Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

Let me make it clear that what is going on behind everything I have told you is that people must be presented – over and over again for as long as it takes – with the challenge of Christ. The challenge of Christ is that you encounter the Living Christ in the form of a person who embodies the Christ consciousness on Earth. Thus, you have an opportunity to accept or deny Christ. Yet the challenge of Christ has several levels:

The first level is when you encounter a person who has attained the Christ consciousness on Earth. This is not limited to Jesus, the Buddha or Krishna, for it is sufficient to encounter a person who has attained some degree of Christhood. You do not necessarily have to meet such a person physically, for at this level you merely need to learn that it is possible for the Living Christ to appear on Earth and that the Living Christ represents an alternative to the duality consciousness. You learn that it is – in principle – possible to be the Christ on Earth. At this level, you clearly see the Christ as being outside yourself and if you accept Christ, you will become a follower of Christ (possibly a student of the person who embodies the Christ consciousness). This is the challenge to accept or reject Christ outside yourself.

The ability to recognize Christ is what Jesus talked about in the following passage:

15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matthew, Chapter 16)

Jesus was not talking about the person of Peter but about an ability that all people have, namely the ability to recognize that there is something beyond duality and the willingness to follow the Christ that you see. This ability is built into the conscious self because it is out of the Creator’s own Being, which is why it can see beyond duality – flesh and blood – and receive direction from the “Father which is in heaven,” namely the spiritual hierarchy. Obviously, Peter as a person had overcome this first challenge of Christ. The ability to see beyond duality is the rock upon which all true religions are built, but the gates of hell – the forces of duality – will only be held back as long as people continue to look beyond duality and follow the highest expression of Christ that they see, always looking for a higher one. Which brings us to the second challenge of Christ.

At the next level, you need to accept that the role of the Living Christ is to challenge all of your dualistic beliefs and to take you out of your mental box and into the “promised land” of non-duality. This can be a severe challenge when people are not aware of what I have explained about mental images. Many people recognize a spiritual leader, but they immediately seek to fit him or her into their mental boxes. They seek to impose a dualistic image upon the Living Christ who has come to take them beyond duality—whereby they actually refuse to follow the Living Christ and end up continuing to follow the leaders of anti-christ (while thinking they are sure to be saved). This is the test that Peter failed, as recorded in the following quote (which is often “overlooked” by mainstream Christians):

21 From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. (Matthew, Chapter 16)

Peter was not willing to let the Living Christ take him beyond his mental box and his view of what should happen to the Living Christ on Earth. He preferred his own dualistic images – the things that be of men – over the non-dualistic truth of Christ – the things that be of God – and thus he failed the second challenge of Christ. So far, humankind – including the majority of all Christians and Christian churches – have failed this exact same test. Even many among the top ten percent – especially among those who think they are the most spiritual people – have so far failed this test. The planet simply cannot move into a golden age until a critical mass of people master the second challenge of Christ.

At the next level, you go beyond being a mere follower of Christ and you begin to accept that you have the potential to embody the teachings of Christ. As you put on the mind of Christ, you realize that you have the potential to be the Living Christ. You stop seeing Christ outside yourself and start seeing Christ as the ruler of the kingdom of God that is within you. This is the challenge to accept or reject Christ inside yourself.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

In the previous chapters of this book, I have attempted to give you an understanding of the reality you face as a person in embodiment on this little planet that you call Earth. I have attempted to give you a relatively concise explanation that appeals to the mind, the reasoning mind, so that you might understand what you are up against and what you have been up against for a very long time in many past lifetimes. Yet I will not leave you without giving you a more full experience of my total being, for truly I, Lord Maitreya, am more than mind. I am also heart, I am feeling and I have very strong feelings for the lifestreams on Earth and for this planetary home itself, even for Mother Earth, who is truly a living Being, holding the vision and the balance for the evolutions that grow – or do not grow as the choice might be – on this planetary home.

Thus, my beloved, I truly want to greet you in the love of Maitreya’s heart, for I represent the love of the Father to the evolutions on Earth. Truly, I am aware that many of you have been brought up in a religious tradition that portrays the Father as a very remote being, as the external God in the sky, perhaps even as the angry God in the sky. Thus, my beloved, I am aware that many of you have never really seen any kind of love associated with God, with the Father figure of God. Some of you have been fortunate enough to have been exposed to the feminine aspect of God, be it as Mother Mary or as one of the feminine goddesses revered in the East. And thus, you have at least received a more balanced experience of the love of God. Yet I desire for you to have a more full experience of the love of God, so that your love might be full because you realize that God the Father, the Creator itself, has an infinite and unconditional love for your being, for your Alpha identity, for your conscious self and for the Omega identity you have built on the Rock of Christ.

Oh my beloved, could you even for a split second experience a glimpse of the Creator’s love for you, you would be totally transformed by that love. Away would fall all of the elements of the dualistic consciousness that reside in your four lower bodies. Away would fall the ego, and you would be plunged into a complete sense of oneness with the Creator’s Being.

As I have explained, your conscious self truly is an extension of, an individualization of, the Creator’s own Being. For when God decided to create individual lifestreams with free will, he did indeed say, as did Christ, “This is my body which is broken for you” (1Corinthians 11:24). Thus, the “body” of God, the consciousness of God, the Being of God has been broken in the creation of innumerable individual lifestreams that all form the Body of God in the world of form. Thus, you who are embodying on planet Earth are part of the Body of God on Earth, and I would love nothing more than to see each of you individually reconnect to the infinite love that the Creator has for your own individual Being, whereby you could accept yourself as a worthy member of the Body of God on Earth. And when you accept this individually, you can then come together collectively and form the true community of the Holy Spirit of the Aquarian age, the true community of unconditional love, the true community that then becomes Maitreya’s Sphere of Oneness, wherein each person feels as one part in the Body of God.

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Oh my beloved, what I attempted to establish in the original Garden of Eden was just such a community, where all had the maximum opportunity to feel loved and to feel part of the greater whole. It was with great sorrow that I saw some of the lifestreams in the Garden embody the fallen consciousness instead of letting go of it and coming into oneness. It was with great sorrow that I saw these lifestreams draw even some of the innocent ones with them, as they decided to leave the protected sphere of the Garden of Eden, which was maitreya’s Sphere of Oneness.

I can assure you that these beings did not leave because they had not experienced my love for them. For as the representative of the divine Father in the Garden of Eden, I did indeed express the love of the Father. Yet the unfortunate fact is that when you are trapped in the consciousness of separation, you cannot receive the love of the Father, for you cannot experience the Being of the Creator. Once you have become trapped in the illusion of separation, your conscious self cannot accept that it is an extension of the Creator’s Being. And when you cannot accept this, how can you reconnect to the fullness of the Creator’s Being out of which you came?

You see, my beloved, when you are trapped in the consciousness of separation, you are like a puddle that has been left behind after the high water of the river moved on toward the ocean. And thus, you see yourself as a separate puddle and you are not able to conceive that you were created out of the River of Life and that if you follow that river back to its source, you will find your own source as the Creator itself.

So my beloved, it has been my role to see many lifestreams that were entrusted to my care go the way of separation, the way of death. I could do nothing to stop them, nor did I really want to stop them. For you see, my beloved, I represent the consciousness of the Father, the love of the Father. And the love of the Father is unconditional, which means that the Creator will allow extensions of itself to separate themselves from its Being, from the River of Life. The Creator itself feels no sorrow over this. But my beloved, as a Being who does not have the full God consciousness, I did indeed feel a certain sorrow. This was not the human sorrow that comes from possessive love, where you feel a personal loss. But it was the greater sorrow that comes from seeing clearly what awaits the lifestreams that separate themselves from the Sphere of Oneness.

For in representing the Father, I also represent the Father’s mission. And thus, I can clearly see that those who follow the path of separation will condemn themselves to a future that can only be filled with conflict and suffering. Thus, these lifestreams can never attain peace of mind. And as the teacher who was charged with raising beings up to attaining the peace of mind that comes from spiritual self-sufficiency, it was with some sense of loss and sorrow that I saw these beings choose to reject the gift I offered them, the gift of the Path of Oneness.

Yet my beloved, you must understand that in my mind nothing is ever lost. For as long as a lifestream continues to be in existence, there is always the potential that it can turn around and decide to start climbing back up the staircase of life. And what I want to assure you is that you can do that at any moment. And when you decide to turn around, I will be there, greeting you with open arms and a love that has not diminished no matter how long you have been traveling in the duality of space and time.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

We have now arrived at a crucial point that has traditionally been the one thing that has prevented the top ten percent from taking dominion over this planet. That point is how you deal with other people, and it is absolutely essential that the spiritual people of this age make an uncompromising commitment to finding a way to treat each other that is not dualistic in nature. This chapter will offer some suggestions.

One of the most persuasive dualistic lies is the concept that the end can justify the means. Another equally subtle lie is that everything that happens in the material universe is ultimately real or permanent. And the third lie is that what happens in the material universe really matters in this world. When these three lies are combined, you have the perfect storm that causes people to be completely enveloped in, blinded by and emotionally attached to an activity in the material world. They now start acting as if the outcome of their efforts is a matter of some ultimate importance, such as life or death or the end or salvation of the world. And since their efforts have an epic importance, it is justifiable that in order to accomplish their goals, they treat people in a way that is clearly against their own religious teachings. After, all what does it matter that we mistreat people if we do it to save their souls or save the world—or so the ego reasons.

This form of religion-based insanity simply must come to an end, and I am calling on those who have read this book to be the forerunners for a new culture that treats people on Earth the way beings in the spiritual realm treat each other. That means without deception, manipulation, pretension, judgment, controlling love, unkindness or any of the other dualistic games. I am calling on people to find a way to have non-dual interactions.

The reality – as I have explained it in previous chapters – is that nothing in the material universe is ultimately real in the sense that nothing in this world has yet attained the permanence you find in the spiritual realm. This world is not a quarry where people chisel sculptures in stone, it is a sandbox where mistakes can – relatively speaking – easily be erased. Thus, the actual events that happen in this world cannot have ultimate or everlasting importance. Your salvation does not ultimately depend on your outer actions in this world but on your state of consciousness. Of course, what you do in this world is a reflection of your state of consciousness, but the point is that it is by reforming your consciousness, not your outer actions, that you qualify for eternal life.

What has ultimate importance is not what happens outside of you – the results of your actions – but what you allow to happen inside of you in response to what happens outside of you—your reactions. Consequently, it is not appropriate to act as if any activity on Earth can mean the end or the salvation of the world. The Earth should be viewed as a theater where everything is simply the stage, set pieces and props. “All the world’s a stage” as Shakespeare – a messenger for the Ascended Host – put it. Human beings are actors who have temporarily taken on a costume, namely the physical body and outer personality. You know that what happens in a play is just a story, so what is the purpose of the play? Well, a good play has the effect of transforming both the actors who perform it and the people who watch. My point being, that planet Earth is a theater that is designed to give the actors – human beings – an opportunity to engage in a play – in which they can play any part they want – and thereby be transformed and reach a higher state of consciousness. The important thing is not what actually happens in the play but that the actors are transformed. The process is more important than the results, the journey more important than the destination.

The spiritually mature people need to develop a realistic sense of what is important and what is not. For example, it is not of cosmic importance that a particular religion gathers members and becomes the dominant one in your country or the world. The measure of success from a spiritual viewpoint is not the same as it is from the viewpoint of most humans. The Ascended Host have no desire to see one religion become dominant, for we see religion only as a tool for raising people’s consciousness. If a religion – however small – truly transforms people and helps them come closer to Christ consciousness, then the religion is a success. Yet if a religion only takes people into a state of spiritual blindness or fanaticism, then it is not a success, even if it managed to convert the whole world. What shall it profit a religion if it gains the whole world yet loses the souls of its members?

My point is that the real goal of the Ascended Host is to raise people’s consciousness, not to achieve any particular outer goal on Earth. Surely, we would like to see the manifestation of a Golden Age of peace and prosperity, for such an age would give people a better opportunity to focus on spiritual growth. Yet the emergence of such an age is only a side-effect of raising the consciousness of a critical mass of human beings. Thus, our real goal is always the raising of consciousness, and it should be your goal as well.

An extreme example of the unbalanced approach to earthly activities is war, where the individual is unimportant and where any number of individuals can be sacrificed for the goal of defeating the enemy. The mission is more important than people. Yet I hope you can now see that this is in complete opposition to how the Ascended Host work. For us, the mission is never more important than the people, for the mission is the people. We are only concerned about raising people’s consciousness and we never compromise that goal in order to accomplish an outer goal on Earth. Thus, I want the spiritual people to adjust their thinking and likewise never compromise the true goal of raising up people.

What would be the point in the spiritual people using this book to start a new religion and start acting as if it is the ultimate religion that must replace all others, thus treating people the way every other religion does? There would be no point, and thus it is essential for you to spend some effort on adjusting the way you look at the purpose of religion. You need to study how religions treat people and learn from them for better and for worse. There are plenty of bad examples, but there are also some good ones.

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In order to develop non-dual interactions, you will – as always – have to start at home by pulling the beam from your own eye. The foundation for dealing with others in a non-dualistic manner is that you first learn to deal with yourself in a non-dualistic manner. When Jesus told you to do unto others what you want them to do unto you (Luke 6:31), he was really saying that what you do unto others, you have already done to yourself. If you treat other people with anger, it shows that at subconscious levels you are angry with yourself.

The most important step in the right direction is for you to depersonalize your life. You need to seriously consider my teachings on your true identity and fully internalize that the core of your being is the conscious self. This self is more than your body and outer personality, even more than the personality you have built over many embodiments. And when you begin to reconnect to your higher being, you realize that anything that happens on Earth is of lesser importance than your progress on the Path of Oneness. Therefore, you should never let anything on Earth come between you and that oneness, you should never allow anything to prevent you from taking the next step on the Path of Oneness. The only way to attain this goal is to never take anything personally, to overcome the attachment that – as the Buddha said – causes all suffering.

You need to overcome the sense that you are a victim, which is one of the hallmarks of the fallen consciousness. So let me ask you to consider a simple question. Do you have a written contract, signed by God, which says that if you agree to take embodiment on Earth, you are guaranteed certain benefits and you are protected from certain unpleasant circumstances? And if you have no such contract, why would you live your life as if you did, thereby thinking you are entitled to certain things and becoming dissatisfied when you don’t get them? Many people seem to think that it is a basic human right that life lives up to their expectations. In reality, your basic right is to experiment and to experience the consequences of your choices, whereby you can rise above your dualistic expectations, even rising above the human condition.

The single cause of all human unhappiness is unrealistic expectations, and those expectations are created by the human ego and the false teachers. These beings are very skilled at putting people in a catch-22 in which they expect that life should be a certain way, but the expectation is completely unrealistic. Thus, people spend their entire lives chasing a carrot dangling in front of their noses, while having no chance of ever reaching it. People are condemned to living unfulfilled and unhappy lives in which they rarely grow spiritually because they don’t overcome their false expectations and often simply “give up on life.”

As I have explained, planet Earth is currently a mixed environment, so it simply is not realistic to expect some kind of heavenly perfection. To avoid expecting too much and taking life too seriously, you need to become conscious of the fact that nothing on Earth is ultimately real or is of epic importance. You are like an actor and your body and outer circumstances are simply the stage for a play. You know very well that an actor in a play is a real person who puts on a costume and makeup. If the actor is good, he might identify himself with the part to the point of temporarily feeling as if he really is Hamlet. Yet when the play is over, he takes off the costume and reverts back to his real identity. If an actor refuses to take off the costume and continues to act as Hamlet outside the theater, you would immediately see this as a form of insanity. So as a spiritual person you need to separate yourself from the collective insanity of identifying yourself with and as the role you are playing here on Earth, thereby taking life too seriously and taking everything that happens to you personally.

Ideally, you should never take anything that happens to you personally, for you should realize that you are a spiritual being who cannot be affected by anything that happens on Earth. As Jesus said, fear not him who can kill the body, but fear him who can destroy both the body and the soul in hell (Matthew 10:28). Yet who can destroy your soul? You might have been conditioned to believe that the devil or other dark forces have the power to destroy your soul against your will, but I hope my teachings have shown you that this is not so. No force in this world can destroy the real you—except of course the being who controls your free will, namely yourself. You are the only one who can destroy your soul, for you are the one who defines your identity. Surely, you can reject this responsibility and allow others – including your ego – to make decisions for you, and then they can potentially destroy your lower identity. Yet you have to allow them to do so and you can – at any time – take back your power to define your identity. In reality, there is no such thing as a hell from which you cannot escape—it is a concept created by the false gods to scare people into submission.

You need to take back command over your mind and redefine your sense of identity, so you realize that you are a spiritual being who is temporarily playing a role in the stage production called “Planet Earth.” Thus, you should take it no more seriously than you would take a stage play. You have heard the saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Likewise, offense is in the mind of the person taking offense. Surely, some people may deliberately try to offend you, but you are the one who must decide whether you will let them offend you and thereby allow them to have power over your mind. Your mind is your castle, and the conscious self should be in complete command of what happens inside your mind.

The most important realization for any spiritual seeker is the fact that there is no direct cause-and-effect relationship between what happens outside your mind and what happens inside your mind. For everything that happens outside will affect your mind only by going through you—that is, if you accept the call to have dominion over your mind. You are the one who decides how outside events affect your state of mind, and the – often overlooked – key to spiritual mastery and freedom is to have dominion over how outside events affect – or rather, do not affect – your mind. In order to have dominion over your life, you must take dominion over your responses to outer situations. You must get yourself in a frame of mind where you are never forced by outer events to go into negative thoughts and feelings. Instead, you have complete freedom of choice as to how you react to outer events. You never let other people force you into a negative reactionary pattern, and thereby you never give them power over your mind. This can be done only when you depersonalize your life so you do not take anything that happens to you personally. You can control your actions only by first controlling your re-actions.

What other people do to you, they are only doing to the outer person they see, and you know you are far more than that person. In fact, you might consider that what other people do to you, they are not actually doing against you. They are simply acting out their roles in the planetary drama—acting out their own unresolved psychology. Even if they have identified themselves with their roles, that does not mean you have to identify yourself with yours or identify them as theirs. Let us take a closer look at this concept.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

Let us look at some of the concrete changes that must be brought about by the top ten percent. It is extremely important to bring forth a widespread understanding of the fact that the role of an outer religion is not to save people. The major goal of true religion has always been the transformation of consciousness, and in this age you see it exemplified in the self-help movement. Obviously, most members of the top ten percent have already understood this and are living it. Yet what most have not understood is why there is so much resistance to this idea from traditional or mainstream religions. In fact, most people in the top ten percent see spiritual truth as so obvious that they cannot understand why others cannot see it. I hope you can now understand that other people cannot see truth because they are still blinded by the duality consciousness. Thus, you need to help them become aware of their blindness and its cause before you can help them see the truth that is obvious to you. You think truth is obvious because you are no longer looking through the filter of duality, so you need to help other people go beyond that filter as well.

The idea that religion will not save you but will help you transform your consciousness will meet fierce resistance from both the blind leaders and their blind followers. The reason is that this very concept threatens the fragile illusion upon which the inferiority-superiority dynamic is based. If people can bring themselves closer to salvation through their own efforts, then the blind followers no longer need the leaders to save them, and they no longer have an excuse for not making their own decisions. Likewise, the leaders can no longer maintain the sense of superiority that has become more important to them than anything else. Thus, you can see why both groups fiercely resist the idea of personal transformation and why they will resist seeing religion as a tool for self-transformation. They will cling to the idea that people cannot save themselves and that they need an outer religion and its leaders in order to be saved.

How can you help such people? It will often be necessary to be non-threatening and to allow them to maintain their basic illusion while getting them to accept the concept of self-help for other reasons. For example, Jesus clearly said that the kingdom of God can be found only by going within (Luke 17:21). He also told his followers to remove the beam from their own eyes (Matthew 7:5), and in this age people can be helped to understand that he was referring to the human ego and its dualistic reasoning that prevents them from having the single eye – the non-dualistic vision of Christ – that makes their whole bodies filled with light (Luke 11:34).

Jesus also told Christians not to be blind followers (Matthew 15:14) and he warned them about false leaders who would appear in his name (Matthew 24:24). So there are many elements of Jesus’ teachings that can be used to open people’s minds to the need for personal transformation. Yet it is necessary for you to realize that some people are not ready or willing to take responsibility for themselves, and thus you must be content to demonstrate the path while being non-attached to the reactions of others.

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Another area that needs to be exposed is the fact that women should be given equal status in all churches. The basic fact is that women are not responsible for the fall of man. Every individual being made its own choice that led to the fall. Eve is not a symbol for women but a symbol for your lower being, which is the feminine polarity of your total being, as your spiritual self is the masculine polarity. Thus, the feminine-masculine polarity of your lower and higher being is independent of the sex of the physical body you are wearing in this life. In past lives you have been embodied in both male and female bodies, so it is meaningless to blame women for the fall and to relegate them to secondary positions in churches. I realize this discrimination is based on Biblical references, but it is high time to recognize that these references were not the infallible words of God but the distortions of a male-dominated culture. It is thus high time to dispense with them and to allow women to hold any position in any church.

In fact, it is high time to recognize that the entire concept of inequality, even conflict, between the sexes is another expression of the duality consciousness. The strategy of the fallen beings has always been to divide people—by making them houses divided against themselves and by setting groups against each other. Setting men and women against each other in a struggle for superiority is simply another ego game that must be brought to a halt before a golden age can be manifest. Only when men and women work together in harmony can they and their society reach the full potential.

Because women have been suppressed for so long, it is necessary to compensate for this by allowing women to take more prominent positions in society, including in religious life. This does not mean that we need a role-reversal in which women seek to take the superior roles that men have had or seek to punish men for the oppression of women. It means that women need to find their rightful role as full equals in every respect, so that there can be complete harmony between the masculine and feminine polarities in human society. Yet this will also mean that women must not stop being women or seek to adapt themselves to a male-dominated culture. We do not need women pretending to be men, we need a society that respects the unique qualities of both men and women, allowing both to be expressed in full measure.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

Based on our previous discussion, it should not be difficult to see what needs to happen in order to free the world from dualistic religion. We obviously need to free religion from all elements of the fallen consciousness, the duality consciousness. The way to do this should also be obvious, for as we have seen, the duality consciousness can only survive in the shadows, where it is not seen or seen for what it is. If people knew better, they would do better, so the duality consciousness can influence people only because it hides behind a veil of deception and manipulation.

However, forcing the illusions of duality out in the open will require a special effort, which can be seen from the fact that no mainstream religion openly talks about the duality consciousness and the human ego or gives a deeper understanding of the beings who deliberately oppose God’s plan by deceiving humankind. In fact, no human effort can bring this about, but with God – acting through human beings who are willing to rise above duality – it will be possible to completely change the tone and content of the religious debate.

There are already enough people in embodiment to bring this change about, namely the top ten percent. These people have reached a state of consciousness where they can quickly come to see through the smokescreens created by the forces of duality. Yet having the understanding of duality is only half the battle, for the spiritual people also need to overcome the stranglehold of intimidation that prevents a free debate about religious issues. This intimidation works in individual churches – to varying degrees – and it works on a world scale. After centuries, even millennia, of oppression and intimidation, many religious people are simply afraid to publicly ask any kind of critical questions about religion, particularly their own religion. The top ten percent can quickly overcome this intimidation, but the challenge will be to help a critical number of the members of particular religions to overcome their fear of thinking and talking freely about issues relating to religion and God.

The forces of duality are very determined and quite skilled in terms of manipulating humankind. They have also had a very long time in which they have had virtually free reign on this planet—caused by the fact that people simply have not known about fallen beings and their influence. This condition was obviously created by the fallen beings in past ages, when they removed any reference to their existence and identity on this planet. Thus, humans have been as unprotected against the manipulation of fallen beings and the false gods as they were unprotected against disease before they knew about bacteria. Ignorance truly is not bliss.

Because of this, it is foreseeable that many people will have some resistance toward acknowledging many of the facts I have exposed in this book. As I said in the beginning, I have presented truth in a direct manner, and the reason is that I know many among the top ten percent are ready for this truth. Yet I also know that many among the general population are not ready for the full truth. Modern psychologists are aware of the mechanism called the flight-or-fight syndrome. When presented with a threat, people will instinctively seek to avoid it, and if they cannot escape, they will turn and fight it. Yet there is a related mechanism that most people are not aware of. When people are faced with a threat that seems too overwhelming, they will neither flee nor fight, but they will instead refuse to acknowledge the threat, as an ostrich buries its head in the sand. They will use the relative logic of the duality consciousness to belittle the message or the messenger, or they will find other ways to justify ignoring the threat.

For many people the full truth I have given in this book will be so overwhelming that they will be unable to acknowledge it. If people do not yet have the inner knowing that the power of God is far superior to any dualistic forces, they will refuse to see that there is a dualistic force. This is precisely the reason the dualistic force has remained unknown and unrecognized for so long, and this is the very mechanism that will prevent many people from removing the veil of ignorance. Once again, a catch-22.

Another reason why many people will rather remain ignorant is that if they acknowledge the existence of the dualistic force, they know it will be such a serious threat to their freedom that they simply cannot ignore it. And since they do not yet believe God can defeat this force (through them), they would rather continue to know nothing about it. Likewise, they sense subconsciously that if they acknowledge the threat, they cannot continue to live as they do now. And since they are unwilling to change their lifestyle, they will look for ways to justify ignoring the message.

My point here is that it is not my intention to see the top ten percent go out and preach a message based on the direct truth I am giving in this book. My intention with this book is to educate those who are close to rising above duality, so they can take the final step and attain the full truth that will set them free from both the consciousness and the forces of duality. Once you have claimed that freedom for yourself, you can go out and serve to set other people free, but in doing so you must practice the art of the possible. As I have explained, you probably chose to embody in a particular environment in order to learn how people in that environment think. You can then use this experience to sense what those people are ready to hear and how you can best present it to them.

I realize this will be a challenge, and some will want me to give them more detailed instructions. However, please remember that the more mature students must face the test of becoming spiritually self-sufficient. In Mother Mary’s book and this book we have given you everything your outer mind needs in order to connect to your own higher being. And when you do connect, you will receive directions from within as to how you can express a higher truth to the people with whom you are familiar. In other words, the real purpose of this book is not to tell you everything you need but to awaken in you the memory of who you are and why you came here. You must then accept who you are and accept that it is part of your mission to go within and get the exact directions from your own higher being rather than from a source that will be seen as external. You must embody the teachings so you can teach them to others by example. It is when the general population see the top ten percent rise above duality and demonstrate this publicly that they will gradually be empowered to rise above duality.

What I will give you in this chapter are some general instructions about what needs to be exposed and what most people are ready for at this time.

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A majority of the people in the Western world know – within their inner beings – that something is wrong with religion. Many realize that things are not as they should be in their churches, which is demonstrated by such things as the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church and other events that demonstrate how religious leaders are not walking their talk, are not living up to the standards set by the spiritual teachings of their religion. Many people also realize that there is an element of deception in many religions and that things were taken out of the Christian religion centuries ago. Many people have been disappointed by the behavior of religious leaders or by the rigidity of the outer institutions. Many people feel that the churches in which they grew up can no longer meet their spiritual needs in this modern age. Many churches are stuck in the past and simply cannot or will not adapt to the challenges presented by life in a fast-changing world.

My point here is that in the Western world there is a general discontent among a majority of the people, but so far these people have had no clear vision of why they feel something is wrong with or missing from their religion. Yet people are rapidly becoming more open to looking for explanations beyond traditional sources, and this is where the most spiritual people and the Ascended Host have an opportunity to expand people’s vision. A majority of the people in the Western world are ready to receive the understanding that what causes things to go awry in religion – as well as in their personal lives and in society – is the human ego and the duality consciousness. These people can quickly be helped to see that everything they sense is wrong with religion is caused by the ego that uses the duality consciousness to pervert the original purpose of religion—a purpose that most people have some awareness of in their hearts.

Many people are ready to look for the beam – the ego – in their own eyes, for they have already received some awareness of the ego from the self-help movement. This movement has for decades opened people’s minds to a deeper understanding of psychology, including the existence of the ego. People are ready for a breakthrough that connects the dots and shows them how the human ego has influenced religion for thousands of years and how the characteristics of the ego have distorted virtually every aspect of religious life. This will cause many of the people who are still involved with religion to see that it is possible and necessary to take religion to a higher level. It can also cause many of the people who have abandoned religion to see that it is not actually religion itself, but ego-based religion, that they cannot accept.

My point is that a critical mass of people are ready to see that religion is the one area of society where the duality consciousness should not be allowed to operate. They are also ready to see that in order to counteract the influence of the ego, it is absolutely necessary that the duality consciousness must be openly discussed and exposed. Time has simply run away from the approach of remaining silent or pretending nothing could be wrong with your religion. People are ready to call a hypocrite a hypocrite and they are ready for a new initiative to remove all hypocrisy from religion. In other words, people are ready for a new openness, whereby it becomes possible, even necessary, to discuss many of the things that were previously considered taboos in the religious debate.

In fact, this is a development that the fallen beings and the false gods are quite aware of. Some of them know this tide can be slowed down but that it cannot be stopped. They are still trying to slow it down as best they can, for example in the attempt to use fear to make people turn to fundamentalist religion that insists on the infallibility of the scriptures of the past. Yet some of the more advanced fallen beings have realized that openness cannot be stopped, so they are trying to direct the debate into areas of their choosing. The motto of the fallen beings has always been that if you can’t beat ‘em—join ‘em, and they are seeking to steer the religious debate into a blind alley that will obscure the real cause of the problem and allow them to stay in control of this planet. Some fallen beings are quite ready to destroy modern people’s faith in all religion and elevate scientific materialism as the “one true religion.” Therefore, it is necessary that the most spiritual people engage in the debate and put it on the right track, namely the track that will lead people to see what is taking away their spiritual freedom so they can find the truth that will make them free.

This is your challenge, namely to engage in the religious debate and take the initiative away from those who are trapped in the duality consciousness—whether they do so unwittingly or with some knowledge of the forces they serve. The main goal is to establish a new approach to religion, an approach that makes it clear that in the modern world it is time to raise religion above duality and the human ego. It is time to establish non-dualistic religions on this planet. Let me give you some pointers on the specific areas in which the influence of the ego needs to be exposed.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

I have now explained that the only people who have the potential to free the Earth from dualistic religion are the members of the top ten percent. Yet for you to fill this role, you must – as always – begin at home, begin by removing the beam in your own eye. What I am essentially asking you to do is to help set the rest of humanity free from the influence of the false teachers. And how can you possibly do this unless you have set yourself free from the influence of false teachers?

I must tell you that one of the most delicate problems faced by the Ascended Host is how to get the most spiritually mature people to recognize that they have been influenced by false teachers and then withdraw themselves from these teachers and their false ideas. There are several aspects to this problem, and I will review them in this chapter.

Let us begin with what should be the most obvious problem. All spiritual people recognize that there is something beyond the material universe, whether they call it God, Source, the Ascended Host or something else. Naturally, a spiritual person feels a great sense of loyalty toward that something, feeling it is necessary to remain faithful to God or the spiritual teacher. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with this, as it is indeed appropriate to feel such loyalty toward the beings who are above you in the spiritual hierarchy. As I have explained, you do not progress as a separate individual, you progress by becoming one with your own spiritual lineage, the River of Life. Spiritual people know this subconsciously, and that is why they feel a conscious need to be loyal to their vision of those whom they see as above them in hierarchy.

Yet while we have a constructive and necessary drive for loyalty, there are two potential problems with this. The first one is that even if you are loyal to a spiritual being who is beyond the Earth, you could potentially be loyal to one of the false gods that exist in the emotional or mental realm. Or you could be loyal to a being in one of these realms who portrays itself as a spiritual teacher, perhaps even as a representative of the Ascended Host. There are beings who impersonate ascended beings and claim to be the real Jesus or the real Maitreya, thus being impostors. If you have become loyal to such a false god or teacher, it can be very difficult for you to break free. For how can you break free unless you question the being, and how can you do that when questioning will be seen as a lack of loyalty? So this can form a catch-22, and the only one who can break it is you.

You must be willing to realize that questioning your God or teacher is not a lack of loyalty. Why not? Because if your God or teacher is true, they will have no problem with being questioned. The real representatives of God have nothing to hide and know that you will grow only by asking questions. Thus, it is natural that there comes a point when you do question your teacher or even your God. As I have attempted to explain, the Creator is beyond the world of form, so there is no image or spiritual teaching that can accurately portray the fullness of the Creator’s Being. So how can you get to know that fullness? You can do so only through direct experience, and you will attain this experience only by being willing to go beyond any outer teaching. You can go beyond only if you are willing to question, and thus the Creator knows that questioning is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, of all progress. Those who think they know everything are always far from the Creator’s true Spirit, no matter how sophisticated they think they are.

The first problem is that spiritual people can be loyal to a false god or false teacher who is beyond the physical world. The second problem is that many spiritual people have come to believe that being loyal to their God means being loyal to an organization, doctrine, religious leader or guru who claims to represent that God on Earth. Thus, they dare not question the outer organization, its doctrines or its leaders, feeling that doing so would be disloyal to God. However, as I have attempted to explain, most spiritual and religious organizations have been affected by the duality consciousness. And how can they ever be set free from that consciousness unless the members are willing to ask questions?

The forces of duality, including your own ego and fallen beings, are not in the least loyal to the true God. Thus, if you do not question their influence on your religion, you are actually being loyal to them instead of being loyal to God. They have perverted your religion and taken it away from what God wants it to be, and you are allowing this to go on by remaining silent. Remaining silent in the name of loyalty to God makes no sense at all. Those who are truly loyal to God or a true spiritual teacher will question anything in an outer organization that is influenced by duality. And they will keep doing so until they either see positive change or until they decide to move on and go elsewhere.

Only the false gods and the false teachers have something to hide, and that is why they will seek to make you believe that you should not question them in the name of loyalty to God. They know they cannot stand up to scrutiny, and the only way they can continue to fool spiritual people is to get them to stop asking questions. For as soon as people do start asking questions, they will clearly see that there either are no answers or that the answers don’t make sense. And then people will begin to see through the false doctrines and realize they need to look for a true teacher. So if the top ten percent are to fill their role of freeing the Earth from the influence of false teachers, they need to start questioning everything about their spiritual lives, including their God, their doctrines, their outer organization or an outer guru. If you are not willing to question – if you have mental holy cows that you see as untouchable – you are not on the true path to spiritual freedom.

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There is misplaced loyalty – you are loyal to the wrong being – and there is false loyalty – you are loyal to an outer representative and not to the transcendental God – and you need to overcome both. How do you begin? In the end it all comes down to discernment, the ability to distinguish between the one truth – the truth with no dualistic opposites – of the Christ mind and the many “truths” of the mind of anti-christ. Obviously, this is one of the main characteristics of Christhood, but it is not an intellectual or analytical capability. It is intuitive, meaning that it is based on a direct inner experience. As you attain Christhood, you attain a direct experience of the reality of God, and thus you can experience the difference – the difference in vibration – between what is one with God’s reality and what is separated from that reality. For example, you can listen to a spiritual teacher, and even though your outer mind cannot find any flaws in the words being said, you experience that there is something lacking in the person’s vibration or intentions. You know there is something not right, even though you cannot express it in a way the analytical mind can grasp or accept.

My point here is that all spiritual people have some degree of Christ discernment—or they would not be interested in the spiritual side of life. So even though you might think discernment sounds abstract or difficult, you already have it. There is no question that if you are reading this book, you have some measure of Christ discernment. However, there are two questions you need to ask.

The first one is whether your discernment is developed to its full potential, and the answer is most certainly a “No!” How can I say that? Because if your discernment was fully developed, you would not be in embodiment on Earth but would have ascended. I am not saying this to discourage you but to help you recognize that as long as you are on Earth, it is prudent to work on sharpening your discernment. And how do you do that? You do it the same way you develop any other skill, namely by practicing it. And that brings us to the second question you need to ask.

I have said that all spiritual people have discernment, but the real question is whether they are using it? Or rather, are they using it selectively, feeling there are some areas of their spiritual lives where they no longer need to ask questions? The ego is on an eternal quest to feel secure, to feel that it is saved. One aspect of this is that it is always looking for a God, a spiritual teacher, a teaching or an outer organization that is the ultimate and can guarantee your salvation. In other words, by merely being a member of this organization or being a follower of this guru, your ego feels that it is saved. And once it accepts this belief, your ego does not want you to question the source of its sense of security. Thus, the ego will try to set up “safe zones” or mental holy cows in your mind, areas where it seems you do not have to question, you do not have to apply your Christ discernment. You might question other spiritual teachers, but you do not question your own. You might question the gods of other religions, but you do not question your own. You might question other religious doctrines, but you do not question your own. You might question the behavior of other spiritual leaders, but you do not question the behavior of your own. You might question many ideas, but there are certain beliefs you never question. In other words, you might question the motes in the eyes of other people, but you do not question the beam in your own eye.

In order to make maximum progress, you need to become aware of these gray areas, these shadowy areas, where you are not applying your Christ discernment. And then you need to start letting your light shine so it can consume all shadows—in which the ego and the false teachers seek to hide. This is a matter of making some clear decisions. Are you truly willing to be part of the movement to set humankind free from the false teachers? If so, start by setting yourself free and you will see more clearly how to set others free. Are you willing to acknowledge that there are false teachers in this world and beyond this world? Are you willing to acknowledge that you have been affected by them, or would you rather remain in ignorance?

Let me give you a useful measure for evaluating whether you have spiritual holy cows, areas of your spiritual life where your ego resists questions. As I have said before, the essence of the ego is resistance to the flow of life, the River of Life. Therefore, the ego is constantly seeking to defend its illusions against the light of truth. In reality, no illusion can stand in the light of truth, as the darkness cannot remain when you turn on the light. So the ego is constantly trying to prevent you from turning on the light in your mind by finding and accepting an understanding that goes beyond the ego’s dualistic illusions. Whenever you detect any hesitancy toward having your beliefs questioned or any reluctance to consider new knowledge, you know the ego is at work.

The equation is very simple, and it was described by Jesus in the parable about building your house on sand versus building it on rock (Matthew 7:24). If your spiritual beliefs are built on the shifting sands of the duality consciousness, they will inevitably be threatened by the light of truth, and thus you will resist truth, you will resist questions. Yet if your beliefs are built upon the rock of Christ, you have no need to resist truth and thus you can openly examine any idea that comes to you, dismissing the ones that do not vibrate with truth and accepting the ones that do. As the Buddha put it, “Accept nothing that is unreasonable. Reject nothing as unreasonable without proper examination.” It is only the ego that resists properly examining new ideas before you dismiss or accept them.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

In order for the top ten percent of the spiritual people to have the maximum impact, they need to recognize how they tend to respond when they are confronted with religious people who are openly fanatical, hostile and aggressive. Let us begin by looking at the lowest half of the top ten percent.

These people have recognized that there is a spiritual side to life, so they can see beyond the rigidity of traditional religion, but they have not yet fully understood the nature of duality. The result is that they are often drawn into a dualistic struggle of arguing with those who are fully trapped in duality. They clearly see the error of a traditional religion, and they become very zealous in trying to convince other people, often feeling they are doing this for God or some great cause. Yet because those in the top ten percent have risen above the lower manifestations of the duality consciousness, these people are not willing to go as far as the bottom ten percent in order to defeat their opponents. They do not fully believe that the end can justify the means, at least they realize that there are certain means that are never justified. The result is that the top ten percent almost invariably lose any power struggle with the bottom ten percent, who will often exclude them from leadership positions in traditional churches. This often makes the more spiritual people very frustrated and causes them to go into a passive-aggressive response of feeling like victims or martyrs.

Many of these people feel that they have already attempted to reform their childhood religion and they failed, so now they want to have nothing to do with that or any religion. Yet I hope you can now see that this is a black-and-white form of thinking, where you jump from one extreme to the other. If the leaders of your religion won’t listen to you, then you won’t have anything to do with them, so you withdraw. Yet such people withdraw with great frustration and often become hostile toward all religion or a particular religion. Obviously, this shows that these people are still attached to the results of their actions, and thus they have not overcome duality.

I am quite aware that many of these people are truly well-meaning and very sincere. I am also aware that they often feel stuck, because they feel that if others won’t listen, then they have no other alternative than to withdraw. Yet I hope these people can use the teachings in this book to realize that there is an alternative that goes beyond the two dualistic extremes. That alternative is to truly rise above duality, so you can engage in the religious debate without expecting particular outer results. Thereby, you can avoid feeling rejected and that will actually open up for the desired results to manifest.

Let us now look at the top half of the top ten percent, what we might call the top five percent. These are people who have seen the futility of engaging in any kind of dualistic struggle. Yet because they have not consciously seen the reality of the non-dualistic approach, they have felt there is no way to constructively engage the more fanatical people. Some of these people are members of traditional religions, and they often participate in religious activities without ever saying anything. They engage in the outer rituals while thinking for themselves in the privacy of their own minds. Others have simply withdrawn quietly from a particular religion or from all religion, still being spiritual but without any outer practices.

These people have often adopted a form of gray thinking, where they believe you should simply live and let live, believe and let believe. You should believe what you want to believe and let other people do the same, not interfering with their beliefs or challenging them in any way. So while the group described above are often in a passive-aggressive response, the people in this latter group have overcome aggression – which is good – but they have now gone into the blind alley of being entirely passive. Yet what could possibly be wrong with this approach—aren’t these people simply refusing to resist evil and turning the other cheek?

We have now arrived at the central question that will determine whether the top ten percent will rise and fulfill the roles they planned to play or whether they will sit passively by while the religious debate continues to be controlled by those trapped in duality. The question really is whether the top ten percent will take this planet into a Golden Age of spiritual freedom and abundance or whether they will let the bottom ten percent reverse the upward trend built over thousands of years and instead take the planet into another downward spiral. Let us take a closer look.

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The basic dynamic that shapes everything on planet Earth is very simple. As I have explained, everything is created from the Ma-ter Light, which has consciousness. All structures in the world of form are organized into units, and within a given unit, there is a collective consciousness that affects everything within that unit. In the unit called planet Earth, the dominant factor is the consciousness of humankind. Thus, every aspect of life on this planet, including human society, the balance of nature, natural disasters, the movements of the Earth’s crust, even the density of matter, is affected by humankind’s consciousness. Because of free will, the greatest impact is caused by the state of consciousness of the middle 80 percent of the population. The lowest ten percent cannot destroy the planet on their own, neither can the top ten percent pull it up on their own. It is the 80 percent of the general population that largely determine which way the planet will go. What the top and bottom ten percent can do is to pull the general population up or down.

In the past, this planet has seen golden ages in which the knowledge, technology and abundance far surpassed what the most optimistic science fiction writers can even imagine. That happened in periods when the top ten percent decided to take dominion over the Earth and pull the general population up with them. As Jesus said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, shall draw all men unto me” (John 12:32). The planet has also seen downward spirals that led to the collapse of huge civilizations, and some of them were literally erased through cataclysmic natural disasters. There were periods when the human population was greatly reduced in numbers and reduced to a state of existence not much higher than monkeys. What today’s archaeologists consider the beginning of humankind, namely the cave dwellers, was only one such low point. These downward spirals occurred when the top ten percent decided not to take dominion and thus allowed the bottom ten percent to drag the general population down to their selfish level of consciousness. We might say that if the bottom ten percent are not counterbalanced by an infusion of light, they will drag society down until the contracting force breaks it down.

The Ascended Host have been working with humankind for millions of years, and we are always seeking to prevent a downward spiral and bring about a golden age. Yet we are always loyal to the Law of Free Will, meaning that we can work only through people in embodiment. In practical terms that means we must work through the top ten percent, for they are the only ones who have a sufficient level of spiritual maturity to recognize our existence and see the validity of our non-dualistic teachings and direction.

What you see on planet Earth today is that, after the last low point, the Ascended Host have very carefully and gradually brought humankind close to a breakthrough point. We have done this by working with the top ten percent, but it has – quite frankly – been an uphill battle, for even the most spiritually mature people have been very reluctant to take dominion.

The planet is right now on the threshold of a Golden Age, but it can only come about if the top ten percent awaken to the reality of the situation and decide to take dominion. And for this to happen, these people must overcome one of the most common illusions about love and kindness, namely that love is only soft, gentle and passive. So many spiritual people have gotten themselves into a frame of mind where they think that all they have to do in order to serve God is to be loving and kind. This is not actually wrong, but the problem is that too many people think that being loving and kind means that you have unlimited tolerance toward other people and their behavior. They think love is passive or that it tolerates everything.

Many spiritual people think love means being non-judgmental of others, and while this is true, the problem is that duality perverts everything, even people’s concept of love. What you see in many religions is a form of dualistic judgment of anyone who does not live up to the standard set by the outer religion. Many spiritual people see the hypocrisy of this, but they think they have to jump into the opposite dualistic extreme of passively tolerating everything. This is a very dangerous illusion, for the reality is that the top ten percent must use Christ discernment to overcome both dualistic extremes. True love is not passive and it does not tolerate everything. True love is unconditional love, and it is a force that wants all life to be free. Thus, while it does not put people down through judgment, neither does it allow them to suffer needlessly by doing nothing to help them. That is the reason Jesus told the parable about the good samaritan who helped the person that the self-righteous Jews ignored (Luke 10:30). Unconditional love is a very active force that always seeks to set people free from conditions that prevent them from becoming more. Unconditional love is the very force of life itself. I know the Creator has given beings free will, but you don’t really think a loving Creator wants them to use it to destroy themselves, do you? Which is precisely why the Creator sends representatives to Earth – in the form of beings with some degree of Christhood – to awaken humans from their self-destructive ways. You might be one of these representatives, the question being whether you are willing to fill this role or whether you will use a dualistic excuse for remaining passive.

I am fully aware that there are many among the top ten percent who will be unwilling to read or accept this book because I so directly talk about fallen beings, the presence of evil and the duality consciousness. Many of the most spiritual people have entered into a state of gray thinking in which they want to believe there is no evil, that there is nothing really wrong on this planet or that evil will go away if they ignore it. Everything will work out in the end—if we are nice to everybody. It is continually amazing to the Ascended Host how the most spiritually inclined people can be open to spiritual teachings that talk about love and peace while at the same time ignoring the reality of what is happening on this planet, such as the potential for war, terrorism, the increasing sexual abuse of children, poverty, starvation and many other conditions that clearly could not exist in a golden age. This is especially amazing because the most spiritual people usually took embodiment because they wanted to help humankind rise above such conditions. My point being that all people forget their divine plans as they take embodiment but that it is high time for the spiritual people to overcome this amnesia.

The simple – yet unpopular – truth is that many among the top ten percent have reached a certain level of spiritual maturity, but instead of going on to full Christhood, they have allowed their egos and the false teachers to take them into a blind alley of a very subtle form of selfishness. These people have become so focused on themselves and their own spiritual growth that they think the goal of life is for them to strive for personal enlightenment. And as long as they do that, they will send out so many positive vibrations that the Earth will be lifted and all darkness will disappear. Yet let me remind you that Jesus told you not to resist evil—he did not tell you to ignore evil (Matthew 5:39). Instead, he told you to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16).

The simple fact is that the Earth will go up or down based on who decides to take dominion over the general population—the top ten percent or the bottom ten percent. The sad fact is that – so far – the bottom ten percent have been far more determined, aggressive and organized in their efforts to take dominion than have the top ten percent. In fact, the top ten percent largely ignore the existence of the bottom ten percent and the dualistic force that is aggressively seeking to pull humankind down into their self-created hell. And as mentioned before, for the dualistic force to triumph, it only takes that the top ten percent do nothing.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

It is virtually impossible to grow up anywhere on this planet without being affected by one dualistic religion or another. Even scientific materialism is a dualistic religion in that it claims to present an infallible truth about the existence of God, your identity and the purpose of life, but in reality it simply presents the doctrines of those who have made a religion out of the plausible deniability built into the material universe. My point being that as a sincere spiritual seeker, you can now see that unless you make an effort to free yourself from the effects of dualistic religion, you cannot manifest your spiritual freedom. However, take note of what I am saying here. I am saying that you need to free yourself from the effects of dualistic religion, I am not saying you need to free yourself from all religion or even a particular religion. The difference may seem subtle, but it is extremely important—as will become clear in this chapter.

The first step toward rising above dualistic religion is to overcome the basic manipulation behind all such religion, namely that if you do not follow the right religion – submitting to all of its doctrines and practices – you are sure to burn forever in hell. This fear-based approach to religion has been influencing people on this planet for a very long time, and in this cosmic cycle it is time for the most spiritual people to dispense with it once and for all. The concept that you need a religion on Earth in order to be saved is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated upon humankind.

As I have explained in previous chapters, you are more than religion, and God is more than religion. Thus, God – who created the entire world of form – cannot be confined to any particular religion on this planet—which is like a speck of plankton in an infinite ocean. You are an extension of the Creator’s Being, and thus you cannot be confined to any particular religion, and neither do you need any religion in order to be saved. Because you are an extension of God, the key to your salvation is not to do something on Earth but to unite with your own higher being. The key to salvation is not doing something but being who you were created to be. Thus, the most important task for you is to never let any man – or anything outside yourself – take thy crown (Revelation 3:11). Let nothing come between you and the direct inner contact with God and your own higher being that is your ultimate birthright.

What you do need in order to be saved is a transformation of consciousness, a rebirth of your sense of identity, whereby you attain oneness with your own higher being. You absolutely can never be saved by maintaining a separate identity. You must become one with your own greater Being while retaining your individuality—not as a separate being but as an individualization of the greater Being out of which you came. I realize this can sound like an enigma or contradiction, but it is one that can be solved by rising above duality. Only the illusion of separation makes this seem like a contradiction. Once you see beyond the filter of duality, it becomes perfectly obvious how you can be one with your source without losing your individuality.

My point being that the only true path to salvation is the Path of Oneness. Yet this path is an inner process. The meaning is that it cannot be guaranteed by following any outer religion. On the other hand, it cannot be stopped by any outer religion. So you can follow the Path of Oneness while being a member of any religion or no religion.

The master key to spiritual freedom is to realize that you can be free only when you are whole, when you are self-sufficient. You are whole when you realize that you get everything from God via your direct inner oneness with God—due to the fact that your conscious self is an extension of the Creator’s Being. So you need nothing from any other person or from the material world, including an external religion or savior.

Take note of the subtlety here. I am not saying that you need nothing besides your conscious self or lower being in order to be saved. Your lower being truly cannot save itself, which is why there is some truth to the belief among many religions that you need God’s grace or help from spiritual beings in order to be saved. The problem is that these religions tend to portray God as the external being in the sky, and thus his grace is seen as coming from an external source. There is separation between you and God and thus there is a gap between God’s grace and your receipt of it. And as long as there is such a gap, how could you possibly receive God’s grace?

The all-important distinction that the most spiritually advanced people need to make is that God is not an external Being. Your source is ultimately the Creator, but you reach the Creator by going through the hierarchy of Beings that have descended from the Creator, the lowest link of which is your I AM Presence. You are an individualization of that hierarchy, and the only path to salvation is for you to come into oneness with it. Thus, you are not saving yourself in the sense that your lower being – which includes your ego – can bring about salvation. You save yourself by bringing your lower being into alignment with, into oneness with, your higher being. Thus, it is your higher being that saves your lower being, not your lower being that saves itself through its own efforts or light. The grace of God is the Light of your own I AM Presence. The trick is to realize that you can receive that light only from inside yourself—the kingdom of God is within you and you cannot find it anywhere else.

In order to ascend, your conscious self must receive grace, namely the light of a being in the spiritual realm. You cannot receive this light as long as you see yourself as separated from God. Thus, you must come into oneness with your own higher being and Chain of Being, and then you can receive the ascension flame. Take note that the ascension flame will accelerate the vibration of your entire lower being, and in doing so all dualistic images and sense of identity will be burned away. That is why you cannot receive the ascension flame until you have purified your lower being from a dualistic sense of identity. If such a mortal identity was suddenly burned away, you would end up in a spiritual vacuum, potentially feeling like you had no continuity and identity. Thus, the Path of Oneness is a gradual process of rising above your mortal, separate sense of identity until you are ready to be accelerated into the ascension without losing your sense of identity.

Take note that the true teachers of humankind will not claim that they can save you. They will help you transform your consciousness until you reach the state of wholeness that is salvation. In contrast, the false teachers are trapped in separation, and the very idea that there is a distance between you and God inevitably gives rise to the concept that you need an external savior in order to cross that distance. In other words, any religion, person or non-material being who claims to be able to save you is making a false claim, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Many immature religious people actually want to believe in this claim, because it seemingly sets them free from taking full responsibility for their own choices. As a mature spiritual seeker, you need to stop believing in such claims and accept the ultimate responsibility that you are the one who must change your consciousness and thereby open the door for the true salvation, the salvation from within.

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The ultimate question to ask concerning your involvement with religion is not whether your religion will save you. The real question is whether your religion helps you come closer to wholeness or takes you away from wholeness? The most sure way to evaluate this question is to honestly consider whether there is any trace of fear in your approach to religion.

As we have seen, fear can only come into play when there is separation from your source. So if you detect any fear in your approach to religion, you know you have not yet attained wholeness. You then need to use the right tools, such as Mother Mary’s book and rosaries, to overcome your fear. You need to strive for a state of mind in which your involvement with religion is based on love and joy, with no sense of fear or obligation. You should not be involved with religion because you fear hell or feel obligated to do God’s work. You should be involved with religion because you love your own Higher Self, you love the Creator, you love other people, you love the Earth, you love truth. And it gives you supreme joy to be involved with an activity that expresses your God Flame while helping other people and bringing God’s kingdom to this planet.

Consider what I have told you in this book about the true God – the Creator – and the false gods. How do you think the true God wants you to approach religion? How do you think the false gods want you to approach religion? The true God wants you to approach religion exactly as Jesus described, when he said that God is a Spirit and that you must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24) and when he said that you must become as little children (Luke 18:17). The Creator has nothing to hide and wants you to discover the truth that will set you free from all illusions, whereby you will experience the incredible joy that the Creator has in being creative—you will experience the Creator’s blissful Spirit. In contrast, the false gods can motivate people only through fear, for in their state of separation they have forfeited all true joy. They know only the dualistic joy that is in a polarity with its opposite. The false teachers want you to be fearful of religion. Why? Because if you knew better, you would never follow them, so their survival depends on keeping you in ignorance. And the primary way whereby they use religion to keep people in ignorance is to create a culture based on fear so there are certain questions people don’t dare to ask. And when you don’t ask, how can you receive an answer? And thus, how can you escape the illusion that keeps you trapped in a limited sense of identity?

The simple fact is that you will never escape your current mental prison unless you adopt a willingness to question any and all of your current beliefs, including those imposed upon you by an outer religion. The false gods want you to think that if you ask the forbidden questions, terrible things will happen, but if you follow them blindly, your salvation is guaranteed. As I have now hopefully helped you see, nothing bad will happen from asking questions, but following the false leaders blindly will not take you to heaven. Thus, be willing to question every aspect of your present approach to religion, from the most general – your attitude to God – to the most specific—the doctrines or rituals to which you have been exposed.

Obviously, by reading this book you have already started this process, but you cannot expect the process of cleansing your mind from dualistic beliefs to be completed in the – relatively – short time it takes to read this book. You should consider this a life-long process, and if you will ask for inner direction, study teachings that give you a broader view of religion and practice spiritual techniques, you will be amazed at the transformation that will begin to take place.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

I hope you can begin to see that what I am seeking to create in this age is a new movement, an initiative unlike anything seen on Earth in recorded history. I am seeking to establish a movement of people who see the fallacy of duality and who are absolutely committed to rising above it, thus demonstrating the path to others. Yet for this to happen, it is essential that those who want to become part of this movement truly understand how subtle and pervasive duality can be. Let me give you an example.

Beings who are trapped in duality have created an illusion which allows them to hold their primal fear at bay. Thus, they want to maintain this state of equilibrium, and when you challenge their illusions, they will feel threatened. They will seek to destroy the threat, and in so doing, they are seeking to pull you into one of two reactions. Most people are not doing this consciously, but the effect is the same. The reactions are:

They want you to accept their illusion, to become one of them through submission.

They want you to oppose them, to become their enemy through opposition.

It might seem as if these two reactions are opposites and that one affirms their illusion while the other opposes their illusion. Yet when you go beyond the surface, you see that there is a more subtle understanding. The basic illusion of all fallen beings is that they are separated from God and other forms of life—they are separate beings. If you submit to their way of life, you affirm that their way of thinking is superior to your old way of thinking, meaning that you affirm its separate status. If you oppose their way of thinking, you affirm that it is in opposition to your way of thinking, which also affirms its separate status.

Can you see that either reaction will affirm the basic illusion of the fallen beings, namely that they are separate from other parts of life? Whether you submit to them or oppose them, you affirm that they are different from you. The basic illusion they do not want to give up is the illusion of separation. So either way you respond, you are actually empowering them to continue in that illusion. If you submit, you voluntarily give them your light, and if you oppose, you engage in the dualistic struggle that misqualifies God’s energy, whereby you also give your light to the false gods who thrive off the dualistic struggle. The real issue is that whether you submit or oppose, you place yourself in one of the dualistic extremes that are the inevitable result of separation. When you separate from the oneness of Christ, you inevitably step into the duality of anti-christ, in which there must be two opposing polarities. Regardless of where you place yourself on the scale that has two opposite polarities – right or left or anywhere in between – you are inside the dualistic struggle.

Either way, the cause of non-duality is lost, so it is imperative that you stay out of this pattern by always seeking to respond in a non-dualistic manner. You must begin by recognizing that other people are trapped in the illusion of separation, and you must then refuse to become part of it. You do this by neither submitting to their illusion nor engaging in a dualistic struggle with them. As the next step, you must avoid reinforcing the illusion in their minds. Again, this requires that you neither submit nor oppose, but then what is left—how can you possibly react when those trapped in duality reject your light and your truth?

It was part of the mission of both the Buddha and Jesus to demonstrate how to respond to dualistic people in a non-dualistic manner. That is why Jesus told you to not resist evil but to turn the other cheek. Let me give you a practical example. One of the places on this planet where the dualistic struggle has been outplayed the longest is in the Middle East. You have various factions that oppose each other and have been doing it for so long that no one can remember how it all started (the reason being that it did not start on this planet). What we see is a downward spiral where one group is seeking revenge for offenses committed by another group. Yet those offenses were acts of revenge against offenses committed by the first group. So each side is seeking revenge for revenge in a frenzy that no one seems able to stop.

Can you see that what is really happening here is that the two sides are reinforcing each others illusion of separation? Nothing can break the spiral until one side refuses to respond in a manner that reinforces the other side’s illusion. Say Group A has built up a great hatred against Group B, feeling its members are bad people and are responsible for their own problems. At some point the self-reinforcing spiral of hatred reaches a flash-point, and some of the weakest members of Group A (they see themselves as the strongest members) commit an act of violence against Group B. Group B reasons that the members of Group A are bad people and deserve to be punished, so they commit an act of violence in retaliation. What have the members of Group B just done in the minds of the members of Group A? They have reinforced Group A’s illusion that Group B are made up of bad people who are responsible for their problems. They have also reinforced the underlying illusion of separation between the two groups. Thus, Group A feels justified in having committed the first act of violence and in seeking revenge for the revenge of Group B. And before they know it, a couple of millennia have gone by with countless acts of revenge and countless people killed while neither side has made any real progress. What can break the spiral?

Suppose Group B decides not to respond to violence with violence. They decide to follow Jesus’ advice and turn the other cheek. The immediate response from Group A is surprise, because Group B didn’t respond the way they usually do. What is going on, what are they up to now? It is likely that Group A will test the waters by committing other acts of violence. For a time, Group A might even interpret the non-violent response as weakness and become emboldened to commit more violence. Yet what happens if Group B consistently refuses to respond to violence with violence? At some point, the more mature members of Group A will begin to question their own beliefs about Group B, and they will even begin to question their own self-image. If Group B refuses to affirm the separate sense of identity of Group A, the members of this group will eventually begin to question that identity. If the members of Group B are really so bad, how come they are not shooting back? And if we keep shooting at someone who is not shooting back, does that mean we are the bad people and they are not?

I realize that so far human history does not have a lot of examples of people who responded to violence with non-violence. But there are certainly some, and one magnificent example is how the Indian nation, under the generally non-dualistic leadership of Mohandas Gandhi, responded to the suppression of the British empire. The Indians eventually succeeded in making the evil of the British so obvious that the British began to question whether their actions in India were in alignment with their self-image of being a highly civilized nation. When the discrepancy finally became obvious to the British, they changed their behavior in India. A similar approach could literally resolve all of the conflicts seen on this planet.

Yet for such an initiative to start and be carried through to completion, there must be people in embodiment who have risen above duality so they can avoid being pulled into a dualistic reaction. How can you become one of these people?

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The essential step is to recognize the very mechanism whereby you became trapped in the consciousness of duality. This most likely happened because you were misled by the fallen beings who are the false teachers of humankind—even though they cleverly present themselves as the true teachers of humankind. These beings exploited your most vulnerable period, namely – as described in previous chapters – when you came to the point when you had to consciously take charge of building your identity. This is the point where you have the potential to become spiritually self-sufficient, to become the Living Christ.

For this to happen, you must be willing to accept full responsibility for your own path and your own salvation. You must be willing to make the essential decisions – the LIFE decisions – that propel you beyond all sense of separation and empower you to be reborn into a new sense of identity based on oneness with your own higher being, oneness with your Creator and oneness with all life.

As I have explained, you were most likely created in order to descend into a sphere – be it the material universe or what is now the spiritual realm – in which there were already fallen beings. Thus, your higher being knew you would encounter fallen beings and run the risk of being trapped by their state of consciousness. Yet it also knew this was part of God’s larger plan, and therefore your higher being – your real self – decided to run the risk. I am saying this because I am hoping to help you accept the decision of your Higher Self, the decision to send you into a sphere where there is a mixture of light and darkness. By coming to this acceptance, you can quickly adjust your approach to life, whereby you can connect to the determination of your Higher Self, the determination not to be or remain ensnared by the fallen consciousness. You can thereby come to the realization that you need to make a very one-pointed effort to free yourself from all of the dualistic illusions that have been admitted into the four levels of your mind. And once you have made that decision, you have taken the most important step toward freedom. In fact, making this LIFE decision wholeheartedly is half the victory—the rest is largely a matter of cleaning up the mess.

I realize that the duality consciousness can seem very subtle, and thus you might fear that you cannot escape its illusions. Yet once you decide that you are willing to become free, you can quickly begin to attain the discernment that will allow you to see through the illusions of duality. In this endeavor, you are not alone, since you can make use of your own Higher Self, often called your Christ self, and the Ascended Host who will gladly serve as your teachers. Yet in order for you to take advantage of this divine direction from within, you must first overcome the major block that the false teachers have managed to insert into your mind. You can see this illustrated in the story of how the Serpent tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The situation was that Eve had been told that she would die if she ate of the forbidden fruit. The Serpent undermined this belief and thus made Eve doubt the true teacher and her ability to understand and follow the divine direction from a true teacher. Because of this doubt, Eve was not able to respond to the Serpent’s temptation by making a LIFE decision. Instead, she made a Death decision and the rest, as they say, is history.

The story of Eve illustrates that you also fell because you doubted your ability to receive accurate direction and your ability to make LIFE decisions—your ability to be the Christ in embodiment. Ever since then, the false teachers have attempted to uphold your doubt in your ability to get accurate directions and make LIFE decisions. They have done this by using your fear to scare you into following them blindly.

Most people on Earth tend to blindly follow their leaders, but the most spiritually mature people have attained enough self-sufficiency to avoid being blind followers. Yet the false teachers have attempted to prevent you from becoming self-sufficient by reinforcing your doubt in the true teacher and your ability to follow the teacher. If they cannot get you to blindly follow them, they seek to destroy your ability to follow any teacher or make your own decisions, seeking to plunge you into spiritual paralysis. They do this by setting up outer standards and making you believe that if you don’t live up to them, you have failed. Thus, it is safer not to try than to run the risk of failure.

How do you overcome doubt? Doubt can exist only in the shadows, a fact that is captured in the popular saying, “Without the shadow of a doubt.” Doubt exists in the gray areas of your mind, areas where you have not taken dominion because there is something you have not taken a conscious look at. To overcome doubt, you need to make a conscious effort to seek out the gray areas and expose them to the light of truth, whereby the shadows of doubt will disappear. This is the only way to overcome doubt, and take note that it is not nearly as hard or intimidating as it might seem. Again, the ego and the forces of duality seek to put you in a catch-22 in which you fear to take a look at the gray areas, you fear what might be hiding there. Yet all fear is a fear of the unknown and things are never as bad when you actually get them out into the light. As the popular saying goes, you have nothing to fear but fear itself, and once you experience how taking a look at your doubts can set you free, you will build a positive momentum on overcoming doubt.

For example, when I talk about people attaining personal Christhood, I am well aware that for many this will seem like an unrealistic goal. Yet the primary reason for this is the intense cult of idolatry that the fallen beings have built up around Jesus over the past 2,000 years. He has been portrayed as being so perfect that no one else could possibly become like him. If you listen to the false teachers, you will feel so overwhelmed by Jesus’ supposed perfection that you will not even try. You will think that being the Christ on Earth means that you have to be perfect. Yet this entire book has presented life as a gradual path. Thus, Christhood must be attained in stages and you have a right to express your current level of Christhood even though it is not the full Christhood. In fact, until you begin to express your Christhood in selfless service to others, you cannot go beyond a certain level of Christhood. You have essentially buried your Christhood in the ground, where it cannot be multiplied. The false teachers know this and that is why they seek to abort any attempt at expressing your Christhood in this world. They want to stop you before you can take dominion and set forth the example that all people can follow in Jesus’ footsteps. So the question is whether you will listen to the false teachers or to Jesus, who clearly said:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)

Another way the false teachers work is by getting people to doubt that anything is real, using the illusory nature of the duality consciousness to make some people so confused that they can’t accept anything as ultimately real. This is easy to accomplish for people who do not have a direct inner experience of the Spirit of Truth and have only encountered dualistic appearances. Because these are all unreal and because spiritually mature people begin to see this, they can be made to doubt everything. How can you overcome such a Catch-22?

The key realization is – as already mentioned – that all fear of loss springs from a separate sense of identity. When you identify yourself as a separate being, you will inevitably believe that your identity can be opposed by other people’s identity. And this opposition implies loss and victory, meaning that someone else could potentially destroy or control your identity.

The price you pay for establishing a separate sense of identity is that you inevitably come to believe that your identity, your individuality, could be lost. And the separate identity you create really can be lost. In contrast, when you see the truth that all life is one, you realize that everything came from God and thus nothing could be separated from God in reality. And since separation is an illusion, it follows that loss is also an illusion. Only that which is unreal can be lost, whereas that which is real – your spiritual identity – cannot be threatened by anything.

Another way to describe this is to say that your true identity and individuality is defined in your I AM Presence, which, as explained earlier, is above and beyond the material universe. Nothing that happens in this world could negatively affect your I AM Presence, and therefore your true identity can never be lost. The sense of loss can come only because your conscious self has lost contact with your I AM Presence and has entered into a temporary, separate identity created from the duality consciousness. Yet your conscious self is an extension of the Creator’s own Being, and thus it can never be lost either. What can be lost is only the temporary sense of identity with which you have identified up until this point. By letting go of this identity, you can overcome the sense of separation and thus the fear of ultimate loss of identity. When you give up separation, you will feel the unconditional love of your own higher being and the entire Chain of Being above you. This is the perfect love that will cast out all fear. The problem is that you will not be able to accept this love as long as you hold on to the separate sense of identity.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

There is indeed a forward movement that is raising the consciousness of humankind. That movement is overseen by us, meaning the Ascended Host, but it is carried out by you, namely beings in embodiment. Millions of people have the potential to be part of this movement, but in order for you to take up your personal position, you will have to first overcome the condition that caused you to become blinded by the duality consciousness, whereby you started withholding or misqualifying your light. In other words, before you can let your light shine, you must rise above the condition that caused your light to stop shining. Before you can bear witness to your truth, you must overcome the dualistic “truth” of your ego. Your conscious self must see through and then separate itself from the dualistic identity with which you have identified.

To help you do this, I will reach back to my previous description of the four main reasons why lifestreams become blinded by the duality consciousness. This ties in with the four elements and their corresponding states of consciousness, as we discussed earlier:

The identity or etheric level represents the Father element and can thus give rise to a perversion of the Father principle, the active principle. This is the temptation to maintain an identity as a separate being, based on the belief that you are better than others. When beings are blinded by this illusion, they refuse to serve those who are below them. This results in spiritual pride, making beings feel they know better than God and anyone else how to run the universe. Such beings have a desire to be god and they are seeking to create a world where they are elevated to the status of gods.

How can you escape this illusion? Well, only by coming to a point of total realism, making you see and truly understand that all life comes from the same source and thus all life is one. Separation is a complete illusion, and because of the contracting force of the Mother, it can only lead to suffering. The force of life itself will inevitably tear down all the towers of Babel built through pride. The question is whether people trapped in this state of consciousness really are as smart as they think they are. Will they recognize the reality of oneness and voluntarily come back to the River of Life? Or will they continue to act upon the illusion of separation until they finally tire of having their creations broken down? How much suffering must they experience before their pride gives way to realism? Can they overcome pride through insight or only through the experience of utter humiliation?

How can you help demonstrate the path of overcoming the perversion of the Father? The most common effect of this perversion on Earth is the misuse of power in the form of tyrants of every kind, leaders who have misused their power to take advantage of their people. You can demonstrate the path of overcoming by becoming a leader and exercising power in a just manner. You can also do it by refusing to submit to tyrannical leaders and standing up to their abuse—however, you must do so with peaceful means only. There is no point whatsoever in standing up to a tyrannical leader in a way that perpetuates the dualistic struggle. Another way to demonstrate the path of overcoming is to selflessly serve others in any number of ways.

In order to do this, you must overcome all desire to use power to force others, even the desire to force others to be saved. You must attain absolute respect for the free will of others and allow them to strike you on one cheek, even both cheeks. You must keep turning the other cheek – there is always another cheek to turn – and seek to enlighten others – so they can make the best possible choices – and never seek to force them to make the choices you think are best.

The mental realm represents the misuse of the element of the Son, the mind. Beings in this trap use the mind, the analytical mind or the intellect, to establish superiority. They become extremely adept in justifying and proving that they are right, and their modus operandi is that they can never be wrong. By their adept use of the duality consciousness, they can always prove their point—at least to their own satisfaction. If others disagree, it is simply because they are not intelligent enough to see the point. These beings are trying to set themselves up as the true representatives of God, the true spiritual leaders of humankind, and they seek to use their superior intellect to get others to follow them blindly.

How can you demonstrate the path out of this trap? By refusing to engage in dualistic arguments, but this does not mean withdrawing from the debate. You must engage the debate in a non-dualistic way. Obviously, this requires you to first overcome all desire to be right among men, so you only strive to be right with God. You can also stand up to the false leaders in church and state, but again this must be done peacefully. You want to expose their dualistic way of thinking instead of allowing them to drag you into another dualistic struggle.

The emotional realm represents a misuse of the Mother element. These beings are consumed by negative emotions against God or anyone who will not conform to their expectations. The Mother element is the passive polarity to the Father’s active polarity. People trapped in a misuse of the Mother often see themselves as victims. They refuse to take responsibility for themselves, want to follow leaders and doubt that they can do anything to change their lives. They often make themselves blind followers of those who misuse the Father and the Son.

How can you demonstrate the path out of this misuse? By taking full responsibility for your own life and spiritual path, seeking to strive for your own Christ discernment instead of wanting a leader to tell you what to do. However, this also involves discerning between true and false leaders. You must not be afraid to expose the false leaders and embrace the true leaders. To do this, you must overcome all tendency to see yourself as a victim of forces beyond your control. You must overcome the temptation to blindly follow those who claim they can lead you to heaven. You must be willing to make your own decisions and be willing to learn from whatever consequences you experience.

The physical realm represents the perversion of the element of the Holy Spirit. Beings in this trap have often built the illusion that God does not exist, which is really a desire to do whatever they want without ever being held accountable by a higher authority. Yet there is an opposite polarity to this, which is to elevate an outer system, such as a religious, scientific or political philosophy to the status of infallibility and then refusing to change it. Such people often believe that by strictly following the beliefs, rules and practices of an outer religion, they can buy their way into heaven, they can force God to accept them even though they have not changed their state of consciousness and put on the mind of Christ. This is the illusion of salvation without self-transcendence.

The Holy Spirit is truly the force that allows people in physical embodiment to transcend the limitations of the material world. Thus, those who pervert it refuse to transcend, thinking they are either mere human beings or that they cannot go beyond a particular religious tradition. These are beings who refuse to self-transcend, those who bury their talents in the ground—as a symbol for the material universe and the lower mind. Some of them simply want to live a good material life and enjoy what this world has to offer—they don’t want to be disturbed by any spiritual teaching.

How can you demonstrate the path to overcoming? By being willing to rise above the temptations and pleasures of the material world. By being willing to question belief systems of any kind and show that you can find a more fulfilling life by going beyond such man-made limitations. You can demonstrate that by being willing to make the best out of whatever situation you were given in life, the universe will respond by multiplying the talents that you have multiplied. You can demonstrate that the law of God really works and that self-transcendence is possible. To do this, you must overcome the temptation to see the material universe as an end in itself. You must come to see it only as a means to an end, namely the growth in self-awareness, leading to full God consciousness.

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If you look closely at the descriptions of the four categories, you will see that there is a common denominator behind all of them. Each category represents a certain way of thinking, a certain way of looking at life. In each group you find people who are completely convinced that their way of thinking is the only right one. Thus, when they are confronted with people who do not think as they do, they feel threatened. This sense of being threatened is the hallmark of beings trapped in duality, because it is built into duality. The consciousness of duality is based on separation, and when you think you are separated from God – from your source, from the whole – you inevitably fear that you can be lost. The concept that you can be lost can exist only in the realm of separate identities, for when you fully realize that you are one with the All, how could you possibly be lost? So the sense of separation gives rise to the fear of loss, which people simply cannot live with.

In order to compensate for the fear of loss, fallen beings must establish a world view that makes it seem like living up to certain conditions will prevent them from being lost. Thus, they create a world view that portrays their way of thinking as superior and they seek to create a world or a society in which everyone submits to their way of thinking. This gives them a sense of equilibrium that allows them to live with their fears. They have used outer conditions to make themselves believe that they can ignore their innermost fear of being lost, the fear that inevitably springs from their refusal to rejoin the River of Life. Only the Path of Oneness will empower you to overcome the primal fear of being lost as an individual—only the perfect love that comes from feeling one with all life will cast out all fear. Yet in order to rejoin the River of Life, you must give up the illusion of separation. Beings who are not willing to do that inevitably become trapped in an endless game of seeking to neutralize their inescapable fear. They are seeking to build towers of Babel that they think will reach into the heavens, but the contracting force of the Mother is constantly breaking them down, so these people always feel threatened by life.

The inevitable result is that when such people encounter those who refuse to accept their way of thinking, they will feel threatened by them. If you follow the party line, you are welcome, but if you refuse to go along, you will be seen as a threat. And as a pure survival mechanism, the beings trapped in duality must seek to destroy the threat. How far they are willing to go in eliminating the threat will depend exclusively on how trapped they are in duality—which gives rise to the belief that the ends can justify the means. Their attempts to destroy the threat might range from seeking to ignore you to actually killing you in order to silence you. You will see a wide range of scenarios being outplayed throughout history, but the underlying mechanism is always that people feel threatened and seek to eliminate the threat to their sense of equilibrium.

Why am I telling you this? Because in order for you to fulfill your role in the spiritual awakening, you must recognize that awakening people inevitably means threatening their sense of equilibrium. As long as people can maintain the sense that they are guaranteed to be saved, they will refuse to change. So the first step toward awakening people and showing them that there is a better way to live is to disturb their sense of equilibrium. And this will always be a task that will be met with hostility. Once you learn to understand and expect this, you can learn to avoid reacting to it in ways that either pull you into the dualistic struggle (thereby misqualifying your light) or cause you to shut off your light. Of course, you must begin by overcoming the sense of being threatened that is the hallmark of your own ego. As always, in order to be part of the movement to set humankind free, you must be willing to start by pulling the beam from your own eye. You cannot help free others from duality as long as you are blinded by your own dualistic identity. Obviously, by reading this book you have demonstrated that you are willing to start this process. What remains to be seen is how far you are willing to go.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

Let us now consider why I am giving you all this information. What can you do with it all? Well, for starters you can attain a new perspective on what it will take to attain true spiritual freedom while you are in embodiment on planet Earth. You can now see that spiritual freedom means that you rise above the duality consciousness and attain the true vision – the non-dualistic vision – of the Christ mind. And in order to attain this freedom, you must separate yourself from the sense of identity that is based on dualistic beliefs, including the many dualistic religious or spiritual doctrines found on this planet.

There simply is no other way to attain spiritual freedom, for any state of consciousness that is influenced by the duality consciousness will imprison you in a mental box. And as long as you are in such a box, you will be fully or partially enslaved by whatever taskmaster created the box, be that your own ego, fallen beings in embodiment, fallen beings in the mental or emotional realm, other people, the mass consciousness or the false gods created out of the mind of anti-christ.

You can also see that every aspect of life on this planet has been influenced by the duality consciousness. Thus, no matter where you have grown up, you will have been affected by this state of consciousness. The effects are:

You have been exposed to physical abuse, which can be anything from violent acts by individuals to being treated by society as a sheep who should follow the crowd.

You have been exposed to emotional abuse, which can range from being told you are stupid or unworthy to being told you are a sinner who was born as an incomplete being.

You have been exposed to mental abuse, which means being brought up to accept certain beliefs about yourself, God and the world, ideas that sprang from the consciousness of duality but were presented as the infallible truth, perhaps even as God’s absolute truth.

You have been exposed to identity abuse in the sense that you have never been told who you really are and where you came from. Instead, you have been given a vastly distorted image of your origin and identity, making you believe you are a human being rather than a spiritual being. You have been programmed to become a “good” human being but only a human being.

The basic message is to never rock the boat, to never go beyond what your society has defined as the norm for a human being. In essence the message is to remain a “normal” human being and never seek to become a Christed Being. This abuse has caused you to deny your spiritual potential, which has given you various types of wounds and scars in the four levels of your mind.

Your mind is made of energy and can be wounded as easily as your physical body. And although the mind has some ability to heal itself, it will need help to overcome the effects of growing up in the treacherous environment found on Earth. Thus, as a sincere spiritual seeker, you can now begin to see that attaining spiritual freedom means that you must heal the wounds in the four levels of your mind. And when you add the perspective of reincarnation, you can see that you must heal the wounds from past lives as well. Given the violent history of humankind, it is likely that you have been exposed to even more severe abuse in past lives than what you have experienced in this lifetime. Thus, there could indeed be many wounds to heal.

I am not in any way trying to make you feel overwhelmed. On the contrary, the very fact that you are open to this book demonstrates that you have already healed many of your wounds. Yet it is prudent to recognize that there could still be certain wounds left that keep you in the shadows and block you from walking the last steps into the sunlight of spiritual freedom. Thus, by recognizing the need for healing, you can make much more rapid progress than by continuing to believe what you were brought up to believe—which probably did not involve the need for you to actively take charge and seek spiritual healing.

There are, of course, many valid teachings and techniques available for psychological and spiritual healing, and it is not my aim to say that only one will work and that all others are false. You should feel free to follow your intuition, but I would like to make you aware of the tools given by Mother Mary, for they are designed by us to supplement what I am giving you in this book. In her book, Master Keys to the Abundant Life, Mother Mary presents a gradual and gentle path to seeing through many of the false beliefs that cause emotional wounds. She has also released a large number of rosaries, which are spiritual techniques designed specifically to help you resolve both dualistic beliefs and the energies that have been misqualified as a result of such beliefs.

It is a simple fact, demonstrated by the experiences of numerous people throughout the ages, that you will attain the fastest progress by employing a two-fold approach of study and the practice of spiritual techniques. Thus, Mother Mary’s book and her rosaries are designed to offer you such an approach, and I recommend them highly. What I will do in this book is to give you the bigger picture of how to free yourself from spiritual thralldom, especially the slavery caused by dualistic religion.

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When you step back from your own personal life and society, you might say that planet Earth is a giant rescue operation. The original purpose of any planet is to give a group of co-creators the opportunity to start out with a separate sense of identity and then grow toward Christ consciousness. Obviously, many of the beings that embody on Earth started out on this track. However, because of the descent of fallen beings, the purpose of the Earth was modified. Most of the new co-creators on Earth have now fallen into the duality consciousness and most of the beings who fell to Earth or came here from other parts of the material universe are likewise trapped in duality. Thus, the current purpose for the cosmic schoolroom that you call planet Earth is to raise as many beings as possible above the duality consciousness. How can this be done?

As I have attempted to explain in previous chapters, the main problem with the duality consciousness is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, a closed circle, a self-reinforcing downward spiral. Once a critical mass of people in a society have entered the duality consciousness, they will be so blinded by it that they literally believe there is no other way to look at life. They are like a person with a blindfold on who is walking toward an abyss while thinking he is on the road to heaven. Even recorded history has many examples of how an entire civilization could believe in a completely false idea while being absolutely convinced that it was an infallible truth. Consider how the population of medieval Europe believed the Earth was flat. The effect was that no one dared to sail beyond the horizon, so even though the population was living as literal slaves of a small noble class, no one could discover the New World and escape the tyranny of the ruling elite. The population was enslaved by actual physical conditions, but there was a way out. Yet because of the belief in a wrong idea, no one could discover that way—that is, until someone finally broke the spell and cried out, “But the emperor has nothing on.”

If you have not read the fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, I encourage you to do so. It illustrates beautifully how people can become trapped in the duality consciousness, and everyone is going along with the illusion because no one dares to speak out and shatter it. How can the spell be broken on Earth, so that humankind can begin to consciously see the duality consciousness and its effects? Well, expanded awareness is always the first step toward the escape from any limitation, but humankind’s awareness will be expanded only if some people are willing to demonstrate for the rest of the population that they are not trapped in the duality consciousness. Someone must cry out that the emperor of duality has nothing on, and someone must dare to demonstrate the true path that leads beyond duality, namely the Path of Oneness. And this leads us to consider why you are on Earth at this particular time.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim Michaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

We can now see exactly how those who are partially or completely blinded by the duality consciousness approach religion. These beings have either fallen from above or they have fallen here below by becoming blinded by the duality consciousness. Obviously, they do not see this and many of them truly believe they are doing God’s work or even that they are God’s true representatives on Earth. Thus, we will call them the blind leaders. These people have the following beliefs about the role of religion in human life and about their own role in religion:

The blind leaders believe they are superior to God in knowledge and intellect, meaning that they have no respect whatsoever for divine revelation, spiritual teachers or for the representatives of God in embodiment. That is why they killed Jesus and many other people who attempted to change the status quo. That is why they are completely convinced that they have the right to take God’s revelation – such as a religious scripture or the teachings of Jesus – and change it as they see fit. They also feel they have the right to impose an outer doctrine upon a scripture that goes beyond or distorts the original revelation. In short, they feel they have the right to create their own religion on Earth and that they should be the supreme judges of what is a true religion. They literally feel they own the Earth and that God has no right to interfere by giving humankind new revelation and sending prophets to awaken the people.

The blind leaders fundamentally disagree with free will and believe people on Earth should be saved through control by themselves as superior beings. They disagree with the goal of a non-dualistic teaching, namely to make people spiritually self-sufficient by connecting them with their higher beings and spiritual teachers. They believe they are the true leaders of humankind and that people should be forced to follow them. This is, of course, only for people’s own good, since the blind leaders know better than God how the universe should work and how people should be saved. These beings believe religion should be a force for controlling people, herding them as sheep into the orthodox fold and then keeping them there indefinitely.

The blind leaders believe they know best, so it is in people’s best interest to be kept ignorant of any viewpoint that contradicts or goes beyond the doctrines defined by the leaders. That is why they seek to use religion as a way to control people’s minds by keeping them ignorant of anything beyond the mental box created by themselves. They feel completely justified in suppressing all alternative knowledge through any means available, whether it be burning books, killing people or torturing their own followers.

The blind leaders are always trying to create the perfect religion, which they see as a religion that forms a completely closed box. Once people are in, they have no way of escaping the control of the blind leaders, they have become unreachable for God and the true spiritual teachers. The blind leaders do this by all means, but primarily through deception and intimidation. That is why so many religions have an obvious culture of fear. Any religion that does not make an all-out effort to raise people beyond fear is influenced by the blind leaders.

The blind leaders have an insatiable desire to prove that they are right and God is wrong. In their blindness, they believe this can be achieved when all people on Earth follow the religion they have defined. They are actually trying to set themselves up as being infallible on Earth, or at least set themselves up in positions where their word is law and cannot be questioned or gainsaid.

The blind leaders are essentially trying to set themselves up as gods on Earth and they have no compunctions about having people worship them as if they were gods. That is why you have seen certain civilizations where the leader was worshipped as a god or as the only representative of God on Earth. That is why so many religions have a hierarchy in which the leaders are seen as infallible or at least as above being questioned. They claim this hierarchy represents God, but it is a creation that springs entirely from the duality consciousness and thus comes between the people and the true God.

For the blind leaders religion is simply a means to an end, namely the attainment of all of the goals described above, including power and privileges for themselves. For them religion is completely disconnected from the reality and the truth of God. God’s truth has no place in their religion, only the “truth” they have defined based on their dualistic world view—that places them at the center of the universe.

The blind leaders believe they have a right to be doing what they are doing, and when they are challenged, their default reaction is anger, often even a rage that goes beyond all rationality or proportion to the challenge. That is why the Jewish leaders were so angry with Jesus and so quick to kill him. That is why Jesus said about them:

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (Matthew, Chapter 7)

The essence of the fallen consciousness is a refusal to self-transcend by serving all life instead of serving the separate sense of identity. Thus, the blind leaders are always seeking to create a state of control that will be permanent and can never be overthrown. In doing this, they are going against the very essence of life itself, which is self-transcendence, the process of becoming more until the void is filled with light and all self-conscious beings have attained full God consciousness. The consequence is that the blind leaders can never succeed and that their creations will eventually be broken down by the force of life itself. The blind leaders are on an impossible quest, and if only humankind would realize this, people could free themselves from spending lifetime after lifetime on this treadmill—while never getting closer to fulfilling their reason for being.

The true teachers of humankind are always seeking to give people teachings and examples to show that all human beings have the potential to attain the Christ consciousness. The blind leaders are always seeking to counteract this effort, and they do so by elevating the example to an exception, thus turning the person who was sent to set people free into an idol. This is what the blind leaders have done to the example of Jesus. Thus, the stark reality is that mainstream Christian churches are not following the true Jesus – who is a member of the Ascended Host – but a false Jesus. The blind leaders have used the example of Jesus to create a religion that is largely based on the mind of anti-christ, meaning that most mainstream Christians are actually following anti-christ rather than the true Christ.

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The blind leaders have no compunction about starting a new religion that is based on their own world view and which often sets themselves up as gods on Earth or worships gods that are fashioned after themselves. Even in modern history there are examples of such religions, and there are many more from earlier ages. Such religions have generally been of localized reach and have been relatively short-lived. The reason is simple. In order to maintain a religion, it must be infused by spiritual light, or it will quickly be broken down by the contracting force of the Mother. The blind leaders and those who follow them do not have this light, so it must come from those who still have some connection to the spiritual realm. Yet such people also have at least some Christ discernment, and thus they are not likely to be converted to a religion that is entirely based on the duality consciousness.

Obviously, the blind leaders cannot see beyond the dualistic state of mind and thus cannot – on their own – come up with teachings that are beyond duality. For this reason, the more sophisticated blind leaders have used the tactic of seeking to distort or pervert a teaching that was inspired or revealed by the Ascended Host. In other words, they have taken a teaching that was sponsored by the Ascended Host and have distorted some of its beliefs, thereby gradually pulling it into the dualistic struggle.

This can be done in various ways, but in this context, I will focus on the falsification of scripture. There are no religious scriptures on Earth that fell from the sky, even though many modern Christians seem to think this happened with the Bible. The reason is that the law of God states – as I have explained earlier – that there must be plausible deniability on Earth. Thus, a religious scripture is brought forth through one or more persons in embodiment—meaning that people can always deny the scripture by discrediting the messenger, as many Jews did with Jesus.

Scriptures can be revealed through various processes, but they all go through the mind of the person who serves as a prophet or messenger or whatever people choose to call it. The law states that the Ascended Host are not allowed to give forth a truth that is higher than what someone in embodiment has internalized. We can multiply the contents of a person’s consciousness, but we cannot give forth ideas that are beyond the messenger’s state of consciousness and spiritual attainment. Thus, to receive a non-dualistic teaching, the messenger must have risen above duality, at least to some degree. This obviously puts certain limitations on what can be revealed, and it is possible that a messenger can have certain personal or cultural beliefs that put an overlay on a teaching from the very beginning.

Yet this demand also has the advantage that a teaching will be expressed in such a way that it is adapted to the cultural background of the messenger, making it more easily accessible for other members of that culture. Always remember that the purpose of a spiritual teaching is to reach a certain group of people and take them to a higher state of consciousness. So even if a teaching is affected by the consciousness of the messenger, it can still take people higher—if they are willing to use the outer teaching as a stepping stone for a direct inner experience.

The danger is, of course, that once a new spiritual teaching begins to gain widespread acceptance, it can become influenced by the culture in which it is given. Thus, instead of allowing the teaching to raise their consciousness, people can – both unwittingly and deliberately – pull the teaching down and use it to justify the state of consciousness they refuse to transcend. People interpret the teaching in such a way that it seems they do not have to change their ways or their consciousness (obviously, a change in consciousness is the purpose of any true spiritual teaching). The blind leaders are very skilled at exploiting this tendency by making – often subtle but sometimes very blunt – changes to religious scriptures that were brought forth as a result of genuine revelation.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.

Ascended Master Lord Maitreya through Kim Michaels.

In previous chapters, I described how all beings in a given sphere – whether they are new co-creators or have fallen from a higher sphere – start out in a protected environment, such as the Garden of Eden. The beings who fell in what is now a higher sphere in the spiritual realm did not fall as new or inexperienced co-creators or angels. In fact, some of them had very powerful positions. It is important to understand how such beings can fall, so let us take a closer look.

As explained in the chapter on angels, the original fall happened in the fourth sphere. This fall happened because certain angels, who had started out in the three higher spheres, decided to deliberately rebel against God’s purpose and design. However, since then many beings – both angels and co-creators – have fallen and this chapter is primarily concerned with how such beings fall. In other words, we will be primarily talking about how the angels and co-creators created to serve a specific sphere can fall as their sphere ascends. However, the teachings in this chapter will to some degree apply to beings who have fallen in a higher sphere and started out in a cosmic schoolroom in their present sphere.

Beginning with the fourth sphere, the density of the Ma-ter Light was sufficient to make the fall a realistic possibility. Therefore, up until the moment when a given sphere attains critical mass and actually ascends, it is still possible for the beings in that sphere to fall. This is true even for beings who hold high positions in that sphere. As long as there is any shadow left in a sphere, there is room for the duality consciousness to hide, and this means it is possible for a being to be ensnared by the subtle illusions of the mind of anti-christ. Thus, even beings who seemingly have a very sophisticated knowledge of the spiritual side of life can fall without seeing what they are doing. If they had known better, they would not have fallen, but because they still have elements of duality in their consciousness, they do not truly know better—they know not what they do (Luke 23:34).

It is also important to understand that a cosmic schoolroom is not meant to take the students to the fullness of Christhood. You simply cannot create a curriculum and guarantee that all students who go through it will come out as Christed beings. Christhood is not a mechanical skill but a creative process that you attain only by making decisions and having certain insights within yourself. You become the Christ as a result of “Aha experiences” or breakthrough experiences that cannot be produced mechanically. You either “get it” or you don’t get it. A teacher can help you make the right decisions and set the foundation for breakthrough experiences but cannot force such an experience. What the schoolroom is aimed at doing is taking a student to the point of being spiritually self-sufficient, meaning that the student has some contact with its own higher being and can thus receive light and directions from within. Even this does not mean you have the fullness of Christhood for in a sense there is no fullness. Christhood is an ongoing growth process that leads to full God consciousness.

How do you attain the critical degree of Christhood that makes you an immortal being? Only by coming to the state of oneness with all life, which – as Jesus said – makes you the servant of all (Mark 10:44). This means that Christhood cannot be attained only by sitting in a classroom and learning theoretically. As everything else, Christhood has an Alpha and an Omega aspect. The Alpha aspect is to go within and find the kingdom of God that is within you and cannot be found by looking outside yourself. Yet once you have attained some contact with that inner kingdom – your own higher being and Chain of Being – you need to engage in the Omega aspect of sharing it with others, meaning that you serve to raise up the All. This is comparable to a college education on Earth. For several years you learn theoretically and after you graduate, you go out into the world to learn by practicing your skills. Many people know that they learn more from working than they did in college. Likewise, you make the fastest progress on the path of Christhood by serving others, for it is in teaching that you truly learn. Thus, after students had reached a sufficient level of learning in the spiritual schoolroom, they were sent out to practice what they had learned. For example, some of the students that graduated from the Garden of Eden were sent into physical embodiment while others went to the emotional, mental or identity realm.

Another consideration is that not all students reached the same level of Christhood when they graduated, much like college students are not equally skilled. On top of that, some students did not graduate but had to be sent out without being self-sufficient because they separated themselves from the teacher. A teacher still has the hope that these students will learn from life outside the school and will eventually grow in Christhood.

My overall point is that after students leave the spiritual schoolroom, they go out in their native sphere and grow from there. It now becomes possible that students can become very good at performing an outer skill without growing further in the inner skill of Christhood. Obviously, students can even grow in outer skills and become more self-centered in the process. This is seen on Earth in the fact that some leaders of nations are very skilled at exercising power but have no true compassion or love for other people, thus misusing their power. Other people are very focused on developing their skills in a certain area, but they are driven by a desire to compete with others. While this can give some growth, it doesn’t necessarily mean growth in Christhood, for as long as you are competing with others, you are obviously in a dualistic frame of mind.

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We now see what happens when co-creators and new angels (angels created specifically for a given sphere) fall. Some co-creators and some angels develop their outer skills to such a degree that they attain what they see as high positions compared to others. Even though such beings do provide a valuable service that helps their sphere ascend, they can still do so out of self-centered motives. Yet even self-centered beings are allowed to attain leadership positions, and the reason is simple. As a sphere is growing, co-creators – and to some degree angels – grow by experimenting. Thus, they are given some latitude in being allowed to experiment, co-creators having more latitude than angels. In other words, a co-creator can become almost anything it wants to become, even if it is driven by a self-centered desire. The reason for this is that even increasing your own skill in comparison to others is part of the process of becoming more. It is clearly at a lower level, but it has the potential to be transformed into selfless service.

That is why the Book of Revelation talks about those who are hot and cold as being in a better place than those who are lukewarm (Revelation 3:15-16). Those who are lukewarm are those who are not taking responsibility for improving themselves but who would rather follow a leader. Those who are cold are those who are working hard to improve themselves but for selfish reasons. Yet even so, there is a potential that they can experience an awakening that turns their striving into selfless service. Having acquired the advanced skills to glorify themselves will then empower them to give better service to others.

We now see – once again – that the true spiritual teachers and masters do not judge anyone. They attempt to give every self-aware being the maximum opportunity to grow, and the world of form is designed to be very flexible in allowing beings to create an environment that facilitates their growth. If a being develops a strong desire to raise itself compared to others, this being will be allowed to do so (in a sphere where there is still room for shadows). The reason is that any attempt to become more leads to some growth and has the potential to be turned into true growth.

Many beings have striven for a long time to increase their skills for their own glory, but have then experienced a change of heart, a turn of the dial of consciousness, that made them see the vanity of living this way. They have then become more altruistic and have been able to use their skills and experience to serve others. You see many examples of this on Earth, for example a business owner who spends decades accumulating wealth only to turn into a philanthropist who gives it all away in order to raise the All. So the difference between being hot and cold is only a slight turn of the dial of consciousness, which is why those who are cold are given many opportunities to take their self-centered desires to the extreme. The hope is that they will eventually have enough and will be awakened from their dualistic mindset. Take note that as spiritual teachers we must remain true to the nature of the Holy Spirit, and thus we can never allow ourselves to create an image that a being is beyond hope. We must always hold the immaculate concept that a being can be awakened and start the Path of Oneness.

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book Master Keys to Spiritual Freedom.

Copyright © 2007 Kim MIchaels.