TOPICS: When people think their government is good enough – The responsibility to protect the people – The right to freedom from exploitation – Democracy and power elites – A benevolent power elite – What is the purpose of democracy? – Exploitation by disinformation – Public debate about exploitation – Programmed to accept limitations – How can people accept the golden age? – The real goal of democracy – Why elites cannot rule – What kind of beings are we? – Universal spirituality that unites people – The most severe form of exploitation –

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, June 2nd, 2017, through Kim Michaels. This dictation was given at a conference in Holland

I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain. It is my privilege and my choice to be the primary ascended master working with earth for these next 2,000 years. My beloved, in my ongoing unfoldment of the vision I hold for the golden age, and how the golden age can be brought about, I wish to bring to your attention a topic that is of quite large importance.

When people think their government is good enough

Now, one of the primary shifts in consciousness that happened in most democratic nations when they became democracies was that people in general started having more faith in their governments. They started having the sense that their governments were not out to dominate them, to abuse them, to enslave them, to take advantage of them. They started having a sense that they were living in a more benevolent time, a more benevolent society, where there was not the obvious abuse and enslavement that they had known in the past. This of course is a positive and necessary development. There is, however, a downside of everything when it comes to the human consciousness, the consciousness of duality, and its uncanny ability to take everything into an unbalanced state.

What has happened in many, especially of the older democracies, is that there has developed this consciousness that has become very powerful and often takes over the minds of those people who are part of the democratic government, whether they are among the elected representatives, the bureaucracy, the media, the educational system, whatever. This consciousness is that these people, who are the leaders of democratic societies, basically believe that what they are doing now is good enough. They are fulfilling their responsibility towards the people by ensuring a somewhat peaceful and stable society and a stable economy, and so forth and so on. The perception is that as long as a democratic society is functioning reasonably well according to the standard, then the leaders are fulfilling their obligation and their responsibility towards the people.

Now, what is the standard you are using to judge whether a democracy is functioning well? Well, it is often that you look at other democracies. You look at the history of democracy and, of course, you look at societies that do not have a democratic form of government, and they may not have the same freedoms that you supposedly have in a democratic society. Based on this comparison, then people say: “Well, our democracy is doing quite well, isn’t it?” And the other people say: “Yes, yes, we are doing quite well compared to how it was before we had democracy and compared to this other nation.” You build this sense that what you have done is good enough.

The responsibility to protect the people

What I would like to point out to you is that, when I look at the state of democratic nations, I see very clearly that there is not a single democratic government that is anywhere near to fulfilling its responsibility towards its people. Why is this so, my beloved? It is because it is the responsibility of a government to protect the people. Well, we should say this is one of the responsibilities, but it certainly is a primary responsibility.

You think that, if you have some kind of army, if there is not war and the threat of war, if you have a police force, if you have various services in terms of health, and so on, if you have an educational system, this is good enough. But is that truly protecting the people? Well it is, but is it sufficient protection? We need to step up here and recognize that there has always been two kinds of evil on earth. One is the obvious one that everyone sees and sees as evil. The other is a hidden one that most people do not see. We have the more obvious forms of evil, and most democratic nations think they are protecting their people against those, and many of them are to a large degree. How many democratic nations have honestly and openly acknowledged the hidden forces of evil, and have acknowledged that they are not protecting their people against them? How can you protect your people against something that you don’t even know exists, and you don’t understand the nature of it and therefore, what chance do you have? How could you protect your people against cholera before you knew that there is a bacteria that creates this disease?

The right to freedom from exploitation

I am not at this point envisioning that most people in the democratic world are ready to step up and consciously acknowledge the teaching that we have on fallen beings and dark forces. Naturally, the gap between the understanding that people have been given, either from materialism or Christianity, is very large. But there are universal aspects of our teachings that certainly can be grasped. If you look at democracy, you see that a very important idea behind democracy is that all people have certain rights. You have a right to happiness, life, liberty.

What has not so far been defined in any democratic constitution, but which needs to be defined, is that all human beings have the right to live in freedom from exploitation. You will see that democratic nations have, to some degree, freed their people from the more obvious forms of exploitation. You do not have a dictatorial leader who has a right to kill anyone he wants. There is a rule of law, there is a certain protection against the abuse of power. There is a certain protection against being exploited by other people for various purposes. But these are not the only forms of exploitation. They are only the forms that have been recognized by society or by people at large.

It is necessary for the golden age to be manifest that there is a rising awareness that there are many more subtle forms of exploitation that are being imposed upon the people. I will therefore attempt to express this without referring to fallen beings and dark forces, but simply referring to what most people in democratic nations can lock in to, namely that there has throughout history been various power elite groups who have attempted to exploit the people.

Democracy and power elites

It is not so difficult for a critical mass of people to step up and realize that just because you enact a democratic form of government, this does not mean that you automatically get a society that is free from all power elites. This is not difficult to grasp for many, many people who have already started grasping this. What we need to envision, what we need to make calls for, is that they will be raised to a higher vision of this than what they get through the conspiracy theories and various websites that are always trying to be sensationalist. They are often portraying this in such a way that people don’t think they can do anything about these hidden elites that are seeking to manipulate and take over society. The reality of the matter is, of course, that people can indeed do something about any power elite group. But they can do it in only one way: through awareness.

The people cannot free themselves from any power elite until they become aware that the power elite exists, that it has certain intentions, that it has certain methods, and that it has used certain ideas to hide from the people and hide its intentions and methods from the people. Naturally, you have seen in history how people in various nations have become aware of a certain power elite, and they have done what has happened so many times: used violence to defeat the power elite. This, of course, will in no way bring the golden age. Violence and force cannot bring Saint Germain’s Golden Age into manifestation, for it is a golden age based on an entirely higher vision.

We need to step up and recognize that the key to overcoming the power elite, the key to freeing yourself and the people from exploitation by a power elite, is to raise awareness. Why is this so? Why is it not enough to just know that a power elite is there so you can put them all under the guillotine? Well, it is because if you put one power elite under the guillotine, my beloved, another power elite will immediately start forming. Was that not the lesson you can learn from the French Revolution? Was it not the lesson you can learn from many other situations in history?

What will it take for the people to be free from the power elite? It is that you recognize the influence of consciousness. The power elite can never suppress the people only through violence and force. There must be some mental idea, as Mother Mary explained, that is fooling the people into thinking that they cannot do without the elite, or into simply not seeing what the elite is doing. There is always a limited awareness in the people that creates the opening for the power elite to step in and exploit the people. Therefore, raising awareness is the key, but the awareness needs to be raised beyond simply knowing about the power elite.

My beloved, this is also the main reason why most conspiracy theories have no constructive role whatsoever. They attempt to raise people’s awareness as this or that secret conspiracy, but they never raise the awareness further, even if it’s true what they are saying, which it often is not. They never raise the awareness to the point where the people start seeing what is the element of their own consciousness that allows the formation and existence of that elite. This is the vision I am asking you to hold, and of course make the calls that we can enter a spiral where more and more become people become willing to reach for this increased awareness.

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

Copyright © 2017 Kim Michaels

TOPICS: Each group has its own energetic burden – A new generation will build the Golden Age – Why did I embody in this culture? – Transferring a cultural bias to the ascended masters – Being conscious of the creative process – The Golden Age is not a burden – Making peace with the Mother realm – Making peace with your Divine plan – Making peace with the spiritual path – The key to moving on from difficult situations – Playing your way into the Golden Age – 

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Ascended Master Saint Germain, July 4, 2016 through Kim Michaels at a conference in Seoul, Korea.

I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain, and I come to give you the secret to the Golden Age. This is not a grandiose or special secret. It is not even really a secret. It is what they call a public secret, for it has been in the public’s awareness for the past 2,000 years. Of course, Jesus gave you the secret to the Golden Age when he said that unless you receive the kingdom as a little child, you shall in no wise enter into it. This is, truly, the main secret to the Golden Age. The Golden Age will not be brought through force. The Golden Age will, of course, require work but it will not be brought through work alone. It is not a mechanical process of bringing the Golden Age. How will you bring the Golden Age? Not by working more but my playing more.

