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Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, August 8, 2025. This dictation was given at the 2025 Conference for America: Rising above the superiority-inferiority duality.
I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary, and I come to give you another installment of the wisdom of the Mother. We shall begin by considering a question that most people have never considered. We might consider or express it as the impossibility of the mission of Christ.
Being spiritually dead
Why would it seem like Christ is on an impossible mission? Well, that cannot be understood with the consciousness that most people have. For the consciousness that makes it impossible for them to see how difficult the mission of Christ is, is precisely what makes the mission of Christ so difficult.
We can approach it by referring to the quote that I have talked about before where Jesus says to the young man who wants to follow him but asks permission to go and bury his father first. And Jesus says rather sternly, I can assure you: “Let the dead bury their dead.” So few Christians, hardly any Christians, have pondered what that meant, have come to the conclusion, the understanding, that to Jesus most people are actually dead. Even though the people themselves would say: “What do you mean I am dead? I am perfectly alive, I am conscious, I am doing what people are doing. I can even bury the dead!” But to Jesus, they were not physically dead, they were spiritually dead, and what does that mean? Well, what did Jesus also say? “I am the way, the truth and the life.”
Was it Jesus personally that was the way, the truth and the life? That would seem unlikely, since it would mean that all of the people who lived on this planet before Jesus was born were basically dead, they did not have the life of Christ in them. But you see, it is the universal Christ consciousness that is the way, the truth and the life. If you have separated from that in your mind, because you have died as a connected being and come to see yourself as a separate being, you are spiritually dead. But the difficulty is that you are still physically alive, you are still conscious, so you do not think you are dead in a spiritual sense. You do not see that there is a problem and that is what brings up the impossibility of the mission of Christ.
The outer path to the outer kingdom
How can the Christ make people who are spiritually dead come to recognize that they are spiritually dead? How can he help them solve a problem if they are not even able to see the problem? Or if they are not willing to see the problem, for they are not willing to acknowledge that their consciousness might be lacking.
You see, by simply looking at the evolution of the Christian religion, you can see the problem. What is it that people in the death consciousness do when they hear about the concept that you can be saved and enter heaven? They immediately project that there must be an outer process here on earth that will qualify them for entry into heaven. Look at the Christian religion. They have done exactly what the Jewish religion had done at the time of Jesus. Set up outer doctrines, outer rituals, outer rules, an outer hierarchy and the promise is, if you follow all the dictates of this outer religion, if you obey the priests and live up to the rituals and believe in the doctrines, you are guaranteed to go to heaven. And where do they see this heaven? Somewhere up there. It is this wonderful garden where the remote God in the sky is sitting on a great white throne in the middle, and the angels are flapping around playing their harps or trumpets or whatever instruments they may be playing, and everything is wonderful.
The inner path to the inner kingdom
But where did Jesus say the kingdom of God was? Oh yeah, within you! So if you reach for the wisdom of the Mother, you can see that there is again a contradiction between what Jesus said, and what the Christian religion says. But what does it mean that the kingdom of God is within you? What is within you? Your liver, your tongue, your stomach? Probably not, right? That which is within you is your state of consciousness. Meaning what? That what qualifies you to entry into heaven is your consciousness, your state of consciousness and that means that you cannot enter heaven if you are in the death consciousness. For what is the death consciousness? You are separated from Christ, and how do you get into the kingdom of God? By coming into oneness with Christ by losing your life in this world, the outer life, being reborn into the life of Christ.
What does it mean to be reborn? That means you are reborn into a new sense of identity where you do not identify yourself as a separate being, but as a connected being. As a connected being with the Christ mind that unifies you with your Creator. What sense does it make that by following outer rituals and believing outer doctrines and obeying an outer hierarchy, you are going to automatically shift your state of consciousness so you can enter the kingdom? Certainly, this is not what Jesus said. For he said: “The kingdom of God comes not with observation, for the kingdom of God is within you.” What do we see here? Well, we see that when humankind went into separation, something was lost and what was lost was the concept of a path where you see yourself as a connected being.
