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Ascended Master Padmasambhava through Kim Michaels, January 4, 2026. This dictation was given at the 2026 New Year’s webinar: Becoming Wise to the Serpents.

I AM the Ascended Master Padmasambhava. What I would like to do here is give you some insights into the fallen consciousness and the serpentine consciousness to see how they, in a certain way, reinforce, supplement each other, but how they can also threaten each other. Now you may say that we have explained that there is a certain safety mechanism built into the world.

Safety mechanisms

One safety mechanism is the Christ Consciousness. You can always reach for the Christ Consciousness to start the way back by dissolving your illusions one by one. Another safety mechanism is energy. Energy comes from the spiritual realm. When you go into duality, you become cut off from the spiritual realm. Therefore, to exercise power, you must steal energy from those who are still receiving it from the spiritual realm. The more you misuse power, the less energy you receive. I am not hereby saying that as soon as you go to the 47th level of consciousness, you are completely cut off from receiving power or energy from the spiritual realm, but the amount is reduced.

But the lower you go in consciousness towards the lowest level, the less you are personally receiving from your I AM Presence. And therefore, in order to become a powerful being, even a powerful leader on earth, you must steal energy from those who are still receiving it from above. That is why fallen beings on earth seek to set themselves up as leaders, because when you submit to a leader, become part of the vortex, your mind becomes taken over by the collective beast, you are giving energy to the leader, as many among the German people gave energy to Hitler.

Anytime you have idolatry of a leader, be it a political leader or a spiritual leader, you are giving energy to that leader. And if the person is in the fallen consciousness, he or she can use that to attain a certain kind of power that might impress those who believe they are powerless beings. Why do you believe you are a powerless being? Because you have abandoned your responsibility to reach for your Christ potential. Therefore, you are powerless, because you of your own self can do nothing. And if the Christ, the Father within you, is not the doer, you are powerless.

Anyway, the Christ consciousness, energy are safety mechanisms. But another safety mechanism is actually the duality consciousness. This may seem contradictory, based on everything we have told you about duality. But when you step back and think about it, you realize that in the duality consciousness, there are always two opposite polarities. Even though the fallen beings attempt to take one dualistic polarity and elevate it to the status of being absolute, it will always be relative to the other polarity. There is always an opposition. And this creates tension, and this can eventually get people to the point where they have had enough of it. But actually, another safety mechanism is the serpentine consciousness. Because the serpentine consciousness is what makes you doubt. And there are, of course, fallen beings who have used the serpentine consciousness to make themselves feel like they are absolutely right. But at any moment, it could happen that the serpentine consciousness inserted a doubt into their mind: “Am I really right? Could I be wrong?”

The serpentine consciousness as safety mechanism

I will describe one such possible scenario. You have fallen beings who in their first unascended sphere, where they were created, set themselves up as very powerful leaders on a planet. They were seen by the inhabitants on that planet as being all-powerful, all-knowing, as being always right, as being infallible. They had this aura of infallibility. They were turned into an idol by the people. They had turned themselves into an idol, and the people had submitted to them and were giving them energy.

The confrontation and the fall

Here comes the ascended masters. We demonstrate that whatever power you can gain in an unascended sphere is nothing compared to the power you have as an ascended master. The train that the fallen beings felt was running down the tracks with unstoppable force suddenly met the immovability of an archangel, and it came off the tracks. Now the fallen being refuses, or rather, the being refuses to follow the path upward and ascend with the rest of its sphere, and thereby it falls and becomes a fallen being in the next sphere.

No limits to free will?

Now the being goes into a state of mind, and mind you, there are of course many different ways to react to this experience, but a particular being goes into this state of mind that the ascended masters had no right to confront it, because: “If free will is really free, I should have been allowed to continue as the leader indefinitely. There should be no limit if free will is really free.”

Now you will see that such a being can only reason this way because it has gone into the illusion of separation, because the reality is that free will is free within the larger context of all beings in an unascended sphere. The one individual cannot with its free will override the free will of the majority who are choosing to ascend, therefore, cannot hold back the entire sphere from ascending. But in separation you cannot see this, and therefore, you are focused on yourself and your exercise of free will. You have experienced that you could bend the free will of all inhabitants on your planet to submit to you, and therefore, you feel that it should also be possible to bend the spiritual realm, the ascended masters, even God, to submit to your free will and allow you to continue your undisputed reign. They should not have the right to confront you. It is a violation of your free will, it is a violation of the law of free will, so you reason.