Each group has its own energetic burden

Bringing in the Golden Age is a creative endeavour and creativity has an element of play, of playfulness. Now, my beloved, step back from your own situation and look at people around the world, as you can do if you are around people from different nationalities. You can look at the people and try to look beyond what you see with the physical eye. You can use your inner eye, your intuitive sense of vision, and although you may not physically see their energy fields, many of you will be able to tune in with your heart and sense their energy fields.

When you do this, you will sense that each nation, each race, each culture, each group of people that is clearly defined has its own burden. Every group is carrying a yoke, as we might say, that weighs them down, that gives them a certain characteristic in the energy field. Although each group has its own characteristic, they all have the same effect: They make people take themselves and their lives very seriously.

If you will look at yourselves as the people in South Korea, you can see that you also have a certain national cultural or national psychological element that makes many people take life very seriously. This begins for many of you in childhood, even with your parents before you go to school, but certainly when you enter the school system where you are paced to perform a certain way in order to get good grades. You do this by working hard, by listening to what the teacher says, by learning by heart so you are able to repeat what the teacher wants to hear so you can get the good grades, and go to the right schools, and get the right jobs, and then live the life that has been defined for you.

I tell you, my beloved, many of you who are in the slightly younger generation have not come to live your entire lives according to the standard model of the Korean culture or any other culture around the earth. You have come because you wanted to be here to help bring the Golden Age. Of course, you do not bring the Golden Age by repeating the old patterns.

Now my beloved, I am not here trying to say that this is some major fault that all people have this burden. It is very understandable that many nations or other groupings of people have this burden. As an example, when you look at the people of South Korea, you see, of course, that in the slightly older generation, they experienced the war. They experienced that their country was eighty percent destroyed after the war and they experienced the major undertaking it was to rebuild their country. Surely, it was necessary to rebuild the country in order to set a foundation for the Golden Age. There is no dispute about this. There is no dispute about the fact that the older generation have done a magnificent job of rebuilding their country and creating a viable economy, a vibrant economy and raising the standard of living.

I am not here trying to put any culture, any nationality, down. You can go to every nationality and you can see that the burden they have is, of course, very understandable given their past, given their history. Is it any wonder that the Russian people have a certain burden? Is it any wonder that the German people, the Japanese people or the Chinese people have a certain burden, given their past? It is no wonder, it is very understandable.

What I am pointing out to you is that there was a certain generation of souls that came into embodiment in order to experience these very intense situations, some the second world war, others the later wars or the Cold War. They were part of that period, that phase, in the growth of the earth and the collective consciousness. This was their karma, it was their dharma, it was their role in life. It was therefore understandable that, due to the outer experiences they have had in their lifetime, they have taken on this national burden. It is understandable, my beloved.

A new generation will build the Golden Age

What I want to point out here is this: You, who are the spiritual people, regardless of your age, you do not need to live the rest of your lives with this burden. Many of you who are younger do not belong to the generation who had it as their karma and dharma to experience these traumatic events. You belong to a different generation who are here to bring the Golden Age forward. You do not do this by living your lives the way your parents did, by striving to learn and to work the way your parents did.

That is why there is a generation gap and a conflict between generations in many countries. The older generation wants the best for their children but they think the only way to get it is to do what they have done, only do it better, do it more intensely and that is why they are pacing their children. The children, of course, subconsciously (at inner levels), they know that this is not right for them. This is not the way that they can fulfill their dharma or balance their karma. They cannot fulfill their reason for taking embodiment by repeating what their parents did and doing it so intensely that it swallows up their lives. Therefore, you need to look at your own nation or group and see:  “What is it that they have taken on here and how can I avoid having it burden me to the point where I take life so seriously and take myself to seriously that I cannot fulfill my Divine plan and my role in bringing forth the Golden Age.”

Many of you, who are spiritual students and are very sincere spiritual students, have a tendency that when you find the teachings of the ascended masters (or any of the other spiritual teachings), you will approach the teaching with the same way you have approached life until the point you found the teaching. If you were brought up in a culture where people take themselves very seriously and they think they have to study hard and work hard, then you will approach a spiritual teaching the same way. You will use the teaching to justify your cultural perception filter. You will find elements of the teachings that make you think that the teaching, that the ascended masters, requires you to take life and the spiritual path very seriously, that they require you to take yourself very seriously, that they require you to study hard, to work hard, to apply yourself and to pace yourself.

Therefore, you continue the pattern you have been in before, of pacing yourself, of judging, evaluating, criticizing yourself, tearing yourself down, or whatever you have been doing, but now you think it is the ascended masters who are doing this to you. This, my beloved, is not true. It is a product of your perception filter that you have taken on based on your culture, based on the group of people and the mindset that they have put upon you. It is also often something you carry with you from past lifetimes, for there is, of course, a reason why you chose to be born into a certain nationality, culture or other grouping.

Why did I embody in this culture?

My beloved, if you will look at the group you are born into, the collective consciousness you are born into, you will be able to see that there is some element of that collective consciousness that was the reason you chose to be born there. You chose to be born there because in past lives you have not freed yourself from the consciousness that is embodied in the collective of your group. You know that you need to free yourself from it in this lifetime, you need to free yourself from it in order to be able to fulfill your Divine plan and bring your contribution to the Golden Age.

Many of you have gotten yourself into a state of mind where you feel burdened by your culture, by your upbringing and you rebel against it in a certain way. You feel that this is not right, that you do not want to be here, that you are not thriving here. This is very understandable, my beloved, but what I point out to you is that while something can be understandable, it does not mean that it is also constructive.

It can be very understandable why people are where they are in consciousness, but it is not constructive for them to think that they couldn’t help it or that there is nothing they could do about it. There is something you can do about it when you look at yourself, you look at your culture and you say: “Why did I choose to come into embodiment in this particular culture?” Then you can begin to look at what is the exact element of your collective culture that is irritating or burdening you the most. What is it that creates the strongest reaction in you? Then you will know that this is precisely the element that you need to overcome in order to fulfil your Divine plan. It was this element that was the reason you took embodiment in your particular culture.

There can be two reasons for it. Either you needed to resolve a certain burden in yourself because you have the same pattern. You have the same tendency to do to yourself what your culture is doing to you, and you need to come to see this. You need to see: “Why am I doing this to myself? Why do I feel I’m not good enough? Why do I feel like my worth is determined by my outer station in society? Why do I feel like I have to pace myself so hard in order to prove my worth? Why do I feel that I always have to be worried about what other people think or say about me?”

Indeed, there are many more of these mechanisms found around the world, but when you discover what it is, you can resolve the belief you have, which relates to where you do not see yourself as being worthy unless you live up to some outer standard. This is one element of why you chose to be in this culture. You want to resolve this particular burden or pattern in your psychology.

Another element is that there can be an element of the collective culture that you simply need to transcend, you need to move away from. You may have to resolve something in yourself before you can do this, but there comes a point where you simply need to look at the culture and you need to say: “No! I will not live this way. I will not judge myself this way. I will not take myself so seriously, based on the criteria defined in this culture.” The Alpha and Omega of transcending your culture is to resolve whatever attachments, whatever patterns, whatever beliefs, whatever wounds you have that correspond to the national culture.

The other element is to come to the point where you simply decide: “I will not submit to this pattern anymore. I will not submit to this culture. I will not let this culture stand in the way of me fulfilling my Divine plan and bringing the Golden Age.” That is when you can begin to look at two things: You can begin to tune in to what is your Divine plan, what are you here to bring forth? When you get some feel for this, you can begin to look at your culture and say: “How is my culture limiting or blocking my ability to bring forth what I can bring forth from above, from my higher being, from the ascended masters?”

