Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels, March 7, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Vilnius, Lithuania: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain. What can you do to help manifest my golden age in this turbulent time? Well, you can start by considering what happens if you throw a rock into a fast-flowing stream. There will be turbulence when the current hits the rock, but what does the water do? It just goes around the rock. There may still be turbulence, and the water has taken a slight detour, but when it passes the rock, the streams close again, and now, a little bit downstream, it is as if there was never a rock in the stream.
The golden age is a process
Well, the progression of my golden age is like that. You can throw a monkey wrench into the stream, but the golden age flows around it. And why is that? Because the golden age is not a fixed ideal that I am working towards. It is a process like a stream. A stream is a process. The interdependent originations that flow and form the River of Life, and as such, nothing on earth can stop it. It is a stream that starts in the ascended realm, but connects with the upward movement created by the people on earth such as yourselves, who are helping to raise the collective consciousness. But it is also a stream that taps into the upward flow of the entire unascended sphere and the six spheres above it. It taps into the Creator’s own drive for self-transcendence in and through the world of form. Thus, it is unstoppable.
The golden age and free will
Now, you might say: “Well, that sounds good Saint Germain, but these other masters who came before you have talked for hours about free will. You are saying there is an unstoppable process that nothing on earth can stop, but how does that respect the free will of the people on earth who may not want your golden age? Or who have their own vision of the golden age, and they want that to be manifest?” Well, I would then say: “Yeah, you have people on earth, around eight billion, who have their free will, but no man, no woman, no planet, is an island.” You have untold myriads of beings in the unascended sphere who also have free will. Should the free will of eight billion people on earth really neutralize the free will of so many more beings? How do we balance free will here? Because you will see that those in the fallen consciousness, they will say: “Ha, my free will should be the one that determines the outcome of the entire universe.” But would that really be free will? Yeah, maybe for one person, but actually, does a fallen being have free will?
Because what is the fallen consciousness? It is, among other things, a denial of the fact that in an unascended sphere—well, for that matter, also in an ascended sphere, and especially in an unascended sphere—everything has consequences. You are perfectly allowed to do anything you want on earth, but you will experience the consequences. You cannot say, as the fallen beings do: “I want to be able to do anything I want and not experience the consequences I do not like. I want to do what I like, but not have consequences I do not like.” Yeah, that is not really how free will works because you are in the duality consciousness. Every choice you make in duality has two opposite polarities. There is a consequence you like, and there is a consequence you do not like. You can make any choice you want, but you must experience both consequences. Because if you are not, you are not actually exercising free will if you do not experience the consequences.
Two aspects of free will
You see, free will has two aspects. One is you make a choice to do something. The other aspect is that whatever you do in the material world sets in motion an energy impulse. And that energy impulse must be returned to you, because if it was not, how would you know you had done anything? The second aspect of free will is that you now have to react to the return current of what you send out. That is the other aspect of free will because then you have the opportunity to say: “do I want more of this, or do I want more than this?”
Until you experience the return and react to it, you have not actually exercised your free will to the fullest. When you say you want to do anything you want, no matter how it affects other people, no matter how it affects you, because you do not want to experience the return current of it, you are actually denying your own free will. You are denying what free will is.
You cannot stop the flow
That is why my golden age is a river that is flowing. And you can have people who throw a rock in the stream, they hammer a hole in the stream, they build a dam. And you can consider the Soviet Union to be: someone built a dam to obstruct the flow of energy in that part of the world that was encompassed by the Iron Curtain, surrounded by the Iron Curtain. And it did obstruct the flow, but did it stop the flow? No, the water kept rising. It undermined the foundations, but it rose behind the dam until the dam could not withstand the pressure, and it broke and therefore, there was again some flow, some flow. And then Putin is trying to stop this flow. But why did he start the war in Ukraine? Because the flow was threatening to overflow the dam again. He had to do something to try and divert the flow. You see, even if you try to stop the flow, you will still experience the return current, so that you have to react to that. And that is the fullness of free will and that is why nothing on earth can stop the flow that is bringing the golden age into manifestation.
Now, of course, it is not an inevitable thing that will happen at a certain time in a certain way. The specifics of when and how are very much up to how people on earth respond. Do they tune in to the ideas, do they tune in to the flow and help to bring it down to the identity, mental and emotional, and into the physical, or do they seek to ignore it or resist it? Do they seek to hold on to status quo, to traditional values, to some dream they have that is out of touch with the golden age?
Resistance to the golden age
What is one of the ways that people are resisting the golden age? Well, the most important thing to understand is that there is a worldwide elite that is resisting the golden age because in the golden age there will be much more equality, equal opportunity, less privilege, less power. You cannot have an elite that has a privileged position in the golden age. For the golden age will improve the living conditions of all people and give them much more equal living standards, much more equal opportunity to improve their lives and their society. This the elite does not like. They will resist it. And some of the fallen beings even grasp what it means. Not really the ones in embodiment, but certainly those in the lower identity realm and mental realm. They do understand that the elite in physical embodiment will lose their power, will lose their privilege as we move further into the golden age. And they, of course, will do everything they can to resist it.
That is why you see this desperate attempt of elites to hold on to power. The party elite in China are desperately seeking to hold on to the illusion that China is still a communist state while also seeking to make as much money as possible. They are in a sense trying to maintain the illusion that China is still communist and at the same time trying to beat the capitalists at their own game. But you see, when you try to catch the greased pig, you will end up covered in mud. When you try to out-capitalize the capitalists, what do you end up being? A capitalist. A capitalist pig, as they might say in China [audience laughs]. And then you are really not a communist anymore, are you?
“Serfs” in Russia
Cognitive dissonance is the hallmark of the elite and that is why they must fall. Russia, the war against Ukraine—many perspectives you can take on it, but one of them certainly is that the power elite in Russia are trying to hold on to their positions or even strengthen them because they have concentrated so much wealth in the hands of a very small elite that some know that this is not sustainable. They are seeking to divert the attention of the Russian people by saying: “This war is so important—I am sorry—this special military operation [audience laughs] is so important for the state that you must be willing to sacrifice for the state—sacrifice the lives of your sons, but also sacrifice your living standard. It is so important to feed the war machine, you must accept that prices are higher, that wages are lower, that your living standard goes down, that you cannot afford to buy potatoes.” It is an attempt, as Master MORE talked about, to get the Russian people to accept less.
Tell me, when you look at modern day Russia with the oligarchs, how insanely rich they are, and you look at how many people in Russia live in houses that still have squatting toilets or outhouses, that do not have indoor plumbing, that do not have electricity. Tell me, how exactly is the Russian population better off today than they were under the tsars? How are they better off? Yeah, they have smartphones, they can go on the Internet, but now they are even shutting that down. Is it not just an illusion that they are better off? You have certain material things, but are you better off? Do you have more freedom? Or are you still serfs condemned to live your whole life filling a certain role?
The desperation of the elite
Then you go to the United States. You could consider that one of the greatest achievements of the fallen beings in terms of deception was to get a large group of poor, uneducated Americans to believe that by electing a billionaire as a president, their life would improve. And what has he done? Appointed billionaires as his cabinet secretaries. Or at least millionaires, because if you are not a millionaire, you just do not qualify to be in the Trump administration. Who supported him? Elon Musk, another billionaire. Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, other big corporations supporting Trump. Why? Because they think he will give them or help them maintain their privileged positions because they know he wants what they have. He wants to be as rich as they are.
Can you not see that this is elitism outplaying itself in the extreme, becoming desperate? Why? Because they know that there is a growing dissatisfaction in the American public by the fact that their living standard has been systematically eroded over 40 years by wealth being funneled upwards. And they know that it is just a matter of a short time before the water starts spilling over the dam or undermining the dam, ripping its foundations away. They are desperately trying to create diversions.
The real problem on earth is elitism
I think some time ago I asked the question: “What can you do to help bring about my golden age?” And it may seem like this was a long distraction. But really, if you are to help manifest the golden age, you need to understand this dynamic. That the power elite, the fallen beings, are being allowed in these years to outplay their elitist mindset in more and more extreme ways so that more and more people will come to see it and come to that point where it is really not a matter of deciding do we want democratic societies or non-democratic, do we want capitalist or non-capitalist? But suddenly it is as a camera lens that has been out of focus and you turn it and it comes into focus. The problem on earth is elitism. That is the problem for all societies. The outer things are just camouflage because whatever society you have, even democratic societies, there will always be an elite that are trying to gain power and privilege by suppressing the population and their equal rights and opportunities.
You look at the founding document of the United States, which they are going to celebrate this 4th of July. All men—should have been women also—all men are created—created equal. There is no elite and there never has been an elite that would accept that statement. For they believe that they are created more equal than anyone else. And when you truly lock into that, I know many of you have, but still, I project this into the collective consciousness through your attention. When people lock into that, that is when we can take the manifestation of the golden age to a higher level. Because now we can begin to see that the primary task for any society, but especially the democratic ones, is to counteract and transcend elitism. Nothing else really matters. All the rest are details. But until you see what the problem is, you are fighting blind. You are trying to solve problems that are not real problems. They are just diversions created by the elite to camouflage, to hide the elite.
Elitism at the core of the Catholic church
What is the Catholic church? An entirely elitist organization that even created the feudal societies of medieval Europe where the king and the noble class were appointed by God to be in their positions. What were the real teachings of Christ? All men and women are created equal, there is no high or low. The high shall be made low and the low shall be made high. Meaning you come to a point where there is equality. That was the teachings of Christ. The Catholic church, as we might have mentioned a time or two before, turned it upon its head. Because what is it that the Nicene Creed says that Jesus read at New Year’s and commented on? Jesus is the ultimate elite, the only son of God. Right there you are creating this artificial hierarchy because not only is Jesus the only son of God, but he is sitting up there at the right hand of God, far removed from earth. And do you not dare think that you can reach him directly, even though he said the kingdom of God is within you. Nay. You can only reach him through the Catholic church, which is an entirely hierarchical organization with a pope on top. Elitism at its core. The priest can do something that no one else can do. They are men of God and you are not.
The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Making a Difference in a Turbulent World.
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