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Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels, June 8, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain, and I want to start by thanking you for giving this magnificent session of decrees that allowed me to release this waterfall of violet flame energy. My task, my joy, for this release is to give you the Seventh Ray perspective on Christhood.

Now, it has been said by a famous philosopher: “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.” That was, of course, said a long time ago when it could not be said that women are born free because they were born into a certain role. Nevertheless, we can look at the world today and say: “Are human beings born free?” Is it even realistic to say in today’s age that everyone is born free? Are many people not born into a very limited life, a very limited opportunity?

Are we born free?

When I look from the perspective of the Chohan of the Seventh Ray upon humankind, what do I see? Yes, I do indeed see that everywhere human beings are in chains. I also see that the vast majority of human beings were not born free, at least not in this lifetime. I can of course go back and trace the history of a lifestream and see that yes, originally that lifestream was born free but it was also born with a point-like sense of self. Now it was born free, in the sense that there were no outer chains that limited the lifestream originally. It did not have total freedom to co-create anything it wanted because it could only co-create what it could envision, what it could conceptualize—and that, of course, depended on its sense of self.

Freedom is not something you are born into, at least not total freedom. Freedom is something you grow into by transcending your sense of self. Did you hear what I just said? Freedom is something you grow into by transcending your sense of self, expanding your sense of self, letting your sense of self become more.

When we look at humankind today, can we say that even though most of the people who currently embody on this planet have a very long history (either having embodied on this planet for multiple lifetimes or having come from other planets), can we say that they have grown towards becoming more free? Nay, we cannot. You look at humankind, and the vast majority of people are in chains. Now you can, of course, look at their physical outer conditions and see that many people are limited by these physical outer conditions. They are not free. They are not free to speak. They are not free to move. They are not free to pursue opportunities. They are born into a certain station in life, perhaps poverty, perhaps political oppression, perhaps other forms of thralldom.

Yet when I, as the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, speak of freedom, I am not primarily speaking about physical, material freedom, for where are the chains that bind human beings? They are not in the physical octave. They are in the emotional, mental and identity octaves. They are in the mind. What binds you are the chains in your mind.

Reversing the process that took your freedom

Now, not many people today have grown up in the countryside around domestic animals and therefore, very few people have actually seen a bull. You will know perhaps that a bull is a very big and strong animal, but that you put, at a young age, an iron ring in the nose of the bull. The reason is that the nose is very sensitive, so even a human being who is not as strong, when you have a rope tied to this iron ring, you can pull the bull along. What you do with a bull is, you put a chain into the ring in its nose, you tie that chain to a stake, you pound the stake into the ground and now the bull has a circle where it can graze. What can happen to a bull is that it keeps going in the same direction and so it wraps the chain around the stake until it has wrapped it so tightly that it cannot move. Now, the bull stands there and it might be pawing at the ground and it might be blowing air through its nose and it might be making a lot of noise because it feels restricted by the chain. Is it really restricted by the chain? Nay, because it could just walk in the opposite direction and unwind the chain, but the bull cannot do this, it cannot think to do this. Some of you may have seen a dog do the same thing. At that level of consciousness there is not enough awareness to think: “Could I reverse the process that made me so restricted and therefore, be free?”

Unfortunately, what you see in most human beings on Earth is that they are as unfree as the bull who has wrapped the chain around the stake. Just like the bull, they cannot step back and think: “What if I reverse the process that caused me to be so trapped? Could I then become more free?”

What is the work of the ascended masters throughout the ages? It is essentially to help people become free. But how do you become free? Only by looking at the conditions in your mind that are making you unfree, that are imprisoning you. You must unwind the chain in your own psyche, in your own subconscious mind and in your conscious mind that keeps you trapped. How many people have grasped this, even after we have taught for a very long time? Did not Jesus tell people that the Kingdom of God is within? Did not the Buddha talk about resolving psychology, even though he did not use those words at the time? Is not the Eightfold Path the path of unwrapping, unwinding the chains in your mind? Do not the Vedic teachings talk about something similar, again with different words and context? The teachings have been given for a long time, but very few people have locked in to it.

The prison is in your mind

I would have, of course, liked to see this changed because, what is it that causes people to be physically limited, physically imprisoned? Well, how can a dictator imprison millions of people? How can one man bend millions of people to his will? Only by using the conditions in these people’s psychology that make them willing to submit to the dictator, because they are not willing to think for themselves and take responsibility for themselves and make their own decisions. They want the dictator to make decisions for them and then tell them that if they blindly follow the dictator, everything will be wonderful in the end, whatever the promise may be. The Third Reich, or making America great again, or restoring Russia’s greatness, whatever the promise may be, people believe in it because it gives them an excuse for not unwinding the chain in their minds.

I would like to see more and more people awaken to the reality that what binds you is in the psychology, because the physical conditions you face are simply a reflection of what is projected upon the Ma-ter light from your identity, mental and emotional minds. This goes for one human being, it goes for a large population in a large country and it goes for humanity as a whole. The physical conditions you see on Earth are only projections of what is in the minds, the emotional, mental and identity minds of humankind.

Does Christhood restrict your freedom?

What is Christhood? Christhood is the process of becoming free from the shackles of the anti-christ mind, the duality consciousness, the sense of separation. Now, there are those in the fallen mindset, in the serpentine mindset, who will say: “Well, Saint Germain, this is not true. I was limited by these moral restrictions of feeling I was a connected being where I had to think about the effect of my actions on the whole. It was only when I rebelled against this god up there in the sky and decided to do my own thing regardless of consequences that I became truly free.” This is what some actually believe. Others do not believe it but they want human beings to believe it, so they promote the lie even though they know it is a lie.

Why is it a lie? Well, you look at conditions on Earth. So many religious people have this image that they should evaluate their actions based on a certain moral code defined by their religion, because supposedly this moral code comes from God himself. It was inscribed on tablets of stone when Moses went to the mountain: “Thou shalt not…” And if thou does not do that, God will punish you by an eternity in hell. The fallen beings, the serpentine mind, will point to this and say: “See, this is not being free because you are restricted by this moral code of this angry, judgmental, punishing God in the sky. And it was only when we rebelled against that God and his moral code that we became truly free, that we could really exercise our free will.”

What they fail to ask is: “Who created the God in the sky?” The reality is that the fallen beings created the angry and punishing God in the sky because they wanted to use that image of God to control human beings. Other fallen beings created the image of a devil who is opposing the God in the sky because they also wanted to control human beings. Now human beings are trapped between the angry God in the sky and the angry devil below, and does it really make sense that you gain freedom by submitting to the devil who is just as angry as the God in the sky? This is what they want you to believe.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.