Yet the Infinite does not go into one extreme or the other, one polarity or the other. The Infinite stays in the equilibrium out of which the two forces are expressed. And thus, it never sees them as opposites, it never identifies itself as being at one opposite, having to fight the other.

And this is the state of mind that your conscious self can attain, and must attain in order to pass the initiations of the ninth ray, the ray of equilibrium, the ray of unification—the ray of seeing oneness behind diversity, seeing diversity as an expression behind the oneness. Therefore, being able to act, my beloved, from that state of oneness, from that state of equilibrium. Instead of acting from that state of duality, as seeing everything as an interplay between dualistic extremes, dualistic opposites, thinking that one of the dualistic opposites must be eradicated for the kingdom of God to be manifest.

You see, my beloved, the Golden Age, the kingdom of God, whatever you want to call it, will not be manifest on Earth by those who take decisive action – no matter what action it might be, no matter how good it might seem – but they are still in the unbalanced state.

No amount of unbalanced action can bring the kingdom of god to Earth. Yet the kingdom of God will not be brought – likewise – by those who withdraw from reality and sit in a cave and meditate. They might hold a spiritual balance that gives humankind time to raise their consciousness, but you cannot contribute directly to the bringing of the kingdom of God by sitting in a cave. You must go out, as even the Buddha went out and preached to the multitudes, or to those who were ready for the teachings. And as you saw the Christ go out into the marketplace and interact with the people.

And so, the challenge is to take action without taking action. To act without acting. To act from that state of equilibrium. Which on a personal level you might start understanding by considering the intent, the motives. First of all, are you seeking to raise up other people when you interact with them? Are you seeking to raise them up, to help them transcend. Or are you seeking to somehow make them fit into your database, based on value judgments, and label them as being this or not being that.

Then evaluate, also: Are you allowing yourself to be pulled into the dualistic struggle? Do you have an attachment to other people’s actions or reactions? Do you want to see them change? Do you want to force them to change, my beloved? For obviously, if you have such attachments, those attachments will pull you out of equilibrium. And now you are no longer acting from a state of equilibrium – from a state of peace – you are acting from a state of duality. And thus, you are adding to the struggle, rather than demonstrating how to be in the world without being of the world.

These, then, are the considerations that you need to ponder in order to lock in to the ninth ray. But you cannot, as I said, fully lock in to it through an intellectual understanding alone. You must come to the point of opening up your mind, being and heart to that experience of gnosis, of oneness with that state of equilibrium, where you know, you experience, equilibrium. For this to happen, most of you will have to do something different than what you have been doing thus far.

You will have to work on stilling the mind. You will have to find a way, my beloved, to set aside time where you are not acting. Not even acting in terms of giving a rosary or decrees or other spiritual practices. But where you meditate, not on a mantra, not on a thought-form, not on a concept, but where you meditate on stillness, on equilibrium—as that which is beyond all of the decisive forces in the dualistic struggle that seek to pull you in this or that direction.

Thus, my beloved, this is the challenge on the ninth ray. We will give you further teachings on the other secret rays that will help you meet this challenge. We will even give you tools for how you can go beyond and find the stillness within, the equilibrium that transcends all of the push-and-pull actions of the world.

Thus, this release is complete by me breathing out the vibration of equilibrium for those who are ready and willing to absorb it [breathes out].

Be still and know that the I AM within you is God.

The tenth ray of transparency

The eighth ray of integration

 Copyright © 2009 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, May 8, 2009 through Kim Michaels

Imagine, my beloved, that people had gathered in great numbers to celebrate the birthday of the Buddha, expecting that the Buddha would make some kind of apparition, and yet nothing happened. You see, my beloved, the very concept of the Buddha appearing is a contradiction in terms. For the essence of the teachings of the Buddha is that everything is the Buddha Nature. So if the Buddha was to appear in some tangible form, well then, that would only reinforce the sense of separation, the sense that the Buddha is somewhere else, but not here.

Thus, when you think about this, you will see that even me speaking through a visible messenger, speaking an audible message – that can be heard, that can later be read and studied – well even that carries an inherent danger that people might think that the Buddha can appear only through this particular messenger or another messenger or in this particular form, and that the Buddha can speak only this way or that way.

And so, you see that we, of the Ascended Host, do indeed take a calculated risk by speaking through outer messengers, seeking to awaken humankind. This was, indeed, the very challenge I faced after having entered Nirvana and feeling the call to go out and teach. For although we have talked about the test being that there was a voice that said that no one would understand, well why was it, then, that no one would understand? Well, the greatest danger of all, my beloved, was indeed that they would identify one human being – appearing at a certain time and place – as the Buddha, and therefore start worshipping the Buddha in that form.

Do you see, my beloved, that the truth that I realized – that I became one with in entering Nirvana – is indeed that everything is already the Buddha Nature. The Buddha Nature is the same as what in mystical Christianity is called the Logos. In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. And without the Logos was not anything made that was made.

Well, so it is with the Buddha Nature, my beloved. It is the very foundation for the creation of the world of form. It is that essential something without which any form could not possibly be created. And thus, having realized this – having entered into that oneness with the Buddha-Nature that is the oneness with all form –   I also saw that by coming back into the world of form, identifying myself as the awakened one, there was indeed a very real danger that those who were willing to listen to my message would gradually – especially over centuries – distort the message and begin to build a cult of idolatry around that particular form in which I identified myself as the awakened one.

And thus, my beloved, you have those who have come to a higher understanding of the teachings of the Buddha, who have the concept that “If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him.” For if you meet someone you identify as the Buddha outside yourself, well, then, that will prevent you from actually realizing that the Buddha is also in you. And then that someone that you identify as being special, as being in some way elevated beyond you, that someone, that idol, stands between you and your self-realization,  your awakening into the reality of the oneness with all life. Because all life came from the same essence, whether you call it the Buddha Nature or the Christ consciousness or the Logos.

The concept of secret rays served to test the students

So you see, what I endeavor to give you in this release is an understanding that builds on what has been given by other masters on the first seven rays and how this relates to the restoration of true healing, how this can give you another master key to your personal healing. Thus, in this release I do indeed come to discourse on the eighth ray, which has been known as the ray of Integration. But of course, [it] is much more, as no ray can possibly be characterized by a single word.

And so, you recognize that after you have passed the initiations of the first seven rays, you come to another nexus point. For Mother Mary in her discourse [in Lourdes] talked about the figure-eight, where you start at the very bottom of the lower figure of the figure-eight and work your way up through the first three rays, coming to a nexus point of the fourth ray. And then you must – instead of thinking you should continue that upper thrust and momentum – you must go down, my beloved, down again to rescue the parts of you that are still stuck in the duality consciousness— stuck behind the veils of maya and illusion.

And yet, when you have done so, through the fifth, sixth and seventh ray initiations, then again you come to another nexus and we might say that there is now another figure-eight, where the lower half of the figure-eight represents the seven first rays. And the nexus point, then, is the eighth ray. And the upper figure then represents what has been called the secret rays. And so, before you can even begin to understand and lock in to the secret rays, you need to pass through that nexus point, that nexus point of the eighth ray.

Now, as you go through the initiations of the first seven rays, this will, for most people, be seen as a linear process. Most people do indeed start on the first ray, pass certain initiations there, move on to the second and so on and so forth. Yet, when you come to the eighth ray, this linearity must be transcended. For indeed you cannot comprehend, you cannot tune in to, the secret rays with the linear mind.

Why, my beloved, have we of the Ascended Host given teachings on the existence of something called the secret rays? If we really wanted to keep them secret, why not say nothing at all?

So you see, our releasing the information that there are secret rays beyond the first seven was done for a purpose. In the long term, the purpose is, of course, that we do not intend the secret rays to remain secret. But the reason we did not give a fuller teaching on them at the time was, partly, that humankind was not ready for the initiations of the secret rays. But it was also partly because ascended master students were not ready for the release of the teachings on the secret rays. You see, my beloved, by giving a teaser, so to speak, that there exists secret rays – and let me just say right now that there are more than five – by giving that teaser, we test our students. What exactly is the reaction we get from our students when we release this concept of secret rays.

How do they respond? How do they look at this? Some became overly curious, almost obsessed, wanting to know the secret rays—thinking that if only they could somehow dig out this secret, then, all of their problems would be solved. They would have some secret formula that would give them abilities beyond the average student, and thus, they could jump ahead. But who is it, what is it that wants to jump ahead of others? Well, it can only be the ego, trapped in duality, comparing itself to others.

So you see, indeed, a testing of the students, for this is an ongoing process—which is why Jesus said that the first shall become the last and the last shall become the first. Those who thought they were the advanced students, thought that they could possibly tune in to the secret rays, they could know something about them, they could understand it. And so, some did indeed become almost obsessed about the secret rays, without being willing to actually go through the initiations of the first seven. And so, other students took in the information on the secret rays but then focused their attention on passing the initiations of the rays that were known. For after all, that was the task set before all.

No one said you had to start on the initiations of the secret rays before you had passed the initiations of the first seven. And surely, when no information on the secret rays had been released, that should be a clear sign, that no one – no matter how advanced they thought they had been – were ready for the initiations of the secret rays. And so, my beloved, you see, that those who focused on the initiations they were given – put their heart and soul and mind into it – well those are the ones who have now moved up to become the first, those who shall receive further teachings on the secret rays. For you have been willing to wrestle with the concept of the ego and the obscure and difficult-to-grasp concept of the duality consciousness.

The ego can survive the initiations of the seven rays

You see, it is indeed possible to go through the initiations of the seven rays without fully letting go of the duality consciousness. There can still be a separate self, an ego, a spiritual persona that has managed to camouflage itself and hide itself, adapting to the initiations of the first seven rays.

This is allowed. For we cannot, as spiritual teachers, demand that our students be completely ego-free. We cannot demand some state of perfection, and we do not demand any state of perfection. So indeed, you have what we might call a grace period of going through the initiations of the first seven rays, where you can still have an element of ego, you can still have a role you are playing. You can even create a role for your involvement with the spiritual path—where you seek to create that perfect persona, that perfect costume, that perfect character in the drama that fits perfectly in your particular spiritual environment.

And so, this has led some students to believe that they are on the fifth ray – or “I am on the seventh ray” or I am on the first ray” – or “I am blue-flame” or “I am love,” or I am this or I am that. And so, they have built a spiritual persona that is seemingly very strong on a particular ray. And there can even be a certain sense of pride over having these particular characteristics of a particular ray.

And so, now the student comes to the point where it needs to step up and begin the initiation of the eighth ray. But as Mother Mary stated in her discourse, what has brought you successfully through the initiations of the first four rays, will not take you into the fifth ray. You must surrender that momentum, that upward thrust and humble yourself and go back down and tie up the lose ends.

Well, so when you [pass] the initiation of the seventh ray of freedom, in order to go into the initiation of the eighth ray, you must again go through a complete and unconditional surrender. You cannot move into the eighth-ray initiation if you identify yourself as being on a particular ray among the first seven. So whatever momentum you might think you have on a particular ray, that momentum must be surrendered. You must lay down that life in order to climb higher and move into the eighth-ray initiations.

So this, my beloved, is an absolute necessity. For, you see, on the first seven rays, it is possible to move higher while still having ego left that you supposedly hide from the teacher. Of course, contrary to what people might think on the spiritual path, nothing is hidden from the true teachers. We of the Ascended Host are above and beyond any aspect of the duality consciousness, and what does that mean? That means, my beloved, that having seen through every aspect of the duality consciousness in our own Beings, we can, of course, see through it in your beings as well.

There are many students who have fallen prey to the illusion that Jesus has talked about: “Why is it that people believe that what they can hide from each other is also hidden from God?” There are even those who have come in contact with a true teacher – be it a messenger or another true guru – and they think they have hidden something from that guru. In some cases they might have hidden something, for the guru does not necessarily look at everything that goes on in a student’s consciousness, and so the student might actually build a certain sense of the ego, a certain persona, that actually believes that it can cheat its way into heaven—that it can somehow find a way to sneak into the wedding feast without a wedding garment. [It believes] that it can camouflage the duality consciousness, so that it takes on the appearance of being so perfect, so in accordance with certain spiritual rules, that God simply has to let it into the kingdom.

But you see, it is not so. It is absolutely not so. You can start a new cycle of going through the initiations of the first seven rays again. You can still, then, be on the spiritual path as you are willing to pass these initiations. But there are also those who are not willing to humble themselves and go through the initiations again, thinking that should be below them because of all they have done in their outer service, or the inner initiations they have passed on the first seven rays. And so, they get stuck in a no-man’s land, where they might go around strutting their stuff, so to speak, strutting their spiritual “attainment” like a peacock. And yet, they are stuck at that level and will not go beyond it until they are willing to unconditionally surrender their attainment and their perceived attainment on the path in order to go into the initiation of the eighth ray.

The initiations of the eight ray

The eighth ray is not for the faint of heart, for on the eighth ray, nothing can be hidden. You cannot even perceive what the secret rays are about through the duality consciousness. You can, of course, project a dualistic image on the secret rays, as you can project a dualistic image on everything. But you will not perceive even a glimpse of what the secret rays are about through the filter of the duality consciousness. Take note of the subtle difference here—you can gain glimpses of what the first seven rays are about even though you still have elements of the duality consciousness. You can, in glimpses, see beyond that consciousness and see what the true characteristic of a ray is—you can tune in to it. But you cannot do that beyond the seven rays, you cannot do it on the eighth ray and beyond.

Because the secret rays were named the secret rays precisely because for those in the duality consciousness, they will forever remain secret. For the ego, the secret rays will forever remain secret. For the prince of this world and the false teachers of this world, the secret rays will forever remain secret.

Why is this, my beloved? Well, when you have an element of ego left, why is it that you still have that ego? You have walked the spiritual path for lifetimes. For many years in this embodiment you have studied teachings, you have practiced various techniques, you have made real progress. Yet, there is still an element of the ego.

And why have you kept that ego around? It is, my beloved, because while you may not see this consciously, yet keeping the ego around gives you an advantage that you are not yet ready to let go of. There is something for the conscious self in keeping the ego around. There is something that the conscious self does not have to do. There is some decision that the conscious self does not have to make when the ego is around—for the ego will make those decisions for it, or make it easier for the conscious self to justify making those decisions. And so, you see, on the first seven rays, there are certain characteristics of each ray that the ego can perceive as an advantage. The ego can look at a particular ray, it can put a dualistic overlay over the characteristics of that ray, and it can see that it can use that overlay to give itself a particular advantage.

How the ego sees the first seven rays

My beloved, we have given you the concept of the duality consciousness in which there are always two polar opposites. So let me give you a very quick run-down of how this plays out when the duality consciousness perceives the first seven rays.

• The first ray is the ray of will and power. The one dualistic extreme is obviously those who have a very strong will. And the ego can see that by reinforcing that strong will in a particular student, it can get the student to do almost whatever it wants in the name of some greater good. So therefore, you see some people on the spiritual path who have a very strong will, and who are willing to bend the will of others to get them to follow these strong people. They come into an organization, they think they know exactly how things should have been done all along, and they start telling the members, or even the leaders or the messengers, how they should have done things all along and how they need to do things from now on. You have people who always think they know better—who even think they know better than the Ascended Masters, for they have locked in to the very consciousness of the original fallen angels who think they know better than God. Yet, in the opposite extreme you have those who have no will at all, and who do not want to make their own decisions, who do not want to take a stand for anything. [They] want to simply flow with the stream of the mass consciousness—even the mass consciousness in a spiritual organization. So, you have those in spiritual organizations who think they are very strong on the first ray, and they believe that this is a necessary and good characteristic. For, after all, someone must be the leader and tell all of these people who do not want to make decisions what to do. And so these people exercise their power in a way that they believe is justified, yet they fail to see that they are completely out of touch with the reality of the first ray—which is powerful but never abusive, which respects free will absolutely, as the masters on all rays respect free will absolutely. And so, you see the co-dependent relationship between those who have perverted the will and made it too strong and those who have perverted it by not wanting to make any decisions.

• Likewise, on the second ray you have those who think they know everything and understand everything, and they study and they can talk for hours about the smallest little details of the path; and this master said that and that master said this and this is how it really works. And then you have those who do not want to really study and know and understand but want to be told what to do. You find them even in ascended master organizations, but you find, of course, many of them in traditional religions, where they want to come to church every Sunday and have their minister or priest preach to them from the pulpit, talk down to them as if they were children who know nothing.
• Likewise, on the third ray of love, you have those who have taken love to a dualistic extreme, where it has been possessive, controlling love. Where they think that it is actually good for others that they are controlled, for they know what is best for another person, and therefore in the name of loving that person, they have to control them. And of course, you have those who have perverted love to the point where they have no love for anything. And if you don’t love anything – including yourself – how can you take a stand for anything? How can you take a stand for yourself?
• And so, on the fourth ray of purity you have those who have become extremely judgmental, saying only these activities are pure and those who abstain from these other impure activities are the real students. Then, on the opposite extreme are those who have entered into what Jesus calls gray-thinking. Thinking, “Oh, nothing really matters, nothing is really bad. No particular form of music is worse than any other form of music. No particular food is worse than any other kind of food. I can do whatever I want. Nothing really matters.” And so they indulge themselves in whatever happens to come their way without having any standard whatsoever. Both extremes, of course, failing to see the truth in the teaching that to the pure, everything is pure. But this does not mean that those who are pure indulge in anything that is available on this planet. They are simply not attached to it. They are not forcing themselves with the outer will to abstain from certain activities. They do not necessarily cringe when they walk into a public area where a certain type of music is playing. But they do not particularly seek it out either. They simply walk through it without letting it stick to them.

