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

I AM the Ascended Master Jesus Christ. What do I have to say about Christhood? Well, naturally, all of the masters who have spoken before me have focused on specific aspects of Christhood, and so therefore, I will also focus on a specific aspect, and it is that of winning or victory.

When you look back throughout the ages, to the Christian movement and the Christian churches, you see that many, many Christian people, whether from this or that church or denomination, have had various visions of Christ returning to Earth in some undeniable victorious manifestation. I would conquer all the dark forces, smite all the dark forces, and conquer all opposition to the manifestation of God’s kingdom on Earth, which for most of these Christians meant that I, the Christ, would come and conquer all those people that the Christians did not like. A theme you see over and over again even in today’s Christians. You look to the United States of how many people think that they were winning in the election, they are now winning, and one day soon Christ will come back, and they, in their particular denomination, will be elevated as the ones who really were the true followers of Christ.

The fantasy of the victorious Christ

May I please ask you to consider a simple question: “What in the story of my life supports this fantasy of the victorious Christ that conquers all?” Do you realize how most of my disciples, most of the people who had followed me, felt after I died on the cross? Do you realize that most of them felt completely distraught, completely defeated? Because they also had a certain fantasy that I would not die on the cross, but that somehow God would save me, and I would emerge victorious. For that matter, I had a certain twinge of that fantasy, and it was only when I was hanging on the cross that I fully realized and acknowledged that: “Yes, my body would die on the cross, and God would not come and save me.” Therefore, I had to give up that ghost, that last separate self, that had this fantasy that Christ is going to be victorious in this world. How could Christ be victorious on an unnatural planet like Earth when Christ is the very foundation for the exercise of free will? The teachings we have given you explain this in a deeper way than has ever been explained before.

The Christ mind was defined by the Creator because the Creator knew that in order to explore the fullness of free will, some beings would go into duality. The Christ mind, therefore, is what gives people the opportunity to come back to oneness, but this must happen within the Law of Free Will. If Christ was to appear in some undeniable manifestation and smite the enemies of God and forcefully establish God’s kingdom on Earth, would that not be a violation of the Law of Free Will established by the Creator? Indeed, it would.

What is Christ? Oh yes, the unifying element between the Creator and its creation. If Christ was to appear and force the kingdom of God upon the people of Earth, then Christ itself would go against God’s intention, the Creator’s intention. Christ could never do that because Christ is defined by the Creator to unify through free will. The Creator does not want the extensions of itself to come into oneness with the Creator out of force, but only through their free-will choices. Christ will forever respect that. It cannot do anything else.

Christhood will not make you victorious in everything you do

Now you who are direct students of the Ascended Master Jesus Christ, not the idolatrous view promoted by Christian churches, you can ask: “Well, how does this apply to our everyday lives?” Many ascended master students over the last decades have thought that: “When I walk the path of Christhood and attain a level of Christ consciousness, this means I will be victorious in everything I do.” Just as one example: “If I have Christ’s truth, I will be able to win every argument with other people because I will have the truth, and they will not.” Even ascended master students have created various fantasies of what abilities, what special abilities, they would acquire as they walk the path of Christhood. Where do these fantasies come from? Well, as I have said, they cannot come from the mind of Christ, so they must come from the mind of anti-christ, the separate mind, the duality consciousness. What is it we have explained about the ego? It wants to become immortal, but on the immediate level, it wants to feel secure. How will it feel secure? If it can establish its dualistic viewpoint as the ultimate truth, that will be the ultimate victory for the ego.

When you find the path to Christhood, hear about the concept of Christhood, what can you do other than allow your view of this, your understanding of this, to be colored by the ego? Therefore, it is easy to think that when you walk the path to Christhood, you will have the validation for your spiritual worldview, or the validation of ascended master teachings, and that the world will somehow recognize your teaching as the superior one, as the Christians dream about the world recognizing their church as the only true church of Christ. Again, we are not blaming anyone, we are just pointing out the phase that most ascended master students go through.

What you see here is that you go through a certain stage on the spiritual path where you are thinking, perhaps not consciously, but it is there right below the level of conscious awareness, that somehow Christ will validate your current view of the world and of yourself. As we have explained, if Christ were to validate your current view, what would happen? You would become even more trapped in that view, and your current view is not the ultimate view, it is colored by the ego. How could Christ validate it?

What the ego does no want you to realize

That is why some people find an ascended master teaching, apply themselves eagerly to it, feel like they are making great progress, and then they come to a point where they feel like: “Ah, things are not as exciting as they used to be, things are not as new as they used to be.” They feel like they are not making the progress they thought they would be making, they have not really broken through and gotten the results. The mechanism here is very simple. The purpose of walking the path to Christhood is, as we have now explained – how many times, dozens of times – to resolve psychology. Your ego does not want you to realize this, so the ego paints this picture that by doing all the outer things, you will achieve outer results because it wants to distract you from looking at your psychology.

Now, when you find the spiritual path, you are given a certain grace period. We do release a certain light to you, so you feel that you are really making progress. If you do not lock in to the inner path and consciously acknowledge the need to resolve psychology, then there comes a point when we must withdraw that light. In other words, the Christ is there for you in the beginning, there with you, but if you do not go to the inner path and start resolving psychology, the Christ must withdraw from you because otherwise the Christ would validate your view of the outer path being sufficient, and that the Christ will not do. If you feel like you have stagnated a little bit, there is only one way out of it, and it is to start looking at the psychology, really looking at the beam in your own eye.

Shocking experiences on the path to Christhood

Now there is a phenomenon on the path that I wish to bring to your attention. To give you an example of this, take those of my disciples and followers who were there for my trial, who followed me as I walked the Via Dolorosa through the streets of Jerusalem, carrying that cross beam of the cross. They were standing there, watching me being crucified, hoping for a miracle, and then seeing me give up the ghost, draw my last breath, see the lance being stuck into my side and coming to that realization: “Jesus is dead, he died on the cross.” This is what you call a rude awakening. Some call it a hitting the concrete experience, where you hit your head against the concrete and realize that the concrete is not going to give in. Here is an undeniable physical manifestation that shatters your mental view of what should and should not happen. It is a shocking experience.

It is not absolutely unavoidable that you have such shocking experiences on the path to Christhood. Not all people have them, but most people will have some of these shocking experiences because what happens is that your expectations, your mental images, meet the reality of the Christ mind. Now in some cases, this happens because your expectations meet the reality of the physical octave, the physical circumstances, but that is not really what I am talking about here.

What I am talking about is that you have a certain expectation, and now you connect to the Christ mind. The Christ mind gives you a frame of reference that allows you to see that your expectation or your view, your mental image was out of touch with the reality of Christ. You can have this experience that you see the unreality of your mental image because the Conscious You, by encountering the Christ mind, steps outside the mental image and looks at it from the outside. It sees the fantasy. It sees the unreality. What happens to many people in the beginning, when they first have these kinds of experiences, is that the Conscious You steps outside of one particular subconscious self and sees the unreality of the view projected by that self. The Conscious You is still colored by another subconscious self, and this often causes students to see that they had held on to an illusion, that they had believed a lie, but they are colored by another self that now condemns you for having believed in the lie.

You feel the entire experience as a very rude awakening where you are encountering the reality of Christ to see one illusion, but you are still colored by another illusion, and therefore, you condemn yourself for having believed in that illusion. There are also, throughout the ages, Christians who have sincerely striven to embody the teachings of Christ who have had these experiences. Some have come to see themselves as sinners: Oh I am a miserable sinner because I saw this one illusion, and I do not see that my reaction is colored by another illusion.

Switching away from the focus on self at the 96th level

Some of you can recognize these situations, and some of you cannot. The reason for me bringing this up is that what I would ideally like to see is that you come to a point where encountering the reality of Christ is not a shock, and it does not cause you to condemn yourself. Now, while you are walking that path from the 48th to the 96th level, you are encountering the reality of Christ, but often you do not have this rude awakening because you are just given enough to help you step up from one level to the next. As you get closer to the 96th level (and in order to go beyond the 96th level), you must encounter the Christ mind in its unfiltered reality. If you still have a subconscious self that judges yourself, that criticizes yourself, that puts yourself down for not being perfect, then this can be a very unpleasant experience.

If you can work on these selves, then it does not have to be an unpleasant experience. Ideally, as you go beyond that 96th level, you will encounter the Christ in a more and more pure manifestation, but it will not cause you to put yourself down. You will simply look at the illusion you have, use that frame of reference of the Christ mind to let go of the illusion and instead of putting yourself down for having had the illusion, you feel the joy that you have transcended the illusion.

How can you make that transition? Well, you need to look at the subconscious selves that cause you to condemn yourself, but you also, with the conscious mind, need to make a switch that we have mentioned before. It is a difficult switch to make because what you really have to come to is this realization that: “It is not about me.” You need to overcome that focus on self because what is the focus on self? Well, when you talk about the ego being born out of separation, you can say that even as you reconnect, and you walk the path from the 48th to the 96th level, you are still carrying elements of that separate self with you. In order to pass the initiation at the 96th level, you have to let that go. In other words, the ego is still trying to color your path, thinking that it will get something out of it, that you will get something out of it as a separate self.

Up until the 96th level, you can actually believe that you are walking the path of Christhood as a separate being, and that you can attain Christhood as a separate being, and therefore, do something as a separate being, even win a victory as a separate being. That gives you a focus on self, but it also gives you the inevitable duality where there is winning, but there is also losing because in duality there cannot be winning without losing. When you encounter that the Christ mind shows you an illusion you had, well then you might feel like you have lost, and that is what gives the shock and the unpleasantness.

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