You start out not having a clear sense of what you are connected to, but you sense you are connected to something outside your own mind. Some reality that was not defined by or produced within your own mind and you therefore see that there is a path whereby you can systematically step by step expand your sense of connection, come to a clearer and clearer vision of what you are connected to until you attain oneness with that, which of course is your higher self, your I AM Presence.
You see again, Jesus taught the multitudes in parables but expounded all things to his disciples. What did he teach his disciples? A path. What has been lost in Christianity is that the early followers of Jesus called themselves followers of the way, I am the way. But when you are trapped in duality, you cannot see the way of Christ, which is the way of self-transcendence.
Blindly following the blind leaders
But as we have said, when you go into duality, you have a sense of incompleteness, you have a longing for something, and the leaders, the blind leaders of the Christian religion had to cover that over. They simply defined a false path, an outer path. Follow the doctrines, follow the leaders, follow the rules and you are guaranteed to be saved. On the real path, you are not guaranteed anything. It all depends on your willingness to look at yourself, your own state of mind, and raise it up, or rather, seek for that oneness with the Christ mind that raises you up. It is all dependent on your choices continually, whereas the Christian religion promises you, you make the choice to be baptized and declare Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and that is the last choice you have to make so the false path is based on outer things. You qualify by doing outer things.
But who has defined this false path? Well, those who are trapped in the consciousness of separation and who are they? The false pastors that Jesus talked about, the false leaders, those who are beautiful outwards, but they are filled with dead men’s bones because they have the death consciousness. The dead men’s bones are the separate subconscious selves that they have not been willing to give up and so they are the blind leaders and when you follow them, you make yourself blind. But in a sense you were already blind, or you would never have followed them.
The impossibility of Christ
This brings us back to the impossibility of Christ. People are blind by the duality consciousness, by separation, and therefore they follow the blind leaders. That was the case for the Jewish people that Jesus encountered over and over and over again. How does the Christ make people see that they are blind when they think they know everything and they are guaranteed to be saved?
You look at the actual reality of how Jesus walked around, spoke before great crowds for three years, but attracted relatively few followers. According to the scriptures or the normal Christian doctrines, Jesus only had 12 disciples. Quite a result after three years of vigorous preaching, to only have 12 followers. Yeah, there were those women that were always hanging around, but they were good for doing the dishes. You see here with the wisdom of the Mother, something does not make sense. Why did not Jesus attract more followers? Because the people he encountered believed that they were not in the death consciousness, they were not lacking, because they were Jews. They were God’s chosen people. They had the only true religion. Why would they need to listen to this preacher when they already had everything they needed to secure their salvation?
Death consciousness in Christianity
Does that remind you of anyone you know in today’s world? Oh yeah, the vast majority of Christians who believe that they are God’s chosen people because they are Christians and they, by following the outer doctrines, are guaranteed to be saved. When you have the wisdom of the Mother, you can simply ask yourself, what would happen if today’s Christians had encountered Jesus in the flesh?
Most of them would think: “Oh of course I would recognize him and follow him.” The vast majority of them would have said about Jesus: “Oh look at that new age preacher, he is of the devil. It is not biblical what he is preaching. He is a false preacher.” Exactly the same as the Jews that rejected him 2,000 years ago. And why might that be? Could it be that the same people that rejected Jesus 2,000 years ago in the flesh have now reincarnated as Christians using the Christian religion to validate the exact same attitude they had 2,000 years ago and which they have not been willing to reconsider in all that time?
Seeing through the death consciousness
What shall the Christ do with such people? The Christ sees they are dead, but they do not see it. They think they are saved, or at least that they will be and even though they may have incarnated many times over the past 2,000 years in a Christian culture, even though they have believed in the promise that if you are a good Christian you will be saved after this lifetime, even though they have experienced often multiple times that the promise was false because they were not saved after that lifetime. They were sent right back into embodiment. They are still not willing to acknowledge that they are the ones who have to change by changing their state of consciousness, by looking at their state of consciousness, looking at the beam that prevents them from seeing, number one, that they are dead, number two, they are dead because they do not have the life of Christ in them. And number three, that they will never get the life of Christ by following an external religion.
