TOPICS:  Understanding the role of your heart chakra – Why spiritual people do not reach their highest potential – The basic burden of the heart – The quintessential serpentine lie – The serpentine plot – Knowing your own higher will – The higher truth about discipline – Why are you on earth? – Attaining integration – The trap of self-centeredness –

Ascended Master Mother Mary, October 20, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

I come as the representative on the Divine Mother on earth. Mary, you have known me as, but I am far more than you have ever known through the Christian tradition. Which has denied my rightful role from the very beginning, by relegating me to a place that was considered fit for women in those days, when women were considered unfit for any spiritual position or office—as they, of course, still are in many of the religions of the world.

So my beloved, I come to bring you an assignment that we of the ascended masters desire to see happen at this conference, at this gathering. For we have a mighty work prepared for you. And we know that God in you is up to the task. So the question is, “Will you let God in you be the doer for this class?” [Audience affirms: “I will!”] So I thank you for that affirmation.

And I want to draw your attention to the drawing next to me. There is a lower figure, a semi-circle, that represents a chalice with the opening turned upward. That figure represents you, who are in physical embodiment. There is an upper figure, a chalice with the opening turned down, and that figure represents us, the ascended masters. We are ready to pour the light and the direction and the teachings into your chalice here below, so that this conference, as every conference we give and have ever given, can fulfill its highest potential by establishing a figure-eight flow between you here below and us above. And thus, when that figure-eight flow is established, we can have the maximum potential for any spiritual conference.

Why spiritual people do not reach their highest potential

We of the ascended masters have sponsored many gatherings of people throughout the last hundred years and more. We have often had great gatherings and great success. But I must tell you that in the vast majority of cases, we failed to establish the complete figure-eight flow between the people below and us Above. And why did we fail to achieve this ultimate goal? Well, it was because the people below were not able to come into oneness with us Above. And why were they not able to come into this oneness? Because they did not have the sufficient teachings on the human ego, and they did not have the vision of how necessary it is to overcome that ego and come into oneness with your own higher being, so that you can be the open door here below for your own higher being which is one with the ascended masters above.

This is not necessarily because the people were deficient in any way, but because times were not ready for that higher teaching to be brought into physical manifestation, where anyone could find it, either through a book, or now through the internet. Yet times are now ready and that is why we have indeed – through my book on the Master Keys and through Jesus’ teachings on the ego and book by Maitreya – we have determined to bring out the teachings that can once and for all raise the spiritual people on earth to the full clarity of what is going on in the religious life, the spiritual life, on this planet. So that they can finally see why so many spiritual and religious movements, even though they have had great progress and great teachings and great hearts, have so often failed to reach their highest potential and make the essential difference in the world.

And my beloved, the reason why there has always been a gap is that people have not fully understood the importance of the ego and the importance of the heart. And that is why the purpose of this conference is to help you understand the central role that the heart holds in your being, so that during this conference you can do a mighty work for the clearing of the hearts of the top ten percent of the most spiritual people on this planet. So that they can come into alignment with their own higher beings, with their own higher purpose, and thereby become that unstoppable force that will bring the light of God into the physical octave, where it will consume and push back all the darkness, all the illusions, that are preventing this earth from rising into the Golden Age that Saint Germain has envisioned, a vision that he has held for this planet for a very, very long time.

The role of the heart

What is the role of the heart in your being? Well, the heart is the center of your lower being. And therefore it is the open door between your higher and your lower being. It is through the heart that the light and the wisdom and the divine direction from your higher self must enter your lower being. It cannot happen through the head. It does not matter how sophisticated an intellectual understanding you have of spiritual concepts. It does not matter that you know every letter of the outer law. For as the lawyers and the scribes and the Pharisees proved 2,000 years ago, you can have any amount of outer knowledge and understanding, yet you are not able to recognize the Living Christ when he stands before you in the flesh. And thus, you reject him and crucify him because you feel threatened by his mere presence, by the light and by the teaching he brings. Because you see that it will overturn the old order, and you are not willing to give up that comfortability.

Those who had the power back then rejected my Jesus and crucified him rather than give up their comfortability and their old beliefs. And why were they not willing to even see that Jesus was the Christ? Why were they not willing to follow him? It was because their hearts were hardened. And thus, they were not able to get out of their heads and into their hearts, to feel the love that they could have felt when they were in the presence of the Living Christ. For truly, all who are in the presence of the Living Christ have the potential to sense the ultimate, the unconditional, love that the Living Christ radiates in this world.

Yet for that to happen, their hearts must have a certain amount of purity, a certain amount of openness, so that they are willing to tune in and feel what is going on in their hearts. For as the disciples said, as they met Jesus on the road and did not recognize him, “Did not our hearts burn within us.” And this is the sign that you are in the presence of the Living Christ—that your heart is burning.

But if you are too much in your head, as the disciples were, being distraught over Jesus’ disappearance and crucifixion, then you cannot recognize what comes to you in your heart or you cannot interpret that burning. Sometimes you can even think with your head that the burning in your heart is the sense that there is something wrong. Perhaps that there is even something dark, and you do not recognize it for what it is—the love fires in your heart that are simply burning away the hardness of your heart.

And thus, it is not the burning or the love that is wrong, but the hardness that is being consumed. Yet if you are so identified with the hardness that you cannot just let it go, then you can be afraid to let it go, to let it burn, because you do not know what you will have after it leaves. Yet what you will have is the unconditional love of God. And I tell you, it is a good bargain, compared to what is in most people’s hearts today.

The basic burden of the heart

Thus, my beloved, other masters will surely give other teachings on the heart. But I will give you the basic teaching that you need to know and need to understand in order to clear the heart and be that figure-eight flow between your Higher and lower being.

There are many things that burden the heart. There are many things that can cloud the heart. But the essence of all of these things is simply this: selfishness, self-centeredness, a focus on the lower self, not just the ego, but even beyond the ego. Your lower self can become so focused on itself that it does not have any attention left over to direct toward the higher self Above or direct out to see how it can help people in the world and how it can help bring about the vision of God for this world.

And when there is not that vision to tune in both Above and below, to look beyond the self both Above and below, then how can there be a figure-eight flow in your being? Because you will shut off most of the light and the divine direction that comes to you from above. You will not want the light to disturb you, to disturb your ego and it’s sense of comfortability that comes from having you under its control. Neither will you want to follow the divine direction because it might require you to do something different than what you have imagined you should be doing with your life.

And thus, you will not even hear the divine direction that flows to you all the time. You will color it by the outer mind, by your expectations. And those expectations, if you will analyze them, are all centered around the ego and the sense of identity as being a separate being in the material world.

The quintessential serpentine lie

Now, my beloved, if you will analyze what caused the fall of most human beings on earth, you will realize that it was that they all came to believe in the quintessential serpentine lie. And that lie is that God’s will is in opposition to your will, that God is a tyrant who is seeking to impose his will and his law upon you and in so doing wants to take away your free will and restrict your creativity.

This is the lie that in a disguised form was presented to Eve in the Garden of Eden. For had not Maitreya told her that if she ate of the forbidden fruit – which represents the consciousness of duality – that she would surely die. And did not the Serpent say that she would not surely die. But in fact, there was more than what was recorded in the Bible, because the Serpent made Eve believe that not only would she not die, but that she would find the real form of life, the life that God did not want her to have, the life that could only be found by rebelling against God’s Law and God’s Will. For the Serpent would have you believe that you can only have truly free will by going against God’s Will. And this impression has, of course, been reinforced by the main religions in the western world who are all so focused on the masculine aspect of God and deliberately deny the feminine aspect of God.

What has come down to the West, including through Christianity, is the whole idea that women were responsible for the fall of humankind. But the symbol behind that outer statement is that the feminine aspect of creation and the feminine aspect of your own being is responsible for your fall and for the fall of humankind. My Beloved, there is some truth to this. For the masculine aspect of your being is the spiritual self, your I AM Presence. And the feminine aspect is what I in my book have called the “Conscious You” or the conscious self.

The conscious self is what descends into the material world. It is the conscious self who is the co-creator with God, who is charged with multiplying its creative abilities and taking dominion over the earth. And it does so by building a sense of identity through which it expresses itself. And therefore, the identity or etheric body is the highest of your four lower bodies, and everything that follows in your lower bodies is colored by, is springing from, is the result of the sense of identity that you have built.

It was the Conscious You who made the decision to believe in the serpentine lie, to leave off of your oneness with God’s Will. Yet the reality is that it is also the feminine aspect of your being, your conscious self, who must make the decision – the only decision – that can bring you back into oneness, which is what Christian’s call salvation. For it is another serpentine lie that after you have separated yourself from your own higher being, there will be some outer savior, some outer religion, that will save you, who will do the work for you. And it is a lie that you cannot save yourself. This is the lie that Jesus challenged when he said, “The kingdom of God is within you.”

The serpentine plot

The lie that has been perpetrated now through the western religions for thousands of years is that the feminine aspect of your being is responsible for the Fall, is bad, can only make wrong choices and therefore must be disciplined and suppressed by—what? My Beloved, this is what religions do not tell you. They do not tell you that the feminine aspect of your being must be brought into alignment with the higher part of your being, the masculine part of your being. No, they say that the feminine aspect of your being must be controlled and disciplined and restricted by some external deity, an angry being in the sky. And thus, do you see the subtlety of the serpentine plot?

First, they get you to leave off from your oneness with your higher being by making it seem like your higher being is an external deity, who is a tyrant that is trying to impose his will upon you. And therefore, you should run away from that and exercise your free will in opposition to God’s “restrictive” laws. And then they create a set of religions in the western world who say that the only way to be saved is to submit yourself to the will of this external deity, which they first told you was a tyrant that was trying to take away your freedom.

They first get you to run away from the external God in the sky. And then they try to tell you that the only way to be saved is to submit yourself completely to that external being in the sky. So do you see that what has happened here is that they have attempted to create what we call a spiritual catch-22, where you are running away from something at the same time as another part of your being is feeling that it has to force itself to run towards that something?

And because you do not want to run toward the angry being in the sky, you do not want to submit yourself to the angry being in the sky and his external will, you are forever a house divided against itself. And thus, you cannot stand in the presence of the Living Christ. And thus, you cannot sense the presence of the Living Christ because you do not sense the burning in your heart, because the burning in your heart is so overshadowed by all the turmoil created by the divisions in your psyche. For that original division has mushroomed into many other divisions that take all kinds of shapes, in the form of all kinds of psychological problems or in the form of desires for the things of this world or the belief that following an outer religion and doing all its outer rituals and practices will save you.

And because of all these different things that are pulling you in so many different directions, you do not have the attention and the time to center in your heart. And that is why so many people in the world today cannot focus on the spiritual path, even though they have more free time than ever before. Yet their free time – which is Saint Germain’s gift to them so they can pursue the spiritual path – their free time is being eaten up by all these outer things, all these compulsions that they cannot let go of, simply because they are so divided that they do not realize they are being pulled in different directions.

And they can never see beyond all the surface divisions to see the central division that is behind it all – and that their egos and the prince of this world do not want them to see – because once you see that central division, you can then look beyond the outer divisions and go to the core, you can take the axe and cut the tree at the root instead of dealing with the branches. And once the tree comes tumbling down, the tree of anti-life, then there will be a clearing in your mind, and you will now see the Tree of Life, which is the tree of oneness rather than the tree of anti-life which is the tree of division.

Knowing your own higher will

So my beloved, as we have pointed out before in the Will of God rosary and in the introduction to that rosary, the key insight is to realize that God’s Will is not an external will—because God is not an external being. The being in the sky, the angry being in the sky that is seeking to impose his will upon you, is not real. That god, which is worshipped by the main western religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, does not exist. It is a product of the human mind, the mind that has fallen into duality and thus has created this false image of an angry being in the sky who is opposing the will of human beings.

In reality, this false god is only opposing the anti-will created by the mind of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ. And thus, the consciousness of anti-christ has created both the angry being in the sky and his opposite, the devil. And it has set up a conflict between them that is meant as a smokescreen to pull you into aligning yourself with the false god instead of realizing that the real God can never be an external deity. Because the real God is an internal God which is what Jesus told you when he said that the kingdom of God is within you.

Well, if the kingdom of God is within you, where is God? Is he not in his kingdom? So if the kingdom of God is within you and God is in his kingdom, then God must be within you. And that is why Jesus could attain the consciousness of saying, “I and my Father are one.” And that is why you too can attain that state of consciousness by letting the mind of Christ be in you, as it was in Jesus.

