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Ascended Master Cyclopea through Kim Michaels, April 1, 2024. This dictation was given during the Easter webinar 2024: Liberating Christ.

I AM the Ascended Master the Elohim Cyclopea.

The state of death that hides Christ

I represent, for Earth, the Fifth Ray Of Vision And Truth, and also what might be called the All-Seeing Eye Of God. But what is the All-Seeing Eye Of God except the Christ consciousness? The Christ consciousness that is in everything, without whom nothing was made that was made, and therefore, sees all, wherever you are. You may have heard this popular saying: “You can run but you cannot hide.” Well, you can attempt to run from the Christ consciousness, but you cannot hide from it, because it sees all. Of course, you cannot really run from the Christ consciousness either, because wherever you go, there you are, or at least there the Christ consciousness is. So what can you do? Well, you cannot hide from Christ, but you can hide Christ in your own mind only. There are, of course, those who attempt, after they have hidden Christ in their own minds, to hide Christ in the minds of others, or rather to get others to hide Christ in their own minds.

Now, we come to one of these interesting questions that might help you gain a higher understanding, it is simply this. Can those who have gone into the fallen consciousness and attempt to control others, can they really control others? In other words, can they achieve a state where they have gained followers who are following what they say, and who cannot, by their own power, escape their control? Can the fallen beings manage to hide Christ on an entire planet so that the people on that planet, once they no longer see Christ, they can never get back to seeing Christ on their own? In other words, can the fallen beings enslave the beings on a planet in such a way that they can never free themselves from that enslavement? And the answer to that question is, obviously: no, they cannot. The fallen beings would dispute this, because they believe that they can. They believe they have achieved this on earth and on other planets. And they will point to the fact that for a long period in what is known history, most people on earth have been in the state of death that hides Christ. But what is the entire purpose of Jesus’ embodiment? It is to demonstrate that you can be born in a manger, you can be born in humble circumstances. It does not matter who you are, how you were born, what circumstances you were born in, but you can still transcend that and manifest personal Christhood.

Of course, the fallen beings will say: “Ah, look what we did with Jesus’ so-called example. How many Christians recognize Jesus as an example? Nay, look how they believe in our lie, that he was the exception.” And therefore, Christ is still hidden in all those who claim to be Christians. Yes, but does that mean that those Christians could not change, could not switch their minds at any moment and make contact with the Christ mind? Nay, they could at any moment switch. And that is why the fallen beings live in perpetual fear of Christ. Most of them do not even really understand what we have told you here, but a few have at least some grasp, and they know that they cannot permanently control or alter people’s minds, so that people lose their Christ potential. They can put people in a state of mind where they are almost in a vegetative state, where it is not that likely that they will turn around. But they cannot do this to all people.

As Abraham Lincoln said: “You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” But neither can you fool some people all of the time. Why not? Because through Christ, without whom nothing was made that was made, all self-aware beings are connected. And as we have explained, the vast majority of the self-aware beings in this unascended sphere have gone into the upward spiral, and the vast majority of them have recognized Christ in themselves and each other. And they have formed the upward movement of the Holy Spirit of the River of Life and therefore, they are pulling up on everybody else. So that the fallen beings are living on borrowed time, their days are numbered and their reign on earth will come to an end, as everything that goes against the oneness of Christ will come to an end, through what we have called the second law of thermodynamics, or the wrath of Shiva.

There will be an end to the fallen beings and their reign on earth, which is why you see, as is said in Revelation: “The devil has come down to you having great wrath, for he knows that he hath but a short time”. And there are those fallen beings who know that their time is coming to an end, and they are doing their best to create as much chaos and control as they can before they are taken. Why are they not taken right now? Because they are allowed to create a certain amount of chaos, as we have said, to make the dualistic polarities more pronounced, so that more and more people can see it.

You see what is the dilemma, the unsolvable dilemma, for those in the mind of anti-christ. It is that the more they attempt to control people, the more they suppress the people, the more they increase the desire of some people to be free of the suppression. Therefore, they are creating more and more tension, more and more opposition to themselves, and they are creating more of an incentive for people to free themselves.