Then you can begin to decide that you will transcend this. Some of you may need to move away from your culture for a time to get a different perspective, but others can do it while staying in your home country if that is where your mission is. Of course, it is entirely possible that you can be born in a certain country but your Divine plan is not in that country. Still, you need to overcome whatever was the reason you chose to be born in that country before you are free to move.

What I am pointing out to you here is that if you will make the effort, if you will stand back and look at yourself and look at your culture, then you can come to this point where you suddenly see why you have been taking yourself so seriously, why you have taken life so seriously, why you have taken the spiritual path so seriously. Then, you can begin to relax. You can begin to do what the messenger said: accept yourself for who you are. You can begin, my beloved, to enjoy being on the path, to enjoy being in embodiment, to enjoy fulfilling your Divine plan and making your contribution.

Transferring a cultural bias to the ascended masters

You see, my beloved, there is a tendency for people, as I said, to transfer their cultural bias, their cultural perception filter, to the ascended masters. Many people who come from a culture like, for example, South Korea believe that life is somewhat of a struggle, life requires hard work and hard study. Then, when you work hard, somehow there will be a reward in the end. Many people work their entire lives without realizing what the reward might be, and then when they lose their job or retire, they realize that this was not the reward they were hoping for. They are disappointed and many people end up feeling that their lives were wasted because they were striving for something and they never quite attained it.

Well, my beloved, I can assure you that when I look back at this almost a century where we have given ascended master teachings (going back to the time when I released the violet flame and the knowledge of the violet flame so many years ago), I can see that there is a certain percentage of the spiritual students who have approached the spiritual path according to their cultural bias. They have thought that we of the ascended masters are either like the god that they were brought up to see (such as the angry, judgmental being in the sky) or that we demanded the same of them that their culture demanded.

You come to the spiritual path and you are applying yourself to the spiritual path with your cultural bias and you project that it is we of the ascended masters that are demanding this of you. But you see, my beloved, we are demanding nothing from you. We are not the ones who are causing you to take yourself, life and the path seriously for we know, of course, what is the key to spiritual growth. It is to shift your consciousness, and it is not a mechanical but a creative process. With “creative” I mean something very specific.

When you look at a mechanical process, it is something that people can do mechanically, meaning they are conscious but they are not consciously aware of what they are doing. Take a look, for example, at the many factories where people are sitting at an assembly line and they have a few tasks to do to a product unit that is moving by them. They have to put a screw in here and a nut on here or they have to do something else. They sit there and repeat this process many times a day. This is something that they can do and, of course, they are conscious but they are not really aware, they are not really awake. They are mechanically doing this. Perhaps their mind is elsewhere or perhaps their mind is in some state that is almost a coma.

There are many people who go through their entire lives in this mechanical state of consciousness where they are never fully aware of what they are doing. There are many, many people who find the spiritual path and they apply themselves to the spiritual path with this mechanical mindset. They think it is a matter of studying a teaching, doing decrees, doing invocations, meditating, going to conferences, doing this, doing that. They think that if they do all the outer things, then one day there will be a reward, for somehow magically they will be transformed into beings with a higher state of consciousness.

Being conscious of the creative process

What we have attempted to point out for a long time (and what we have especially attempted to point out through this messenger because it is the core of the Aquarian message) is that this mechanical approach to the spiritual path will not work. It is those who, as Jesus said, attempt to take heaven by force, those who are like the scribes and Pharisees who think it is enough to do the outer things and that this is what the spiritual path is all about. We have seen ascended master students, my beloved, who have applied themselves very eagerly and with determination and with great effort to giving decrees and following the path in a certain way. Then, when they have done it for ten, twenty or thirty years, they have come to a point where they somehow can’t do it anymore and now they feel disappointed. They may even feel they have been deceived by the ascended masters and they begin to doubt whether the path is real, whether the masters are real, whether there is any point in trying to do anything.

The reason for this is that these people have not locked in to the inner path, the inner creative path, which is all about one thing: stepping outside of your normal state of awareness and looking at yourself, looking at life with a greater sense of awareness. Then coming to see that here is a pattern in your psychology that is holding you back. It is making you suffer, it is making you feel that life is not what it should be. It is making you take life seriously, it is causing you emotional pain or mental confusion. It is causing you to see yourself as a limited being who cannot go beyond certain boundaries. When you see this pattern consciously, when you really see it, when you see the decision behind it, then you can consciously make a different decision and then you have taken a decisive step forward on the spiritual path.

Now, my beloved, our decrees and invocations do indeed work in terms of transforming the energy that makes it difficult for you to step back and look at yourself with higher awareness. Nevertheless, stepping back and looking at yourself is not a mechanical process, it is something you need to do consciously. That is why I call it a creative process because it requires self-awareness, self-observation and the willingness to make a decision.

There are many people who have looked at creativity as an inspirational process. There are many writers or painters who feel like, at certain times, they are magically given inspiration from some source and then they can paint or then they can write or then they can play music or then they can come up with new ideas. My beloved, this is because these people are not consciously aware and they do not have conscious mastery of the creative process. What we are calling you, who are our students, to do is to step up to a higher approach where you seek to gain conscious awareness of the creative process so that you are not passively waiting for inspiration but you are actively seeking inspiration.

The Golden Age is not a burden

This messenger found the ascended master teachings many years ago and for a number of years he applied himself very eagerly and with great determination and great effort. Then, there came a point where he realized that it was time to step up to a different approach. In fact, he realized that it was not us, the ascended masters, who were demanding that he should work so hard. It was he himself who was making this demand upon himself, and therefore he could have continued to work so hard for the rest of his life without making progress. There was no external force, there was no external karma, that demanded that he should do it this way for a certain amount of time. He needed to do it this way until he inside himself came to the resolution that it was time to step up to a higher approach.

You, of course, all can follow the same process of coming to that inner realization that the true inner path is about self-observation and seeing these patterns and then overcoming them, letting something go and deciding to adopt a higher approach, deciding to adopt a higher reality, a higher view of life and of yourself. This is truly what I desire for all of you. I have said it before, my beloved, that I do not desire to see my students suffer and feel that the path is a burden for them for a lifetime. Then, at the end of their life, when they have left the body and they go through a life review, they realize that all of their striving, all of their suffering, all of their judging and pacing themselves had not actually enabled them to fulfill their Divine plans fully.

Therefore, I desire all of you to come to the realization of what is your gift to bring forth so that you can begin to bring it forth. You will not come to that realization if you feel that the path is just another work, is just another burden that I am putting on you. My beloved, bringing the Golden Age of Saint Germain is not a burden, it is not a duty, it is not something you absolutely have to do. I am not forcing anyone to work on bringing forth the Golden Age, my beloved.

I have no desire whatsoever to see you live the rest of your life feeling so burdened, taking yourself and the spiritual path and life so seriously. I have no desire to see you live the rest of your life in this state of not accepting yourself and always feeling like you are not doing enough or you are behind. I desire you to overcome this pattern in your psychology so that you can return to that state of being as the little child who is joyfully and lovingly experimenting with life.

Making peace with the Mother realm

Now, in order to return to that state, I wish to present you with two things for your consideration. There are, of course, many things that could be said for this, and probably many things will be said by us. Nevertheless, I wish to present you two things. One is that you need to overcome this sense that is so ingrained in many cultures that the material world, that the Mother realm, is deficient or is malicious or is opposing you, is not wanting to give you what you think you need or what you desire to have.

There are many, many cultures that have this consciousness of lack. Again, when you look at the history of those cultures, it is very understandable why the old generation had this sense. Certainly, when you look at your parents here in Korea, you can see that they had to struggle. Therefore, it is understandable that they have accepted this very subtle sense that there is a lack in nature and that they have to work very hard and almost force nature to give them more abundance.

You, who are the younger generation, you who are the spiritual people of any generation, you can look beyond this cultural bias. You can work on reconciling yourself with Mother Nature, with the Mother realm, with the matter realm. You can come to accept what was said by Jesus, namely that it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom but that God the Father gives you the kingdom through God the Mother that is the material realm. You can then use the many teachings we have given, including Mother Mary’s teachings in A Course in Abundance, of how you can come to see that the Mother realm will give you what you desire, but she can only reflect back to you what you are projecting upon the mat-er light. Therefore, you need to overcome the consciousness of lack that has been put upon you by your parents and by your culture.