And this, of course, is the last thing that the prince of this world and the forces of this world want you to know. And that is why they have set up a false path. For the strategy of the prince of this world is to first create a problem and then set up the only solution to that problem. Only that solution can never solve the problem because that solution will not deal with the cause of the problem, which is separation.

You now have not only the traditional western religions, but even many newer religions and even many New Age movements, who are reinforcing this image of the external God and reinforcing the image that the only way to salvation is to follow an external path. And I am not here simply talking about being a member of an outer church and blindly following its doctrines and rituals. For that is only the lowest aspect of their strategy.

The more sophisticated aspect of their strategy is to catch the most spiritual people by causing them to follow a false path, a path that still reinforces the image that God is outside yourself and still reinforces the image that the real problem in your being is the feminine aspect of your being. And the feminine aspect caused the fall, and therefore the feminine aspect must be suppressed, disciplined, restricted, by that external deity and his law, stated through this or that religion and doctrine or even this or that New Age teaching.

The higher truth about discipline

Now, my beloved, as I said earlier, it has not in times past been possible to bring out the fullness of this teaching, for humankind was not ready for it. And even those who were conscious students of the ascended masters were not ready for it in the form that we are bringing it out now. And that is why, in the past we have even had to present an outer path. And part of that path has been teachings on the ego and the whole idea that you had to discipline yourself.

Please be sophisticated enough to realize that there is a necessity for spiritual people to discipline themselves. Because when you first find the spiritual path, your inner being, your inner space, can be in such turmoil by the divisions created by the ego that you simply do not have the attention to tune in to your heart or even read between the lines of an outer spiritual teaching. And therefore, you do need to go through a period of discipline, of training, of purification, where you still the mind until there is enough silence, there is enough open space, that a higher direction can enter your lower being. And this cannot happen except through discipline, where you are strong, where you are determined and where you follow a disciplined outer path.

I am not saying that all organizations or teachings that present a disciplined path are wrong. What I am saying is that following the path of outer discipline cannot lead you to the ultimate goal of spiritual growth. It can only lead you to a certain stage of the path. And the question then becomes, “Will you become stuck at that level or will you be able to transcend it and move beyond?” I must tell you that too many of those who have come in contact with spiritual teachings, have indeed gotten stuck at the crucial turning point. They have started feeling that because they were in this outer teaching, because they had followed all these outer disciplines, because they had given up this and given up that in the outer, they were surely spiritual people, they were sure to make their ascension. And thus, they could stay at that level, where they felt they had some sense of control, knowing what they were supposed to do.

But that level simply will not qualify you for the ascension, because you cannot enter the ascended realm as long as there is any division in your own being, as long as there is a division between your higher and lower being. So you see, you must come to a point where you have established stillness in the mind, in the heart. And therefore, you can now listen for the inner direction that tells you that it is time to come up higher, it is time to take another step, that you cannot remain where you are comfortable.

Those of you who have followed these teachings that we have brought forth through the websites, you have in some measure made that decision. Although all of you have not made it fully because it is a decision that has many layers and must be reinforced and continually taken to higher and higher levels. But you have all made a good start. And so what I am talking about here is a teaching that I am speaking into the mass consciousness. But I am also speaking into your outer consciousness that you may become more aware of this and then know what is your calling in life.

Why are you on earth?

Why did you descend to earth in this embodiment? For most of you who are on the spiritual path, it was not to pursue personal goals. It was not to pursue any self-centered desires. It was to do a work for the ascended masters in this age. And what is the greatest work you can do in this age? It is to demonstrate the spiritual path.

In the past, too many spiritual people from various organizations have been misled into another plot of the serpentine mind—of saying there is only one way to salvation. There is only one outer organization – teaching, messenger, or guru, or savior, or incarnation of God, or whatever it might be – who has the key to salvation. And thus, instead of promoting the spiritual path, the path of self-transcendence, they have thought that they had to promote a particular outer organization or teaching or messenger.

But that is not the case. Your highest love is to set people free. And humankind will not be set free by everyone coming into and becoming members of the same outer church or coming to believe the same outer doctrine. This is another lie that springs from the denial of the feminine aspect of being, which causes people to enter into black-and-white thinking or thinking that their religion is the only true one. For after all, if there is one God there can only be one religion—or so they reason.

The reality is, as I have said several times now in different disguises – and this is an idea that you need to ponder and internalize – the reality is that the masculine aspect of being – be it God the Father, be it God the Son in the form of the Christian portrayal of Jesus, be it Mohammed, be it whatever outer thing you can imagine and envision – the masculine aspect of being will not save you and cannot save you. For you came into the material realm to have dominion over the material aspect, the mother aspect of creation.

That is why you came, that is your calling. You came to have dominion and establish the figure-eight flow from Above to below and back. And until you fulfill that figure-eight flow, you cannot be saved or make your ascension or whatever you want to call it. So you see, the masculine aspect alone cannot save you. Neither can the feminine aspect alone save you. What can save you is the integration of the masculine and feminine aspect of your own being, so that you are no longer a house divided against itself, but you come into oneness. Your eye is single, you see with the vision of Christ.

And therefore, there is no division because your lower being is in perfect alignment with your higher being and there is a figure-eight flow of teaching, direction and light from your higher being to your lower being, which is then expressed to help others in order to co-create the kingdom of God. And in that expression, you close the circle, you close the gap, you close the figure-eight flow, so that the energies can flow back up. And when they flow back up – and only when they flow back up – can they be multiplied, as only those servants who multiplied their talents received the reward.

And only when you receive that return current, can you rise to a higher level. Only by continuing to rise to higher and higher levels, by continuing to be here below all that you are Above and to express here below all that you are Above, will you eventually rise to the level, where you simply leave behind the material octave. For your consciousness is now so high, that it cannot maintain a focus here anymore. And thus, you gladly and lovingly move on – out of your own free-will choosing – without missing anything on earth.

Attaining integration

For you to go through this integration between the masculine and feminine aspects of your being, the first thing you need to overcome is the serpentine lie of the external God. You need to realize that the true God is within you and that you are open to knowing the true God, who is your own higher being, your spiritual Self, your I AM Presence. And therefore, it does not make any sense whatsoever to say that God’s will could be in opposition to your own will. For when God is not an external deity, then his will is not an external will. It is the will of your self, of your own higher being.

And how can the will of yourself be in opposition to yourself? Well, it can be in opposition not in reality but only in the mind, because the lower part of your being, the conscious self, has come to identify itself as being separated from God, separated from your higher being. And therefore, you think there can be two wills in your being. But in reality there cannot be two wills in your real being. The only will that can be in opposition to your higher will is the will of the ego. It is only when the Conscious You identifies itself with the ego, that you can believe there is any opposition, that there is any division, any contradiction between your will and God’s will.

The will of the ego will forever be in opposition to God’s will. Only as long as the Conscious You identifies itself with the ego, will you believe there is an opposition. Once the Conscious You awakens and realizes – and this can happen in a flash, my beloved, as I described in my book – that you are one with your higher being, then the Conscious You will see that its will – your will – is the same as the will of your I AM Presence.

You did not come here to rebel against that will; you came here to express that will. And that was the reason you chose to come here in the first place. It was only when you met the opposition in this world – when those in this world, those in the duality consciousness, did not want to receive your light – it was only then that you started thinking that maybe there was something wrong with expressing the light of your higher being. And maybe you should turn off that light or turn it down and not let your light so shine before men and not bear witness to your truth.

And that was when you started believing in the serpentine lie that you should adapt to the way conditions are now in the material universe, rather than multiplying your creative talents so that you can take dominion over those conditions and transform them and their present imperfections into the kingdom of God. And this is what has happened to the top ten percent of the spiritual people on this planet. And that is why those top ten percent are not being the force that they were meant to be, the force that they wanted to be before they came here.

I must tell you that the top ten percent of the most spiritual people all chose to come here not for self-centered reasons, but because they wanted to raise up this planet and help bring in the Golden Age of Saint Germain. And you who are beginning to awaken from the illusions, you need to start seeing yourself as the emissaries of the ascended masters, who have the potential to bear witness to this truth that you are now beginning to see. So that you can go out and awaken all those in the top ten percent to who they are and why they are here, so that all of these people can begin to fulfill their reason for being.

We are not asking you to convert everyone to one particular religion or belief system. We are asking you to see the universal teaching that transcends all outer religions, all outer organizations. The teaching on the ego, that we have brought forth now, is universal. It cannot be confined to this or that church, or this or that New Age organization, or this or that guru. No one in the physical octave can have a patent on the teachings of the ascended masters. They are our gift to humankind.

And in the Aquarian Age I can assure you that the old idea that there is one religion, or one church that has the ultimate teaching or the only true teaching, will fade away as it has already started fading away for the old religions in the West, where more and more people see beyond this black-and-white approach and realize that it is not true. Can you see that the last thing we would want is an Aquarian Age organization which becomes trapped in that old mindset?

But this will require that the leaders and the members of Aquarian Age organizations are willing to overcome the ego, which has an eternal desire to feel better than others. And it will use any excuse for building the sense that, “Oh, we are surely better than others because we have the sophisticated teaching. We understand something that these other people don’t understand. So God must love us more. Surely El Morya must love us more because we are his students.”

But you see, El Morya loves everyone more—when they are willing to become more by transcending themselves. And when people are not willing to transcend themselves, they cannot receive the love that all of us have for all of the people on earth. We love everyone on earth, and we desire to see everyone transcend their current level of consciousness and come up higher.

We do not give special favors to anyone because unconditional love cannot be expressed in a conditional way. And that is why you will see that in the past we have been careful not to elevate people, unless it was done specifically for a testing of their souls, of whether they would use that seeming elevation to build the value judgment that they were better than others or whether they would remain humble of heart or become humble.

The trap of self-centeredness

So my beloved – again – the essential problem that breaks the figure-eight flow between your higher and lower being is the self-centeredness of the heart. Needing to feel better than others is one of the central aspects of that self-centeredness, and we know that all of you are capable of rising above it. And thus, I look forward to seeing you rise and come into a greater oneness, each one of you with your own higher being, but also with each other. For this is the highest potential for any spiritual gathering. The degree to which any conference will be a success is in direct proportion to the degree of oneness you can establish amongst each other.

We are not asking you to continue the patterns of the past, the patterns of the Piscean age. We are asking you to step up to the consciousness of Aquarius and forge new ground for what a spiritual movement should be in the Age of Aquarius and what a spiritual conference should be in the Age of Aquarius. And that will require you to let go of some of the expectations you have, built on what happened in the past, whether you were in this or that movement or organization or have read this or that book. My Beloved, the Living Christ follows no rules, except the rule of life itself, which is constant self-transcendence.

I have spoken at length to give you an introduction to this conference and the work that we set before you, a work that you cannot do by yourselves, but that you can perform only by opening up the flow between your lower and Higher beings, so that the light of your higher beings can perform the work. But for that light to perform its work, it must be allowed to flow. And for it to be allowed to flow, there must be the opening in the heart. To facilitate this process, for yourselves and for the world, we give you a new invocation, the Invocation for Integration between your Higher and lower being.

The choice is: you cannot do this by yourself, but God in you can. And will you let God in you be the doer and bring forth what needs to be brought forth and have everything fall into place. And I ask you to give this invocation now while you are still in my Presence and still in the forcefield of this dictation—and therefore can be the Omega polarity of my dictation and bring it into not only your own consciousness but into the consciousness of the most spiritual people, even into the mass consciousness. And thus, you can provide a mighty momentum that can challenge that lie that creates the division between the people and their God.

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS:  Finding a balanced approach to the spiritual path – Find your personal balance on the path – Let life flow from within –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, October 1, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, as I started this conference I, Mary, come to seal it. And I come with the gentle flame of the Mother. For truly, I am in constant agreement with El Morya and with the other masters. Yet I also provide the Omega balance. And so I come with a word of comfort, gratitude and consolation.

Finding a balanced approach to the spiritual path

One of the things that can cause people to become stressed on the spiritual path is when they hear a master talk about a high vision and high goal. And you look at yourself and say, “But I am so far from being there, where I should be in consciousness.” And then in recognizing the gap, you almost become discouraged and feel so overwhelmed that you sense there is no point in even trying. This, of course, is exactly what your ego wants you to feel. For then you do not even try. And if you do not try, you cannot transcend yourself and so you will remain stuck. So now you feel even worse about your situation than before you found the spiritual path and did not know that there was a possibility of attaining a higher state of consciousness.

So I understand that some people sometimes look at the people in the world who are living a normal life and say, or perhaps just sense unconsciously, that it was so much easier when you didn’t know about the path. It was so much easier when you could just live life like everyone else and feel like you were normal, you were okay.

But you see, the reality is that there is never any reason for you to feel that you are inadequate—as long as you are willing to take one small doable and believable step at a time. This is all that is required. It is a trick of the ego to get you to focus on this high goal and say, “I should be the Christ right now. And since I am not, I must be a bad person. There must be something wrong with me. I must not be doing something right.” And then you go into the trap of doing more, of being frantic or running faster. And you can do this for ten or twenty years. Yet there is still the gap between where you are now and where you think you ought to be. It is like the donkey running to catch up with the carrot that is dangling in front of its nose. But the more it runs, the more it pushes the carrot in front of it. And so many people have done this with the spiritual path.

Find your personal balance on the path

That is why, as El Morya said, you sometimes need to step back and recognize that there is a higher approach. And this is the approach that we have been talking about throughout this conference, of Being instead of doing. I will not expound upon it in detail for it already has been done and more will be said as time is appropriate. But I do want you to contemplate the concept that as long as you are transcending yourself and taking one step at a time – and continuing to take one step at a time without stopping – then you are moving forward. And that is really what God wants you to do. And if you keep moving forward, taking one step at a time, you will eventually reach your goal.

On the one hand there is the extreme of thinking that you need to attain this high goal and thinking that if you do all the outer things, you must be on the way to that goal and you must be a good student. On the other hand there is the extreme of thinking that you could not possibly reach that goal, and therefore you are no good and therefore there is no point in trying. But again, there is the middle way, my beloved. And that is what we desire you to find, for that is the key to peace of mind.

When you ascend, you look back at your time on earth and you see that all of your embodiments were a journey. And then you look forward and you see that even though you are now an ascended being, way up there is the Creator and the God Consciousness. And there is a long road from where you are to the God Consciousness. So you realize that life is a very long journey. And then you see that there is no point in thinking that only when you reach the end goal will you be able to relax, to feel at peace and to enjoy what you have attained. You realize that each time you take a step forward, you have the potential to feel that sense of victory and joy. And you see that it really was pointless that when you were in embodiment you tortured yourself by feeling inadequate. And that is what I want to impart to you today.

It is so easy to think that you could not possibly attain what you see others attaining, be it this or that spiritual master. But the reality is that you can attain it—if you keep moving forward. And the reality is that although there is an end goal on the journey called life, there is an almost infinite number of steps. And thus, the journey will not become enjoyable until you decide to enjoy rising from one step to the next. And you can decide that at any level of the journey, be it in the ascended realm or here in the material universe. And I would love nothing more than seeing all of you reach that level of inner peace, of allowing yourself to enjoy the journey, allowing yourself to feel that sense of victory when you have taken one step forward.

Let life flow from within

Look at yourselves and consider what you have experienced for these two short days and then realize that you have been in a different sphere. You have been in an environment that is a taste of heaven, a taste of what it is like to be in the ascended realm and be free from the duality and the ego. Perhaps you have not been able to fully see this, to fully appreciate it. But I encourage you to reflect on this. And I encourage you to find your highest sense of peace, your highest sense of joy that you have experienced. And then I encourage you to hold on to that in the future. Think back to that sense of inner peace and freedom and allow it to grow.

Be aware that as you go forth from here, you will go back into your normal environment and you are likely to be challenged by the forces of anti-peace who will try to take you away from peace, try to take you down from the consciousness you have glimpsed here. But if you will hold on to your highest sense of peace and carry it with you – and take some time to meditate on it and allow it to grow like a plant that is being watered through your attention – then you will be able to carry that with you and maintain it and even expand it in the weeks and months ahead.

As my final message it is my privilege to tell you that we of the ascended masters consider that this conference was an absolute victory for the light. It has been short, and certainly in the future we would like to see a longer conference on the European continent. Yet despite the short duration, so much has been accomplished that we are entirely satisfied. And we indeed feel a strong urge to congratulate you with what has been accomplished here.

And thus, I leave you with this sense of gratitude, this sense of victory. And I want you to feel and recognize that you have indeed performed an invaluable and incalculable service for the cause of the ascended masters by coming together and attaining the state of oneness that you have attained, as has been witnessed by several of the rosaries you have given. Where the perceptive ear will hear that beyond the outer voices is a congruency, a oneness of heart, soul and mind. Thus, my beloved, with all the gratitude of a Mother’s heart, I seal you each one, and I say, “You are my beloved sons and daughters in whom I am well pleased.” It is done. It is finished. It is sealed. For the mouth of the Lord, the Mother of God, has spoken it.

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS:  Jesus was not a celebrity – Look beyond outer conditions – Nothing you can “do” will make a difference – Europe is an essential key to bringing about world peace –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, September 30, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

Jesus was not a celebrity

My Beloved hearts, I am Mary the Mother of all life. For I have become one with the flame of the Divine Mother that truly encompasses all life in the material world and all life in the spiritual realm. I come with a message of peace, of love and of gratitude. For truly, we, the ascended masters, are grateful that you have come to be here with us. It might seem as if we meet in strange places—in this place in Sweden. But think about the conditions that Jesus and his disciples endured many years ago when they walked the dusty roads of ancient Palestine. Many Christians have grown up with a vastly distorted image of Jesus and his image, thinking there was great glory, fame and fortune and that Jesus was treated as the celebrities you have today.

The reality was far different. For Jesus did not stay long enough on earth to become a celebrity as you understand it today. He was not known beyond the borders of Palestine. And even within Palestine he was not known by many people, nor was he revered as he is revered by Christians today. After all, he was born in a manger. And why was this so? It was to show human beings the all-important truth that it is not the way things appear to the outer senses or the outer mind that is important. What is important is what is not seen with the senses but what can be felt and experienced in the heart. This is what counts. This is all that counts. And thus, we have always attempted to help the spiritual people see that it is not the outer appearances that are ultimately real, that the outer appearances are not permanent and that they truly have no power over your mind—unless you allow your minds to become identified with the outer conditions, even with the ego itself.

Look beyond outer conditions

So you see, the call for the spiritual people has always been to be spiritual regardless of the outer conditions they face in their personal lives or on the planet as a whole. The spiritual path, the true spiritual path, is not a matter of attaining outer fame or fortune or the status of a celebrity as some church leaders and some preachers have indeed attained. We do not desire our true servants to be looked upon as celebrities or to be idolized. We do not desire our true servants to set themselves up as being above others. For what is the purpose?

The purpose, the true purpose, of all of our servants is to show people that there is more to life than the outer appearances and that they do not need to be limited or held back by the material conditions they face, or even by the psychological conditions they face in their own minds—but that you can transcend these outer conditions no matter what they are. And you can become more because the real you, what I have called the Conscious You, is more than any outer conditions, more than the ego, more than the outer personality.

You are not a human being. You are not a piece of living meat. You are a spark of the flame of God. An individual spirit spark who has the potential to become one with the All of God’s Being. And yet you are in a physical body on earth. So you face the challenge of balancing the knowledge that you are a spiritual being with the practical everyday reality that you all face on this planet. And this is a challenge that all of us who have descended to earth have faced. Jesus and I faced it. And we sometimes had as much difficulty as you have in balancing the daily reality with our spiritual vision and goals.

My Beloved, this is natural. And I do not desire to see you become frustrated and think that you should be more spiritual, that you should be doing this or doing that, so that you frustrate yourselves and get down on yourselves for not doing enough. For truly we have done so ourselves. We have seen many other spiritual people do so. But in this age, the Age of Freedom, we desire to see many people rise above that, rise above that sense that it is not enough, that you are not doing enough.

Nothing you can “do” will make a difference

But I tell you, that if you are Being who you are, then that is enough. For in Being here below what you are Above, even when you go about your daily activities, you can radiate the Light. And it is truly the Light that will make the greatest difference. I am not saying that you should do nothing to expose the imperfections and the false beliefs on this planet. I am not saying that you should do nothing about bringing peace. Nevertheless, it is a wise student who realizes that there is nothing that you can do that will make the ultimate difference.

Because what will make the ultimate difference is Being. Allowing the Light of God to flow through your lower being in all aspects of life. This is what will make the critical difference on earth. We do not desire you to become frustrated and to come from this sense that, “I need to be doing more,” so that you get yourself in the frame of mind, where you feel like you are always running behind the train, and the train is driving away from the station and you can never quite catch up. And then some people, toward the end of life, feel like now the platform they are running on is beginning to run out, and they still have not caught up to the train. And they become even more frustrated and they try to run even faster.

If I could, I would set you free from that mindset which is another subtle plot of the ego. The ego does not want you to discover the spiritual path. But when it cannot stop you from doing so, it will try to turn your spiritual path into a big frustration, where you feel like you are always behind and it is never enough. So my beloved, allow yourself to know, to realize, that Being is enough. And then focus on establishing that inner contact of Being, contact with your Higher Self, contact with the ascended masters, whomever is closest to your heart.

And then let your doing flow from your centeredness in Being—and that way, your doing will be balanced. And thereby, it will not be you who is doing the work; it will be the Father within you, the God Flame within you, who is doing the work. And thus, you will know the truth, that with men it is impossible to create peace in the world. But with God, with your God Flame, all things are indeed possible. And this is the key.

Europe is an essential key to bringing about world peace

Truly, Europe is an essential key to bringing about world peace. But it cannot happen until the dark energies that were produced by the first two world wars, and so many other wars, have been consumed by the flame of peace. For only then will the European nations and the European peoples be able and willing to look at their past.

Only then will they be able to look at the past without being overwhelmed by the emotional pain of what happened. And only when they look at the past without the pain, will they be able to analyze it and be able to understand the thought process, even the events, that led to war. And then they can free themselves from that mindset and then become a force for spreading the knowledge of peace, the reality of peace, the truth of peace throughout the corners of the globe. As it is right now, the United States – which could have been and should have been the major force for world peace – is not capable of fulfilling that role because it is still too stuck in black-and-white thinking. This is not only limited to the current administration, but even to a large portion of the people—which is why this administration was elected.

You see in Europe a softening up of black-and-white thinking, which unfortunately at the current time has been replaced by gray thinking, as Jesus has explained. Yet we see the potential that Europe could move out of gray thinking more quickly than the United States can move through it. And thus, it is our hope and our plan that there will be an awakening on the European continent, whereby people will understand the reality of war, the psychology of war, and then say, “Enough is enough! We have seen two world wars start on this continent, and we know the third time will not be the charm. And we are determined not to see another world war start on this continent. In fact we are determined not to see it start anywhere, including the Middle East.”

This can indeed happen. And it can happen in time. And thus, again, I say, “Be at Peace!” For it is by being at peace that you can be the open door for the Light of Peace to consume those energies that have been produced by the many wars on this continent. And that is the key to starting an upward cycle of a raising of the awareness that will lead to enlightened actions that are based on peace, based on bringing peace, rather than allowing the forces of war to continue to manipulate nations into conflicts that were never real conflicts and never had any meaning and never had any chance of being the war to end all wars, as some deceitful people labeled the first and the second world war. For truly, no war will ever end all wars. The only thing that can end all wars is that people refuse to fight, refuse to respond to violence with violence and decide to turn the other cheek—and to challenge those who encourage war, wherever they are found.

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: The Invocation for Loving Yourself – Who can stop war?  – True tolerance and false tolerance – The people must stop fighting the wars of the elite – Only true emissaries of peace can stop war – Using the invocations for peace – Rise above all fear of war –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, September 8, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

The Invocation for Loving Yourself

My Beloved hearts, I am your Mother Mary, and I come to congratulate all of you who have participated in this latest vigil of the Invocation for Loving Yourself. If you could see the beautiful light that has spread throughout the earth as a result of so many people giving this invocation, then you would surely rejoice with me. For I can tell you that this glow – that is of the softest pink, like the petals of a rose in the morning sun – has spread around the earth. It has indeed formed a band of energy that has consumed a very substantial cloud of negative energy that had been hanging around this planet for a very long time.

It has been a burden on this planet that the false humility, created by dark forces and prideful people, have prevented so many of the truly spiritual people on this planet from loving themselves, loving their spiritual selves, loving themselves as spiritual beings, as sons and daughters of God. For truly, consider how – ever since your childhood – you have been indoctrinated with the belief that it is wrong to love yourself, it is wrong to appreciate the self that you are. Yet, I hope you can now see that the real you, the Conscious You, is the self that was created by God. And therefore, it is worthy of love. God loves that self, and therefore why should you not love the self that you are?

Surely, you do not love the human ego and the outer personality that is not created by God. But there is nothing wrong with loving the self that is created by God and recognizing that it is created by God. And thus, those of you who have given this invocation, whether every day or just a few times, will surely have felt an increase in love in your being. And I can assure you that on a planetary scale, you have begun an upward spiral that will make it easier for all people to love themselves, to love their spiritual selves and to see beyond the tendency in this world to always focus on the negative. Consider how many people have made it almost a lifestyle to always criticize and point out the negative. And when you realize the creative power of the human mind, what do you think these people are creating when they always focus on the negative, rather than focus on the positive?

I am not saying you need to be like an ostrich and stick your head in the sand and refuse to recognize that there are problems on this planet. For surely, that will not lead anywhere near the Golden Age. Yet what I am saying is that while recognizing that there are problems on this planet, you choose to see them as temporary manifestations that are not ultimately real. And then you look beyond those outer appearances to the reality of God, the reality of the Ma-ter Light that is behind all appearances.

Therefore, you do not – as Jesus said – judge according to appearances. You judge by reaching for the vision of the Christ mind that helps you see God’s reality behind all temporary appearances. Yet, how can you do this in the world around you, unless you have first done it in your own being, by seeing beyond the ego and the outer personality and realizing that the Conscious You is a son or daughter of God, is a co-creator with God, and is fully worthy of God’s love. For only when you love yourself can you love others as yourself.

This is a most profound truth that Jesus gave 2,000 years ago. But oh how few people have understood that truth. Look how many Christians have been brought up, have been programmed, have been brainwashed into seeing themselves as miserable sinners and thinking they should feel guilty for simply being alive. Oh my beloved, what is the insanity that indoctrinates the innocent mind of a child with this heavy burden of sin and guilt? Yes, this must indeed come to an end, and your invocations have dealt a very severe blow to this consciousness of self-hatred that has permeated this planet for far too long.

The need to invoke peace

I come to congratulate you with a work well done. And as we of the ascended masters have said for many years, the reward for service is more service. And thus, I ask you to build on the foundation that you have laid through this invocation for loving yourself and now give a vigil of these next two invocations for peace, that we are releasing. For there is indeed a great need for invoking the Flame of Peace that can consume the conditions that lead to war. Yet why have we waited with these invocations for peace until you have given the invocation for loving yourself? Because if you do not love yourself, how can you be at peace within yourself? And if you are not at peace within yourself, how can you be a force for peace in this world?

You see, my beloved, life is really not that complicated. If you love yourself, you will love other people. And thus, you will not commit acts of violence against them, nor will you respond with violence even if others are violent toward you. For you will know, through the clarity of your love, that they are more than the outer personality and the ego that commits acts of violence. And thus, instead of seeking to punish them, you will seek to raise them up out of their illusions and set them free from the energies, even the dark spirits – even the demons – of war.

Yes, there is indeed a need to invoke peace in this world. For as is clearly stated in our invocation, there can be no freedom without peace. And as you well know, Jesus was called the Prince of Peace precisely because he came to inaugurate the Age of Pisces, which was meant to be an age of peace. Thus, it was indeed the Divine design that at the end of this two-thousand-year period humankind would leave war behind them.

Obviously, as is plain for everyone to see, this goal has not been fulfilled —yet. But this goal is far closer than you might think when you look at world events. For has not this two-thousand-year period seen an unprecedented amount of wars. And has not this past century seen an unprecedented amount of wars on a very large scale. And thus, I can assure you that there is indeed a growing realization among humankind that war MUST come to an end. And the only thing that is lacking for this to actually manifest is that people come to a recognition of the true cause of war.

The true cause of war has a personal and a planetary aspect. The personal aspect is, of course, the warring in the members of individuals, which is caused by the human ego. And the planetary aspect is the presence of a small elite of lifestreams, the power elite, who are absolutely committed to power or to proving God wrong. And thus, they will do anything to stir up conflict as a means to either control the people for their own gain or simply destroy this planet in order to thwart God’s plan for the earth.

Who can stop war?

What needs to happen is truly that people are awakened and come to see the consciousness of war for what it is. This awakening must, of course, start among the top ten percent of the most spiritually aware people on this planet. For they are truly the ones who can turn the tide away from war and toward peace. Yet the unfortunate fact is, as Jesus has pointed out in his discourse on the human ego, that many of the most spiritual people on earth have been trapped in gray thinking. They have come to think that all that is necessary is that they love everyone and ignore every problem. For if a problem is ignored, it will surely go away by itself—or so they think.

Yet the reality is – and history proves this for anyone who is willing to take a closer look – that no problem will go away by itself. As has been said: “For evil to triumph, it only takes that good people do nothing.” Thus, I must tell you that the most spiritual people, the top ten percent of the people on this planet, are the only ones who can remove the consciousness of war from the earth. Yet they must do so by beginning to remove the warring in their own members, namely the human ego.

This is precisely the problem with gray thinking, namely that it gives the ego a protected status as an untouchable part of people’s psychology. For in thinking that all that is necessary is for them to be loving and kind, they are also being loving and kind to their own egos. And you do not overcome the ego by being tolerant of the ego. You overcome the ego only when the Conscious You awakens to the existence of the ego and becomes completely intolerant of the ego, so that you will no longer allow it to run your life or to have any presence in your being. There is indeed such a thing as the perfect hatred, which is not a hatred in the human, dualistic sense, but is the Flame of Love that burns with such brightness that it will no longer tolerate anything other than love. It will simply not tolerate anything that springs from anti-love, and thus it consumes anything based on anti-love—instantly.

This my beloved, is indeed what must happen if war is to be banished from this planet. The top ten percent of the most spiritual people on earth must wake up and realize that they have allowed the ego to remain in their own consciousness, and thus they have allowed the consciousness of war to remain in their own subconscious minds. And as long as they allow this to happen, then God simply does not have the authority to remove the consciousness of war from this planet or remove the beings who are absolutely committed to war and thus embody the consciousness of war.

I must tell you that even though it is the bottom ten percent, the power elite, who create every war on this planet, it is actually the top ten percent, the spiritual elite, who are responsible for allowing the consciousness of war to remain on earth. Do you see the equation? The power elite are so trapped in the consciousness of duality that they are not likely to change their minds in the foreseeable future. It is not likely that they will be converted to the cause of peace and non-violence and suddenly destroy all their weapons and refuse to exercise power over the population. Thus, what MUST happen is that the top ten percent of the people on earth wake up and decide that they will no longer tolerate war on this planet. They must realize that they are the ones who have the potential to bring forth God’s judgment so that war can be removed from this planet. And how do you bring forth God’s judgment? Well, you can judge the consciousness of war only when you have removed the consciousness of war from your own being, when you have removed the warring in your own members by removing the human ego.

True tolerance and false tolerance

It is indeed necessary – for planet earth to rise above war – that there is greater tolerance among people. Yet as with everything else, the ego can pervert every positive quality, even the quality of love, forgiveness and tolerance. For the false tolerance is that anything goes, that anything should be allowed. The false tolerance makes people believe that they should not take a stand against war, but that they should simply focus on being loving and kind, thinking that then war will go away by itself.

Do you not see that if the good people do nothing, then they give free reign to those people who are committed to war? And thus, they will inevitably drag nations into war as has indeed happened over these last five years since the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. Do you not see that the United States has been dragged into war and conflict by those who are using terrorism as an excuse for increasing military spending and using their military superiority to supposedly bring democracy and freedom, but in reality further the cause of the power elite. Thus, even though there is a substantial number of very spiritual people in the United States, you can clearly see that these spiritual people have not been able to provide enough of a counter-weight, a counter-balance, to prevent the United States from being dragged into war by the power elite.

And this alone should show you that the spiritual people in the United States have not done their job of removing the warring in their own members. They have not been willing to face their egos and overcome those egos, so that they could have the moral authority to call forth the judgment of God upon the power elite in the United States, who are dragging this nation into war and who surely have plans to drag it into further wars around the globe. Yes, I am being the stern mother, for it is indeed time that the most spiritual people on this planet wake up and realize, that the future of this planet hangs in the balance, and they are the only ones who can tip the balance in the favor of peace. Thus, as Jesus said, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” If you are a spiritual person and you claim to love God and love the spiritual realm, then keep the commandment to remove the beam from your own eye.

Stop thinking that it is other people who are responsible for the fact that there is war and violence on this planet. Yes, these people are the ones who commit violence and start wars and they make the decision to do so. But as I have tried to point out, they are simply acting on a certain state of consciousness that is dragging them into actions over which they really have no control. The problem is not the people, but the consciousness of war that hangs over this planet as a black cloud.

And why is this consciousness still hanging over this planet? Well, it is because God has not been given sufficient authority to remove that consciousness. Archangel Michael and his legions of Blue-flame Angels, have not been given the marching orders to consume that consciousness and remove all beings who refuse to let go of that consciousness. And why have they not been given that authority? Well, they have not been given that authority because the top ten percent of the most spiritual people on this planet have refused to overcome the warring in their own members by becoming completely intolerant toward their own egos.

Yet if those top ten percent were to awaken and make a firm commitment to overcome the ego, then in removing the beam from your own eyes, you would indeed give God the authority to remove the consciousness of war from this entire planet. And when the dark cloud of that consciousness is removed, I can assure you that even those who are now committed to war would suddenly wake up and be able to see the insanity of their actions. They cannot presently see that insanity because of what we might call the fog of war that blinds people to the existence of a nonviolent solution to their problems.

The people must stop fighting the wars of the elite

My Beloved, there is indeed a small elite on this planet who are committed to war. But since when have you seen the high and the mighty of these power elite people be out in the trenches with a gun and taking the risk of being shot at? So you realize clearly that no war could be fought on this planet unless the people allow themselves to be pulled into fighting the wars for the power elite. Unless the people allow themselves to be turned into cannon-fodder, then no war could be fought.

And what is it that allows the population to be pulled into fighting wars, even though most people are peaceful people? Well, it is indeed that the general population are blinded by the illusions created by the power elite, by the fog of war. And thus, they do not see that there is a peaceful solution to every problem, and they do not take a stand and demand that their leaders provide that peaceful solution instead of immediately going to war whenever a provocation arises.

Can you not see that the American people, the vast majority of the population, were blinded by the fog of war after 9/11, 2001? And thus, they did not have the vision, nor the determination, to demand that their government look for a peaceful solution to the problem of world terrorism. And therefore, they allowed their nation to be dragged into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking that this would be to the benefit of their own safety. I think that most Americans can see today that the war in Iraq has certainly not increased the safety of the world and has not diminished the threat of terrorism. And this of course is why popular support for the war is waning. Yet, the public could not see that five years ago because they were blinded by the fog of war, by the logic of those who are committed to war and cannot see beyond the consciousness of war.

And still the American public is blinded by that consciousness, so that they cannot see peaceful solutions to the threat of terrorism or other situations. And thus, they cannot even demand that their leaders search for such solutions. This is obvious in the current situation with Iran, where the hawks in the current administration are trying to make this appear as a crisis that must be dealt with right now. They know they could potentially lose their power in the next presidential election, so they want to further their world-wide agenda while they still have a president who cannot see through their manipulation. Yet in reality, it is far wiser to realize that Iran is years away from producing a nuclear weapon on their own—if indeed they ever can. Thus, it is wiser to let time work for you so that a regime change in Iran could remove what now seems like a threat.

If the American government does indeed pursue a path that leads to the use of military means, it will only fuel anger and resentment in the Islamic world. And this will only turn the Iranian president into a folk hero and set the stage for the emergence of an even more potent Islamic warlord. This person has so far remained outside the public eye but is waiting in the shadows for the right moment of sufficient Islamic anger to make a powerful entry. And if indeed this person does manage to get popular support, then the result could quickly escalate into a war that would drag not only the West but also India and China into the fray. And this would be a situation in which anything could happen but nothing can be predicted.

Only true emissaries of peace can stop war

Why is the public blinded by the consciousness of war? Well, it is simply because, as Jesus has explained, the eighty percent of the general population will either follow the lowest ten percent, namely the power elite, or the top ten percent, namely the spiritual elite. And precisely because the top ten percent have been so blinded by the gray thinking of the ego, they have not been willing to overcome the consciousness of warring in their own members. And thus, they have not been able to act as the forerunners who could bring forth the new vision of how to actually solve the problem of world terrorism through peaceful means. Once again, the balance of this planet, the future of this planet, is indeed in the hearts and minds of the top ten percent of the most spiritual people. Will they choose to walk the Path of Peace, or will they choose to continue to walk the path of false peace, which makes them think that they can be emissaries of peace without overcoming their egos.

You cannot be an emissary of peace unless you first declare all-out war on your own ego. For only when you have removed that beam from your own eye, can you see clearly how to remove the mote in the eye of another. And only then can you become a true emissary of true peace. For truly, peace cannot come about through the false tolerance which says that anything goes. Peace can only come about through the true tolerance of the Christ mind, the tolerance that is based on a clear discernment of what is of God and what is not of God.

And thus, a Christed being can see that when people commit acts of violence, it is not because their real selves are evil or bad or violent. It is because the conscious self has withdrawn into a cave and has allowed the ego to act out through the consciousness of duality that always operates with two opposites. And it is this consciousness that causes people to think that they must fight the enemy, and therefore violence is necessary or unavoidable.

Only when people have Christ discernment, can they see the difference between the person and that person’s actions. Only when they have Christ discernment, can they see that the actions are caused by a state of consciousness that springs from the mind of duality, the mind of anti-christ. But behind the actions and the outer personality is the conscious self of the person, and that conscious self was created by God. And thus, all people are truly brethren and part of the One Body of God on earth.

Only when you see beyond the outer actions, will you be able to turn the other cheek and respond to violence with love. And in that love, you will potentially set your brothers and sisters free from the consciousness of war. For by turning the other cheek, you will indeed awaken them. And those who will not be awakened, those who hold on to the consciousness of war, will then be judged and they will be removed from the planet. But even this is actually an act of mercy, for these lifestreams will then be sent to another realm, where they can receive further opportunities for overcoming the consciousness of war, opportunities that are not available to them on earth as long as the earth is in its present condition.

Using the invocations for peace

The two invocations we are releasing now form an Alpha and an Omega polarity. One, the Invocation for Invoking the Flame of Peace, invokes the Flame of Peace from above and it is indeed based on the dictation by the Elohim of Peace given some time ago. And I highly recommend that you study that dictation again. The other, the Invocation for World Peace, forms the Omega action of calling for specific elements of the consciousness of war to be exposed, so that people can see it and separate themselves from it.

These two invocations can indeed provide an immense momentum of peace on this planet. And I can assure you that this is highly needed at this hour. For if nothing is done, then truly this planet will continue to slide further down the slippery slope of war, until it passes the point of no return and a large-scale will indeed come to pass within the next year or two.

Yes my beloved, the third world war could indeed break out within the next year or two unless something spectacular is done. And that something must be an awakening of the top ten percent of the most spiritual people on earth to the reality that you cannot make the problem go away by ignoring it, that you cannot overcome war by acting as a loving and kind person while still tolerating the human ego who is simply hiding behind a loving and kind facade, pretending to be spiritual while still continuing its divisive ways.

I encourage you to embrace these two invocations. I will not tell you exactly how you should give these invocations but leave it up to you. You can give one invocation one day and the other the next. Or you may choose that one invocation is closer to your heart and give that one exclusively. Or you may find other ways to combine them according to your own inner direction. These invocations are somewhat long, but is it too much to give 45 minutes of your time to the cause of world peace? Yet I recognize that many people live busy lives, and thus I will say that if you cannot give a full invocation, then give part of it. Each invocation has four distinct sections. If you do not have time, then give the introduction, two sections one day and then the sealing. Then the next day give the introduction the last two sections and then the sealing.

Rise above all fear of war

It is in no way my intention to cause any kind of fear or panic in your being. I am not asking you to start acting in an unbalanced or fearful manner. I am asking you to stay in the flame of loving yourself that you have invoked during the past vigil. I am asking you to let nothing disturb that state of love and that state of inner peace. And then I am asking you – based on that inner peace – to give these two invocations with the absolute knowledge and determination that when you ask for peace, you shall indeed receive it. When you call forth the Flame of Peace, then that flame will indeed consume the consciousness of war.

I am asking you to overcome all fear. And if indeed you sense elements of fear concerning war in your own being, then go after them. Use these two invocations to specifically call for all fear of war to be consumed in your own being. For it is truly only the ego that can give rise to such fear, and your ego will be hiding behind that fear, seeking to divert your attention to becoming so concerned about conditions in the world that you do not look at the ego, expose it and overcome it.

Realize that whenever there is fear, the ego is hiding behind it. And thus, instead of focusing on the object of fear – as the ego would have you do – look beyond the fear itself and expose the ego. And then ask for it to be consumed by the Flame of Peace, the Flame of Ecstatic Peace, coming from the Elohim of Peace. For truly, that Flame of Ecstatic Peace is able to consume all fear. For how can there be fear when your entire being is infused with the ecstatic peace that knows nothing but peace. So I ask you to open your heart and your chakras, to open your entire being to that Flame of Ecstatic Peace. I ask you in this coming time, as you give these invocations, to immerse yourself in the Flame of Ecstatic Peace, to allow that flame to enter your being and consume all unlike itself.

I hope that these invocations will help you recognize the essential truth that you cannot overcome war by being in a state of fear. You can overcome war only by being fully anchored in a state of peace. For as you cannot remove darkness, you cannot remove war without bringing the Light of Peace. And thus, war will be removed only when the top ten percent of the spiritual people choose to be the open doors for the Light and the Flame of Peace to stream into the material realm, into the emotional realm, into the mental realm and into the identity realm of planet earth and consume the consciousness of war on all four levels of the matter world.

Yes my beloved, BE the Flame of Peace. BE the open door for the Flame of Peace. Determine that you WILL BE the light of the world and that as long as you are in the world, you will BE the Flame of Peace to consume the consciousness of war. I, Mary, commend you for your love and for your steadfastness in giving my invocations and in working to overcome your egos. I see the progress you are making individually and even as a worldwide community of those who are committed to the Path of Peace. I congratulate you and I bow to you with sincere respect and gratitude for your progress. Thus, receive the overwhelming, overflowing gratitude of the heart of your spiritual mother. For the mother of all life, I AM!

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Creating a downward spiral – The earth is in an upward spiral – Where are the tribes today? – The Cain consciousness and the Middle East – People must overcome their fear of progress – Overcoming the illusion of being God’s chosen people – The knocks may have to become harder for a time – The potential for war in the Middle East and a world-wide war – Hold the vision that love conquers all –

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Ascended Master Mother Mary, July 16, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, you have asked and thus I will endeavor to give you part of the answer to your questions about the Middle East.  I understand that you are concerned about the situation in the Middle East and the potential for an escalation. Yet, I cannot say that I or the ascended masters share your concern, for we look at the situation in the Middle East from a larger, broader more timeless perspective.

Let me attempt to help you step back from the situation in the Middle East and indeed gain at least a glimpse of the perspective we hold on the situation. The most important thing you can keep in mind is that planet earth has been allowed to become a crossroads for lifestreams from many different evolutions. Originally, this planet was conceived as a protected sphere for the descent of specific groups of lifestreams, specific evolutions, which we have sometimes called the root races. Yet after the Fall of Man occurred and the consciousness of humankind began to descend into duality, it was determined that lifestreams that were not part of the original root races would be allowed to embody here in large numbers. These lifestreams have come from many different places in the Cosmos, even from other planets in this solar system.

Why was this allowed? Well, as I have explained throughout this website, it was the original plan for planet earth that the lifestreams who embody here would never lose their conscious awareness of and their conscious contact with their spiritual teachers. Yet, many lifestreams did indeed lose that contact and therefore they began to feel that they were abandoned by God.

Creating a downward spiral

As I also explain, the material universe acts like a mirror. The Ma-ter light will outpicture in physical form the conditions you hold in your mind. The potential is that a wave of lifestreams can create a downward spiral for themselves. This occurs because all of the lifestreams of that particular wave, of that particular root race, hold a very similar vision for the earth and for them being abandoned by God. This vision will gradually become outpictured in physical circumstances, which is what caused matter itself to densify until it became impossible to perceive anything beyond the material universe with the physical senses.

When the planet was of a higher vibration, people could – even with their physical senses – perceive the finer energies beyond what you today call matter substance. Yet as the consciousness of humankind became denser, the planet itself became more dense. Matter itself became more dense, and thus most people today cannot perceive anything beyond matter substance.

Do you see what happens in such a downward spiral? The lifestreams co-create their own circumstances and as matter outpictures what they co-create, they forget, or refuse to acknowledge, that they have created the outer conditions  they now see around them. Thus, they become completely convinced that their vision – that they have been abandoned by God – is entirely correct. And they take their outer circumstances as proof that their vision is correct. In reality, what they see is not an objective circumstance. It is a subjective circumstance that they have created. And thus, the only thing that can break the downward spiral is that the people change their vision.

Yet when the people have lost contact, the direct contact with their spiritual teachers, how can we reach them and tell them they need to change their vision? This is the central dilemma on planet earth. The question now becomes, “Since the people have turned their backs on their spiritual teachers, what can possibly break the downward spiral?”

Well, the only thing that can break the downward spiral is that the people change their vision.  But because they will not listen to their spiritual teachers and because the Ma-ter light obediently outpictures their vision, something else is needed to break the downward spiral, the vicious circle.  What is that something else? Well, one possibility is that we allow a wave of lifestreams to embody on planet earth, a wave of lifestreams that comes from an entirely different environment and therefore do not have the exact same vision as the lifestreams who are already on this planet. Thus, when these two waves of lifestreams interact, they will inevitably clash. And while this clashing will lead to conflict, it has the potential to break up the rigid mindset of both waves of lifestreams.

Do you see the essential principle I am explaining here? When you will not learn from your spiritual teachers, the only thing that has a possibility of teaching you life’s lessons is the school of hard knocks. And the more rigid a wave of lifestreams become, the harder the knocks that are required to break through their shell and make them rethink their approach to life.

The earth is in an upward spiral

Thus, my beloved, it was determined a long time ago that earth would no longer be an exclusive sphere for the original root races. Instead, many lifestreams from other systems of worlds, from other planets, from other galaxies, would be allowed to embody here. This does not mean that these lifestreams traveled here in the physical octave in spaceships. They did not. There are many lifestreams on earth who have a sense that they came from somewhere else, from other star systems. And while some are simply deluding themselves with fantasies, there are some who are correct. They did come from elsewhere. But their souls were allowed to embody on earth in human bodies. They were not transported here through material, mechanical means.

When you look at planet earth today, you see that it is indeed a crossroads of many different lifestreams, from many different backgrounds with many different attitudes and approaches to life. It is, so to speak, a melting pot. And the highest potential of this melting pot is that when people see the diversity, they will change their attitude, they will learn from each other, they will take the best from each evolution and build a culture that is more balanced, more centered, more harmonious.

Of course, there is always a lowest potential, which is that the different lifestreams will focus on their differences, thereby creating conflicts between them leading to physical warfare. This, of course, is what you have seen over and over again on this planet. So why did the ascended masters take this calculated risk of allowing the earth to become a melting pot? Well because if it had not happened, the original root races would have continued their downward spiral until they would have destroyed themselves.

What has happened instead is that – through the breaking up of the rigid mindset of the original root races – an upward spiral has indeed been created. This upward spiral can be seen when you look at planet earth from the perspective and with the vision of the ascended masters. It can even be seen by those who are perceptive and are willing to look at history with the purpose of looking for timeless elements of growth and transformation.

These elements can be seen in almost every culture. In fact there are very few cultures on this planet who have not been affected by the winds of change. In some cases one might say that change has not been for the better. But as I have tried to explain, when a certain culture is trapped in a rigid mindset, any change is actually a change for the better. For only when the rigid mindset is broken up, is there a potential to reverse the downward spiral and create genuine growth. Obviously, this potential does not always come to pass and a group of lifestreams, even an entire culture, can create a new downward spiral instead of the old downward spiral.

Yet I must tell you that the entire planet has entered an upward spiral that is breaking up the rigidity of the cultures around the earth. And when this rigidity is broken up, the people are often bewildered and distraught. They do not understand what is happening. They do not see that it is a potential for growth. Instead, they see it as a threat to their traditional lifestyle, which they have somehow – despite its obvious shortcomings and contradictions – come to believe is perfect or God-ordained and therefore should be maintained at all cost. This, my beloved, is tragic. But it is an occurrence that still cannot resist the winds of change and the wheel of time.

The original twelve tribes of Israel

When you look at the Middle East based on what I have told you, you see certain perspectives that suddenly come into focus and now become obvious. First of all, you must realize that the Middle East is not one of the holiest places on earth. Jesus descended to the Middle East not because it was a holy place but because it was one of the unholiest places on earth. Thus, he desired to bring the light where there was the greatest darkness. Likewise, the teachings – I might say: the pure original teachings – of the Koran, were given in the Middle East precisely because there was still great darkness.

Why is the Middle East a place of great darkness? Because certain lifestreams have embodied there who have come from other systems of worlds, and these lifestreams have a long history of warring amongst each other. When Jesus said that he came to rescue the lost sheep of the house of Israel, he was not actually talking about the original root races on planet earth. Jesus descended in the Middle East because he had volunteered to do a two-fold mission.

Part of Jesus’ mission is universal and timeless, as the hierarch of the Piscean Age, which is a planetary phenomenon. This was the Alpha aspect of Jesus’ mission. Yet the Omega aspect of Jesus’ mission was to address a specific problem that is centered in the Middle East, namely that there are twelve groups of lifestreams who have been allowed to embody on this planet. Yet these lifestreams have a long history, that goes far beyond the earth, of warring and competing amongst each other.

These lifestreams did originally come from a system, a solar system, that had twelve planets. Yet as each of them grew in sophistication, they became increasingly rigid and they became increasingly adept at misusing the Ma-ter light for their purposes of obtaining power and control. In doing so, they even used the Ma-ter light for the purpose of warfare, seeking to destroy each other. These lifestreams achieved technology that is more advanced than what you know of on planet earth today. They were able to travel from planet to planet within their own solar system. And eventually they started interplanetary wars.

This eventually led the entire solar system to self-destruct. And although many of the most rigid lifestreams went to their second death, a number of the other lifestreams were scattered throughout several galaxies and solar systems. As they embodied on other planets, some of them did indeed grow and transcend their mindset. Yet some of them fell back into the old patterns and continued their warring. Eventually some of these lifestreams were allowed to embody on a planet in this solar system, a planet that has now been destroyed, which created the asteroid belt. Representatives from all the original twelve planets have been allowed to embody on planet earth after the fall of the fourth root race. This has been done as a final opportunity for these lifestreams. And also as an opportunity for the lifestreams on earth who had become so rigid that they were beyond reach.

These twelve evolutions of lifestreams were indeed what Jesus referred to as the twelve tribes of Israel. So you now see that although these lifestreams are beloved by God, it is an illusion to think that any of these tribes, any of these waves of lifestreams – be they known as Jews or Arabs today – had a particular merit or a particularly high spiritual consciousness. In reality, none of them had a very high state of consciousness when they came to this earth. That is why they were the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Had they had a higher state of consciousness, they would not have been lost because they would have known who they were as co-creators with their God.

The Omega aspect of Jesus’ mission was that he took embodiment in a particular circumstance in order to speak directly to the lifestreams that had embodied in the Middle East and represented these twelve tribes. That is why, when you read the Bible carefully, you will see that Jesus clearly recognized that there were certain limitations put upon his physical mission. For he could not give forth certain teachings while he was in physical embodiment, precisely because the lost sheep of the house of Israel were at such a low state of consciousness, that he could not give them these powerful teachings. They would immediately have used these teachings for selfish purposes, even for warring amongst themselves. Thus, Jesus taught the multitudes in parables, the multitudes being the lost sheep of the twelve tribes of Israel, which were twelve evolutionary groups that came from far-off worlds.

Where are the tribes today?

What have these twelve tribes done with the teachings that Jesus gave them? Well, I am happy to report that, over the past 2,000 years, a great number of these lifestreams have indeed made sincere efforts to internalize Jesus’ teachings. That is why a number of these lifestreams are embodied in the predominantly Christian nations in the United States, Europe and to some degree South America. Yet I must also tell you that most of these lifestreams have not let go of their rigidity. This is why you see that they have turned Jesus’ teachings into a rigid, dogmatic religion, whether it be the Catholic Church or the fundamentalist or evangelical churches in the United States.

This, of course, shows you that many of these lifestreams have not fully internalized Jesus’ teachings. Thus, although they have made clear progress over the past 2,000 years, they are still a far cry from where they need to be in consciousness in order to become free of the past and take up their highest possible roles on this planet. Which is that they become universal sons and daughters of God, letting go of all sense of their old ways and their old history and origin. This is the only way that will allow these lifestreams to set themselves free from the patterns of their past, the patterns that they have been repeating now for tens of thousands of years. And of course, only when they completely overcome these patterns, will they be able to transcend and make their ascensions to higher spheres of learning.

While this is good news, I must also report that there are a number of the lifestreams from the twelve tribes that have not been willing to transcend their old ways and their old state of consciousness. These then are the lifestreams that have continued to embody in the Middle East. I am not saying that all people embodying in the Middle East belong to these lifestreams, for indeed some have volunteered to embody there to provide a counterbalance to the density of the consciousness of the original twelve tribes. Yet I must tell you that there is a significant number of the people in the Middle East who are embodying there precisely because they have not transcended the consciousness that Jesus came to challenge 2,000 years ago. In fact, they have become even more rigid in this state of consciousness.

This, of course, is what you see has led to countless wars and conflicts, not only over the past 2,000 years but going back beyond recorded history. Thus, I can tell you that the sands of the Middle East are indeed almost saturated with the blood of countless people, blood that has been spilled in senseless and pointless conflicts between lifestreams who are so trapped in the consciousness of competition and war that they cannot free themselves from it.

The Cain consciousness and the Middle East

The story from the old Testament of Cain and Abel does indeed have a very important message for these lifestreams. Abel, of course, represents a lifestream who has been willing to transcend his old rigidity. This is a lifestream who is willing to self-transcend and thereby flow with the River of Life. That is why he is beloved by God. Cain, of course, represents a lifestream who is not willing to self-transcend and who has become rigid in his state of consciousness. He is therefore jealous of the fact that Abel is more capable than himself in all ways, because Abel is not the doer but is allowing God to be the doer through him.

Thus, what is impossible with man, with the Cain consciousness, is now possible with God—with the Christ consciousness. This is what you see outpictured in the Middle East. There are lifestreams who have descended so far into the duality consciousness, that they are angry and jealous whenever they are confronted with someone who has obtained some degree of Christ consciousness. But  not only are they jealous. No, they want to destroy the person who is expressing Christ consciousness because they do not want to be disturbed in their state of consciousness.

I hope you can see the insanity of this frame of mind. These people are not happy and content in their current state of consciousness. They are indeed highly unhappy, conflicted and divided within themselves. They are divided because on one hand their insane jealousy makes them feel that they should be better than everybody else and should receive preferential treatment. Yet on the other hand they see that this is not happening and they blame not only other people on this planet, but they indeed blame God for the fact that it is not happening. They are completely refusing to take responsibility for their own situation and realize that things are not going well for them because they are not willing to let go of their old state of consciousness and come into oneness with God.

Yet because they blame God for this, rather than taking responsibility and transcending their own state of consciousness, they are stuck in a catch-22. They cannot free themselves from this state of consciousness. And so what you see outpictured in the Middle East is the pattern I told you about earlier, where lifestreams with clashing world views have been put together in a melting pot, so that by clashing with each other, they will never obtain peace but will constantly be forced to deal with the contradictions in their own psychology.

This is indeed the school of hard knocks, and we of the ascended masters would love nothing more than to see these lifestreams transcend this level of learning. We have done almost everything that could be done in terms of sending Jesus to the area, in terms of giving them the teachings of the Koran, in terms of renewing the Jewish religion through the Kabbalah. But yet there are lifestreams who insist on ignoring all of these efforts, continuing to repeat the same old patterns over and over again. And thus, I must tell you that there is only one thing that has any chance of helping these lifestreams break the old patterns.  And that is that their conflicts, that their warring, becomes so pronounced that it finally becomes so obvious that people begin to see that it is their consciousness that is the problem.

People must overcome their fear of progress

When you take an honest look at the Middle East today, you will see that both Jews and Arabs are blaming each other. It is an inescapable fact that when you blame other people – or God or Mother Nature – for your misfortune, you have not taken full responsibility for yourself and your life. My Beloved, please take note of that sentence. It expresses an eternal truth, a truth that has no compromise.

If you blame anyone else, you have not taken responsibility for yourself. If you blame yourself, you have not taken responsibility for yourself. For when you take full and final responsibility for yourself, there is no need to blame because now all of your attention is focused on transcending yourself. And when you are engaged in the process of self-transcendence, there is no room or need for blame. For blame is the opposite of self-transcendence in that it seeks to fix guilt upon certain people and say that they are bad and that they will remain bad indefinitely. For what was done in the past can never be undone, and therefore these people have the blame for it forever.

This is the Cain consciousness. This is the predominant consciousness of the Middle East.  What can break the situation? Well, as I have said, there are indeed some of the more advanced members of the twelve tribes of Israel who have embodied in other parts of the world. These lifestreams have to some degree transcended the consciousness of the Middle East.

Yet what has not yet happened on a worldwide scale is that the members of the twelve tribes that embody outside of the Middle East have gained the perspective on what is happening in the Middle East. These lifestreams have not yet seen through the Cain consciousness. So the greatest potential for changing the status quo in the Middle East is that these more advanced lifestreams come to the recognition of what is going on in the Middle East, and then use that awareness to reach out to their brothers and sisters from their own tribes that are still embodied in the Middle East.

This does not mean that these lifestreams, of whom many have embodied in Christian countries, need to go down there and try to convert the people in the Middle East to Christianity. This is, at the present level of consciousness, a grave mistake, for it will only be seen as an outside intrusion. What is needed is that the more advanced lifestreams adopt a more universal attitude of peace and a balanced approach to conflict.  And this is the universal message that needs to be brought to the Middle East.

The other thing that needs to be brought to the Middle East is that the more advanced lifestreams – who live in more modern countries, countries that have a long-standing tradition for democracy and economic progress – can help their brothers and sisters in the Middle East overcome their fear of progress, even their fear of democracy, even their fear of freedom. This is one of the main hurdles that stands in the way of progress in the Middle East, namely that so many people there are afraid of change.

Overcoming the illusion of being God’s chosen people

An important part of this mission would be to help the lifestreams in the Middle East overcome the illusion that they are God’s chosen people, and that their traditional culture and lifestyle is somehow ordained by God and thus should be maintained at all costs. It is not rational in this day and age that certain Jewish groups maintain customs, even hair and dress style, that are centuries old. It is not rational that certain Arab groups seek to stop the clock of progress, seeking to maintain a culture that died over a century ago.

What needs to happen is that the more advanced lifestreams – who have lived and grown up in western nations – seek to help their brothers and sisters who are still in the Middle East overcome their fear of progress, their fear of material and technological progress, their fear of economic progress, their fear of political progress, their fear of democracy and freedom, even their fear of social progress, especially relating to giving women equal status in society.

Yet, sad as it is to say, even the most advanced lifestreams from the twelve tribes that have grown up in the West are a far cry from being able to fulfill this mission, because they are still too rigid in their own approach to life and especially in their approach to religion. As I said, many of these lifestreams are today Christians. And they have done to the Christian religion exactly the same as the most orthodox and rigid Jews have done to Judaism and as the most orthodox and religious Muslims have done to Islam. They have turned it into an exclusivist religion. And they have continued the age-old game of saying that their religion is the only true one and therefore they are better than all non-believers.

This insanity must come to end, and it will come to end only when those who have either completely transcended the consciousness of the twelve tribes or who are not members of the twelve tribes but have come from other systems of worlds to raise up planet earth, take up their intended role to be the representatives of the Christ consciousness on earth. Once again, we come back to the fact that is the underlying fact upon planet earth. Although planet earth is a crossroads with lifestreams from many different backgrounds, it is a fact that when all of these lifestreams embody on the same planet, they become part of the same web of life. And it is a fact that when one part of this web is raised, it will pull up everyone else. As Jesus said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me.” Thus, if you take a tablecloth and pull up one corner, you will eventually raise the entire cloth.

So, once again, we look to those who are the most advanced spiritual seekers on this planet to be the forerunners for breaking the rigidity of the old consciousness by raising their own consciousness and striving to put on the mind of Christ. Only in this way can we see a domino effect that will eventually reach the Middle East.

The knocks may have to become harder for a time

I must tell you that it is time for you who are open to the teachings of the ascended masters to step up to a higher awareness of the Middle East. It is time for you to realize, that there is a human form of compassion and there is a divine form of compassion. I understand that many of you have compassion for the people in the Middle East and would like to see them live constructive and peaceful lives without the risk of being killed or maimed through some suicide bombing or a missile or bomb being dropped upon them.

Yet, you need to recognize, that what is happening in the Middle East is an outplaying of events that, as I said, are simply the school of hard knocks. Thus, you must not focus your consciousness of trying to soften the blows in the short term, for it will indeed be necessary that the blows be allowed to hit with full force, so that the knocks eventually become so hard, that the lesson penetrates through the walls of rigidity and spiritual blindness that these lifestreams have erected around their minds.

What must be allowed to happen in the coming years in the Middle East is that the Cain consciousness in all of its subtle manifestations is allowed to outplay itself until it becomes so obvious, that people begin to see it for what it is and say, “This can no longer be allowed on our planet.” This recognition will obviously start first in countries that are far away from the Middle East. And it has indeed already started to happen in a number of countries in Europe, and to a much lesser degree in the United States. I must tell you, beloved, that even Russia and the Russian government, as flawed as it is, has a more realistic view of the situation in the Middle East than the current American government, and especially the American media which is so heavily influenced by a pro-Israel bias that they refuse to call a spade a spade.

I ask you NOT to envision that you are putting out every little fire that springs up in the Middle East. For if you use your rosaries, your prayers and even your power of vision to put out all these fires, you will only prolong the process. The process of the fires eventually becoming so big that they become impossible to ignore, and thus people need to start looking for the cause of the fire instead of just looking at the smoke, trying to blow it away from their own borders. I ask you to call for the enlightenment of all people to the reality of what is going on in the Middle East, the reality of the Cain consciousness being the driving force behind these conflicts, the reality that these outer conflicts – no matter what might seem to be their physical cause – will never stop until the spiritual cause, the psychological cause is addressed head-on.

It takes an act of will to free oneself from the Cain consciousness. And so far that will has been missing in the Middle East, partly because some people refuse to see the Cain consciousness and partly because some have glorified it, indeed thinking that their god will reward them for their acts of revenge. Sometimes things must be allowed to act out to such a degree, that they become obvious even to the most dense of minds.

The potential for war in the Middle East and a world-wide war

Yet for you to be able to hold this vision, you need to be willing to confront your fears. Thus, I would give you a few words of comfort.  The area of the Middle East has a lot of desert. There is a lot of sand in that desert. Now, think back to your childhood of how you played in sandboxes. My Beloved, a sandbox is a wonderful place for children to play because the sand is soft. Thus, they have a limited potential for hurting themselves.

What I desire you to see is that the Middle East is a sandbox for some very immature lifestreams. Yes, I realize that these lifestreams do not only have plastic shovels but have modern weapons that are quite powerful. Yet I still desire you to hold the vision that they are children playing in the sandbox. And although there is a negative potential, I desire you to hold the vision that they will not hurt themselves or others.

Indeed, I desire you to hold the vision that these children playing in the sandbox will suddenly have a shift in consciousness that makes them able to laugh at themselves and start enjoying playing in the sandbox, rather than fighting over the toys or over whether a particular line in the sand should be drawn here or a few miles East or West, North or South. I desire you to hold the vision that they will start playing together rather than working against each other.

Thus, I must tell  you that even though the warring in the Middle East is likely to escalate, we of the ascended masters consider it a minor conflict on the horizon of the transition to the Golden Age. The greater potential for a larger war is indeed a war over energy. And although such a war would also involve the oil resources in the Middle East, it is a war that can only come from beyond the Middle East and will not be caused by the nations there. Thus, I desire you to separate things out and realize that the warring in the Middle East that you see flaring up right now is not a planetary issue, but it is localized phenomenon caused by the Cain consciousness and the warring among the most rigid and immature members of the original twelve tribes of Israel.

Hold the vision that love conquers all

This, my beloved, has been a long discourse and although there is surely more to say about this topic, I have at least given you some thoughts to ponder, thoughts that I trust you will use to gain insights from within. And thus, as time is right we will give you more about this situation and about the situation in the world. For now, I seal you in the love of the Mother’s heart, the love of the Mother who desires all of her children to play in harmony, whether they play in the sandbox or on the swing-set or run through the meadow in the pure joy of feeling the grass under their feet, the sun on their skin and the wind through their hair.

Be of good cheer, for I am the representative of the Divine Mother on earth, and I desire you to know that I am joyful and optimistic about the future of this planet, even about the future of the Middle East. Do not hold the vision that things will get worse. Hold the vision that suddenly some breakthrough will occur that will make people come to their senses and cry out for peace instead of crying out for revenge.

Love conquers all, and it is only an absence of love that prevents the situation in the Middle East from being conquered. Yet that love rains freely upon the just and the unjust. And it is only a matter of a slight change of the dial of consciousness, so that people can start accepting that love, rather than seeing themselves of being unworthy to receive it. And once they have that perfect love, it will cast out their fears and the need for revenge that springs from the fear that something worse can happen in the future if they do not take action now.

This is the fear that makes them afraid of turning the other cheek—out of the fear that they will appear weak.  The only solution to the conflict in the Middle East is that someone must start turning the other cheek and keep turning the other cheek, until they have finally made the evil of those who keep hitting them so obvious, that not only the world can see it, but that these people can see it themselves. Had Israel been willing to embrace the principle of turning the other cheek, they would have long ago made Hamas and Hesbollah irrelevant. For neither the Palestinians nor the Lebanese people would have embraced these organizations whose entire purpose is revenge.

I seal you in the love of the Mother, which can consume all your fears. Fear not what can happen in the Middle East. Focus on becoming the open door for the flame of ecstatic peace to stream through your chakras into the Middle East. Invoke that flame. Become that flame and consume all unlike it. Thus, I seal you in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother. I seal you in the name of the Great Divine Director, who is truly directing the experiment we call planet earth. I seal you in the flame of ecstatic peace, which is able to consume all warring on this planet—when it is allowed to flow through those who have become the open doors.

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

TOPICS: The death culture in Miami – The base chakra is the basis for manifestation – Understanding how the chakras work – Seeing Mother Nature as an enemy – Why hurricanes hit a certain area  – Holding the spiritual balance for your city –

Ascended Master Mother Mary, June 21, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, life is precious! Life is sacred because life is the process of God becoming MORE of itself. The core of life is self-awareness, the awareness that you exist, the awareness that you exist as whatever you see yourself as being. Life is imagination, the ability to imagine yourself as being MORE than what you currently experience, more than what you currently manifest. Life then is free will, the willingness to choose to be that more, to outpicture it, to manifest it. And even the ability to choose to be less.

This then is what gives God’s co-creators the ability to choose to be less than what they were created to be. And this is what gives them the ability to come to the point where they do not value life, they do not see life as a precious opportunity to learn, to grow. And thus, they can come to the point of being indifferent to life, your own life or the lives of others, even to the point of resenting the fact that they have life. Because, by choosing to be less, they have boxed themselves into a very small mental box, where there is no enjoyment, no happiness, no joy.

This is what you see in many places on this earth, where people have come to disregard the value of life. Even to the point where they are willing to play Russian roulette with their lives, treating life as if it was some commodity that could be put up as a bargaining chip in a game of chance—almost as if they want to lose that life through coincidence. For when they play a game of chance with their lives, they are able to ignore the very fact that the gift of life comes with responsibility, the responsibility that you are who you choose to be at any moment.

You cannot run away from that responsibility. Yet because people do not want to take responsibility for their lives and acknowledge that what they experience today is the result of their own choosing in this and past lives, they would rather let their future lives be decided by chance instead of their own decisions. They do not want to make decisions because they believe that no matter what they do, it will be wrong or lead to undesirable results.

The death culture in Miami

You see, in this city of Miami, an entire culture that is based on the indifference to life. They show disregard for the value of life, even the death wish that causes so many people to gamble with their lives, be it through drugs, alcohol, sexual perversions, prostitution, promiscuity, the party lifestyle, corruption or the way to make easy money by taking risks that are not easy and not rational.

Thus, I desire to appear in this place of the base chakra of America after the conference in the heart chakra of America because the victory that was won in Chicago gives me the opportunity to anchor an extraordinary Presence of my Being, of the Mother Flame in this place of the base chakra. This, then, can begin an alchemical process that can raise the awareness of the people in this area to the point where they regain – and are willing to reclaim – the sacredness of life, the value of life.

Because my Mother Flame will disturb them in their quest for pleasure or money or material possessions, whereby they will sense my flame and therefore sense that there is more to life than this senseless drive for more pleasure, more money or bigger houses. They will sense that there is more than an endless party that leaves them more empty than they were before they started. Which means they then have to take more drugs or go into a more wild lifestyle to find reprieve from their emptiness.

This becomes a downward spiral that never ends. What can bring them out of it is only the love for something beyond the emptiness, and that something is the longing to be in the embrace of the Mother of God, whereby they feel nurtured from a source that is above the material world. Yet is not so far above that they cannot sense it, as they are not yet ready to reconnect to the Father’s greater love.

Thus, my beloved, what you see in this area of Miami is an example of a culture that has completely forgotten the Father’s love and has perverted the Mother’s love, whereby people think it is their right, even a necessity, that they seek to control the Mother Light and use it for the short-term gain of either material possessions or pleasure.

Consider the name “Miami.” “M-i“ or “m-y” stands for my and mine, and “am-i” is a reversal of the name of God “I AM.” Thus, the “my” of the ego seeks to control the Mother Light, the Light of God, and seeks to use it to build a pleasure cult rather than the kingdom of God—which is the truly abundant life. The truly abundant life is both abundant materially and spiritually. What you see instead in this area is that so many people focus all of their attention on building a life that is as abundant materially as possible but is completely empty spiritually and therefore can never satisfy them. This forces them to go into the spiral of seeking more and more in this world, rather than seeking the MORE of the Spirit, the MORE of their own higher Beings, which is the only source of true fulfillment and joy.

The base chakra is the basis for manifestation

Instead of accepting that it is the Father’s good pleasure to give them the kingdom, people seek to take that kingdom by force by perverting the Mother Light. The base chakra of your individual being, and the base chakra of a nation, is truly the “space” where material abundance is brought into manifestation. It is through the base chakra that you manifest an abundant material life.

Yet in order to manifest God’s abundant life, the base chakra must be in alignment with the heart. It must be under the guidance of the heart, because only the heart is the open door between your lower being and your higher Being. And only when you are centered in the heart, and allow your higher being to direct your life through the heart, will you have God’s abundant life. What happens when the heart is closed off because of hardness of heart? Well, what happens is that you are still co-creating through the base chakra. But now you cannot co-create in alignment with God’s greater plan nor with your own divine plan. And thus, what happens is one of two things.

One is that the base chakra itself becomes polluted by self-centered short-term desires, whereby the person enters the endless quest for pleasure, seeking physical pleasure, whether through sexual activity or any other means. This becomes a downward spiral because when there is no connection to the heart, there can be no true enjoyment of the pleasures or the possessions of this world.

True joy, true fulfillment, comes only when you manifest things and experiences in the material realm that are in alignment with God’s purpose and with your own divine plan. When you are out of alignment with this higher vision, anything you do will give you a sense of emptiness, of never being quite fulfilled. Thus, ego-desires can never give you true happiness, as ultimate fulfillment comes only from knowing you are raising up both yourself and all life.

And thus, no matter how much sex or how many possessions people have, they are never satisfied, they are never filled—they are still empty. This leads people to try to misuse the Mother Light instead of allowing the clarity, the vision, of the heart to manifest the abundant life that God desires to give all of his co-creators. They now seek to take it by force by doing it according to what their egos think they need—right now, right here. Thus, there is no concern for long-term consequences, there is only what feels good right now. And thus comes the whole concept of, “If it feels good, do it!”

“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die,” as they say. And truly, so many people in this area live this way. They might go out and work throughout the week, but come the week-end, they go out to eat, drink and be merry, not caring whether they live the next morning.

The other thing that happens when the heart is closed off is that if the base chakra is not ruled by the endless quest for pleasure, it will be ruled by the head, by the analytical mind, and its quest for whatever it seeks, which is often power and superiority. Thus, you see in this area an enormous amount of corruption and an enormous striving for, even an entire culture of, making easy money with no regard for how it affects other parts of life.

You also see the perversion of the intellect, the perversion of the crown chakra, which is seeking superiority over other people, rather than seeking the connection to the God within that gives you the knowledge that you are one with God and all life is one with God, and thus what is the point of seeking superiority over others. The true fulfillment comes from seeking to raise up all life rather than creating the state of inequality that gives the impression to some people that they are better than others because they have more power or more possessions.

Understanding how the chakras work

My Beloved, I desire you to understand that your chakras are designed to release light, and thus any release of light through your chakras will give you a sense of pleasure. You can force the light to be released through the base chakra through certain forms of music and sexual practices. You can force the light through the crown chakra by attaining and exercising power over others, giving rise to a sense of superiority. Indeed, you can force the release of light through all of the chakras. Yet such a forced release of light will only give you temporary pleasure.

It is much like the forced high that comes from stimulants of the body, from sugar to drugs. It will inevitably wear off, and when it does, you end up feeling more empty than before because at some level of your being is the realization that you have squandered God’s Light and the opportunity to raise up yourself and all life. Yet when you seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness of seeking to raise all life, you will indeed experience pleasure from the release of light that brings forth a positive manifestation. This will be a deeper pleasure that leads to an enduring sense of joy that does not wear off but leads to a permanent sense of fulfillment and a sense of purpose and meaning.

Many people have indeed spent years or decades on a senseless pursuit of short-term pleasure and have finally tired of it, thus finding a deeper joy by doing things for others. This is why you see a few rich people who have turned to philanthropy as their way to gain true fulfillment. I wish more people would do this instead of continuing the endless cycle of seeking to cover over their inner emptiness.

Seeing Mother Nature as an enemy

My Beloved hearts, a famous poet once said, “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Well, you see a miniature version of the concept in this area, where the further you go East, the bigger the houses, the bigger the high-rises, the more money people have. Whereas when you go West, you find the trailer parks, where people can barely make a living and live in structures that will be blown away by a strong wind. In contrast, the rich people live in concrete fortresses that they believe can survive anything that Mother Nature can send at them—as if Mother Nature and the Ma-ter Light is the enemy.

And, in a certain sense, Mother Nature is the enemy of the rich people who seek to raise up themselves by taking from others. For as I have explained, the Ma-ter light has a built-in contracting force that seeks to break down any structure that is out of alignment with the design principles of the Creator. Thus, the more you see people who seek to control the Mother Light and take abundance or power through force, the more they will create a counter-force that seeks to restore balance to the light itself. This is actually a survival mechanism that prevents people from self-destructing by setting limitations for how far they can take their selfishness into the extreme.

Thus, my beloved, many people have indeed been awakened by seeing how Mother Nature is able to take away even the strongest structures built by man, as if they were made of straw. Which is why last year’s hurricanes in Florida and elsewhere did indeed awaken many people to the impermanence of life. Some people have responded with a determination to build even stronger fortresses, while others simply seek to prepare themselves to survive the next storm. Yet some have indeed contemplated the impermanence of life in the material universe and have decided to turn to a more spiritual lifestyle.

This, of course, is the only hope for the turning back of future hurricanes, for there is no desire on the part of God and the ascended masters to punish anyone. Please understand that I am the Divine Mother for all life on earth. I clearly see that some co-creators have become extremely selfish in their desire to control the Ma-ter Light and take abundance by exploiting other people or Mother Nature. Nevertheless, I do not hate such people but embrace them as my children gone astray. Thus, I have no desire to see them be punished for their misdeeds. Instead, I only desire to see them awakened, so they can remove themselves from the state of consciousness that causes people to become selfish.

We of the ascended masters have only one desire, namely to raise up all life until they transcend the duality consciousness and can then receive the truly abundant life of the Father through the materialization of the Mother’s nurturance and love. So even a hurricane is not God’s punishment, and the greatest potential for avoiding future hurricanes in this area is that people come to the understanding of the spiritual cause and effect behind these violent storms.

Why hurricanes hit a certain area

As a crude analogy, consider that there was a rubber sheet covering the area of Florida and the Caribbean. As people misuse the Mother Light, the misqualified energies concentrate and form a dead weight that naturally stretches the rubber sheet and creates a depression in the sheet wherever the concentration of energy reaches the greatest intensity. Now imagine that a ball comes rolling in from the East. Where will this ball end up but in the deepest depression in the rubber sheet?

The ball, of course, represents a hurricane coming in from the Atlantic and being attracted to a specific path based on where there is the greatest concentration of misqualified energy. The hurricane is fed by heat on the material level but is truly caused by misqualified energy. Like attracts like, so the hurricane will inevitably be attracted to an area on land where there is a high concentration of negative energy.

My Beloved, as violent as a hurricane is, it can actually have a beneficial effect in terms of shattering the stale concentration of misqualified energy over a city. The rigid energy that has accumulated is literally blown apart and scattered over a larger area. Obviously, this does not mean that the energy is transformed into pure energy, but it does mean that a concentration of energy can be dispersed with the result that an area can remain purer for some time, until the people – if they do not change their lifestyle – create another concentration that will magnetize the next hurricane.

Thus, what you saw in last year’s hurricane season was that the hurricane known as Katrina did indeed pass over South Florida, but it did not cause maximum damage because the energy field of this area was still not back to the negativity found before Andrew scattered it some years ago. Thus, the hurricane continued its path, actually picking up some of the negative energy in Miami and carrying it on to its ultimate destination in the New Orleans area.

What can break this spiral of the accumulation of energy that leads to a major hurricane, only to immediately begin the process of accumulation that leads to the next hurricane? Only that the people become awakened and take responsibility for their city! Yet it is not necessary that all are awakened, for truly a few people can make a difference, as illustrated in the story of Sodom and Gomorra. Did not Abraham plead with God that he would spare the city if 50, 10 or even just one righteous person could be found? Likewise, a few people who are sincere in seeking to raise their consciousness can buy time for even a large city so that more people have the opportunity to be awakened. It is indeed to facilitate this process that I have decided to anchor a portion of my Light in this area. Partly to support those who have already started raising their consciousness and partly to disturb those who are still focused on the raising of the little self rather than raising all life.

Holding the spiritual balance for your city

What does it truly mean to become one of the righteous people? Well, it does not mean that you become perfect according to some human standard that is based on the ego’s judgment after appearances. Neither does it mean that you belong to a certain church or perform certain outer rituals and practices. To become a righteous person means that you are willing to heal your own psychology, to confront your ego and overcome the wounds and divisions in your psyche. By coming into wholeness within yourself, you will come into Oneness with God and oneness with other people of like mind. And this is the true righteousness that can be the open door for mitigating natural and man-made disasters and eventually bringing in the Golden Age.

It is encouraging to us that we now begin to see – among the spiritual people world-wide – the establishment of a true community based on wholeness and a sense of oneness of purpose. As you continue to grow together – and grow together in oneness – this community can spread as rings in the water. For as other people use spiritual teachings and tools to heal themselves, they too will become not only examples but the open doors through whom we can release light that can heal others. Thus, the movement can continue to grow as many of you become the instruments for healing others, spreading like rings in the water with an almost infinite potential.

This is the true joy of my heart, as I watch how those who are open to healing are transformed by simply being around others who are further along on the path, and thus become the instruments through whom we can work. This is the true community of the Holy Spirit, where the members realize the truth in Jesus’ call that those who would be the greatest among men seek to be the servants of all. They seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, namely the wholeness that sets you free from the ceaseless and senseless drive to raise up the ego-self in comparison to others.

I commend all spiritual people for the healing you have gone through, and I desire you to ask for the inner vision of how you individually and you collectively can form a spiritual healing mission that goes beyond all boundaries and does not seek to simply make people members of an outer organization, instead seeking to bring all to the inner path of oneness.

My Beloved, as I have spoken these words in the physical octave in this place,* the words have become chalices for the anchoring of my Mother Flame over a large portion of this city. In the coming months and years, you will see how the light will begin a transformation process that can be reinforced by people giving rosaries and even other prayers. Yet were we to see the emergence of a more organized effort to use my new invocations in this city, the changes that could come about would be truly magnificent and would then serve as a foundation for clearing other areas of this nation. For if we can establish a strong foundation of clearing the heart and the base chakra, we will have the potential to go much further in bringing Saint Germain’s vision for the Golden Age into manifestation. Thus, I seal you now, and I seal this city in the love of the Divine Mother, and I say, “It is finished; it is manifest!”

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels

Ascended Master Mother Mary, May 28, 2006 through Kim Michaels.

My Beloved hearts, I too have come to seal you in my Mother’s love, providing the Omega polarity to the Alpha polarity of Maitreya. I have already expressed to you the gratitude of God the Father and the Mother of God for your service and for your Oneness at this conference. But I want to tell you that we of the ascended masters have gained a new sense of hope from seeing your willingness to come together in Oneness. There truly is nothing else that can turn the earth around than a critical mass of people who decide to follow Jesus’ teaching on turning the other cheek and understanding the true depth of that teaching. Thereby refusing to play the dualistic games of the ego that set brother against brother in a meaningless struggle that never ends.

And thus, you have proven that you are willing to look beyond that struggle. And I want you to remember that concept of reaching beyond the struggle – the outer differences – reaching for the Spirit of Oneness, the Spirit of Truth, seeking Oneness, seeking to be right with God instead of being right among men.

For my beloved, did not Jesus say “What shall it profit a man that he gains the whole world yet loses his soul?” So what shall it profit you if the entire world thinks you are right, but you are not right with God and therefore the Conscious You cannot be reborn. For you are not willing to let that old sense of identity die, to give up the ghost of that sense of identity, so that you can be resurrected after letting that mortal identity die on the cross, as Jesus described.

Thus, I give each one of you a portion of my mother’s love. It is a portion that is adjusted to your willingness to look beyond outer appearances. And thus, I give you no more than you can handle. But I give you enough to disturb you a little bit and thus prod you to reach higher and come to the next step of the sense of Oneness. Whereby you overcome the sense of division and conflict that can only spring from the ego and the forces of this world—that have long ago determined not to come back to God and would like to drag you with them into their self-created hell, even the hell on earth that you see in so many places where the Mother Light is misused, as it is misused here in the United States in the base chakra that I shall visit shortly.

Thus, receive that portion of my love, if you will, and carry it with you as you leave this hallowed place. Use it to connect yourself to the Oneness so that you do not fall for the temptation that you will surely meet to reengage in the dualistic games of the ego. Remember that Jesus fasted in the wilderness to establish his inner sense of Oneness with God. And have you not also fasted in this place that, although not a wilderness, still has been a place set apart from the world and the consciousness of the world.

So be aware that as you leave, the devil in some disguise will be there to tempt you into re-engaging in the duality consciousness and the ego games, whether they be of your own ego or those of the people that you know around you, who might feel threatened when they sense the light you have that you carry with you. And thus, they will seek to tear you down or steal that light to use it for selfish ends. So I say to you, guard the light, guard the love and above all guard the sense of Oneness that is the open door for both light and love to stream into your being.

Thus, be sealed in the infinite gratitude that is mine this day. You are worthy of that gratitude, each one. And if you will give me your sense of unworthiness and accept my gratitude for your presence in this world, then you will feel how the sense of unworthiness can melt away and be replaced by a sense of gratitude for being alive, for being given the opportunity to be part of this magnificent tapestry of light that is unfolding on this planet behind the surface appearances that might seem to be anything but spiritual.

Yet, behind it all is the River of Life, which is surely raising humankind to a higher level. And thus, when you let go of the sense of unworthiness and reconnect to that River of Life, you will feel the gratitude for being alive, for being on this planet, for having the opportunity to watch events unfold, and having the opportunity to share your God Flame with all life. Thus I seal you – each one – in the infinite gratitude of the Divine Mother. It is sealed this moment in time and space. Thus, it is manifest.

Copyright © 2006 by Kim Michaels