Proving God wrong

You now become angry over this, and you become determined that you will prove God wrong. Now you have fallen into the next sphere, and you are completely focused on proving God wrong. You are allowed to embody on a certain planet, and many of those who followed you instead of ascending, embody with you. There are also some new lifestreams created in the next sphere on that planet. You continue to set yourself up, attaining more and more power, but you are spending your entire attention on proving God wrong. You think this is possible because the serpentine logic makes it seem that it should be possible to cause all beings in an undescended sphere to go into separation and duality, and to stay there so long that the sphere cannot ascend. Of course, this is an illusion for the simple reason that you can see in your physical universe, the distances between planets is so great that no physical communication between them is possible.

But there can come a point where a fallen being begins to realize that despite the physical separation, all life is interconnected at the emotional, mental and identity level. It can formulate this desire to become so powerful in these higher levels that it can deceive all beings in a sphere and cause them to misuse their free will and stay in separation. The being can now focus all of its attention, all of its energy on doing this. In doing this, the being has an enemy, an opponent in its mind. It might be a specific ascended master. It might be some god-like figure that it has created in its own mind, that it projects that this is the Creator who started our world of form and gave beings free will. The fallen being spends a very long time in this unascended sphere trying to prove God wrong. And as a result of this, it experiments with what it can do with its mind. And it justifies this by the serpentine logic. For example, it may say: “Well, the ascended masters claim that God has given all beings free will. So I have a free will and a right to experiment with my free will and do whatever I can do with it. And I even have a right to do this in a way that overrides or destroys the free will of other people by getting them to submit to me. That is one of the things you can do with free will in an unascended sphere. And why shouldn’t I be allowed to explore this to its ultimate extent?”

The desire to humiliate God

You see the state of mind of the fallen being. It is always relating itself and its efforts to this opponent that it has created. As part of these experimentations with free will, it formulates the desire to humiliate God. It goes into various what you might call forms of black magic, satanic rituals or other kinds of rituals. It might blaspheme God, for example. It might spend a long time seeking to do this, even falling through another sphere or another if it started in the fourth sphere.

There comes a point where this fallen being has now explored everything it can imagine, everything it can think of, of how you can blaspheme God. And it uses the serpentine mind to justify that this actually hurts other people, because after all, they can only be hurt if they are choosing to submit to this fallen being. And that is their free will that is outplaying itself. What could be wrong with this? Here is a being who has reached the end of its imagination. It just cannot think of another way to offend God.

The serpentine logic turning in on itself

But now it has happened to some of these beings that they have come to a point where the serpentine mind suddenly caused them to look at themselves and say: “I have blasphemed God in any way I could imagine. And this is allowed by free will. And the fact that God allows this is proven by the fact that when I blaspheme God, I am not struck by lightning and die. So God must allow this.” But then the serpentine mind can suddenly give rise to this thought: “Is God allowing me to blaspheme him because he is not threatened by it?” And this can be a very scary thought for a fallen being who has spent a very long time imagining that what it was doing was a threat to God and God’s plan for the universe. That the fallen being actually had the power to disturb God’s plan, to cause God to change his plan and withdraw free will. And suddenly the serpentine mind makes this fallen being doubt: “Why has not God struck me down? Why has not God punished me for all the things I have done? Is it because it does not threaten God? But how could it not threaten God? Is it because it does not affect God? Is it because despite all the things I have done, God does not care about it? Because it does not even touch God.”

You see, the very serpentine logic that causes a being to believe it is hurting God and God’s plan, can also cause it to look at itself and say: “Am I really hurting God? Does God care at all?” It is the serpent swallowing its own tail. The serpentine logic turning in on itself.

There are beings who have come to a point where they have had either this particular epiphany or another epiphany where the serpentine logic has suddenly looked at itself and questioned itself. Because what is the characteristic of the serpentine logic? Well, it can justify anything, but it can also doubt anything, including itself. And there comes a point where you cannot anymore use the serpentine logic to justify yourself, and you flip to the other extreme and start doubting yourself.

