Ascended Master Serapis Bey through Kim Michaels, May 22, 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 Serapis Bey. You will recall that Master MORE talked about how people saw him in previous ascended master dispensations and how it became counterproductive to what we actually want to achieve with our students.

Determination on the path

Well, certainly, I, Serapis Bey, have a similar image problem, that many people in previous dispensations saw me as this strict disciplinarian. And the image, if you step back from the specifics, the image is really that I was seeking to force students to qualify for their ascension or walk the spiritual path. The idea was that it required great discipline to walk the spiritual path, especially under Serapis Bey, when you came to my retreat at Luxor. It is not that this is wrong. But, it is not the full understanding, either. First of all, we have talked about the stages of the spiritual path where you start at the 48th level, where you are still very much influenced by the collective consciousness and then, as you walk up towards the 96th level, you are raising yourself above the collective consciousness.

And certainly, the collective consciousness on earth is very dense, so there is a very significant pull on any student who attempts to raise his or her consciousness beyond the average. Family, friends, but even people in general, want you to do what they are doing. They do not want you to raise yourself above them. “Who do you think you are?” is a common reaction from the collective. We can say that, in order to free yourself from this downward pull of the collective consciousness, it does require a certain discipline. And it is not really that it requires discipline as such, it is just that it requires a certain determination not to be sidetracked.

And what you see in some students is, of course, that they find the spiritual path, a teaching, a practice, they determine to dedicate themselves to doing it. But after some time, they lose momentum, they get distracted by other things, now they stop doing the practice, then they feel bad about having stopped, now they start again, it goes well for a while. Then they again get distracted, they stop doing it, then feel bad again, and the whole cycle repeats.

You see that there are some students that have this seesaw action going back and forth, trying to make it, but just as they are ready to break free from the pull of the collective, they are distracted and pulled back down. That is why there is a certain period of the path where you need to build a momentum, so that you are not pulled back by the collective. You are on a steady, upward path. In order to build this momentum, it requires a certain determination, a certain discipline. But, you see, I am not the one trying to force students to build this momentum. I am, of course, as the representative of the Fourth Ray, pointing out that the primary quality of the Fourth Ray is not purity, as traditionally seen, but acceleration. What you have to do, in order to break free of the pull of the collective, is to accelerate yourself—accelerate your approach to the spiritual path, but also accelerate your four lower bodies, especially, of course, the emotional, mental, and identity body, so that they cannot be pulled down because as long as you are accelerating, you do not feel the pull of the collective as much.

Once you stand still, you feel it much stronger, and then you can easily start sliding back down. But as long as you are maintaining a steady, accelerating trajectory, it becomes much easier for you to reach that point where the collective has lost its pull on you. You are not really tempted to go back into doing some of the things that other people are doing. From this perspective, there is, of course, validity to the idea of a certain discipline being required. But this cannot be extended to the process of preparing you for your ascension, or even the initiations of Christhood around the 96th level, because you see what students in previous organizations often envisioned was that I was this very strict person, almost like a general in the army. There were strict disciplinary requirements, and you would be punished for not following them to the letter. In other words, the idea was that the spiritual path is an all-or-nothing process. You either fulfil the requirements, or you are out. You either live up to my demands in my retreat, or you have to leave. But that is, of course, not the way it is, especially not with the initiations around the 96th level, and, of course, not with the theme of this conference: “Co-creating with the ascended masters.”

You see, Christhood and co-creation cannot be forced. It must be something you desire more than an earthly activity because, as Paul the Venetian said, you love it more than the earthly activity. And you cannot be forced to love. You can only reconnect to what you love more. Really, you could say that, if you have worked through the initiations of the first three rays, I do not have to discipline you when you come to the Fourth Ray because you have already reconnected to that love under Paul the Venetian, and the wisdom under Lanto, and the will to experiment under Master MORE, so I do not need to discipline you whatsoever. You are already motivated.

The need for a distance between you and the masters

Now I want to go back to this idea from previous dispensations, this image that I am the strict, uncompromising disciplinarian. What is really behind that image? Well, first of all, you can see that, in a hierarchical structure, such as, for example, an army, there is a clear hierarchy, and those who are at the lower levels are removed from those at the higher levels. The people at the very top are basically untouchable for those at the lower levels. It is a one-way communication, and there is a distance. Why did previous ascended master students, who saw themselves as advanced spiritual people, as dedicated ascended master students, why did they want to uphold this image of me and Master MORE, or El Morya, as they called him, as disciplinarians? Because it maintained the gap, the distance between them and us.

Now you may consider, of course, the seeming contradiction, that you see yourself as a student of the ascended masters, but you want to maintain a distance between you and the masters. Why is this? Why do you think you are a dedicated student, but you want the masters to be up there? You want, basically, the ascended masters to be like the remote God in the sky, and for that matter, why have people for a long time wanted a remote God in the sky? Well, it is partly because, of course, this allows the ego to hide. Or rather, it allows the ego to maintain the illusion that it can hide from God or from the ascended masters.

Hiding the ego

What does that actually mean? Here you have a person who sees himself or herself as a dedicated ascended master student, thinks that he or she is studying and practicing the highest spiritual teaching on the planet, thinking that he or she is approaching personal Christhood, yet the person still wants to maintain a distance between themselves and the masters. Why? Well, because they feel they still have something to hide. You are really thinking, or rather the ego, the subconscious selves are thinking that: “If I can keep Serapis Bey at arm’s length, he cannot see what is hiding in my psychology.” But why would you think this? Why would you want me not to see what is going on in your psychology?

If you consider what we have said in this dispensation, that spiritual growth is entirely about resolving psychology, why would you not want me to help you resolve your psychology? And how can I help you resolve it, if I cannot see it? You see, when you have this attitude, it is because you have not really grasped that the spiritual path is about resolving psychology. You are still on the outer path where you think: “Studying the teachings, practicing decrees, this is enough to qualify me for my ascension. I do not have to look at my psychology in order to qualify for my ascension.” What these students were in essence saying was that they would like to come to my retreat at Luxor, study under me, but they expected that this would be like joining the army, where you would have certain drills, certain exercises, you would learn certain skills, outer things you had to do, and you had to follow this strict disciplinary procedure. And if you just did that, then one day, magically, you would have qualified for your ascension, and I would appear and tell you this, and take you into the atomic accelerator chair where your body could be accelerated into the ascended state, as some older students imagined.

Giving up the sense of gap

You see, when you take the teachings we are giving now, you see how we have stepped up to an entirely higher level, where we have explained very clearly that you cannot ascend this way because the ascension is a voluntary process. You must choose to ascend. And in order to choose to ascend, you must choose to leave the earth behind. But you cannot leave the earth behind if you still have unresolved psychology, unresolved desires, unresolved attachments, the subconscious selves that we are now teaching. You see, when you see a gap between yourself and the ascended masters, you will never overcome that gap. For what is the last process of the ascension? It is that you give up the illusion that there is a gap between you and the ascended octave, the ascended masters, your I AM Presence. You give up the sense that there is a gap.

Now, the same way with co-creating with the ascended masters. How can you co-create with us if you see a gap between yourself and us? As long as there is a gap, where is the connection that allows energies and visions to flow from us to you, and if there is no flow from us to you, how can there be co-creation? You cannot co-create with an image of ascended masters that you hold in your mind. You can only co-create when you make a genuine connection with at least one ascended master and you cannot make that connection as long as you see a gap. Now, again, as Paul the Venetian said, we cannot force you to overcome that gap and we have no desire to force you. I have no desire to discipline you or punish you if you do not live up to my demands.

Surrendering to the pull

My role is to receive you when you have passed the initiations of the first three Chohans and then accelerate your path to a higher level. But what is acceleration? Is it a push or a pull? You look at a rocket standing on the launch pad. At the bottom of the rocket is this huge fuel tank, with boosters at the bottom, and as those boosters are ignited, they create an explosion that creates a force that pushes the rocket up. And this is precisely how many people in previous dispensations looked at the spiritual path. You are pushing up. And again, at the lower levels of the path, between the 48th and the 96th, you do have to push to break free of the collective. But when you reach the fourth level, you need to switch and realize that acceleration can be created in two ways. One is the push. But when you connect to something above—your I AM Presence, ascended masters of your choice—they can pull you up and they can deliver the acceleration through a pull instead of a push. But what does it require for you to shift from pushing yourself to allowing yourself to be pulled? You have to surrender. You have to surrender to the pull. It is, to give you a crude illustration, what do you have to do to make this pen fall? There is a natural force of gravity that is pulling the pen down. What do you have to do? Do you have to push it down? Do you have to throw it down? Well, you can, of course, do this. But all you really have to do is just stop holding on. Surrender, and it falls. Well, it is the same in the opposite direction.

Letting go of your image of Serapis Bey

It is our joy, the joy of your I AM Presence, to pull up on the Conscious You. All you have to do is stop resisting it. But how can you surrender if you are at my retreat under my tutelage, how can you surrender to my willingness to pull you up, to pull you into acceleration? You have to let go of your image of me, and if you especially have the image of a strict disciplinarian, you have to let go of that image that creates a gap between you and I. I cannot pull you if you are seeing a distance between you and I. You must surrender the image that causes you to feel that distance.

Now, I know you are going to say, or at least the logical, rational mind can say: “But, Serapis, you are an ascended master. Are you not above me?” But you are not understanding what I am saying then. I am, of course, an ascended master. I am at a higher level of vibration than you are. That is why I can pull you up. But that is not the same as the image I am talking about that sees a gap between you and I, because the image is what prevents you from surrendering to my pull because you think that I require something of you, some outer thing you have to live up to.

In other words, you are thinking that I am imposing conditions on you. You are thinking that I am standing here, the strict disciplinarian, saying: “You have to live up to this condition, and that condition, and that condition, then I will accept you as my student!” But you see, what is imposing conditions upon you is not me, but the image you have of me. You are imposing conditions upon yourself and as long as you are imposing those conditions, you cannot surrender to my pull. You cannot surrender into acceleration. In fact, what will happen is that the push that you created in order to break free of the collective consciousness will not be able to take you further, and you will stagnate, which we have seen happen to many students. Some could maintain a certain level for a while, but many eventually started going down.

Projecting conditions onto yourself

If you look at previous ascended master dispensations, you will see a pattern that, after the messenger no longer was active, many students fell away from the teachings, some even gave up on the spiritual path but that was because they had an image of what the masters are like, what the spiritual path is like, and what they are like as spiritual students. And they did not want to acknowledge that those conditions that they projected upon us, were really only created in their own minds. They did not come from us.

What am I trying to show you here? You think that we are projecting at you an image that you have to live up to as our students. But in reality, you are projecting at us, and of course, you are projecting at yourself. But we are ascended masters. How did we ascend? Well, we ascended, as we are explaining, by surrendering, by giving up, by letting go.

Surely, we each followed our process. Each ascended master has their own way of looking at the path. There is an old joke told of El Morya and Kuthumi, who are told to go up a mountain, find a master, get a message, and bring it back down. And El Morya charges straight up the hill without looking right or left, gets the message, goes straight down, but when he comes down, he has forgotten the message. Kuthumi takes a slowly meandering path, communes with the birds, smells the flowers, gets the message, it takes him longer to get back down, but he has retained the message. Each master, we have our own way, but there came a point where we realized that our approach to the path could only take us to a certain level, and then we had to give up that approach to go higher.

You see, it is an enigma to grasp this. And I am not so ambitious that I think I can give you words that will resolve it for everyone. But as always, some will grasp it. What I am saying here is you think we are projecting on you conditions that you have to live up to, but we are not projecting on you. We are, however, radiating our light and our vision. Would you say that the sun is projecting its light on you, or is it just radiating its light? In other words, does the sun sit there and formulate a specific condition, so that you, one person among eight billion on earth, you have to live up to specific conditions in order to receive the sun’s light? No. It just radiates the light, and so do we.

You see, in order to co-create, yes, you have to receive from us but what you receive is not a projection of you having to live up to a certain image. All you have to do in order to receive from us, is to receive, but in order to receive you have to be open, you have to be neutral. And you are not neutral when you are projecting an image upon us, that we are projecting an image upon you, and therefore, you are projecting on yourself that you have to live up to this image that comes from us, but which really comes from you, from your subconscious mind, from your ego, but also, of course, from the fallen beings.

It is again this—the fallen beings have projected there is a standard you have to live up to and it is inevitable that ascended master students in the beginning will believe, that, in order to be a good student of the ascended masters, you have to live up to a standard. But as we have said before: “Will you please stop projecting at us that we are judging you the same way the fallen beings are judging you? Will you please stop projecting at us that we are in the same mindset as the fallen beings?” We are not.

Unconscious vs. conscious co-creation

We have ascended because we have transcended the mindset of the fallen beings. We have given up the mindset of seeking in our minds to define how the universe should work. What is it you are doing in the duality consciousness? You are formulating a mental image in your mind, often based on ideas you received from the fallen beings and their ideologies and their religions. But you are formulating an image in your mind, you are projecting it upon the external world, and when you hear about ascended masters, you are repeating that process. You are formulating an image in your mind, projecting it upon us. And in the beginning, that image is affected by the angry, judgmental God, the remote God in the sky, created by the fallen beings. We have tried to do everything we can think of to help you let go of that image, and when you do let go of that image, you have passed a significant threshold on the spiritual path. But there is still another consideration.

What we have explained before is that as a co-creator, you co-create by using the conceptual mind. Master MORE said you have to experiment. How do you experiment? You formulate an image in your mind, you project it into the cosmic mirror, you project it at the Ma-ter light, you project it at the reality simulator. You have a certain level of consciousness, and you formulate your image based on that level of consciousness. That is perfectly natural and unavoidable. That is how you co-create. Then, when you see what comes back, you refine the image and project a more refined image and you continue with that process.

In other words, you formulate an image in the conceptual mind, you are projecting it out—but do you see what is the topic of this conference? Co-creation with the ascended masters. There is an unconscious co-creation where you are formulating an image in your mind and, of course, the energy, the light that you use to project that image out comes from the ascended masters, but you are not aware of this. You are not aware of the Christ mind. You will in the beginning see yourself as an individual being living in an external world. You may have a sense of connection with something, but you are not clear what you are connected to. You are formulating an image in the conceptual mind and projecting it out. Again, perfectly natural, but what we are talking about here is that you are coming towards the 96th level where you attain that personal Christhood. Personal Christhood is that you become consciously aware of the One mind and you give up the desire to express your co-creative abilities as a separate being or even as an individual being. You surrender to the One mind wanting to only express your creativity in ways that raises the whole rather than manifesting what you individually desire.

Entering the flow of the River of Life

The initiation you have to overcome in order to consciously co-create with us is that you have to grasp how to use the conceptual mind at this level. You see, at lower levels, you are formulating an image in your mind, projecting it at everything. When you hear about the spiritual path and ascended masters, say at the 48th level, you are using your conceptual mind to formulate an image of the ascended masters and of the spiritual path and you are projecting that image upon us. Again, perfectly natural. But what we are telling you is that as you come closer to the 96th level and you have a desire to consciously co-create with us, you need to realize that co-creation can only be achieved when you stop using the conceptual mind to formulate an image of us and projecting it upwards. You need to realize that co-creation means you enter the flow of the Holy Spirit, of the River of Life, of the Christ consciousness.

What we have done as ascended masters, we have surrendered into the flow. We have not lost our individuality. We have actually recaptured or gained our true individuality as one facet in the diamond of the mind of God. And you see what that means is, we have explained, there is a hierarchy of ascended beings reaching all the way up to the Creator. All ascended beings are aware that we are part of this hierarchy and that the flow goes from the Creator to the lower levels, the highest level of ascended masters, then to the next level, the next and the next. This is a true hierarchy. It is not like the earthly hierarchies created by the fallen beings, but there is a flow. This is not a dictate. It is not that you give up your free will when you join this flow. You give up the desire to exercise free will as a separate individual being without considering the whole, which truly makes your will free. What my point here is no ascended master formulates an image in its mind of what God should be like and attempts to project that upwards.

Projecting down, never up—or onto yourself

As an ascended master, you are using your conceptual mind, but you are not projecting up with a conceptual mind. You are formulating an image based on your level of consciousness and you are projecting it down. And that is the position you need to find if you want to co-create with us, where you stop using the conceptual mind to project an image of what ascended masters are like and what conditions we impose upon you.

In a sense, in order to achieve this, you have to stop imposing conditions on yourself and that is what you achieve when you pass that initiation of the 96th level, overcoming the focus on self. Because what is that focus on self? It is, you have used the conceptual mind to formulate a condition that you have to live up to and you are projecting that upon yourself. You see why this becomes a self-reinforcing system, the serpent swallowing its tail? You have formulated a condition in your own mind, an image in your own mind, but you are projecting that it was not you, it was the ascended masters. This comes from a higher authority and therefore, you cannot break free of it.

You can only break free of it when you realize consciously: “Oh, it is not Serapis Bey who wants me to be this way, it is the subconscious self, my primal self. It is myself who is seeking to force myself to live up to this image, these conditions.” When you see that, that is when you pass the initiation at the 96th level. Because now you can say: “I am done with this, projecting images upon myself.” And when you no longer project an image on yourself, you do not need to project any image up. You are still, in order to co-create, of course, formulating an image in your conceptual mind that you are then projecting out on the Ma-ter light. That is how you co-create. But you see, co-creation is a flow from above to below. And in order to be in that flow, you do not need to formulate an image in your mind and project up. That will only stop the flow. Why? Because you are at a certain level of consciousness. You can only formulate an image based on that level.

The co-creative chain

I have ascended some time ago. I have had time to explore the ascended realm. I have a higher level of consciousness than you have. I have a higher level of consciousness than when I ascended. But I still fully realize that I, Serapis Bey, an ascended master in the sixth sphere of working with earth, I have nowhere near the consciousness of the Elohim or of ascended beings in higher spheres or of the Creator. Therefore, thinking that I could use my current level of consciousness to formulate an image of what the Creator is like is completely impossible and I have fully given up the whole idea that I could formulate an image of what the Creator is like. What do I do instead? I open myself to the flow that comes to me from above. I accept that flow and then I turn around and see how I can let the flow filter through my consciousness like a prism where the white light comes in and now it is split into the colors by the prism, by the internal structure of the prism and then I project that on the level below me.

And you see, for you to co-create with me, you have to do the same, and you can. But you have to give up that image, that whole desire to formulate an image based on your present level of consciousness and project it up. Instead, you realize that you want to be neutral about what comes from above. You want to be open, just receiving the flow, then allowing that flow to filter through your consciousness. And then you are conceptualizing an image you want to manifest, and you are projecting that out, not up, but down. That is how you co-create. You accept what comes from above, filter it, project it further down to the next level. That is the co-creative chain.

How to let a self die?

You see why we have given you all of these teachings about subconscious selves, resolving psychology. What is the subconscious self? It is an image created in your conceptual mind based on the level of consciousness you had when you created that self. Let us say you had gone below the 48th level. You are at the 36th level of consciousness. You are experiencing some situation that is traumatic to you. You are formulating a certain self at that level based on the 36th level of consciousness. You are using your conceptual mind to formulate an image of what kind of being you are, and in order to be free of that image, you have to come to see that it was you who created it. But at the 36th level, you cannot grasp this. At the 36th level, any of the levels below the 48th, you cannot grasp this. You think: “Oh, it was not me who formulated that image. It was the outer conditions that forced me to react this way. There was no other way I could have reacted.” Again, you are projecting something outside of yourself defined who you are. And you can maintain or hold onto that self even as you start rising above the 36th level. Even as you come close to the 96th level, you can hold onto one of these selves.

But what we are trying to help you see is that at the 96th level, in order to step up to the level of personal Christhood, you have to come to this realization—every image you have of what kind of being you are was created in your own mind. Yes, it was created in a specific situation, a very difficult situation on a dark, unnatural planet. Very difficult, very traumatic. It is perfectly understandable you created that self. We are not blaming you. We have done the same.

But, no matter how understandable it is, it does not change the fact you created the self. Why is that important? Why is it so crucial to realize this? Because only when you accept that: “I created the self” can you accept: “I can uncreate the self.” You see, the self projects: “You did not create me. It was the outer situation, the outer conditions that led to my creation and in order to be free of me, you have to change those outer conditions. You have to solve the problem.” But as we have tried to explain to you over and over again, the only thing you have to do to be free of a self is to come to see that you created it and you can uncreate it by letting it die. You do not need to solve the outer situation because what affects you is the self you created in your mind and you do not need to change the outer situation to be free of the self. You only need to let the self die, but in order to do that, of course, you have to separate the Conscious You from it. And that is the whole process we have described several times of how to do this.

Beyond the catch 22

My point here is this. You cannot co-create when you still have that focus on self, that self-focused self. Why? Because that self will always see a gap between itself and the ascended masters and therefore, you cannot connect. You cannot become part of the hierarchy. You see what we are telling you here. There is a hierarchy of light and even in previous dispensations, we said you are part of that hierarchy. But you are not fully part of the hierarchy until you attain that Christhood. And there are some people who have thought, well, I will not become part of the hierarchy of light until I ascend. But what we are telling you is, you can become part of the hierarchy when you attain that personal Christhood. But in order to attain it, you must give up the self that maintains, that projects the gap and that wants to project up, because again, I will say it again—the self projects conditions upon you. But it also projects that these are not conditions that you formulated in your own mind—no, they are formulated by a higher authority, in your case, the ascended masters.

You see, this is the catch 22. That is why this self-focused self is the hardest to give up, because you have climbed the spiritual path from the 48th through the 96th level by using that self to set yourself apart from the collective consciousness, and that has been necessary. But you cannot go into Christhood by setting yourself apart from anything, because setting yourself apart from the collective consciousness means you also set yourself apart from the ascended masters. And therefore, you have to give up that self. And you can only give it up when you realize that we are not the ones projecting conditions that you have to live up to. You are the one who defined the conditions that you think you have to live up to before we will co-create with you. You are thinking you have to solve a problem that was created out there, because the problem you have to solve is the conditions we are projecting upon you.

What you need to see is that there is no problem out there. There is no problem in the ascended realm. There are no conditions from the ascended masters that you have to live up to. Now, I know how your outer minds are struggling with this, because you are saying: “Does that mean that all this talk about a spiritual path and following this rigorous system, that that was all a lie, that it was all for nothing?” No, that is not what it means. You needed to follow that path to reach the 96th level, to climb above the pull of the collective consciousness, but in order to go to the next level up, you have to leave that behind.

You cannot force your way into heaven by living up to conditions defined on earth

Going back to what I said earlier, why did the students in previous dispensations want to maintain the image that I am a strict disciplinarian? Well, because then they could maintain the distance. Then they could think they wanted to hide something. What they are projecting is: “If I live up to outer conditions, the conditions I can grasp at my present level of consciousness, then I will qualify for my ascension without having to look at the unresolved psychology.” And what we are telling you here is that this works for a while. It works up until the 96th level, but then it does not work anymore because at the 96th level, you need to overcome the illusion that you can force your way into heaven by living up to conditions defined on earth.

In essence, there is a certain element of the spiritual path that is colored by the consciousness of the fallen beings, that they think they can define conditions, project them upon God, and God is going to live up to it. It is the same as the fundamentalist Christians who believe that if they declare Jesus to be their Lord and Savior, then suddenly Jesus is obligated to come and save them by their declaration. They do not fathom that in the reality simulator of earth, you can have any experience you want for as long as you want it. But in order to get out of the simulator, you have to stop wanting a simulated experience and instead want a real experience, an experience of experiencing an ascended master without a filter, the filter you have created in your own subconscious self. But in order to attain that, you have to give up the idea that you can hide anything from the ascended masters.

The self-focused self believes that we cannot see what is going on inside it, but we can, of course. And you, the Conscious You, needs to come to that realization that you do not want to hide anything from us anymore. Again, this cannot be forced. I am not trying to force you. I am just trying to clarify for you your situation as you approach that 96th level. You have to choose whether you want to go above the 96th level, whether you want to accelerate yourself to the level of personal Christhood, or whether you want to stay under the radar, so to speak, and therefore, start going down again, seeking to glorify and validate that self-focused self, because you cannot have it both ways. You see, when you think this automatic path where: “If I live up to conditions on earth, I will get into heaven.” You think you can have it both ways. But at the 96th level, you need to overcome that illusion. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, but when I became an adult, I put away childish things.”

Surrendering to a force that pulls you up

And the childish things on the spiritual path is this idea that you can formulate based on your present level of consciousness conditions. And if you live up to those conditions, that will take you to a higher level of consciousness. Hello? How are conditions formulated at your present level of consciousness going to take you to a higher level? The higher level of consciousness is achieved when you see the conditions at your current level, give them up, then you naturally are pulled up to the higher level. You could say that contrary to what you experience on earth, where you experience there is a force of gravity that pulls you down, there is actually a force that pulls you up. You have forced yourself away from that. You have used force to pull yourself away from oneness, but at the 96th level, you need to realize that you cannot force your way back to oneness. You can only surrender to the pull and it will naturally pull you up.

I am assessing the effect that my words have had on you. My pause is just for dramatic effect because my mind, of course, does not need to pause to assess this, and I will now surrender my desire or attempt, experiment, to explain this in words. Because I realize that I have said as much as I, Serapis Bey, can say from my vantage point of the Fourth Ray and therefore, I will surrender knowing that my esteemed brothers and sisters on the rays above me will be able to say what more can be said. There is, of course, always more that can be said. But the important point is that you come to a point where you realize that this is not a matter of understanding because understanding always implies distance. It is a matter of surrendering in to the flow. You do not need to use force to accelerate. You need to stop using force to resist the flow and surrender in to the flow and the flow will accelerate you up to the next level.

The process of the ascension is the ultimate surrender you can go through on earth, but you can go through many levels of surrender before that. And the most significant is, of course, at the 96th level where you surrender the desire to use the conceptual mind to formulate images of what is above you in the flow of hierarchy, where you give up that self-focused self that it can define the conditions you need to live up to in order to get to the ascended realm. There are no conditions that could be conceptualized by a mind in an unascended sphere that will qualify you or guarantee your entrance into the ascended realm.

We could say that the ascension is the final act of giving up any conditions in an unascended sphere, realizing that nothing in an unascended sphere can affect the ascended spheres. And you give up the attempt to try to force your way in, to force God to give you what God offers you freely but which you can only receive when you give up the conditions in your mind.

Serapis Bey, I AM and I seal you in the joyful accelerating Flame of the Fourth Ray.

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