They need to enter the kingdom of God within them by removing the beam that blocks their entry. Visualize a doorway that leads to the kingdom and there is a huge beam blocking it. How will you get through if you do not look at the beam and remove it? If you try thinking: “Oh, I do not need to get through that door, I just follow this outer religion, I’ll get through some other door.” But where is the doorway to the kingdom? Is it out there? Is it behind that pillar, around the corner? If the kingdom is within, where is the doorway that leads to the kingdom? Most likely also within. This is obvious when you have the wisdom of the Mother, but not obvious if you do not have that wisdom and therefore, you are not willing to look at yourself. Then you cannot see that for you there is only one doorway to the kingdom and it is in your mind and until you remove that beam in your own eye, you cannot walk through that doorway.
And removing the beam in your own eye is not something you do in one quick movement. It is a process of walking with Christ, not on the stations of the cross, but on the stations of life that Jesus demonstrated throughout his mission, which can be found when you read between the lines. Although given the incompleteness of the scriptures, it is somewhat difficult to find it. Which is of course why we have given many teachings in today’s age, outlining those steps to Christhood, including the entire path to self-mastery course, but also many other teachings. There is a process that leads to your personal entry into the kingdom and it is determined by all of the beams you have in your subconscious mind that must be resolved.
The hidden relief in being a sinner
So many Christians will not see this and why not? Because of another false doctrine of the Christian religion: “You were conceived in sin. You are created as sinners. You are sinners from the beginning.” You may on one hand say that this is a burden for people to feel they are sinners, but actually it is not for most people.
It is a relief because what does it mean: “We were just created in this condition. It was not the result of our own choices. We did not make the choice to enter the death consciousness and be sinners. God must have created us that way so we are not responsible.” And if you did not choose to go into the consciousness of death, how can you choose to go out? And if you cannot choose to go out, well, what then? Wait for the external savior to come and save you. This all-loving, almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful God up there created you as a sinner and then he looked down on earth and thought: “Maybe I went too far. Okay, I’ll send my only begotten Son down there to save them from the state of sin that I created them in.” Does this really make sense to anyone? No, because they do not think about it. If they thought about it with the wisdom of the Mother, they would see that this does not make any sense whatsoever. What is the logical explanation? Well, you are in the death consciousness because you chose to enter it and that is why you can choose to un-enter it, but you can only do it consciously.
The mission of Christ
And that is what Christ comes to give you, that awareness of how to make the higher choice. But you have to choose. The responsibility is yours. But if you are not willing to take that responsibility, if you are not willing to multiply the talents but want to bury them in the ground of the death consciousness, well then, how can you even see that you need Christ as the inner savior instead of the outer savior? How can you actually see Christ? So many Christians claim to be Christ-ians, but they do not see Christ. They see Jesus as an outer person, as the only begotten Son of God, but they do not actually even see Jesus. They see an idolatrous image, a graven image created by the Christian religion. They look at Christ through the filter of the mind of anti-christ, they look at Jesus through the filter of the mind of anti-christ, but they think they are followers of Christ, bringing us back to the impossibility of the mission of Christ.
Is the mission of Christ impossible? Well, why would Christ have come into this world if it was impossible? And why is it not impossible? Well, because without him was not anything that was made so the Christ consciousness is within everything, which means that what makes up the death consciousness are illusions created from separation. But within every illusion is the Christ reality, the Christ vision that allows you to see that the illusion is an illusion and not reality. Also, there is the omega aspect of the Christ vision, the wisdom of the Mother, the Sophia, that allows you to look at the death consciousness and see the contradictions. The death consciousness, as we have said, is the duality consciousness, where there are always two opposites. They cannot both be true, and the wisdom of the Mother allows you to see that maybe they both are untrue. When you look at these dualistic polarities, these contradictions, they cannot both be true, but they can both be untrue and that is what you see with the wisdom of the Mother, so you can reach for something beyond.
Unrecorded teachings of Jesus
This is actually what Jesus taught in many of the teachings that were not recorded in the scriptures. He taught this. He certainly taught it to his disciples, but he also taught it at many of these events where he was preaching in the hills, often to larger crowds. He would teach it, not in the same words that I am using here, because times have moved on, but he would teach it as it could be taught given the consciousness of the people at the time.
You can look at the outer scriptures that have been handed down to you and you can say it is very difficult in these scriptures to see the message I have just given you. Not impossible, but it is difficult. But what Jesus taught was much more than was written down, and he taught it in a way that was not impossible for people to grasp, and some people did grasp it, many more people than recorded in the scriptures.
There were actually many, many people that internalized certain sayings of Jesus, certain teachings of Jesus, and even after the Christian religion started forming, they stayed away from the outer religion and just went into their own closets to pray, so to speak, meaning they were willing to look at their own minds. And there were people who were not disciples, outer followers of Jesus, but still made great progress based on these teachings that he gave, the unrecorded teachings. You can say at the time of Jesus, there was a teaching given. It was not written down, and it was deliberately shut out of the Christian church. And anyone who became a mystic and tried to express the inner revelations they had received was, of course, persecuted by the church, or in rare instances, they were made saints of the Catholic church, which is almost the same thing as being killed, because they are just creating an idolatrous image of what this saint was all about.
And really, you had some Christian mystics that were later turned into saints, because then the Catholic church could claim ownership of them and claim that their revelations not only conformed to doctrine, but validated doctrine. No mystical vision can validate the outer doctrines of the Christian churches or Lutheran churches or fundamentalist churches. They are filled with dead men’s bones.
The sense of constant threat in duality
What does all this have to do with inferiority and superiority? Well, it has to do with the fact that when you go into the mind of separation, the death consciousness, not only do you feel incomplete, but you cannot stand still. This may seem contradictory, because you look at the many people, the many cultures that have become closed systems and stood still. You look at, for example, the dark ages, where the Catholic church reigned supreme in Europe and had created the feudal system, and the people were basically slaves. They could not read or write. They could not even read the scriptures. They were only hearing what the priests said in church.
And you can say, but were they not standing still? Well, yes, from a certain perspective, they were standing still. But they were still trapped in the dualistic polarity, where you can never really stand still. You can look at these times and say, there were certain elements of these societies that did not change over several hundred years. But does that mean that there was peace and harmony? Look at the history of the Catholic church. First conflicts with what became the Eastern Orthodox church. Other conflicts within the Catholic church. They had to ban certain people as heretics. They banned certain ideas, reincarnation among them. Then there was the massacre of the Cathars, the witch hunts, the Crusades, the Inquisition. Was it ever standing still? No, because they were always threatened by something.
Why would the only true church of Christ be threatened by the devil? If they really were anointed by Christ, sponsored by Christ, and if they were built on the rock of Christ and the gates of hell should not prevail against their church, why would they feel so threatened they would have to persecute their own members, burn them at the stake, try to kill members of another religion? Why was the Muslim religion a threat to Christianity if the Muslims would go to hell anyway? Why worry about them? Of course, because they were wanting to take over the city of Jerusalem, which Christians consider the holy city. But still, if the kingdom of God is within you, it is not really located in Jerusalem, is it? So what does it matter who has control over that city, unless you have the idolatry of Christ, that Jesus came there because it was the holy land. But again, the wisdom of the Mother allows you to see that perhaps Jesus did not appear in Palestine because it was holy, but because it was one of the most unholy places on earth, and therefore, it was in a greater need of the Christ light.
Relative dualistic peace
But anyway, I digress. Inferiority and superiority. Well, you cannot stand still when you are trapped in duality, because you are like a ping-pong ball being hammered from one side of the table to another by the two dualistic polarities, which in practicality is often two different fallen beings and their followers who have created these sides. And the people are the ping-pong balls being batted back and forth. You cannot stand still, meaning you are always threatened. You are never at peace, but you are wanting to have peace. So you are wanting to shut out all messages that might disturb your sense of peace. And therefore, you come up with this idea that if you are superior, you can be at peace in feeling you are superior. But strangely enough, even if you are inferior, you can feel at peace in being inferior. If you were created in sin and you did not choose to be a sinner and there is nothing you can do about it yourself, then you can feel at peace. You do not have to take responsibility for discerning. You do not have to take responsibility for discerning the difference between the death consciousness and the Christ consciousness.
And if you are superior and you already have the highest truth, because you know better than God, you know better than Christ, then you can also feel at peace. It is a relative peace. It is a fragile peace. But this is what people reach for in duality. They see only the dualistic polarities and they attempt to use both of them to create some fragile sense that they have their lives under control and they have their salvation under control. The fallen beings, the power elite, the superior people feel that they are in control because they know better than God. And the blind followers of those blind leaders feel they are also in control because they just follow the blind leaders and they will get into the kingdom. They will get into the kingdom all right, but what kingdom it is, is another matter. In duality there are always two polarities and strange as it may seem, people will use both polarities to try to create the same state of mind, namely being in control.
For what is it that you want when you go into duality? You want the experience that your mind, your own mind, can define reality and you think that if reality conforms to your definition in your mind, you are at peace, you are in control.
Again, as we have said, the same mindset that created the two polarities is the same mindset that people use to overcome the tension between the two polarities. It is the old story encapsulated by Einstein, that you are trying to solve a problem with the same state of consciousness that created the problem.
The first challenge of Christ
Now you might say, if the Christ knows this and sees this very clearly, why does the Christ even bother to try and save people? But again, it is because Christ sees the unreality of what people have taken on, but also sees the reality of the Conscious You and the I AM Presence, and therefore, sees that as the Conscious You can shift into the separate identity, it can also shift out of it. And even though I have talked about a path that is not instantaneous, it is actually possible that people can have an instantaneous shift, as illustrated by the story of Paul on the road to Damascus, where the scales fell from his eyes.
This did not mean that Paul, after that experience, was now in full Christhood and had resolved his psychology, as you can see clearly in his letters. But nevertheless, it meant that he had instantly shifted from persecuting Christ and the Christians to seeing some value in the message of Christ and that is the first step, and that shift can happen in an instant, in the blink of an eye. Does that mean it always happens that way? No. For many people it is a more gradual shift. But nevertheless, there comes that point where you shift and you see that there is more to reality than what your own mind can define. And that is the shift that all of you have gone through, or you would not be here, and that many spiritual people have gone through. Some Christians have gone through it as well.
The second challenge of Christ
But the challenge is, of course, as we have explained before, the second challenge of Christ. The first challenge is, do you recognize Christ as something outside your own mind? The second challenge is, do you see that Christ is valuable precisely because it is outside your own mind and therefore, gives you a frame of reference for seeing the beam in your own eye and removing it? Or do you, as Peter, want to take your recognition of Christ, draw it into your own mind, and use Christ to validate the contents of your mind, basically validating why you do not have to remove that beam? That is the challenge that very few Christians have passed.
Over the many years, the centuries, the millennia, a considerable amount of Christians have had that awakening, conversion, they might say, the sense of being reborn, but they have then allowed their minds to use their experience to validate the contents of the mind instead of using it as a tool for dismissing, for letting go of those contents. Instead of saying: “What is that to me? I will follow thee” they have attempted to hold on to what they have in this world, not being willing to let go of it in order to follow Christ into the kingdom.
And at the same time, they have used that experience, a genuine experience of the mind of Christ, to build or validate a sense of superiority because they had that experience.
It is like people who have lived in a dark prison and suddenly they remove some of the dirt on the window and they see a ray of light shining through. But now, instead of saying: “Oh, that means there is something outside the prison. How do I get out?” they are saying: “Look, I am the most special prisoner because I saw the light.” And they want the other prisoners to validate their sense of being superior instead of focusing on: “How do I get out of the cage?”
The wisdom of the Mother can allow you to see, not the impossibility of Christ, but certainly the obstacles to the mission of Christ and by coming to see this, you can begin to dissect those obstacles, dissect the death consciousness. See those dead men’s bones that are residing in your subconscious mind and throw them out one at a time. And when you have thrown out enough bones in your own subconscious, in your own sepulcher, then you can begin to share your process with others so that they can also come to see the death consciousness and see the fundamental challenge of Christ in awakening people, having them reborn back into life.
The challenge for America
What does it have to do with America? Well, America has the potential to go through an awakening. This will not mean that all Americans will suddenly be converted into a Christian religion. It will actually mean that many Americans will be converted out of a Christian religion to see that there is much more to grasp about Christ than what is told from the Christian pulpits every Sunday.
What is going on right now? Well, it is that those who consider themselves Christians and consider themselves superior because they are Christians have been given a last opportunity to act out their sense of superiority to a greater and greater extreme until either they themselves or at least other people begin to see it. These are, so to speak, the last efforts where those who are in the Christian superiority camp have a last chance to either reform their ways or to be removed from America. Some of them may be able to incarnate in other countries. Some of them will be taken from the earth completely. Certainly, many of the leaders will not have an opportunity to re-embody on earth. It is, so to speak, separating the sheep from the goats, seeing who has the wedding garment and who does not.
And many of the people who have the potential to be awakened to the true message of Christ are people who are in spiritual New Age alternative movements for they are more open-minded. But many of them have also gotten themselves into a sense of superiority because they belong to this movement, this guru, this teaching that also gives them that sense of superiority. So it is not just the Christians who are facing the challenge. All people in America are facing the challenge: “Will we see the limitations of our minds, of our beliefs, of our institutions? Will we see that certain aspects of American society are out of touch with the message of Christ?”
As this invocation explains, the contradiction between claiming America is a Christian nation, but at the same time claiming, that America does not need to serve the all but can focus on itself and what it sees as its self-interest, that America can remain great or become great again by doing the opposite of what Jesus told people to do, refusing to be my brother’s keeper, refusing to feed the poor and the hungry and heal the sick.
For all of this stuff in the Sermon on the Mount: Ah, that is just weakness. Nay, the total egotistical focus on self, that is the strength and that is what Christ would have taught. If he just knew as much back then as these Christians know today, he would have affirmed their beliefs. But Jesus did not know it back then. But fortunately, they do today, so they can correct Jesus’ mistake. Is that not what they believe?
If you really look at what they believe, they believe they know better than Christ what Christ should have said. What the message of Christ is all about. Some will say the message of Christ was about overcoming selfishness. But these Christians are saying the message of Christ was about deifying selfishness as the ultimate human expression. You see, when you see this with the wisdom of the Mother, that this is simply the duality consciousness being allowed to come out of hiding instead of always trying to stay under the radar, now it comes out in such an extreme unbalanced manifestation that it just cannot remain hidden for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
And in the next years or so, many Americans will awaken to see the contrast between what Jesus really taught and what humanity really means and what some of these forces are preaching and how they are acting.
Moving the interdependent originations
You may say, is this a somber message or an uplifting message? Well, it depends on how you look at it. I look at it as an uplifting message because it is simply the necessary phase that America has to go through before it can begin to manifest the golden age. Again, we have said before that there is such a difference in the golden age mindset and the present mindset on earth that if this was to be overcome in small steps, it would take a very long time. By releasing the light that we released at New Year’s, flushing out the imbalanced beliefs, we are shortening the time before the golden age can begin to manifest. For me, that is the good news. For the fallen beings, not so much. But who cares? In a sense, as the Divine Mother, I care about all beings, but I also respect their free will and therefore, I am not moved by their desire to stay in the death consciousness.
With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you in this installment. We shall see whether it will be my last for this conference, but certainly it is the last for today. Probably a relief, given that you have had a long day, but I must say a very productive day, where you have really moved the interdependent originations. I see it clearly from the ascended state. You have really moved things. You have stirred up things. You have reinforced the light released from New Year’s and therefore, created an even greater upheaval, which is a good thing because it shortens the time.
And did Jesus not say that the time should be shortened for the elect? But you are the elect because you were elected to be here. And many other people, because of the impulses that you have radiated, can now also elect to be part of those who are recognizing the difference between the death consciousness and the Christ consciousness.
For this, you have my gratitude, and I look forward, as we all do, to the rest of this conference. I seal you in the love of the Divine Mother that I have for each one of you.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels

