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Ascended Master Hilarion through Kim Michaels, March 23, 2025. This dictation was given at a conference in Holland: Locking in to Your Divine Plan
I AM the Ascended Master Hilarion. As many of you know, I did have the embodiment as Saul of Tarsus, also called Saint Paul, and I was for a time persecuting the early Christians until on the road to Damascus I had that experience of suddenly encountering the Christ light, having the scales fall from my eyes and I saw Christ’s truth. I experienced Christ’s truth. I was absorbed in Christ’s truth and I was willing to absorb Christ’s truth and let myself, the me, go.
What is Christ’s truth?
Christ’s truth. This did not mean that I dissolved all of my separate selves, all of my ego, but it did mean that I had grasped the significance of Christ’s truth. What is truth, as Pontius Pilate asked Jesus? What is truth? Well, let us go a step further and ask what is Christ’s truth? Christ’s truth is that which helps you unite with your higher self, with the ascended masters, with your Creator. Christ’s truth is that which unites the Creator with its creation. Not, of course, that the Creator needs Christ’s truth, but that the self-aware beings who are part of the Creator’s world of form need Christ’s truth in order to move back towards that not complete oneness or dissolution into the Creator, but where they individually reach the Creator consciousness. This can be done in only one way, Christ’s truth, that takes you beyond your current level and continues to take you beyond until you reach that Creator consciousness.
On a planet like earth, an unnatural planet in an unascended sphere, what is Christ’s truth? It is that which pulls you beyond this realm and the collective consciousness. And what is the collective consciousness enveloped in? Duality, the dualistic polarities, the scales. It can be seen as fish scales as many have thought, but it could also be seen as the scale that weighs, that measures.
The ego’s dream of the ultimate truth
Everything in this world can be weighed and measured and compared to some seeming standard, but it is the standard of the fallen beings. And when you look, there is nothing there. The emperor has nothing on. What is it that the ego, the fallen beings, have been attempting to do? They have been attempting to define an ultimate truth in this world. What are they always projecting? There is some idea, there is some expression in words, there is some scripture, there is some dissertation, some philosophical treatise, some political manifesto, and this is the ultimate truth.
But can anything in this world be ultimate? Nay. How could anything in an unascended sphere be ultimate? For that matter, how can anyone, anything, in the ascended realm be ultimate? Only the Creator is ultimate, but even beyond the Creator is the Allness. Is anything ultimate in the Allness? Nay. How can there be something ultimate in infinity? This is a dream, a dream that can only exist in an unascended sphere, on an unnatural planet where people are allowed to go into duality. It is a dream born from duality. The ego knows, not consciously, but it knows it is not permanent. But it seeks to achieve permanence by defining something in this world as ultimate, ultimately itself. But as part of this quest to immortalize the ego, the ego seeks to define viewpoints, ideas, opinions, ideologies, philosophies, religions, what have you, and say: “This is the ultimate truth against which everything else should be measured.”
Christ truth vs. relative truths
And look back at history, how many people have been caught up in this, and how it has led to conflict after conflict after conflict: “Christianity is the only true religion. No, the Quran is the ultimate scripture. Let us, therefore, kill each other in order to prove who has the ultimate truth.” But if the ultimate truth is that all life is one, how is killing each other going to help you get closer to that truth? It will only keep you trapped in separation, where you think that you as a separate being can kill that other separate being, and it will not affect you because you are separate. What did I see on the road to Damascus? I saw that I had been judging with the outer mind that the Christians, that this Jesus figure could not be right, could not be a true prophet, because it contradicted what I thought was the ultimate truth in the Jewish religion, the Jewish scriptures, and so I judged based on appearances, and I saw it. The scales fell from my eyes, and I saw the vanity of this, of thinking that I with my own mind could define truth. I experienced the Christ mind, not Christ truth, in the sense that I saw that this expression is the ultimate expression. No, I saw beyond all expressions in this world and saw that this is truth. What did Jesus say to Pontius Pilate? “I am the way, the truth, and the life”, and I saw on that road, I saw in a vision how all of my life I have been thinking I was following a way to the ultimate state of consciousness, knowing ultimate truth, having ultimate religion, qualifying for salvation, and I saw that it was all vanity, and I saw that the true way is to go beyond anything that can be defined in this world, and that truth is beyond anything that can be defined in this world, and that life only comes from that one unified mind, the Christ mind. Only there is there life. Everything else is death, the death consciousness.
What is the highest potential that many of you have in your Divine Plan? It is that you can have that experience of the scales falling from your eyes and experiencing the contrast between Christ truth and the many relative truths in this world, and you can then become exponents of that. You can express that, that there is always a truth beyond anything that can be defined in this world.
The Christ truth: The way beyond division
Look at history. Look at how many people in how many civilizations have attempted to define the ultimate truth, the Vedas, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, oh no, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Torah, the Quran, the Christian scriptures, the Communist Manifesto, the philosophies of this, that, or the next guy, capitalism versus communism. What is the ultimate economic system? There must be a truth somewhere, people think. No, the truth is nowhere to be found, for the truth is beyond here, there, or anywhere in this world. The truth cannot be expressed in a particular worded statement. You cannot reduce truth to something that can be defined as black and white, as this is right, this is wrong. You can debate issues, of course, you can debate all you want, but look at history. How many debates have been taking place about what is truth, what is the right way to deal with this or that situation, and where has it gotten people? Is the world not more polarized than it has ever been? Look at the public discourse in many countries. Look at what is happening on social media. Is the world not more polarized than it has been for a very long time? All of these people who are polarized, what do they believe? They believe there is an ultimate truth that can be defined in this world, and we have it, and the ultimate solution to all problems is that all other people come to accept our truth, and if they will not accept it, they should be forced, and if they cannot be forced to accept it, they should be killed, because if we get rid of them, then our truth will win out, and we will solve all the problems on earth.
Look how long people have been taking this approach. Has it worked? Has it ever worked? Nay, for if anybody on earth had found an ultimate truth, would you not think that their civilization had persisted to this day, and therefore, all the division and the polarization would have vanished, and all would have agreed that this is the wonderful truth, and when we live according to it, everything is just wonderful, and we have God’s kingdom on earth. How long will people continue to try to do the impossible before the scales fall from their eyes, and they realize it is impossible, and therefore, they say, is there a different approach? Is there a way, so that we can do something that all of these other people have not done? Is there a way we can avoid continuing what has been proven not to work time and time again? What is the way that leads to the truth that is life? It is the Christ mind, the One mind, the unifying mind, that does not seek to divide people against each other, but that seeks to unify people. That is the Christ mind. Paradoxically, for the duality consciousness is full of paradoxes, it will seem as if the Christ mind can be divisive, set brother against brother, but that is only as the Christ mind stirs up the polarization, magnifies the polarization in order to bring it out so it becomes more obvious, so that people can finally see the vanity of vanities. All is vanity.
That is what I saw on the road to Damascus, the futility of thinking that my religion was superior to any other religion. This did not mean that I now came to accept Christianity as the superior religion, for at the time there was no Christian religion. There were only these stories about this preacher who had been different, and I saw why Jesus was different, that he did not come to start a new religion that could compete with the other religions that he compared and stated that this was the ultimate religion. He did not come to give the ultimate religion. He came to give an alternative to all religions, philosophies, ideologies, viewpoints. He came to show the way that unites rather than divides, and that is truth.
The role of Christ
Any expression that divides people is not truth. It cannot be, for truth is that all people came from the same source, and the Creator is not a house divided against itself. It is not at war with itself, but of course you have free will, and as we have explained so carefully, as a result of free will you must be able to go into separation and duality where you think you can define your ultimate truth, and what have we explained? This is an experience. Surely, while people are completely immersed in that experience, they must believe that their truth is the ultimate truth. After all, that is the experience that here on earth, on this little speck of dust in the universe, we in our group, we have defined the ultimate truth of the universe. That is the experience you can have in duality, and free will mandates you must be allowed to have it for some time, but not eternally, for if you were allowed to have that experience indefinitely, then Christ would not have come into this world, for Christ only comes to pull you out of that experience to help you see that there is an alternative to that experience.
So when you have had enough of it, you have a way out, the way to the truth that gives you eternal life, and so what will the ego, the fallen being say to the Christ? It will say: “You have no right to challenge me, you have no right to come here and expose my untruth, you have no right to disturb me.” They might even say, “Well, if God will not leave us alone on this planet to maintain the idea that we have the ultimate truth, then we do not really have free will, for God is forcing us”, but you see, this is the lie that can only be thought up in duality, that can only seem reasonable from the viewpoint of duality.
You have free will, meaning your will is always free, but when you go into duality and lose all awareness that there is an alternative to duality, how is your will ultimately free? If you think you can only choose what you can see from duality, which is, after all, a complete illusion compared to the reality of oneness, so you have free will, you can have any experience you want, but if you go into duality and forget that there is an alternative, there is something outside of duality, then once you have forgotten that, your will is no longer free, because you do not know there is an alternative. What is the role of the Christ? To demonstrate that there is an alternative to duality, and that gives you back the freedom of will that you lost by going into duality. It is not a violation of free will, the law of free will, the principle of free will, which is, your will must always be free, so that any choice you make with your will can be transcended by making a more aware choice. And the Christ, therefore, comes into this world to make people aware there is a choice to choose to leave the death of duality and immerse yourself in the life of Christ.
Exposing the lie of the ultimate truth
As Jesus said, some of you, many of you, have the potential in your Divine Plan to manifest some level of Christhood. This does not mean you need to go out and preach an ascended master teaching as some ultimate truth, or any political opinion or philosophy as some ultimate truth. Christhood does not mean that you take a particular viewpoint defined in this world and you preach that as the ultimate truth. You preach, you demonstrate, you live, that there is an alternative, that truth is beyond this world, that truth cannot be pulled into this world and put in a mental box. Or when you try to put Christ in a mental box, Christ will say: “Get thee behind me, Satan, for thou art an offense to me that savors not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men” — the dualistic definitions of men, the dualistic definition of truth, which is death— that is your higher potential. However, that applies to you, your situation, your background, your experience, where you have an opportunity to express this.
There are many ways it can be expressed. The basic thing is, there is always a higher understanding. There is always a higher vision. There is always more to grasp. This should be the principle of science. There is always more to discover than what we have discovered so far. That is how science came up as an alternative to religion, because the Catholic religion had become rigid in defining a truth, a doctrine. Science then was an alternative: “Let us look at how the heavenly bodies actually move. Does it support the doctrine that the earth is the center of the universe? Nay, it does not. Then we must revise the doctrine. We must revise our absolute truth.” But then what happened? People who also had the desire to define an absolute truth define a materialistic paradigm, saying the absolute truth is there is nothing beyond the material universe. But that is not science. That is just another religion, ideology, another attempt to define an absolute truth, another mental box that science has been in now for a very long time. And I can assure you that scientific progress would have been far beyond where it is today had it not been for the materialistic paradigm. But then look at religion.
Is religion in its core meant to be an attempt to define an ultimate religion, an ultimate truth? Nay, it is meant to be experiential. It is meant to take you beyond. True spirituality, mysticism is going beyond, always going beyond, because once you lock into the Christ mind, you experience there is always something beyond your present state of mind. Always. Why did Jesus say, “I am with you always”? Because the Christ mind is always there to remind you that there is always something beyond your current state of mind. There is always more. The moment you take some insight, which may be a valid insight you have received, take note here, I am not saying that you cannot express something that has a certain validity, and I am not saying that you cannot have insights that come to you from the Christ mind. But the moment you take any expression and want to define it as an absolute truth, you have lost the Christ mind. You have stepped back into duality and separation, and that is the consciousness of Satan. That spirit should conform to matter. That Christ should conform to something defined in this world.
Challenging society and the status quo
When the real role of Christ is to always point there is something beyond this world. Many of you will have experienced as you grew up that you have been programmed to fulfill a certain role, accept certain boundaries. You do not go beyond these boundaries. You do not challenge your family members. You do not challenge people you meet. You do not challenge your society, the norms and ideologies and religions of society. You stay within the box. And when you go beyond, what will they say? “You have no right to challenge me. Who are you? What authority do you have?” And many of you have doubted your right to challenge others, to challenge society, to challenge the status quo. And you can say, yes, you, if you are coming from the viewpoint of the ego, you have no right to challenge others. What is it that takes place in duality? Two people, both have an ego. Both egos have a desire for superiority, to be the ultimate authority. Both of them are trying to validate their egos by getting the other to accept their viewpoints.
This is nothing but a power struggle. This is what has created all of the conflicts in the world. This is the vanity of vanities, all this vanity. From that perspective, you have no right to challenge other people. As we have said, as long as you have self-conscious selves, you are thinking that the way to change your state of mind is to change other people. And therefore, you are seeking to force other people. Yes, according to the law of free will, you have no right to do this. Everybody is doing it, but you really, according to the law, have no right to do it.
But when you work on your psychology, when you reach a certain level of resolution, where you have contact with the Christ mind, then you do have a right to express what comes to you from the Christ mind. You absolutely have a right to challenge people, to challenge society, to challenge religion and ideologies. Absolutely. Take a good Catholic who experiences a priest abusing a child. Anyone who has any contact with the Christ mind will know this is not in alignment with the Christ mind.
Of course, that person has a right to challenge the priest. And if the bishop will not hear it, but moves the priest to another parish, then people have the right to challenge the bishop. And if the pope backs up the bishops, then they have a right to challenge the pope. For if the pope is not in alignment with Christ, then those who are, have a right to challenge any authority figure.
Using the Christ to validate your mental box
Just be aware of one simple thing. You may look at a certain issue on earth. You may reach for some impulse from the Christ mind. And there may be a polarized issue that is black and white. And you may get an impulse from the Christ mind. There is more validity to one side than the other. And this is because, as we have said before, the Christ mind is not seeking to express an ultimate truth in this world because the ultimate truth cannot be expressed in words. But there are many situations where the Christ mind sees that one aspect of the situation, one viewpoint, can help people come closer to oneness and another helps them go further away.
Therefore, you may get an impulse ‘this is the better solution’. If you think in terms of black and white, right and wrong, truth and error, you might think, “Oh, what I got from the Christ mind must be the ultimate truth. What else could come from the Christ mind?” And now you fix your outer mind, “Oh, this must then be the ultimate viewpoint on this particular issue”. That is when you have done what Peter did to Jesus. You have taken something that genuinely came from the Christ mind and forced it into a mental box created by the mind of Satan, the mind of antichrist, and now you have lost the connection to the Christ mind. We have seen this many, many times. Many people have had the ability to tune into the Christ mind throughout the ages. As Jesus has explained, the first challenge of Christ is to recognize that Christ is more than the normal human expression. Then you reach for something. You get that recognition as Peter did, but then you fail to realize that Christ is always more. Therefore, you need to continually reach for more instead of thinking, “Oh, now I got the ultimate.” That is when you step into the consciousness of Satan.
Always reaching for more
Few, of course, are more trapped than those who think they have reached personal Christhood and Christ discernment, and therefore, no one should challenge them. How can you see when people have stepped into this state of mind? They are now very, very attached to the outer viewpoint that they think is based on Christ discernment. And therefore, they do not want it to be challenged. They do not want to think about it. They do not want to look at the consequences. The more attached people are, the more they seek to defend, the more trapped they become in the consciousness of Satan. What does the person who is dedicated to walking the way of Christ do? Such a person never becomes attached to a particular viewpoint or a particular issue. It always reaches for more. It always reaches there is more to understand. And instead of seeking to be right and make other people wrong, it always seeks to raise up other people by showing them: “But you know, there could be more to understand about this issue than what we see right now.”
You are always striving for more in yourself instead of thinking you have reached some ultimate viewpoint, some ultimate truth, because you realize there is no ultimate expression of truth, but there is the ever-flowing stream of the Christ consciousness that is the way, the truth, and the life. You are concerned about following that way to a higher truth that leads you to eternal life rather than defining some ultimate truths down here.
“You have no authority to challenge me”
What do you do when you define an ultimate truth? You put scales over your eyes. You put blinders on. You close your mind. You get tunnel vision. You only see what you want to see, and therefore, you shut out the Christ that always wants you to see more, that always wants you to look beyond. You are saying: “I am so glad you gave me this one insight, so I now have this ultimate truth, but now I do not need you anymore. Do not disturb me. Leave me alone. Do not bother me. I want more of this experience that I have the ultimate truth here on earth, that I am so superior on this little speck of dust because I now have the ultimate truth. Leave me alone, Christ.”
Of course, what must the Christ do? Well, the Christ must leave you alone, but the Christ might work through someone else who then comes to challenge you and say: “You have fallen asleep, as the sleeping beauty. May I kiss you and wake you up?” “No, leave me alone. Do not touch me. I want to stay asleep. I ate the apple, the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. And I am so happy that I have this ultimate truth. Do not wake me up.” Sure, you are allowed to have that experience, but you are also allowed to be challenged. What do people do when they challenge you if you have stepped into this state of mind? You may say: “They are disturbing me. They are violating my free will. You have no authority to challenge me.” But they are actually giving you exactly what you want because if you want the experience that ‘I have a superior truth’ here on earth, how can you have that experience? Well, everything on earth is relative. For you to feel that you have the superior truth, there must be someone else who has a lesser truth, perhaps the lie.
When people come to challenge you, they are giving you the opportunity to intensify your experience that you are right, or they are giving you the opportunity to say, “Oh, maybe I have had enough of it. Maybe I want something more.” You see, again, they are not violating your free will. They are giving you exactly what you say you want.
Look at your reactions
You, many of you, have known people who are in this state of mind. They might even be ascended master students or at least claim to be. They reach a certain state of mind where they think, “I have Christ’s discernment,” and you come based on your Christ’s discernment and challenge them. You give them a choice. They can choose to accept that what you are giving them is an opportunity from the Christ’s mind. Or they can choose to validate their egos and stay in that mental box. How is that a violation of their free will? You are just giving them the option, and it is up to them what they choose. What do you need to do? You need to be non-attached to their reaction. You see, that is another trap for people who have started to attain some Christ’s discernment, who get some impulse from the Christ’s mind. They share it with others, but then, if people do not react the way they want them to react—if they do not validate what you are giving them, if they do not take what you are giving them—then you go into a reaction to that.
That is where you have to look at yourself and say: “I see that these people are attached to their viewpoint. Do I have an attachment to changing these people’s minds, to helping them see what they do not see?” And if you honestly see that you have an attachment, then you go after that. Because by resolving your subconscious self behind the attachment, you free your mind to receive a purer impulse from the Christ’s mind the next time.
No ‘me’ in the Christ mind
You see what Jesus so carefully explained: “Christhood begins at the 97th level, but you are not at the ultimate level of Christhood at the 97th level. You still have a way to go.” Therefore, always be willing to look at your reaction. When you resolve something, you go to another level up, and another level up, and another level up. You can come to that point where there is no sense of ‘me’ that can be rejected.
There is no sense of ‘me’ that has an intention of helping other people, making them see. So, you express, you are free to express what comes to you from the Christ mind. You set other people free to react or not react according to their choices. And you set yourself free to not react to their reaction. You become as little children. Every situation is new. You do not allow yourself to build some reactionary pattern with another person. You do not go into the outer mind and say: “Oh, he rejected me once. I am never going to speak to him again.” No, you just go back into neutral. Perhaps there comes a situation down the road where you meet that person again. Instead of having this wounded self with the outer mind saying: “Oh, I am not going to talk to him. Look what he did there 15 years ago.” Instead, you are neutral, and if something comes to you from the Christ mind, you express it. Perhaps the person is now ready to listen. Perhaps not, but that is not the concern of the Christ mind. The Christ mind is content to express and is not attached to other people’s reactions.
The Christ mind—what did Jesus say?—is with you always. It does not matter if you have rejected the Christ mind 10,000 times. The Christ mind is always there to express the 10,001 time. It will continue to be there for as long as it takes because the Christ mind is not attached to the outcome of its expression. It is like the sun shining upon earth. Do you think there is some mind in the sun that looks down on earth and says: “Look at all these people putting on sunscreen. They do not like my rays. I am going to stop shining. I am going to give them three days of darkness and then we’ll see how they feel”? Of course not, and so it is with the Christ mind. The Christ mind cannot feel rejected, cannot feel challenged, cannot feel ignored. Yes, of course, the Christ mind has been ignored billions and billions of times. It is being ignored billions of times every day, but it does not affect the Christ mind. Why? Because in the Christ mind there is no ‘me’. That is what you can strive for if it is part of your Divine Plan to attain these levels of Christhood. There is no ‘me’ that can feel rejected. Why? There is no ‘me’ that is the doer. There is no ‘me’ that has a need to accomplish something. I cannot on my own ‘me’ do nothing because there is no ‘my own me’.
What an opportunity!
I did not achieve that on the road to Damascus. I did not achieve it for the rest of that embodiment as Paul, but I did achieve it later in my last embodiment where I qualified for my ascension. I had to retreat to a cave to maintain some peace of mind. That was then and that was me. You have a potential in this age to express your Christhood and not have to retreat from the world but continue to express regardless of the reactions you get or do not get. That is why Jesus said, “Those who accept me shall do the works that I did.” Greater works shall you do because times have moved on. The Christ can express more today than it could two thousand years ago. The Christ will express more if you let it. And when you have ten thousand Christed beings and millions of more with some level of Christhood, naturally the Christ can do more than Jesus did, than the Christ did through Jesus two thousand years ago.
That is what we all look for. Of course, as an ascended master you cannot feel jealousy, but you can look back and say: “Wow, what an opportunity they have today compared to when I was in my last embodiment. The consciousness, the collective consciousness was so much denser. What an opportunity to be in embodiment today.” I hope, and we all hope, that you can also come to see that opportunity. You can come to that point where you are completely content, at peace, with being where you are right now in embodiment on earth at this time because you recognize this is the best possible opportunity you could have to express your Christhood, as the earth, the equation of earth, is right now. We all hope that you can come to see this and therefore embrace that opportunity that the rest of your life represents. With this, I hope I have actually helped you lock in to an aspect of the Christ mind, which is that the Christ is the great healer for overcoming the ‘me’, locking into the opportunity is the ultimate form of healing, the ultimate form of wholeness.
We all wish that you can be whole while you are still in the body on earth. For that is, in a sense, the ultimate demonstration of Christ truth. I seal you in my flame of Healing and Wholeness.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels