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Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels, April 10, 2023. This dictation was given during the 2023 Easter webinar – Taking Christianity and yourself down from the cross.

I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ. There are various quotes in the Christian scriptures of my supposedly direct words. What is the most numerous quote repeated a number of times? It is this: “Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.” Who are the scribes and Pharisees? What are they a symbol for? Well, let us start by looking at it, not in terms of specific people or lifestreams, but in terms of a certain state of consciousness. What was it that the scribes and Pharisees did? They were looking at the Jewish scriptures, and they were thinking, but they were thinking within the boundaries, what today would be called the paradigms of the Jewish religion, never thinking outside.

What did they do? They came up with interpretations. They became more and more elaborate, more and more complex. And why? Well, partly because they could not stop themselves, but partly because it made them seem superior, because they could understand these elaborate interpretations that nobody else could understand. And this is a very old tendency on this planet, on many other planets, where people become more and more enveloped in, identified with, a certain paradigm, a certain ideology, a certain religion, a certain philosophy. They think within these boundaries, but as they are thinking, they become more and more complex, more and more artificial, and they set up this elaborate system.

Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

But why did I say that they were hypocrites? Normally, when you think of hypocrites, you think of people who, for example, say one thing but they do not act on it, they do not follow it, they do not walk their talk. And this was partly what the scribes and Pharisees did, as you can find in another quote where I said that they put burdens on the people but they would not follow it themselves. But there is more to it than that.

What is a hypocrite, really, when you look at it from a different perspective? A hypocrite is one who believes that his way or her way of thinking about a specific issue is the only way, is the highest way.
And they also believe that this will get them to whatever goal is defined. In other words, the scribes and the Pharisees at my time believed that by thinking about religious matters, they could qualify to enter heaven, they could think their way into heaven. But what had they done? They were in the consciousness of separation below the 48th level. They had no conscious intuition. They had no idea of the value of intuition. And what did that mean? It means that they had used the dualistic consciousness, as we have explained so many times, to create their own worldview, their own ideology. And they thought it was complete, it was the highest truth. They thought that heaven conformed to the thought system they had created on earth. They thought they had changed God’s law, or rather, they thought that God’s law was what their system described, their system was an accurate description of God’s law. And they were not willing to even consider that it might not be the case.

What had they done? They had set themselves up as authorities. Why did they think they were authorities? Because they could understand the complex interpretations and doctrines of the Jewish religion. But who had created them? Well, they themselves, or at least people in the same mindset, over generations. They thought they had authority. Why did they have authority? They could understand the doctrines, but they would not see that the reason they could understand the doctrines was that they were in a certain state of mind and the doctrines came from that state of mind, but they still felt that because they could understand these complicated doctrines, they were superior to the general population who could not understand it. But it was not that they were understanding a higher truth, was it? They were understanding a mental image, a human fabrication that sprang from their own minds. That is why they could understand it and nobody else could understand it, at least nobody who was not in their frame of mind.

They claimed to have authority, but it was a self-validating authority. They had created the parameters that they claimed gave them authority. Of course, they did not see this. They claimed they had authority because they understood the law of God. But it was their own self-created law, so what authority did they have?

What happened when they encountered me? Well, I had a slightly, you might say, different approach to truth and knowledge than they did. I can of my own self do nothing. I actually said on occasions: “I can of my own self know nothing. Whatever I speak is given to me by the Father.” I recognized that my mind is not self-sufficient. This will, of course, surprise many Christians who have elevated me to being this superior being, the only Son of God. Surely, I would know everything that God knew. But I was not the only Son of God. I was a human being in embodiment. And why did I say: “I can, of my own self, do nothing?” Because I could only act by using God’s energy and power, and I could only know by using the mind of God or the universal mind of Christ.

Intricate theological discussions within a closed system

They were hypocrites because they claimed to have authority from God, but it was their own self-created earthly authority that was disconnected from the Christ mind. When they encountered me, they felt superior. And when I refused to submit to them as the people did, they started accusing me. What did they start doing? They tried to find fault. They tried to look at the Jewish scriptures and the rules derived from them and accused me in all ways. There are things that are not recorded in the scriptures at all where they tried to pull me into these very intricate theological discussions so that they could, first of all, create such a hugely complex problem that they could always interpret it in any way they wanted.

What is one of the effects of complicating things? Well, first of all, you can always interpret. The more complex, the more interpretations they are. You can always make it seem like you are right. It confuses people. The more complexity there is, the more confused people are. If they accept that you have authority, well, then you can always just say that they are not understanding the doctrines, and that is why they do not agree with you or why they see it differently.

They tried to play these tricks on me, and ,of course, it did not work. Why? Because I did not enter into these intricate theological discussions with them. I simply rebuked them with very simple statements such as: “Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.” How do you really drag that into a complex intellectual discussion?

This is one approach to knowledge that you see on earth. You confine your search for knowledge to a specific system defined on earth, and then you think and interpret within that framework, coming up with more and more complex interpretations and theories. This, of course, is what you see in today’s world with scientific materialism. You see a very peculiar situation in today’s world where science is nailed to the cross by materialism. Why? Well, science was designed by Saint Germain to be an open-ended process. You never confine scientific inquiry and theory to a specific framework. You never say: “Here we have this final outer framework, and we can never go beyond it.” This, of course, is what the Jewish religion had done with the Jewish scriptures. This is what the Catholic Church did with the Christian scriptures and their own doctrines. They have created a closed system.

The irony, science was designed by Saint Germain to free people, to free the people’s minds from these closed systems of the medieval Catholic Church and put them into an open-ended process. Of course, this is not what the fallen beings wanted. They want to create a mental box and keep people in it. They started working very hard to do the same thing with science, to turn science into a closed mental box. And with the growth in materialism, they managed to do it to a large extent. There is still some openness in the scientific community and the scientific process, but much progress has been delayed because materialists want to confine scientific inquiry and theory to the materialist framework. If I was walking today in the institutions of learning and research, I would again say: “Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.”

Open-ended co-creation vs. creating a closed mental box

The other approach to knowledge is, of course, that you say: “We will not confine our questions, our inquiry, to a particular framework. We will look beyond, at least our present framework, and seek knowledge from another source.” Science seeks it by observing the world, by coming up with theories that are then tested through experiment. A perfectly valid approach, of course, but not the only approach.

The other approach is that the mind can actually inquire into knowledge, and the mind can go beyond a certain framework. Now, this is a subtle topic to understand because what is it that creates these closed mental boxes? You may say, “Well, the Catholic clergy certainly created the medieval mental box because they would persecute or execute anyone who questioned their doctrines”, but what actually creates the mental box is, of course, the mind. It is the mind that sets the parameters and then decides it will not go beyond it and it does not want anyone else to go beyond it. This is typically done, again, by those who form an elite, whether they are fallen beings or not, but they want to be superior to others. They confine their minds to a certain mental box, and they want everybody else to do the same, which is why you saw that the Catholic clergy, not all of whom were fallen beings, had managed to get virtually all people in Europe to confine themselves to the mental box created by the church.

The mind has this ability to create a mental box and to confine its inquiry into knowledge to that framework. And why does the mind have this ability? Because, as we have said, the earth is a reality simulator where you must be able to create any experience for yourself that you want. And there are two ways to create the experience, as I have explained. You can be a co-creator, or you can be a separate being who is creating the illusion that you have defined your own reality. You have become as a God who is defining good and evil, and you create a complete fantasy picture disconnected from reality. And there is, because of the law of free will, no limit to how deep you can go into this separation and illusion, how intricate of a picture you can create. It is just a matter of your imagination. But, of course, the law of free will mandates that any mental image you can create, any mental box you can create for your mind, you must be able to get yourself out of. And how do you then do this? Well, obviously, by seeking knowledge outside of any of these mental boxes created on earth. And what is the way to do this? Well, you can do it through the intellect, by analyzing, by logical, rational thinking, but the most efficient way to do this is through what you normally call intuition.

The key of knowledge

Intuition, as we have said, is [when] the Conscious You steps outside of all the cells you have created, outside the mental box, experiences directly that there is something to know outside the mental box, and that this something seems more real than what is in the mental box. Because you do not need to argue for or against it. You do not need to intellectualize and analyze. You experience.

This, of course, is the path to Christhood. And you can say that when the mind becomes a closed system and goes into creating this mental image, the Conscious You is nailed to the cross, the cross created by the mind in the physical, in the emotional, mental and identity realm. And the way to get yourself down from the cross is, of course, to get outside of the mental box, dismantle the mental box and seek knowledge from a source outside your own mind. Based on this, you could say that people who are walking the path to Christhood are seeking knowledge from outside their own minds, from outside any of the mental boxes, thought systems, created on earth. But the question is, does that necessarily mean that they have the key of knowledge? In other words, you can find the spiritual path, you can find an ascended master teaching, and you might not yet have grasped what is the key to making the best use of the teaching. It is quite possible, and it has, of course, happened to people, that they find an ascended master teaching that has genuine progressive revelation directly from the ascended masters (we are not talking just about this dispensation but other spiritual movements and dispensations as well). There is genuine knowledge coming into the physical realm from the ascended masters through a messenger or in other ways. But the question is now, do people focus on the outer knowledge that is coming through, the words, the form, the contents of the teachings, or do they seek to use the teachings only as a stepping stone for activating their intuition, for overcoming the separate selves so that the Conscious You becomes more and more able to step outside of your outer mind and therefore directly experience the ascended masters? In other words, as we have said before, the highest way to use the spiritual teaching is to make contact with the consciousness from where the teaching comes. The highest way to use an ascended master teaching is that you use the teaching to get to a point where you personally can have an inner intuitive contact, a direct experience of an ascended master and his or her consciousness. Then you have made the highest use of the teaching.

Are you willing to question your mental image of the teaching?

But there are, of course, students who are not ready to do this. There are even some that are not willing to do this because they are still trapped in this desire to make themselves seem superior to others. They use a spiritual teaching and ascended master teaching in a different way. They do it just like the scribes and Pharisees. They are saying: “Here we have an ascended master teaching. We recognize it came from a higher source. But the teaching does not cover every possible topic.” So these people create their own interpretations. Sometimes they cannot even formulate it in words, they just have it in their mind at a higher level of words, a certain world view, a certain view of themselves that they feel now is validated by the outer teaching coming from the ascended masters.

Now, if they would do as I said, step outside the outer mind and contact the ascended master that gave the teaching, they would be able to see that their mental image is not in accordance with the master. It is out of alignment with the master, and so they could free themselves from it. But because they are not willing to question their interpretation, their mental image, they become stuck like the scribes and Pharisees. They, of course, do not see this and, in a sense, you could say they are not doing exactly the same as the scribes and Pharisees did because they had an outer scripture that was not being renewed. There was not progressive revelation. They had a closed box in which they interpreted it. If you have an ascended master teaching there is progressive revelation, but the question is: “Are these students I am talking about, are they really listening to the progressive revelation?”

We have seen it over and over again that some students are not actually listening to what we are saying. They are only hearing what validates their mental image, what conforms to their mental image. The mental image may be based on our teachings, but progressive revelation is ongoing, it is progressive, it is like a river that is flowing, but the mental image that you have in your mind is a still image or a series of still images, but still, you are not tuning into, you are not experiencing, the flow.

No final teaching

Some students actually think that an ascended master has a certain knowledge, a certain teaching that he is giving to earth and that teaching is fixed. In other words, without maybe even putting words on this, they are thinking that I, the ascended master Jesus, I have a certain teaching up here in my mind, and I have given parts of that through this dispensation and parts of that through that dispensation, but ultimately there will come a point where I have given the final teaching that I want to give, and then it will never change. This, of course, is not reality. I am constantly growing, evolving. I do not have a fixed teaching.

You see, even in the Jewish religion, even in the Christian religion, some people have been willing to acknowledge that human beings can receive knowledge from a higher source. The Christians claim the Bible is the word of God and was received through some form of direct revelation, however they imagine it. They agree that human beings can get knowledge from a higher source, but they think the purpose of this giving of knowledge from a higher source is that there is one fixed, limited, truth up here that is being given and it is possible that you can come to a point where revelation is now complete, like the Christians believe about the Bible was complete in the year 100 or so when the scriptures were written down, and now there will be no more revelation forthcoming.

You cannot fathom the mind of ascend master

It is even possible that students can believe that the ascended masters are giving ongoing revelation, but everything we say validates what these students believe they already know. And when we say something that does not validate their view, they either do not hear it, or they find a way to ignore it or explain it away. In other words, some students, when they hear a dictation, they are filtering it through their perception filter, only hearing what validates and conforms to their mental image of what the teaching should be like, and the rest they do not hear. They ignore it. They explain it away.

This is, of course, the consciousness of Satan that I rebuked with Peter, but they do not see it because, after all, they are ascended master students. They believe in the ascended masters. They believe we can give teachings, and they believe the teachings we give conform to their mental image.

“Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.” What are some of the same of the tendencies we see? And, again, we are not trying to find fault. We are not trying to blame anybody given the state of the world and given a tradition you see from, for example, Christianity and materialistic science. You have been brought up with these tendencies, so we are not blaming you. We are simply trying to help you see that this is part of what keeps you nailed to the cross, especially in your mental minds.

What are some of these tendencies? Well, one is to think that there is a final amount of knowledge in the mind of an ascended master that he is seeking to give forth and therefore it is possible for a human being in embodiment to come to a full understanding of the mind of an ascended master. Some think that they have been students of Saint Germain for so many years, they have read and studied all of these dictations that he gave- for example, through previous dispensations – and they know the full message that Saint Germain wants to give to earth. This is, of course, completely out of touch with the reality of Saint Germain who does not have a final amount of knowledge he wants to give to earth. He has a series of various steps and elements of knowledge that he gradually plans to release as the golden age progresses over the next 2000 years. Saint Germain’s knowledge, that he wants to impart to humankind and give to earth, will not come to an end until he is no longer the Hierarch of the Age of Aquarius, but is released by whomever this will be, which is not determined yet. You will not in your present embodiment ever know the fullness of the message of Saint Germain.

