Ascended Master Paul the Venetian through Kim Michaels, May 21, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Paul the Venetian, as you of course, have already guessed. What is my contribution as the Chohan of the Third Ray? Well, you might say that in order to co-create with the ascended masters, in order to manifest, to precipitate anything, you need to have these elements of the seven rays. You need to have the will to experiment of the first ray. You need to have the wisdom of aligning yourself with the ascended masters, with the One mind, so you are seeking to raise the all but the next step really is to love something more than the things in this world. You may say this sounds contradictory if you are seeking to co-create some specific condition in this world.

You may say: “Why do you need to love something more than the condition you are seeking to manifest?” Well, because if you are loving something in this world more than anything else, how can you co-create with the ascended masters? What have we said is our goal? To raise your consciousness. How do you raise your consciousness? By going beyond your present level and what you desire, love, feel attached to at that level. In order to co-create with us, you must love something more than the very thing you are seeking to co-create, because otherwise you cannot connect to us. What will you then connect to? Well, you might connect to beings in the emotional, mental or identity realms, who might even parade themselves as ascended masters or as other kinds of masters who have something to offer you, some way to help you.

Desire to to manifest something in this world

They will give you the impression that they can help you manifest what you want in this world. And we see over the long time that we have given teachings on this planet, that there are certain people, whether they know of ascended masters or not, but they become totally attached to manifesting something in this world, and it is more important to them than their growth and you have this popular saying that you sell your soul to the devil. And the background for this saying is that you formulate in your mind a very strong desire to have some physical condition. Let us say, as a common example, that you want power. You want a powerful position, and you have a certain realization that you do not have the power in your own mind to manifest that condition. But you also have a sense that there are forces that have greater power than you do and therefore, you are essentially saying to them, perhaps you are not fully conscious of it, but you are at a certain level saying to these forces: “If you help me get this position of power that I want, I will do anything that you want me to do, both in this and in future lifetimes.”

Bargaining with dark forces

What that means is that you are loving some condition in this world more than your growth, more than the Christ consciousness, more than anything beyond this world. And then of course, you may connect to some force that will give you the extra power that you need, but that force will not be the ascended masters because we would never enter into a bargain like that. But the fallen beings and the dark forces of course, gladly will, because they know they do not have to honor their vow or your belief that they will give you what you want. In some cases, people do get the power they desire, but then afterwards comes the cost where now they have to pay up and give the dark forces what they want, whether it be energy or whether it be specific actions.

Adolf Hitler did make a certain bargain like that with forces in the mental and lower identity realm. If they would give him power in Germany, he would do what they wanted. Now he thought, of course, that what they wanted was also what he wanted, namely the dominance of Germany through war. He was perfectly willing to give the dark forces what they wanted, namely war, but of course he did it with the conviction that Germany would be victorious and he would end up being the chancellor of, not necessarily the whole world, but certainly a big part of it. He did not realize that the fallen beings that he had entered into a bargain with, they did not want Germany to be victorious. They did not care about Germany. They did not care about the German people. They did not care about Hitler himself, they just wanted chaos, they wanted to create chaos in the world.

Willingness to give UP your vision

You see that what the fallen beings will do, they will give you the impression that they will give you what you want, even if it hurts yourself. We of course, of the ascended masters, we would never give you what you wanted if it hurt yourself or hurt other people. For that matter, we will not give you what you want from the separate self, even if it did not hurt anybody else, because our goal is to help you transcend the separate self. What does this mean in practical terms? Say you are an ascended master student. You have formulated a desire to manifest a certain circumstance in your life. You have attempted to reach up to the ascended masters to get a higher vision based on the Christ mind of what you are willing to attain. And here you are, you think you have formulated a pretty good vision with your outer mind. But what do you then need to do? You need to be willing to give up your life for Christ’s sake, meaning to give up your vision of what you want to manifest. You need to give it up.