Hitting concrete experience

And this can cause a fallen being to suddenly have one of these experiences, mystical experience, aha experience, hitting the concrete experience, scales fall from your eyes experience, where suddenly realizes: “Everything I have done for these eons of time, all of the energy I have spent, all of the imagination and attention I have put into this, all the stress this has caused me, has had absolutely no impact on God or any being in the ascended realm. It has had an impact on other unascended beings, but it has first of all had an impact on myself.” And then it can give rise to this realization that is a result of the Christ mind pulling on the fallen being: “I cannot do this anymore. I do not want to do this anymore. It is futile. It is all created in my own mind and does not even touch the mind of God.” And that can cause a fallen being to cry out for help. And at that moment, the Christ mind, in whatever form the fallen being can recognize in its current level and current situation, will offer the fallen being an insight that can help it overcome one illusion.

The shift into a connected being

Now, if a fallen being has fallen through several spheres, there is an almost unrecognizable number of illusions. But the Christ mind is infinitely patient and will continue to offer the fallen being a frame of reference for overcoming the next illusion until the fallen being reaches the consciousness, the level of consciousness that we call the 48th level on earth. It can be different on other planets, where it can reconnect from within to its Christ self, to its I AM Presence, to the ascended masters, to the Christ mind. It becomes not a fallen being, not a separate being, but a connected being. That is, of course, what Jesus described in his parable about the son who has been lost for many years and now returns. There is celebration in the ascended realm when this happens. Has this happened? Yes, quite a number of times—a large number of times. The process works.

The second death

Now, there are cases where a being has the epiphany, but realizes that the road back is so long that the Conscious You decides it does not want to walk that road. And it demands to be eradicated. That has also happened, but not as many times.

Why does this happen to some fallen beings? Because even though they see the futility of what they have done in the fallen consciousness, they are still not willing to take full responsibility for the fact that this was a result of their own choices, not forced upon them by the ascended masters or God. They can still use a subtle aspect of the serpentine mind to say: “But it should not have been possible for me to fall. There should have been a safety mechanism that prevented me from falling.” But wait a minute now, what was it that caused you to fall—that you demanded to be allowed to explore the fullness of what you can do with free will? The ascended masters did not cause you to fall. God did not cause you to fall. You chose to fall in order to continue to explore what you can do with free will as a separate being. How can you expect to overcome this except through your own choices? But some will say: “It is too much. I cannot do it. I cannot walk that long and arduous path back.” Then free will must be allowed to outplay itself in this way. As we have said before, the I AM Presence can also decide that it does not want the Conscious You to walk this long path, but that is very rare.

Seeing through the fallen mind

Why am I telling you all of this? Well, because as a person who is beginning to attain personal Christhood, there simply comes a point on the path to Christhood where you need to develop this discernment. You see, you can be the Living Christ on a natural planet where there are no fallen beings. But you are on earth, an unnatural planet where there are fallen beings. You can ascend from a natural planet without having encountered fallen beings and without fully understanding the fallen consciousness and the serpentine mind. But you cannot ascend from earth without attaining the discernment between the undivided reality of Christ and the infinite divisions of duality and the infinite justifications and doubts of the serpentine mind. Because in order to ascend from earth, you need to leave behind everything that is currently manifest on earth, and you need to leave it behind consciously.

And you cannot leave it behind consciously unless you have encountered it and have some understanding of it. You may say: “Well, what about those who have ascended before you gave this teaching?” Yes, but we are now giving the teaching in words that can be published. It does not mean we could not give it privately to those who have reached a certain level of Christ consciousness. Not necessarily using the same words we are using now, but helping them see the dynamic, the psychology of the fallen beings and the serpentine mind.

Challenging the power elite

What we look at as the part of the progression of humankind, the progression towards the golden age, is that a critical mass of spiritual students will embrace these teachings, will ponder them, will ask for our help in gaining an understanding and experience that is beyond words. And therefore, be able to consciously choose to leave behind the fallen beings, the fallen consciousness, the serpentine mind, those who have embodied the serpentine mind. But also, for some of you at least, to challenge the serpentine logic.

Jesus did it 2,000 years ago. The Buddha did it 2,500 years ago. Many others have done it without it being recorded for posterity. In this age, many more need to do it, instead of just one in each society or each age. Many people need to challenge this. It does not mean that you have to go out and publicly state: “Oh, you are a fallen being, you are in the serpentine consciousness.” But you can still challenge the ideas in the serpentine consciousness. You can still challenge those who are in the fallen consciousness because they are completely focused on themselves. You can challenge these leaders who are completely focused on themselves and bring out the idea that there must be a better form of leadership and that we cannot continue to allow such leaders to take over societies as they have done so many times in the past with disastrous results. You can help bring about a new awareness of what we have called the power elite,— that there is a certain type of people, narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths, whatever people are open to calling them, who are in their own minds fundamentally different from most people, have a different view of themselves and of other people and of what they are allowed to do to other people.

You can challenge the elitist culture, the elitist mindset that is hanging over this planet as a black cloud. You can, so to speak, be the proverbial boy who cries out, but the emperor has nothing on. And you can be part of this awakening where suddenly more and more people begin to see: “Oh, there is a power elite. These are the consequences of their actions. This is their attitude, their mentality, their psychology. Why did we never see this before?” And why didn’t they see it? Because so many people had refused to take responsibility for themselves, had created idols around these specific leaders, had elevated them to a status of infallibility, had submitted to them and had been hypnotized by the collective beast. Now this, of course, you do not need to say publicly, as it is too much for most people.

But I am saying that there can come a point where there is a much more dramatic shift than you have seen so far, where people suddenly realize the problem is the power elite. The problem is elitism. The threat to democracy is elitism, because those who are in this elitist mindset never wanted democracy in the first place. And they have done everything they can to destroy it from without or undermine it from within. And now we see it. It is so obvious now. But see, it was not before. But when this shift happens, it will be obvious.

And there is a very great opportunity that many, many people can go through this shift in this coming year, where they can tune into the Wisdom of the Second Ray that helps them focus on this issue and see the problem. See the problem that there is an elite who will use any means, including a democracy, to control and manipulate the people.

You can, as we instructed this messenger to do on his website, call them the manipulators. But the power elite is also a useful term. This is a potential in this coming year. Not, of course, that everybody will recognize this, but that many more people will recognize it and begin to contemplate what it actually means, begin to see the consequences, begin to see many of these belief systems, ideologies, ideas that have been put out by these manipulating people.

Elitism in the economy

For example, neoliberalism, a completely elitist idea about the economy—completely anti-democratic. Why did so many democratic leaders embrace this, believe in it? Because they were hypnotized. Even the leaders of democratic nations can be hypnotized by these ideas, seduced by the ideas. “Oh, does it not sound wonderful that the government does not have to wrestle with this very complex problem of how to run an economy in a democratic nation, for the market will take care of itself. And if you just allow the elite to make more money, the rising tide will lift all boats.” Isn’t it such a beautiful metaphor? For surely when the tide rises in the ocean, all boats that float are lifted.” Yeah, but if all boats are lifted, the boats of the elite will still be higher than the boats of the common people. And is that really the role of a democratic government, to allow the elite to be in a privileged position where the population is the slaves of the elite, for they are doing the hard work, but the wealth is funneled upwards?

You may also say the rising tide lifts all boats, but not in an equal amount. Some boats are lifted more than others in a neoliberal economy. And what boats? Oh yes, the boats that do not need to be lifted, because the elite already have more money than they could possibly spend on personal consumption. What sense does it make that a democratic society allows a small elite to become richer than they could possibly spend when the majority of the people sink deeper and deeper into poverty? How is that democratic? Again, a shift that can happen very quickly, especially if you make the calls, hold the vision, if you feel this is one of the issues that you are here to deal with in your Divine plan.

The omega aspect of the Christ mind

There is an idea that is held by some people and has been held by some people for a long time that I want to comment on. And it is this idea that we who are ascended masters and claim to be spiritual teachers should only talk about spiritual matters and should not comment on what is going on in the world, especially not politics.

Some will say as spiritual teachers you should be focused on raising people’s consciousness. And once people’s consciousness is raised, many problems will be overcome by the raising of consciousness. So we should, for example, not talk about Trump, but should only talk about how you can raise your consciousness.

Now, there are several comments I want to make here. First of all, that this is just another example of the serpentine logic meant to limit what the Christ mind can do in this world. The same logic would say, for example, that Jesus should have stayed outside the cities and given his teaching, but should not have overturned the tables of the money changers or challenged the scribes and Pharisees. But you see, there are two aspects of the Christ mind: the outgoing, the ingoing, the expanding, the contracting, the father, the mother, the alpha, the omega. The alpha is that you give a spiritual teaching on how to raise people’s consciousness. The omega is that the Christ mind is not just sitting up there in an elevated position talking down to the people, but meets the people where they are at.

Breaking down the barrier

And those people who are not able to receive a higher teaching, they are given a cup of cold water in Christ’s name. It is natural that spiritual teachers who are one with the Christ mind will not only talk about spiritual matters, but will address practical matters that affect people’s everyday lives. Now, this is especially natural in the Aquarian Age, where we have said that we need to break down the barrier between the spiritual side of life and the worldly side of life— between spiritual activities and worldly activities. But the challenge for you who are in embodiment in the Aquarian Age is to integrate spirituality in all aspects of life. This is no easy task on an unnatural planet like earth. Therefore, very few people can do this without help. What are we here for, if not to help people? And so, we will, of course, address many of these issues. You will notice that we are not telling people what to do, what to believe, how to live their lives. We are giving a perspective that can help you challenge some of the illusions you have, tune into the Christ mind, and raise your awareness where you look at the issue from a higher perspective than you could before.

Many people on earth are still trapped in this black and white approach, as Saint Germain described with the abortion issue. It can be looked on in black and white terms, that it is a matter of what is right and wrong, and the wrong should be forbidden. But the Christ mind takes the omnipresent approach, takes the omnipresent view, and looks at the entire situation, and therefore, addresses it in a much more nuanced way.

Giving people a frame of reference

Now, even though there is a division in the Christ mind with the outgoing and the contracting force, there is a further division into the seven spiritual rays. Each ray has a certain perspective on life on earth. Each ray has a certain contribution to make for helping people improve their everyday lives. How will Saint Germain’s Golden Age come about? Yes, certainly it is necessary for people to raise their consciousness. But will it happen automatically because people raise their consciousness? Nay. It will happen when people grasp new ideas that have not been grasped before, and implement those ideas.

Where will those ideas come from? What did we explain during this conference? You cannot look at conditions as they currently are on earth and based on your observation of what is here now, you cannot come up with ideas that will take the earth beyond current conditions. You must reach for something beyond current conditions, which is the Christ mind, the ascended realm, the ascended masters. If we sat up here and said we are spiritual teachers, we only talk about spiritual matters, we would not be fulfilling our role and our responsibility for earth. For our role is to give people a frame of reference for questioning any and all ideas that spring from the illusion of separation, the dualistic consciousness and the serpentine logic. That is our role. We intend to fulfill it. Saying that we should limit the way we do this is just an attempt of the serpentine mind to shut us out from influencing earth.

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you. I am grateful for allowing me to use your chakras to broadcast this into the collective consciousness.

Many of you have heard it before, but many people heard it today who had not heard it before. And it started that alchemical process of turning the lead of the human consciousness into the gold of the Christ vision. And it is the gold of the Christ vision, not the glittering gold of the physical realm, that will manifest Saint Germain’s Golden Age.

With this, I seal you in the Presence that I am. Padmasambhava is just a name. I am more than the name. And I am willing to reveal my being to you if you will open your mind to me.

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Kim: Just give a few chants. OM AH HUM VAJA GURU PADME SIDDHI HUM OM AH HUM VAJA GURU PADME SIDDHI HUM OM AH HUM VAJA GURU PADME SIDDHI HUM

Kim: I do not know if all of you know the story of the mantra “Vajra”, but it said that Gautama Buddha was sitting under the bow tree, he was being confronted or challenged by the demons of Mara, and they even said: You have no right to be the Buddha on earth, to be the Buddha in physical, in the physical realm. And the Buddha did not address them. He touched the earth with his hand and said, Vajra, which means, I have the right to be the Buddha here. And the earth rose up and affirmed it.

Padmasambhava wants us to do this. You can touch whatever is connected to the earth. And then we together give the mantra. Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra, Vajra

This is a ritual that you can use whenever you feel that there is a projection against you that challenges your right to be the Living Christ on earth, to strive for Christ consciousness, to be an ascended master student. Whenever you feel that projection, you can give this. It only takes a few seconds to give this ritual.

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