But there is another element of this: thinking that you could know the fullness of the message, that an ascended master wants to give to earth or the fullness of the knowledge that an ascendant master has, is spiritual pride, complete illusion. As long as you are in embodiment you cannot know the fullness, for that matter an ascended master does not know the fullness of all the knowledge that is there in all of these realms that go to higher and higher levels from this sphere to the next to the next to the next and all the way to the Creator. I do not fancy myself – even though I have been an ascended master for two thousand years – of knowing everything. These people think that their minds, while they are in embodiment, are capable of grasping the full knowledge of an ascended master. But as we have said before, the difference in the mind and the mind capacity of an ascended master and an embodied being is unfathomable for an unascended being. It is such a huge difference that you simply cannot fathom it from the unascended state, therefore you cannot fathom the knowledge of an ascended master. And thinking that you can is, of course, spiritual pride, it is arrogance, it is a complete illusion.

Limitations of the intellectual mind

Then, there is another tendency that people go into and again, this is partly because you were grown up in a modern world where science and logical thinking and rational thinking are so dominant. You go into thinking that first of all, you think that the human intellect can grasp the full knowledge of how the world works. Especially, you think that when you recognize there is a spiritual realm and there are beings in that spiritual realm who have knowledge, you think that the intellect can grasp this knowledge, can analyze it, can categorize it, can put it into these subconscious file folders and you think that the intellect can grasp how the world actually works. But this is again hubris. Scientists, materialists believe that one day science will – through the intellect, through the scientific method – know everything there is to know about the universe. For that matter, they believed this in the late 1800s, some of them, and today they are scientists who believe the same. They believe that knowledge is, we might say, horizontal. In other words, there is a huge plane – you might compare it to: there is a big library and there are all these shelves of books that contain all the knowledge about the universe. And it is just a matter of going down these rows of shelves and reading all the books and when you have read all the books, then you know everything, the intellect can fathom everything. But knowledge is not horizontal. Knowledge is not intellectual. There is more to know than is dreamt of in your philosophy, there is more between heaven and earth that is dreamt of in your philosophy. There is the intellect, is only one way to look at knowledge, to look for knowledge, to grasp knowledge, to use knowledge.

Now, it is a very valuable faculty that is especially good for practical applications on earth. In other words, on understanding how the material universe works. The intellect is good as grasping this. We are not in any way putting down the intellect and people’s ability to think. But there are ascended master students who recognize that they have spiritual teachers. We are in a higher level of consciousness, we have a spiritual teaching, but they still think they can grasp this with their intellects and this is a fallacy. And it is a potentially limiting fallacy because it can keep you trapped on the cross where you are continually throughout a lifetime trying to understand intellectually the ascended master teachings, trying to analyze them, to categorize them, to label them, to fit them into some filing system you have in your mind. But there are things about the function of the spiritual world that the intellect on earth will never be able to fathom. It will never fathom it. When you ascend, you are not primarily using the intellect to gather knowledge- you use the intuitive faculties and direct experience, many other actually avenues for seeking knowledge that you have in the ascended realm. And you know from experience there are so many things that the intellect cannot deal with. If you are trying to understand the ascended master teachings through the intellect there will be aspects of the teaching that you simply cannot see, you cannot fathom it, it does not compute as they say. Because your intellect cannot deal with it.

The linear mind’s need for consistency

Part of the entire scientific mindset is, of course, the linear mind as we have called it. And one aspect of the linear mind is that it always looks for consistency. There must not be any contradictions, there must not be anything unexplained, there must be a certain timeline that is logical and starts from one point and goes to another point, there cannot be any gaps or inconsistencies in a timeline. You see, the linear mind wants to make everything concrete, everything linear, not just on a linear timeline, but it wants to make everything concrete -so it can relate to something that the intellect can fathom.

But what have I said? When you go into duality, what do you do? You are creating a mental image, an illusion that you think is reality. But how are you creating that? Through the intellect, through the linear mind. How can, as Einstein even said, you overcome a problem with the same state of consciousness that created a problem? How can you free yourself from your illusions and delusions by using the very intellect that created those illusions? It cannot be done, which is why the scribes and the Pharisees could not recognize Christ. They wanted to pull me and everything I said into their system and I came to free them from the system. How would I have any chance of freeing people if I conform to their mental images as we have said many times before?

But there are still ascended masters’ students who cannot fathom this, they are trying to put our progressive revelation into their intellectual, linear, concrete system. When exactly did Sanat Kumara come to earth? What was the year? When exactly was Atlantis? When did this happen, when did that happen? Why is there a contradiction between what was said in the I AM Movement and what was said in the Summit Lighthouse and what we are saying today. Why is there a contradiction between what we are saying today and what was said in the Bible? Why is there a contradiction between what the ascended masters are saying today and what was said in the Vedas or Nordic mythology or this or that or the next thing. These are all the linear mind – trying to fit everything into its system so it can feel that it is secure, because it has everything under control. This is as Mother Mary talked about this dream of protecting yourself from bad things happening in the world by knowing everything, by being able to control everything in the outer world. There are students who are caught in this trying to use our teachings to give themselves so much knowledge that they think that when they know enough, they will be able to control everything. As Mother Mary so eloquently explained, this will not happen. It is not a matter of knowing enough.

There are scientists who believe that when you know enough about this or that, you will be able to control every aspect of life on earth. And we fully understand, I fully acknowledge why they believe this. After all there was a Greek philosopher over 2000 years ago who coined the phrase “atoms as an indivisible unit” and by scientists continuing to research, gaining more and more knowledge about atoms, they develop the ability to split the atom and create a nuclear reactor or nuclear bomb. They think that this- the linear mind thinks that this- can be extended indefinitely or at least until you reach the final knowledge. But first of all, there is no final knowledge. Second of all, there is knowledge that the linear mind, the intellect will never be able to fathom. We have said before that if the knowledge that you have on earth is the spoon, then the total knowledge is the ocean. And this does not mean that you have a certain amount of knowledge on earth that you can fathom with the intellect and the ocean is also an amount of knowledge that can be fathomed with the intellect. Most of this knowledge cannot be fathomed by the intellect, it does not conform to the linear mind.

What is the knowledge that you are receiving on earth even from the ascended realm? It is knowledge that is geared towards helping you free yourself from your self-created illusions. Therefore, somewhat adapted to those illusions, so you can grasp the knowledge, lock into it and start walking the path. Because if we give your knowledge that nobody can grasp, we are not helping anybody, are we? If you want to take everything literally, if you want to interpret everything linearly then you are not making use of the teaching and therefore you are still hanging on the cross in your mental mind that you put yourself on.

The primary feature of the fallen mindset

The primary feature of the fallen mindset that the fallen beings are in is that they have created a mental image that they feel is so complete that they do not need to look beyond it or question it. They believe their minds have the basic knowledge of how the world works, how the universe works, how creation works. But this belief is based on their self-created illusions because they feel they are so complete, they know so much, they are so complex of an understanding of life and grant you, some fallen beings have an extremely complex world view. You may look at the world view we have given you and say this is very complex about fallen beings and avatars and this and that. But it is actually nothing compared to what some fallen beings have in their minds, they have created it not only in this sphere, but in previous spheres, they have an extremely complicated world view. And why is this? What have I said? Free will must be outplayed, you must be able to create any world view, any image, any experience you want inside your own mind. When you’ve eaten a forbidden fruit going into the knowledge of good and evil, you are creating a mental image. And once you are convinced that your mental image is reality, then no outside force can pull you out of it- so you must be allowed to go as far as you can until you cannot stand it anymore. Christ is not allowed by the law of free will to go in and challenge some of these fallen beings. You can challenge the fallen beings in embodiment when Christ is in embodiment, that is why I could challenge the scribes and the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin, because I was in embodiment and they were in embodiment. But some of the fallen beings in the emotional realm, mental realm and the identity realm, we cannot challenge. At least not yet – there comes a certain cycle where we can, but they must be allowed to fulfill that cycle.

The Zeno paradox

What is it that they do in order to create this complex image? Well, we have talked about before the Greek philosopher Zeno that created the paradox. You have to go to a certain city, there is say 42 kilometers there. Can you ever get there? No, because first, you have to go to the halfway point, then you have to go to the halfway point of the remaining distance and so forth. And you can continue to divide the distance into a halfway point indefinitely. This is also known in mathematics where you can take the number zero and the number one and you can divide it with a certain factor and you can keep dividing indefinitely. There is no end, there is no end- or at least that is how the theory goes and the linear mind cannot fathom this. Just trying to think about this- you keep dividing the distance into smaller and smaller components and it never ends. The linear mind will say: “But there must be an end, there must be the smallest component.”  That is why the Greek philosopher came up with this concept: they are atoms that cannot be divided further. There must be the smallest component – says the linear mind, but there is not. There is no limit to how far the linear mind can go except that a being can run out of time.

The way out of the jungle

What is the only way out of it? Once you have gone into this cycle, what is the only way out of it? Well, take the paradox of walking to the city. You are a human being, you walk by taking one step at a time. You have to walk a distance of 42 miles. First you walk to -or to 42 kilometers you walk to- the 21-kilometer mark and you stop there, wipe the sweat off your brow and rest a little bit. And then you start walking again, till you come to the next halfway point, and you continue to the next halfway point and the next one. Now, theoretically you can keep going forever, but there comes a point where you are now one step away from the destination. In other words, you can cover the remaining distance in one step. What is the point in dividing it into the halfway point and taking a half of a step, a quarter of a step, an eighth of a step and smaller and smaller increments of steps? Why not simply take that one last step and you have arrived? And that is what can bring a being out of this self-created never-ending spiral, never-ending story- by you suddenly coming to realize: “I cannot stand the complexity, I cannot stand it anymore, there must be a way out.” And that is when you come to that recognition when a teacher must appear and offer you at least something that can bring you on the way out of your own self-created illusion.

Do you really think you know better?

This, of course, is what we hope to do by giving direct teachings. But if a person has not come to that point of having had enough of its own mind and the grandeur of the mental images that it has created, then we cannot help the student. The student might listen to our teachings, might read them, might study them, might know them by heart, might be able to quote them, might be able to interpret them in more and more complex interpretations, but the person has not started walking out of the jungle. The person is still trying to fit the teachings into its world view and therefore the person is still on the cross. Literally, in a mental mind you can keep going indefinitely- into more and more complexity, deeper and deeper details, more and more details trying to create more and more, and more and more, consistent story, linear story. Instead of realizing that even as an ascended master teaching is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It is not meant to give you intellectual knowledge, it is meant to help you transcend your mental box. And if you use it for that purpose you can quickly transcend your mental box, so you are free and you can jump down from the cross.

But if you are still in love with your own mind and the grandeur of your mind, you do not want to get off the cross- because after all, when you are hanging up there on the cross, you might be fixated on the cross, but you are above all those people standing below looking at you.  Where are they looking? They are looking up at you because you are on this cross and you feel superior to them, so you do not even want to get down. I bow to your free will. What else can I do? Because you actually think that I as an ascended master I’m one of those people standing down there on the ground and I’m below you- you know better. You either know better than the ascended master or you certainly know better than the messenger who probably is getting something wrong if he is not getting something that validates your view.

What can I say? Well, we try. Why did I engage the scribes and Pharisees 2000 years ago? Because that is the law, when we have an opportunity, we must seek to help as many people as possible. Even if they have previously been impossible to help. But that is who we are as ascended masters and that is why we are still with earth. Because we do not feel that we have done everything that could be done to help unascended beings. You may say here is the ascended realm- a HUGE, huge world to explore. We have ascended from earth, we have escaped from earth, we are not confined to earth, there is nothing forcing us to stay with earth. But we are choosing to do so because we feel there is still something that can be done, that can be said and as the Buddha said: “Some will understand.” I hope that all of those who listen to this or who read it, will be among the “some” who understand- not only understand, but grasp, internalize. And therefore, make contact with the consciousness of the being that I am who is much more than can ever be put into words. But even that can be used by the linear mind as an excuse for saying: “Oh, but the masters are saying there is so much more that cannot be expressed in words- therefore my world view is just so advanced that it cannot be expressed in words or it is so advanced that the messenger cannot fathom it. Therefore, cannot take a dictation about it, but it shows how superior it is.”  Again, SOME will understand. May you be that some!

Copyright © 2023 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels, April 9, 2023. This dictation was given during the 2023 Easter webinar – Taking Christianity and yourself down from the cross.

I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ.

You cannot understand the mission that I carried out 2,000 years ago unless you understand that I often talked about forces, beings, and people that opposed my mission. You cannot get a full grasp of the mission of Christ, unless you understand that in the world there is a force of antichrist, which I called the prince of this world, or the devil, or Satan; and there are people who can be tools of this force, which are, of course, the people who opposed me at every turn, the scribes and Pharisees, whom I called the sons of the devil and, of course, the people who wanted me condemned, arrested, and put to death. But if you look at contemporary Christianity, how much talk is there of such a force? How much understanding is there of such a force? And this is one of the reasons why this force has been able to put Christianity on the cross in the first place and keep it there for 17 centuries.

Christians talk about the devil, but the devil they talk about is often seen as being just as remote as the God they talk about. There is a remote God up in heaven, there is a devil down in hell and he can tempt people, but there is not sufficient understanding of how this actually works, so this is what I will give you some thoughts on.

The power elite in embodiment

First of all, we need to recognize that there are people in this world who have reached an extreme level of self-centeredness, selfishness, and they are what psychology today calls the narcissists, the sociopaths and psychopaths, or a combination of all three. These are beings that, to begin with, were not fundamentally different than other beings, other self-aware beings. But they have gone so far into the death consciousness, the consciousness of antichrist, that they have a completely different way of looking at life than what most people on the planet have. They are firmly convinced that they are superior to other human beings, that they have a right to set themselves up as an elite, that they are right in the excuses they used for setting themselves up in these powerful and privileged positions. And they believe that the ends can justify the means, therefore they have a right to use anything that appeals to people in order to achieve the ends that they see.

You need to recognize that throughout history, there has been a certain group of people in embodiment who have formed this power elite, who have attempted to set themselves up in a powerful and privileged position, where they are above the general population and where the general population cannot challenge them. You see an example of this, as we have mentioned many times before, in the feudal societies of Europe, where there was a small elite consisting of the kings, the noblemen and also the clergy of the church. And most of the people were in all practical practicality, the slaves of this elite, and therefore you could say that the people were crucified by the elite. They were fixated on the cross, spending all of their waking hours, all of their energy, all of their time, on working for the benefit of the elite. The elite, in physical embodiment, had crucified the people in a quite physical way.

The hierarchy of the non-embodied fallen beings

Yet, why could the elite that was in embodiment do this—only because there are beings that are not in embodiment who are working through the elite in embodiment. And these non-embodied beings are what I called the prince of this world, the antichrist, Satan, the devil, the sons of the devil. They are what we today call the fallen beings, who have fallen from grace out of their own choosing and therefore have taken on this mindset of working against God, working against God’s purpose, and therefore of course, working against Christ and the purpose of sending Christ into this world.

You cannot fully understand Christianity and my mission if you do not understand that there is a force of disembodied beings who form this force of antichrist, who were doing everything they could to prevent me from being the Christ in embodiment and who have since then done everything they could to prevent the success of my mission.

You can see, if you look at the scriptures, how King Herod was one of these embodied beings whose mind was taken over by the disembodied beings and that is why he believed in this idea that someone would be, a child would be born, that would challenge his reign, and therefore he was willing to kill all male babies of a certain age group in order to take out of embodiment the one being that could be the Christ. He did not understand this consciously, he did not have a sophisticated understanding of it, but he was willing to act based on these non-embodied fallen beings taking over his mind.

You see that the fallen beings were willing to kill a large number of male babies in order to be sure that they had killed the one that had the Christ potential. Why did they eventually kill me, kill my physical body? Because again, the disembodied fallen beings were working with the fallen beings in embodiment to kill me before I could fulfill my mission. They, of course, did not fully understand what my mission was about, but they did understand that I came to set the people free from being dominated by these fallen beings, the sons of the devil.

Why does Christ come to earth? Why does God send someone? Why does the hierarchy of light send someone to earth who can bring forth some kind of teaching that can set the people free? Well, of course, this is done because the people have become enslaved and you look back throughout history and see that there was a point in the distant past where, for reasons we have already explained and that I will not go into, these fallen beings, these dark beings were allowed to come to earth.

What we need to recognize is, that at the time that I was born 2000 years ago in a physical body, there were already fallen beings in embodiment and out of embodiment in the emotional, mental and identity realms. They have been here for a long time and what they had achieved in that time was to basically make all people their slaves, set themselves up as a powerful and privileged elite and the people were virtually the slaves. Why? Because the people were crucified.

How co-creation works

We have given many teachings on the four levels of matter. We have said that you who are self-aware beings are actually created to be co-creators with God or at least co-creators with the ascended masters who have created the earth. The earth is created as an environment where you can exercise your creative abilities, your co-creative abilities and thereby grow in consciousness.

How do you exercise your co-creative abilities, your receiving light from your higher self, your spiritual self? It first enters your identity body, where you superimpose certain images on the light, then it goes into your mental body, where you superimpose more concrete images, then in your emotional body, where you superimpose a certain momentum and direction, and then the energy goes into the physical spectrum where it takes on physical form, at least in the ideal scenario.

The earth is meant to be a co-creative environment. You are meant to, and I say all people, are meant to exercise their co-creative abilities and to enjoy doing so. You are meant to get fulfillment out of it. When you exercise your co-creative abilities, you improve your physical situation, you improve your emotions, you improve your thoughts, you improve your sense of identity. You grow in your sense of identity and therefore, as I described in a parable about the talents, the more you multiply the talents you are given, the more you will receive, to him that has more shall be added.

Co-creation as a struggle

The original design for the earth was to create this co-creative environment where people could exercise their abilities and there was no suffering. There was no conflict, there was no warfare. Again, without going into how the fallen beings came to earth, there came a shift where humankind has lowered the collective consciousness, the fallen beings came to earth and ever since they came, they have managed to enslave people so that people are crucified in their four bodies, their four levels of their minds.

Now co-creation is not an enjoyable process, it is a struggle, it causes suffering and therefore, people are literally crucified in the four levels of matter, crucified in the four levels of their minds. And that is why God sends someone to earth. That someone is the only begotten son, but that only begotten son is not and can never be confined to one human being. It is the Christ consciousness, the universal non-personal Christ consciousness. This consciousness can be expressed in the physical octave by a human being, but only when that human being has taken embodiment as other human beings and has raised his or her consciousness to the sufficient level where that person can be an open door for the non-personal Christ mind to express itself on earth.

The example of Christ

Why is the Christ mind sent to earth in a personalized form? Because, first of all, people are trapped, they are crucified, they cannot take themselves down from the cross once they are nailed to the cross, they need something from outside their own minds so they have a frame of reference from outside their own minds. And they need this in a form that they can recognize and understand and grasp, because people cannot connect to some remote God up in heaven. They need to see an example, a demonstration of the path that you can follow so that all people can escape the cross, escape the suffering and be reborn into a higher sense of identity, but it cannot be enslaved by the fallen beings. Because, now they know and accept that they are sons and daughters of God and not sinners.

This is the basic dynamic. From time to time, the hierarchy of light sends someone, or rather you could say that from time to time, one person raises his or her consciousness where they can serve as the open door so they bring forth something that gives people a frame of reference from outside the mindset that makes them slaves to the power elite and fixates them on the cross of the four levels of matter.

What do the fallen beings do? Well, I said their first consideration is to prevent that person that has that potential from even being born. They can know this because some of them can read the consciousness of those who embody, they can know that someone had reached a high level and therefore, in his or her next embodiment, has the potential to be the open door. And they will therefore try to prevent that from being born as they did with me. But if they cannot prevent this, then they will, of course, prevent, try to prevent, this person from being acknowledged by the people. And in order to do this, they have created this elaborate scheme of beliefs, religions, ideologies, thought systems to try to prevent the people from recognizing the Christ.

The fall into duality

Now, as I have said, you can never actually lose the opportunity to recognize Christ. But you can be programmed to then do what I described in my previous discourse that Peter did, where he recognized Christ as being someone special, but then he tried to pull me into his mental box, his expectations, his view of what should or should not happen to Christ. And this is what the fallen beings do.

Let us take a look at this. There are several elements. The first element is that the fallen beings will take advantage of the fact that all people have descended below the 48th level of consciousness, so they now experience themselves as separate beings. Most people on earth see themselves as separated from their higher selves. And this makes them susceptible to the ideology, the beliefs of the fallen beings that says there is a God, but he is up there in the sky and you are down here on earth. And you are separated from him by this gap, this chasm, this distance.

They have, throughout the ages, had various explanations for why people are separated. But in the Christian religion, it is because you are sinners, you have sinned and as a result of having sinned, you have been cast out of paradise, cast out of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve walked and talked with God. But you are now separated, you are outside the Garden of Eden, and there are angels with flaming swords, keeping you outside.

Now, there is, of course, a certain reality that people have made these choices to go below that level of consciousness where they do not experience themselves as connected beings but as separate beings. Some people have made their choice even before the fallen beings came here. But what is depicted, somewhat accurately in Genesis, is the temptation in the Garden of Eden. Of course, it was both Adam and Eve that were tempted equally, it was not Eve who caused the fall of man, but this is again a perversion of the fallen beings. And what is portrayed there is that there was the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. They were not allowed to eat of it. The reality was, actually, they were not allowed to eat of it until they were ready, because it was a particular initiation. And the Garden of Eden was a school room, where they would go through levels of initiations and the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil represented one of the more advanced initiations that people were not meant to take before they were ready.

The serpent, which is a representative or symbol for the fallen beings, tempted people to go into, to partake of the fruit, which is to go into the duality consciousness, that we have explained many times. When you go into duality, there are two opposite polarities, they are both relative, none of them are ultimately true but you take one and elevate it to the status of infallibility or superiority by putting the other one down. You are creating these two polarities and this is what allows you to become as a God, knowing good and evil, but you are not knowing good and evil, you are defining good and evil. And of course, most people on earth are not able to do this, but the fallen beings are able to do this. What has happened is that instead of following a true teacher that seeks to help you come back to oneness, they are following the false teacher that seeks to take people deeper and deeper into separation and, of course, it is the illusion of separation that makes you crucified to the four levels of matter.

This is the first element. You are separated from God. This separation is in large part created by the fallen beings that have led people deeper and deeper into separation, making it more and more difficult for people to walk the path towards oneness. Some people throughout the ages, in every age, have discovered the path, but the vast majority have not. This is important to grasp it because then you realize one fundamental truth. The problem on earth is created and exacerbated by the fallen beings.

Redemption through the outer religion

Now comes the next level of deception. They say you can actually be redeemed, but you can only be redeemed through an external religion and the hierarchy of that religion, the priests of that religion. This is what you saw in the Jewish religion when I took embodiment. The Jewish religion claimed you have sinned, therefore you are outside the kingdom of God, but if you follow the Jewish religion, obey the priests, by taking all of the rituals, you can be redeemed and go into, go back into the kingdom of God.

Yet, who were the priests of the Jewish religion? They were fallen beings in embodiment. Who was behind the Jewish religion? The fallen beings out of embodiment. What you see now is that the fallen beings have first created the problem that people have gone into separation and now they attempt to set themselves up as the ones who have a monopoly, a patent on the solution for how people can get back to the kingdom of God. This is the essential dynamic that should have been grasped by the Christian church, but has not been grasped by the Christian church. Why have they not grasped this? Why has not this been shouted from the rooftops since my mission on earth?

Destroying the example of Christ

Well, partly because many of the early followers of Christianity did not fully grasp it, but it really became cemented, you might say, with the formation of the Roman Catholic Church which elevated me to the status of being an exception, the only son of God, of the same substance of the Father, begotten, not made, setting me in a special category. Thereby, nobody could see me as an example to follow, nobody could see that I had demonstrated the path that all can follow. And we were back in a situation where the Catholic Church from its inception has been built on this idea that the only way for Christians to enter heaven is through the outer church and its hierarchy.

In other words, after 300 years, the Christian religion became the exact same kind of religion as the Jewish religion that had me killed. An irony of history you can say, but when you understand what I am telling you here, you see that it is just the simple fact that history repeats itself and if you do not learn from the mistakes of history, you are destined to repeat them.

The reality of my mission was that I came to set people free from the fallen beings in embodiment and out of embodiment, the prince of this world, the sons of the devil. And yet after 300 years, the Christian church had been taken over by these fallen beings and has now, from then on, been used to keep people as trapped as they were before I came. In some ways, even more trapped.

God vs. devil

Now, there are these two elements. The fallen beings seek to create a problem. They also seek to project a false view of what the problem is and then they seek to set themselves up as the solution. But how, what is the next element of their deception? Well, they create this dualistic polarity saying: “Yes, there is a God, but there is also a devil who is his opposite.” Well, the devil who is opposite of God does not exist, for nothing can be opposite of the real God. But the fallen beings have created a false image of God that people have worshipped for a long time and they have created this being in the emotional, mental and identity realm that can take on the form of various gods. This is a false god. This is a dualistic god, and therefore this god does have an opposite, namely the devil which is also created through the image of the fallen beings. You have a certain temporary reality to god and the devil, but the real God is beyond this polarity and is beyond all human images and projections.

The fallen beings have created a god in their own image and after their own likeness and they have created a devil in the image and after the likeness of another group of fallen beings. You have these two groups of fallen beings representing the opposite polarities and how are they using this? Well, first of all, they have the ‘devil fallen beings’ seek to commit and get people to commit all kinds of atrocities on earth. And then the ‘god fallen beings’ are seeking to scare people with this, use this to scare people into fearing that they could go to hell or they could be taken over by the devil and tempted by the devil even while they are in embodiment. But they could also, after leaving embodiment, go to hell and stay there for all eternity and be tortured by the devil. Naturally, this scares people if they believe this, so what do they then do? They say: “Well, there is a way to escape the devil. There is a way to avoid being tempted by the devil while you are in embodiment and there is a way to permanently escape the devil by going to heaven after you leave embodiment.”

And what is that way? It is the outer church and its religion, you must completely obey it, follow its rituals, then the church will protect you against the devil while you are in embodiment and the church will take you to heaven after embodiment. Both these claims are fictitious. The church on earth, no church on earth, be it the Catholic religion or any other religion that has ever existed can take you to heaven. Because what did I say: “Where is heaven? The kingdom of God is within you”, because the kingdom of God is the state of consciousness. It is the state of non-separation. It is getting back to your innocence, the innocence with which you were created.

The ultimate trap of a closed system

But of course, the fallen beings have also obscured that fact by saying that: “No, you were not created as a son or daughter of God, you were created as a sinner through this original sin going back to Adam and Eve.” You see the picture that is beginning to emerge is how the fallen beings, the forces of antichrist, have used the Christian religion to crucify people so that anyone who believes in its Christian religion is truly crucified because they dare not open their emotional, mental and identity minds to anything beyond that outer religion and its doctrines. For after all, if it is not in compliance with the Christian religion, it must come from the devil and it is the devil attempting to tempt you so that you will be pulled into hell where you will suffer for all eternity.

Now you can see how total this deception has been for many people by looking at what the Christian religion specifically, or especially the Catholic church, has actually done. Look at the whole concept of that there are heretics leading to the Inquisition, the Crusades, the witch hunts. Look at then the split between Catholicism and Lutheranism and the wars that ensued from this when they were trying to kill each other after having tried to kill all Muslims and so forth. You see all of these actions committed by Christians and you can ask yourself: “Could Christ really approve of this?” You can go all the way up to today with the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic church and ask yourself: “Could Christ approve of this? Is this really what Christ wants his church to do?”

And some people dare not even ask that question because they think it must come from the devil who is trying to tempt them to doubt the church and therefore go to heaven. People can be trapped in this for lifetimes.

Why is it that at least some people have moved out of it today? Some people have even abandoned Christianity, but some people have started to question it. Well, it is because of the reality of reincarnation. Reincarnation of course, has also been denied by the fallen beings because if you accept that a human being can have more than one lifetime, you must accept that this is a condition that was created by God and this leads to the question: Why? Why would God set it up so that you can have more than one lifetime? Well, the most plausible explanation is that life is actually meant to be a path where you can raise your consciousness until you qualify to enter the kingdom of God. If you cannot qualify in one lifetime, you get additional opportunities.

But this is not what the fallen beings want because if people believe that: “I am born a Catholic in this lifetime, but I do not have to obey the church 100% because I can get an opportunity in my next lifetime where I might not be born as a Catholic.” Well, then the fallen beings cannot get total unquestioning obedience from people so they very quickly took out the concept of reincarnation from the Catholic religion and even all Lutheran religions that have not put it back in. Again, another way to keep people firmly nailed to that cross that they have created.

A broken promise

But the reality is, of course, that reincarnation is real and so what has happened? Well, what is it that the fallen beings have found it necessary to promise people? Well, in order to get them to totally obey them in this lifetime, they make people believe that if they do follow the fallen beings in this lifetime, then they are guaranteed to be saved and go to heaven after this lifetime.

What has, of course, happened to people, is that they have lived an entire lifetime completely obeying the church. They leave embodiment, they expect to go to heaven, but they are told they have to go back into embodiment. And although they come back not remembering that they have lived before, they will gradually, as this repeats over several lifetimes, be some residual memory and understanding where they do not remember the specifics, but they come back with a distrust of the promise made by the Christian religion. And now they become somewhat open to looking at the actions of the Christian religion and saying: “Does this really make sense? Can this come from Christ? Are the doctrines consistent or are they contradictory? Can the priests answer my questions? Or can I see that I can find better answers elsewhere, whether it be in science, some other religion or a mystical teaching?”

Questioning a closed system

You see that the fallen beings cannot keep people trapped forever. They cannot prevent them from questioning their illusions forever. But they can prevent it for a very long time as envisioned by the fact that from the year 381 and until the Reformation and even until the advent of science and the modern secular democracies, Christianity had an incredible hold over the minds of most people in the Western world. You see here how incredibly dangerous this is and how the fallen beings, once they have created this closed system, where people are afraid to question it and look outside, they can keep a very large group of people trapped in such a system for a very long period of time.

Christianity is of course, not the only example. Many others—Islam, Hinduism, some aspects of Buddhism, scientific materialism, communism, are many other examples throughout the ages. But I am, of course, primarily concerned about taking Christianity down from the cross and one potential is that more and more people will wake up, start questioning the church, first of all the Catholic church, but also the Lutheran churches and the Orthodox churches, questioning the doctrines, questioning some of these beliefs that do not make sense. And it could potentially change the church, lead to the creation of a new Christian church or several new Christian churches or at least free people to move on into a more mystical teaching. It is not that I am particularly concerned about preserving the Catholic church or renewing the Catholic church.

The Catholic church–beyond reform?

The Catholic church is so steeped in the mindset of the fallen beings that even if you had a sincere desire to reform the Catholic church, it is doubtful that it could be done but we could ask the question: “Does anyone in the Catholic church see the need to reform the church? Do they see a problem at all?” And of course, many lay people do see a problem with the Catholic church. Many people have been awakened by the pedophilia scandal and other scandals to see that there is a problem. But what is the typical response of such people? They feel you cannot fight City Hall and you cannot fight the Vatican so you cannot really reform the church. What is the only option they can see? Well, they leave. They might go to other Christian churches, they might go to other religions, they might go to some mystical or new age teaching, or they might become entirely non-religious, but they leave. If you see the need to reform the Catholic church and you leave, how can you be part of reforming the Catholic church?

Now what is it that the fallen beings want to do? Well, they want to create a closed system and once they have created it, they want to maintain it by keeping people trapped in the system. What have they done not only in the Catholic church but in many other of these structures they have created? Well, they have set up what we might call a process of unnatural selection. Natural selection supposedly selects out those who are most fit for survival. Unnatural selection does not select the people who are fit to survive individually. They select the people who are fit to ensure the survival of the organization, the structure. What do you have in the Catholic church? You have a situation where nobody who is a lay person has any say in the Catholic church. Only those who are educated and trained by the Catholic church to hold some kind of position, from priests and deacons up to cardinals and popes, can have a say in the Catholic church. What does that mean? It means only those at the top have the power to change the Catholic church. But what does it take to get to the top of this fallen structure?

Well, the only way to get to the top is to demonstrate complete loyalty to the survival of the structure. The system selects out anyone who has a desire or a potential to reform the structure. Meaning, that you can become Pope as you see the present Pope and you can have some desire to create reforms in the Catholic church. But you cannot become Pope if you have a real desire and if you are willing to do what needs to be done to bring the church in alignment with the mind of Christ instead of being controlled by the mind of antichrist.

It does not mean I am saying that only fallen beings can become Popes. But you have to have demonstrated this loyalty to the survival of the organization, otherwise you cannot reach higher levels in the organization. That means that you cannot become a cardinal if you have not demonstrated loyalty. If you have a true desire to reform the Catholic church you cannot become a cardinal. And who selects the Pope? Well, of course, the cardinals and it is one of the cardinals that becomes Pope so you see those who might have a true desire and a true ability to reform the church would never attain a position where they have the power to reform the Catholic church and the same, of course, in most other Christian churches.

But what is it that they really are seeking to do, the fallen beings, by creating this structure? Well, let us say as a thought experiment that it would be possible to reform the Catholic church. How could it be done? Who could do it? What kind of person could do it? Well, a person who had the potential to raise his consciousness, because it would have to be a man as the Catholic church is right now, to the level of the Christ consciousness. You would have to have some level of Christ consciousness in order to bring the Catholic church back into alignment with the Christ mind. This I trust should be possible to see. Yet what is the underlying purpose of the entire structure and doctrines of the Catholic church that the fallen beings have created? It is to make sure that no one with a sufficient level of Christhood could ever rise to a position in the Catholic church.

They want to shut out the Christ from the Catholic church so that the fallen beings can remain in control. Would it be possible to revert this, to change this? Not very likely. One Christed being could not even do it because how could one Christed being be elected Pope if you have all of these cardinals that are trapped in the fallen mindset? The person could not be recognized by the cardinals as having anything of value to offer the church. They would instead see him as a threat. They would see his desire for reform as a threat and his vision of how the church needed to be reformed as a threat to the survival of the structure and what would they say? “Well, the Catholic church has survived for 2000 years and we cannot change it because it would endanger the survival of the church.” It hasn’t, of course, survived for 2000 years, only for 1700, but that is what they will often say because they, of course, claim it goes back to Peter which as I have already said is not the case.

Layers of deception

What is another level of deception that we need to look at? Well, the hierarchy of light sends a Christed being to set the people free from the fallen beings. But what have the fallen beings done with Christianity? They have created a church that keeps people trapped as slaves of the fallen beings but they claim that this church not only represents Christ but was actually created and ordained and is to this day supported by Christ. In other words, they claim that Christ approves of the church of antichrist. The deception that the fallen beings have achieved through the Christian religion is almost complete. If you really accept the claims made by the Catholic church you are nailed to a cross and you are not going to get out of it in this lifetime and potentially not in many coming lifetimes. That is why you saw the Catholic church dominate the life of Europe for over a thousand years virtually unchallenged. I talked about the feudal society of the kings and the noblemen enslaving the people physically, but this would not have been possible if the Catholic church had not enslaved them in their emotional, mental and identity bodies.

How do they do it? At the emotional level they create the fear of hell and the fear of the devil. At the mental level they ensnare people with all these subtle doctrines, all these argumentations and reasonings that the church is built on and then at the identity level they ensnare people by this false identity that you are created as sinners and therefore it was not that you were created in innocence and descended into the consciousness of death and can ascend back out of it. No, you were created in sin and therefore you were created to need salvation and you can only achieve it through the outer church.

The inner path of Christ

What did I say when I was in embodiment? “The kingdom of God is within, he who is willing to lose his life for my sake shall find it.” Many other statements that demonstrate that you can walk a path that qualifies you to enter heaven and that in order to do this, you do not need the external church here on earth. You do need Christ, not as an external savior that does it for you, but as the redeemer that helps you see through the illusions of separation and duality so you can free yourself from them, so you can have those scales fall from your eyes, you can cast off the shackles and therefore rebuke the devil when he comes to tempt you in the form of the Catholic church, the very church that claims to represent Christ. You have the Christ discernment to rebuke the devil as you saw me rebuke the devil when I was tempted after fasting in the wilderness and many other situations.

This is what all can do, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works.” This was the path I demonstrated. This was the path I talked about, but despite the fact that there are still some remnants of my words and the descriptions, the Catholic church has completely obliterated this idea that you can walk a path and that you can therefore free yourself without the external church here on earth, because the only thing you need to free yourself is Christ and Christ is beyond anything on earth.

What did I demonstrate by letting myself be crucified and being resurrected afterwards and then ascending to heaven? I demonstrated that the force of antichrist does not have power over Christ. You can kill the body of a Christed being but you cannot kill the spirit. This is the power of the Easter story that you can through Christ rise above death. What is death? The consciousness of separation, duality, the consciousness of the fallen beings and all of the lies that spring from it. What is life? It is to be reborn in Christ.

Now take the concept of original sin, that you were created as sinners and compare it to what I said to Nicodemus. When I said to him you shall be reborn, unless you are reborn you cannot enter the kingdom and he being a very literal person said: “Well how can a man be reborn? Can he enter his womb a second time?” And I said to him: “Only he that descended from heaven can ascend back to heaven.” What does that statement say? You were not created in sin because nobody in heaven is in sin and is created in sin. You descended from heaven. As we now say, the Conscious You descended from heaven and it is that “you” that can ascend back to heaven when it overcomes the illusions of death, the consciousness of death and it does that through the consciousness of Christ, the consciousness of life.

When you follow me, when you are willing to let the death consciousness, the self created out of the death consciousness, die, you are reborn into the eternal life of Christ and then you can ascend back to heaven. Once you are in death, you cannot do it without Christ, but you can certainly do it without an earthly institution controlled by the fallen beings who are in the consciousness of death.

The consciousness of death in Christian religions

If you go to Rome today, which is considered the center of Christendom, at least the center of the Catholic Church, what is it you see there? You see this famous church, St. Peter’s. But when you go in, what do you see? You see dead popes that are lying there on display, their mummified bodies. Because it is after all, not St. Peter’s Cathedral but St. Peter’s Basilica. You will have to look long and hard to find a picture of the resurrected Christ or rather a statue of the resurrected Christ. You can find a big statue of Peter and you can find dead popes but very few images of the resurrected Christ. There is one of the dead Christ lying on the lap of Mother Mary.

What is it you see when you go in there and you are sensitive to vibration? What vibration do you sense in St. Peter’s Basilica? You sense the vibration of death because not only the Basilica but the entire Vatican is permeated by the consciousness of death, the vibration of death. And in fact, the entire Christian religion, not only the Catholic Church but also the Lutheran churches and the Eastern Orthodox churches are permeated by the consciousness of death.

Not even Christ can resurrect them because Christ does not work against the free will of people in embodiment. And the people are so attached to the consciousness of death, they are so afraid of questioning it that they cannot ask the one logical question: “How can they enter eternal life through the consciousness of death or an earthly structure permeated by the consciousness of death?”

Knowing truth from within

What is the entire message of Christ in a concentrated form? Christ comes to give you eternal life by taking you beyond death, the consciousness of death. Only Christ can do this, no structure on earth can gain you entry into the kingdom and no structure on earth can keep you out of the kingdom. But the fallen beings claim that they have the power to allow you to enter heaven or to prevent you from entering heaven and send you to hell. This is all a lie and if you believe it you will die. There is no way that you can ever enter heaven in any other way than going through the universal Christ consciousness, which, of course, has been expressed also through Buddhism and other religions where they did not use the word Christ. But it is the same consciousness because it is beyond words, it is beyond doctrines, it is beyond human beliefs. There is no other way.

Again, the way has been made plain for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. You might say: “Well, have I not said this in different ways through this messenger now for many years,” and have you, who are the students, not heard this before—sure you have. But have you truly assimilated the words, truly grasped what it means? And of course the other reason for saying it is to send it, to send another wave of this into the collective consciousness. There is a certain tendency in the modern world that people will say: “Well, why are you repeating yourself? People have such a short attention span, they do not see the value of repetition, now that everything can be printed and put on the internet and therefore be read over and over again.”

But there is value in repeating it. For every time it is stated, every time it is stated more clearly, there is another rung of people who are able to grasp it in their identity bodies, in their mental bodies in their emotional bodies and slowly it starts that process whereby they begin to question, they begin to reconnect to something within themselves that makes them willing to recognize that they can actually know Christ, they can know truth within themselves. This is, of course, another deception of the fallen beings that has been projected by all of their structures, including the Christian religion, and it is what? It is that you, as an ordinary human being, as a sinner, you cannot know truth on your own. You can especially not know truth within yourself. Truth must come from an outer source, and it is the Christian church, or rather the fallen beings who control it.

Again, there is a truth and an error here. When you are in the consciousness of death, the consciousness of separation, truth can only come from an outer source because it cannot come from the separate self, but it can come from Christ, the Christ mind. The thing is, Christ cannot be confined to outer doctrines and rituals, not even words in a scripture. It can only come from within, in the sense that what will get you out of the consciousness of death is that you are reborn, psychologically, spiritually, but this means actually a shift in consciousness.

The process of inner rebirth

Well, how can your consciousness shift? It cannot be done as a result of an outer process. You cannot create an educational institution and all people who go through it will be guaranteed to shift their consciousness and attain the Christ consciousness. You can create mystery schools that can help people if that is the purpose of them, but you cannot even then guarantee results, because people must be willing to look within, to look at the beam in their own eye, and to shift. And this is an inner experience. It can only be an inner experience. Christ cannot do it for you, but Christ can show you that there is something outside of your separate self, the death consciousness.

If you are willing, then you can use that frame of reference to gradually shift your sense of identity, shift your beliefs, shift your feelings and then you are reborn into a higher sense of self. But it must be voluntary. It must be conscious. It must be an inner process. It cannot be any other way. And this is another lie of the Christian religion—that salvation is an outer process whereby I come as the all-powerful Son of God and take you to heaven. This is the dream of the fallen beings that they can somehow force their way, cheat their way into heaven. They can fool Christ into taking them into heaven because they have such a good appearance on earth.

Look how many Christians believe this. They live an entire lifetime believing, “Oh, I have been such a good Christian, I have been loyal to the church, I have given money to the church. I have been engaged in charity. I have gone to Mass and said prayers and lit candles and I have done all of these outer things. Surely, Jesus will meet me when I leave the body and take me to heaven.” They come up there leaving the body and they are shown that they must go back into embodiment because all of the outer things they have done have not shifted their consciousness and therefore, how can you enter the kingdom that is within you when you have not shifted your consciousness? How can you enter the kingdom that is within you through external means? It cannot be done. You see the many layers of deception created by the fallen beings and it is all of these layers of deception that are putting the Christian church on the cross, that are putting Christianity on the cross and that are putting most Christians on the cross.

I have found it important to talk about this at this occasion of Easter. And I am grateful that so many of you have been willing to tune in, so that by you hearing this live and by those who will hear or read it later, these words will be reinforced over your attention, over your four lower bodies and therefore are projected into the collective consciousness where another group of people can be freed from this hypnotic state that the fallen beings have put so many Christians in for such a long time.

It is time, it is high time, it is past time that the captives be set free, that the prodigal sons and daughters return, that the lost sheep are returned to the shepherd. For Christianity is not the shepherd. Christ is the shepherd and I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ. I AM He.

Copyright © 2023 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels, April 8, 2023. This dictation was given during the 2023 Easter webinar – Taking Christianity and yourself down from the cross.

I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ.

As I have hinted at in my previous discourse, what really keeps you fixated on the cross is your own mind. Not, of course, the Conscious You, but the separate selves that you have created as you were reacting to conditions on earth or as you descended to the 48th level of consciousness or descended below it. We might say that an image of this would be that you are not crucified on a cross made of wooden beams. Instead, you are crucified on a cross made of thin steel wires. Each wire is thin and is flexible, but because they are all bundled together, the entire structure is quite rigid and stiff and can therefore hold you fixated. As you overcome one separate self at a time, rising up to the 48th and beyond the 48th and beyond the 96th, you are pulling some of these steel wires out of the cross. And therefore, after some time, the cross that you are hanging on becomes more flexible, more soft, less rigid. It becomes bendable and gives you some freedom of movement.

You can say that as you walk the path, you are gradually taking yourself down from the cross. And in a sense, you can say you will be on a cross until you reach the 144th level and overcome the last illusion. However, this does not mean that you have to be fixated on the cross for the rest of your time in embodiment, for it is possible to step down from the cross at earlier stages. I am not saying you can do this at the 48th level or even at the 96th level, but as you go above the 96th level, you can certainly take yourself down from the cross at any time. Even between the 48th and the 96th level, you can seek to consciously make a switch that will make your personal cross less rigid. In a sense, what we have attempted to give you with the teachings about the Conscious You is a method for taking yourself down from the cross. But this cannot be done intellectually. It can only be done experientially.

Experiencing Christ on the path to self-mastery

Now, I know that there are some students that have studied the teachings about the Conscious You, you have accepted these teachings and you understand and grasp them intellectually. But what is the essence of the teachings about the Conscious You? It is that the Conscious You is not the outer self, the separate selves. The Conscious You creates a self as a pair of colored glasses, it steps into the self and experiences the world through the glasses. But it does not become the self, which means that the Conscious You has the ability to step outside, if only in a glimpse, and experience itself from outside the separate selves. This is what I, in my previous discourse, said is the potential all people have that no matter how trapped you are in the duality consciousness, you can never lose the ability to recognize Christ.

Now, when I say this, I, of course, use a specific terminology common to the Christian religion. But really, how do you then recognize Christ when you are still in this state of illusion in the consciousness of death? Only by the Conscious You stepping outside of your normal state of consciousness, your normal sense of self. Your separate selves are created out of the consciousness of separation, which is the consciousness of antichrist.

Well, antichrist cannot recognize Christ. Antichrist can see Christ as a mental image, as a concept. And this is why if you have the experience that you recognize Christ, and then as Peter did, you superimpose a mental image upon Christ, this is done through the separate selves. In other words, the Conscious You can step outside of your separate selves, experience Christ, but you can only stay there for a moment, then you go back into the separate selves, and now you start superimposing the images and beliefs of the separate selves upon the experience you had from outside the separate selves. And this is why people can go back and forth, experience Christ, superimpose an image, experience Christ again, superimpose another image, and it can keep going like that for a long time. In fact, you can do this until you reach the 96th level, and if you do not pass the initiation at the 96th level, where you let go of your graven images, then you will continue to impose an image, and you will make that image more and more sophisticated until you go towards the lower levels of consciousness, where you are absolutely convinced that your image is an absolute truth.

Even between the 48th and the 96th level, you are going back and forth. You have some glimpses, and then you superimpose an image. Of course, many people below the 48th level can have an experience of Christ, but as soon as they go back into their normal state of awareness, they superimpose an image that makes it difficult for them to have another experience. Now, what can be more difficult to grasp here is that even when you are above the 48th level, even if you know about ascended masters, even if you have these teachings about the Conscious You, it is still possible to understand these teachings intellectually, but you have not actually had the conscious experience of being outside your normal state of mind.

This can be a bit tricky to understand, and this is where words have some limitations. Can you rise to the 48th level without having an encounter with Christ? You can say you cannot. You must experience that there is something beyond your present opinions, your present view of the world, and you must be willing to change your view of the world in order to rise to the 48th level. But you may not have a conscious experience or grasp of what that means. In other words, you can also say that the encounter with Christ is so brief that it does not quite register in the conscious mind. You register there was some shift, you saw something you did not see before, but you are not really aware of yourself as the Conscious You that has stepped outside your four lower bodies, your normal state of mind.

Studying the Conscious You from a distance

You can understand intellectually that we have explained that the Conscious You is pure awareness. You can understand intellectually what it means to step outside of your normal sense of self because you also understand intellectually that you have these selves that color your perception. But it is a different experience when you consciously realize that you have stepped outside your normal state of awareness. And be careful to consider what that means. What is it that happens when you study a spiritual teaching and you formulate a mental image based on the teaching?

Well, whenever you formulate a mental image of anything, and it can be a spiritual teaching, or it can be a rock or a mountain in the distance, you are looking at it from a distance. You are a subject perceiving an object that you see as distinct from yourself. When you get the teaching we have given through this messenger, that you have all these separate selves that color your perception, but that you also have a Conscious You that is not the separate selves, that the core of your identity is the Conscious You, that the Conscious You can step outside of the selves, what can you do? Well, you can formulate an intellectual understanding and mental image of this. What is it that happens here? Well, you are experiencing yourself as a subject who is studying an object, and the object becomes or is the Conscious You. You as a subject are studying the Conscious You as an object, you are understanding it, you are formulating a mental image of it. But what does this mean?

It means you are looking at the Conscious You from a distance. You are studying an object. We tell you that the Conscious You can step outside of your normal state of awareness, but what can you do? You can use your normal state of awareness to create a mental image of what it means to step outside your normal state of awareness. You can formulate a mental image of what it is like to be outside your normal state of awareness. You can hear us say that the Conscious You is pure awareness, but to you this is just a concept, so you formulate a mental image of what pure awareness means, and you might try to use this concept of pure awareness to experience pure awareness. But you see, this cannot be done. This cannot be done. Why? Because the Conscious You is not an object that you, the subject, can study. As long as you think the Conscious You is an object remote from yourself that you are studying from a distance, you cannot experience the Conscious You. You cannot step outside of your normal state of awareness because in your normal state of awareness you see yourself as a subject studying objects or ideas.

Experiencing yourself as the Conscious You

What is it that needs to happen in order for the Conscious You to step outside your normal state of awareness? Well, you have to have what some of my early followers and other mystics have called Gnosis. What is Gnosis? It is that the separation, the barrier between subject and object, breaks down. What have I just said? You are studying our teaching about the Conscious You. But who is studying the teaching? Who is deciding: “I will study this abstract teaching”? It is the Conscious You. Now, it may be looking at the teaching through the filter of one or several of these separate selves, but it is the Conscious You. In a sense we can say that the Conscious You is studying itself. But as long as the Conscious You is studying itself, it cannot experience itself. What needs to happen is that this illusion that you are a subject studying an object has to break down. You have to switch out of it so that instead of the Conscious You looking at itself from a distance, there is no longer any distance.

You are experiencing yourself as the Conscious You, not as a concept, not as a mental image, not as some intellectual understanding. There are various meditation methods that have been developed over time going all the way back to ancient times for helping people achieve this. The koans known from Buddhism is one way to confuse the outer mind so you switch out of it and experience something else. There are various methods for this. They all have a certain validity, a certain use, but there is not one method that is a guaranteed automatic way for you to step outside of this.

Neutralizing your analytical mind

I will give you, and we have given you methods over time, but I will give you a simple one. We have given you the image that you live in a material world, above it is the spiritual realm, but even the spiritual realm is not one whole, there is a progression of different vibrations leading through the previous spheres that have now ascended all the way up to the Creator. We have given you the image that your world of form started with your Creator.

But now consider a simple question. Where did your Creator come from? Well, we have given you some images there that the Creator evolved in another world of form and that, that world of form even came out of something called the Allness. But consider this, what came before your Creator? Where did your Creator come from? What was before? What created God? Well, another God, but what created the first God? Where was the first God? Where did the first God come from?

And just think about this question with your analytical mind and you will see that there comes a point where the analytical mind is paralyzed, it stops, it does not know what to do. Because the analytical mind, the linear mind, is very attached to this idea that everything must have had a beginning. If the Creator created your world, what created the Creator? If there is creation, there must have been something that created the first creation, but what would that something be? It is sort of a cosmic version of the old question, what came first, the chicken or the egg? And you can even use this metaphor, where did the first chicken come from? Well, it must have come out of an egg because that is where chickens come from. But wait a minute, before the first chicken, there were no chickens. Who laid the first egg? Well a chicken, but there were no chickens because this was the first egg. Where did that come from? And you can create these kinds of paradoxes and by contemplating them, you might be able to switch out of this linear mindset that keeps you trapped in thinking about something as an object, thereby seeing yourself as a subject.

Taking Conscious You down from the cross

We might say, what is it that keeps you on your personal cross? Well, who is the you that is on your personal cross? Is it the Conscious You? No, the Conscious You is pure awareness. The Conscious You has no form. How are you going to take something formless and find a hand that you can hammer a nail through or a leg that you can hammer a nail through? How will you do that to something formless? The formless cannot be on the cross. It can only be the selves that are on the cross. And until you reach the 144th level, you will have selves and they will be on the cross. But it does not mean that Conscious You has to be on the cross until you reach the 144th level.

But in order to avoid experiencing itself as being on the cross, you have to stop seeing yourself as a subject studying objects. The Conscious You cannot actually study itself as an object. It can only see itself as an object for study through a separate self. And that is why as long as you are looking through that separate self, you cannot experience yourself as the conscious self. You cannot step outside the self. What can help you? Well, all of the teachings we have given on the separate selves and the Conscious You will help you. You can say that as you walk the path, there will come this point where the Conscious You is no longer so identified with these selves that you can begin to step outside of the selves and experience, glimpses in the beginning, of pure awareness that can then become more frequent until you can have this underlying sense that you know you are not the selves, you are not identified with the selves. You can see that in your container self, in your four lower bodies, you still have selves and you cannot resolve them all at once. You focus on one at a time.

You are at a certain level of the path, say the 108th level. You focus on the self at that level, overcome it and rise to the 109th where you look at the next self and so forth. But you can overcome the identification [with selves] where you see yourself, experience yourself as the Conscious You and you realize these selves are not who you are. You are not identified with them. You still have them, you understand, but you are not identified with them. It is as if you are wearing colored glasses over your eyes and they are coloring everything you see. But now you take the glasses off with your hand and you hold them at a distance. The glasses are still there. They are coloring what you see, but they are not coloring everything because you see that there is something outside the glasses that are not colored by the glasses.

This is what will naturally happen as you walk the path and rise above the 96th level. But what can you do in the meantime? Well, you can come to a conscious decision ultimately, but in the beginning an understanding. And it is the understanding, it can be expressed in different ways, but let me refer to one of my statements. “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” You can decide that it is important to you to follow Christ or to follow the spiritual path or to follow your higher self or your ascended teachers, whomever you see as your teacher. It is more important to follow the teacher than anything else.

The ego: the ultimate control freak

But what is it you then have to start looking at? You have to start looking at: what is the essence of the separate selves? What is the essence of what we used to call the ego? It is that it wants to control everything. The selves below the 48th level, what most people and most spiritual teachings call the ego, are control freaks. The ego is the ultimate control freak. It creates a mental image of seeing itself as a subject, studying, for example, a spiritual teaching, and now it needs to elevate this to some ultimate status: This is an absolute truth, this is the highest spiritual teaching on the planet, whatever it may be. And this is done for one reason only, control. The ego needs to feel it is in control. We have talked about the duality consciousness. It can feel control by elevating one dualistic polarity to the status of infallibility, thereby denying the validity of the opposite polarity. But there is always tension. Your ego is in constant tension because it always wants to be in control, it has to be right.

What is most important to you?

And you can come to see this consciously. You can come to recognize that you have this need to be in control, to feel that you are right. And then you can, as you contemplate this compared to our teachings, you can come to the point where you can make that decision: What is most important to me? To be right or to follow Christ? To be right among men, to be right in my own mind or to follow Christ? Is it more important to me to be right according to the definition of my separate selves and the ego or to discover what is the higher view of Christ?

And of course, the primary way for you to see this control aspect of the ego is to look at what the Buddha called attachments. Are you attached to your opinions, your beliefs? You have a concept in Zen Buddhism: “I clutch my ideas.” Well, this is what the scribes and the Pharisees did. This is what Peter did. This is why he could recognize me, but he could never really follow me because he always had to be right in his mind. And there are Gospels, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, for example, where you see that he was often in conflict with the other disciples because he had this need to feel he was right. If you see this pattern in yourself, then you know you have this, you have not overcome this self for whom control is so important. And you can then start working on it using the tools we have for exposing selves. You can make calls on it, and you can eventually come to a point where you can decide that this is no longer as important as following Christ.

What is that to thee? Follow thou me

Now, you can see when you look at the situation over these past three years, you can see that there are people who had followed the spiritual path for many years. They had followed ascended masters for many years. They had even followed the teachings we have given through this messenger for many years. But then suddenly comes a situation where they become very, very attached to being right about a specific condition in the world. It could be the United States election. It could be wearing a mask or getting vaccinated. It could be the war in Ukraine. It could be any number of other things. But you see that even a person who has followed the path for quite some time can suddenly find itself being very, very attached to being right about a particular issue in the world.

And you can even see it to the point where these people launch a campaign to prove other people wrong. Even some prove the messenger wrong, or even some that step back and say: “Oh, Kim got it wrong on this issue. We know better. We are his older brothers holding the balance for him until he sees what we see.” But what they forget is that I am standing there, I, the Ascended Master Jesus Christ, I am standing there saying: “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” Is it really more important for you to be right about this condition in the world than to follow Christ? And some of these students will say: “But I am following Christ; that is why I have this opinion.”

Get thee behind me, Satan

And that is where they are wrong. And I need to use the strong word wrong, because you are wrong. You are in fact in the Peter consciousness. And you deserve to hear the same words that I said to Peter: “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Because you are trying to pull me into agreeing with your worldly opinions. Well, my beloved, there is absolutely no worldly opinion or condition that is an absolute truth. There is absolutely no worldly opinion or condition that is more important than you following Christ. And what is it that Christ wants? Well, what did I say in my previous discourse when I talked about the Christians? And some of you were sitting there hearing this and thinking: “Yeah, the Christians do not see this, but we, of course, understand it.” But some of you do not understand it. You have not grasped it. Christ always comes to disturb you. Christ always comes to disturb your sense of being in control because that is the only way you can grow. As long as your ego thinks it is in control and you have the highest possible view of something in the world, you cannot grow. You are not walking the path of Christ. Because what is the path of Christ? It is to free yourself from all of the opinions of the world, all of the opinions of men. The scribes and the Pharisees thought they knew everything, and I had nothing to teach them or help them with, because their egos had this obsessive-compulsive need to be in control. They could refute anything I said because their egos had the overarching view: “I cannot be wrong. It does not matter what anybody says, I cannot be wrong.” And this is fine.

You may see yourself as an ascended master student, and you may be absolutely convinced that “I am right about Trump, I am right about Russia, I am right about vaccines.” But my beloved, I can only react in one way. He who denies me before men, him must I deny before the Father. You are not ready to enter the kingdom. Why not? Because you are attached to some opinion on earth. But in the kingdom of God, none of the opinions on earth matter. What have we said over and over and over again? How do you ascend? By overcoming all attachments to anything on earth. It all has to go. All of the ghosts have to go until you can give up that last ghost. And when you are standing there at the 144th level, you have to look back at earth. In fact, you have to do this at every level above the 96th level especially. You have to look at earth and say: “Is there anything I am attached to? Is there anything that is unfinished? Anything that I want to experience? Anything I want to do? Anything I want to prove right?”

And if there is, you are not ready to take the next step and you are certainly not ready to ascend. What did I say in my previous discourse? When I, who was at a very high level of consciousness back then 2000 years ago, towards the end of my mission, when I was hanging on the cross, I still had a ghost that I had to give up. By the fact that you are in a physical body, you still have something to give up. And how can you give up that to which you are attached? Why did I say: “He who seeks to save his life shall lose it?” Well, he who seeks to save his opinions, his viewpoints, his sense of being right, more right than Christ, will lose his life because you cannot enter and you will stay in a consciousness of death and you cannot enter the kingdom of life. You cannot be reborn in Christ because you are holding on to that old sense of identity.

Using a spiritual teaching to be right

This messenger, as most of you know, has recently recorded all of these YouTube videos and he actually describes in one of these videos how he, just a few days ago, came to an important breakthrough on the path. And it relates to this topic that he had observed from his earliest forays on the spiritual path and up through the present, that there are some people who are spiritual students, they study a spiritual teaching, they are often very eager to practice the practices, but they are still trapped, their minds are closed, they are still stuck, there is something they cannot get beyond. And it is precisely this, the need to feel that you are right, so your ego can feel it is in control.

And the messenger had a breakthrough where he saw that what he had not connected to was that, we have talked about the world being a reality simulator where you can have an immersion experience and an awakening experience. And he thought that in order to discover the spiritual path and follow it, you would have to be in the awakening phase, you could not be in the immersion phase still. But you see, what is the characteristic of the immersion phase? It is that you take some criteria here on earth and you use that, you use an ideology, a religion, a spiritual teaching, to build up your sense that you are superior to other people. He explains how this is a compensation game, which I will not go into here, but you build up the sense that you are superior to other people, but how can you build the sense that you are superior to other people? Only when you see yourself as a separate being, because only a separate being can be superior. But when you are on a path of oneness, you have less and less need to feel superior until it drops away completely.

It is quite possible that you can be in this frame of mind, and you can find a spiritual teaching, and you can have the idea, which many, many spiritual and religious people have, that the purpose of a spiritual teaching is to perfect your soul as many people see it, but even yourself. And therefore, you think that the more sophisticated you make yourself, the closer it is to being able to enter heaven.

But what have we said? Between the 48th and the 96th level, you are pulling yourself above the mass consciousness. As a result of this, you have to build a self that sees itself as different from the mass consciousness. But then at the 96th level comes the crucial initiation. Will you now be willing to let that self die, at least die gradually, to dismantle it in order to go higher? And if you are not willing, you go into this state of mind of becoming one of these disciples that are using a spiritual teaching, which is meant to help them come closer to oneness, to actually go deeper and deeper into separation, setting themselves up as being more and more sophisticated, because they are right, and they have this viewpoint, and they know even better than all of these people, or they know better than the messenger.

What the messenger realized was that he had not grasped this, he had not put this together, because he was hoping that it would not be possible to walk the spiritual path and not grasp this. He was hoping that all people who would take these teachings we have given would get it, that they would break through and see this. But it is not the case. It is not the case as Peter proved. He claimed to be one of my disciples. He followed me for the three years of my outer mission. He claimed to even go around and propagate the Christian teachings after my ascension. But at the very last moment when he was facing crucifixion in Rome, he insisted on being crucified upside down because he was not worthy to be crucified the same way as Christ. And what does it show you? Well, when you are crucified upside down, what direction does your head point in? It points towards the earth. When you are crucified as I was, where is your head pointing? Towards the heavens.

What is better if you want to enter the kingdom? He wanted to stay with earth and he is still in embodiment, still convinced that he is right. I should say she, but nevertheless. How do you take yourself down from the cross? By coming to see this self that has an obsessive, compulsive need to be in control by always being right and then deciding: “I do not care about being right. I do not care about being right among men. I do not care about proving an outer opinion right. I care about following Christ. What is that to me? I will follow thee.”

It is a matter of surrender

This is how you can come to the point where now the Conscious You can switch out of the control self and experience itself as pure awareness. And you can become aware that this is who you are. You see what I have been saying. You can take the common concept, especially in the western world, that if you have a goal you want to achieve, you need to do something. You need to make an effort. You need to find some kind of secret way or technique for achieving it. But as long as the Conscious You is inside a separate self, there is nothing you can do to get out of there, to experience yourself as pure awareness. Because experiencing yourself as pure awareness is not a matter of doing. It is a matter of undoing. It is a matter of surrender. You are surrendering into the experience. But people who are in this state of having this obsessive-compulsive need to be in control, to be right, they cannot surrender.

You cannot look at a situation where you have a strong opinion and somebody else has the opposite opinion, and you cannot just look at it and say: “I will surrender it. I will let it go. I am not going to argue. I am not going to try and convince the other person. I am not going to try and seem right. I will just surrender. And I will look to Christ and say to Christ, help me take this step. Help me take the next step. Help me see what it is I am attached to and let it go”.

You cannot do that if you are attached to being right, because then being in control is more important than following Christ. Now you may, as Peter did, create a mental image of what it means to follow Christ, so that you think that because you are so right in how you are looking at it, you are still following Christ. And therefore, you think, as Peter did, you see the situation. What did Peter think when he said: “Be it far from thee, Lord”. He thought he knew better than the Living Christ. He thought he knew better than the teacher. And that is why I rebuked him as strongly as I could think of —“Get thee behind me, Satan” — in an attempt to shake him out of that state of mind. Did it work? No. Has it worked in the past 2,000 years? No. Will it ever work? Well, we will just have to see.

Will we also have to see about you? Or will you finally shift so you are consciously willing to look at this mechanism, which everybody has. The messenger had it. It took him many years to be willing to look at it, but he was willing to look at it. Others have done the same. They have looked at it, and then you can start separating yourself from it. As long as you are not willing, you will remain stuck.

The natural state of the Conscious You

I propose to you this. Of course, I am describing a more extreme situation here. And I am not thereby saying to you that all of you have this very strong, obsessive-compulsive need to be right. But what I am proposing is this. If you find yourself looking at these teachings about the Conscious You and pure awareness and thinking: ”But I have not really experienced it”, then I suggest to you that you consider that you have some kind of self that has a need to be in control, that has a need to be right. And therefore, there is something you cannot surrender. You cannot just let it go.

Why am I saying this? Because what have we said over and over again? The Conscious You is; The Conscious You is pure awareness. The natural state for the Conscious You is to either experience itself as pure awareness or at least experience that it is outside of all of these outer opinions and selves. The natural state is that the Conscious You is not wearing the glasses right over its eyes, but has them at a distance. That is the natural state.

There are even teachings in the Vedas that talk about the two types of Samadhi. There is Samadhi without an object and there is Samadhi with an object. Well, Samadhi without an object is when the Conscious You experiences itself as pure awareness. There are no objects in consciousness, no thoughts, no feelings. You are not aware of the outer world. But the other state is Samadhi with an awareness of objects, which means that you can now experience the world, experience your daily life, but you are not inside of it. You are not identified with it. You know you are just experiencing this. It is just an experience that you have from a distance. It can sound contradictory because I said that when you are in a separate self, you see yourself as a subject that is experiencing an object at a distance. And now I am saying that the natural state for the Conscious You is to experience the world from a distance. But the difference is that when you are inside the self, you are inside the world. But here you are outside, you do not even see yourself as a subject experiencing objects. You are just experiencing the world and you do not have these strong opinions. You do not have this need to be in control, to prove yourself right, to prove other people wrong. You are not identified with it. Even your own life, even your own psychology, you are not identified with it. It is sort of happening at a certain surface level of awareness, but you are always aware that there is a deeper level where you are at peace.

And this is the state that you can come to. And you can come to it before you reach the 96th level because it is really a matter of switching out of this identification with the outer selves. It is more difficult above the 48th level, but it can still be done. But certainly as you go above the 96th level, it is more easy to consciously make that switch. And it is a conscious switch. You can even say that it is not an automatic thing. You can go above the 96th level and it does not mean that there comes a point where you can say: “Oh, now you are guaranteed to make the switch.”

The prince of this world cometh and has nothing in you

You have to recognize—you do not have to recognize, but it is helpful to recognize—that there is a difference between what we call a self and then the way you look at life. In other words, you can be in physical embodiment and you are completely inside of and identified with all of these selves. You are seeing everything, including yourself, through the coloring of these selves. But it is also possible for the Conscious You to be in embodiment. You have the selves. And in certain situations, you might go into a self and it colors your view of the situation. But in the background, you know you are not the selves. There is a backdrop of pure awareness of an inner sense of peace, detachment, and everything else is just in the foreground. Sometimes you are more focused on the foreground, but you can always go back and realize you are more. And this is, of course, the experience I would like all of you who have followed these and applied them to have, because it makes life much easier.

You are not so attached to things. It does not matter so much to you whether your spouse does this or your spouse does that, or somebody at work says this, or you read something in the paper. It is like you can look at everything more neutrally. It does not pull you in. And therefore, you are in this state that I talked about, “The prince of this world cometh and has nothing in me.”

This has been my effort, at least for now, to help you take yourself down from the cross. Words are only words until you transcend the word and have an experience. May you be willing to transcend the word and have the experience of Christ. For I am constantly in that experience of Christ, and I am willing to share it with anyone and everyone. I could, in this very instant, share the experience of Christ with every human being on earth. But I would be very gratified if I could share it with even a few hundred ascended master students. May you be willing to let go of everything that stands in the way of you experiencing yourself as you are—experiencing yourself as I see you from the mind of Christ and not as the separate selves see you from the mind of antichrist.

What greater wish could I have at this time of Easter than to see the students who are willing to recognize me as an ascended master, escape the cross and be resurrected into a higher experience of self.

Copyright © 2023 Kim Michaels

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Ascended Master Jesus Christ through Kim Michaels, April 8, 2023. This dictation was given during the 2023 Easter webinar – Taking Christianity and yourself down from the cross.

I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ. What would be the reaction of most Christians if they heard that statement? They would say: “There is no mention of ascended masters in the Bible, therefore this cannot be the real Jesus.” What does this mean? Consider what I could say that Christians would accept. They would not even accept my name, my title, my present function in the cosmic hierarchy of God. Then what else could they possibly accept that I, the Ascended Jesus, could say? Did I not say two thousand years ago: “I will be with you always”? How could I be with you if you are not open to my Presence, or anything I could say through a human messenger or in other ways bring forth?

The shift from death to life

Consider those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Consider how often I said this when I walked the earth in a physical body. Those who have ears to hear had better hear. Do Christians today have ears to hear the Living Christ, the Ascended Christ? Do they have ears to hear? Most Christians think they would recognize me if I appeared in some way in this world. But consider a fact that anyone can read in the scriptures. Two thousand years ago when I appeared in a physical body, the vast majority of people, even those who met me in the flesh, did not recognize me as being anything special, certainly not as being the Messiah that many of the Jews were waiting for. Consider therefore how many of those who call themselves Christians today would recognize me when I appear in some tangible form. They would say: “This does not conform to our scriptures, our literal interpretation of them, our doctrines, our dogmas, our expectations. Therefore, it cannot be the Living Christ.”

Well, what was it that prevented people from recognizing the Living Christ two thousand years ago? It was that they were in the death consciousness. What is it that prevents most Christians from recognizing the Living Christ today? They are in the death consciousness. Why were people in the death consciousness back then? Because the Jewish religion said: “You, as a human being, cannot reach God or Spirit without going through the hierarchy of the outer religion.” But do most Christian churches say today: “You, as a human being, cannot reach God, Christ or Spirit without going through the outer religion and its hierarchy of priests”? Is it not the same claim? Is it not the same consciousness? And what is that consciousness? The consciousness of death.

Why is it so? Because where did I say the kingdom is to be found? Not through observation of the outer churches and rituals, for the kingdom of God is within you. If the kingdom of God is within you, and I did not say it was only in the priests or the pope or the cardinals, I said it is within you, meaning every human being. Then does it not stand to reason that you do not need an outer church to reach the kingdom that is within you? There is no outer ritual you can follow that will guarantee your entry into the kingdom. Why not? Because the kingdom of God that is within you is a state of consciousness, the state of consciousness that is in contrast to the consciousness of death.

It is the consciousness of life whereby you are reborn in Christ. You take in the body and blood of Christ, which is not an outer ritual. Somehow the bread and the wine is transformed into the body of Christ. It is an inner ritual whereby you absorb the spirit of Christ, the consciousness of Christ, and that is what transforms you so that you are reborn into life. This does not happen all at once; it is a process. It is a process that takes time. It has many stages.

The Living Christ vs. the mental image of Christ

The death consciousness was promoted by the Jewish religion at the time. The death consciousness is promoted by most Christian churches today. This is what most Christians would not even be willing to consider. They do not have ears to hear the Living Christ who always appears in some unexpected form. Consider how many among the Jews did not recognize me 2,000 years ago, why did they not recognize me? Because based on the doctrines and rituals and teachings of their religion they had formed an expectation of how the Messiah should appear, what he should do. Look at the scriptures and see how I said about the scribes and Pharisees and other people, why they rejected me because of this or that outer thing.

And today what have Christians done? They have taken my own words, the scriptures that were written down that were clearly incomplete, but they have still created this mental image of doctrines and rituals and expectations of how the Living Christ should appear in this world if he were to appear. And it would be impossible for me to live up to the expectations of most Christians. Why? What did I come to do 2,000 years ago? To demonstrate to people that there is a different state of consciousness than the one they are trapped in, that there is a consciousness that is not the consciousness of death but the consciousness of life. How could I demonstrate this to people if my appearance lived up to the expectations based on the consciousness of death? How could I then demonstrate to them that there is a state of consciousness beyond death, a state of consciousness that is life? And it is exactly the same dynamic today with Christians. They are as trapped now as the Jews were 2,000 years ago, and for that matter the Jews still are.

The first challenge of Christ

But should that be the concern of Christians? Nay. Why are you looking at the splinter in the eye of your brother instead of looking at the beam in your own eye, in your own religion? This is Easter. What is it they always hear about Easter? The Easter story. What is a story? Look it up in the dictionary. It is a narrative designed to interest, entertain or educate the audience. It can be fictional or it can be based on fact or a true story, but it is still in the way it is told designed to create some change in the minds of the audience. What is the Easter story? It is a story. Is it meant to be an absolutely factual account of actual factual events? Or is it meant to have an impact on the consciousness of the audience?

What then was my entire mission for those three years designed to do? To have an impact on the consciousness of the audience, to help them shift from the consciousness of death to the consciousness of life. This is no more clearly demonstrated, that in the account of how I first say to Peter that I will give him the keys to the kingdom because he is the rock upon which I will build my church, and then just a few passages later say to him: “Get thee behind me Satan.” Why is Christ the open door that no man can shut? Because all people have the opportunity, the ability, to recognize an appearance of the Living Christ as being something beyond their own state of mind. Peter had that ability. There was nothing special about Peter having that ability. All people have it. I am the open door which no man can shut. You can ignore it, you can deny it, you can refuse to walk through it, you can refuse to look through it, you can even refuse to look through the keyhole but you cannot shut the door permanently.

The consciousness of Satan

The Living Christ can come and the Living Christ can disturb you and the Living Christ has a right to disturb you. And Peter was willing to be somewhat disturbed. He was willing to follow me and be one of my disciples but he was not willing to be disturbed enough to make the shift from death unto life. And that is why when I began to tell my disciples that I would go to Jerusalem and go through what is now known as the Easter story, he objected: “Be it far from thee Lord, this shall not happen to you.” And my response: “Get thee behind me Satan.” Why? Because he was the representative of the consciousness of Satan, the consciousness of death, which is that after you have recognized the Living Christ as something beyond your own state of consciousness, you refuse to let Christ take you beyond your current state of consciousness. That you use your own state of consciousness to project a mental image of Christ demanding that Spirit should conform to the image you have created out of matter.  That Spirit, who is the Living Spirit, should conform to the dead image springing from the consciousness of Satan, the death consciousness.

This is the dynamic that virtually no Christian minister has grasped for 2,000 years and certainly very few if any have preached from the pulpit. Why have they not grasped this? Because when the Catholic Church was formed, they institutionalized the Peter consciousness and they turned Christianity from a living religion into a dead religion, as the Jewish religion that had me killed. The Jewish religion killed Christ physically. The Catholic Church killed Christ psychologically in people’s minds. The killing of Christ had two aspects, the physical killing of the outer body and then the killing of my example that all people who believed on me could do the works that I did. Meaning they could walk the path that I walked until I had permanently attained the Christ consciousness and therefore, were living spirits in embodiment, Living Christs in embodiment.

The meaning of the cross

What happened in those 381 years from my birth to the birth of the Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church? What happened was that when the Catholic Church was formed Christianity as a religion was crucified, and Christianity has been hanging on the cross since the year 381. I said everything is a symbol. Everything I did, everything I said has a deeper meaning. This is certainly scriptural if you consider that even the Bible says that Jesus taught the multitude in parables and expounded all things to his disciples. Clearly there are layers of understanding of the message of Christ. And how will you grasp it? Not through the intellectual mind as the scribes and Pharisees interpreted old doctrines and used them against me. You will grasp them through the Spirit, through the Holy Spirit, through the Comforter that God would send in my name and has sent in my name. I have upheld my promise, my end of the bargain. God has upheld his end of the bargain. How many human beings have upheld their end of the bargain and been willing to let the Comforter expound to them the mysteries that are hidden behind the outer symbols?

What is the cross? Well, the cross of course is a symbol, a symbol for what? Well, you cannot understand this unless you understand, and it might be helped by the discoveries of modern science, that everything is energy and energy has different levels so you can grasp that there is not simply the physical world here, heaven up there and hell down there. There is a spectrum of vibrations and above the physical material is the emotional realm corresponding to your own emotions. Then above that is the mental and above that is the identity realm and then above that is the spiritual. When you grasp this you see there are four levels of the material world. There are four levels of the mind, the human mind.

The cross symbolizes these four as you saw in the old teachings, mystical teachings about fire, earth, water and air, the four elements. The cross has a vertical beam. One end is anchored in the earth, obviously representing the earth, the material world, the physical world. The upper end of the vertical beam represents the identity level, the identity mind. Then the right is the mental, the left is the emotional as seen from a person who is hanging on the cross opposite when you are facing the cross.

What does it mean to be crucified? It means that you are fixated. When your physical body is nailed to a cross and a cross is hoisted up, you are fixated. You cannot move. You cannot get down by your own power. What does this mean? What is it a symbol of? It is a symbol of the fact that when people are in the death consciousness, they are crucified in their own minds. They are fixated in their own minds. They cannot move beyond certain boundaries. And it is because they have certain beliefs and images in the physical mind, certain feeling patterns in the emotional mind, certain thought patterns in the mental, and even at the identity level they have a certain fixed sense of who they are. They see themselves as mortal human beings who are sinners by nature and therefore they cannot overcome their state of sin, the consciousness of death.

What do you see even outplayed in the physical crucifixion? I could not take my body down from the cross. When you are hanging on the cross, there is no way you can move one hand to pull out the nail in the other hand or pull out the nail in your feet. You cannot physically take yourself down from the cross. How did I escape the cross? By giving up the spirit, by giving up the ghost. What is the ghost? It is your worldly sense of identity, your mortal sense of identity in your physical, emotional, mental and identity bodies or minds. The way you see yourself, the way you see God, the way you see your relationship to God, see the world and your relationship to the world.  It is these inner images that you have that crucify you. There is no external force that crucifies you. That is why when people focus on the crucifixion as they so often do around Easter, they miss the point. They miss the symbol of the story.

The mission of Jesus

Look at Christian churches today. How many of them have an image or a painting or a sculpture of the resurrected Christ or the ascended Christ? Some do, but the vast majority of them, what image of Christ do they have? Christ on the cross with nails in his arms and legs, a wound in his side and the blood running down. What are people indoctrinated with when they come into a Christian church? That the most important aspect of the life of Jesus Christ was that he was nailed to two sticks of wood and hung there for a few hours. Those few hours on the cross have overshadowed anything I said or did in the three full years of my mission and even in my entire life. They have been so focused on my suffering on the cross that they forget that I did not come to suffer. I did not come to show people how to suffer. Why would that be necessary when people already know what it is to suffer? I came to show them how to transcend suffering, how to be free of suffering. But how do you become free of suffering? What is it that causes you to suffer?

It is that you are experiencing life through the structures in your own mind. The ghost in your own mind, the mental images in your mind. And how do you become free of it? Not by some magic, but by you giving up the ghost, consciously giving up the ghost. That is the only way to be free. You may say, “Well Jesus could not free himself from the cross, he had to be taken down from the cross.” No, Jesus’ body could not free itself from the cross. It had to be taken down from the cross but Jesus was not the body. That is the whole point of my example. I am more than the body. You can kill the body, but you cannot kill the Spirit. How did I escape from the cross? By letting the ghost die souI returned to a state of pure spirit and that is the potential that all people have. And that is the only way that you will get into the kingdom of God that is within you, by letting the outer ghost die, the outer sense of self.

The role of Christ

Now comes the subtle part, for nothing is as straightforward as the outer mind wants it to be. You can let the ghost die, but you cannot do it alone. I am not, by what I have said so far, saying that you do not need Christ in order to enter the kingdom. You do need Christ, but what is Christ? Christ is more than any person. Christ is a universal state of consciousness. Christ is the only begotten son of God, because when God gave human beings free will, he knew they had the potential to use that free will to eat of the forbidden fruit, to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and therefore enter into the death consciousness, which is a state of mind where you think you can define reality. You even think you can define what God is like, which is why human beings have created gods in their own image and after their own likeness.

God knew this, God foresaw what could happen and therefore the only begotten Son of God is the Christ consciousness, which is the open door that no man can shut. Because no matter how deeply you go into the consciousness of death, no matter how elaborate the mental images you create, you can never lose the ability to step outside your own mind if only for a split second, and make contact with a greater mind that is beyond the outer mind that you identify yourself with. This is what happened to Paul on the road to Damascus. The scales fell from his eyes. He was able to step outside of the ghost that he had identified himself with, therefore make direct contact with the Christ mind, and through that he was converted.

Now Peter had that experience as well, but the contrast between Paul and Peter was that Paul was willing to fundamentally change his lifestyle to stop persecuting Christians and become one of my Evangelists, whereas Peter was not willing to do this evidenced by the fact that he denied me three times after my arrest. Evidenced by the fact that even when he was crucified in Rome, he insisted on being crucified upside down because he was not worthy in his own mind to do the works that I did. No, the outer mind is not worthy, so how can you say about yourself that you are not worthy? Only when you are still identified with the outer mind because you have not been willing to step out of it like Paul was, and some of the other disciples were. And as some people have been willing to do in the two thousand years, even some who were priests or ministers or monks or nuns, often called the Christian mystics.

The Catholic Church and the Peter consciousness

Some people have grasped the reality I have just explained over these past two thousand years, but the vast majority of them have not, and why not? Because the Catholic Church has from its very creation promoted this false image of Christ, the Peter consciousness, the succession of Popes going back to Peter. Not that anyone can find the word Pope in the Bible, certainly I cannot. And so what do they really have to base this on? This one statement: “Thou art the rock upon which I will build my church, and I will give unto thee the kingdom, the keys to the kingdom.” This is what they base the church on, and what must they do to uphold the belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Christ and the only road to salvation? They must ignore, explain away and deny everything else I said, for so many things I said, including what I have mentioned here, contradict the claim of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church is not the rock upon which I will build my church.  The Catholic Church is, get thee behind me Satan, it is the satanic consciousness. It has been so from 325, especially from 381. And it has been so throughout its history, reaching darker and darker stages as you see, the split from the Orthodox Church, the persecution of the early Christian mystics, the concept of heretics, the inquisition, the crusades, the witch hunts, all of these things that have been done in my name but surely could not come from the mind of Christ.

The one thing that is missing, or at least the one thing that might make Christians today think a little bit was if they would just imagine, what kind of beings are in the kingdom of Heaven? And if they would then look around on earth and look at people, surely they would all point the finger to someone else but if they would even look at themselves as Christians and other Christians that they know of. You have many examples of even those who claim to be Christians who turned out to do things that were clearly abusive of others. You have the Catholic Church and the sex abuse scandals. Certain fundamentalist Christian ministers that claim to be men of God, but clearly do actions that cannot come from the consciousness of Christ.

You have all of these examples and you can ask yourself: “Is the kingdom of God populated by people like this”? So what kind of beings are inside the kingdom of God? Well, certainly not people who do the things that many people do. But where do the actions come from? They come from a state of consciousness that is the death consciousness that make people self-centered and make them self-deluded, self-deceived. They think they can get away with this. An extreme example, here is a Catholic priest during the Inquisition. He spends his day torturing people in a most insane manner imaginable. And then after a day’s work, he is tired, he is fatigued, he is worn out, so he goes into his church, he kneels before the altar, he looks up on the crucified Christ and he imagines that I, the Living ascended Christ, am looking back at him with approval. He thinks I was approving of him torturing other human beings.

How can anyone think this unless they are in a fundamentally different state of consciousness than the Christ consciousness? Because in the Christ consciousness you cannot torture or kill other people, it cannot be done. That is why when Peter cut off the ear of the soldier I put it back on. How can you torture and kill other people and even believe that this is done in the name of Christ and that Christ approves? Only when you have completely deluded yourself, and what allows you to delude yourself? The consciousness of death, the consciousness of Satan, which can elevate any illusion, any lie to being truth.

