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Ascended Master Portia through Kim Michaels, August 9, 2025. This dictation was given at the 2025 Conference for America: Rising above the superiority-inferiority duality.
I AM the Ascended Master Portia. Can we talk about the concept of inferiority and superiority without talking about the most basic, the most devastating inferiority-superiority dynamic seen on earth?
Now, I would ask you to guess what dynamic am I talking about? Anyone? Men and women? Exactly.
You look at history on this planet, you go as far back as you have recorded history, which is, of course, only a blink of an eye in the actual history of earth, but nevertheless you see that there has, for all of that time span, been a clear dynamic where men have felt superior to women, and in many cultures women have accepted that inferior position and accepted the superiority of men. Where does that particular dynamic come from? Is it natural? Well, let me leave that question hanging.
Christ is neither male nor female
Most of you will know this, but I wish to put it out there in the collective consciousness. In the beginning was only the Creator. The Creator is one being. Regardless of the images created by many religions on earth, the Creator is not male. Neither is the Creator female. The Creator is beyond any divisions that you could possibly think up. The Creator is undivided, indivisible. The Creator then, out of its own being, creates the Christ mind, the One mind. This mind is also not male or female, for it is undivided, indivisible, meaning there is no differentiation in terms of the forms that you see in this world of form. You cannot take any form in the world of form and project it onto the Christ mind or the Creator.
This does not mean that the Creator is completely undifferentiated, for the Creator is a being, a self-aware being with an individuality. It is an individuality that is way beyond anything you can conceptualize on earth. But the Creator is not the completely undifferentiated Brahman envisioned by many eastern religions. But compared to the forms in this creation of the Creator, the Creator and the Christ consciousness are undifferentiated, undivided. There is no male or female. Now, the Creator has created this One mind out of which everything else will be created and the purpose is, of course, that no matter what form is created, no matter what differentiation might appear, you can use the One mind to trace the origin of form back to the Creator.
The expanding and contracting forces
Now, the Creator has set the stage for creating a differentiated world of form, a world of differentiated forms: What is the first differentiation that appears? It is the differentiation depicted in the Tai Chi of two forces. We have called them the expanding and the contracting forces. These forces are not opposites. They are complementary, which is why you see the black and white fields that are interwoven in the Tai Chi. The Tai Chi can, of course, not be taken literally, but it shows two interwoven forces, because in order to create differentiated forms, there must be some beginning level of differentiation: the outgoing, the contracting. And these two complement each other, balance each other, and any form that you see in this entire world of form springs out of the interaction, we might say, the interdependent origination of these two forces.
Now I know that we have, especially in the beginning teachings of this dispensation, also called them masculine and feminine, male and female, Father and Mother. But that is to make it more easy for people on earth to relate to them. In the beginning, it was not masculine and feminine. They were just two forces. Then what first springs out of these two forces is what makes up what we have called the first sphere. And then there is a succession of spheres leading to your sphere, our sphere, the seventh, which is yet unascended. Everything in this sphere is created out of the interaction of these two basic forces. Still we are not talking masculine and feminine, men and women. But again, layers of creation leading to the physical octave, the densest realm in this unascended sphere. For that matter, the densest realm yet created in the entire world of form.
The concept of men and women
As you go towards greater density, matter sets certain parameters for what can be created. We might say that in the identity realm, the identity octave, things are more fluid. In the mental realm, they are a little bit less fluid. In the emotional realm, they are another notch down, not quite as fluid. And of course, in the physical, you have the densest, the least fluid. In the identity, mental, emotional realms, you do not have physical bodies. You have what you can call bodies, but they are not as dense as the physical bodies. Therefore, they are not subject to the same laws. You might say that there is a succession of layers, levels of laws, principles and the denser the substance that makes up the sphere or the octave, the more, we might say, limiting these laws become. They are simply certain mechanics that come into play, which, and I am, of course, simplifying this somewhat, but nevertheless, which means that on a planet with a density of earth, reproduction requires physical bodies of two ‘opposite’, you might say, ‘complementary’, you might also say, sexes. There are complicated reasons for this, which I will not go into, because my purpose here is to explain that the concept of men and women, masculine and feminine, really only applies to the physical realm, the most dense realm in the world of form.
The male God
As other Masters have said, the problem with the duality consciousness is that once you go into it, you cannot see beyond the material realm. You can have the concept that there is some world beyond it, but you cannot contact the Christ mind and therefore, experience that world directly. Therefore, you take the forms that are in the material realm and project it upon the realm that is beyond the material. You have a situation on earth where you have physical bodies with different sexes, and now people look at what is here on earth and they project this upon the spiritual realm, and now they come up with this idea that God is male: “God is a male figure, the old man with a long white beard and hair sitting on a white throne in heaven, and if God is a man and God is the Creator, the ultimate God, then surely God must be superior to anything in the material realm, and therefore, man must be superior to woman.” Such is the reasoning of the dualistic mind. I am not saying it is that way in the Christ mind, nor that it is that way in the wisdom of the Mother, but that is the reasoning of the dualistic mind.
Duality and value judgment
Because, as we have said, the dualistic mind cannot simply look at differentiation in a neutral way. The dualistic mind looks at the different forms, but it must apply a value judgment. There is always a comparison, there is always a scale: true, false; right, wrong; better, worse; inferior, superior. It cannot think in any other way. Therefore, when you have projected this image that God is male and God is the ultimate being in the universe, then naturally women on earth must be inferior to the men on earth. That is how the dualistic mind reasons, the only way it can reason. Not the only way, because you could have reasoned with the dualistic mind that God was female and therefore, women were superior to men. But back in time a choice was made. And who made that choice? Well, human beings did not make that choice, if with human beings we mean the original earth inhabitants. Neither did, of course, God make that choice. Who made it? Well, this is what you cannot grasp unless you have our teachings about what we have called fallen beings.
The fallen beings’ choice
Beings who in the distant past went so deeply into duality that they came to believe that their minds were capable of defining how the world works, or at least how it should work. And some of them came to believe that they knew better than God how the world works. These then, when they were allowed to come to earth, which we have explained in great depth in other places, but when they were first allowed to come to earth, they had a clear goal of taking dominion over this planet and controlling the original earth inhabitants. They looked at how might we attain control over these primitive, ignorant human beings. And therefore, they came up with a scheme that they would project that God is male and therefore, men are superior to women.
There is a certain irony here. Did the fallen beings look at men and women and say: “Yeah, men are clearly superior, so that is what we are going to project?” No, they did not. They actually looked at men and women and they saw that because humankind at the time had gone into duality, men had a certain characteristic in the duality consciousness. Because on a dense planet like earth, when people go into duality, they begin to identify with form. Those who were in male bodies identified themselves with a male form. Those who were in female bodies, of course, identified themselves with a female form. But the male force, when you go back to the original two forces, is the expansive force. That means that men have more of a tendency to look for some ultimate answer, such as wanting to have the ultimate God of the universe be intimately concerned about conditions on earth. Women, on the other hand, were more in touch with the Mother realm, the matter realm, the physical planet, nature. And therefore, the fallen beings saw that although both were cut off from the wisdom of the Christ, women were more in tune with the wisdom of the Mother. Women were the ones who were more willing to look at how things actually work in nature. And therefore, the fallen beings saw: “Ah, women are harder to fool than men. We can fool men into believing in an idea that is completely disconnected from the physical matter realm.”
A mind trap for men
What does that mean? It means that when you project the idea that God is male, you cannot look at the nature you can see with your physical senses and validate or invalidate that idea. Meaning that once men had been fooled into thinking that God was a male, what frame of reference did they have for evaluating this, for getting out of the illusion? Women, on the other hand, if you gave them an idea, they would be willing to look at nature, at the physical realm, and look at how things actually work and see whether your idea was realistic or not. Therefore, it became clear to the fallen beings that women were harder to fool than men. They had more of a frame of reference than men did. Meaning once men had gone into the state of illusion, it would be harder for them to get out of it. I am, of course, not using the terms inferior and superior, but when it comes to the question of who were the easiest people to fool on earth, it is clear that men were easier to fool than women. And that is why the fallen beings chose to create an entire worldview, not just one religion, but an entire worldview that God is male.
And because God is male, God first created man, and then as a kind of afterthought, he created women: “Let us not have Adam be lonely. Let us give him someone who can help him, serve him.” By the very fact that men do not have as much of a frame of reference as women, you could say that even before the fallen beings came, there was a certain rivalry, envy in the minds of men. Because as you see in some native societies in recent history, what happened back then was that women were often wiser than men when it came to practical life, making things work, because they were, as it was said in the Middle Ages, wise women. They could go out into nature and find herbs and intuitively sense that they would cure a certain disease, which most men were not able to do. Women had certain abilities that men did not have, which meant that some of the societies on earth, women had a higher position than men, and some men envied that. Therefore, they were very susceptible when the fallen beings came and said: “But clearly men are superior because God is a man!”
The false God of the Old Testament
As I have explained: God is not a man. The God created by the fallen beings is a false God. Any God that is differentiated into male and female is not the ultimate God. There can be ascended beings in heaven who hold a male and female, masculine-feminine polarity, but the ultimate God cannot be male or female, therefore, likely to be a false God created by the fallen beings. The fallen beings, in their arrogance, believe that they are capable of creating their own God that is more powerful or wiser than the real Creator. They took great delight in sitting there in their councils, defining this male God which was much further back than the origin of the Old Testament and some of the other known civilizations and their religions, but nevertheless it was carried over to the Old Testament God, which is why as we have said before, the Old Testament God is a false God, a man-made idol, or rather an idol made by the fallen beings. This does not mean that the Bible is entirely false, for the name I AM or I AM THAT I AM has a validity as we have explained, and which I will not go into here.
Men’s and women’s tendencies
I want to stay with this idea that the fallen beings defined men as superior to women because they saw that men were easier to fool than women. Therefore, you could say the fallen beings defined men as superior because they saw that they were really inferior. Another irony of history, we might say. We can now fast forward to modern times. We can look at the world today and we can see that there are still cultures today that are clearly patriarchal, male-dominated. We can ask ourselves: “What is it that could liberate humankind from the current mindset, worldview, the duality consciousness, the consciousness of anti-christ, the death consciousness? What could liberate?” Well, as we have explained, only the Christ mind. But the Christ mind can be reached in two different ways, as we have explained. The vertical way where you reach up, and the horizontal way where you use the wisdom of the Mother to see the contradictions of duality. Both are needed.
Men have a tendency, and I say tendency, that it is easier for them to reach up directly and reach the Christ mind vertically. Women have a tendency, again a tendency, that it is easier for them to reach horizontally and contact the wisdom of the Mother. It is by no means so that men cannot contact or use the wisdom of the Mother and women cannot contact the Christ mind directly. But there is a tendency. And the reason why it is important to realize this is that this explains why Jesus took on a male body and supposedly had only male disciples. It was partly also because he descended into, embodied into a patriarchal culture that simply would not have accepted a female prophet or Messiah. But it was also to demonstrate this, that men have the potential to reach up. Women of course do too, as seen by the fact that Jesus actually had female disciples who were in certain ways more advanced than the male disciples. But again, there is that tendency that women find it more easy to contact the wisdom of the Mother.
The need for both wisdoms
Now, originally the two forces, the expanding and the contracting, are complementary. And they of course still are. But because of the density of earth, because the vast majority of human beings have descended into the duality consciousness, then people cannot easily grasp this. And this means that due to the density of people’s minds, they find it difficult to contact the Christ mind vertically and the wisdom of the Mother horizontally in their pure forms. It is, as we have said before, that the first challenge of Christ is to recognize Christ as something beyond this world, beyond your own mind. The second challenge is that you do not try to pull Christ into your mind and validate your world view. But when people hear about the Christ mind and the wisdom of the Mother, they do tend to pull them in. And that means that whether they contact the Christ mind this way or the wisdom of the Mother that way, they impose a certain coloring upon them. And the effect of this is that given the current density of earth, you cannot actually liberate yourself from duality by only using the Christ mind or by only using the wisdom of the Mother.
Because due to people’s density of consciousness, the way they tend to use these tools is colored by their minds. And that gives certain limitations. For example, men who reach for the Christ mind often tend to disconnect from practical everyday life and find it difficult to function in everyday life. You see many examples of it through history. You see it today. Women who use the wisdom of the Mother find it very easy to see the contradictions of duality, but find it difficult to reach for the Christ vision beyond duality. It does not mean they come to see one dualistic polarity as true and the other as false. It just means that they see both are false, but they cannot quite grasp what is the Christ perspective beyond them. And the same, of course, if men use the wisdom of the Mother and women contact the Christ mind.
Complementing each other in society
That is why you need to have both. And that is why if you actually look at Jesus’ life, you saw that he was standing there at the wedding of Cana, hesitating to demonstrate his mastery of mind over matter. And the female element in the form of Mother Mary had to step in and basically say: “Do it.” But there were also times where Jesus helped the female disciples see something that they found it difficult to see on their own. That is actually why the higher approach to spirituality sees men and women as complementary, complementing each other, helping each other reach something that they both find it difficult to reach on their own. And that is why in a modern spiritual movement, it is necessary to transcend the patriarchal mindset, the whole idea that men are somehow superior to women. Surely there are physical differences. Surely those need to be taken into account. But what do they have to do with inferiority and superiority? They are just physical differences. They are neutral when viewed from a neutral state of mind. You see here that the only thing that can change the equation on earth is the spiritual people who are willing to look beyond the patriarchal mindset, the stereotypes of men and women, and strive to create a movement where men and women complement each other instead of competing with each other.
If this can be achieved by a critical mass of spiritual people, and I did say if, then it can spread from there to other areas of society. You have, of course, societies today where people have used a combination of the direct wisdom of Christ and the wisdom of the Mother to question the patriarchal mindset, to see that there is something amiss there. But because they do not have the full clarity, they have actually come up with this idea that there should be equality between men and women. And that is actually not the highest view, because the duality consciousness will attempt to color this in various ways. For example, you take the business world where the vast majority of CEOs and board members of corporations are men. Some nations have then decided this is not right. We need to change this. We create a rule that there should be a quota. There should be a certain percentage of women on boards.
Changing the business world
But you see, that is actually not the highest approach. You also have the concept that women should be allowed to reach positions in the business world. But since the business world is dominated by the patriarchal mindset, it means that women, in order to rise to these positions, have to turn themselves into men and start behaving like men. And if they do this, then men should accept them. But again, that is not the highest approach. The fact of the matter is that the businesses you have today are unbalanced because they are dominated by the male mindset, the patriarchal mindset, the inferiority of women and the superiority of men. It is not enough to get women on the boards because it does not change the fundamental approach to business. In order for women and men to complement each other in the business world, business would have to be fundamentally changed to incorporate both the male and female elements, the wisdom of Christ, the wisdom of the Mother. And that would require a fundamental rethinking of the business world.
As Saint Germain said earlier, the business world today functions to give a small elite maximum profit and power, and the vast majority of that, the members of that elite, are men. The entire business world is dominated by this desire for men to buy superiority with money. With a more balanced approach that incorporates both the wisdom of Christ and the wisdom of the Mother, businesses would be fundamentally changed so that the focus of business is not profit but people, both the customers and the employees. In fact, there would not be employees, there would be co-owners, because everyone who worked in a company would be invested in the company. There are, of course, examples of this already, but not many, and certainly not the big corporations. That is why I am saying that creating equality is not really the highest approach when you seek to force it. It is not really a matter of creating equality between men and women, but overcoming the value judgment of inferiority and superiority, so you can see how men and women complement each other, and that only by incorporating both can you reach the highest result.
Changing politics
The same with politics. Politics will not be changed by having more women elected. It will be changed by fundamentally rethinking the approach to politics, because currently politics has been defined by the unbalanced male mindset based on superiority. Politics is about being right, not about serving the people. But if you incorporated both male and female polarities, you could shift the focus of politics away from being right or having power to again being focused on people. He or she who would be greatest among you, let them be the servant of all. That should be the focus of politics, but it is not attained automatically by electing more women, even though they would create changes. But it is really only achieved by fundamentally rethinking.
And how do you rethink? By abandoning the entire inferiority-superiority dynamic between men and women. You see them not as competitors, not as one being dominant, but you see them as complementary, each supplying something that the other one does not have. Therefore, they balance each other. And you avoid the imbalances that are inevitable in the duality consciousness. You could say that ultimately it requires that people transcend the duality consciousness, and that is again best achieved by men and women working together, balancing each other. I am not saying that a man cannot transcend duality, or that a woman cannot transcend duality, but for the purpose of society, both are needed. Both perspectives are needed. The wisdom of the Christ, the wisdom of the Mother.
Breaking up the patriarchal culture
Is this process happening? Has it begun? Yes, it has. It actually began 2,000 years ago, when Jesus in many ways challenged the patriarchal mindset, even though the scriptures do not reflect this, because they do not admit that he had female disciples. You will know that in Jewish culture, women are not allowed to study the Torah. There were people back then who condemned Jesus for having female disciples, for having women around him, allowing them to hear his teachings. But Jesus did it anyway, and it started breaking up that patriarchal culture that you find not only in the Jewish religion, not only in the Christian religion, but you find it in Islam, in Hinduism, in Buddhism.
There were centuries where many Buddhists felt that women should not be allowed to study Buddhism or practice Buddhism, and even today some feel that way. Really Jesus was the first one to seriously challenge this, and he challenged it much more directly than is reflected in the scriptures, which by the way shows you that the scriptures are not the infallible word of God. They are a product of men who were a product of their times, and the gospel writers simply decided that it would be too difficult to get the Jews to accept Jesus’ teachings if they talked about the equality of men and women. “Ah, time is not ready for it.” Never mind that Jesus thought the times were ready for it, but the gospel writers thought they knew better than Christ. As Peter thought he knew better than Christ, and so did many of the early Christians in the diversified Christian movement, and then you saw the creation of the Catholic Church, and again men with a sense of superiority stepped in and thought they knew better than Christ how the Christian religion should be formed.
The inferiority of women in the Catholic Church
And what did they do? As Jesus said, they took the teachings and the examples of Christ and used them to institutionalize the denial of Christ. But what did they also do? Jesus was the only Son of God, the only offspring of God. Meaning what? God apparently does not have daughters. The Almighty God is not capable of creating daughters, only one son. And then he was done, and we have not heard from him since. For who needs God when you have a church hierarchy that knows better than God and better than Christ? “Get thee behind thee Christ, for thou art an offense to us Catholics. Thou savors the things that be of God, and not the things that be of men.” You see that despite the fact that Jesus wanted to start a movement that gave equal opportunity to men and women to raise their consciousness, the very religion that claims to represent him cemented the inferiority of women and the superiority of men. And it does so to this day. And it has seemingly no intent of truly reforming itself.
What can one say to such an institution? “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Look at what the Catholic religion has done to Mother Mary. She did not have the status or the level of consciousness of Jesus. She had not attained personal Christhood according to the Christian religion. They accept her as a saint, but clearly inferior to Jesus. Even Mother Mary is used to cement the inferiority of women, for they should find their place as Mother Mary has found her place in the Catholic religion. How long, O Lord, shall this go on? When will the women simply abandon the Catholic church? When will they abandon the Lutheran churches, the fundamentalist churches, and simply say to those male pastors and popes and potentates: “Get thee behind me, for I am walking away from you, and I am not looking back.”
Radiating the impulse into the collective consciousness
Although I may sound more serious than the male masters who have practically become sit-down comedians at this conference, it has still been my great joy to interact with you, all of you, whatever body you are in.
For to me, I see beyond it. I see who you really are, as the Conscious You that is beyond male and female, as the I AM Presence that is beyond male and female. And you have my deep gratitude for having given me the opportunity to enter into this interdependent originations with you and through you with the collective consciousness. Many women have been and will be awakened by this impulse that we have radiated out, and they will reconnect to that wisdom of the Divine Mother. They will look at the Christian religion. They will look at the business world. They will look at the world of politics and say: Change is needed. With this, I seal you in the flame of opportunity, the flame of justice. For is it not ultimate justice that the inferiority-superiority dynamic between men and women is transcended so that the scales can become even and not offset? With this, I seal you in that flame of opportunity.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels