TOPICS: World peace begins with the individual – Real and perverted individualism – Letting the false identity die – Raising up the Mother in the economy – Understanding the divine economy – The perverted economy – What is real money? – When money is disassociated from real value – The deception of fractional reserve banking – Inflation steals the value of your labor – How the people uphold the system of the elite – Inflation is a hidden form of taxation – Concentrating wealth in the hands of the elite – How today’s “kings” finance their wars – The magical money machine – The modern form of slavery through money – A golden age economy – Poverty is a perversion of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother – Money and the displacement of native peoples – Decide that you want the Golden Age to be manifest –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, March 22, 2008 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come to add my gratitude to that of Mother Mary and Kuan Yin. For you see, my beloved, when an ascended master sponsors a nation, as I have sponsored the United States, I become partly responsible for what happens in that nation and what is done by that nation to other nations. And thus, I have indeed had a karmic burden and a karmic debt as the result of the way the native peoples of this continent were treated during the formative years of the United States and beyond.

And it has, for centuries, been a great burden to my heart, how the wonderful native peoples were treated, and how it was not possible to integrate them in my greater vision for an America, which truly was the vision of people from many different backgrounds coming together, transcending those divisions created by their backgrounds, and locking in to the I AM spirit, the spirit of the I AM people, that transcends all outer divisions and therefore forms a bulwark of freedom, a bastion of freedom, against the forces of anti-freedom that would seek to enslave the people. And in so doing, it must divide the people, and therefore use the divide-and-conquer tactic, the divide-and-conquer consciousness, to divide the people into all these factions based on outer characteristics. And then, it must make the people believe, that they have to be enemies of those who are different from themselves, and that the only way to resolve the conflicts that they see is to go to war and destroy those who are different.

The true vision of Saint Germain and the true vision of the ascended masters is to create unity among the people of this planet. But the perversion of that vision by the fallen beings is, of course, to create a forced unity, where they try to get people to kill all of those who are different from themselves. Until there is uniformity by eliminating all differences which – by the way – would only be possible if in the end there was only one person left on this planet. For truly, even two people trapped in the duality consciousness would soon find a way to create animosity and conflict between them, so that one would have to kill the other.

World peace begins with the individual

There is no way to create peace this way, to create unity among people through violence, through division. There is no way, as we have said before, to solve a problem with the same state of consciousness that created the problem. And thus, you cannot possibly overcome division while you are still trapped in the very consciousness, that created the division in the first place. The only practical – the only possible – solution is to transcend that state of consciousness entirely—to rise to a higher level.

And yet how can people do this, as long as they are identified with the outer divisions on earth? And thus, there is only one solution, and that is that people realize, that they are more than these outer human identities that have been created for them. They are more than these molds that have been created, and in which they are supposed to fit into from the cradle to the grave. Thus, they are truly the I AM people, and when you recognize this, you can transcend these outer divisions. As indeed you are doing in a conclave like this, where you come from different backgrounds, different nationalities, but it is not an issue, for you come together in spirit. And in that true oneness in spirit that you have found individually, well, you transcend the outer differences.

And yet, this can only happen on an individual basis. For you see, indeed – as both Mother Mary and Kuan Yin have said – there is no way to overcome the divisions except through individuality. It cannot be done collectively, my beloved, and that is why, indeed, you will see that the Lord Christ himself came to this planet 2,000 years ago to inaugurate an age in which humankind was meant to grow in individuality and attain a greater individualism, that pulled them out of the tribal consciousness—that is truly the cause of many divisions on this planet.

Real and perverted individualism

And yet, it was, of course, foreseeable and inevitable, that some among humankind – especially those who had already become trapped in the consciousness of duality before they came to this planet – would pervert this concept of the Christ – the individual Christ – and turn it into the perverted concept of individualism, based on the ego that does not consider anyone but itself. This is simply the “cost of doing business,” as they say these days. And it was foreseeable that this would happen and it would create atrocities.

Nevertheless, I ask you to raise your vision and see, that even all of the warfare and strife you have seen over these last 2,000 years was a necessary element of raising humankind, not only out of the tribal consciousness, but also out of the perverted consciousness of individuality. Where people realize that individuality does not mean that you are an island. For as has been said, no man, no woman, is an island. It means that you find your divine individuality as an extension of, as an individualization of, your Creator. And when you recognize your oneness with God and say with Christ, “I and my father are one,” well then you will quickly take the next step and realize, that all of your brothers and sisters also have an I AM Presence, also came out of the God Presence, and therefore they too are part of the Body of God on earth.

While it may seem illogical to some, the reality is that humankind started out in more of a collective consciousness, where very few individuals on this planet had a strong enough individuality to raise themselves above that collective consciousness. And thus, humankind had to go through becoming stronger individually, before they could engage in the path of individual Christhood, that would lead them to the greater oneness in spirit, that will then form the basis for a greater oneness in the material realm. One that is not based on sameness but is based on the reality that differences, divine differences, sprang from the same source and therefore differences are not the source of conflict.

They are, indeed, as we have said before, individual facets of the diamond mind of God, where each of you is a facet on that diamond. And when you come together, you can create a much more beautiful shine, than when you stand apart, or even when you try to oppose each other and thereby hide your light under a bushel. You cannot engage in conflict with other people unless you first hide your own light, unless you deny that light and therefore accept a lower sense of identity, whether you created it yourself or whether you stepped into a role created for you by society or even by the false leaders of humankind. They have used the divide-and-conquer consciousness to create all of these false identities, that can only be in opposition to each other.

They have set up a culture of vain competition, where those who have attained a stronger individuality, instead of moving on to the path of individual Christhood, are trapped on the outer path, the broad way that leads to destruction. But the false path goes through the false individuality, and it then must – according to the Law of Free Will – allow people to pursue the building of this false individuality. Until they finally tire of it, or until they run out of time and thus are no more because they are not willing to see the folly of that false identity. They are not willing to let it die. They are not willing to give up that ghost, even though their false identity has paralyzed them and nailed them to the cross of their own making, as they have misused the four levels of the mind – the etheric, mental, emotional and physical – to create that false identity.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Manifesting Saint Germain’s Golden Age.

Copyright © 2008 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Real students and false students – A movement in which no person is more important than another – Why some fail the test of pride – See the inner mastery beyond outer mastery – Beyond a linear view of the rays – The false path of outer mastery – Integrating the seven rays – Grasping the initiations of the eight ray – Rethink your view of ascended masters – What does it mean to master a certain ray? – Beginning the initiation on the eight ray – Non-attachment is the absolute requirement –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 30, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come to discourse with you on what it means to gain mastery on the seven rays—and thereby qualify to move on to the eighth ray. My Beloved, we have given the concept of the secret rays. And we have spoken about them in vague terms. You might wonder, if these rays are secret and cannot be spoken about, why mention them at all, why not simply leave it unspoken?

Well, there is a test built into this. For we of the ascended masters are skilled teachers, and we have observed humankind for a very long time—thus knowing what it takes to give people the tests that are appropriate at different levels of the path. By talking about something that is secret, something that is reserved only for special initiates – as we have done in a number of different religions and organizations – well then we give people the test of pride—whether they will seek that which is secret with an inordinate desire to elevate themselves in comparison to others. Because they now have some knowledge that most people do not have, and thus these initiates can feel special, my beloved.

Real students and false students

The purpose behind doing this is the simple fact, that there are two types of people who come to the spiritual path and who come to spiritual teachers. There are those who are the genuine students, who are seeking to grow, who are seeking to overcome the ego by internalizing the lessons of the teacher. But then there are those students, who do not have a serious intention of letting go of the ego or the separate self. In fact, they come to the teacher – be it a true or a false teacher – in order to elevate that separate self, in order to reinforce the belief that the separate self can be saved, can somehow be perfected or justified, so that it can gain entry into heaven.

You might have had a somewhat one-sided or naive view of the spiritual path or of the ascended masters and how we teach. You might have thought that all people who come to the spiritual path must be genuine students. But we of the ascended masters can see through all of the smokescreens that people’s egos have built over many lifetimes. And thus, we see the inner condition, the condition of the heart—of whether that person has actually genuinely locked in to what the spiritual path is all about. Or whether that person has not yet understood the essence of the path, namely that it is to rise above the separate self—rather than somehow perfecting that separate self.

We of the ascended masters do not judge people according to human judgments. We welcome virtually anyone who has a potential to change. And thus, we often allow students to come into our organizations, even though we see that they have not yet truly committed to the true path of overcoming the ego. And we see very well that they are using our outer teachings and the outer organization in order to seek to create for themselves a position, that makes the ego feel important, feel special, feel elevated above others. Because they have been in the teachings for so long, they have studied so much, they have decreed so much or they have this or that outer position.

A movement in which no person is more important than another

One of the initiations of the Piscean age is precisely that you need to overcome the illusion, as I have already mentioned—that one person can be more important than another. This is why you see, that in an Aquarian age organization, we do not set up a hierarchy that allows some people to climb to a position, where they can feel they are important for outer reasons. We look for those who have the potential to go beyond the Piscean initiation – and the Piscean focus on the outer hierarchy – and establish a new movement that sets a pattern, where no one is more important than others and where the ego does not have room to hide behind outer rituals and outer positions.

For it is a movement, that recognizes the subtle games of the ego, and where people are not afraid to speak out and expose those games. Rather than the pattern we have seen throughout the Piscean age, of those who are of lower rank always bending the knee and refusing to speak out against those who are of higher rank, thereby creating a situation where – once ego-centered people have attained leadership positions in an organization – it is virtually impossible to remove them from those positions. And therefore, the organization starts going into a downward spiral, that either leads to it being split into multiple factions, or to it gradually dying out by losing its members.

We allow people of all kinds to come into our teachings and movements, for we give people an opportunity. And people deserve an opportunity for many reasons, that often go back many lifetimes. And thus, you might look at a person’s outer personality and say that this person has some rough edges, but nevertheless when you see behind the outer personality, you see that that person still deserves an opportunity to be in contact with an ascended master teaching. So, do not judge based on human judgment. But on the other hand, do not be passive and let someone abuse you. Find that middle way, where you do not judge, but you are – on the other hand – non-attached to other people’s reactions, and therefore have no compunctions about speaking out and bringing to someone’s attention that they are playing an ego game.

Why some fail the test of pride

My purpose for bringing this to your attention is to show you, that throughout history, there has been a certain percentage of the students who came into contact with any spiritual organization and who failed the test of pride. The test of overcoming pride by seeing it as pride, and thereby surrendering themselves into the humility that really is the oneness with God, the oneness with all life. When you surrender your separate self into the oneness with your infinite self, well, then you see that it is meaningless to create value judgments based on the beliefs of the separate self. And thus, it is meaningless to talk about one person being better or more important than another. For truly, all are of equal value in the eyes of God.

What I desire you to understand from this is precisely, that until you have overcome the subtle test of pride, you cannot even begin to grasp the concept of the secret rays, the concept of the rays that are beyond the seven rays, that have been known to humankind for a long time. It is actually possible to walk the path of mastery of the seven rays while still having some ego left, having some pride left, even using some of the things you learn on each of the seven rays to build up the ego and the sense of superiority. It is even possible to attain some mastery on the seven rays, and thereby attain a certain mastery over the matter realm – over the Ma-ter Light – being able to manifest certain outer, visible phenomena, such as psychic phenomena, psychic abilities, the opening of the third eye, or even an ability to, in certain ways, manipulate matter.

There is a certain, small percentage of students throughout the world who have attained some mastery in this respect. And thus, they can produce a phenomenon, that might impress the uninitiated, the unawakened, for they look only for the outer phenomenon, but do not look beyond to the quality of the heart. And thus, they do not see the selfishness, the self-centeredness of the person who is seeking to build him- or herself up by claiming or demonstrating some ability beyond the normal.

See the inner mastery beyond outer mastery

What I desire you to see is, that as you walk the path of attaining mastery over the seven rays, it is essential for you to realize, that walking the path of mastery does not simply mean that you attain an outer mastery of the seven rays. It means that you also attain an inner mastery, whereby you actually come to see, that the seven rays are not separate—that you actually cannot even view the seven rays as a linear phenomenon. I know, my beloved, that when we gave the concept of the seven rays, it was unavoidable that the analytical mind would look at this as a linear phenomenon. There is the first ray, the second ray, the third ray and so on. But you see, the spiritual world is not linear—it is spherical, it is One.

It cannot be separated into neat little categories, that the analytical mind can then label and categorize and organize into a system. What we are attempting to help you realize in this latest invocation and in the forthcoming invocations is precisely the need to go beyond a mechanized view of the seven rays and lock in to the fact, that the seven rays are creative qualities, not mechanical qualities.

Beyond a linear view of the rays

The reality here is, that when you start the path of initiation on the seven rays, you might start out on the first ray of will. But when you have passed that initiation of will, you do not simply leave the first ray behind and then move on to the second ray as a completely separate initiation. I know – again – that the linear mind creates certain images, and so many of you have come to believe, that when you are studying on the first ray, well then you are studying under the Master MORE, or El Morya as he used to be named. And thus, you go to the retreat of Master MORE. And then, when you move on to the second ray, you study under that master, and go to that master’s retreat, and so on through the seven rays.

But these are images that we have given you because humankind was still so trapped in the linear mind. And thus, we need you to step up and realize, that although there are seven rays that have certain qualities, the rays are not separate. They are not isolated from one another, they are all intertwined. So you see – again because of the limitations of words – let us just say that a student begins studying on the first ray. But on the first ray, you find embodied all of the other six rays. So you are not simply studying will or willpower, you are studying willpower with the shade of will, willpower with the shade of wisdom, willpower with the shade of love, purity, vision, service and freedom. So in order to pass the initiations on the first ray, you have to have some concept of and mastery over the other rays as well.

And then, my beloved, when you do pass these initiations that are focused on the first ray and move on to the second ray, it does not mean that you leave the first ray behind. It means that you take with you what you have learned on the first ray and incorporate those lessons on the second ray, where you now begin studying wisdom with the shade of will, wisdom with the shade of wisdom, wisdom with the shade of love, and so on.

The false path of outer mastery

Those students who have not locked in to the reality of the spiritual path as the path of oneness, the path of leaving behind the separate self, well, they cannot understand what I have just told you. And thus, they will walk the path of the seven rays through the filter of the linear mind and the separate self. Therefore, what they see as they go through the initiations is not the holistic picture, the spherical picture. It is a separate picture, because they look at the ray and its qualities through the filter of the separate self. They see it as a process, whereby the separate self attains mastery on a particular ray. And this is why it is possible, that such students can attain a certain mastery on the first ray of God’s Power. But when they express that mastery, it is expressed in an unbalanced manner, for it is not balanced by wisdom, love, purity, and so forth.

When you look at ascended master students, you might look at certain students that seem to have a very powerful aura and demeanor about them, who are always very determined and who are always very good at commanding other people to get things done. But if you look deeper, you see that they are often lacking in love or wisdom or other qualities. And this is precisely because they have not integrated the lessons of one ray with the lessons of the other rays. And that is why it is possible to be unbalanced in the expression of one ray. For I trust you now see, that the purpose for the true path – where you integrate all qualities of the seven rays on each ray – is precisely to help you walk the path in a balanced manner. So that you do not fall into the trap of expressing this or that quality in an unbalanced manner.

You can now look at the world and gain a different perspective, where you realize, that there are people in the world who have a certain mastery on the first ray of God Power, but it is unbalanced and therefore they abuse power. You have an entire class of people in the educational system and in science, who have a mastery on the ray of God’s Wisdom, but it is again unbalanced and that is why they are intellectuals who look at everything through the intellect but are unable to see the limitations of the intellect. Then you have a group of people who are very spiritual, very kind, very loving, for they have mastery on the third ray of Love, but they do not have the balanced mastery. They have love without power, and thus they tend to be passive.

Again, on each of the other rays you see that people are unbalanced. On the fourth ray of purity, you see many people in religious movements who are so focused on keeping the teachings pure, that they will not allow any creative interpretation of the Bible, or even the ascended master teachings. And thus, they become like the scribes and Pharisees who condemned the living Christ, who went beyond their linear literal interpretations of the scriptures. And this is not to say that it is bad to keep a teaching pure, but the desire for purity must be balanced by wisdom, love, and the other qualities, or it will be expressed in an inharmonious way that is ultimately not constructive and will actually lead to the opposite goal.

And of course you have people on the fifth ray who are often serving in the healing arts, or who are visionaries reaching for new ideas. But often they are unbalanced and do not look at the big picture. So they can come up with idea after idea without ever carrying them out, without ever having them come into physical manifestation so they benefit humankind. Or they seek healing of diseases without going beyond and looking at why these diseases manifest, what is the greater cause. So there are many people in the healing field, that are truly dedicated to helping others, but they are seeking to heal symptoms and not the deeper cause.

Likewise, you have many people who are dedicated to service on the sixth ray and who have a great dedication. But as I spoke about in South America, well they think that a certain level of service is enough. They do not go beyond and realize, that you only give service when you accelerate people beyond the state of consciousness that has precipitated the particular material problems they are facing. And then, of course, you have those who are unbalanced on the seventh ray of freedom. And you have many, many people in the state of California, who have a certain mastery on the seventh ray of freedom, but because it is not balanced by the other rays, especially by the first, they do not recognize that you cannot be free by doing whatever you want. You can be free only by – as is expressed in this invocation – tuning in to your own higher will, the higher will of your infinite Being. For the separate self, the will of the separate self, cannot be free and can never give you freedom, my beloved.

Integrating the seven rays

What I desire you to understand here is, that most ascended master students have so far had a somewhat limited view of what it means to walk the path of initiation on the seven rays. For it is not, as I said, a path of going from one ray to the other, having them all compartmentalized. To truly walk the path, to walk the true path of the ascended masters, you must see beyond the separate mind, the analytical mind. You must integrate all seven rays – on all seven rays – so that you do not have an unbalanced mastery of one, or perhaps more than one ray, but cannot integrate that and express it with love, wisdom and power and the other qualities.

The conclusion here is, that if you have walked the path of the seven rays and seen it through the filter of the separate mind, well then you cannot – you will never – grasp the reality of the eighth ray and the initiations on the eighth ray. You will grasp it only when you have integrated the first seven rays, so that you have mastery on all seven rays. But you have mastery on the seven qualities of each of the seven rays, and you see them all as part of a whole, where they are not separate, not apart, but they work together to precipitate what you see in the material realm.

In the past, we have given a linear view that first the Elohim of the first ray precipitated a certain level of manifestation. And then the Elohim of the second ray precipitated upon that foundation a more organized structure, and so on and so forth. But the seven Elohim are in complete oneness. And thus it is not actually a linear process of one quality and then another and then another. It is a spherical, unified process, where all of the seven rays are brought into action from the very beginning—although there are certain phases where the quality of the particular ray is dominant. But it is still balanced by the other six rays, so that there is a harmonious, unified manifestation, my beloved.

I encourage all of you to contemplate these concepts and to take an honest look at yourselves, and to see whether you have mastery on a certain ray, but whether that mastery is actually balanced by the qualities of the other six. For I tell you this, because many of you have actually reached a point, where you have attained a very high degree of integration of the seven rays. Which is why you have deserved a release of these teachings. For you can, by looking at yourself – and seeing if you have any imbalances left – you can very quickly come into that state of having integrated the seven rays. And that is precisely the point, where you have qualified to begin the initiations of the eighth ray which precisely is the path of integration.

Grasping the initiations of the eight ray

You will not be able to even grasp what the eighth ray is about through the linear, analytical mind. For the linear analytical mind cannot grasp integration. The analytical mind is a faculty, that is designed to deal with the material realm, where you have forms that appear separate and in some cases need to be dealt with separately in order to achieve some level of organization in society. So I am not saying, that you need to shun your intellect, for it is a valuable faculty—but only when you recognize its limitations and its purpose.

When you elevate the intellect to a god that can know everything – and you begin to believe that what cannot be grasped by the intellect does not exist or has no importance – well, then you have become a slave of a tool. As if you have become a slave of your car, rather than being the owner and master of the car.

And if suddenly the car started driving on its own, taking you to a different destination than you had planned – because the car would rather go to the beach than go to work – this, of course, you would immediately see as unacceptable. But when your intellect does the same, many, many people in the world follow along and allow themselves to become slaves of the intellect and refuse to consider a deeper teaching than what the intellect can grasp.

Rethink your view of ascended masters

The eighth-ray initiation requires a complete rethinking of the spiritual path. Which is why the last time we were in California I repeatedly said, “Question everything!” Question your concept of the spiritual path, your view of the spiritual path, your view of the ascended masters, my beloved. For do you really think, that Master MORE and I are completely separate beings who go our separate ways except when we come together in meetings? Well, I can assure you that Master MORE and I have a constant communion, as do Mother Mary and I, Jesus and I, the Buddha and I. We are in a constant state of communion.

Even though we can – in certain situations – manifest a more concentrated aspect of our total beings, we are not linear, separate beings as you conceive of yourselves on earth. For we are ascended because we have passed the eighth-ray initiations of integration, of overcoming the sense of separation, the sense that everything can be compartmentalized into qualities that are distinctly different from each other.

As I have been giving this discourse, you may – according to your old view of the ascended masters – have thought that this is one master, Saint Germain, who is giving this discourse. But when I need to speak about the first ray, I do not simply speak about the first ray from a separate perspective, as being a master that is separated from it. When I mention the first ray, I immediately am in attunement with Master MORE so that I, Saint Germain, speak about the first ray through the awareness of the first ray that Master MORE is. There is no separation, my beloved. I have no desire to speak about the first ray without the presence of Master MORE. For I am not in competition with him on anything. I am in oneness with him. And so why would I even conceive that I, Saint Germain, could know something about the first ray without being in attunement with the master of that ray?

What does it mean to master a certain ray?

Likewise you, my beloved, you might sit here and think, that you have been in the ascended masters’ teachings for many years. You might have practiced the decrees on the first ray of the Will of God, and you might think you have some awareness of the first ray and its qualities. And you might indeed have that awareness. But what I am saying is, that if you have that awareness as an intellectual awareness – where you think that I am here, and I am observing the first ray which is somewhere separate from me – well then, you have not even begun to understand the first ray. For how do you truly come to understand the first ray?

Well, you can do so only by overcoming the sense of separation and coming into oneness with the master of the first ray. So if you have an intellectual concept of El Morya as the master of the first ray, well then you truly have not gone beyond that—and you have not started the path of integration of the first ray, of coming into oneness with the living, creative Being of the first ray. You might with the linear mind conceive of a particular ray in a certain mechanical way—that it has certain qualities that it can be broken down and put in a table with a list of words. But even though that can be a step towards getting to know the first ray, if it becomes an end in itself, then it is actually standing in the way of your integration with the first ray.

The first ray of God’s Will is not something that can be defined in mechanical terms. It can be defined only in creative terms. For you might think, that God’s Will is set in stone, that God’s Will is unchanging, that God’s Will follows the laws of God. And this is to some degree true. But what is the most important law of God, my beloved? It is the law of self-transcendence, the law of becoming MORE. And thus, what you see on the first ray of God’s Will is that the first ray is not a mechanical quality—it is a living being who has not a mechanical will, but a CREATIVE will.

Master MORE has the right to change his mind and bring forth a new teaching—for he sees that some students are now ready for a higher understanding. And thus, he is not bound by the old days and the old dispensations. He moves on, he becomes MORE, my beloved. And if you want to be in attunement with that first ray, then you must become MORE on that first ray of God’s Will, as you must become MORE on the other six rays. Mastering the seven rays is not something you can do while you see yourself as a separate individual. It is something that can happen only, as you gradually give up the sense of separation—and as you surrender into oneness with the living Being on each of the seven rays.