• Then, of course, on the fifth ray of truth, again, there are those who believe – taking it to the dualistic extreme – that there can be only one truth—or rather, there can be only one expression of truth. Which is what you see in those who believe that there is only one particular scripture – be it the Bible or the Qur’an or the Vedas or whatever – that have the truth. But then you even have those in ascended master teachings who believe that there is only one true messenger, there is only one true ascended master organization, and that the Ascended Masters can be put in a nice little mental box and they did not speak to humankind before this particular organization and they have not spoken after. Yet, on the other extreme, you have the perversion of truth, where there are those who say, “Oh there is nothing that is really true. Any philosophy is as good as any other.” Or they take the agnostic view, “How can we know what is true? Nobody can really tell.” And so, again, any religion is as good as any other, or all religions are false because they all claim to be true and that claim cannot be true for all of them.
• And so, on the sixth ray of peace, you have those who have taken peace to the extreme, where they believe that peace can be attained only by suppressing all diverging viewpoints, only by suppressing differences, only by forcing all others to come into alignment with the ideal that they have espoused. And then, on the opposite side, you have what you saw in the hippie movement in the sixties, where everything is good, where nothing really matters. Or the saying that some people have, “It’s all good.” Well, what does that mean, my beloved? Can everything be good when two-thirds of the population live below the poverty level? How can that possibly be perceived as good? And so on and on.
• And even on the seventh ray of freedom there are those who pervert freedom and believe that freedom is something that needs to be defended against all enemies of freedom. And that freedom can only be secured when you destroy your enemies, as the previous American administration – the Bush administration – believed that they could only secure the freedom of America by destroying those they had labeled as the enemies of freedom. And yet, on the other side of the spectrum, those who think that anything goes, everything is okay. You can do anything you want and get away with it, for after all, there is no life after this. It is just one lifetime, there is no purpose, you are just a sophisticated animal and you have a right to do whatever you want while you are here, your one shot at life.

How the perversions relate to healing

And so, my beloved, these fourteen perversions – two on each of the seven rays – they have a particular function. And what exactly is that function and how does it relate to personal healing? Consider, my beloved, the word disease. “Dis-ease.” That which takes you out of ease.

We have given you the concept of the River of Life. When you are in the River of Life, life is easy. You are flowing with the River of Life. As Jesus said, “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” When you re-align yourself with the reality hidden in that quote, you are easily flowing with life. Everything comes to you easily, which means what? It means you do not have to struggle. You do not have to struggle to attain anything that you really want, that you really need, as part of your Divine Plan. If one can even say that you need anything, for your Divine Plan does not depend on needing something, but on letting it flow.

And so, that which pulls you out of the flow of the River of Life is the cause of disease. Which eventually filters through the three upper bodies – the identity, mental and emotional body – and then begins to spill into the physical body, where it affects the very cells and atoms, so that the body now manifests disease. So, we have given some teachings on the connection between certain states of consciousness and disease. But you see, if you were to truly study the fourteen perversions I have just given you, you would see that every disease known to man can be put somewhere on one of the lines and somewhere in between the two dualistic extremes that are perversions of that particular ray and its characteristics.

All diseases can be put somewhere in that spectrum. And thus you see that, truly, by passing the initiations of the first seven rays – and truly resolving it, resolving the hang-ups, the attachments, the perversions – you can actually cure every disease known to man—by, as we have said in the first seven releases, transcending the very consciousness that the disease is out-picturing. Yet, my purpose for bringing you this understanding is to help you realize that those of you who are the spiritual people may not be manifesting a disease simply because you are stuck in a particular dualistic perversion of a particular ray.

You may be manifesting a disease for a deeper reason. Namely, to demonstrate to people in the world how to rise above not just a particular condition, but the broader condition of the duality consciousness that creates the struggle of life. What I am explaining here is what you might call two different levels of initiation. There are many people – the vast majority of the people in the world –who are still at the level of consciousness where they are what we might call students. They are learning, they are working their way up through the initiations of the seven rays. And they might have various diseases that are manifest in their bodies because in this or past lifetimes they have become stuck in a particular perversion of one of the seven rays. They are not willing to go beyond, to let go of that particular perversion, lie, attachment—whatever you call it. And so, eventually, this has manifested as the disease in the physical body.

Yet, those of you who are the spiritual people are not here because you are students. You are here because you are teachers. And you came here to demonstrate to others how to rise above these limiting conditions, including physical diseases. But more so, the consciousness behind the disease and beyond that, the very consciousness of having to struggle. And so, what you need to recognize here is that some of you have indeed successfully passed the initiations of the first seven rays. But you are still manifesting a certain disease because you have taken on a greater state of consciousness—the task of helping people see beyond the duality consciousness as such.

What are you here to teach?

And so, what will then enable you to fulfill your mission is precisely that you become aware of the eighth ray and the secret rays beyond it. So that you realize that your condition – be it a physical disease or a psychological limitation of some kind – is part of your mission. And it can be part of your mission in a variety of ways. In one end of the spectrum, you may have taken on a disease to demonstrate how to rise above it, but on the other end of the spectrum, you might have taken on a disease in order to demonstrate that one can lead a whole and full and happy and peaceful life with a seemingly crippling condition.

For after all, the body cannot limit the Spirit unless the Spirit allows it to do so, unless the Spirit chooses to accept the body as a limitation for its expression. And so, this is where you, who are the more spiritual people – not those who are stuck in the pride of thinking they know everything, but you who have come to realize that there might be more to know, you who have come to sense that there is something you have not yet grasped, something you have not yet seen, and you are longing to see it – well you, my beloved, can benefit from understanding the eighth ray and the secret rays beyond.

Which is precisely why we have decided to begin releasing the information on these rays, so that you can begin to tune in to them and gain a different perspective on your life, on your mission, on your purpose for being here. And so that you can come to a point where you, the Spirit, can be at ease regardless of any dis-ease in your physical body.

The specific initiation of the eighth ray

And so, what is, then, the initiation on the eighth ray? It is to integrate the knowledge you have gained on the seven rays. But what is it exactly you integrate? You come to a nexus point and what is the nexus point?

It is what your scientists have called a singularity. A singularity can be conceived of as a point that is so infinitely small that it has not extension in space. You may know that a newspaper photograph is made up of many small dots so close together that your eye does not see them. You may even have looked at a newspaper photograph through a magnifying glass, so that you can see the individual dots. And you see that such a dot actually has an extension on the paper—you can measure its diameter, its width.

Well, a singularity is a like a dot that is so infinitely small that it has no extension. What does that mean? Well, there is no extension in space, my beloved, there is nothing to divide. We have given you the concept that you can divide the distance between the number one and the number zero in smaller and smaller increments and that you can keep doing so indefinitely. A singularity does not fit in this concept of the infinite division.

A singularity is reached by taking a quantum leap, where you realize that the singularity has no extension and thus cannot be divided. What does that mean for the seven rays? It means that as you follow the initiations of the seven rays, you rise higher in the lower figure-eight, the lower figure of the figure-eight, you come to the nexus point and you see that all of the seven rays came out of a singularity. Meaning, that although you may have, especially at the lower levels of the path, seen them as distinctly separate, you now see that they came from the same source. They sprang from a singularity.

It is not even correct to say that they sprang from the white light, as you see white light divided by a prism into the rainbow colors. For white is a color. No, my beloved, they sprang from a singularity that has no characteristics, that has no form. And that singularity is the Logos, is the Buddha Nature. It is something that has no extension in space, therefore cannot be divided—and in being indivisible, cannot take on form, cannot take on characteristics that set it apart from something else. That is why everything is the Buddha Nature. That is why without the Logos was not anything made that was made.

This is the switch, the seismic shift, in consciousness that you reach on the eighth ray. Where you recognize that all of the seven rays came out of the same substance—Buddha Nature, Logos, Christ consciousness, call it what you will. And thus, the illusion of separation is just that—an illusion. And when you realize that everything in the world of form is made out of the interplay of the seven rays, well then you see that when the seven rays came from the one substance, then everything in the world of form must come from the one substance. And thus, all division is ultimately unreal.

And therefore, you begin to see what the Buddha sees. For the fact that the Buddha sees that everything is the Buddha Nature does not mean that the Buddha looks at the world and says, “It’s all good.” No, the Buddha looks with the discerning eye of knowing what is at ease and what is a dis-ease. For everything that sprang from the illusion of separation, everything that can be put on the scale with the two dualistic extremes, everything that is separated from the flow of the River of Life is a disease.