The same, of course, is true in so many other parts of the world where their parents or grandparents experienced the wars and experienced the struggle of building a more affluent society. Of course, I am well aware that there are many parts of the world where they still have not achieved an affluent society, but I am speaking specifically for those who have achieved some level of material abundance that allows you to actually focus on other aspects of life, rather than working so hard on physical, material survival.

Making peace with your Divine plan

You also, as a second thing, need to come to that point where you realize that your Divine plan was not something that was put upon you by an external force. There are many spiritual students who come to the spiritual path and then they hear us say: “Oh we need you to give these decrees and invocations to transform the negative energy that is burdening you personally or burdening the world. We need you to study, we need you to raise your consciousness, we need you to do this and we need you to do that.” Many people then apply their cultural bias and they think that we are now requiring you to work so hard on bringing forth the elements of your Divine plan.

My beloved, it is not that we do not need some spiritual students to do work and because there are not so many spiritual students who are open to our teachings, we very much appreciate when you do work and when you do many decrees and invocations because they have a positive effect. I am not saying that you should not make an effort, but I am saying that you should make a balanced effort so that your life is not swallowed up by either working to earn a living and then in your spare time giving decrees and invocations. You never have time to step back and look at your life and ask yourself: “Do I want to live this way the rest of my life? What is my Divine plan? What are the elements of my Divine plan?”

What I want to point out to you is that many people can have this sense that fulfilling your Divine plan is an obligation, it’s a duty, it’s hard work, it’s something you just have to do because some external force requires it of you. This is not true and you need to work consciously on reconciling yourself with your Divine plan and realizing that your Divine plan is not put upon you from any external source. It is what you chose.

It is just that when you chose your Divine plan, you had a broader perspective than you have right now when you are inside the four lower bodies and looking at life through that filter. When you made your Divine plan, you could look at a broader perspective and you could see what you wanted to do, what you wanted to bring forth. When you begin to lock in to this, my beloved, you can realize that there are two elements of your Divine plan.

There is the karma you needed to balance and the psychology you needed to resolve on one side. This, in a sense, could be seen as the work you have to do because it stands in the way of the second part of your Divine plan, which is to bring your gift to this planet. My beloved, bringing your gift is not a burden, it is not an obligation, it is not hard work. It is play. The key to bringing your gift is the childlike mind.

What does the childlike mind have? It has no worries about how it is going to receive a living, how it is going to get food or a roof over its head. It feels that this is taken care of, and you can come to a point where you have made peace with the Mother and you have taken practical steps to provide a living for yourself and therefore you can let this worry go away. You know that this can happen, that this is going to happen and it may require some amount of your time and energy, but it will not swallow up your life and so the rest of the time you can focus on your gift without having to worry about all these practical things.

Your gift is the other element of being a child, which is that you are not working, you are playing. Look at how many of you can barely remember a childhood where you were just allowed to play because for so many of you, even in early childhood it was put upon you: “You have to work, you have to do what is required, you have to fulfill your duty.” You can nevertheless come to a point where, again, you allow yourself to be the child. You allow yourself to play, and that is when you will begin to truly lock in to the gift aspect of your Divine plan. You will begin to realize that you chose to bring this gift because you knew it was what would give you the greatest joy, the greatest satisfaction, the greatest sense of purpose in life.

There may be many of you who have been brought up by your parents to always look at life in very practical terms, of how you need to get a good job. In order to get a good job, you need to get a good education. Therefore, you will need to look at what jobs are there in your society and what kind of education you need in order to get this job. For the first part of your life, you have focused on practical, outer measures. Now, for some of you, you will be able to use this − your skills, your experience − in providing a living for yourself so you do not have to worry about the practical aspects.

For others, you will come to a point where you realize that what you did in terms of getting an education really did not have anything to do with the gift of your Divine plan. This messenger is an example of this where he strove to get a certain education but then came to realize that this was not truly what he was meant to bring forth as his gift to this planet. He worked for a long time on discovering that gift, and then he realized that it was being a messenger for the ascended masters, being a writer and bringing forth all of these new ideas. Certainly, this has given him greater joy, greater sense of purpose, greater sense of fulfilment than anything else he could have done with his education, even though that could also have been creative work.

For many of you it is the same way. You will not do what this messenger is doing and many of you will find a way to be active in society, to be out there in the working life so you are provided a comfortable living. You can still find that there are ways whereby you can bring forth something new, something that gives you a sense of satisfaction of being creative. You will do this when you can play with whatever you are doing.

Many of you have had it put upon you from early childhood: “You need to get an education, you need to get a job, you need to work hard because this is the way you get ahead in life.” You tend to look upon your work life as a burden, something you have to get over with. Then, when you are off of work, you can have some enjoyment in your spare time. For many of you, it will be possible to make the switch in consciousness where you actually realize that you can express your gift, the gift aspect of your Divine plan, through your work. Therefore, you can begin to play with certain elements of your work. You can find a new way to approach work.

Maybe you can find a new job, a new position, but you are finding a way to make it playful instead of being this burden that you long to get away from. That is when you will feel that doors will begin to open up. You will begin to see something you could not see before. Suddenly, an opportunity will open and it just seems like the natural next step to walk through that door. You do it, and now you are in a different situation where you feel more free to express your creativity.

Making peace with the spiritual path

My beloved, what I am pointing out to you is this: the spiritual path has stages. There is a certain stage where you simply cannot see what is beyond that stage, you cannot see what is at the next stage. You can just think of what it feels like to go into the elevator in this tall building and you are in a closed room where you cannot see what is outside the windows. Then, you can ride up to a certain floor and when you get to that floor, you can see what you could not see from the ground level. You can see what is behind the trees, you can see what is behind the hill and then you can go even higher and then you can see what is behind the other buildings that are lower than the building you are in. That is the way it is on the spiritual path.

Right now, you are at a certain stage and you tend to take this stage seriously. You tend to feel certain limitations. This is understandable, my beloved, but is it constructive? If you could shift your awareness, you could begin to consciously decide that you will not take yourself and life so seriously, you will make an effort to play more. Or rather, you will make a conscious decision to stop making so much of an effort, to stop working so hard, to stop being so serious, so driven. Instead, you will step back and focus more on the playful aspects of your situation.

If you would do this, if you would make an effort to stop making an effort, then you would see that something would open up very gradually. You will begin to get a broader perspective and you can see, not necessarily where you are going ten years from now, but you can see a door opening that you had not seen before. Then, you can see that your next step is to walk through that door.

My beloved, there is no one who has ever been in embodiment who has had the full awareness of their Divine plan or how their life was going to unfold for the rest of that lifetime. Not even Jesus knew this ahead of time. We all have to start where we are and then open ourselves up to see the next step. Then, when that door opens, we move through the door without knowing what is behind that door, but we have confidence that this is the natural step to take. Then, when we are at that next level, we again work on increasing our perspective, increasing our vision and then we see the next door.

You can come to a point where you have made peace with the fact that this is the way life is. This is what we have called the River of Life where you are at peace with being where you are, you are at peace with flowing with the river because you know that the right doors will open at the right time. When you are in attunement, when you are playful, when you are willing to flow with life, you will get to the right place at the right time, including getting to your ascension point at the end of this lifetime.

This is what we call being in the River of Life. It is not that you know everything. It is not that you are guaranteed a certain result, but the results are no longer as important as the process because you are enjoying the process rather than being so focused on the result. I talked about the people who work their whole lives, always running like a donkey is running in front of the carrot that is hanging in front of its nose, but they are never catching up, they are never feeling that anything is enough or good enough. This is not what we desire to see for you.

The key to moving on from difficult situations

We desire to see you be at peace with being who you are, being where you are at on the path, being where you are at in life. My beloved, this messenger has realized many years ago that the key to moving on from a certain situation is to come to a point where there is nothing in the situation that causes a reaction in you. Therefore, you are not actually longing to get away from the situation, you are at peace with being in the situation. When you come to the point where you are at peace with being in a certain situation, that is when you are free to move on and that is when you will see doors opening.

As long as you are struggling, as long as you are rebelling against being where you are, you cannot move on. Why can’t you move on? Because, my beloved, you put yourself in your current situation because there is a lesson you have not learned. There is something in your psychology you have not seen. As long as you are struggling against the situation, the tension you are creating by struggling makes it impossible for you to step back and look at your reaction and say: “Why am I reacting this way? What is the mechanism in my psychology? What is the belief I have that causes me to react this way?”

It is only when you do step back that you can overcome the tension. When you see what the pattern is that is creating the tension, then you can resolve it. When you are standing there looking at the situation, which for example can be the way you react to your parents, then you can come to the point where now you have resolved the element in your psychology that caused you to react to your parents. Now you can look at your parents and say: “But now that I have no negative reaction to my parents, they are actually very nice people and I can live with them.” That is the moment where you are free to say: “But does the fact that I can live with them mean that I want to live with them?”

That is when you will find that, suddenly, a door will open up and you will see that maybe it is your Divine plan to move somewhere else, but you are not doing it to get away from your parents. You are not moving, you are not running away from something. You are moving to something higher. You are moving into a new situation. Maybe it isn’t even necessary for you to break off your relationship with your parents, your family or your society. Maybe it is just necessary for you to shift your perspective.

I can promise you that in many cases when you shift your perspective, the dynamic you have with other people will also shift, even if they are not consciously working on their psychology. You will treat them differently and in many cases this will cause them to treat you differently. If they are not able or willing to do that, then you can be at peace with moving on or maybe even recognizing that you will have a relationship with your parents at a certain level. It will be on their terms and it will be what it will be, but it is not going to limit you because you are going to walk your path in life, the path that you desire to walk, and you are going to be at peace with that.

Playing your way into the Golden Age

My beloved, what I point out to you is this: the key to fulfilling your Divine plan and the key to bringing the Golden Age is to see it as an act of playfulness. For this to happen for you, you need to look at: “What are the elements in my life and in my own psychology that prevent me from playing, that might even make me think that it is somehow wrong to play?”

It is ironic, my beloved, that your parents are the ones who give you life and they are the ones who take care of you during your childhood. Therefore, ideally, your parents should be the ones who give you a safe environment in which you can allow yourself to be children and allow yourself to play. Ironically, in many cases, it is precisely your parents that are the greatest limitation for the children because the parents destroy the children’s ability to play and to approach life from a playful perspective. The parents are the ones who are putting on their children something that makes it difficult for the children to relate to life with playfulness.

You who are spiritual students, you can consciously overcome this pattern of whatever was put upon you by your parents or your culture. You can come to the point where you can look at your parents, you can look at your culture but it is not limiting you. You are not forced into a reactionary pattern. You are still able to play.

If you can do this my beloved, you will make a major contribution to changing your culture and bringing it up to the Golden Age level. As I said, the culture that has brought many nations to their present level cannot bring them into the Golden Age. You will, of course, also make a big contribution to making your own life easier and more enjoyable, and this is truly what we all desire to see for you, namely that you can enjoy being in embodiment on this earth.

We know there are many problems and challenges on this earth but, my beloved, when you are in the Golden Age mindset, the challenges will not prevent you from being at peace with being in embodiment, being at peace with being who you are, being at peace with fulfilling your Divine plan. When you are at peace, you can be playful. How can you be playful when you are not at peace, my beloved?

This is what we desire to see for you. My beloved, think about Jesus’ statement: “Unless you become as a little child, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom.” Why is that my beloved? Because it is the childlike mind that makes you open to receiving a gift. For the Golden Age of Saint Germain to be manifest in the physical, the process required is this way:

• I am an ascended master.
• I am envisioning from my perspective the vision for the Golden Age.
• I cannot force this into physical manifestation.
• It can be brought into physical manifestation only when those of you who are in embodiment accept it as a gift, accept elements of it as a gift.
• You cannot receive it as a gift unless you are open to receiving it.
• If you think it requires a struggle and hard work and effort, how can you receive the gift, my beloved?

The Golden Age is a gift from me to humankind, and gifts must be received before they have an impact in the material realm. Only you, who are the spiritual people, can receive it, but you can receive it only when you have the childlike mind of a child that allows yourself to play with life, to play with the path. When you see that I am not a strict master that makes demands on you, but I am a loving master who is perfectly willing to give you the gift, then you can receive what I offer this planet.

I leave you with these many thoughts. I I hope you will ponder them and use them to step back and look at the elements in your life that have taken away your innocence and that are preventing you from playing with life from that wonderful state of mind that we have called the childlike mind, but it really is more than any child expresses on earth. It truly is that inner state, that inner sense, that innocence, of knowing that you are one with the ascended masters above and with all life below. Therefore, you are in the figure-eight flow between spirit and matter that truly is the River of Life.

I AM in that River, and for the next 2,000 years, one might even say that I AM the River of Life for planet Earth. You too can be in that River, even while you are in physical embodiment. The question I put before you is: “Will you continue to struggle against the current of the river, or will you make the conscious decision to flow with the River of Life that I AM?”

Copyright © 2016 Kim Michaels

TOPICS: South Korea is in the beginning stages of the Golden Age – The desire for an orderly society – The fallen beings manipulated people into accepting roles – Dissatisfaction with life – Resentment from within – Potential conflicts in Asian nations – Conflict between young and old – The individual has inherent worth – Youth unemployment – Neither communism nor unrestricted capitalism – A new approach to the economy – Preserving face – Going beyond the risk of failure –

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Ascender Master Saint Germain, July 2, 2016 through Kim Michaels at a conference in Seoul, Korea

South Korea is in the beginning stages of the Golden Age

I AM the Ascender Master Saint Germain, and I am very grateful for being provided a platform whereby I can speak the perspective of the Seventh Ray on how we can bring Korea and Asia into the Golden Age. Now, bringing something into the Golden Age implies, of course, that we are not already there, but this is a statement that might be cause for consideration. In many respects South Korea is already in the Golden Age because you have achieved so much progress since the devastation that followed after the war. You have shown such a willingness to improve, such a willingness to work hard and such a willingness to move forward that in many ways you are in the Golden Age already.

As I have said, the Golden Age is not a static society, it is an ongoing process of growth. Therefore, you can say that South Korea is in the beginning stages of the Golden Age and there is much more to come. Nevertheless, I wish to have you acknowledge that I do not in any way consider South Korea a deficient society or a society that is behind the times or behind the plan for bringing forth the Golden Age. You are in many ways right on schedule for bringing forth the vision I have for this nation and this I think deserves my gratitude and my congratulations.

Those of you who are the spiritual people can, of course, see that there are still things that are not according to a Golden Age matrix in your society. Nevertheless, you should not go into a negative state of mind and feel like you are coming from a deficit. You should not look at your own nation with mistrust. You should not go into this state of consciousness, that we see in America so much, with many who go into these conspiracy theories and believe that everything is bad and there is a manipulation behind the scenes and so forth and so on.

Of course, there is manipulation behind the scenes in the sense that there are fallen beings everywhere, and they are always trying to do what they are always trying to do. Nevertheless, my point is this: There has been so much progress in South Korea that you can consider yourself in the beginning stages of the Golden Age. Therefore, you can move forward with the attitude, with the consciousness, that we are building upon a good foundation and therefore we do not look at ourselves or our society as being deficient or behind.

This, of course, is not the case in North Korea, which is behind. It is not the case in many other nations in Asia that are also behind, but South Korea is not behind and that is why I said in Holland that I consider South Korea the key to Asia, the key to changing the mindset of Asia.

The desire for an orderly society

Now, what is it that I, as the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, envision needs to happen for the Golden Age to be brought into manifestation in the greater Asian area? Well, it is, of course, that from my perspective the absolute key to bringing the Golden Age is freedom, to bring freedom. Without freedom how can there be a Golden Age? How can there be a new era of innovation and inventions that will bring forth all of the thought matrixes, all of the ideas, all of the practical technologies that are needed to manifest the Golden Age? It cannot happen without freedom and with freedom I do not mean only physical or political freedom, not only economic freedom, I mean first of all freedom of the mind. Therefore, there must be a freedom to think in new terms, to think outside the box, to think outside of these matrices, these traditional ways of looking at life, that actually is one of the greatest hindrances to the manifestation of the Golden Age especially here in Asia.

What is it that I wish to give you in this instalment? Well, it is simply that there needs to be a new awareness that people in Asia need to gain a freedom from a certain mindset that has been very dominant in this part of the world for a long time. The mindset I am talking about is somewhat subtle but it can be described in this way. There is a great desire among the people in Asia to live in a very orderly, structured society where everything can be predicted, everything can be controlled and therefore there are no surprises.

You can see, for example, how many past societies (and even present societies) have attempted to accomplish this kind of society by creating a very centralized society that has a very strict, orderly form of government. This society has defined specific roles for all of its citizens. There is a role for the peasant, for the worker, for the soldier, for the administrator, for the leaders and so forth and so on. This goes somewhat back to the Confucian philosophy that has in many cases been taken to an extreme, but it must be said in all fairness that while Confucius was in embodiment as Confucius, he also had a desire to create a very orderly, structured society.

The fallen beings manipulated people into accepting roles

The fallen beings, of course, have taken these ideas to an extreme because they have used the desire for a structured society to reason or argue that in order to create a structured society, you need to create a society where everything is predictable. In order to make everything predictable, we need to define these very strict, narrow roles for all of the people in society. Therefore, when you are born in a certain family, you are automatically born into a certain role. You need to educate yourself to fulfil that role, you need to accept that this is your role and then you need to carry out that role for the rest of your lifetime. We might say that, as there is the saying that some people sell their souls to the devil, in a sense many people in this area have sold their soul to security, to living in a secure society.

There are many, many people who have accepted these roles because they have, as we have said before, come to the point where they were not willing to make their own decisions. They were so afraid of being wrong, of creating dire consequences for themselves, that they were wanting to be in a situation where their life was predictable. They wanted to look at the rest of their lifespan and they could see that if they kept carrying out the task that they had been assigned in their society, then their life was secure. There would be no great surprises, there would be nothing that would shock them, there would be no undesirable consequences.

The fallen beings have understood how to take advantage of this situation. However, if you go further back and ask how this situation could arise, you see precisely, as we have also mentioned many times, that the fallen beings are the ones who have created such an unbalanced state on the planet that people experience these very severe consequences of their choices. It is actually the fallen beings who have created the situation where people’s choices lead to such drastic consequences that people become afraid of making choices.

The fallen beings then come in and take advantage of the imbalance they have created, and they take society to a point where they can set themselves up as having almost total, almost God-like, control over society. When I say God-like control, I of course mean this according to the definition of God also created by the fallen beings, where it is seen as if God is this remote being in the sky who wants to control everything.

This, naturally, is a false God, as we have explained, but nevertheless, how many people have been able to see this? How many people have been able to free themselves from the image of God, the image of the spiritual realm, that has been put upon them by the fallen beings? Therefore, many people have come to believe (especially in past ages) that the rulers of their society had some authority or were ordained by God to be rulers. Whatever they said was a divine edict, a divine decree, and if the people did not follow it, they would go against God himself. They would go against the will of God if they went against the will of the leaders of their society.

Dissatisfaction with life

What is it that happens as a result of living in such a society? On the one hand, you may say that people have great security. You know from modern times how many people in communist countries have felt that after communism was abandoned there is such insecurity in their societies that they do not want to deal with it. A certain percentage of the population longs back to the security they had where they knew that they had a certain standard of living, a certain job that was guaranteed for life. Many people, also in this area of Asia, have sold their souls to this god of security and they have looked forward to a life that was predictable.

What is it that happens in the deep psychology of the soul when it is in this situation? Well, the soul knows (even though the person does not know this consciously), the inner being of the person knows that it is not growing, it is not fulfilling its reason for being. You are, as we have explained, self-aware spiritual beings, your purpose is not to live a secure life for sixty or seventy years in this embodiment. Your purpose is to live a life so that when you leave that embodiment you have risen to a higher level of consciousness than when you entered that embodiment.

If you leave at the same level at which you entered, or if you even go below the level at which you entered, then you will have some inner knowledge of this. You will therefore know that you are falling behind, that something is missing, something is not right. This is the inner knowing that has caused many of you to discover the spiritual path and to put forth great effort to walk the spiritual path. My beloved, when the soul knows within itself that something is missing, that it is not growing, then what the outer person feels at the conscious level is a certain discontent with life.

You are constantly dissatisfied with life, no matter what position you have in society. Even though you may be one of the privileged elite who has a privileged position, you are still dissatisfied. It is not quite enough, you are not quite where you need to be. This creates a very conflicted psychology where on the one hand you have the desire for security but on the other hand you have from deep within, this deep dissatisfaction that wells up.

Resentment from within

As you become older in such a structured society, you come to realize that you are actually boxed in, you have no possibility of changing your station in society, you cannot transcend it, you cannot go beyond it. It is not a matter of how hard you work, how innovative you are, how creative you are in coming up with new ideas. If you are a peasant or a soldier or an administrator that is what you will be for the rest of this lifetime, and so what starts growing within the soul is a certain resentment. This resentment must be directed out from itself because the soul is not willing to make its own decisions.

You understand that there is the outer limitations of society that are put upon you so that even if you did change, you could not really change your station in that society. There is also the inner limitation where when you have a fear of making decisions that lead to undesirable consequences, how can you even decide to do anything different. If you are not willing to acknowledge your unwillingness to make decisions, then you reason (with your outer mind) that it is society that is limiting you and so you must direct your resentment outwards.

You now have two possible scenarios for people living in such a society. One is that they stay in the station that they are assigned to for the rest of their lives and their society is orderly, is predictable, so that nothing dramatic happens in that society. In that case the resentment continues to grow and can very quickly become a form of anger that is directed at anyone where it seems appropriate or risk-free to direct that anger. This means that in any society you will see that people will direct anger against those they feel are below them. The top leader may direct anger at anyone. Those who are at the next level of leadership down may direct anger at those below them and so on. Even the one that is at the lowest station in society in terms of his outer occupation may direct anger against his wife and children.

Of course, the women – who often have no job or no occupation, no station in society other than being wives and housewives and mothers – they might direct anger at their husbands. You see a society where even though everyone has security in having a certain lifestyle, they are all more or less angry with each other and they are often interacting with each other based on this anger, resentment and irritation.

The other scenario that is possible in such a society is that something happens that disturbs the sense of security. This has in the past in many many cases been war but it has also been natural disasters. It has also been the overthrow of a certain political leader or even a political system, the bringing forth of something new that upset the order in society. The people who thought they had a secure station for the rest of their lives suddenly lost their position, lost their privileges, or they had to change their station, they had to change to a different occupation. They had to adjust to new circumstances and, again, when you feel you have lost something, when you feel you have to adjust to the new, then many people become angry. They, after all, had made this deal where they thought that if they submitted themselves to their station in life, then they should not have to change, they should not have to adjust.

What you often see is that when there is some kind of change that is unexpected, then you see anger as a result. You will see this in many of the Asian societies where it is beginning to dawn on the people that times are changing, that the way they were brought up to see their lives and their station in life cannot be maintained over time.