No standards in Christ

Now, what have we explained? Christ is the one mind. We have explained that Christ is beyond concepts, is beyond the conceptual mind. We have said that there is nothing inherently wrong with the conceptual mind, because without the conceptual mind you cannot co-create. You co-create by formulating a concept in your mind and projecting it upon the Ma-ter light. Forming concepts is part of your growth in self-awareness. But as we have said, there are concepts based on the underlying reality that all life is connected, and there are concepts based on the consciousness of anti-christ, which denies the connection of all life, upholds, or seeks to uphold, this illusion that there are separate beings who can do something that harms others but benefits themselves.

There is nothing inherently wrong with concepts. But the question is, are they based on the Christ mind, the vision of oneness, or the divided mind, the vision of separation and duality. This might be said to be a certain standard for evaluating concepts. Yet the Christ mind is not really a standard, in the sense that you cannot take the concept, the idea of the Christ mind here on earth, and say: “Okay, I see there is a Christ mind, but this Christ mind must have a standard that can be clearly defined. For example, in the Ten Commandments, or the commandments of Jesus, or some religious scripture or doctrine or set of rules. It must be possible to define a Christ standard that we can grasp here on earth.” But, as we have attempted to explain, this is not the case. This is what many people have thought, even before the Christian dispensation, that there is some ultimate standard that can be defined in this world that is ultimate, absolute, that is even God’s standard. But what we have said several times was the one thing that the fallen beings had to do to create chaos on earth. They had to create the concept that there is a standard against which everything on earth should be measured, and of course this standard is defined in this world by them.

You see, what the mind of anti-christ attempts to do, it attempts to define a standard based on the consciousness of anti-christ and then, when we from the ascended realm release knowledge of the Christ as a mind beyond this world, then the fallen beings, the serpents, will say: “Well, this just proves what we have said, there is an absolute standard against which everything should be measured and this standard that we have defined, this is the Christ standard.” This is what they will attempt to make people believe. And look how many people in the Christian religion believe something like this, that the Christian religion has defined the Christ standard, that their particular church has defined it. Muslims believe the same, many Buddhists believe a similar thing, Hindus do, and people from other thought or belief systems believe the same. They all believe that it is possible to create a standard here on earth, expressed in the words and images of concepts that can be grasped with people’s current state of mind, and that this is an ultimate standard.

Looking beyond the appearances

But what have we explained? The separate mind can only use duality. Duality has two polarities, they are always relative to each other, relative to the state of separation. And in separation and duality, nothing can be ultimate. Of course, the dualistic mind takes one of the dualistic polarities and attempts to elevate it to the standard of being ultimately right, and the opposite is ultimately wrong, or anything else is ultimately wrong, but this does not make it absolute. Nothing can be absolute in duality. For that matter, nothing can be absolute the way most people conceive of absoluteness, for everything is constantly growing, becoming more, even the Creator.

So where is there something ultimate if by ultimate you mean something that is perfect and ever cannot grow? This is an impossibility. It is an illusion. It is a complete failure to grasp reality. This is why we have talked, and Jesus talked, about the blind leading the blind. Because the fallen beings are blinded by duality, and they attempt to make all people accept their blindness as some absolute standard. They, of course, themselves, often believe that they have defined this absolute standard. This is a perversion of vision. It is a perversion of the faculty of vision. It is a perversion of the Fifth Ray.

Now, here comes one of these enigmas that other masters have talked about. We have said that the core of your being is the Conscious You, which is always looking out. The question is, what is it looking through? It is looking at the world, but it is looking through, as we have said, the contents of your four lower bodies. And if those contents are the separate selves that are based on this consciousness of separation, and this standard of the fallen beings, then what are you seeing? Well, everything you see confirms the illusion that you are a separate being. How could you ever then be free of this state, once you are in it? Once you have fallen into the consciousness of death, how could you be free of it? Well, you can be free of it because there is no limit to what you can see when you are looking out. You can say you have accepted some concepts from the consciousness of separation that obscure the Christ, because there is an outer form. And when you are focused on that form you cannot see the Christ. Yet that outer form is still made out of the undivided mind of Christ, which means that Christ is within the form. If you look beyond the appearance, you can actually see the Christ within that form. Even at the lowest level of hell, with the most ugly and distorted forms, you could look at them, look past them, look beyond them and see the Christ.

The fallen beings cannot prevent people from doing this. Because it is an ability that cannot be lost, because the Christ is within every form. All they can hope to do is to keep people’s attention focused on the form, the appearance. And that is what they have done by creating this standard and saying you should judge everything by this standard, meaning you should judge everything after the appearance. As Jesus said: “Judge not after the appearance but judge righteous judgment.” What is righteous judgment? It is the recognition, the experience, that behind every appearance is Christ. That is righteous judgment.

Now, what the fallen beings have done is, not only create a certain standard, but also imbue it with this value judgment. First, they want people to focus on appearances. But the appearances are, of course, created out of the duality consciousness, so there are always opposites, polarities. Now, the fallen beings say that not only should you look at the appearances, but you should use the standard they have defined to evaluate whether the appearances are good or bad, right or wrong. The effect of this is that the vast majority of people on earth are trapped in this consciousness of evaluating themselves, evaluating other people, evaluating their religion, evaluating everything that happens, based on this value judgment. Is it right or wrong? Is it good or bad? Should it have happened? Should it not have happened?

Wanting Christ to validate your judgment after appearances

Most people are using their faculty of vision in this perverted way. I am not talking about physical vision, you understand, but the inner vision, the spiritual vision, the mental vision. They are constantly evaluating this. They are constantly judging after appearances. And this prevents them from seeing beyond the appearance, to see that beyond any appearance and any value judgment, there is the one mind, the undivided, indivisible mind. You will see many, many people, even many ascended master students, who have come to accept that there is a Christ mind, a higher vision. But they still believe that when they attain Christ vision, Christ will validate some of the appearances that they accept as being absolute. In other words, they are not really looking to Christ to help them transcend their judgment after appearances, but to validate their judgment after appearances. This is the consciousness exemplified by Peter when Jesus said: “Get thee behind me Satan.”

This messenger has met quite a number of people in his life, and especially after he became a messenger, who came to him with this mindset. They thought that he would personally validate them, their sense of importance, or that we, the ascended masters, would validate them in dictations. Or they thought that the teachings could be interpreted in such a way that it validated their judgment after appearances. Often their judgment that they were special, they are advanced students, they are right. Some have even come with the attitude that they have some judgment after appearance that shows that they know better than the messenger how to be a messenger, or what the master should or should not say and therefore, they can judge that the messenger was once a true messenger but now is not a messenger anymore.

Jesus encountered the same thing 2,000 years ago. Many, many people, many more than recorded in the scriptures, came to him with this attitude. The scribes and Pharisees, of course, have this attitude. The modern-day scribes and Pharisees, whether they are in the Christian religion, or in scientific materialism, or other thought systems, they have this judgment after appearances. They are, as we have said, the hardest to reach, those who have taken the standard of the fallen beings and elevated themselves to being the ones who have the highest understanding. And whether they call themselves materialists or Christians or ascended master students, they are unreachable to the Christ mind. But why should that stop you? Even though you may be exposed to such people, and you may have been exposed to them throughout your lifetime, why let them stand between you and your inner recognition of Christ? Nothing can stop you from seeing beyond the appearances.

Turning Christ into an appearance

But what is it that these people I am talking about are not willing to do? And this, of course, is why I am talking about them, because I am not seeking to criticize or put them down. They are not willing to look within themselves. In other words, some of them are willing to look beyond outer appearances and try to see the Christ behind these outer appearances. But they are not willing to look at the beam in their own eye and recognize that all of these subconscious selves, as we call it, they are appearances inside your own mind. And they also block you from seeing Christ in yourself. Now, how can these people then think, as some have thought, that they have attained a high degree of Christhood and Christ’s discernment? Because they have turned Christ and Christ’s discernment into an appearance, into a concept that the dualistic mind has defined. They hear that, yes, Christ is the ultimate vision. And in their minds, they immediately turn this around, that now their standard has been validated by this ultimate vision of Christ. But they are not willing to recognize that this belief comes from a separate self that is not based on the Christ mind but based on the consciousness of anti-christ.

Now, I am not saying this to make anyone feel bad. I am simply saying that you can apply the same measure here, as I said before. Any appearance you see outside yourself, you can see beyond the appearance and see the Christ. When you reverse the direction of your attention and look inside of yourself, and you see these appearances, you can also see beyond them and see the Christ. But in order to do this, you must be willing to look inside, instead of looking at the splinter in the eyes of your brother. You must be willing to recognize that you do have elements in your consciousness that are appearances, separate selves, based on the consciousness of separation. And you must be willing to not seek to defend them or validate them, not seeking to get the Christ mind to validate them, but to see the Christ mind beyond them.

Becoming the Living Christ in embodiment

Now, we have said that the Conscious You cannot see itself from the outside. And it may seem to contradict what I am saying now that you should look inside yourself. But the Conscious You is not looking inside itself, it is looking inside your outer mind, the identity, mental, emotional, and physical level. And this you can do because this is still outside the Conscious You. Whether you are looking way out there in the world or in another galaxy, or whether you are looking inside your own subconscious mind, the Conscious You is still looking out from itself. And when you stop looking at the splinter in the eyes of your brothers, and look for the beam in your own eye, you will gradually come to see that you are not these selves in your subconscious mind. That the Conscious You is not the selves, has not become the selves—you are more. And when you see the Christ beyond a self, and when you have done this for a certain number of times, you can come to that point where the Conscious You can make the shift that we have talked about, of realizing that if you are not any of these outer appearances in the world, what are you? What did you come out of? You came out of the Christ mind. And therefore, you are already the Christ mind. And this is the final switch where you become the Living Christ in embodiment.

But see, in order to get there, you must come beyond all of these outer selves that judge after appearances. And this is something that we know from experience, that it is very difficult for many people to grasp. And it ties in with what Portia said about justice, that people actually want a justice system where they can get away with things. But what is another aspect of this desire to get away with something as a separate being? It is the desire to hide something. And this is precisely what the subconscious selves do. They hide something. And this is what people do when they put on an outer facade, like the scribes and Pharisees, who were hypocrites, because they were appearing to be good and holy, but inside they still had all of these separate selves, and therefore, they were like whiten sepulchers filled with dead men’s bones. You can see that Jesus was not really a student of diplomacy. But nevertheless, he was quite effective in expressing what could be expressed at the time.

Hiding Christ in yourself

When you step into duality, when you step below the 48th level, when you step into separation, you need to hide something from yourself. You need to hide the fact that you have lost the connection to the Christ mind. You need to essentially hide that you are in the death consciousness. You must create the illusion: “Oh no, I am not dead. Although I am a fish in the ocean, I am not wet.” There is always something you must hide for yourself, because if you were to acknowledge that you are wet, that you are dead spiritually, you would have to do something about it. You would have to change it. And this is what you see in the fallen beings, that they have taken this as far as they can imagine taking it, this denial that they are dead, and they are trying to create this outer appearance, that they are so powerful, so knowledgeable, so sophisticated, and they can create all of these phenomena and all of these appearances, and therefore, it proves that they really are alive. But they are not, in a spiritual sense, because life is Christ, and when you are hiding Christ in yourself, you are not spiritually alive. You are, as Jesus said: ‘..the dead burying their dead.’ And this means that what ultimately enslaves Christ on earth is this desire to hide something, to create an appearance. And what is the ultimate appearance that can be created on earth? It is that the standard, the appearance created out of duality, is actually Christ. That this is what Christ is, that Christ can be reduced to a concept defined on earth. That the consciousness of oneness can be reduced to a concept that you are observing from a distance, because you are in separation. But you still have a concept that makes you grasp and understand what oneness is. You think you can define oneness. But you see, as we have tried to explain to you in various ways, oneness cannot ever be a concept. But why do you need a concept? Because you do not have the direct experience.

Description vs. direct experience

You can have the concept of an apple, and the taste of an apple. But you only need it if you do not have an apple, and if you do not take a bite of it. The moment you take a bite and experience the taste of an apple, why do you need to stand there with the outer mind and say: “II do not need to experience the taste of an apple because I know in my mind what it tastes like. I can ignore this experience. Even though my body is supposedly having this experience, I can ignore it. Because my description of that experience is much more important than the actual experience.” This is what you do when you go into separation, because you are not willing to switch and have the experience of Christ, which, as we have now said numerous times, you can have at any minute, at any moment, at any level of consciousness.

You are always trying to hide that your concept of Christ is not Christ—never can be, never will be. You are trying to create the appearance that your concept that hides Christ actually shows you what Christ is like. And therefore, you can describe Christ with images and words and concepts, but you see when you experience Christ, why do you need a description? Why do you need words and concepts? Can you really describe the taste of an apple? Well, you can if you have not tasted it and you might then believe that your description is accurate, is in fact better than the actual taste, but once you have the actual taste you realize that words are really quite inadequate to describe a direct experience. And I can assure you that once you experience the Christ mind, you also experience that words are much more inadequate to describe the Christ experience than any other experience you could have with the physical senses. But even though the taste of an apple is a physical sensation, that is at this very coarse level of the physical body, it still illustrates the point.

Words, ideas and descriptions cannot really replace the direct experience. But this is what the fallen beings want humankind to believe and which they have been relatively successful so far in making people believe, but which they cannot uphold forever, because as the entire universe is pulling up, more and more people on earth are beginning to reject the description and want the experience. That is why you see many people who have left the Christian religion and gone into some kind of spirituality or mysticism that is experiential rather than doctrinal. Why are you sitting here listening to a human being who claims that a spiritual being is speaking through him? Not because you have some intellectual image or concept of this, but because you are having a direct experience as you are not only listening to my words, but feeling the vibration, the energy, the light that I am releasing through the words and that the words are carrying. If you did not have that experience, why would you sit here and listen to this?

Experiencing Christ directly within your own mind

As you have more and more of these experiences, of experiencing the Christ in some expression, then you can gradually use that as your frame of reference to question these internal selves, these appearances, let go of them, let go of these beliefs you were brought up with that stem from the fallen beings and their standard and therefore, you have more and more of an experience of Christ until you come to that point where you no longer need to listen to an ascended master dictation because you can experience Christ directly within your own mind. You can experience us within your own mind. And this is of course the goal we have for all of our students, that you do not remain in this state where you think you need an outer message and an outer messenger all the time. Not that you cannot benefit from it, but that you come to the point where you have contact with the Christ mind, with the ascended masters, with your I AM Presence directly within yourself. That is what the fallen beings fear more than anything else, because they know that in the end this is what is going to take their power away from them.

This is what is going to remove them from the earth when a critical mass of people no longer judge after appearances but contact the Christ within themselves and therefore cannot be fooled by the appearances defined by the fallen beings, therefore, they refuse to blindly follow the blind leaders.

Expressing who you are as a being in Christ

And you see it is not that you need to fight the fallen beings or that you all need to challenge them or challenge their lies. For some of you it is not your Divine plan to do this as Jesus did it, but it is not even necessary for all of you to challenge the fallen beings. But what you all need to do is to come to this point where you realize, as we have explained in different ways, that it is a matter of surrendering, of walking away from it. And this is what the fallen beings fear the most. When someone sees through them and says: “I will not try to save you, I will not try to prove you wrong, I will not fight you, I will just walk away”. That is what makes them more angry than anything. But what can they do about it?

They only have a certain amount of tricks in the duality consciousness. And what they are always trying to do is simple, to in some way get you to engage in the duality consciousness, engage in the struggle of the duality consciousness, engage with petty personal struggles with other people, or in the grand epic struggle of saving the world from the devil. But they are always getting you to engage, they are seeking to pull you into engaging. And when you see this for what it is and simply walk away from it, they have lost their power over you. And that is the ultimate way to liberate Christ in your own being. To walk away from the fallen beings and the entire consciousness of anti-christ. And how do you walk away? Well, you cannot actually walk away from anything, but you can walk into Christ. Closer and closer to Christ, closer and closer to the ascended masters, closer and closer to your I AM Presence. You are not even deliberately seeking to get away from the fallen beings. You are not just not fighting them, but still trying to get away. No, you get to a point where you are not even seeking to get away because they have become irrelevant to you. Because your attention is focused on Christ. When you achieve this state of non-attachment, as the Buddha called it and Jesus said: “The prince of this world cometh and has nothing in you”, then you can still be the Living Christ in embodiment. You may still go out and help people, you may still go out and challenge the fallen beings and the serpentine mind. But you are not doing it out of these subconscious selves that make you want to achieve a particular goal. You are doing it by being the open door for the Christ mind to flow through you, for the ascended masters, for your I AM Presence to flow through you, to express itself through you. You are not seeking to achieve a particular goal, such as proving them wrong or exposing them to the people. You are just expressing who you are as a being in Christ. And if that challenges the fallen beings and provokes them, well you are non-attached. You are non-attached to however they react.

Even if they come to you and admire you and want to validate you and tell you how important you are, you are still non-attached. because you are just being yourself. You are not seeking to accomplish anything according to the standard and the appearances defined in this world. That is precisely why you have that situation with Jesus and Peter where Jesus tells his disciples what the leaders of the Jewish religion are going to do to him and Peter objects to it because Peter is trying to superimpose his standard, his appearances upon the Living Christ. And Jesus rebuked him to set an example, but when you come to that point of being the Living Christ, you do not need to even rebuke it. You are not touched by it. You may rebuke it in order to potentially set other people free from it, but you are not doing it because you have a need, because you are not reacting to the standard. You are not responding to the standard. The prince of this world has nothing in you. You do not need to change anything. You do not need to accomplish anything.

You are just flowing with the Holy Spirit, with the River of Life. You are just spontaneously expressing. And in this invocation, you just gave, you have this knowledge in there that being the Christ means spontaneously expressing what comes to you from your I AM Presence and the ascended masters without evaluating it first with the outer mind as Peter did. You see in yourselves, you see in other people, but look at yourselves. How many times do you evaluate something in your mind before you express it? Can you see that there are sometimes where you get an impulse from within when you are talking to other people to say something to that person and then immediately starts this evaluation process in your mind: “Oh, how is the other person going to react? Is it really appropriate? What if I get a negative reaction like I have gotten before? I better not say anything.” This is what Peter did. This is again, you are trying to hide yourself behind an appearance and you want other people to validate and conform to that appearance.

But in order to be the Living Christ you have to get rid of these appearances, these subconscious selves where you are not trying to hide who you are. You are not trying to evaluate how other people will react to what you say, you are just expressing it and letting other people do what they want to do according to their appearances. It is as this messenger realized after contemplating this for a long time, struggling with this very consciousness, you can only express yourself based on your present level of consciousness. And other people can only experience what you are expressing through their current level of consciousness and therefore, their reaction will be determined by their state of consciousness. There is nothing you can do about it. But you have a right to express yourself at your level of consciousness, even if it challenges those at a lower level of consciousness. You just have to set yourself free to say: “I express my level of consciousness, they express theirs, but why should it affect me? Why should I judge my expression based on the appearances and the standard of other people at the lower level of consciousness? Why should I go down and conform to their standard, their judgment after appearances?”

This is what the fallen beings want you to do. They of course claim that they are so sophisticated that you are not going down, you are going up. But they are the ones who are the most trapped in duality and separation. So yes, you are going down by conforming not only to the standard of the fallen beings, but to the average person on earth, even the people you grew up with. You have no obligation to do this. And when you attain personal Christhood, you accept this. You accept that you have a right to be who you are, express whatever comes to you spontaneously and let people do with it what they will do with it. What is that to thee? Follow though me. Follow that Christ into higher and higher levels of oneness.

The desire to hide from the teacher

You cannot hide from Christ, but you can think you can hide from Christ. While you are below the 96th level of consciousness, you still have the desire to hide from Christ and from the ascended masters, because you do not really want Christ to see your imperfections. You are beginning to realize you have imperfections. You are not really seeing how many subconscious selves you have, because that would be discouraging to you at that level. But you are beginning to see that you have imperfections and you are beginning to apply the teachings and the tools for overcoming those imperfections. But you still have a desire that you hope the masters will not see your imperfections. And many of you have adopted this attitude that this messenger also had that: “Well, I was the one who created the mess and I created the mess by leaving the teacher, but I want to clean up my mess before I go back to the teacher. This is a very, very common reaction among avatars and even the original inhabitants of the earth when they become aware of the inner path. You realize that when you go into separation, you are leaving behind the teacher. And then you realize that you have created somewhat of a mess by being in separation. And then if you are a good and eager student, as all avatars of course are, you can formulate this desire: “But I do not want the teacher to see the mess I created. So I want to clean it up before I go back to the teacher, so I can go back to the teacher and say: ‘Well, I know I left you for a while, but look, I cleaned it all up and here I am again.’” But what have we said? What is the way to get out of separation and duality? What is the way to overcome a particular illusion? To contact the Christ mind at that level of the illusion. How are you going to overcome any illusion without contacting the Christ mind?

Now you can create the impression in you, in yourself, that by giving degrees and invocations, by studying the teachings, by applying the teachings, you are making progress and the teacher is not really looking at you. And perhaps because you have free will and if you say: “I know you are my Master Saint Germain or Master More, but I do not want you to look at me before I clean up my act.” Well, then Master More and Saint Germain will respect your free will and withdraw from you. But still, how are you going to overcome any illusion and make progress on the spiritual path? Only through the Christ mind, because you cannot even take a spiritual teaching that comes from the Christ mind and use the teaching with the outer mind to overcome the illusions created by the outer mind. Because then you are turning the teachings into a concept and you are using the conceptual mind to seek to overcome other concepts created by the conceptual mind and what does it do? It makes you more and more entangled with the conceptual mind. You are trying to walk the path out of the conceptual mind by using the conceptual mind and it CANNOT BE DONE.

But you can create the concept that you are making progress on the spiritual path without the teacher. But are you? Nay, because the only way to actually make progress is to contact the Christ mind. But if you are not conscious of this because you are hiding your contact with the Christ mind, you can have this situation that many spiritual people have. You have made genuine progress. You can even walk all the way to the 96th level by having this attitude that you are doing this all on your own and you are hiding from the teacher.

The Christ mind does not judge

But when you come to the 96th level, you have to let go of this illusion because otherwise you will keep being focused on these concepts and appearances and you will seek to perfect this spiritual self you have created and therefore, you will go on the left-handed path. But you can make this switch at any level of the path above the 48th level as we have said. So why not consider it now? Because when you overcome this desire to hide from the teacher, the path becomes so much easier for you. You see, why do you have the desire to hide from the teacher? Because you went into separation and you came to believe in the appearances of the fallen beings. What is the fallen consciousness, the duality consciousness? It is the value judgment. What concept do they project on God? He is the angry judgmental God. What concept do they project on the ascended masters? They are the angry disciplinary masters in the sky. What concept do they project on Christ? Christ is the mind that judges you according to this unmerciful standard.

What have I attempted to explain to you in this discourse? Christ does not judge according to this worldly standard. Christ does not actually judge—it does not even judge righteous judgment. It just simply is focused on oneness and therefore, it shows you the highest vision of oneness you can see at your current level of consciousness. It does not judge you. The Christ mind is not sitting there saying: “Oh you were so wrong for accepting that illusion. You were so wrong for doing that selfish thing.” And the ascended masters do not do this either. Despite what has been portrayed in the popular culture of previous dispensations, who did not grasp what we are telling you now, who were not ready to grasp it, the ascended masters are not judging you. El Morya is not the strict disciplinarian. Ascended masters have only one desire, to help you take the next step up on your path towards oneness. They have no desire to judge you like the fallen beings are doing, making you feel like you made such a terrible mistake you can never overcome it or that you need to make yourself a blind follower of the ascended masters in order to be saved.

The ascended masters only want you to grow and they rejoice in your growth. They do not condemn you for not growing. They do not even see that you made a mistake. This is all the fallen beings projecting a dualistic image upon the ascended masters and upon Christ. Yes, there is an aspect of judgment in the Christ consciousness. But the beings who reject Christ judge themselves. The Christ is not sitting there evaluating: Oh this person was so bad, this person made this bad mistake. The Christ mind is just focused on the highest level of oneness that can be expressed at a certain level of consciousness. It does not judge—it just offers you that cup of cold water in Christ’s name that allows you to take the next step up on your path. Therefore, you can make peace with Christ and with your spiritual teachers at any moment. You do not need to clean up your act before you go back to the teacher—before you ask for the teacher’s help. Because the fastest way to clean up your act is to ask for the teacher’s help and it will be given: “Ask and you shall receive.”

Stop hiding your mistakes from the Christ

If you could take one message from this conference and all the things we have said about liberating Christ, I as the Elohim of the Fifth Ray would say this: If you could overcome your desire to hide from the teacher, the ascended masters, to hide from your I AM Presence and to hide from Christ, if you could overcome this, your life would change in such a dramatic way that you can barely imagine it. You would make much faster progress, it would be much easier for you to make progress instead of struggling with all of this psychology that many of you are struggling with, you could receive help in overcoming it.

As we said many times, avatars are the most eager students. You were the eager students on your natural planet so you rose to leadership positions where you felt like there was not really anything more you could learn on a natural planet. And therefore, you looked for another challenge and you saw the unnatural planet. But because you were the eager students who know you were capable, who knew you could do something, when you came to earth and had to descend to the 48th level of consciousness, you were exposed to the cosmic birth trauma, you felt you had done something so terrible here on earth, you had made such a mistake here on earth, that you could never even imagine you could make such a mistake on a natural planet and of course you could not. And therefore, you feel like you have betrayed all of your good works on a natural planet, all of your attainment, all of your progress has been betrayed by this terrible mistake you made and you feel so distraught by this, so disturbed, so ashamed, that you do not want anyone to see it. You just want to crawl into a little hole where nobody can see you. And you especially do not want the ascended masters to see it.

But first of all, my beloved, you cannot hide anything from Christ, right? Your attempts to hide are futile. And second of all, you may judge yourself as having made this major mistake here on earth, but the ascended masters and the Christ mind do not judge yourself the way you do, because we are not in the consciousness of separation and it is only separation that can judge based on this value judgment.

The grace of Christ

You see, we understand why you can formulate this image and say: “Oh, I made this terrible mistake here on earth, I want to clean it up before I turn to the ascended masters and ask for help.” And you of course have a right to make that decision and to live this way for however many lifetimes it takes you before you see how unnecessary the decision is, how counterproductive it is, how much it delays your growth. But you can at any time make that switch and say: “Okay, I have had enough of this, let’s just leave this whole consciousness behind.” Because again, what have we said? When you go into duality, you are always projecting that you made a mistake that created a problem and now you have to solve the problem. You made this terrible mistake here on earth and you have to make it good again before you are free. But what have we said time and time again? The Christ does not require you to make any mistake good again that came from antichrist. This is the grace of Christ. All you need to do in order to be free is walk away from the consciousness that caused you to make what you label as a mistake and walk away from the consciousness that causes you to label what you did as a mistake and judge it according to appearances. And when you do that, you are reborn in Christ, you are a new being in Christ and the being you are when you are reborn in Christ is not the being that made the mistake or judged it as a mistake.

This is what many people do not grasp about Christ. It is not about forgiving sins. You go into separation and create a problem. You think in order to get out of separation you have to reverse the process that created the problem, but you do not, because you created the problem by looking away from Christ. You cannot reverse the process by looking away from Christ. You can only reverse the process by turning around and looking to Christ and walking closer to Christ and that is what frees you from whatever you created as you were looking away from Christ. There is nothing to solve. You just need to leave it behind and walk into the light and the life of Christ. That is liberating Christ in you.

The joy of being self-aware

Again, people judge after appearances. They can do nothing else. When you hear about ascended masters, naturally whatever appearances you have in your consciousness, you project them upon us. We grasp this. We are not condemning you for it. But many ascended master students have come to see the path as very serious and the masters as very serious, as these strict disciplinarians. But the reality is we are in oneness with the Christ mind. And we normally describe the Christ mind as a somewhat neutral way, but the Christ mind has divine qualities. The seven rays, for example, are all expressions of the Christ mind. But there are even the general mindsets, we might call it, for want of a better word, in the Christ mind. And it is this enjoyment of being alive, of being conscious, of being self-aware, of being part of this magnificent creation that our Creator has created. Being a co-creator with this magnificent Creator, there is an intense joy in this, that ascended masters experience. And I am telling you this because I simply just want to express that I am feeling this joy by being able to speak to you through a human messenger and release not only the words but the light that I AM, the matrices, the geometry that I AM.

This is intense enjoyment for me, which is why I could go on for an indefinite period of time. But again, as others have said, I recognize that you are in time and space, I recognize that you can only experience my release from your level of consciousness and that this might make it feel somewhat intense, so therefore, I will bow to the realities of time and space. I will end my release.

But I wanted to express to you, the joy that I feel in interacting with you this way. Because I hope that perhaps you can feel a glimpse of that joy and therefore, realize that if I feel joy in interacting with you, I cannot at the same time be judging you. For when you are in the judgmental state of mind, you have no joy, you only have stress and tension. You might have a sense of superiority, but that is also tension because it has to be maintained and validated all the time. But I AM in joy, in joy, where I am enjoying interacting with you and therefore, there is no judgment in my being.

With this I seal you in that joy that I AM and in that Fifth Ray of Vision, where when you see beyond appearances, you see that pure vision of the Christ mind that is free of appearances and judgments.

So with this be sealed in the joy of vision that I AM.

Cyclopea I AM.

The Elohim of the Fifth Ray, I AM.