Do you hear what I am saying? I am not saying you need to give up on manifesting it. I am saying you need to give it UP to a higher vision, a higher authority. You need to basically say: “Be it unto me according to your will” as Mother Mary said to the angel. You need to formulate a vision, but before you start reaching up and pulling down energy from our level, you need to first give it up and you need to give it up completely so that you let go of any attachment to it.

And then you need to give it some time where you are completely neutral about whether it will ever be manifest or not. Because you need to open your mind to the possibility that perhaps your vision is completely out of alignment with the Christ mind and will never be manifest. Or perhaps it needs to be changed and refined to bring it into alignment, not only with the higher vision of Christ, but also with the practical reality of what can be manifest given who you are, what your history is, what your situation is in your personal life and as we have attempted to explain, there are many considerations there.

Loving something more than your vision

But you cannot grasp this, evaluate this, judge this with your outer mind. That is why you need to give up the vision formulated in your outer mind and be willing to let it die. You are not giving it up by pretending because you are thinking: “Oh, it’ll work out anyway.” You are giving it up completely. I can tell you this and you can understand intellectually the need to give it up. But what will actually enable you to give it up? Well, you must love something more than the vision and the thing, condition, you want to manifest in your life. You must love something more.

Now, I am, of course, the Chohan of the Third Ray. I am not in any way trying to tell you that you should love or what you should love. Because if there is one lesson I have learned, both before I ascended and after, it is you cannot force someone to love something.

You can attempt to, as the fallen beings when they set themselves up as a dictator, attempt to get their people to love them. But this becomes what we call a codependent relationship where a person who is abused can actually develop a certain human, dualistic love for the person who is abusing them and that is what some people have for a dictator. Even though the dictator is abusing them, they still love the dictator because he somehow has managed to portray himself as representing something.

Unfulfilled desires in your life plan

We of the ascended masters, of course, have no desire whatsoever to force you to love something. We also know we do not have to force you because we can read your Divine plan and when you make your Divine plan, you are determining the steps you want to go through in your life, the lessons you want to learn, for example.

You may have as part of your life plan to formulate a certain physical condition, say a particular career or a particular place to live and it might be in your Divine plan to manifest this, but the overall goal of your Divine plan is to grow. And you might see that, just as an example, let us say in a past life you developed a desire to have a big, fancy house and it was unfulfilled in previous lifetimes. What you are deciding in your higher vision that you have between embodiments, is you want to overcome, you want to be free of this desire to own a fancy house.

Take note of what I said, you want to be free of the desire. How can that freedom from the desire come about? Well, there is two ways on earth. You can experience what you desire until you have had enough of that experience, and then you say: “I have had enough of having a big fancy house, now I want a higher experience.” That is based on experience. But you can also give up something because you realize that in the material world, everything you achieve physically has a certain cost associated with it.

In order to have a big fancy house, well, you might have to orient your entire life around having a career or making money, investing, so you have the money to buy or build this house. But then when you have it, you have to maintain it. You have to have other people help you maintain it. You have to do all kinds of things and there comes that point where you will ask yourself the question: “Do I own the house or does the house own me?” Because it takes up so much of your attention, your energy, your money, and your time.

Giving up the unfulfilled desires

You could very well have an unfulfilled desire from a past life for a fancy house, but in between embodiments you realize you do not actually want to go through all of these steps to physically manifest the house. You want to overcome the desire by giving up the desire and people at lower levels of consciousness, they cannot make that distinction. They can only see: “I need to have the house.” But perhaps you have made progress in past lives in this regard and therefore, you see you have the potential. But why can you see this in between embodiments? Because you have come to love something more than that house. In other words, you realize the desire is there, but you do not really want the house. You want freedom from the desire for the house because you love that freedom more than this house that ties you to a physical location with all that comes with it.

Therefore, when you formulate your Divine plan, you already love something more. The question is, of course, now you come into embodiment, you are in the density of the physical realm, you forget that you love something more than the house. But you do remember: “Oh, I really desire to have a big fancy house.” And you may even have spent some part of your life and considerable effort in trying to get that house. But now you are deciding: “Well, I have not gotten it through conventional means, now I am going to try and get it by co-creating it with the ascended masters.” But you see, we are not going to help you manifest that house if you have decided in your Divine plan that what you really want to accomplish is to overcome the desire for the house. That is why you need to give up the vision once you have formulated it because by giving it up completely in the outer mind, the Conscious You can step beyond the outer mind, connect to your Divine plan and even if you do not see it consciously, you can still at a conscious level realize: “Maybe I do not want the house that much.”

Maybe you suddenly begin to think: “Well, what would it take to manifest the house? What would I have to do? How am I tying myself into this process of getting enough money for the house? What would it take to have it, to keep it up, to maintain it? Is it really what I want to do in this lifetime? Do I really want such a big part of my life to be taken up by this?” And when you then sense that you actually have a greater desire to be free from the house than to own the house and be owned by the house, then you can tune in to us and realize you need to refine your vision. Perhaps you change your vision so it is not as big and a complicated house you want that is easier to attain, that does not eat up as much of your life. Or perhaps you give it up completely and say: “What I really want is my spiritual growth and is that really dependent on a particular physical location on this planet? Is it really tied to having only specific things on this planet?”

Loving your growth more than any specific condition

Perhaps you become willing to move around whenever you feel intuitively led to do it because you realize that if you really own this big fancy house, you cannot as easily move because how can you give it up once you have it? And therefore, you are tied to it. Again, you already, in your Divine plan, love something more than any physical condition you want to manifest because you are an ascended master student. What you really need to do then is tune in to your Divine plan and you do that by formulating a vision, giving it up and then tuning in. And then you can come to that realization, as many of you have already come to, that you actually love spiritual growth more than any particular physical condition. Therefore, you are willing to first of all not tie yourself to any particular physical condition.

You are also willing to move around when you feel led to it because it will lead you to growth, to move to another location, perhaps move to another country, perhaps change your career, perhaps change relationships and so forth. You love your growth more than any particular condition that might stop that growth by tying you to that condition. You might also realize as you move on with this that you love your ascension more than achieving anything on earth. Now take care here. I am not saying that if you love your ascension more you cannot have particular physical conditions. I am not saying again that you have to sit in a cave in the Himalayas or walk around on some Indian mountain in a loincloth. What I am saying is that your goal for any physical condition is just to bring you closer to your ascension.

And you realize, for example, that: ”Well, if owning a nice house helps me overcome this desire so I can let go of it, let go of the desire to own any house on earth, then that can bring me closer to my ascension and in that case it is perfectly fine to pursue that and actually manifest that house.” I do not say manifest out of thin air but take the steps you need to take in order to own a house. That can be legitimate as part of your preparation for the ascension. As we have said, there can be certain experiences that the Conscious You desires to have. You do not actually desire to have the house. You desire to have the experience of the house.

Crucial ability for letting go

And you can actually have that experience in the mind, as you might have read in Yogananda’s book where his guru manifests an elaborate palace for him, but of course it was not manifest physically, it was so he could explore it in his mind and have the experience of owning it so he could let go of that unfulfilled desire. You can overcome a desire in the mind alone, but in some cases you need to have the physical thing that you desire in order to overcome the desire and then that is perfectly in alignment with your Divine plan and we will help you manifest this, because we see that it speeds up your growth.

But again, how will you know what is what here? How will you know whether fulfilling your vision helps or hinders your growth? Well, you will know when you truly give it up and then experience what comes back to you from our level, from the Christ mind and that is precisely why giving up is such an important ability, willingness to cultivate. We have said that giving up things is the most important quality for your ascension, but it is really important in all aspects of your life to be willing to give up instead of fixating your outer mind on wanting something.

It is the same as Lanto and Nada were talking about, where people can get trapped in these conspiracy theories, doomsday prophecies or whatever, where their outer minds become obsessive-compulsive about a certain topic. They study it, they watch videos about it. In essence, they are seeking validation for the image, the world image they have accepted or created in their minds. They are only looking for information that validates the image. They are disregarding or ignoring any information that challenges it.

This is what you can learn to watch out for in yourself: “Do I have an attachment? What is an attachment? Well, I am fixated, my attention is eaten up by a certain topic. I am obsessive or compulsive about getting it validated or doing certain things or not doing certain things.” You can learn to read your own vibration and sense when you have this tension in you. When you are not at peace, when you have something you must have, then you know this hinders your growth. But if you are then able to look at this and say: “OK, I will give this up.” And if you truly give it up, then you will receive a clear vision of what you put in your Divine plan.

Who is really forcing you?

Take note here. I know very well that once you are in the density of the physical octave, you are forgetting what you put in your Divine plan, you are forgetting why because you do not have the vision you had in between embodiments. Now you come down here, you live a certain life, you grow up with all kinds of issues and you are feeling like what I am saying here is forcing something upon you.

You see that many people, even many ascended master students, have heard about the concept of a Divine plan and have felt it was like a straitjacket that they had to force themselves into and then they lost their freedom. I am not trying to force you into anything. I am just trying to give you a tool so that if you are willing, you can tune in to what you put in your Divine plan. If anyone is trying to force you, it is yourself. You are trying to force the Conscious You to look beyond the separate selves that are blinding you and that you saw in between embodiments had blinded you in past lifetimes, which is why you had not overcome this issue. You are trying to force yourself because you know once you are in embodiment you do not have the vision. You are trying to force yourself to at least deal with the issue instead of ignoring it and it is quite possible that you have separate selves that will feel that you are being forced.

How to avoid a sense of regret

But if you are willing to make this shift of realizing that it is not dark forces who are forcing you, it is not ascended masters who are forcing you, it is yourself in a higher state of awareness seeking to force you when you are in the lower state of awareness of being in a dense physical body to do what you decided you wanted to accomplish in this lifetime, so that you do not exit this lifetime and have to face the reality that you did not fulfill your Divine plan and therefore have this deep sense of regret that many people have. So many people, when they pass on the screen of life and see whether they accomplished their Divine plan or not, they say: “Why did I not see it? Why did I not heed the warning? Why did I not follow my intuition? Why did I not see what is so obvious now? Why could I not see it? Why did I not want to choose it? Why did I not do it?” All I am trying to help you avoid is that sense of regret.

The desire to overcome the self-focused self

Now of course you can again say: “Well even that is just an experience you can have on earth” and that is fine. But our topic here is co-creation, co-creation with the ascended masters and in order to co-create with us, you have to realize that we will not help you manifest something that is against your own Divine plan. We will help you tune in to that Divine plan, but we cannot help you if you have that attachment in the outer mind where you have decided: “I must have this thing or I must have the validation of this outer self that wants to feel it is right, that wants to feel it is special, that wants to feel it knows better.” You can essentially say, why is it that when you were in between embodiments, you saw you needed to force yourself to overcome something? Because you realized that in past lives you had not been willing to question that self, that self-focused self that wanted to be validated and that is really the self you wanted to overcome. It is not just the desire for a house or power or whatever it may be. You really wanted to overcome—if you are an ascended master student—that self that wants validation in this world.

Why am I saying this? Because why are you following this teaching? Why did you recognize this teaching as having value? Why are you willing to listen to our teachings? Because it is in your Divine plan of virtually all of you to overcome that focus on self in this lifetime. And most of you are getting very close to that point, but you have not yet stepped outside that self and seen it from the outside and that is our primary goal in this level of teachings we are giving in these years. It is to help as many people as possible clear that hurdle, go beyond that step and manifest personal Christhood, because this will open up so many avenues for you individually, but also for what you might do together as a community of like-minded beings united in the Christ mind.

We have no desire in this dispensation to force a community, but should a community emerge, we will of course support it, as long as the members are dedicated to working on their psychology and transcending all of these selves, instead of using the community to seek validation.

I am just here to remind you to tune in and ask yourself: “What do I love more?W Whatever vision you have right now of what you would like to co-create with the ascended masters—“What do I love more than that vision? Is it possible that there is a higher vision in my Divine plan of how I could express my Christhood in helping others, rather than fulfilling a personal desire? Is it possible that my higher personal desire really is to help others, to be the open door, to express my Christhood, to have a positive impact on the lives of other people, on society, perhaps even the planet as a whole? Is that possible?” And then tune in to it until you feel that love, until the love spontaneously starts bubbling up in your heart chakra, and you become conscious of what you love more.

A deep love for the ascended masters

This messenger, quite a number of years ago, became conscious of the fact that he has a deep love for the ascended masters and many of you have the same. It may be different masters for different people, but many of you have a general love for the ascended masters and what we represent, something beyond the outer mind, the duality consciousness, the dark forces. Some alternative to the chaos you see on earth. You have a love for that and you want to come closer to us and build a personal relationship with us. Well then, all of a sudden now, instead of being focused on seeing us as the wish-fulfilling gods who are going to help you manifest a physical condition, your real intent for co-creating with us is to develop a personal relationship with us and that changes the whole dynamic of your co-creative efforts in a fundamental way.

Again, I am not trying to force you in any way, just trying to help you see what you love more than any goal you might have seen for your life so far. What you love more than co-creative efforts or certain conditions you could manifest through those efforts, maybe it is really about building a relationship with us instead of co-creating what you can see now. Because through that personal relationship, we might give you a higher vision than you can grasp right now. But first of course, you have to establish that relationship before you can receive that vision and in order to establish a personal relationship with us, you have to give up how you look at that relationship right now. It is again this dilemma that Master MORE described in the question and answer, that we have to start working with you at the level of consciousness you are at when you are open and we have to give you what you can grasp at that level and then hope that as you grow, you will be willing to reach for a higher vision.

Giving up the need for validation

And quite frankly, on a dense planet like earth, it is not realistic to think that when you first found ascended master teachings, you were able to grasp the highest vision that you have in your Divine plan, or the highest vision of how to express your Christhood. It simply is not realistic. What will happen to all people is that when they hear about the concept of Christhood or co-creating with the ascended masters, you will have an unbalanced vision. It will either be towards the one extreme where you think: “Oh, I could never do this, I could never do what the masters did in their last embodiments.” Or it will be these delusions of grandeur where you think you will be validated as this special and important person who has these abilities for example to heal, as many ascended master students have dreamt about, or in other ways being recognized.

But you see that what the separate self can see is only separation. It cannot see oneness. The dream of being validated here on earth is really that you as a separate being are validated or admired by other people who see you as separated from them. And therefore, you can set up this scale, some are more important than others, some are more famous, some are richer, some are more spiritual, some have more abilities than others, a comparative scale. But this is what breaks down in the Christ consciousness. Christhood is not about being right or being validated compared to others. Christhood is about attaining oneness with your I AM Presence and with the ascended masters and in oneness there are no comparisons. Why? Because there is no separation.

You might have a desire, as many ascended master students have had, to be validated by us in some public way. In the Summit Lighthouse, we once in a while gave somebody this experience of being knighted as a knight or a lady of the flame and this was again because we were outplaying what people desired in the Piscean Age. But you see, what did this do? Well, in most of these people it reinforced their sense of separation from other people and from us, because they felt validated by these elevated masters. Do you understand that the separate self does not want oneness with the ascended masters? It wants validation from the ascended masters but that validation only has value if we are way up there beyond you. Otherwise, where is the honor of the validation?

And what we are talking about, what Christhood is about, is oneness and when you experience oneness with us, you will not be validated by us. How can we validate you as a separate being when you have attained oneness with us? You do not need the validation when you experience the oneness. The desire for validation fades away. The whole evaluation of higher or lower, more or less special, fades away in Christhood because you love oneness more than separation. You see here, the key to manifesting anything on earth is to love something beyond earth more than what you want to manifest here and until you reach that spontaneous love, you cannot co-create with us, for we would only validate your separate self by doing so, and that we will never do.

Giving up the dualistic image of love

Truly, all of these words are just words. My real desire would be that you could just feel the love that I have for each and every one of you, or the love that another ascended master has for you, individually because what most people have is this image in the mind. And you can have, as we have said before, a mental image of what an apple tastes like, but it will never be the taste and the moment you take a bite of the apple, the mental image fades away. Why do you need it when you have the real thing? Why do you need to have a mental image of love when you experience the love? But as long as you have not experienced it, you will cling to the mental image. Because it is better to have the mental image than to have nothing.

What is it that can break this seeming catch-22? Because you realize what I am saying between the lines here, now I will say it in the lines. What you desire to experience is oneness. One aspect of oneness is love. Another aspect is the first ray, the second ray, the other rays but you desire to experience that. But because you have been in separation, because you are on a dense planet, you have formulated a mental image of what it is like to experience love and you do not want to give up the mental image because then you have nothing, and you do not want to have nothing. In the fear of being left with nothing, you cling to the image. But it is the image that blocks your experience. You will not have the experience until you are willing to give up the nothing, give up the image, even if it leaves you with nothing. You have to be willing to risk having nothing and give up the image that blocks the experience.

But you see, you can say this takes courage. In a certain way, yes, you could say that but where is the courage going to come from? From love. Because, as I said, between embodiments you were aware of what you love more and therefore, you were aware that even though you have this outer self that wants to cling to the mental image of love, you actually love the experience more than the image. And therefore, you are willing to give it up because you know you will not be left with nothing. How can I say this? Well, because there is no such thing as nothing. There is no thing that is no thing, everything is something. You are not going to be left with nothing by giving up the dualistic image. The worst thing that could have happened was if you had another dualistic image.

But the best thing that would happen is that giving up the dualistic image of love would give you the experience of the unconditional love that we of the ascended masters have for you. And many of you have done it, many of you have experienced glimpses of that love and you will know that there is no more transforming experience than experiencing the being, the energy of an ascended master and the love that that master has for you personally.

Stop pushing the masters away!

And those of you who have not had the experience, it is only because you have some image of the experience that you have not given up and that is what is blocking the experience because as we have said before many times, we are not withholding the experience from you. You are pushing it away and when you stop pushing, the experience will break through your conscious awareness for our love for you is beyond any conditions.

But as long as you are projecting that you have to live up to conditions on earth in order to be worthy of the love from the ascended realm, well, you are pushing it away. You are saying: “Oh no, Paul the Venetian, I cannot experience your love now, I am not worthy, I am not ready, I have to fulfill all of these conditions. I have to do this, I have to do that, I have to overcome this problem. Therefore, wait, just stay away, I am not ready, I’ll tell you when I am ready.” And what can I do but say: “Well, yes, so you want to play hide and seek with me, that is your free choice, but I am not the one that is hiding.” You are doing both the hiding and the seeking and the moment you decide that you are going to stop hiding and you are going to stop seeking, well I am still right here. I do not change. You are the only one who can change by giving up.

I will now give up this very joyful experience of interacting with you and I will go away from this particular form of interaction, but how can I go away when I am everywhere in the consciousness of God? But of course, I will give you the experience that I am going away so I am not there confronting you with the need to give up so you can take as much time as you want before you decide: “Oh, I am ready to give up, now.” And then just give up and I am still here.

With this, I seal you in the Flame of the Third Ray of Love that is beyond conditions.

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