Giving up the ghost

During this Easter period, Christians in many places, Rome, Jerusalem, the Philippines, they re-enact the crucifixion. Some even allow themselves to be crucified with nails hammered through their hands and feet. Some are tied to the cross. Others walk the Stations of the Cross. And again, what is the main focus for them? The crucifixion. But what is the real significance of the Easter story? It is the resurrection, but how was Christ resurrected? Because while hanging on the cross, he gave up the ghost and it was in giving up the ghost that I was set free to rise above the consciousness of death, the consciousness of Satan, even the physical plane and that is the significance of the Easter story.

That is what people should focus on: How can I be resurrected? Oh, I must come to see my ghost and let it die, give it up so that instead of trying to fight the cross, fight the crucifixion, I just let the ghost die because I realize nobody has crucified me except myself in my own mind. I am not physically crucified. I am psychologically, spiritually crucified in my own mind and I must give up the ghost before I can be free. Why do you need Christ then? Because you cannot give up the ghost unless you experience that there is something more than the ghost. If you are completely identified with the ghost, you will think that if you give up the ghost you will die, you will disappear. There will be nothing more to your identity than the ghost and then as an act of self-preservation, psychological self-preservation, you cannot give up the ghost.

Why do you need Christ? Because Christ is the only begotten Son of God, the very level of consciousness that is meant to maintain oneness between spirit and matter, that is meant to be the open door that no man can shut because no matter how much you have deluded yourself, you can step outside of that ghost and experience that you are more. And that is why Christ comes to earth and that is also why Christ can take on many forms to appear to people in different levels of consciousness, different aspects of the death consciousness and show them simply this one thing: There is more to life than what you call life! For what you call life is actually a state of death, psychological, spiritual death. And that is why I said: “He who seeks to save his life shall lose it” because he who seeks to save this false life, this ghost-life shall lose it.

The lies behind the Catholic Church

You cannot enter the kingdom of God but he who is willing to give up his life for my sake shall find eternal life because if you are willing to give up the ghost, the outer identity, then you can be reborn and then you will not disappear, you will not die as a self-aware being, you will be reborn into a new sense of identity based on oneness with your own higher being, with your God, with the Christ mind. That is what Peter was not willing to do. That is what the Catholic Church has not been willing to do for 17 centuries. That is why if you go to Rome and look at this enormous citadel, this fortification that they have built, you can see that it is a completely false approach. It is springing from the death consciousness.

Why do you build these thick walls that can withstand even an attack from a tank? You might say it is to keep the world out. Yes, it is to keep the world out so no one can disturb their sense that they are saved but it is also to keep the Christians in so that they do not dare to look beyond the doctrines, the rituals, the dogmas and the claim that the Catholic Church will save them. And therefore they dare not question, they dare not see how nonsensical is the doctrines and the rituals, how they cannot explain their questions. They are trapped, they are crucified because they think they cannot question, they cannot go beyond because then they will not go to Heaven.

This is a lie as it was the lie when the Jewish religion made the same claim. That is why the Jewish leaders felt so threatened when I said: “The kingdom of God is within you” and when I gave my disciples the power to omit sins, they felt that their monopoly on God was threatened. But you see, no one in the physical realm has ever been given a monopoly on spirit and no one ever will. Christ, the universal Christ consciousness has a monopoly on spirit but not in the sense that you have to call it the Christ consciousness. There is a universal consciousness meant to bridge the gap between the Creator and its creation, between God and the self-aware beings that come out of God’s one mind.

The second challenge of Christ

It can be called the Christ, it can also be called the Buddhic consciousness or the Buddha nature as the Buddha called it. It can be called many other names and has been called many other names in both religious and mystical traditions. It is not the name that matters. It is the experience of that consciousness of oneness. That is what matters. If you have not had a direct experience of the consciousness of Christ, you are not a Christian. And if you have had the experience of the consciousness of Christ but you have crucified that experience through the mental images in your own consciousness as Peter did, well then you are actually worse off than if you have not even had the experience.

The consciousness of Satan is not the ignorance of Christ. The consciousness of Satan is the denial of Christ because you would rather hold on to your idol than follow the Living Christ into the kingdom. Accepting Christ or even being born again in Christ is not a one-time event. Nobody can be reborn instantly because you would lose your sense of continuity and identity. The only way to enter the kingdom is to follow a gradual path whereby you gradually overcome the illusions in the four levels of your mind and you are reborn many times over so that you never lose your sense of continuity. You are reborn into a new sense of identity but it is not such a shock that you do not know who you are. There are smaller steps on the path, there are bigger turning points but still it is not a one-time event. Paul did not instantly become elevated to a higher state on the road to Damascus. He had to walk a path that he described somewhat in a veiled form in some of his writings that really came from a specific person that had this real experience.

These are in a very concentrated form an unveiling of the symbols behind the Easter story. How many Christians would be willing to even listen to this, to read it, to study it and to consider it with a neutral state of mind? Why did I say: “Unless you become as little children you shall not in no way enter the kingdom?” What is it that children have? A neutral state of mind, an open state of mind, they are curious, they are inquisitive and they are willing to listen to the answer. They do not have a preconceived opinion about what the answer should be as you clearly saw with Peter. He had a preconceived opinion of what should and should not happen to the Christ and he would not listen to what I actually said. Most Christians are like that today. They could come across this and read it or hear it and they would find all kinds of reasons and excuses for why this cannot possibly be the Living Christ speaking through a human person.

Plausible deniability and denial of Christ

But you see, why was it that I appeared in a human form 2,000 years ago? Why didn’t I appear in the heavens in some manifestation that no one could deny? Look at how many Christians today dream about the second coming of Christ and they project these images that Christ will appear in the sky in some undeniable manifestation that no one can deny and therefore all people will wake up and realize that the Christians were right all along and they were the true followers of Christ. But why did not I do this 2,000 years ago? Because the law of free will must be outplayed. There must be the possibility that people can deny Christ. God has given people free will. God will not force your free will. Christ will not force your free will. Christ can challenge you and demonstrate that there is a higher state of consciousness but Christ cannot force you to recognize this and to be willing to follow Christ into life. You must make that decision and therefore there must be plausible deniability.

It must be possible for people to deny Christ and how do they do it? They take some of what they already know, some of their religious doctrines or their scientific materialist doctrines or their Marxist doctrines or whatever you have. And they create criteria that say that: “If this appearance really was the Living Christ he should live up to our criteria”. And this is allowed. It is allowed by the law of God which is why it was possible for people to meet me physically 2.000 years ago and not recognize me or not be willing to follow me as Peter demonstrated. And so the same today, if I were to appear in the sky in some undeniable manifestation it would be a violation of the law of God. Therefore I must appear through human beings who may speak the Word, the Living Word, who may be inspired by the Comforter or who may be trained to be a messenger and take a more direct dictation. But there are many ways that people can be the open doors for the Christ to express itself in this world but they all have the characteristic that it is possible, perhaps even easy for people to deny it and say: “Nay, this outer form does not live up to my expectations therefore it cannot be the Living Christ.”

But you see what I said, the Living Christ comes to free you from the death consciousness! If the Living Christ lives up to the expectations based on the death consciousness how can the Living Christ free you? The Living Christ must always challenge your ghosts! And those who are not willing to be challenged like the scribes and Pharisees have an easy way to deny the Living Christ and therefore the Living Christ can only say: “Those who have denied me before men then must I deny before the Father.” And this is not nearly as ominous as it says it simply means they cannot enter the Kingdom because they are not willing to let the ghost die, to give up the ghost and therefore they must remain in the outer kingdom where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. The Living Christ will never live up to the expectations based on the consciousness of death, the consciousness of antichrist, the consciousness of Satan.

Thus there is only one way to deny the Living Christ and that is through the consciousness of antichrist. And the entire spectacle you see outplayed now by the Christian churches throughout the world, whether it be this church or that church, it is all a spectacle created from the consciousness of antichrist. They claim that they believe it represents Christ. How could it? Can this be proven? Could I make a statement here that would prove this to anybody? No, and this is what I have been trying to explain here. Christ is the open door, which no man can shut. It is not possible you could be so trapped in the death consciousness that you could not experience Christ, but you can only do so if you are willing to at least momentarily question your ghost, your view of life, your mental image. If you are not willing to question, you cannot experience Christ. But even if you do have a glimpse where you experience Christ, it is still possible to use the death consciousness to deny Christ, to deny that you need to change because you have encountered Christ. And it must remain that way because the entire purpose of the earth is to give people the opportunity to experience what it is like to define their own God, to define what Christ is like, to define what they are like, to define what life is like, to define how the universe works.

The scientific materialists are using science, which was actually meant to free people’s minds from superstition, to deny Christ, but the Christians are using the Christian scriptures and their interpretations of them to deny Christ. And the Christian, not so much the scriptures, but certainly the example of Christ, was meant to free them from the consciousness of antichrist. You can say it is an irony, you can say it is a tragedy, but it really is just the consequence of the law of free will. God wants people to enter his kingdom because in God’s kingdom there is no suffering and there is no death. Those who are outside God’s kingdom do suffer, and they do go through death. God would ideally like people, all people, to enter the kingdom but God does not want to force people to enter. God wants people to do this voluntarily, and Christ comes to demonstrate that there is a way.

Freeing yourself from the cross

You may know, it is a historical fact, that my early followers were not called Christians, they were called ‘Followers of the Way’ because what I expounded to my disciples, the all things that I expounded to my disciples, was to tell them about the Way. I AM the Way, the truth and the life and this is what has been lost in Christianity starting with the Catholic Church and the Emperor Constantine’s need to create this superior religion that the Roman people would accept as being superior to the old gods and therefore he had to create this all powerful God and the one who was representing this God also had to be powerful, therefore had to be special and therefore the Catholic Church turned me into the exception instead of the example to follow. The example that all people can follow if they are willing to lose their lives, their mortal sense of identity, to give up the ghost so that they can transcend the cross.

No external force can take you down from the cross, not even Christ can take you down from the cross because Christ will not violate your free will. You are fixated on the cross because of the choices you have made, the ghosts you have created in the identity, mental, emotional and physical levels of the mind and you will not be free until you voluntarily give up the ghost. Even I, when I was hanging on the cross, had some expectations that God would send his angels to save me from dying and thereby demonstrate another miracle. But as I was hanging there I suddenly realized God will not do this because I am the one who had to give up my last ghost, my last expectation of what my mission was like. And when I was willing to look at that beam in my own eye and give it up, that is when I was free of the cross. Because I, Jesus, who was embodied 2,000 years ago was not the only son of God, was not the perfect human being, I was not free while I was still in embodiment. I still had some human expectations based on the consciousness of antichrist. Even though I had made progress on the path of Christhood it was not until I gave up that last ghost that I fully became the Christ.

Anger against Christianity

This is, of course, what Christians would again call heresy, they would say this is of the devil, so you are now using some written down scriptures, some interpretations of these scriptures to call Jesus Christ the devil. Well, well, what can I do? You cannot with that mindset enter the kingdom so I must just let you stay outside the kingdom. And you will go through what so many Christians have gone through, where they have lived their lifetimes growing up in a Christian religion, they have believed the promise: “If you are a good Christian you will go to heaven after this lifetime.” Then they leave the body, the soul rises and they expect that St. Peter is going to stand there at the door to heaven because he has the keys to heaven, right? And he is going to say: “Go in, go in.”

Instead they find not St. Peter because he is not actually in heaven, having not yet ascended after 2,000 years. They find instead some other beings of light that say: “You are not ready to enter the kingdom, you have to go back into embodiment until you are ready.” And this has caused many people to become angry and feel betrayed. Some of the most prominent atheists you see in the world, they have believed in the Christian promise for lifetimes, finally got to a point where they became so angry that when they came into their next embodiment they were angry at the Christian church and they had this desire to disprove all religion because they felt they had been fooled.

And, of course, many other people who are not on a crusade to disprove religion have still become disillusioned with all religion, all spirituality because they have so many times experienced going out of the body and the Christian promise was not fulfilled. They have to go back in another body and live through this whole circus of growing up from an infant to an adult, having to make a living, being forced to make a living, being forced by outer situations in their societies into a certain role and they have come to resent it and therefore resent all religion. Which you can say: “Are they worse off than when they were believing Christians?” Not particularly, maybe some of them even become open to some teachings that are beyond religion, which is why you have many people today who call themselves “I am spiritual but not religious.” Which is much, much, closer to the childlike mindset than the vast majority of Christians.

The purpose of the Easter story

So what is the purpose of the Easter story? It is to educate those who hear it but how can you be educated? Only if you see that it is all symbols. It may be, as they say in some movies, based on a true story. But a true story is still a story and the purpose of any story is to have a transformative effect on those who hear it. You will see if you look historically that many civilizations have had their stories, their narratives, their epic narratives. All throughout history you see that any civilization that rose to a certain level of complexity, even more primitive societies, what you call primitive, have had a story. And what is the purpose of this story? Well, ultimately it is to help people go through a transformation of consciousness until they are ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

But you also see historically that many times these stories have become a trap. They have trapped people. Some of these stories are very focused on making a certain group of people seem like they are the superior people. They are, as the Jews believed and still believe, God’s chosen people and that is how people become trapped in the story. Trapped in the narrative because they are so attached to the outer narrative, that they do not see beyond the symbols to the real story that is behind it. Which is, how you can go from being a human being in the death consciousness to following a gradual path whereby you are reborn into your true identity as a spiritual being, as a son or daughter of God.

This is the purpose of all of these stories that you see in the world but unfortunately so many of them have become dead ends and, of course, the very story that claims to tell the story of the life of Christ has been turned into one of the most efficient dead ends ever seen on the planet. One of the most efficient tools for Satan, the forces of antichrist, the prince of this world to keep people trapped in this world. And therefore for the vast majority of Christians, when the prince of this world comes to them he has something in them and it is the Christian story. You may say it is an irony but from my perspective as an ascended master I have complete respect for free will and so I simply must bow to free will and once again say: “Those who deny me before men those must I deny before the Father” and thus they cannot enter the kingdom.

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