Beginning the initiation on the eighth ray

When you have done that on the seven rays, you can begin the initiation of the eighth ray—which forms the nexus between the seven rays and the spiritual realm, and the higher rays of that realm. Which is why it is called the Ray of Integration. This is partly because, in order to even get to the eighth ray, you need to have integrated the seven rays. But also because the initiation of the eighth ray is to integrate your mastery of the seven rays in the material world with the higher realms, the spiritual realms, your own higher being—so that what is here below becomes a reflection of what is Above. Because you are not seeing yourself as a separate being down here in the material realm, carrying out the will of some remote being in the sky. You have integrated your higher and lower beings, so that you know that you are being your Self, your Higher Self in this world.

As we have said before many times, any concept we give you that is expressed in words, can be used by the linear mind, by the separate self, to reinforce the sense that you are separate from God, separate from your source. And some concepts about twin flames are very linear and might make you believe, that there is some other person in embodiment who is the ideal match for you. And if you only found that person, you would live happily ever after. But of course, the true concept of twin flames is that you come to see yourself, your lower being, as the twin flame of your higher being. So that you strive for oneness with your higher being and thereby overcome the sense of separation. The concept of twin flames can be used to build and reinforce the separate self, or it can be used correctly to overcome that separate self—as can the concept of mastering the initiations of the seventh ray and as I have just explained?

The value of this teaching is, that you need to contemplate the concept of integration, of looking beyond the separate self, the images of the separate self, questioning those images, even questioning your view of the spiritual path, of the ascended masters, of the seven rays. And in order to help you go through that process, my beloved, I will give you the image that the Buddha you need to contemplate as the master on the eighth ray is precisely the image of Gautama Buddha. Who is the Lord of the World, and who therefore is the one who sits at the nexus between the beings in the material realm and the beings in the spiritual realm. He is holding that position of literally holding the spiritual balance for all who are in embodiment, until they attain that integration with their higher beings, so they can hold it for themselves.

Non-attachment is the absolute requirement

Contemplate the need to go through Gautama Buddha in order to attain that oneness. And then contemplate what is the most important element that the Buddha taught, which is precisely non-attachment. For in order to actually move on from the seven rays to the eighth ray, you need to attain non-attachment to the seven rays and the mastery you might have attained on one or more rays. For again, you see the students who are blinded by the separate self, who are using one particular ray to elevate the separate self and give them a sense of superiority. Can those students overcome their attachment to that particular ray? No they cannot! And that is why they cannot move on to integration. And so it will help you tremendously to tune in to the heart of the Buddha, to Gautama, and ask him to help you see your attachments to any of the seven rays, even your attachments to having a certain mastery over the seven rays or the material realm.

Before you can truly integrate on the eighth ray, you must overcome all attachment to mastery as a separate being. You must come to that point of surrendering the sense of having mastery as a separate being, where you surrender into oneness and recognize, number one, that the mastery you can have as a being on earth is not truly YOUR mastery, for you of your own self can do nothing. It is the Father, your I AM Presence within you, who is doing the works. And then, second, that your mastery is not to be expressed in order to elevate the separate self in comparison to other people. It is to be expressed in raising up the All.

That is also integration, where you overcome the illusion of the separate self and integrate with all other people, realizing that you all came from the same source. And you are here to raise up the All, thereby giving true service to life by seeking to set life free. I have said my peace for this discourse. I thank you again for your attention, for your presence, that has made it possible to give these beginning teachings, that might open up for you a new appreciation and understanding for what is beyond the seven rays. And even a new understanding for what it means to walk the path of the seven rays and to attain mastery on those rays. Thus, I thank you for your attention, and I seal you in the flame of the Eighth Ray of Integration.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Understanding the power of “One” – The critical mass – New ideas are released by the ascended masters – The Golden Age is an age of community – Speaking from the heart – Closing the figure-eight flow – Saint Germain moves on – Receive a higher teaching on freedom – The separate self can never be free – Understanding infinite freedom – Why ignorance is not really bliss – Save the world by saving yourself – The peace that passes understanding – It is time to contemplate the River of Life – What does it really mean to be free? – Tell the story of your awakening to the spiritual path – Contemplate surrender into oneness –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 29, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, you have heard various variations of the joke, “How many electricians does it take to change a light bulb? How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?” But I, Saint Germain, want to present you with a new thought. How many ascended master students does it take to change a planet? [Pause] I am waiting for your answer, my beloved. Audience: “One!” Right the first time! It takes one. For there is immense value in one person making up his or her mind, that this or that manifestation of imperfection is no longer allowed on my planet.

From the cradle to the grave, human beings are bombarded with energies and ideas that are designed for one purpose only—and that is to prevent you from exercising your co-creative powers in making this planet a more godly place to live. You are being programmed to be passive, to live like all other people, to think that one person cannot make a difference, that you do not have the power to change your society – even on the small level – and certainly not the power on a planetary level. But I tell you, we have explained, over and over again, that everything on this planet is determined by the free will of human beings in embodiment.

And thus, one person CAN make a difference by making up his or her mind with absolute total unwavering determination. Which is something that is not actually an act of will, as you normally conceive will. For it is an act of Being, of Being who you ARE, being in contact with a higher part of your being, so that the light from your higher being shines through the lower mind. And that way you can come to a determination, that is not the outer will – that can easily be shifted by this or that impulse from without – but is an inner determination—an inner knowing that this is the new reality on your planet, because you are being that change. And you are willing to BE the change in the world by holding the spiritual balance for that change. So that you hold the vision – unwavering – that this or that manifestation will not come to be on this planet.

Understanding the power of “One”

Many years ago, this messenger was very concerned – at a young age – about nuclear war. He went deep into meditation one night and cried out to God – feeling a greater degree of oneness with God on the issue of nuclear war – he cried out to stop this. And he felt a return current, a reassurance that there would not be a nuclear war, at least a large-scale nuclear war on this planet. But that was because – unbeknownst to his outer mind – he had vowed to play a part in holding the balance so that there would not be such a war.

Yet, one person cannot necessarily hold a balance if millions of people pull in the other direction. Because, again, the Law of Free Will must outplay itself in giving people the lessons they need in order to change their consciousness. While there is value in one person shifting his or her consciousness, there is in most issues a certain critical mass that must be reached, so that there is a counter-balance between those who are willing to raise their consciousness and those who are not, including those who are simply indifferent without knowing better.

So when I say that it only takes one ascended master student to change a planet, this is true, in the sense that one person making up his or her mind will shift the collective consciousness. But it takes a certain critical mass of individuals to prevent certain outer manifestations. For if one person, or just a very few, could remove some ungodly condition from this planet, well how would the majority learn the lesson and come to the point, where they have decided that they too have had enough of this or that manifestation?

The power of one must be understood at different levels of consciousness. There is value in YOU making up your mind, but that it is also necessary that you realize, that you are not a separate individual living in a world with six billion other separate individuals. It is necessary that you contact the oneness in your own Being, which gives you the sense of oneness with your own I AM Presence, but also takes you to the next step of realizing your oneness with all other people.

And thus you realize, my beloved, that it is not always enough for you to come to an inner determination based on oneness with your own higher being. It is also necessary for you to fulfill the Omega requirement and go out and seek to awaken others, so that they can come into oneness with their own higher beings. And so that, eventually, a critical mass of people can come together in oneness on a particular issue, and therefore shift the collective consciousness

The critical mass

So, my beloved, what is the percentage? What is the critical mass? Well, as with the abolishment of slavery, there came a shift in the collective consciousness of humankind, where it became obvious to many people, that it was not acceptable any longer that people could be owned as property. And that shift occurred, when the top ten percent had come to that realization. So the magical number, in terms of truly shifting the collective consciousness, is ten percent.

If the lower ten percent are in agreement that a certain manifestation is acceptable to them – and this is what they want out of their own self-interest – well, then if there is not a counter-balance of the top ten percent saying, “No, we will not allow this on our planet,” then according to the Law of Free Will, the lower ten percent will pull the population down. But when the top ten percent come into alignment, come into agreement, well, then they will pull the population up, and a positive shift would occur. And then – suddenly – many among the population can now see what they could not see before, because they were blinded by the duality consciousness, by the mass consciousness.

Even many of those who had experienced slavery themselves did not have enough awareness to speak out and say, “This is not right, this is not acceptable.” So, right up until the shift had occurred, the majority of the population simply could not see what seems obvious to most people today—that human beings are not things that can be bought and sold in the marketplace. But when the top ten percent had shifted, all of a sudden many among the population – without being consciously aware of the shift – realized, “Oh yes, this is obvious!” And now they supported the outer change.

Thus, again, everything begins with one person. But there is great strength in numbers. If two people in two different parts of the world – with no outer connection between them – reach the same determination, then it will count. But if those two people establish some sense of oneness between them with their outer minds, then it will count exponentially more. And thus, the whole is more than the sum of the parts.

New ideas are released by the ascended masters

So you see, my beloved, every positive change that has happened on this planet, started with an idea released from the realm of the ascended masters, which then descended through the four levels of the material universe—the identity, mental, emotional and physical realms. We are constantly releasing such ideas, but they will not have an effect in the physical, until one or more people grasp that ascended master idea with their outer awareness. And they either start expressing it as an idea of what needs to change, or they start expressing it as a practical innovation, as a practical invention, that suddenly brings forth a technology, that revolutionizes some aspect of society.

So what we are looking for is, of course, that more and more people will be able to tune in to the ideas we are releasing. For as Jesus said 2,000 years ago, “Fear not little flock, for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” The Father’s good pleasure is executed by the ascended masters who are working with humankind on earth. And I can assure you, that we of the ascended masters have solutions to every problem you find on planet earth. The catch is, my beloved, that those solutions cannot be given unless people are willing to change their consciousness. For as we have said before, you cannot solve a problem with the same state of consciousness that created or precipitated the problem. This is simply not possible. And that is why it is essential that the consciousness shifts, so that people can reach beyond the old way of looking at a particular problem and thus be open to receiving the solution.

What you have seen in the past, is that typically one person was able to raise his or her consciousness, tune in to the ascended masters and receive an idea—whether it be a political or spiritual idea, or a practical idea about a particular invention. But you have also seen in a few instances, where two people independently of each other made the same discovery or came forth with the same invention. And what we are looking for is a situation, where so many people are open and attuned to the ascended masters, that many people at the same time – all across the planet – will tune in to a particular idea. And this, of course, is especially important, when it comes to ideas about political changes or spiritual changes, where it is not enough that one person brings forth a technical invention, but where many people need to catch on to an idea before it will begin to have an impact on society.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Stepping up to a higher vision of service – Understanding the Alpha and the Omega of service – We want earth to rise above conflicts and disasters – Service is the foundation for the Golden Age – Service and the removal of poverty – The Golden Age requires acceleration – The essential requirement for true service –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 25, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come to discourse with you on the poverty consciousness and how it relates to the sixth ray. And I come with fire and determination, for my beloved, in my previous discourses I have attempted to give you understanding, but it is necessary to give you more than understanding. It is necessary to give you a quickening, an acceleration that goes beyond the intellectual understanding. For if the intellect itself could raise the world into the kingdom of God, then surely this would already have happened—considering the amount of intellectual people that have walked this earth and taken up positions in society.

You who are the spiritual people on earth have been told that the sixth ray is the ray of ministration—of ministering to life, of giving service to life. And while this is true, I come to give you a higher understanding. For I must tell you, that there is not one amongst you who have understood the fullness and the reality of the sixth ray, and what it means to give service to life. You have all adopted – through subtle means coming from the culture – a view of the sixth ray that is distinctly anti-service—that is even anti-Christ. And that – precisely – springs from the mechanization consciousness that I spoke about yesterday.

Stepping up to a higher vision of service

My Beloved, what does it mean to give service to life? You have all come to believe, that when you are serving someone, you are being somewhat passive, you are helping them according to their need, the need that you see as a physical manifestation. But the true need of people is not to have some human, or bodily or worldly need fulfilled. The true need of people is to have an acceleration, so that they are awakened to their lack of vision, and so that they can see beyond the separate self—the separate self that has these worldly needs.

Thus, you need to step up to the realization, that there is service and there is SERVICE. There is worldly service, mechanical service, and there is spiritual service, creative service. You will not serve life in an ultimate capacity by fulfilling people’s outer needs through mechanical means. You will give ultimate service to life only – ONLY – if you step up your vision of service, to where you realize that you need to accelerate people beyond their current needs—instead of simply seeking to fulfill those needs.

When you seek to fulfill people’s needs, even the needs of the poor, the infirm or the sick, you are enabling them to stay in the consciousness that has precipitated their outer physical condition. This is an essential realization, and I, Saint Germain, have come this day to literally draw a line in the sand and say: “Those who are not willing to accelerate their vision of service, should no longer count themselves students of the ascended masters!”

So from this day forward, I want all of you – who call yourself students of the ascended masters – to step up to a higher vision of service, a higher love, a higher power, where you realize, that in order to give true service, you must have that balance of love and power, so you simply do not go out and serve with a passivity of love, human love. But you go out with the power of God and say, “What is the situation here, what is the spiritual, psychological cause of it, and what needs to be done to accelerate these people out of their current limitations, out of their current state of consciousness. So that they can begin to co-create a better situation through the mind of Christ, instead of the current situation that they have co-created through the mind of anti-Christ, through the mind of duality, through the mechanization consciousness.”

Understanding the Alpha and the Omega of service

My Beloved, if you will take a look at the world, you will see that there are many organizations in this world who are centered around giving service to those who have some kind of lack. Take for example the Red Cross, which goes out to disasters or wars and administers medical aid to those in need. Now, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with doing this, for when there is a need, someone must fulfill that need, and this is indeed the Omega expression of service. But what I want to draw to your attention here is that if service is centered only on the Omega – only on the love that becomes passive, always adapting to situations in the world – then that service is not ultimate service. For it will not change conditions in the world.

Surely, it is a worthy goal to give humanitarian aid when there is a war, but if you do nothing to change the collective consciousness to avoid future wars, then you have only given a half service. And I can tell you exactly what will happen as a result of this kind of service. The Red Cross might be a world-wide organization that has great resources, but I can assure you, that if humankind does not make a serious effort in the coming decade to overcome the consciousness of war, then you will see so many conflicts and so many wars that no organization – including the Red Cross, including all the rich nations in the world – can administer humanitarian aid to the different crises that will spring up around the world.

For you see, my beloved, service that is focused on the Omega aspect – and passively adapts to the conditions in the world – has become a closed system, and it will become subject to the second law of thermodynamics that will cause that system to break down. Thus precipitating so many of the situations that the service is meant to administer unto, that there is not enough resources to do the work. And why is this so? It is so precisely because those people who are involved with humanitarian aid, such as the Red Cross, have lulled themselves to sleep—into a thinking that by doing this humanitarian service, they are doing enough, they are doing their share for humankind and thus they do not need to do any more. But I come to tell you, that all people on this planet who are involved in any kind of charitable work—I come to bring them the light of the Great Central sun, to challenge you to step up to a higher view of service, where you realize that giving this kind of service simply is not enough.

We want earth to rise above conflicts and disasters

For my beloved, we of the ascended masters do not desire to see this planet continue on its current track, where you have more and more conflicts, more and more natural disasters. We desire to see this planet accelerate beyond those disasters and those conflicts. But this can only happen, when there is an acceleration in consciousness, and as we have said over and over again, that acceleration in consciousness must start with the top 10 percent of the most spiritually aware people.

The top 10 percent are often the people who are involved in some kind of humanitarian service, because they have the higher awareness, they have accelerated their vision, as I spoke about in my last discourse, to look beyond the separate self, to see the need to do something for others, to see the need do something for the world. But they have not stepped up to the ultimate view of service, and therefore they think it is enough to simply administer unto the needs and the problems you see in the world—without doing something to change those problems by changing the consciousness that precipitates the same problems over and over again.

If these people are not willing to listen to divine direction – coming from spiritual teachings or from their own higher selves – then they must simply enter the school of hard knocks. They must see, that the problems they are trying to administer unto will accelerate to the point, where they do not have the resources—and therefore will finally break down and say: “There must be a different way, we must do something more, we must change our approach.” This is again the school of hard knocks, as opposed to the school of divine direction. And I wish that all those who are in the top 10 percent – all those people out there who are very loving, who are very kind, who have a good understanding of the need to serve others – would simply accelerate, would simply step up and realize that MORE is needed.

It is essential – absolutely essential – for the bringing in of the Golden Age, that the top 10 percent begin to realize, that giving service to life does not mean that you give service according to the current need. For if you do this, you can spend your life energy for the rest of this lifetime – and for an indefinite number of future lifetimes, however many you have left before the clock runs up – giving service without changing anything and without actually bringing the Golden Age closer to manifestation.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Why pure intentions are so important – Impure vision leads to divisions in the psyche – A divided mind cannot have God power – The origin of inequality in society – A subtle secret about fallen beings – The mechanization consciousness – Discernment about technology – Turning a spiritual teaching into a mechanical doctrine – Growing up in a mechanistic society – Raising your vision above mechanization – Understanding true healing – The problem with alternative healing – The laws of nature are not mechanical – It is time to accept your creative power –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 24, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

So, my beloved, as I have discoursed with you previously, when a lifestream goes through the first three rays – the initiations on those rays – it has sort of a divine grace period, in which it has great freedom to experiment with its creative powers in order to hopefully find some sense of balance between power, wisdom and love on its own—and with as much guidance from the spiritual teacher as it desires. As I explained, on the fourth ray the lifestream must face the initiation of purifying its creative efforts, but more than that: purifying its intentions, its entire sense of purpose. “Why do I co-create? Is it to gain some advantage for the separate self, or to raise up the All and fulfill the greater purpose for which I descended into these dense matter spheres?”

Now, in the natural, ideal scenario, a lifestream will pass the initiation on the fourth ray. It will purify its motives, and therefore it can move on to the fifth ray of God Vision with a pure motive, a pure intention—to co-create that which is best for the All, for the overall purposes of God. This will empower the lifestream to develop a pure vision, so that – as it begins to express that vision in the material realm – it will be based on a pure understanding of how creation works.

Why pure intentions are so important

The fifth ray is the first ray in the upper half, so to speak, of the seven rays, the one that comes after the nexus point of the fourth ray. And although – in a linear fashion – the rays naturally ascend in order, in order to fully understand the mystery of creation we need, so to speak, to turn the scale upside down. We need to realize, that what truly happens is that a lifestream starts its co-creative efforts in a higher sphere of God’s Will. Then, when it has passed those initiations, it descends to the next lower sphere, and so on until it reaches the fourth. Which is precisely the place – as you have been told – where Lucifer and many other angels fell—out of their pride of thinking they knew better than God. Thus, condemning God for his creation and his intention for that creation.

After the fall happened in the fourth sphere – which is a representation, a symbol if you will, of the fourth ray – then lifestreams descended into the fifth ray. And thus, you will see that when you consider a figure-eight, the fourth ray, the fourth sphere is the nexus. The first three rays, love, wisdom and power are in the upper half of the figure-eight, which is the realm that we might call the realm of spirit. And then fifth, sixth and seventh rays are in the lower half of the figure-eight, which we – for the purposes of this discussion – will call the realm of Ma-ter, the realm of Mother.

In the ideal scenario, a lifestream would face the opportunity to truly start using the Ma-ter light in its co-creative efforts. And when used with pure intention, the lifestream would formulate a pure vision of what it wanted to co-create, and then impose that vision upon the Ma-ter light. Yet, when a lifestream separates itself from the flow of the River of Life, from the flow of the Great IS, and begins to think it is a separate being, then of course it cannot formulate a pure vision. So instead of having the vision and the intention to co-create that which raises up the All, the lifestream is now blinded by the spiritual pride it developed as a result of failing the initiations on the fourth ray. Thus, the lifestream cannot see beyond the separate self. And therefore, it cannot see that it is truly one with the All, and one with God.

It sees itself as separate from all other beings in the sphere where it abides, and thus it inevitably sees a sort of competition or conflict between itself and others. And precisely because of the pride, it now attempts to use its co-creative efforts – to use the momentum it developed on the first four rays – in order to impose images and visions upon the Ma-ter light, that creates the impression that it is more important than other beings, and thus elevated above them in some sense.

Impure vision leads to divisions in the psyche

Such a lifestream, inevitably, is not seeking to raise up the All. And therefore its vision – its eye – is not single—it is divided, it is dualistic. When thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light and only light. But when thine eye be divided into the dualities of the mind of anti-christ, well thy whole body will not be full of light, for there will be a duality in your body, which of course is not the physical body but your being. And there will be room for both light and darkness.

Even when a being falls, it is not instantly stripped of the momentums and attainment it has gathered before the fall. It is allowed to keep that momentum of light, but along with it comes the darkness. Listen carefully: when a being is of one mind, it has the intention to raise up the All, because it has the clear vision to see that it is one with the All. And thus, the only way to truly raise up yourself is to work on raising up the All. The more you raise up others, the more you will be raised, for this is what we have spoken about many times—the principle of multiplying the talents so that God can give you more.

And when you have clear vision, pure vision, you see this principle as the most fundamental principle of life in the Ma-ter realm. For you see, that the purpose is to raise up a particular sphere in the Ma-ter realm to express the full perfection of the Kingdom of God, so that the sphere is so filled with light, that it ascends and becomes part of the spiritual realm. And thus, you are willing to be that open door for the light of your higher being, the light of God, to stream through you. You become – as Jesus said – the open door, the Way, the Truth and the Life. And you know then, that the more you actually give to raise up other parts of life, the more you receive from the true source of life, which is God itself, through your higher being.

But when your vision is divided, you obviously cannot see this truth. And thus, you are not unified in your creative efforts. When your vision is unified, your co-creative efforts are unified. You have no conflict in your being, you have no evaluation of, “Should I really give to this other person, because will that raise up the other person to be more important than myself or to have more than myself?” You know that the more you give, the more you receive from God. And thus, there is no point in even evaluating who has more and who has less, for you are simply focused on being all you can Be and expressing that in the Ma-ter realm.

But when your vision has become divided, then you see a duality, and suddenly begin to think in an entirely different way. You begin to pass value judgments and say that something is better than something else—some people, some beings, are better or more important than someone else. And the more you are trapped in pride, the more you want to belong to those who are more important or who have more or who can do more. And thus, you now seek to express your light, the momentum you gathered on the first four rays, in a way that not only seeks to raise up life but has a duality, because you are seeking to raise up yourself while putting others down, by limiting them so they will not grow.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Understanding the fourth ray – Understanding the fall on the fourth ray – Impure motives – Taking full responsibility on the fourth ray – How hatred of the Mother begins – How Lucifer fell – How poverty relates to God Purity – Breaking the spiral of poverty – Understanding that the power elite are the most poor people – Breaking the downward spiral – Use the invocations to overcome hatred of the Mother – There are no material means for overcoming poverty – No freedom without purity –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 20, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come in the great flame of Freedom. This is the flame of the Great IS, the IS of all life, the River of Life that flows from Spirit to matter and back to Spirit, thus raising up all creation as it flows. The seventh ray is the integration of the first six rays. But before you can integrate the six rays and graduate to the initiations of the seventh ray, you must integrate the first three and win your freedom on the fourth ray of God Purity.

In my first three discourses on this topic, I have spoken about winning your freedom on the first ray of God Power, the second ray of God Wisdom and the third ray of God Love. I have talked about the need to overcome poverty on those rays, and poverty, of course, is that which keeps you trapped at a certain level, and thus prevents you from winning the freedom that allows you – that empowers you – to rise beyond that level.

Understanding the fourth ray

We now come to the fourth ray of purity, and it is represented by the white light. And you know what happens when you send a ray of white light into a glass prism: you split it into all the colors of the rainbow. The fourth ray is in the middle, with three rays before it and three rays after it. And thus, what happens to a new lifestream, that descends into the matter sphere, is that it must first be tested on the first ray and learn to express God Power. When it has some proficiency in God Power, it will begin to be tested on the second ray and express Wisdom. And then it moves on to Love. But the first three rays are, so to speak, the beginning of the path of initiation. And we know well that as a lifestream begins those first three rays, it has not yet attained Christhood, or even a certain degree of mastery. Therefore, there is – in an ideal situation – a great deal of guidance that is offered to such a lifestream.

If the lifestream takes advantage of this guidance, then it will integrate the lessons of the first three rays and be well prepared for the initiations of the fourth ray, where it must begin to stand on its own. And thus, on the fourth ray of Purity, a lifestream cannot be tutored in every little detail, for it must of necessity show that it has integrated what it has learned as a result of its tutorship on the first three rays. On the first three rays – when the lifestream experiments with expressing Power, Wisdom and Love – there is a great deal of forgiveness. So that, when a lifestream makes a mistake, well it is instantly forgiven and helped by the teacher to see its mistake so that it can rise above it. That is, of course, a lifestream can be helped by the teacher – the true spiritual teacher – only according to its free-will choices and its willingness to learn from the mentorship of the teacher.

Understanding the fall on the fourth ray

What I am telling you here is, that as a lifestream experiments and learns on the first three rays, we allow the lifestream to make mistakes and we are quite tolerant of these mistakes. We are not the kind of teachers that you might know on earth, who come down hard on you and punish you for every little mistake, my beloved. For it is not our goal to turn you into robots who can stand attention or march in sync with others, as if you had no individuality. It is our goal to raise you up so that – when you pass the initiations on the seventh ray – you are free to express your divine individuality in this world. And this is not a mechanical process that can be forced, which is why free will reigns supreme.

Because of this, it is possible that a lifestream – as it experiments with the first three rays – can build up a certain momentum and habit on misusing those first three rays—in other words, expressing Power, Wisdom and Love in an unbalanced way. A lifestream may begin to feel a certain kind of fear, that causes it to express power in order to control other people or its outer situation. This misuse of power – this fear-based expression of power – is the beginning of poverty. Because when you seek to take by force in the material world, well then the more force you express, the more that force will limit yourself and your own spiritual freedom.

As you begin to express power in an unbalanced manner, you will cut yourself off from the Power of God. You will not be able to have the Power of God flow through you and thereby manifest in the material universe all you desire. And of course, when you experience that you cannot manifest what you desire, you begin to feel poverty—and thus you begin to seek to use even more force, in order to control your outer situation. Many lifestreams can then come to the point, where they go to the next level and start misusing Wisdom, which then allows them to use the mind of anti-christ to come up with a sophisticated reasoning for why they do not need or do not want God Power; they simply want power in the material universe. And they can gain that power, at least to some degree, by misusing the power of the first ray through the unbalanced wisdom of the mind of anti-christ, the perversion of God Wisdom.

This perversion of Wisdom can lead to the next step, where the lifestream begins to feel that it does not love God and that God does not love it. Because it begins to believe that if God really loved me, God should give me everything I want and should not force me to face the consequences of my own choices—and my own misuse of power and wisdom. You now see the triangle of the misuse – the abuse, the unbalanced use – of power, wisdom and love, which causes the lifestream to sink into a state of spiritual poverty, of feeling cut off from the Power, Wisdom and Love of God—which is a state that sets the stage for the lifestream failing the initiations on the fourth ray, which is the ray of purity.

Impure motives

So you now see that the abuse of power, wisdom and love causes the lifestream to build a momentum of impurity, and to express its co-creative abilities in an impure manner that is focused on raising up the self – the separate sense of self, the ego – rather than raising up the All. This, my beloved, is essential to understand. For when you reach the initiations of the fourth ray, you will face precisely the test of whether you will purify yourself from all imbalanced use of power, wisdom and love, and thereby begin to express your creative abilities in a more pure manner.

What, my beloved, do I mean when I say more pure? Well, I mean whether you express your creative abilities in order to gain an advantage for your separate self, or whether you rise to the higher level of using your creative abilities to raise up the All, seeking to have everything in the material universe become MORE. Do you see the essential difference here? When you use your creative abilities in an impure manner, you are seeking to gather more and more to the separate self – around the separate self – so that you build an impenetrable wall that isolates the separate self from the return of its own karma, from the return of the consequences of its own choices, so that you seek to use the energies of the material realm to isolate and insulate yourself from the spiritual path and its initiations.

Why do you do this? Because the separate self, of course, cannot see the true purpose of the spiritual path and therefore believes that the initiations – the return of your karma, the cosmic mirror sending back to you whatever you send out – is a punishment by an angry God in the sky. Whereas the reality is that the return of the consequences of your own choices is precisely how you learn, and therefore it is an opportunity, my beloved.

When you receive a return current from the cosmic mirror that is not pure according to your highest vision, then that is an opportunity for you to realize that what you sent into the cosmic mirror was not a pure impulse—and that is why the mirror reflects back an impure material manifestation. So you now have the opportunity to rise up and purify your co-creative efforts. That is, of course, if you are willing to allow what comes back from the cosmic mirror to awaken you to the need to look in the personal mirror and do what Jesus said, namely look for the beam in your own eye—of where you have allowed impurities to gather in your eye – in your vision, in your mind – thus causing those impurities to form a colored film that inevitably colors your mind. And thereby, it colors everything you send into that cosmic mirror, making it inevitable that the mirror can only reflect back to you an impure manifestation.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Human beings cannot generate love – Why love does not seek to own – Jesus’ mission of love and your mission of love – Speaking out for what is the greater RIGHT – The absolute need for a non-violent approach – Take stock of your life – Saint Germain’s love for all people – Decide to be all you can be – Why poverty is so paralyzing – Your mission is essential for the Golden Age –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain (2), December 15, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and Saint Germain I is, for I AM One with the great flow of all that is the River of Life. What does it mean to be poor? How can you be poor? Well my beloved, you can be poor only by being separated from the River of Life itself. For the River of Life is designed to help all Life become More. And of course, as long as you are becoming More, there can be no poverty, for you know that even though you may not have the total abundance right now, surely you will have it, if you keep transcending your current state. Then, one day you will indeed have greater abundance, but it will not stop there, for you know you are in the eternal flow of God.

Those who are trapped in the outer conditions of poverty and in the consciousness of poverty, are trapped precisely because they are separated from that River of Life—thus do not have the vision, the knowing, the experience that Life is a constant process of becoming More. They see it as something static, and thus they think they are trapped at their current level of material abundance, and their current level of spiritual abundance, their current level of ignorance. They do not even know enough to know that there is more to life, or they do not fully believe that there is more to life, or they do not believe that they could have it, thinking – because they have been trapped in the lie – that it is reserved for the few, for the elite.

Human beings cannot generate love

Poverty is a consequence of being separated from the River of Life. But how can you be separated from the River of Life, my beloved, when the River of Life is the Great IS that encompasses all that is, all that exists? Well, you can be separated from the River of Life only when you do not have love—you have lost love. And how can you lose love, when love is all there is? Well, only through the illusion created by the mind of anti-Christ. And this illusion has two levels.

The first level, which is again the perversion of the Alpha or the Father, is that it is possible to be separated from the River of Life. The illusion that it is possible for any part of the Allness – that is all that is – to be separated from all that IS. When I present it to you this way, even your intellects can see that there is something here that does not add up. For it is not logical that anything can be separated from all that is, as it is not logical that one drop can be separated from the ocean, or that one planet in this material universe can be separated from the material universe.

Then the next level of illusion, which is a perversion of the Omega or Mother aspect, is that you are a separate being. And because you are separate, you are not worthy of love, you are not worthy to be in the flow of love. When you look at the people on this planet, who are firmly trapped in the consciousness, the illusion of poverty – in the energy vortex of poverty – you will see that they are among the people who have the least love. They dare not believe that they are worthy of love, and so how can they receive love? For my beloved what is love?

Well, what most people consider to be love is not love at all. You hear so often people talk and say, “I love this” or “I love that person,” or “I love chocolate” or “I love big fancy houses, or fast cars.” But you see, because people have become blinded by the illusions of duality, they do not realize that when they talk about love, they are not talking about love at all. Human love is not simply a perversion of Divine Love – human love is not simply separated from Divine Love – human love is not love at all. For I must tell you that it is not possible for a human being to generate love.

Allow your minds to absorb this statement, my beloved. You may think that you can feel love for another human being. And when you are in love, you may think that this is something you are generating. But it is not. You cannot create love, you cannot destroy love. For love is the very driving force of the universe itself. It is love that gave God the will to create, the will to be More. This is the Alpha aspect of love. The Omega aspect of love is that which draws all of the diversified creation back to union with its source. This is the Omega aspect, that seeks to return everything in the material world to oneness with its source, oneness with the Father, instead of being separated from that Father.

Love is the very creative flow, where you see the figure-eight flow. Where love starts with the creator in the spiritual realm, as the outgoing, downward flow that flows from the upper figure of the figure-eight, down to the nexus and then into the material world, where it manifests itself as many individual beings, and as everything you see in the physical universe. Yet once you reach that bottom point, that is when the return current of the Omega love is meant to take over, and then draw everything from the material universe back up on the figure-eight flow. So that it goes through the nexus of becoming the Christ, the living Christ, and then can flow back up to greater and greater degrees of oneness with its source, and oneness with all life.

This is the force of love, flowing through the Alpha and Omega. And do you see, that this force is the very driving force in creation. In fact, there really is no other force, there is nothing else that exists, for everything is simply different manifestations of love. Or as the case may be, when you have separated yourself from the River of Life, it is still love that has taken on a lesser manifestation and an appearance of something separated from the great flow of Life. So that is why I am saying, that you as a human being cannot create or generate love.

What you can do is you can open up your being, your mind and heart, to allow the force of life, the River of Life, to flow through you and find expression through you in love for other people, love for a cause, love for making something more beautiful. Your choice is not a choice of whether to create love or not create love, but to open yourself up to love and allow God to flow through you. But in so doing, you must also be willing to let that flow of the River of Life take you whereever it wants to take you, so that you can fulfill the divine plan that you yourself created, before you came into embodiment in this specific lifetime, and before you first descended into the material universe.

Why love does not seek to own

You cannot stand still, when you are in the flow of the River of Life. And therefore, you see that when you are in the flow, you simply cannot be poor, for what is poverty? Well, it is precisely a state of stillstand, where people believe they are trapped and have neither the will, nor the knowledge to change their situation.

But why do they believe they are trapped? How can they believe they are trapped? Because they are not open to love! And therefore, they do not believe they are worthy to have more. They do not believe they are worthy to be in that flow of the River of Life. They somehow believe – perhaps because of a mistake they have made, perhaps because of a sense of being sinners, perhaps because of a sense of being merely highly evolved animals – they somehow believe that they either cannot be in that flow, or that they are not worthy to be in that flow. And thus, they must accept that they have to stay at their current level for the rest of this lifetime, which they often believe is the rest of their opportunity on earth—for it is the only lifetime they have, as they have been taught by both materialistic science and dogmatic mainstream religion.

For poverty to be overcome, there must be a willingness to reach for a higher understanding of oneself and of life. But as one begins to gain that understanding, there must be a recognition, that the only way out of poverty is to once again open oneself up to the flow of the River of Life. Not that it is flowing outside of oneself, passing one by, but that it is flowing inside oneself because one has realized, that the Kingdom of God is within. And thus, the open door through which the River of Life can flow is inside of you, not somewhere outside of you.

You can look again at the people who are stuck in poverty, and you can say, “How can they possibly come to accept that God loves them, when they have grown up believing that they are poor precisely because they are not worthy of God’s love, and that is why he has punished them by making them poor?” Or perhaps they have grown up to believe that there is no God, there is no flow of God’s love. And how can they then overcome that sense of being stuck, of being separated from the flow of love?

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Beings who must steal life energy to survive – Ignorance of the cosmic mirror  – Inconsistencies in the theory of evolution – The war between religion and science – Looking for an external savior – Why capitalism does not work – The value of your labor – The Alpha and the Omega of ignorance – Hold the vision for people awakening – Hold the vision for a breakthrough in science – What really enslaves the people – Creating a positive spiral –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 15, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I come to discourse with you on the consciousness of poverty, especially as it relates to the second ray of God’s Wisdom. For, my beloved, as the first step is to take away the will of the people, the will to change, well then the second step – building upon it – is to take away their knowledge of how to change by keeping them in ignorance.

The flow of God, the flow of the River of Life, starts with the will to Be MORE, the will to create. And as for you – who are co-creators with God – it starts with the will to co-create. And then, building upon that, is the vision of what to co-create and of how to co-create within the framework of God’s law. Thus, it is of course the desire of God, it is the desire of the ascended masters, that all people on earth should have the correct knowledge to know who they are, as co-creators with God, and how to use their own, built-in creative abilities to work within the framework of God’s law, the laws of nature, in order to bring forth the abundant life on planet earth.

So the forces of anti-christ have taken it upon themselves to use every effort, every lie, every illusion that springs from the consciousness of separation in order to destroy the people’s ability to co-create the abundant life. It is important for you to understand, that most of the people who are aligned with the consciousness of anti-christ, the consciousness of duality, are completely blinded by that consciousness. And thus, as Jesus said, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” They are so blinded by duality, that they believe they are doing the right thing, and that what they are doing will actually bring about the abundant life, and even the Kingdom of God or some other Edenic state on planet earth.

Beings who must steal life energy to survive

Yet, it is also important for you to realize, that beyond people in embodiment, there are disembodied beings who have a greater awareness than most people, in fact than all people in embodiment. They know to some degree what they do, they know at least that they are exploiting people on earth, even those who are working for the forces of anti-christ while thinking they are working for a good cause. There are beings, especially in the emotional realm, but also in the mental realm, who are deliberately using people in embodiment in order to simply extract light from the population of earth.

They do this for one purpose only, as we have already explained, especially in Maitreya’s book, namely to extract the life energy from the people on earth that allows them to continue some form of existence separated from the River of Life. For as we have explained, a lifestream has the right – according to the Law of Free Will – to set itself outside the River of Life, but it cannot do so indefinitely. There must come a time, when that lifestream has used up its opportunity, and thus it will actually be cut off from the stream of energy, spiritual energy, from its own higher being, its own I AM Presence. And after that cut-off point, such a lifestream can maintain an existence that is separate from the River of Life only by stealing life energy from those lifestreams who are still receiving it from the spiritual source.

And thus, you must understand – as the spiritually aware people – that there are many activities on this earth, that are designed for one purpose only. And that is to keep the people on earth engaging in the dualistic struggle, so that they continue to misqualify their spiritual light with a lower vibration, such as fear, anger or hatred, or envy, jealousy or other spiritual poisons. Which then qualifies the light of God with a lower vibration, that allows those beings who exist in the mental and emotional realms to absorb that energy and use it to sustain themselves. This is precisely what the vast majority of the population on earth are ignorant of. And thus, they really have no defense against being used, literally as a form of cows that are milked for their spiritual light, even though they believe that they are engaged in a positive cause that will improve society in some way.

My Beloved, some of the most obvious examples of this is, of course, the people who are engaged in violent conflicts. This can be seen most clearly in the Middle East, where you have people, groups of people, who for thousands of years have been engaged in fighting against each other. And the outer reason why they are fighting at this particular time truly is insignificant. For it is just an excuse that allows these groups of people to continue in this dualistic struggle against the other group, that they have elevated to the status of being the scapegoats. So that one group believes that if only they can eradicate the other group, they will solve all of their own problems, because they have allowed themselves to believe in the illusion that all of the problems they encounter are caused by these other people. So if those people were destroyed, their problems would disappear.

Ignorance of the cosmic mirror

This, of course, is a complete denial of responsibility. And it is something that can spring only from a complete ignorance of the most fundamental reality of the material universe, namely that the four levels of the material universe form the cosmic mirror. And whatever you project into that cosmic mirror, will be reflected back to you in the form of physical circumstances. Therefore, you co-create – through your own consciousness – your own physical circumstances. And thus, even though it may seem as if other people are the cause of your problems, the reality is that the real cause of your problems is your own state of consciousness, your own physical, emotional, mental and identity minds that you project into the cosmic mirror, thus receiving the return current in the form of physical circumstances, that outpicture the images you hold in your four lower bodies, the four levels of your mind.

When you are ignorant of these basic facts, then you have no defense against being pulled into this ongoing dualistic struggle against other people. And you have no defense that allows you to step back and say, “The cause for which I am fighting truly cannot be the highest cause. For when I look at the scriptures of my religion – regardless of which religion that might be – then I see that this dualistic struggle of fighting against other people out of pure hatred and anger, truly cannot be the cause of my God, as prescribed in my religion.” For no matter which religion people might follow, all major religions on earth state the same basic facts, namely that God has said once and for all, “Thou shalt not kill.”

The basic ignorance that you see on this planet is, that people have been seduced into overriding the basic command of God not to kill their fellow human beings. And even if you happen to believe in scientific materialism, then once again you must say that it cannot be according to the survival of the fittest that you kill the members of your own species. For that cannot in the long run ensure the survival of the species as a whole. So, even the theory of evolution actually states that killing other human beings jeopardizes the survival of the entire race. And therefore, those who are the most fit cannot be the ones who are most aggressive and most willing to kill their fellow human beings. Those who are the most fit – in terms of long-term survival – must be those who are not willing to kill, but who are willing to work for the survival of the entire species.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: A new dispensation from the Great Central sun – A cosmic perspective on the earth – The problem of poverty – The ascended masters are NOT elitists – Poverty is a form of energy – Poverty and the first ray of God’s Will – Religion’s role in upholding poverty – Science’s role in upholding poverty – The illusion of inequality is the basis for poverty – The judgment of those who uphold the consciousness of inequality – The will of God always overcomes the anti-will –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, December 14, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and I am grateful to be given a platform on this continent of South America, to bring forth a teaching that will be essential and instrumental for bringing about the Golden Age—both here in South America and elsewhere. You might recall that some time ago the Great Divine Director, my own guru, gave a dictation through this messenger at Machu Picchu where he talked about the potential for bringing about a Golden Age in South America. And he gave a somewhat sober and somber assessment of that potential.

This, my beloved, was partly because we wanted an expression of the difficulty that we face in bringing about a Golden Age on a continent like South America, and other continents in the world. Because we want the people to understand, that bringing about a Golden Age is not an easy thing, nor is it a sure thing. There can be no absolute guarantee that a Golden Age will come about for everything is up to the free will of the inhabitants of this planet.

A new dispensation from the Great Central sun

Yet, my beloved, we of the ascended masters – of course – have the Victory consciousness and never, ever accept defeat or that anything is impossible. So what has happened in the meantime is that so many people in South America, especially here in Colombia, and in many other parts of the world have been more willing to come up higher in consciousness—partly through the teachings given, partly through the rosaries and partly simply because they are flowing with the River of Life. Even though many have never heard of the ascended masters, they realize that the winds of change, the winds of the Holy Spirit, have started blowing on a planetary scale. And they have stood up more straight and looked up higher to their own higher being – however they conceive of it – for new ideas and new ways of thinking of how to solve society’s problems.

Because of this response from the people – both in and out of the teachings of the ascended masters – I have decided to travel from the earth to the Great Central sun and plead before Alpha and Omega for a new dispensation, a very important release of light, that can bring about one of the changes that are necessary for the Golden Age to be manifest. This is a specific dispensation of light, that has the effect of illuminating one of the major problems that blocks the Golden Age.

My Beloved, going before the throne of Alpha and Omega and asking for a dispensation for planet earth is no straight-forward matter. This planet is a very, very small planet in a very, very large physical universe. So you understand, that Alpha and Omega are the highest manifestations of God known in this material universe, and they hold the vision and the spiritual balance for the immensity of the entire material universe with all of the many lifestreams, and lifewaves that are evolving in this platform. So their role is to always hold the vision of the whole. And therefore, they cannot ever allow the needs of one particular part of that whole to jeopardize or hold back the forward movement of the whole itself.

That is why the ascended masters, who work with planet earth specifically, sometimes – in our eagerness to help humankind, in our eagerness to see this planet have a breakthrough to a higher level – we can become a little bit focused on this planet, thinking that if only we could help this planet grow, we could surely help the entire universe. Not that this is necessarily wrong. But I can tell you – as one who has traveled to the Great Central sun on several occasions on behalf of planet earth – I can tell you that being in the Presence of Alpha and Omega – and suddenly seeing that overall perspective – it can be very sobering, even for an ascended master.

When you stand that in that Court of the Sacred Fire and see the immensity of the flames of Alpha and Omega, the figure-8 flow between them and the white cube between their thrones, suddenly you are jolted out of any lesser manifestation. And now you see that before a dispensation can be granted to planet earth, one must first look at the whole and carefully weigh the balances of the whole versus the needs of one little planet.

A cosmic perspective on the earth

I am not trying to make you think that earth is insignificant. I am simply trying to give you a realistic perspective of what it feels like even for an ascended master to stand before the throne of Alpha and Omega, and ask for a dispensation for this planet. For I want you to realize, that such a dispensation is not given lightly and is not something that is granted automatically because some ascended master – whom you might think is very important – suddenly shows up at Alpha and Omega’s doorstep and asks for it.

It is important for you, as the spiritual people, to realize, that while planet earth is important in the cosmic perspective, it is still only one part of a very large whole. As I have said before, we have yet other worlds to conquer. In fact we have many other worlds to conquer. And I can assure you, that it is very healthy for the spiritual people on earth to once in a while be jolted out of the mental box that is of necessity focused on this planet, and realize that there is a very vast universe and that this entire universe is connected as one whole. And therefore, the needs of one planet, such as earth, must be seen in connection with the whole, and with all aspects of that whole who are evolving and who are tied to earth—and therefore everything must evolve harmoniously and together. If you have the Body of God and suddenly one foot starts lagging behind, or one hand starts moving beyond the rest of the body, well then what have you? You do not have harmony. You do not have coherence.

So, having given you this realistic assessment, I can with great joy tell you, that I have been granted this dispensation of an extraordinary release of light to planet earth. And this release of light will do one very specific thing. It will focus attention on the one problem that right now is a major block to the manifestation of the Golden Age. And it will literally illumine that problem to the point, where it will become more and more difficult for humankind to ignore that problem.

They will, so to speak, be forced by the light to look at that problem, to examine its cause and to make the choice, of whether they will choose to move out the consciousness that has caused the problem, or whether they will choose to stay in that consciousness and thereby be judged by the light, so that they will eventually be removed from this planet and go to some other system, where this particular manifestation can still be tolerated. Within a very short time span, this manifestation will no longer be tolerated on earth. For the light will simply make it impossible that this manifestation can continue. That is, if the light is accepted and multiplied by those in embodiment, such as yourselves, but also many other people who are in position in society worldwide to do something about this particular problem.

The problem of poverty

What is the problem that I am talking about? What is the one problem that right now is the greatest block to the manifestation of a Golden Age? Well, my beloved, it is the problem of poverty. And that is precisely why I am giving this dictation and the following dictations on this continent of South America, where there is indeed great poverty.

Obviously this is not the only continent that has this manifestation. But it is indeed a continent, where there is a potential that the people can be awakened and can move away from poverty without falling into the trap of materialism, of what you see going on right now in certain nations in South East Asia and in China herself, where the people are awakened to the potential to overcome poverty. But they are becoming sucked into the vortex, the beast, of materialism, that has taken over the West and has reigned the West and the thinking of the West for a long time now, far longer than it was necessary.

I will in this and the following discourses give you some teachings on poverty and the cause of poverty and the consciousness behind it. So, let me make one thing perfectly clear: We of the ascended masters are committed to completely and utterly eradicating poverty on planet earth!

For you do not seriously believe, that you can have a Golden Age and still have a majority of the world’s population living below the poverty level, not knowing where their next meal will come from, not knowing where they are going to find safe drinking water that will not make them sick, not knowing how to have a way to provide an income for themselves or their family, not knowing how to have a sustainable growth in their material wealth, in their spiritual wealth, in their free time? Seriously, you cannot believe that it would be possible to have a Golden Age and still have these manifestations of poverty that you see, not only on this continent, but several other places, even in some of the so-called rich nations, where you see a small percentage of the population living in abject poverty with absolutely no hope, and no viable physical path for overcoming that condition.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Help Saint Germain Stop Poverty.

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: The need to combine science and spirituality  – The good and the not so good about nuclear technology – Those who learn only from the school of hard knocks – The true servant leader is ALWAYS giving – Golden Age leadership – Insensitivity and leadership – Overcoming the island mentality – A positive vision for Britain’s contribution to Europe – Love is the key –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, October 27, 2007 through Kim Michaels.

Saint Germain I AM, and as my beloved brother MORE, I have spent several lifetimes on this island. My Beloved, I came also to set forth an example of how to be a man without misusing power. So I came to give a slightly different role model than the one represented by King Arthur, and the various embodiments of Master MORE as Thomas More and Thomas Becket. For I came to show the man who is not necessarily a man of government, not necessarily a man of action in the sense of being involved with society, but a man of ideas, of science, of knowledge, of even understanding how the material universe works; working on transmutation, transforming base elements of the human consciousness into the gold of the Christ consciousness.

I came to bring forth that example—that a man does not have to be on the battlefield in order to be powerful. For indeed, knowledge is power, understanding is power, wisdom is power. And that is why you have the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword, and I played some part in making that a commonly known statement. I have come in a couple of embodiments to set the foundation for the emergence of modern science. But of course I did not come as a person who was devoted only to science, to the intellect, to the analytical mind. I came as an example of a person who was still intuitive and therefore very much seeking that attunement to the spiritual realm, as MORE was saying that he was representing the attunement to higher principles, to the higher principles of God Government, expressed as the king, or as the one who stood up to the king.

Well, I represented another aspect of this, the attunement to higher knowledge. To bringing forth the practical knowledge that will allow human beings to transform their society into a higher state. And this is certainly something that I would like to see people in this age understand.

The need to combine science and spirituality

For what is the age in which you live? Is it not often characterized as the information age? But should it not rather be characterized as the wisdom age? For should we not help modern people develop the discernment that knowing facts may be useful, but it is far more useful to have the wisdom to put those facts in their proper context? And that wisdom can come not from the intellect, not from the senses, not from the knowledge that can be gleaned through physical, scientific instruments, but only when science is combined with intuitive insights.

You will indeed see – if you study the lives of the greatest scientists – that they all had intuitive insights that allowed them to make some of their greatest breakthroughs. And this is indeed the example that was set forth in the legend of Merlin, who knew through an intuitive knowing how the universe worked, and how to therefore have a certain mastery of mind over matter. Again, as Roger Bacon and as Francis Bacon, I attempted to set forth the example of a person open to science but not closed to spirituality. For the example I wanted to bring forth is that science and spirituality are two sides of the coin of life, and you will only have complete wisdom when you combine the two.

For as you see so clearly in modern society, the scientists may have great intelligence and great knowledge of factual things, but do they always have the wisdom to know whether what could be done, should be done? And that wisdom can come only from the intuitive attunement to one’s own higher being – and to the greater Being of the ascended masters – so that a scientist will know why a certain idea is brought forth and that it is brought for the raising up of all, rather than to be misused to empower the power elite and give them even more control over the people.

Technology in itself is not evil. I have sponsored modern science and the development of much of modern technology for the pragmatic reason, that I knew that unless people were set free from the drudgery of how they made a living during the Middle Ages, well there was no chance that we would ever have a spiritual awakening on this planet. So there is nothing inherently evil about technology. But as everything else, it can be used for good or it can be used for not good. It can be used in a egotistical sense to enrich one person or the elite, or it can be used in the altruistic sense to enrich all life and bring forth the abundant life for all people in a society.

The good and the not so good about nuclear technology

Take as an example of this nuclear technology. It can be used as a source of energy that does not pollute if it is handled correctly. And thus, if handled correctly, it could be a viable alternative to oil and coal that do pollute the environment. This is not to say that nuclear technology is the ultimate technology, but I am making a point here. And the point is that what you have seen instead is that nuclear technology has been misused to create nuclear weapons that are controlled by whom, my beloved? Well, by the elite, who controls the Government and the military that has, so to speak, their fingers on the button that can unleash nuclear weapons on this planet.

But beyond that, you see that nuclear weapons have actually had a very subtle and profound effect on the consciousness of the people, in terms of making them so afraid of a nuclear war that they have often been afraid to stand up for principles or for freedom, for fear of what could happen. You saw, for example, during the Cold War, how many people in the West were intimidated into silence, of not speaking out against the Soviet Union and world communism for fear of creating a tension that could escalate into a nuclear war. You see somewhat of a similar effect today, where many people in the West are intimidated into not speaking out against radical Islam for fear of precipitating terrorist attacks. So you see, the power elite have used nuclear weapons to induce fear in the population.

Now it must be said, that nuclear weapons have also had some positive effects, and this is indeed why nuclear technology was brought forth. Because it was determined that humankind was so caught up in the spiral of one war leading to the next war – where you clearly see the First World War setting the stage for the Second World War; and the Second World War setting the stage for the Cold War; and the tension between the communist block and the western block. This surely would have precipitated another war, had it not been for the fact that humankind was given the ultimate destructive technology, so that they could see that the cost of waging another war was simply too high.

And thus, even though the power elite have used nuclear weapons as a form of intimidation, they themselves of course have been caught by the same fear that they have projected at the people. They have actually been afraid to start that Third World War for fear that they could not gain an advantage from it. When you look at the Second World War, you can see clearly how the military-industrial complex, as some call it, did indeed profit greatly from that war. But they only profited because the war did not destroy civilization as a whole, and therefore they had the opportunity to spend their profit. Whereas if you had unleashed the full force of nuclear weapons, well then who would have been left standing to spend their profits? So you see how we sometimes have to go to these extreme measures to get people to pause and say: “We can no longer go down this path, for we will destroy ourselves!”

Those who learn only from the school of hard knocks

Those who are blinded by power will keep moving down the path of seeking to attain greater and greater power, and they are seemingly unreachable by reason, and cannot be awakened. And that is why they will not be awakened until they realize, that they now have attained a power that – if unleashed – will actually destroy themselves also and not just those who oppose them in the dualistic struggle.

You can have a situation, where those who are literally so blinded by duality and selfishness that they are beyond the point of insanity, can be somewhat awakened from that insanity by realizing that the effects of using the power they have will be so devastating that they will literally destroy themselves. This, my beloved, is also one of the reasons why in past ages, the concept of a hell was given. So that those who were the most self-centered, egotistical people could be awakened by this fear of something that was so bad that it finally made them realize the need to change course.

This of course is a very risky strategy, that we would much prefer to avoid. But as we have explained before, when people will not learn through the path of higher knowledge, through the path of following a true spiritual teacher, well then they must learn through the school of hard knocks. And they will keep escalating the situation until the knocks get harder and harder. And then – every time the knocks get harder – well there is at least a percentage of the egotistical lifestreams that are awakened. Finally some sense is knocked into them, as they say. And they wake up and realize: “We have to change!”

Of course, the danger is always that there are some who are not awakened until they face the ultimate self-destruction, as you saw with Adolf Hitler, who until the very end believed that he could survive, and only in the very last hours realized that it had gone too far and that self-destruction was inevitable.

There is a potential that some leader like that could unleash nuclear weapons, and it would be too late to stop it. Nevertheless, even if one nation was to do this, there is still the possibility that others would not respond in kind, but would indeed pause and realize that sometimes there is wisdom in not responding in kind, but turning the other cheek. So again, we have hope that humankind will move beyond the possibility that nuclear weapons will ever be used, and therefore rise to a higher understanding of power and realize, as Mother Mary discoursed on, that true power is based on love, not on fear.

The true servant leader is ALWAYS giving

I would expound a little bit upon these concepts given by Mother Mary. For you see, my beloved, true power can only come from God. God desires to raise up all creation, for as Jesus said, it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. God wants all people to have the abundant life. So the true power of God is an expansive power, which is why it comes from love. Because God’s unconditional love is an expansive love that is always giving out, for it is aimed at raising up all life. And when you understand the Oneness of all life, when you understand the infinity of God’s love – that God’s love is inexhaustible – when you understand the principle of multiplying the talents, you realize that the more you give, the more you will receive from above.

You close that figure-eight flow, and that is enlightened self-interest. This then is when you align yourself with the River of Life, seeking to give more and more, to raise up all life instead of raising up yourself in comparison to others. Real power is always expansive, is always giving out, is always seeking to raise up. If you have a king, or an emperor, or a Prime Minister, or a President that is in tune with true God Power, well then that leader will do everything in his or her power to raise up the people, to give them a higher form of life both spiritually and materially. Such a leader will not in any way try to suppress the people. For the leader realizes that he or she is the servant of God and the servant of the people. And the more that the leader gives to the people, the more the leader will receive from God. And that is real power – the servant leader – where Christ expressed it this way: “He who would be greatest among you, let him be the servant of all.” Not only all people, but the ALL of all life.

When you see leaders who are not giving, then you know that you have somebody who is not a leader who is in any way sponsored or anointed or appointed by God. The claim that has been made, that kings were appointed by God, is a false claim, when those kings are not giving selflessly to their people but instead seeking to take from the people and suppress the people and keep them down. Such a leader could never, ever, be appointed by God, could never represent God. Even a leader of a church could not represent God unless that leader is seeking to raise up all among the congregation, instead of seeking to keep them trapped in a mental box of doctrines and dogmas and rules.

Those who misuse power come from fear, and fear is the sense of lack that comes from the sense of separation. “There is not enough, so I must take as much as I can from others!” Instead of applying the principle of alchemy, whereby you receive more from the inexhaustible source, thus realizing that the appearance of limitations, of lack, is nothing but an illusion. But that by bringing the philosopher’s stone, you can accelerate the limited state into greater abundance. Thus, you can literally quicken the atoms of lead into the quicker, faster vibration of the atoms of gold.

Golden Age leadership

My Beloved, it is indeed possible to transform lead into gold. But the true science of alchemy is more symbolic for wanting to transmute the human consciousness into the spiritual consciousness—to turn human beings into spiritual beings, into sons and daughters of God. This is what all true leaders should be seeking to do—to raise up their people, so that the people can express their highest spiritual potential and truly come into that Golden Age consciousness that will then precipitate the Golden Age. For a leader who is abusing power will never be able to manifest a Golden Age in his society. For a Golden Age civilization cannot be based on fear. It must be based on love. For only through love can you access the infinite source of God. And only then can you manifest a Golden Age.

What is a Golden Age? Well, it is a society that is not seeking to use only what is in the material universe in order to create wealth. For if a society bases its wealth on the material, well then it is inevitable that there will be lack. And it is then inevitable that you will see the formation of an elite, who will hoard wealth by taking it from the people. You see this pattern over and over again in history. It is not rocket science to explain this to people. They are ready to understand these concepts in today’s world. So a Golden Age society is one that recognizes, that there is no physical limitation that is set in stone, but that it is possible to apply the principles of alchemy to bring forth more abundance from a higher realm into the material realm and therefore increase the amount of wealth that is available.

And this, then, becomes the foundation for a Golden Age society that escapes the consciousness of lack, by realizing that when everyone works together, combining their minds and their actions, they can precipitate so much wealth that there is no lack and thus there is no need for anyone to hoard. For those who are the leaders of a Golden Age society are not the ones who are trapped in fear. They are the ones who are the most attuned to divine love, so they are the servant-leaders, and therefore they are not seeking to hoard for themselves. They are seeking only to use their position of authority to give more and more to the people, to raise up the people.

And that is why you see – in so many past civilizations, including what you see today – that you have this power elite that are so based on fear, and it is their fear that has propelled them to leadership positions. Do you not see this, my beloved? Surely you do, when you think about this. And I can assure you, that people are ready to understand this – and they are especially ready here in Britain – to understand that it is time for them to demand a new form of leadership in this nation—that is an enlightened form of leadership, NOT based on fear and lack but based on love and abundance.

Insensitivity and leadership

This is what the people desire to see. And as my brother, MORE, was expressing, you see this represented in the reaction to the death of Princess Diana, where she had come to represent that hope of a different form of leadership, that was sensitive to the people. Because, of course, the false leaders who are in fear and who, as Mother Mary explained, have already put themselves down by thinking they are not worthy of love, well then they become insensitive to themselves. And that is why they are completely insensitive to the people. But even though they may seem to be all about themselves, they are actually, in a deeper sense, completely insensitive toward themselves. And that is why you will see that some of the most abusive leaders known to humankind, such as Hitler, had that complete insensitivity.

Because you are not actually dealing with a person in a normal sense of the word. For in becoming so completely insensitive, he had been so taken over by the non-material forces that exist in the emotional realm, that he was barely ever making his own decisions but was just driven by these forces that wanted to use him as a tool for destruction. And that is why he became so blinded that he could not see that this would inevitably lead to his own destruction. This is the insensitivity that you also saw in the British Queen, in her response to the death of Diana. And the people realized, that they had a monarchy which was largely insensitive to their feelings, to their very lives. And the people are ready to demand a different form of leadership, that is sensitive to the people because the leaders are sensitive to themselves.

Again, we have one of these situations that forms a catch-22. For how can the people demand a higher form of leadership, when they themselves have been so suppressed for so long, that in order to be able to cope with the outer conditions, they have made themselves insensitive, they have numbed themselves? So you see the effect that once a country goes into the spiral of the misuse of power, you have the oppressive leaders who are insensitive to themselves and insensitive to the people, and therefore oppress the people. And the people know this is wrong, but if they feel paralyzed and powerless to do something about it, well then how can they cope with the situation and go on existing? They can do so only by making themselves almost as insensitive to themselves as the leaders are.

So you now have both a false leadership and a population who is blinded by this insensitivity. And how can you break the spell? Well, my beloved, you can break the spell only if those in the top 10 percent, the most spiritually aware people, decide to make the effort to free themselves from the insensitivity and to speak out and demand a better way—and speak out in many ways to demonstrate that there is a way to move beyond this insensitivity, this numbness, this sense of being powerless, this sense that nothing matters and that we cannot fight the establishment.

Someone must be willing to be like the little child in the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes and say: “But the emperor has nothing on! This is all an illusion! These people are false leaders because they come from fear that makes them insensitive. But there is a better way, and it is time to demand a true leadership based on higher principles.” And, as my brother was saying, indeed with the British people it is their destiny, their divine plan, to give an example of such a society, where you demand leaders that are based on higher principles are therefore you have an enlightened leadership.

Overcoming the island mentality

I would speak of the island mentality, for you can surely see that a big part of this mentality is precisely insensitivity. For when you have become insensitive to yourself, you have numbed yourself to the possibility for change. This makes a people backward-looking. This makes them want to avoid change, so they want to isolate themselves from other people who might actually induce the potential or the impulse for change.

It is the insensitivity that the British people have built up by being oppressed by the false leaders, that has created the island mentality. And if you look back at history, especially on the British Empire, you will know – if you think about this – that the people themselves did not actually want to be part of violently, forcefully suppressing other nations. For they are not truly a warring people—if they were, they would not want to isolate themselves but would be an aggressively outgoing people. But they felt they had no way out of it, and so they made themselves more insensitive in order to cope with the situation.

And this then created this sense that: “We Brits are different from the people on the continent, and we are set apart and that is the way things should be.” So you have, even today, this sense that the English people do not want to engage with Europe; do not want to see themselves as a part of Europe. For they are afraid that in order to become part of something larger, they might have to change some of the things they cannot conceive of changing, because what would it require for a people to change? Well, they must overcome their insensitivity to themselves.

The insensitivity causes people to cling to what is known, to what is comfortable—because they have become used to it, even though it truly is not comfortable at all. But they have simply become numb. And in their numbness, in their insensitivity, they feel they have some sense of equilibrium that allows them to go on, on a daily basis. So the thought of change breaks that sense of equilibrium, and that is why they tend to shy away from it and cling to what is familiar.

Yet, as Master MORE was saying, you see also the growth in the British people, the expansion of consciousness. And you see, for example, the very fact that the majority of the people truly did not support Britain’s participation in the military misadventure in Iraq. And this shows you that the British people have moved on from the days of the Empire, where in many cases they were supportive out of national loyalty of the military adventure and the forceful expansion of the Empire.

The consciousness has changed, and it has changed dramatically, although it still has not quite broken through to the conscious awareness of a critical mass of the people. But this can happen, and it is very close, as my brother, MORE, was expressing. And I can assure you that I also feel an excitement by contemplating the potential for this nation. I feel a great sense of gratitude and excitement at being able to speak here in this nation, because I can speak into the mass consciousness in a different way by having a messenger physically present than could be done from a distance.

A positive vision for Britain’s contribution to Europe

The British people are ready to overcome the island mentality, the insensitivity. But the key to overcoming it is to give them a positive vision, so they overcome the fear that Europe will influence Britain negatively. And instead, they lock in to the vision that Britain has a positive, constructive contribution to make to European society and the European Union. But, of course, Britain can do so only by demanding that enlightened leadership, based on allegiance to higher principles.

The European Union is potentially a step in the right direction, towards a greater unification of the people of Europe. But as has been explained here, even when you grow on the spiritual path, there is a potential that you can come to a point, where you use your attainment on the path for egotistical purposes—rather than deciding to overcome the ego. So, even though the European Union is a step towards Oneness, there is a potential that it can be perverted into becoming only a materialistic union that is based on the desire for economic growth or, even worse, military strength.

What we desire to see is that in the mix of Europe and the European Union, is introduced the concept, that we cannot be just a material union, we must also be a union based on an allegiance to higher principles. And certainly, this does not mean the allegiance to a particular outer religion, but the recognition that there is a higher authority, a higher reality, a higher source of truth. And that we will only ultimately have a sustainable society, when our society is based on those timeless principles, which will allow our society to continue to exist without destroying itself through its internal contradictions.

And this is precisely the potential that the British people have, and how they could make a contribution to Europe. And thereby, they would overcome their fear of having a negative influence from Europe or having to give up certain things that they consider they could not live without. Certainly, the British people could live without the pound and could adopt a European currency. Would that really be such a big loss, my beloved? No. It is only sensed as a loss because of the fear of change that comes from insensitivity, causing people to cling to tradition; to cling to what has become a symbol for what they look back upon as the greatness of the Empire. But they only do this because they have no forward vision that Britain could become far greater in a different way than is was in the past. That is also why they cling to the monarchy and why they cling to history and tradition.

The correct use of power is expansive, is giving, and thus it leads to transcendence. And when you are flowing with the River of Life, you have no fear of lack, so you have no fear that the future will be worse than today or worse than the past, because you realize that in the River of Life things can only accelerate. And thus, why would you need to look back to the past or cling to past traditions, when you realize that those past traditions represented the highest point of the time, but that there is something beyond it, and that you only reach that something beyond by letting go of the past?

So you see, the clinging to history is again based on fear and the sense of lack. Whereas when you lock in to the River of Life and the potential for expansion, you are not so attached to the past. You see it as the lead that must be infused with the Spirit and thus transcended into a better future. And then, all of a sudden, you realize that making certain practical concessions in order to bring yourself into alignment with Europe is a necessary sacrifice that is not even a sacrifice.

If Britain was to give up the pound and adopt the metric system in order to be aligned with Europe in a more practical sense, well, what could be achieved instead was that the gift of Britain became the English language, which could be adopted as the universal language of the European nation, the European Union. So you would, therefore, see that there is a give and take in everything, but that overall, there is no real loss. For you simply move on to a different level. I would impress upon you that by giving up a few things, you actually attain more. And you would also, by being willing to give up these things, overcome your own island mentality—but you would also overcome the reverse island mentality. Where many people in Europe do see the Brits as being separatist, isolationist, and in some ways “stuck up,” feeling they are better than others, and that is why they do not want to get their hands dirty by dealing with those more “primitive” nations on the continent.

For there to be the right flow, where the British people can fulfill their destiny to bring higher principles, well you see, my beloved, not only do we need to break down the island mentality in Britain, but we also need to break down the mentality or the perception in Europe, so that people will be willing to listen to what the British people have to contribute to the European Union. Without feeling that the Brits are coming from some sense of superiority and that they want people in Europe to adopt ideas from Britain but they are not willing to let anything come the other way.

Love is the key

Love is truly the key. I have a great love for the people of Britain. I have a great love for all people. My love is unconditional and infinite. Yet even unconditional love can be focussed on a particular people at a particular time. And this does not truly exclude others, for unconditional love can never be exclusive. But being that I am speaking in the physical here in Britain, I do want to express my unconditional love for the British people.

I have been embodied among you. I have had the privilege of serving to bring forth certain ideas, including the Shakespearean plays, to set forth a foundation for the British language, being a language that is uniquely suited for expressing spiritual concepts. And this has been done because I have seen the potential for this nation, for these people, to rise up and throw off all of the oppressors and truly fulfill their spiritual potential.

When you are insensitive, you do not feel you are worthy of love. You do not feel you can receive love, and certainly you do not feel you can express love. Which is why you see the mentality of people in Britain often being somewhat reserved and not expressing deeper emotions, but instead using humor as a way to hide their emotions behind that facade of being funny or even being sarcastic and self-critical. Certainly, it is better to be self-critical in a humorous way than a non-humorous way, but it is still a way to hide your deeper emotions. And thus, I want to pour out – through this physical vessel and all of those of you who are here – that unconditional love to the British people, that they might sense that they are worthy of love, that God loves them, and they might come to accept that.

And thus, as did Mother Mary, I ask you to listen to the meditation music that will be played. And while you are listening, tune in to the flow of unconditional love and feel how you go beyond actually accepting it for yourself, as Mother Mary focused on, but you go beyond it to feeling that you ARE that flow, you are One with the flow. And thus, it is flowing through your lower being and flowing out, covering this entire island. And those of you who are from other countries, are certainly free to see that love go to your countries as well. But I ask you to keep part of your consciousness on saturating this island with the unconditional love of God. Although I must say that the concept of saturating something with unconditional love is somewhat of a misnomer, for unconditional love is infinite, and thus you do not need a certain amount to saturate, you just need one point of the Infinite to fill all.

Thus, I thank you for your attention, for your presence, and I also congratulate you for having achieved a true victory here, that will start a catalytic process that will literally send shock waves, as it is, through the collective consciousness in this nation. And you will see that a change will begin to become more obvious in the physical in the years to come. So my gratitude for your presence. [Meditation music was played.]

Copyright © 2007 by Kim Michaels