When you go into it, it can only take you out of ease. You have been given free will, as we have said in the previous releases. You have an absolute right to create for yourself any experience you desire. And within certain broad limits of time and space, you can keep having that experience for as long as you desire until you have had enough. Only you can decide when enough is enough.

But the catch, of course, is that when you create an experience based on the duality consciousness, well then, you are experiencing that condition, that circumstance, through the filter of the duality consciousness. Which means that you can only see it in a dualistic way. Which means that there will be something opposing your condition, your state of mind—and therefore life inevitably becomes a struggle. This is what is truly meant by the four noble truths and the concept that life is suffering. Life experienced through the dualistic filter is suffering because built into the dualistic state of consciousness is the never-ending struggle. Never-ending as long as you are seeing the world — as long as you are experiencing – through that filter.

Knowing you are MORE

And so, on the eighth ray, you must come to that point of fully seeing that you are more than any experience that you have had or could possibly have in the world of form. You are an immortal Spirit. You are what we have called the conscious self, as an extension of the Creator’s Being.

How can you integrate the knowledge and attainment you have gained on the first seven rays unless you come to the point of realizing that the real you, the core of your identity, the conscious you sprang from that singularity and therefore has the potential to expand itself beyond the localized viewpoint that you have had so far.

What is it you learn on the eighth ray by integrating the first seven? You see, through the first seven rays you look at life through the prism of a particular ray and its characteristics. But on the eighth ray, you step back from all of them and you see the big picture. The big picture. You see the overall reality of the tapestry of life, of the in-breath and the out-breath of God, of cosmic cycles, of the higher purpose of the growth in self-awareness that is the only purpose behind the world of form.

And you now see that the real reason why you are here, as a spiritually mature being, is to help awaken humankind to this bigger picture. To help them see that there is more to life, that there is an alternative to the struggle, an alternative state of consciousness. And thus, you can begin to see that it is now necessary to lay down your life for a friend, as Jesus expressed it. For you have that greater love of having been willing to come into embodiment—perhaps to come back into embodiment after you had qualified for the ascension, and a part of you ascended but you came back as the conscious self that you are.

And so, you came here to demonstrate by example how to be MORE, how to be at ease in the River of Life, how to flow with it instead of struggling against it. There are many particular diseases, but beyond them all is the greater disease, the dis-ease of seeing life as a struggle and thinking it can be no other way. If all people are struggling, how will they ever know there is a better way? How will they know there is MORE, unless someone comes into embodiment and demonstrates that MORE in a way that people cannot ignore, cannot deny? For you are demonstrating it so clearly that some will understand.

My beloved, this concludes the discourse that is a continuation on our teachings on healing.

NOTE: At this point Gautama gave some teachings that are no longer relevant. He concluded:

So with this, I have concluded my release. But I shall speak to you again tomorrow, and we shall begin on what was formerly known as the first secret ray, but which from now on will be known as the ninth ray, my beloved. With that, I bid you good evening.

The ninth ray of equilibrium

Copyright © 2009 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, January 4, 2009 through Kim Michaels.

The Buddha, the Sangha, the Dharma. The Buddha is the center. The Sangha is the sphere set apart where you can come in from the world and connect to the Buddha. The Dharma is not to remain in the Sangha, but to go out in the world and free those who are trapped by the demons of Mara. These are, in many cases, not external demons, but the internal demons of their illusions, their dramas.

When I appeared on the earth 2,500 years ago – give or take a few centuries – I did not have the opportunity that we of the ascended masters have today. I had to give teachings adapted, not only to the planetary level of consciousness, but to the way that people could express and deal with spiritual teachings. Whereby I mean not only language, but their concepts, their world view, their understanding of themselves and the human psyche.

If you read my teachings, you might see that limitation out-pictured. Although you can certainly go beyond the outer words and be guided by the Spirit to see deeper meanings than were expressed in the words, nevertheless, you will see – if you are honest – that there are many things that you routinely speak of today that were not addressed in my teachings. The awareness, the concepts, were not there in the collective consciousness.

I come primarily to give you that sense of co-measurement, of the opportunity you have today, with the Alpha of the teachings of the ascended masters, and the Omega of the teachings brought forth through the worldly sciences and practices of psychology and healing. I dare say that there has not in the recent history of earth – which I count as being very long, give or take a few million years – been a group of people [meaning all spiritual people] who had a greater opportunity to tune in to the Buddha, to attain that freedom that the Buddha Saint Germain expounded upon. You can then go out and fulfill the Dharma of raising those who are trapped behind the veil of Maya by demonstrating that you have pulled back that veil. You have ripped it down and torn it asunder so that it has no reality in your being.

Forget not the Dharma

What shall it profit a man that he gains the whole world and loses the Dharma? What shall it profit a person that you gain some sense of understanding of spiritual teachings and concepts, but you lose the Dharma, the Omega aspect of going out, sharing it with others with the sole intent of setting them free? You go not to raise yourself or get attention or power or control, but to set them free. You are free, and thus you have no other desire than to see them free of whatever holds them back behind that veil of Maya, of illusion, of unreality, of the illusion that although everything is the Buddha nature, you can still somehow be separated from the Buddha. What folly is this? What folly, indeed.

Be willing to be free—to be me, for I, too, am free. Why am I free? Because I am awake! I have awakened myself from my own drama. Do not think that the Buddha was born perfect, as they have attempted to portray that picture of me having these other-worldly birth circumstances as they have done to Jesus. I had many past lifetimes on this planet, having sunk just about as far as you can sink, give or take a few degrees.

I too had created my own drama. But something enabled me to respond to the Presence of Sanat Kumara in the earth, and I realized there had to be more. [In a previous age, the collective consciousness of earth had sunk so low that cosmic counsels were contemplating letting the earth self-destruct. A cosmic being, named Sanat Kumara, volunteered to hold the spiritual balance for the earth until someone from earth would be able to do so. His first two students were Gautama Buddha and Lord Maitreya. Gautama Buddha has since risen to the office of Lord of the World and is now holding the spiritual balance for all life on earth.]

I started that journey, pulling back the veils of illusion that made up my drama. I came to the point where I could sit under the Bo tree and face the demons of Mara, which were – at least in the first initiation – not the demons of the world, but the demons of my own past dramas seeking to pull me back into them. I would not be pulled hither or yon, for I had awakened and could see through every one of the dramas and the illusions that created them. I remained free in that awakeness, that Flame of Awakeness that I am.

There is no real separation

The Buddha nature is awake and aware that it is everything, and that there is nothing outside of it—thus seeing the Buddha nature in any manifestation in the world of form, no matter how temporary and unreal it might be. Even the concept of a veil of Maya has the danger of making you think that there is some real separation between Maya and the Sangha of the Buddha. Even the concept of a path makes you think that you really are separated. You have to go though this long and arduous process of entering the Sangha or the kingdom of God, or whatever it may be that you long for.

There is no actual separation. The only thing that separates you from the kingdom of God and from the Sangha of the Buddha is your own drama. There is no objective force that separates you. I am not saying there are not other self-aware beings – or even the demons who are not actually self-aware anymore – who are external to you. But they can only influence you through your own subjective reality of giving them power. As I explained last year at New Year’s time, that evil lord sitting at the temple at the top of the mountain simply is not there and was never there. The illusion of his existence has been kept alive only by the people who have chosen to create a drama that necessitated that ultimate evil, and thus feeding it their energy. [Refers to a dictation by Gautama Buddha in which he described an imaginary temple that supposedly housed the ultimate evil being, controlling a hierarchy of evildoers. No one had ever entered the temple, and in reality it was empty, meaning that all those who work against Oneness are driven by an illusion.]

Let it all collapse like a house of cards. Let it all collapse. Just let it go, my beloved, and enter the Sangha. How do you enter the Sangha? Well, through the door, of course. Where is the door? Where is it, my beloved? [Audience answers, “Within us”] In your hearts, in your hearts.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book How to Communicate from the Heart.

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, December 31, 2008 through Kim Michaels.

How do you choose to look at the year 2008? This is how I, the Buddha, will choose to look at it. I look at it as an extremely productive year, that brought humankind forward with leaps and bounds, toward the breakthrough in consciousness that is the result of long and patient work by the ascended masters, in oneness with those on earth who have tuned in to our presence. It has been a patient work, for we, of course, have complete respect for the Law of Free Will. So we do not seek to force; we seek to awaken.

Awaken to life’s potential to be more

I AM AWAKE! And my presence has only one purpose, and that is to awaken everyone on earth. Thus, I use this opportunity to speak through a physical mouthpiece, and I speak into the mass consciousness: AWAKEN! AWAKEN! AWAKEN! AWAKEN to the reality of who you are, for you are more than this.

AWAKEN to the reality, that there is something beyond those systems of thought, those systems of government, systems of business, that may appear beautiful outward, but inward they are filled with dead men’s bones, the bones of those who are dead in a spiritual sense, because they have separated themselves from the River of Life, that is oneness. Throw off the shackles that make you think, that you need these dead men and women to lead you. Throw it off, I say, and recognize that the Kingdom of God is within you, and that when you are willing to be co-creators, God – your higher beings – will lead you to co-create the Kingdom of God on earth, where there is no lack, no poverty, no inequality, no war.

AWAKEN to the reality that abundance is reality, that poverty is an illusion that has only one purpose—and that is to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few by taking it from the many, or even making them give it up voluntarily as is presently being attempted in the West. AWAKEN to the fact, that life will give you what you outpicture in your consciousness. For the Ma-ter Light will simply outpicture the images you project upon it, whatever those images may be. And thus, you become self-fulfilling prophecies, that repeat the patterns of ups and downs that they, the arch-deceivers who lie about everything, have called the business cycle, seeking to portray it as inevitable. Well it is not, for the reality of God is, that life has the potential to be an ever-ascending, ever-transcending spiral and to never go backwards, never go into the less, but to continually be MORE in that cosmic dance of self-transcendence into greater and greater beauty, perfection, nobility, mastery.

The boundaries of free will

I AM AWAKE because I know I AM MORE! I know YOU are MORE, but you have not awakened to that reality—choosing to be less. Yet cycles move on. For when the Creator gave free will to extensions of itself, the Creator knew full well, that they could use that free will to separate themselves from the River of Life, thereby coming trapped in a lesser sense of identity.

Which is precisely why the Creator set up the fourth member of the expressions of God, namely the Holy Spirit, as an expression of the River of Life for a particular unit such as this planet, where those who have lived upon it – those who have ascended or risen to higher states of consciousness – have added momentum to that flow of the Holy Spirit. And this creates an upward spiral, that moves on regardless of the fact that so many people have chosen to be less, thereby demonstrating that there is a way out of the lesser identity, there is an alternative. It is possible to choose to be MORE.

For you see, the Law of Free Will does not simply state, that you can do whatever you want forever. For certainly, why would a Creator who experiences and lives in the infinite beauty of oneness want any extension of itself to be forever trapped outside of that oneness in the illusion of separation? And thus, you cannot forever choose to be less. You must, therefore, never be able to create a world in which there is no demonstration of the potential to be MORE. Even though there is total respect for free will, there is nevertheless the law that says, that you can never lose your free will to the illusion that it is not possible to be MORE. For after all, how can you have free will, if you think you can only be less? Then you do not have the option to choose MORE, do you?

It is the law, that there are those who have the right to demonstrate on earth that you can be MORE. They have a right to form that momentum of the flow of the Holy Spirit, their collective expression of the MORE, that then bloweth where it listeth, because it cannot be confined to any system or doctrine, it cannot be stopped by any force on earth. It will blow where it listeth and blow down those houses of cards that they have built, blow down the towers of Babel, blow down some fortifications in which they think they can trap the people, but only end up trapping their minds. The Holy Spirit will blow and will blow down all those obstacles to the expression of love, all those expressions of anti-love, for this is the Law of Free Will.

Thoughtform of the rushing wind

And thus, I give you a thoughtform, and it is the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit, blowing down those walls and fortifications, blowing down those prisons around this world, blowing them all down, as you have seen how the Holy Spirit has blown down the towers of Babel built by the financial industry, of how they thought they were invulnerable, that they could never go down. They thought, that they were too big to fail, which is why they want the government to think they are too big to fail, so they have to be bailed out by the people’s money—even though that money is created out of nothing, but nevertheless has to be paid back by the sweat and the blood of the people.

You have seen how these mighty institutions, that have survived for over a century, can crumble in a matter of weeks through that force of the Holy Spirit, that says the people shall no longer be entrapped in this artificially created economy, that has no connection to the real economy that raises all life and increases the wealth and truly distributes it amongst the people, so that all are raised up toward that abundant life. This is the Thoughtform: that all of those prison walls created by the false teachers will be blown down and scattered throughout the corners of the globe, until the entire hold that these false teachers think they have had on this planet has crumbled, to the extent that even they will be begin to realize that they have lost this planet to the Light.

Meditate on this Thoughtform. Be willing to be the open door and see how the wind of the Holy Spirit, released from the Buddhic level, can flow through you, can flow through your beings, your minds, your energy fields, can flow through your invocations, can flow through your visualizations, can flow through your words as you speak to people and challenge them to recognize, that there is more to life than what they currently experience.

The addiction to materialism

What has actually happened in 2008 is, that there has been such a shakeup in the collective consciousness, that it has given people an opportunity to step back and rethink this materialistic lifestyle—to which so many in the West have become literally addicted. They think the meaning of life is to accumulate things or accumulate numbers on your financial balance sheet, so that you can feel secure in having this or that amount of wealth.

Although you know full well, that it is nothing more than zeros and ones on some computer hard drive on the server of your bank and financial institution, from which it literally could be wiped out in an instant. As you have seen great fortunes being wiped out instantly as if they had never existed; for they did never exist in the real economy but only in that virtual, imaginary economy, that those who are not willing to multiply their talents in raising all life have created over these past centuries and beyond.

This unreal economy must go, before the people can be free, and that means that some among the people must take a loss because they have chosen to bind themselves to that unreal economy and those who are at the top of the pyramid scheme. The scheme that has nothing whatsoever to do with the spiritual initiations of the real pyramid, but is simply a creation of those who are seeking to create a division in humankind between the haves and the have-nots. And they have been willing to expand the ranks of the haves, so that many people in the West have been drawn into thinking, that this was indeed a perfectly legitimate way to accumulate wealth and save for their retirement.

That which is based on the exploitation of other people, the have-nots, can never be a legitimate way to accumulate wealth or to secure your retirement. For your retirement should not come from stocks or bonds or the government. Your retirement should come from God, from the spiritual realm, from the reality of you having lived a constructive life, where you multiplied the talents you were given in raising up all life. And thus, certainly, the law will find ways to secure your retirement in a way that does not take from others, but indeed is part of the raising of all life, rather than exploiting those that you think should be the worker bees to provide for your life of luxury, when in reality all people should be seeking to raise up all.

An economy based on exploitation cannot stand

When you have an economy that is based on the exploitation of others – even based on the tolerance that two-thirds of the world’s population live in poverty – well then, there must come a time when that illusion has to be shattered. Even in the interest of setting people free before they have made more karma than they could even imagine, having been brought up in a society that denies this most basic law, even though their physicists have for centuries known about the law of action and reaction.

So then, precisely because of this shakeup of the belief in the infallibility of materialism and these financial instruments, I, the Buddha, see 2008 as a very productive year, that has the potential to bring humankind to the point of being willing to question their old paradigms, which is the very master key to rising to a higher level—expanding those paradigms, becoming truly free.

The question is: will humankind choose to question the old paradigms and to rise above them? And that depends on you. For you are the most spiritual people on earth. Will you heed the words of my beloved brother MORE that no matter what seems to be happening in the world, no matter how the majority of the population seem to respond by going into negativity and fear, YOU can make a different choice?

You can, as my beloved brother the Buddha Jesus said in Germany: you can choose to live in a different parallel universe, recognizing the very fact, that you are among the top ten percent, recognizing the very fact, that despite the musings of scientists, there is only one physical reality on earth. And although there are many potential outcomes, the top ten percent – if they choose in firmness, if they choose unconditionally, to accept the reality of the potential to be MORE – well then, they will determine which of the potentialities will become a reality and which of the parallel universes that have not yet manifested will actually become the one that manifests physically and therefore determines the future of this planet.

Which parallel universe do you want to become manifest on earth in 2009 and beyond? That is the choice. That is the question, as they say. So choose to be. Choose to be MORE. And choose to be in that state of consciousness, regardless of what may seem to be the physical reality. For that which seems to be, is not set in stone.

The final countdown to 2012

We have entered a cycle, the final countdown to the potential breakthrough that can, and by your choosing, WILL happen in 2012 and beyond. 2009 represents the Father aspect, the Father cycle. 2010 represents the Son, the Christ. 2011 represents the Mother. And 2012 represents the Holy Spirit. Thus, the potential in 2009 is that people can turn to—not God as they have come to see it as the separate being in the sky, but they can turn to the God within and recognize, that they are co-creators with God and that they co-create their own reality through their own consciousness. Therefore, they can decide that they are willing to co-create a higher reality. This is the potential for 2009.

