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Ascended Master Sanat Kumara through Kim Michaels, March 23, 2025. This dictation was given at a conference in Holland: Locking in to Your Divine Plan.
I AM the Ascended Master Sanat Kumara. My task, my joy, my privilege is to give you some teachings that are specifically for avatars coming to earth, but that are still applicable for the original earth inhabitants. The teachings are, for that matter, applicable to the fallen beings who have come to earth, although they are the least likely to listen to them.
The 144,000 from Venus
If any of you, as some of you are, are familiar with previous ascended master dispensations, you will know that there has been the story, for a long time actually, that there was a point where a group of 144,000 souls from Venus decided to come to earth to embody here, to hold a spiritual balance for the earth. And I, Sanat Kumara, with Lady Master Venus, we were the leaders. Although we did not come and take physical embodiment, we descended to the temple at Shambhala that had been built by the 144,000. As with everything we have given you, this is part of progressive revelation. And we start with a more simplified version and gradually give you more nuanced, more in-depth teachings.
As with the I AM Presence, what was said in previous dispensations cannot be taken completely literally when it comes to the 144,000 from Venus. The number in itself is just a number. The idea of these lifestreams coming from another planet, embodying on earth, is a symbol for all avatars. There were lifestreams from Venus, yes, but at the same time, there were also lifestreams from natural planets outside the solar system. And over the very long time span, since the fallen beings were allowed to embody here, many more than 144,000 avatars have come to earth, in fact, millions. How many? What good would it do you to know the number, other than satisfy some human curiosity? And we are not catering to those who want human curiosity satisfied, because we know it can never be satisfied. It will always ask more questions indefinitely. We are not looking for those who want linear, literal answers, but for those who want the kind of answers that help you raise your consciousness.
Resolving the enigma of free will
Based on previous dispensations, you might think that these lifestreams that came to earth were very highly developed, more highly developed than most of the beings embodying on earth at the time. This is not incorrect from a certain viewpoint, but you see, one could also take another viewpoint and ask oneself a simple question: “Why had not these beings ascended from the planets that they came from?” In your case, as an avatar, you have been told that you took embodiment on a natural planet, lived there for a long time, grew in your co-creative abilities until you reached a very high level of development on your natural planet. But if you had reached the highest possible level of development on a natural planet, why did not you ascend? This is a question to ask. And the answer is, of course, that your I AM Presence was not ready to ascend. And then the question becomes, why not? Because there was something that the I AM Presence had not fully resolved, and that something was what we have called the enigma of free will. We have said that when you ascend from this unascended sphere to the next level up, the lowest level of the spiritual realm, you can only do so when you, in full awareness of your choice, choose to let go of the option to use your free will to go into duality and separation.
This means you must have come to fully see what it entails to go into separation and duality. Why is this allowed? Why some people need to go into it? Why some people need to get lost in it? And you see, it was not that you had not investigated duality on your natural planet. Because even on a natural planet, as you grow towards higher levels, there comes a point where you, in cooperation with your spiritual teachers, begin to experiment with the duality consciousness, getting an experience, getting a feel for what it is. This happens also on a natural planet. Yet there were some beings that on a natural planet did not resolve fully the enigma of free will. Now there were some beings on natural planets who went so deeply into duality and separation that they could not continue to embody on a natural planet where beings cannot be in embodiment and be trapped in duality at the same time. Especially not when the natural planet has been raised above its original state and is coming close to where the majority of the beings on the planet can ascend.
Falling vs. descending to earth
There were some that, so to speak, fell from a natural planet to an unnatural planet. But this is, of course, not what we mean with an avatar. Because as an avatar, you did not fall to earth. You decided to descend to earth. The distinction may seem somewhat theoretical, but not really. You see, when you were an avatar and you had investigated the potential for exercising free will from the state of duality and separation, there are kind of two dividing lines in this process. The first is that you come to a point where you decide: “I have no desire to go into duality for myself. I have no desire to do the things that can only be done in duality. I have no desire to get lost in duality in order to experience what I can do as a separate being.” This is resolving the enigma of free will for yourself. But the other aspect is allowing other people to go into duality without having any view, attachment, opinion about this. In other words, you are choosing with your personal free will not to go into duality. But the question is, can you also choose with your own free will to allow other beings to go into duality, without having any attachment, any opinion about that?
If you had resolved both on a natural planet, you could ascend from that natural planet. If you did not resolve the first one, you would fall. If you did not resolve the second one, you might decide to voluntarily embody on an unnatural planet. But do you see the difference in the dynamic? When you get lost in duality, you fall because you are identified with duality. You identify yourself as a separate being, therefore, you cannot hold on to a natural planet. You fall without realizing what is happening. You are not consciously deciding that you would rather embody on earth because there you can violate other people’s free will as is so common on earth and you want that experience. You are simply falling unconsciously.
When you have not resolved the second aspect of free will, you are deciding to descend. But why are you deciding to descend to earth? Because you have a general worldview, a general view that other people should not be able to be lost in duality. They should not be suffering. They should not be treating each other the way dualistic beings treat each other. There can be individual flavors, so to speak. But you are thinking something has gone wrong on an unnatural planet and this problem of suffering and free will needs to be solved and I can help do this.
The Conscious You’s view of life on earth
What happens is, if you fall from a natural planet—it is the Conscious You that your I AM Presence had created to take embodiment on a natural planet that falls. If you do not resolve the enigma of free will, the situation is different. Because if you do not resolve the enigma of free will at the level of your I AM Presence and you do not resolve it at the level of the Conscious You, then it is the same Conscious You that descends to earth. But if you resolve the enigma at the level of the Conscious You, but not at the level of the I AM Presence, then the I AM Presence must create another Conscious You to send into embodiment on earth. I know this sounds abstract and complicated, but we want to give you a deeper understanding of this. You can say: “What does it matter?” The Conscious You that you are is the one who needs to resolve the enigma so you can ascend, but still, so you understand the dynamic.
For most avatars, not the vast majority, but a majority, a new Conscious You was created specifically to take embodiment on earth. And this means that Conscious You was created out of the I AM Presence’s view of earth and suffering on earth. This means that the Conscious You descends with a certain view of earth. Now we have talked about how you have many views of life on earth that are anchored in these subconscious selves, but as Mother Mary so carefully explained, there is something beyond the subconscious self that is the overall view that the Conscious You can have. Most avatars came to earth with a certain view of earth. Where was that view? In your causal body. You now have a situation where the I AM Presence has not fully resolved the enigma of free will. The Conscious You has not fully resolved it. Does that mean that there is no objective purpose for you coming to earth, that you are not doing any good, that you are not helping the ascended masters raise the earth or helping hold the balance for the fallen beings?
No, it does not. You still have a high level of awareness that you have attained on the natural planet. You are able to hold a balance for the earth. You are able to help raise the earth because your consciousness when you descend is higher than that of most earth inhabitants. You are here, you are doing something good by being here. But what you are doing is not what you envisioned you would be doing before you came here. Because both your I AM Presence and the Conscious You had a view of what you were going to do here on earth. And that view involved removing suffering, removing whatever manifestations you looked at, at the time, helping people overcome suffering by changing their minds, helping them see what you saw. You see, by the very fact that you came to earth with this overall view that something had got wrong and needed to be changed, your journey here is colored, slightly colored by this view. Again, what does this mean? Well, it means that when you come here you have a certain view of what you want to accomplish on earth.
The epic mindset
But that view is based on the fact that you have not resolved the enigma of free will. What does that mean? It means you are vulnerable to the deception and manipulation of the fallen beings. They, of course, have not resolved the enigma of free will. They are in a state of consciousness where they believe it is their right to violate the free will of anyone who is below them. And they consider anyone on earth to be below them, at least the top ranking fallen beings. They are deliberately seeking to violate people’s free will in order to control them. But when the cleverest of them, not the ones in embodiment but those in the identity realm, realized that there were also avatars coming to earth, they came up with this scheme that we have described as the epic mindset, the epic dramas. They knew that the avatars were a threat, but they realized if they could get the avatars to go into duality, they would be less of a threat.
Here is a fallen being, considering with all of its advancement in the serpentine mind: “How can I ensnare these avatars to go into duality?” It looks at the psychology of the avatars: “Ah, they see suffering as a problem. They want to do something decisive to end suffering. What if I came up with this clever epic drama that made it seem like we could permanently end suffering, we could permanently destroy evil by winning this final battle against a certain group of people. Let us define that a certain group of people are evil, they represent evil, their minds are taken over by the devil, ourselves essentially, but we do not have to tell the avatars that. We can forget to mention that little detail. And there is another group of people that are the good people, their minds are also taken over by us, but again we can leave that out. And if the good people win by destroying and killing the bad people, we would have permanently removed evil from the earth.” Can you see how the psychology of the avatars set themselves up for being pulled into this scheme? I will not even say it is a clever scheme, but a scheme it is.
What happens then? Here is an avatar, you are here because you want to do something good and you would like to do something decisively good. You are pulled into this, thinking: “If we win this battle, then we have removed suffering from earth and we have solved the problem not only of suffering, but solved the problem of free will.” Because what is it you see if you see that suffering is a problem? Because you know that suffering is a result of people’s choices. If you have not resolved the enigma, that means you think free will is a problem. But if we can remove evil so people will not choose it anymore, perhaps we can solve the problem of free will. You can see how avatars can be pulled into using their attainment and their light to fight this epic battle. And then when the fog of war clears, you stand there and you realize you have not won a decisive victory, no matter who won on the battlefield. You have been pulled into doing the opposite of what you wanted to do. You have increased suffering on earth. You have done what the fallen beings are willing to do, but which you thought before you came you would never do. You thought you would never do evil, but now you were fooled into thinking that it is necessary to do evil so that good may come.
The moment of truth
And you have that moment of realization, I am not saying this applies to all avatars, but the majority of you, the majority of all avatars that have ever descended. You have that moment of realization, and it is unbearable to consider that you could have done the opposite of what you thought you came here to do. And this can be such a shock, such a trauma, such a pain, that you create a subconscious self to keep the trauma subconscious. You never want to be reminded of it again. But when you create that self to suppress, what do you do? You get lost in duality. If you had been willing to admit that you made a mistake and asked for help from the Ascended Masters, you could have overcome it. But since you wanted to hide it from yourself, you also wanted to hide it from us, and therefore, you could not ask for help. You get lost in duality. And as long as you are not willing to look at this original trauma, you cannot fully escape duality. You can make progress on the path, you can rise above the 48th level, you can even rise above the 96th level, but you cannot fully manifest Christhood and qualify for your ascension until you are willing to look at this.
Resolving the trauma
And therefore, for those of you who have the potential to ascend in this lifetime, or even those who have the potential to come close to ascending, it is the highest aspect of your Divine plan to resolve this enigma, to resolve this trauma, and to shift your view of suffering, your view of free will. Free will is individual. You are exercising your free will as an individual. If you fully accept that your will is free, you accept that your free will does not depend on other people’s exercise of their will. And if your choices do not depend on their choices, why would you be concerned about what other people choose? Why would you think you would have to change their choices, even force them to change their choices? When you fully accept what free will is, you realize that in an unascended sphere, an unascended sphere, what you actually do at the physical level does not matter. Because the entire purpose of the unascended sphere is to give you any experience you need to have before you can stand there in front of the gate to the ascended realm, look back at the unascended sphere, and know you have done everything you want to do here. You have explored any experience you wanted to have, and therefore, you can leave this unascended sphere behind permanently. This must, as we have said, be a fully conscious choice.
“There is nothing I want to change here”
The entire purpose for being in the unascended sphere is that you come to the point where you can make that conscious choice. Whatever you may do here, whatever you may accomplish, even building grand civilizations or whatever you can imagine, it has no importance in itself. Its only significance is getting you to the point where you have had enough of the experiences you can have in an unascended sphere, whether it is on a natural planet or an unnatural planet, whether it is in duality or as a connected being beyond duality.
Everything is an experience. Why did you descend to earth? Why did your I AM Presence decide to send you, the Conscious You, into embodiment on earth? You thought at a certain level, conscious level, that it was because you wanted the experience of helping remove suffering from the earth, setting the people who were suffering free from their suffering. You thought it was to do this good deed, but it was not. It was to have the experience that you are superior to the people on earth, that you know they should not be suffering, and that you can help them escape suffering. That was the experience you wanted. How will you be ready to ascend from earth? When you decide consciously that you no longer want that experience, that there is nothing you want to do here, nothing you want to change.
How to help manifest the golden age?
Yes, I realize the confusion some of you have. I hear your questions: “How does that correspond with us being here to help manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age? How can it be that part of my goals in my Divine plan is to help bring forth something that will help manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age? And yet now you are telling me that the highest part of my Divine plan is that I overcome the desire to do anything here, so I just want to get out of here?” But there is really no difference. In order to manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age, certain things will have to be done, certain ideas will have to be brought forth.
There are some of you, it is not in your Divine plan to ascend after this lifetime, therefore, you can focus on bringing forth ideas and helping Saint Germain manifest the golden age. But there are some of you who have the potential to ascend. It does not mean that you could not bring forth something in the physical as part of your Divine plan, but it does mean that the highest aspect of your Divine plan is to qualify for your ascension. But now step back, consider what I have been saying. I said that at the conscious level you thought you came here to create physical changes. In reality, at the deeper level, you came here to have the experience of being the prince on the white horse. As long as you are seeking to help Saint Germain manifest his golden age with the very attitude that brought you here, you are not actually making the greatest contribution you could make to manifesting the golden age. Why? Because you are coming not from the Christ mind, but from a lower mind. Not necessarily the ego you created in reaction to earth, but we might call the ego you had left on a natural planet.
Only when you transcend that view that brought you to earth, that entire matrix, and attain Christhood, will you be fully effective of helping manifest the golden age. Why? Because then you will realize: “I can on my own self do nothing.” When you came to earth, you thought: “I can on my own self do something. I am so much more advanced than the beings on earth. Therefore, I can do something. I can know that their suffering is wrong.” And as long as this is your motivation, you may be able to do something, but it is not the full potential, for that can only be realized when you step up to Christhood, you overcome the focus on me, and focus on the All. You see, there is the me that you created in reaction to coming to earth, receiving this trauma of being pulled into the epic battles. But there was the me that you had before you came, where you felt qualified to judge how other beings exercise their free will, thinking you were qualified to correct their use of free will.
Demonstrating an alternative choice
Now again, does that mean it was futile of you to come to earth? Nay. But in order to manifest the highest potential, you have to get out of the idea that you have to do something to change other people’s minds. And as we have explained, get into the mindset you are just here to demonstrate the path out of duality, to demonstrate Christhood. You may still have an impact in helping people change their mind, but you are helping them, you are inspiring them to make more aware choices by showing them there is an alternative to the dualistic choices. You are not aggressively and actively pushing to change their choices. Why is that such an important difference? Because it is the difference between Christ and anti-christ, between a Christed being and a fallen being. It is the fallen consciousness that does not respect free will and seeks to force people to make certain choices. Even if it believes it is for their own good, it is not for their own good. They have been given free will, they have been given the right to have any experience they want to have in this unascended sphere. Judge not after appearances. They are simply having the experiences they need to have in order to have fully exhausted what they can envision doing in duality.
Yes, again, I sense the questions: “Why then would not we just leave these people alone? Why would the ascended masters not simply let earth disintegrate and self-destruct when it had gone into this downward spiral? Why would the ascended masters decide to allow the fallen beings to embody here and then get us avatars to embody here? Why not leave the earth alone to self-destruct so that the beings on earth could have that experience?” Because, as we have explained, people have a right to experiment with their free will. But their free will must remain free, meaning they see there is an alternative choice to what they are choosing right now. There is a way out of the state of mind they have chosen to get themselves in, and that is the role of the Christ. The Christ does not leave people alone. The Christ seeks to reach them at their level, inspiring them by showing them there is a level above. There is an alternative to their present choice. If they do not choose what is offered by the Christ, then they are allowed to go lower until they can go no lower on earth, and then they go to an even lower planet, even though there are not many of those left.
Breaking point
Why are we saying that free will will work itself out over time? Because in order to uphold staying in duality, it requires effort. And the more a sphere is raised towards the ascension point, the more effort it requires to resist the upward movement, the River of Life. And there will come a point where a being’s internal experience becomes so unbearable that they cannot stand it anymore. Yes, for the fallen beings it can take a long time, but eventually it will come to that point. And again you may say: “But how then did the beings fall? Haven’t you taught that they chose to fall? Haven’t you taught us that there was planets in the fourth sphere where a fallen being has set itself up as the leader of an advanced civilization, and then that being was confronted by the ascended masters and given the choice, would it seek to overcome or not overcome? Why was this allowed? Why was not the fallen being just given time?”
Well, because the free will of one individual exists within the context of all of the self-aware beings in that sphere. When the rest of the sphere was ready to ascend, and a few, a very small percentage point, were not willing to ascend, then they had to be given the choice to ascend with their sphere or to descend into the next sphere. You can say again, they were given more time, just not by holding back all of the other beings who were ready to ascend. You see, over time free will will work itself out. Why? Because when the beings in the fourth sphere fell into the fifth, the fifth was denser than the fourth, meaning their suffering was intensified. Very few fell from the fourth to the fifth to the sixth. There were more that fell in the fifth to the sixth. Very few have fallen into the seventh. But still, as the spheres get denser, there comes that point where a being says: “I cannot do this anymore. I have had enough of this experience of thinking that I can define how the universe works.”
And that is when it can then be faced with this choice. Will it walk the path back up to being a connected being qualifying for its ascension, or will the Conscious You of that being choose the second death? Again, this is free will outplaying itself. The I AM Presence of a fallen being still learns, but the full learning experience is not there. Why? Because if a fallen being chooses to walk the upward path, then for each step it goes up, it learns a valuable lesson that becomes integrated in the causal body. And when the fallen being chooses the second death, then that learning experience is not there. There is still a learning experience from without, but not the learning experience from within that there could have been. But yet again, this is how free will works itself out.
Examine yourself
Yes, this is abstract. Yes, this is esoteric. Yes, this is difficult to grasp with a linear mind. Yes, the linear mind can come up with an almost unending string of questions about this or that detail. But you can also have the Conscious You say: “I do not need to understand this with a linear mind. I need to experience it with the intuitive mind, and I need to use it to examine my own experience. What brought me to earth? What was the view I had? What was the deeper reality? What was the experience I really wanted to have? Have I had enough of that experience? Have I had enough of feeling superior to the inhabitants of earth or feeling that I am in competition with the fallen beings? Am I willing to reach for the Christ mind where the high will be made low, give up my sense of superiority, give up my sense of being special, and realize that in the Christ mind all these comparisons are meaningless. There can be no comparisons in uniqueness.”
And therefore, you can come to that point where you have examined your reason for coming to earth, the experiences you have had here, you have been willing to even look at that birth trauma that you said you never wanted to experience again. You have been willing to experience it again. But since you have risen higher in consciousness, it was not such a dramatic, unpleasant experience as the first time. You can actually re-experience it and say: “So what? It was just an experience. It really was not any worse than when I fell off my bike when I was eight years old and scraped my knee. It was just an experience in the sandbox of earth. I can let it go. I do not need to feel it should not have happened. I do not need to compensate for it. I do not need to explain and justify it. I do not need to defend the self. I can let it go.”
And that, if your potential is the ascension in this lifetime, that is the highest aspect of your Divine plan. And truly, if that is your potential, nothing else matters. Everything else is secondary. Resolving the enigma of free will that brought you to earth, that is the highest potential of your Divine plan. Consider that the very fact that this teaching has now been given in the physical is a testament to the fact that so many of you have come to that point where you are willing to look at the deepest aspects of your psychology. For if no one was ready, what would be the point in giving the teaching? I am not saying this to make you feel superior, but to give you a realistic assessment of your potential to actually fulfill this teaching.
Many of you can do this, can resolve this, and this will make an invaluable contribution to manifesting Saint Germain’s Golden Age. But the golden age cannot be manifest based on the consciousness of anti-christ, only based on the consciousness of Christ. With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you, and I seal you in the love of Sanat Kumara, Lady Master Venus, and all beings on Venus.
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