Potential conflicts in Asian nations

You see, for example, in China, how there is a very strong resentment among certain parts of the population. This is partly those who have seen their lives as being in a certain box, based on the old communist system. Now this is changing and therefore they feel they are losing their grip on society. It is entirely possible that there will be a major confrontation in China within the next decade between those who are trying to hold on to the communist system and the communist structure and those who have moved into the new and seeing the opportunity and who are focused on making money and raising their station in life through their making of money.

There will be an established power elite of the communist party officials and administrators and the aspiring power elite of those who have taken and are taking the economic power. This has the potential to create a major, major disaster in the Chinese society. It may not lead to a violent revolution but it certainly can lead to very great tension.

You see a similar pattern in Japan. Not quite the same way because of the lack of the communist influence, but you still see an old established power elite that is seeking to hold on to the old ways and a newer power elite that wants to take over and wants to bring society in a new direction.

What you also see in a number of Asian nations, including South Korea, is that you have a growing inequality between rich and poor. You see that there are those who are becoming increasingly rich even beyond any kind of reasonability because they have taken advantage of the system. They have taken advantage of the growth and they have used the privileged positions that they attained in the corporate structure, sometimes even in the government, through corruption to hold back those below them. Therefore, instead of sharing the wealth with the people, they have concentrated the earnings of a company to go to the shareholders instead of being shared with the employees. There are people who have worked their whole lives who feel that their standard of living is slowly being eroded and they feel this is unjust.

Conflict between young and old

Then, the next conflict that is lurking in many societies is the conflict between young people and the older more established people who are still having their prime positions in society and in the corporate structure. Many young people have been brought up, from when they were small, that they needed to get an education, they needed to get a good job, they needed to get a certain kind of job. They have focused their lives entirely on going through this very, very strict very, very demanding educational system in order to get the good grades and in order to get a degree. Then they come out with their degree and their paper and they suddenly are faced with the reality that there is not a job for every graduate and therefore they cannot be guaranteed the secure life that their parents had and that they were brought up to think that they would have.

Again, you see that because of the rigidity in society, because of this structure where everyone felt that if only they had a certain station in life and if only they accepted that station and met the demands of that station, then their lives would be secure, their lives would be predictable. Because of this very structure, when people realize that the security that they had seen as their right in life is not there, then the reaction is anger. Of course, anger does not lead to growth and anger does not lead to progress in society. It is therefore very important for you, who are the spiritual people, to be the forerunners, to overcome this consciousness in yourself but also to make the calls that society will find a way to deal with these issues without going into this state where everything is so inflated and every problem is so inflated by anger that it is impossible to talk rationally about this.

What you, of course, see in many areas of the world (and which you saw in the West, for example, with the discontent among the youth in the 1960’s) is that in many cases the older generation, who feel their lives are secure, do not want to listen to the young people until the young people go to an extreme and become very angry. This unfortunately sets the debate in society on a non-constructive track that often leads to bad decisions that are not actually to the advantage of anyone and that often allows the power elite to go in and manipulate the situation. It is important for you to hold the vision and make the calls that the South Korean society can find a more constructive way to deal with this issue. I know that this is a very big challenge and it will be very difficult to deal with this issue but I also know it is possible.

The individual has inherent worth

You see, my beloved, what other masters have talked about is that there has not been the value or the worth of the individual; it has not been seen by society. It has not been seen by the people nor has it been seen that there is a necessity for a society or corporation to invest in the people and see them as a resource. The only way to really deal with the situation of young people, as it is today and as it will become even more pronounced in the coming years, is to shift the way you look at life where you begin to realize the purpose of life is not security. The purpose of life is not to find a station, to accept a station, to educate yourself to fill a certain station and then work in that station for the rest of your life until you retire and then eventually die.

What you need to make the calls for is that people in South Korea begin to shift their view of life, their view of what it means to be a human being. You begin to realize that as a human being you have worth in yourself because you are not a human being but a spiritual being. This is a transition that has to some degree happened in the West, and that is why I say it is possible to begin this transition. I am not saying that any Western country has completed this transition because there is still much confusion and much problems in the West in terms of shifting the view of life.

I am only saying it is possible. It has been demonstrated that you can learn as a society to put greater value on the individual. This will also help many of the young people to see that their value as a human being does not depend on them having a job or having a certain kind of job. It can even help society come to the realization that it is not only acceptable but can actually be a benefit to society that there is a certain amount of people who are not following the traditional model of educating themselves to hold a certain job and then holding that for the rest of their lives. There is value in having a society where a certain percentage of the people can step back from letting their lives and their attention being swallowed up by the very demanding work in the current situation. There is value in having some people who have free time and free energy and free attention to focus on other aspects of life.

This is what you have seen traditionally in the many monks and nuns, both in the Buddhist religion and in other religions, who have withdrawn from society and focused on a more religious or even spiritual lifestyle. Yet because of the way modern times have developed, this is not so common anymore. You see in many Western nations that there is a certain percentage of the people who are not having a job and who are living a sort of in-between existence where they have not discovered the spiritual side of life, they are just coasting along living off of whatever welfare benefits their society offers. If there can be a shift where people can come to see this as an opportunity to focus on their spiritual nature or to focus on developing their creativity, then it can change the equation so that society can begin to deal with this problem in a more constructive way.

Youth unemployment

I can assure you that on a world-wide basis the issue of youth unemployment is not likely to improve in the near future. There are many, many countries around the world that deal with a large unemployment among young people, in some nations up to 25%, and this is an issue that needs to be dealt with by shifting perception of what it means to be a human being, what it means to be a good member of society, what it means to have worth.

You cannot continue a situation where people’s sense of worth is defined by their outer station in society. This is, of course, the way it has been in the rigid structure I have described but it is not the way it can be in the Aquarian age. In the Aquarian age the growth that will happen is that people will begin to see their inherent value as spiritual beings. There will be a transition period, and it is inevitable that there will be a stage where people must begin to question whether you really get your value through your outer station in life, especially through your job. You will see that this will require great adjustment throughout the world, and it is unfortunately so, my beloved, that this is an absolute necessary requirement for the bringing forth of the Golden Age but it is also something that many people are reluctant to consider.

As we have explained, when people are reluctant to learn from divine direction, they must learn from the School of Hard Knocks and the hard knocks are coming in various ways but one of the ways is precisely this growing phenomenon of unemployment among young people. When you see that people have been brought up to strive for a certain station in life and been promised security in return for it and then suddenly the security promised is not delivered, then you will see discontent. You will see that many of these young people will not remain silent and they will speak up and they will demand change in their society. This will unfortunately lead to various conflicts, but what I ask you to do is make the calls that your society can overcome this problem and overcome the anger and the resentment and find a more constructive way to deal with the issue.

Neither communism nor unrestricted capitalism

There are, of course, ways to deal with this issue, among them first of all is to look at the situation where you have allowed these corporations who focus wealth in the hands of a very small elite. I know well that whenever I talk about sharing wealth, there are some (especially in the United States but also elsewhere) who will immediately yell: “Communism.” But what I am talking about here is not communism. What I am not talking about either is, of extreme, uncontrolled capitalism. As we have said before, when the Soviet Union collapsed, what collapsed was the age of isms. It was not just communism that collapsed it was also capitalism and any other form of ism.

What collapsed was the age where it is enough for a society to adopt a certain philosophy and then think that this philosophy will solve all of their problems. This will no longer work in the Golden Age, and therefore a society needs to go beyond these systems that are thought up either by the human mind or the fallen mind and that wants reality to conform to a set of ideas. In the Golden Age there needs to be an awareness that we need to use what Mother Mary has called the wisdom of the mother to ask ourselves how life actually works. Therefore, we can look at a society, for example, as South Korea. You have had the division of Korea with a communist North and a South that was not communist. There has been a tendency to think in South Korea that capitalism is superior to communism and therefore if only you allow capitalism to run its course then you will create a more prosperous society.

Indeed, my beloved, by allowing capitalism to run its course you have created great wealth in society, but precisely because capitalism has been allowed to run its course, that wealth has been increasingly concentrated in the control of a smaller and smaller elite of people. That is precisely what capitalism as a system is designed to do, just as communism is designed to concentrate control in the hand of a small elite. In a communist system that control is gained through the party, but in a capitalist system it is gained through control of the economic apparatus whereby the wealth becomes concentrated. And through the wealth, you can control society.

You need to step back from this situation and say: “Now that we recognize that there is a growing gap between rich and poor, that there is a growing youth unemployment, it is necessary for us to acknowledge that the form of capitalism we have had has reached the end of its useful lifespan. It is time for us to take a critical look at it and see its limitations and then create a new approach.” We are not here talking about creating a communist system, for communism is dead. We are talking about reaching for a new approach to the economy where you realize that a society that is a free society cannot remain free if it allows a small elite to gain absolute control of the economy.

A capitalist system is a system where a small elite demands to be given unrestricted freedom to take over the economy. This cannot secure freedom for the population, and that is why you need to recognize that despite all of the rhetoric that has been put out there since the advent of communism, capitalism cannot and will not produce a free society. It will produce a society that is as unfree as a communist society, only it will be achieved in a different way.

A new approach to the economy

You need to recognize that there is a need to find a new approach to the economy. I do not say a new economic model or system for we are not looking for a system or a model. We are looking for the growing awareness that if a society is free (and claims to be a free society and wants to be a free society and wants to be a democratic society), then it must make sure that a small elite cannot take the freedom and the privileges away from the greater population. It needs to secure the greatest amount of freedom, the greatest amount of prosperity, for the greatest possible number of people.

Therefore, it needs to be recognized that the wealth that has been brought forth in the South Korean nation does not belong to a small elite of shareholders in large corporations. It belongs to the people because it is the work of the people that has created that wealth. Therefore, society needs to find a way – and each nation needs to do this in its individual way according to its culture – to limit how much wealth can be concentrated in the hands of a few people so that the wealth brought forth will be shared among the people. This can happen in a number of ways, but one way is to create a new way of organizing corporations so that the profit that is generated will not just go to shareholders. Or rather, it may go to shareholders because everyone who works for the corporation becomes a shareholder.

It is not enough to simply buy shares, but you have to actually make an effort and work for the corporation in order to earn shares. There are, of course, other ways that are too complex for me to explain in this discourse, but surely there are people in society, including in South Korea, right now who have the attunement with me to bring forth the specific ideas that are needed for South Korea to transition into a more Golden Age structure for society and corporations.

Preserving face

If you, who are the spiritual people, hold that vision and make the calls, then it can indeed happen if people are willing. You can, of course, make the calls that people will be set free from the old matrices. You can make the calls to reinforce the action of Shiva where you realize that the demons that were created in the South Korean nation are precisely those created by the power elite who are upholding the current status quo where the corporations have free reign. By calling for them to be bound and consumed, you will set people free to suddenly feel like a weight has lifted from them and now they are able to think clearly. They are able to step back and say: “Something is missing here, something cannot continue the way it has been, we need to look for a new approach, we need to look for new ideas for we cannot continue on this track.” When that happens at a certain scale, at a certain critical mass, then you will begin to see change.

In the beginning, it will not happen publicly because there is a certain tendency in all Asian nations, and in Korea as well, that we must maintain the facade, we must maintain the outer impression. Of course, you find this everywhere around the world, but you do find a variation of this in Asia, in Korea, where it is very important to maintain appearances, to maintain face, to preserve face. This, of course, will mean that, just as we talked about with the mind of the dictator who cannot admit that he was wrong, it will also be very difficult for the South Korean nation and its leadership to admit that they were wrong.

You are all aware of the disaster with the ferry that was wrecked not so long ago. You all know that there is some kind of cover up here, but I can tell you that there is no conspiracy that caused the crash. It was actually a failure of the system and the approach of the people, their attitude to their job. They were so concerned about following rules, maintaining an appearance all throughout the system, from the design and building, to the operation of the ship. Therefore, it was a failure of the system and there is no one who is willing to stand forward and admit this. It is judged by those who know that it would be too damaging to the trust of the people and to the reputation of the Korean society.

There is this consciousness (and it is a very strong consciousness and there is of course a demon on top of it that needs to be bound through your calls) that absolutely wants to maintain the appearances that all is well, all is under control and there has not been a failure of the system. You see, my beloved, as we have attempted to explain, it is not a matter of thinking in terms of failure. I know it may seem as if there are so many things that need to change, there must be something wrong somewhere, there must be a failure somewhere but as I started out by saying, I do not consider South Korea to be a deficient nation that is behind. You have made such great progress. It is not a matter of suddenly beginning to think you have failed. It is a matter of simply realizing that you have risen to a certain stage in the development of your society and in order to continue to grow, in order to rise to the next stage, you need to let go of some of the old patterns, some of the old ways of thinking, some of the old patterns of action.

Going beyond the risk of failure

You need to look at the old and you do not need to label it as a failure, my beloved. You do not need to appoint a scapegoat. You just need to recognize this is no longer the best approach. We need to look for a better one that can take us to the next stage. When there is that openness to look for a better approach, I promise you that I will release it through the people who are open. You can therefore make the calls that society will begin to overcome this almost obsession with maintaining appearances and making it seem like everything is just perfect.

My beloved, if everything was perfect why are so many people dissatisfied? The reason why they are dissatisfied is what I have explained, namely the consciousness. You see a tension in society because (as I explained) when people sell their souls for the sake of security, there is a growing discontent in the soul and it must be directed outwards. That is why so many people direct it at society. At the same time you also see that society as such wants to maintain appearances that everything is good and so there is no outlet here.

There is no outlet for the tension, and you know how the old steam engines had a boiler, a kettle, where you lit a fire and you poured in water that created steam, that created a pressure. The pressure was needed to make the engine produce work, but there had to be a safety valve so you could release pressure because if the pressure became too great, there would be an explosion. You need to make the calls that society will find a way to look at itself and to deal with the various issues that come up in such a way that pressure can be released.

Or actually a better way to look at it is that the pressure is not just released into the air but is released into giving momentum and direction to a new way of approaching society’s issues. Instead of looking at failure, instead of resisting growth until something breaks down so that it becomes obvious that there is a failure, you can transition in a new direction without having this very embarrassing, very shocking realization that something has failed. You all know that this very incident, as shocking as it was and as terrible it was for the people involved, has become much more than the incident itself. It has become a symbol and it has become a symbol of this dynamic I am describing where more and more people know that something needs to change. But there is a resistance to changing because of the belief that if something has to change, there must have been a failure in the old. You need to make the calls that there is a new approach. It is not a matter of appointing a failure to the old but simply realizing that in order to grow to the next level, we need a new approach, we need new ideas and new methods.

This, my beloved, has been a big mouthful and I have given you many things to contemplate but as you clearly know from my history of giving dictations, once I get started it is not easy to stop because I am indeed so eager to see progress in all societies. I am indeed very eager to see progress in South Korea because it is a nation that is dear to my heart. There are many souls embodied here who are among my own, those who are attuned to me and who have embodied here precisely because they see the potential for bringing forth aspects of the Golden Age in South Korea that can be an inspiration for other nations.

With this, I thank you for your attention. I thank you for creating this gathering where you have come together and made it possible that I could speak this message. Surely, I have much more to bring forth to the Korean nation, and I will find ways to bring forth these ideas through the people in various positions in society who can receive an idea. Maybe many people can receive only one idea but there are enough people who can receive these ideas that everything that I desire to bring forth can be brought forth. Of course, not everything can be brought forth through a messenger no matter how educated or knowledgeable this messenger is.

We desire to bring forth many ideas from the people who are in positions to implement them. How we can use a messenger, such as this one, is to inspire those of you who are spiritual people to make the calls and to hold the overall vision so that the Golden Age matrix can be brought down through the four levels and become manifest in the physical through those people who can implement an idea in society.

So with my great joy and my great gratitude for your presence, for your calls, I seal you in the Flame of Joyful Freedom that I AM.

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