Twothousandandten, then, gives them the opportunity to build on that decision, to co-create a higher reality by using the wisdom and the reality of the Christ Mind to tune in to the Only Begotten Son of God, the living Christ within them. And thereby, they can separate the real from the unreal, separate the reality of Christ from the unreality of the duality consciousness of the false teachers and their many ideologies and philosophies and world views, that they have sought to spread among humankind. They can choose to question the very lie of the ultimate system, that will somehow restore everything to a perfect order, even though there has never been a perfect order on this planet. For far too long people have been trapped in the consciousness of seeking the perfect system, rather than seeking perfection through co-creation and constant self-transcendence.

Having come to see – being able to discern between reality and unreality – they can then enter 2011 and the cycle of the Mother and begin to apply it to every aspect of life on earth. Finding new solutions, using the infinite creativity of the Mother to come up with new ways of manifesting a better society, better technology, better inventions. And this can be the breakthrough in 2011, that then gains momentum in 2012, until it becomes that mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit, that nothing in this world can stop, nothing can withstand, and thus, change will manifest.

And the change will be so monumental, that all will be awakened to the potential for a higher reality, a better future. Which will happen at all levels, my beloved, from the economy to technology, to energy, to spirituality, to psychology—to even the shift in self image that is the highest potential.

2009: the year of decision

This year, 2009, is the year of decision, the year of choosing between the illusions and the higher reality. Choose wisely during this year! Contemplate will! Contemplate will power and how you use it to choose the MORE rather than the lesser. For you will be faced with many challenges in this coming year, many temptations to go into a vibration of fear because of this or that outer event or manifestation. You may think that the worst is over in the economy; but it is not, for there are still those who are seeking to keep their system alive. And until a critical mass snap out of that illusion, there will be more turmoil.

There is also the potential for an outbreak of war in several areas of the globe, especially, of course, in the Middle East, in Muslim nations. For as Mother Mary has spoken about in this last year, there was a great need for the Muslims to come up higher and to take a stand and to speak out. And while this has indeed happened to some degree, it certainly has not happened to the fullest potential. And thus, it is still possible that there will be violence, warfare, as you indeed see already brewing in several nations, especially Pakistan—which truly has the potential to be the flash-point for much conflict.

Hold the vision, that the spiritual gurus and teachers who have embodied in India for thousands of years have created enough of a momentum to pull the Indian people and the Indian government above the temptation to engage in conflict or war with their Muslim neighbor. Hold the vision, that those holy men who have walked the earth in that country, have instilled enough of the lesson of Christ, the potential to turn the other cheek, into the Indian collective consciousness, so that the nation will indeed be willing to turn the other cheek, rather than giving those across the border an excuse for escalating the conflict that has existed since the birth of Pakistan. Which was not a God-ordained event in any shape or form, but was a typical expression of the divide-and-conquer strategy of the fallen beings who, right as the Indian nation won its freedom from the oppression of the British Empire, created another threat to its freedom and existence. So hold the vision, no matter what happens on the outer, that the reality of peace will be manifest.

Hold the vision—not that there will be peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but hold the vision that those who are the false teachers, the blind leaders in Israel, will be judged and taken from the planet in this coming year. Even if it necessitates them accelerating the conflict to the point, where the world, and even the more moderate people in Israel itself, can see that this simply cannot continue and that it is Israel and the Israeli people who must stop the violence. As they were given the opportunity to do 2,000 years ago, when Christ himself embodied and walked on their soil. And they have continued to reject that lesson.

I am not saying that Israel and the Jewish people should suddenly convert to Christianity, for the Christianity that you see today is far from the true teachings of Christ. But they should indeed be awakened and convert to the reality, that unless you turn the other cheek, you will create your own enemy. This is the lesson that the Jewish people had the potential to learn 2,000 years ago from the presence of Christ in their midst. And this is the time where they must learn it—or their nation will cease to exist within a matter of years, at least in the form in which you see it right now.

Understanding the nature of life

Opportunity takes many forms. For a time, you may seem to be able to get away with almost anything. But there comes a point, where you have become so trapped in your arrogance of thinking you can get away with anything, that the only way to shake you out of that mental prison is that you reap what you have sown. So that your arrogance crumbles, and you are faced with the reality, that you do not have unlimited power as long as you are trapped in the consciousness of separation. For you do, indeed, create the reaction to your own action. And when cycles come due, well then, there is nothing you can do to stop what is coming back, unless you are truly willing to transcend the consciousness that created that karmic return.

Did not Christ teach that what you do unto others, the universe will return to you? And that the only way to break any negative spiral is to turn the other cheek, instead of continuing the pattern of seeing other people as your enemies, rather than seeing the oneness that is the underlying reality of all life. For what, my beloved, is life? You may look through the duality consciousness at a human being in a physical body. You may think that that human being has life of its own. But why do they say that the breath is withdrawn from the body, that the soul is withdrawn, that the life is withdrawn? There is a life force that animates all beings that are said to have life. That life force is indivisible; it is one force. You cannot capture it, separate a portion of it from the whole and continue to remain alive.

For a time you may be able to steal energy from others; you may be able to use the energies in a certain realm, a certain sphere, to sustain the illusion of life. But you have no life in you, when that life does not come from oneness, the one life that is the source of all living beings, the ability to be aware, to choose, to act through the life force streaming through them. Life is such a precious gift, that it sometimes astounds even the Buddha that people on earth can descend to a level of consciousness, where they look at it with such low esteem, thinking it is a burden forced upon them, not being able to remember that it is a supreme gift and that the burdens are created through the separation from life rather than through the oneness that is life. They also forget, that they have the potential to reconnect to life, the oneness of life, whereby they will never feel alone, will never feel ultimately enslaved by any conditions in this material realm. For they will know, that these conditions are not real but are mirages projected upon the Ma-ter Light through those who have forgotten that they are one with life itself.

Hold the vision of peace replacing war

I, Gautama, congratulate those who are a part of any spiritual movement, that is constructive in raising the consciousness of humankind. I congratulate you in having been the tip of the spear, that actually drove the breakthrough of 2008. I congratulate you also for having held the spiritual balance, so that you did not see the outbreak of a major war in this year.

I admonish you to hold the vision that the unstoppable winds of the Holy Spirit, given in my thoughtform, will indeed blow away all plans to have the current financial crisis lead to a war, as you saw with the Depression in the 1930s and in other cases where financial turmoil has led to war, as a way to force nations to spend and thereby get the economy, so to speak, back on track, although it is the wrong track of the artificial ups and downs of the power elite. Hold the vision that the Holy Spirit is strong enough to blow away their plans, their matrices, their downward spirals, their impure images, that they are projecting into the collective consciousness through their devices that are like machines, like computers that play the same message over and over again, like the broken record that seeks to mesmerize and program people’s subconscious to accept that this is somehow an inevitable reality.

Hold the vision that people will awaken to the reality, the true reality, that they can always choose to come up higher, choose not to go into the consciousness that makes war seem inevitable. For they can choose not to resist or to turn that other cheek to whatever blows come their way. They can choose a higher response based on love, based on peace, based on creativity, finding new solutions instead of the age-old, worn out solution of killing your brother who seems not to be your brother but your enemy.

Hold the vision that people will wake up and see the insanity of continuing to do the same old thing but expecting different results. Hold the vision that they look back and see, that for thousands of years people have attempted to create peace by killing others. And if it has not worked after thousands of years, perhaps it is because it is the wrong approach, that will never lead to peace of any kind, let alone the ultimate peace.

That is a vision to hold, for that is indeed an awakening, that I think all of you would like to see happen, and that I can assure you that the vast majority of the people on this planet would like to see happen, even if they do not have the conscious awareness to even formulate it as a thought, as a wish, as a desire. Yet, once it does happen, they will all say, “Oh, why did we not see this sooner? Why did we continue in that illusion of thinking, that killing could ever lead to peace, could ever lead to any form of stability or any form of a better society?”

The only way to a better society

There is only one way to a better society, and that is through the life force itself. You cannot create a better society by separating yourself from the life force. And, my beloved, what more obvious sign of separation can there be, than being willing to take life from another human being, in the guise of some cause or the illusion that we must do evil that good may come?

Truly, this is the total separation from life that can never lead to a better life for yourself and those whom you think are your kin, failing to see that all human beings are your kin. For all have been given free will and thus have the right to be in their current state of consciousness. But you also have the right not to join them in that state of consciousness, but instead awaken and join the Buddhas and the Christed Beings who have long ago risen above the sea of Samsara, the sea of suffering.

Where would you rather be?

Allow yourself to think about the many people around the world, who are celebrating this New Year in various ways, sometimes by indulging in alcohol to the point, where they do not actually experience the birth of the New Year—even though they may exhibit some rudimentary level of consciousness that allows them only to know whether their glass if full or empty. And then ask yourself, “Is there any place I would rather celebrate the birth of the New Year than being here with my older brother Gautama and my brothers and sisters in spirit?”

For I, Gautama, have no place I would rather celebrate the New Year than by being here with you. This is the joy of my heart, to see those who are willing to come into Being, into being one in that spirit of life. You, then, I trust, will not demand, expect, or dream about some automatic form of sponsorship, where just by entering the door and paying the membership fee, so to speak, you will automatically receive some kind of gift or sponsorship from us. For we are not here to do the work for you. For it is only in YOU doing the work, that you become MORE through your own choosing. For that is the only way you can become MORE—through your choices, as you again begin to glimpse the absolute beauty of free will and the raising up of life through free-will choices, whereby self-aware beings awaken to a higher self-awareness, a higher awareness of self, a higher sense of self.

Understanding the nature of God

For what is God? What is the Creator but a self awareness that is beyond what most human beings can fathom? ─ which is why they must create graven images, be it an idol carved in stone or a mental image of the Old Testament God, who sits on a great white throne and judges people, sending them to hell if they do not obey his will, that is like a straightjacket that denies their creativity.

Who would want to come into oneness with such a God? Nobody in their right frame of mind, which is why so many people have been ensnared by those who have rebelled against, not the Living God, but their own self-created image of the external, tyrannical God. For you see, my beloved, you cannot actually rebel against the Living God. For when you know the Living God, you know you are an extension of that God. And thus, you will know you are rebelling against yourself.

And it is rather difficult for almost any self-aware being to, for any length of time, rebel against itself and be aware of this. Thus, the need to create the illusion—by projecting an image upon the living God, a dead image, that one can then see as external. And thus, one can rebel against that God—that one now thinks is seeking to impose his will upon you. Be willing to speak out against that illusion, when you meet those who are very negative towards religion, precisely because they have been ensnared by the illusion and come to believe, that the only way to have freedom and to exercise free will is through rebellion against the living God. Speak to them, not in opposition, not in conflict, but simply tell them that you have come to a higher realization, and then give them your best, most heartfelt expression of your image, your view, your sense of oneness with the living God.

Be aware that there is much more happening during this release than the words that you hear. And thus, sometimes we need to speak for a certain length of time, even though it may not seem like the message, the words, are that important. But there is a critical mass that needs to be reached, before we have done, on an energy level, what we came to do through a particular release. And thus, this release has indeed accomplished its mission and, thus, again I seal you in my deep gratitude for your presence here.

And I say with Master MORE, consider the possibility of letting this event, this coming together, be a true turning point in your lives. Thus, go with the peace of Buddha and greet this New Year—that can truly be a wonderful opportunity for growth for you personally and for humankind. I congratulate you for having crossed the threshold to this new cycle of the countdown to 2012, and the possibilities for a breakthrough that is unprecedented in known history and even beyond. Be sealed in the peace of the Awakened One.

Copyright © 2008 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: A deeper understanding of the Buddha’s office – Looking at your universe through the vision of the Buddha – Even ascended masters become MORE – The greatest opportunity for Christhood – Christ is Omega, Buddha is Alpha – A misguided western version of Buddhism – Non-attachment to other people’s reactions – Forget not the point of stillness –

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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha, November 2, 2008 through Kim Michaels.

Why have you magnetized the presence of the Buddha? It is because the Buddha represents the highest parallel universe of consciousness, that can be attained on earth. And it can be obtained only by those who are willing to go beyond the ego—the duality of opposites. So, they are willing to go beyond the veil of Maya, created by the interaction of the opposites, making people believe, that they are supposed to align themselves with one of the opposites and fight against the other, and that this will secure them entry into some remote heaven. Whereas the reality is, that you will not enter the real heaven until you see it within yourself.

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

A deeper understanding of the Buddha’s office

Nevertheless, I know that there are many among you, who are working on rising to the parallel universe of the Christ consciousness, and thus it is beyond your present level for you to see yourselves as the Buddha. And I am not asking you to go beyond that level of consciousness. For you are partly here to out-picture and exemplify that level of consciousness of the Christ to the many people on earth, who must grasp the Christ Consciousness before they can truly grasp the Buddhic Consciousness.

Yet, what I come to offer you is a deeper understanding and realization of my office as the “Lord of the World.” For you see, even though some traditional Buddhists see me with a female consort up in a remote heaven; the reality is that when I took up my role as the “Lord of the World” for planet earth, I renounced my female consort, set her free to ascend to a higher realm. Then, who is the female consort of the Buddha? Who is the female polarity to the masculine polarity of the Buddha? Well, the entire planet earth and all who live upon it have the potential to become the female consort—or rather, to see themselves as what they already are, namely the female consort of the Buddha.

For, as the “Lord of the World,” I hold the masculine polarity for planet earth; meaning that all who are part of the consciousness that is planet earth, well they are part of the feminine polarity for which I hold the balance—even being the open door for the very life-giving force that sustains all life on this earth. And you might contemplate, that before I could enter Nirvana, I had to be tempted and tested – not simply by the demons of Mara as is stated in traditional Buddhic mythology – I had to be tested and tempted by every level of consciousness found on planet earth at the time, in order to demonstrate that I had risen above and become non-attached to all of them.

You might consider, that as you rise on the spiritual path, the essence of you taking the next step is to be like the Buddha for that particular level of consciousness. For it is only when you reach the end, the top rung of the ladder, that you must face all of them at one time. Right now you only need to face the very level of consciousness that you are in the process of transcending. And you will transcend it only in becoming non-attached, so that that consciousness – so that that prince of this world – comes to you and has nothing in you, as Christ expressed it so beautifully.

Looking at your universe through the vision of the Buddha

Even though we talk about fallen beings and dark forces, we know – and we desire you to know – that they have no ultimate reality. I know that this can be difficult to grasp for some of you. For in the parallel universe in which your mind is currently focused, they seem to be very real and they even seem to have power over you. But that is where I can offer my assistance, if you will only spend a little bit of time and attention tuning in to my Presence.

Do not fall prey to the temptation to turn this into an elaborate ritual. Simply create a very simple visualization in your mind of you sitting under the Bo tree with the presence of Gautama superimposed over you. And then ask me to show you how your parallel universe looks from my state of consciousness, or at least from the state of consciousness right above yours, so that you may grasp it and free yourself from the illusion that this Mara is real and has any power over you. This will require you – as Jesus expressed – to tune in to the silence, the silence within.

My Beloved, how many of you as children played with a top, a spinning top?  Probably all of you did, or at least you know how it works. It spins around on its axis, and when you look at the periphery of the toy, you might focus on a particular point on that periphery, and it is constantly spinning at great speed, never standing still. But that point is on the periphery of a circle, and the circle has a center. And my beloved, no matter how fast the point on the periphery is spinning, the point in the center is always standing still, is it not?

From a surface perspective, things on this planet may seem very confusing and chaotic. But that is because your attention is focused on the surface of the earth, which is indeed spinning around at thousands of miles per hour. So direct your attention to the axis, to the center, and realize that no matter how much turmoil is going on on the surface, there is a point within that is always standing still. And in that stillness you can find your own center, and there you will find me—for I am the center for all life on earth. That is my office as “Lord of the World.”

Thus, I sit in complete peace and Oneness, and although I see the surface appearances – although I see the demons of Mara in their distorted form – I see beyond them and see that everything is made from the Ma-ter Light. And the Ma-ter Light is the Buddha Nature. It is so one with that Buddha Nature, that it is longing to out-picture the perfect images that are stored in that Buddha Nature, as an infinite potential to express creativity in a way that raises up all life, rather than raising that separate self.

Even ascended masters become MORE

Thus, we have taken you on a journey, culminating in the powerful release of Lanello, to show you that even a Being who has ascended recently can quickly become so one with the greater Being out of which it came, that it can express an even greater power of that greater Being than it was capable of while on earth. For those who are willing to be honest, can tune in to the fact that the Lanello you heard today is MORE – while being the same Being – he is MORE than the Being who spoke in the past. And certainly more than the being who walked the earth in a physical body, as we all are my beloved.

For even though the Buddha is the center of stillness for all life on earth, I am not standing still, as many who claim to be Buddhists conceive of me—as being beyond needing to grow, expand and self-transcend. But you see, if that idolatrous vision was correct, then how could the earth rise if the Lord of the World does not transcend himself? You see that everything is a hierarchy, and that which is below in hierarchy cannot rise unless that which is above also rises.

Which is precisely why the continent of Europe cannot rise, if those who have the potential to be the top ten percent do not rise. For how then can the others go beyond a certain level of consciousness? How can they transcend that parallel universe in which there is still struggle and suffering and a potential for war on this continent? How can they rise to the higher realm, to the higher universe, where war has been transcended once and for all, and where the consciousness of war has been banished from this continent?

It is so easy for human beings to create these graven images of what a spiritual being is like; but you cannot know a spiritual being through any image based on the illusion of separation. You can know a spiritual being only through gnosis, through coming into oneness with that flame. As Saint Germain said, “How can you be free but by coming into oneness with the Flame of Freedom?” How can you be the Buddha without coming into oneness with the Presence of Buddha?  How can you be the Christ without becoming one with Christ, by drinking His body and blood in a spiritual sense and absorbing it with every fiber of your being?

The greatest opportunity for Christhood

May I give you a realistic assessment – that is beyond the duality of pride and feeling better than others – but may I give you a realistic assessment, that the book on the Path to Christhood is the greatest opportunity for actually manifesting Christhood, for quickly rising to Christhood, that has been available on this planet in recorded time. It is presently the fastest and easiest way for anyone to rise above that lower state of consciousness and begin to manifest Christhood. It is, as Jesus is fully aware, not the ultimate teaching that could be given—for more might indeed be given by Jesus, as those of you who are following the course multiply the talents and therefore forge the way for more teachings to be given.

And then, even beyond what can be given on Christhood, there are teachings on Buddhahood that I long to bring out. For I am very well aware, that many people in the western world have become disenfranchised with traditional Christianity. Yet, they have not been willing to go into the opposite polarity of materialism. And thus, they have been prone to search for a universal form of spirituality by looking at eastern teachings, especially the teachings of Buddhism.

Yet, the teachings that I gave so many years ago in the East were adapted not only to the consciousness of the time, but also were in many ways adapted to the eastern mindset. And I do indeed long to bring forth the teaching on Buddhahood for the western mind: western mind, western Buddha, my beloved. And this may come as sufficient numbers of people accept the offering of Christ.

Christ is Omega, Buddha is Alpha

For what is the point in bringing out a teaching on Buddhahood, until a sufficient number of people have grasped the essence of Christhood? For you truly cannot fully understand the Buddha, until you have attained some degree of Oneness with Christ. For there is indeed no competition, no animosity—indeed there is no separation between Christ and Buddha, as we have expressed before, that the Christ is the Omega manifestation of the Buddhic consciousness.

I hold the Alpha balance for the planet by seeing everything as the Buddha Nature. Jesus holds the Omega polarity to my Alpha by being the planetary Christ, who is willing to go out and do battle with the imperfect manifestations, to address them directly and thereby challenge people to come up higher in consciousness.

This is not the role of the Buddha; it is the role of Christ. And it is the role of those of you who desire to rise to the level of Christ and go beyond it to the level of Buddha. For you will not become the Buddha – you will not BE the Buddha – in any other way than by first going through the stage of Christhood, of going out and reaching out to those who are trapped in a lower consciousness. You must dare to shout your message from the housetops. You must dare to do greater works, to allow the God in you to do greater works than that God did through Jesus. Then can you aspire to Buddhahood.

And that is indeed why you see that the eastern religion of Buddhism was turned into an idolatrous religion. Even though it contains the teachings that everything is the Buddha Nature, it is perceived that only few people could attain that state of consciousness. And the reason was that people at the time could not make that leap in consciousness, and that is indeed why the teachings of Christ were given as an intermediary step. Especially for the people in the western world, who are more active and are not meant to spend countless hours in silent meditation while so many people in the world are suffering around them.

A misguided western version of Buddhism

Thus, it is somewhat tragic that there are many people in the West, many among the top ten percent, who have been trapped in this westernized version of Buddhism, where they think they should sit in quiet meditation and ignore the suffering of the world. Those in the West would do well to study the example of Kuan Yin, who heard the cries of the world, becoming a Bodhisattva, realizing that she could not go into Nirvana while so many people were still trapped in suffering. And thus, you should realize, that you cannot spend so much time in Buddhic meditation, while there are so many problems that must be addressed and new ideas that could be brought forth. And thus, transcend the traditional concepts of Christ and Christianity and recognize the Christ as the Omega polarity of the Buddha, the active one, that goes out to alleviate the suffering of the world, thereby embodying that bodhisattva ideal, as it has been known in the East.

Realize that you, who are born in the West, are meant to play that role, that Omega polarity. And while you may still honor me as the Alpha polarity, you will not actually honor me by withdrawing from the world into meditation—that only makes you more and more focused on yourself as separated from the world.  And therefore, it actually reinforces the illusion of the separate self, rather than helping you overcome it.

And thus, I speak this into the consciousness of those who have the potential to rise and express their Christhood—but cannot get their legs untangled from the lotus position and actually get up on their feet and walk out on the byways and highways of life to reach out to those, who are in need of an infusion of Light. The light that I would gladly send forth through them, if they were willing to be the open door—rather than being the shut door that keeps themselves trapped and prevents their light from shining forth into the world.

Dare to follow the admonition of Christ, “Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see that your works can only come from a higher source.” Whether they call it Christ or Buddha or God, matters not. What matters is that they see someone daring to be an open door for that higher source, so that they may know that you are living in a higher parallel universe than their own, and so they may realize that they want to be where you are in consciousness. Thus, they can be impelled to strive to rise higher, and then you can teach them by your own example.

Some of the spiritual people have a background in western Buddhist tradition.  And I give you the responsibility to embody these teachings, and then to go out and preach them to those who still believe, that it is their calling in life to sit in quiet contemplation while the world is crying out for the Light that they have the potential to bring forth.

Non-attachment to other people’s reactions

I commend those who have been willing to take the step beyond being passive, and those who are on the verge of taking that step but are not quite yet accepting your potential to step forward and let the Light shine. So I give you a key. Non-attachment is the key, non-attachment to other people’s reactions, as has been said before. Seek to find the peace, so that you do not force yourself with the outer mind to speak to others, but you let your Light shine. Realize, that you are not the doer. Your role is to BE, and when you BE, the Light will spontaneously shine forth through you and find expression, so that you find yourself saying things that you never realized consciously. And you find yourself thinking, “Where did that come from?”

That is when you know, that you are not coming from the lower self. That is when you know, that the reactions of other people are not important to your expression, while you are finding fulfillment and joy and completeness in expressing your higher being. And it does not matter what the world does with it, whether they receive it or not, for the essence is that it is expressed. For then the circle is fulfilled in giving people the opportunity to choose, because they have now glimpsed that there is something higher, that can shine forth through any human being on earth.

And thus, you become part of the process that Jesus and the Buddha and Krishna and other spiritual teachers have all been part of. But despite the idolatrous images that have attempted to set us up as being beyond the realm of human beings, of ordinary human beings, the reality is, that we all came to show, that every human being has the potential to be the open door for a higher energy than what is currently expressed on earth. We came not to be set apart, but to be seen as part of humanity who have simply chosen to open ourselves to the higher reality that is beyond the appearances on earth.

Forget not the point of stillness

May you, then, all be sealed in the Buddha’s peace. May you remember the point of silence that never moves, no matter how chaotic circumstances may be around you. Even sometimes within your own energy system, there may be disturbances. But if you will think and look beyond them, you can find that point of stillness—eternal, unconditional stillness, that no condition on earth can disturb.

And when you stand in that center, you can simply watch the circumference of the circle spinning around. And you can then see where you need to step in, in order to stop the spinning or slow it down. For when you are in stillness, you have power to stop anything that is spinning on earth—for you are one with the greater power that is beyond earth. This is what has been denied by the false teachers of earth, who want to make you believe that either there is no greater power or it can be expressed through only one person—who unfortunately is no longer on earth. Believe it not, but prove my words by remembering your center of stillness.

And thus, I seal you, I seal this conference. For you may think that the main aspect of your service has been the giving of invocations with great power, but that is only one aspect of your service – the Omega aspect – but the Alpha has been that you have come together and that you, whether you realize it or not, have found some stillness within yourselves individually. And even found a collective stillness, that you might ponder, and see that this is the foundation for community, the point of stillness that unites you in heart and that nothing can disturb, no matter what circumstances you might face.

This is what has been lacking in many spiritual movements, organizations or communities. Learn from this. Do not condemn. Do not look down on anyone.  But be willing to acknowledge, in a realistic manner, the lesson from previous movements and communities. And then rise above it. Rise above it by going within and finding the stillness that I AM.

For I look to you coming into that stillness that makes you the foundation, so that you may go out from the Sangha into the hustle and bustle of the world, but still be connected to that hub of life. And therefore, you are unmoved by the spinning of the world and by the spinning of the heads of those people who are still so overwhelmed by the illusions of duality, that they know not what is real and unreal. But you can know what is real and unreal by going into the point of stillness, by helping each other being in that point of stillness, that is the Buddha within you.

Thus, with great joy, I congratulate you for being here for this conference. I seal you in the stillness of the Buddha, for you are mature students of Light. You do not need fanfare, you do not need to be patted on the back; but you do deserve the quiet recognition of the Buddha. Thus I am here, but where is here? It is the point of stillness that is everywhere. Thus, wherever you are—there I AM. Remember me in stillness.

Copyright © 2008 by Kim Michaels