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Ascended Master MORE through Kim Michaels, March 21, 2025. This dictation was given at a conference in Holland: Locking in to Your Divine Plan
I AM the Ascended Master MORE and I come to talk to you about the concept of God’s Will in relation to your Divine plan because for a long time there have been people who have known about the concept of a Divine plan and who have thought that it was somewhat like a straitjacket, something that was put upon you. They have mixed this in with the concept of God’s Will as also a straitjacket that was put upon you. And neither of them, of course, is the highest understanding. Now, you need to understand here that there are many different levels of the spiritual path. At different levels you need different teachings because at the lower levels you cannot give a deep understanding of certain spiritual concepts. At lower levels people’s minds are still too influenced by lower forces, by lower energies, by many of the illusions that they have taken in, possibly over many lifetimes, and therefore it simply is not possible to give them a deeper understanding. There is a certain need at these lower levels of the path to give teachings that in a sense, you could say, shock people out of their inertia, out of their sense of equilibrium and make them realize that there is a higher understanding to strive for.
The will of God at the lower levels of the path
Now, when you look back at this yourselves, you—who have been very eager to study spiritual teachings—may think that all people who hear about the spiritual side to life are as eager to learn new things as you have been, but that is not the case for most people. The minds of many people who find a spiritual teaching of some kind are not really open to learning something new because they are very attached to the sense of security they have, and their sense of security is based on a certain sense of equilibrium. And they do not want to lose that equilibrium, they want a spiritual teaching to validate their sense of equilibrium so they can feel more secure in their ego’s false sense of security. Actually, at these lower levels it is necessary to give people teachings that somewhat shock them out of this security. Even though you would say from your perspective they are not particularly advanced, they do not have a particularly high understanding of the spiritual path, they feel they have a high understanding of life and the spiritual path, and this is precisely what makes it difficult for us to reach them with a higher teaching.
One of the tasks we have at these lower levels is to make people realize that there is something outside of their own state of mind. We have done this with the concept of God’s Will to make them realize there is a higher will for their lives than their current sense of will because their current sense of will was, of course, very much based on their egos and their ego’s sense of equilibrium. And how do you at these lower levels maintain a sense of equilibrium? Well, your sense of equilibrium is based on ignorance. You do not know very much, but you think that what you know is accurate or enough, and so you do not want your ignorance to be challenged and disturbed. People are clinging to their ignorance. In previous dispensations many people had this idea that their will, the outer will of the ego, was good enough or perhaps even superior. Therefore, it was necessary to give them this concept, a very firm concept, of the will of God that is a higher will than their outer will, the ego-based will.
And this was helpful for some people to go through this phase of realizing: “Maybe my ego’s will, my outer will, is not the highest will for my life, maybe there is a higher will for my life, maybe God has some kind of will for my life.” This, of course, as you can see from your perspective, was not a very high understanding because it is based on this old view of God that many people were brought up with going back to the Christian traditions and even to the Judeo tradition of the Old Testament—that there is this Almighty God, All-Knowing God up there in heaven, who has a superior will for all people and is looking down upon earth and has a personal will for each person. And this, of course, is based on the ancient view that goes back to when people had a very localized awareness.
They did not even realize the planet is round or that the world is big. They just were aware of their localized area and they thought that they and their area were the center of the universe. They thought they were so important that the God who created the entire universe, the highest God, was personally concerned with this little tribe running around the Middle East, killing their neighbors and stealing their land. Therefore, the Almighty God of the universe justified the actions of this little tribe running around in the desert.
And you can see how localized that view was and how this was transferred to this idea that God, the Almighty God, has some will for you personally. Do you see the effect of this? First, you have people who are totally trapped in their ego-based will, but now they get the idea that there was God’s Will, a higher will than their personal will. They needed to feel that this was the ultimate God who had this important will for their lives so their egos could still maintain some sense that they were special, that they were important to God.
The will of God at the higher levels of the path
You see how, even in this relatively short period of time since the 1930s and the I AM movement, we have had to adapt our teachings to people’s level of consciousness. This was, of course, something we did not talk about in previous dispensations, but we are able to talk about it in this one because so many of you have been willing to wrestle with these difficult concepts. So many of you have been willing to work on your psychology so that your lives are not run by your egos wanting to maintain its state of illusion. And that is why I can even give you this discourse, because I can assure you that if I had given this in previous dispensations, many people would have called it a false teaching and said this cannot be the real El Morya. He would never change his name. He would never become more than the Morya we had put in a little box where we thought we had him under control.
What I want to bring out here is this—God’s Will. What is God’s Will? In the understanding we have given you here, is there an external God who has a will for you personally, what you should do in this embodiment? Of course not. First of all, who is the external God of the Old Testament? Well, an entirely man-made god. It is not the Almighty God. Look at what you know today. Go outside on a clear night, look up into the Milky Way, look at what science has discovered. New telescopes being put out, they see that the universe is even bigger, even more vast than they had expected before. Do you think that the being who created all of this is intimately concerned with people living on this little planet in the middle of this vast universe?
As we have explained, first of all, the Creator did not personally create your unascended sphere. It was the ascended masters in the level above you. The Creator does not look at what happens in an unascended sphere in the sense that it does not look at it directly. It looks at it through its representatives going through the hierarchy of ascended masters to us who are right above you. Could we then say that we the ascended masters represent the will of God and we have a will for you personally, what should happen and what you should do for the rest of this lifetime? Well, you can say that you might need that at a certain level of the path, but the higher understanding that I wish to give you is we do not have an external will for you. It is not so that when you prepare for coming into this lifetime that we sit there as these authority figures telling you: “This is what you need to overcome in your psychology, this is what you need to learn, this is what you need to bring out.” We are not dictating anything to you. We are helping you see, and then you choose.
The will of God for this embodiment for you is your will. It is just a clearer will than what you have after you come into this dense physical body. But it does not mean that the will, the vision you had when you made your Divine plan for this lifetime, was some ultimate vision. It does not mean that we sat there and told you: “Here is every problem you have in your psychology that you need to work on.” We worked with you at the level of consciousness you were at when you left your last lifetime. We attempted to help you see what you could potentially overcome in your next lifetime, what you could potentially bring out, but only within the parameters of what you were able and willing to see. It was not that we forced you in any way, shape or form. And that is what I want to impress upon you here. There is no external will that seeks to force you. Well, there is, but not in the ascended realm. There are the dark forces, the fallen beings, the lower forces and other people, but in the ascended realm there is no external will that seeks to force you to see something or to do something.
How your Divine plan works
We are simply there. We are helping you see as much as you can see in between embodiments. But perhaps you have not quite understood. It is not so that you can see everything in between embodiments. It is not so that you see your entire potential for what you could bring forth in this lifetime. It is not so that you saw this before you came into embodiment. You saw what you could see based on the level of consciousness you had, and you could see a few steps ahead, but not many steps ahead. That is why your Divine plan was based on your level of consciousness that determined what you could see from that level. And then you decided what elements to put in your Divine plan in terms of outer conditions you wanted to be born in, other people you wanted to meet, what you wanted to study, what kind of job or field you wanted to go into. It was these kinds of things you decided on. And why is it that you were not given a complete vision of it? Because what does it mean to resolve psychology? If you knew ahead of time, if I took one of you up here, sat you down on a chair, and said: “Here is what you need to overcome in your psychology, bam, bam, bam, bam,” and outlined it for you, how would that help you?
It would not, because you are not transcending your psychology by being told from without. It is not intellectual understanding. It is experiential, where you experience it from inside your outer mind. How do you overcome a subconscious self? You must experience it from the inside, then experience there is more, there is a higher vision. But if you are told from the outside, it is not going to be that shifting experience where you resolve the self and you are free of it because you saw it. Intellectual understanding will not help you shift. We have said this before, many of you have grasped it, but there are always new people coming in that do not quite grasp it. That is why I say it again.
Back to your Divine plan. You are not seeing everything ahead of time. You are seeing a general outline. You are, so to speak, setting your life on a certain course, a certain track, but you do not know exactly what is ahead. We may say you are standing in front of a forest with lots of trees, and based on what you see from the clearing which is the space in between embodiments, you are choosing. There is a path that goes into the forest. “I will choose that path.” But you cannot see very far ahead.
Following and transcending the path
And then when you start, when you come into embodiment, you grow up during childhood and adolescence, you set your life on that track. You follow that track, but only when you go deeper into the forest do you see the challenges ahead. And the reason is, as I said, that you need to experience a self, a condition, from the inside for you to truly resolve it so that it becomes integrated into your being. If you look at worldly psychologists, you will see many who have a deep and valuable intellectual understanding of psychology, but they still behave as teenagers in certain aspects of life because they have not applied it to themselves. They can understand it. They can tell other people about it. Some of them are lecturers in universities that educate other psychologists. They can tell them this from an intellectual perspective, but they have not shifted because they have not applied it to themselves. And that is not what we are seeking to do with your Divine plan.
We are seeking to help you choose a certain track, and then you follow that track, and if you integrate the lessons you learn, then you move deeper into the forest. Now, it may be possible for some of you at least, if you are open, if you are willing, if you really apply yourself, to go through the forest of your psychology and come out on the other side. And then you may be able to see that: “Now my life is not actually on a track. I have an open plain in front of me and I can go in any direction I want to go in because I have accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in this lifetime with resolving psychology.” And of course, you could say we have the will for you all to come to that point where you have worked through it and now the field is open for you. But again, this is not something we are seeking to force upon you. We are seeking to do everything we can to help you walk that path, to come to that resolution because, I can assure you, until you resolve things, you are not moving through the forest.
Transcending a self-focused will
And for some people there can actually come a point where you have this intellectual understanding of psychology, perhaps even an intellectual understanding of the spiritual path, but you are still in the forest and you have not moved through it. And that is when the path can become turned into a downward spiral. As we have said, some people have approached the 96th level of consciousness, not passed the test you can pass at the 96th level, and then started going down, becoming more and more self-focused. If you have not left the forest, you are focused on self. You might even come to a point where you actually think that some of these selves are not selves you need to resolve, because now you think that this self actually is a higher self that shows you have resolved something and therefore you need to continue to look at life the way you do now for the rest of your life. This has happened even to people who followed an ascended-master teaching where they never overcame the focus on self.
What do I mean by saying you go through the forest? You overcome the focus on self, as we have talked about over the last couple of years. And when you overcome the focus on self, that is when the field is open for you because now you can begin to say: “Well, what is my will for the rest of this embodiment?” So far, your will has been to make progress on the spiritual path, to resolve psychology, to achieve certain outer goals, but this was based on the vision you had when you made your Divine plan. But if you go through that forest, now you are open. You can go in any direction you want because you are not focused on self anymore. That means you can now step back and say: “Do I actually have an outer will anymore? Do I have a self-focused will? Do I have self-focused desires? Or am I at a point where I can say: Is there a higher will than the outer will? Where then would that higher will be?”
Well, it could be the Conscious You who now does not have to let its will be directed by the subconscious selves, but the Conscious You may have certain desires for certain things it wants to experience in life, whatever it may be. The Conscious You may have certain things it wants to express, based on what Mother Mary called your “general view of life,” your general view of yourself in relation to this planet. You may have something stored in your causal body from past lifetimes that you did not get to express, and now you have the option to express it. Another higher will might be your I AM Presence, who also may have certain experiences it wants to have or certain things it wants to express.
Another option would be to say: “Is there something I can do for the ascended masters?” If you come to a point where you realize you do not have any personal desires that you need to fulfill, you could consider: “Is there something I could do for the ascended masters that would help their teachings, that would help other people?” And this might not be some grandiose design of bringing forth some technological invention that changes the world. It could be at the very personal level where you could help other people who are not as far advanced in resolving psychology as you yourself are.
Qualifying for your ascension
There are many, many options when you get to that point. And in order to help you get to that point, we have given you all of these teachings, the resolution of selves, all of these methods for doing this, but also the teachings we are giving you at this conference. As Mother Mary started to say, you can tune in to what is in your causal body, what is in your I AM Presence, what your I AM Presence might not have resolved, what you might not have resolved. And that is also a higher will to get that last resolution where you are free to ascend, if it is a possibility for you to ascend after this lifetime.
Let us talk about this. When you—I am talking about you at the level that you are at now recognizing these teachings—met with us before this lifetime, did you define your ascension in your Divine plan? Well, some of you did and some of you did not because it depended on, as I said, the level of consciousness you had and your openness to see beyond that. And there were some of you who did not come across the concept of ascending in previous lifetimes because you were not able to grasp it. You could just see that: “There is a track into the forest that I want to follow.” And that was fine. That was the vision that you came down into this embodiment with. But this does not mean you cannot ascend after this lifetime, but it is something you will have to decide on when you have worked your way through the forest of the subconscious selves, and now you have the option.
Now, for some of you, it may indeed be that you will choose to have another lifetime because you want to help Saint Germain manifest the golden age. Or perhaps you decide that there are still things you want to experience or express on earth. That is perfectly fine. But it is good to be at the point where you have the option to ascend if that is what you want. We could say, if you did not put the ascension in your Divine plan, but you have still found these teachings that talk about the ascension, then it is because you have made so much progress that you can actually qualify for your ascension in the rest of this lifetime, if you are willing to apply yourself.
Now, there are of course others of you who may have heard about the concept of the ascension in a past lifetime. Some of you even heard about it in The Summit Lighthouse, the I AM Movement or previous dispensations. Or you may have been willing to hear about it in between embodiments because it is a new concept that has not been taught on the outer for so long, but you were still willing to hear about it. Therefore, you grasp the significance of ascending and you locked into the desire to ascend, to be free of earth, to transcend earth, and rise up higher. And that of course means that you will find it probably a little easier to accept the possibility of ascending after this lifetime, and therefore, it will not require as much of an adjustment as if you had not considered it before. But nevertheless, all who are willing can make that shift and decide.
But then again, even if you had heard about the ascension, you may have put in your Divine plan: “I want to qualify and then when I have qualified, I want to look at myself, I want to look at the state of the earth, and then I will decide: Will I ascend, will I stay with earth to help Saint Germain manifest the golden age?” I am not trying to say you should decide this right now. I am just outlining the scenarios for you who have said: “I am not going to decide ahead of this embodiment. I am going to wait and see, and then decide before I leave embodiment.”
But there were also some of you who grasped the potential for the ascension, who saw it, and were able to look back at some of your past lifetimes and formulated this deep inner decision: “I want to ascend after this lifetime.” And if that is the case for you, then it is important for you, well it is important for all of you, to at least ask the question and consider: “Where do you stand regarding ascension?” And if you get this very strong inner sense that you decided: “I want to qualify for my ascension after this lifetime,” then your priorities need to come into alignment with that decision, if they have not already.
Shifting priorities
And you need to be very clear that if the goal is your ascension after this lifetime, then everything else is secondary to that goal. There cannot be anything that is more important than that goal. Now be careful about what I am saying here. When you are in embodiment you have a right to decide: “There is something I am not finished with.” You may have decided before this lifetime: “My goal is my ascension.” Then, you come down here, you experience the earth, and you feel: “There is something I am not finished with.” You have a right to decide that. But it does mean you will postpone your ascension. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot serve two masters. There is nothing wrong with it. I am just saying, if you are clear you want to qualify for your ascension after this lifetime, then everything else must become secondary. This does not mean that you need to now neglect family and friends and obligations and responsibilities. I am not telling you to quit your job and sell your possessions and go meditate in a cave in the Himalayas.
I am just talking about shifting priorities, so that whatever activities you participate in are helping you move towards the end goal, which is your permanent leaving of this planet. We have said it before, but we have not emphasized it as much in this dispensation. But I want to bring this out as clearly as I can. When you are ready to ascend, you will face the dispensation illustrated in the story of the Buddha sitting under the Bo tree, and the demons of Mara parading in front of him. You will face that initiation where the demons of Mara, the prince of this world and the forces of this world will be allowed to do anything they can to tempt you into reacting, into thinking there is something you have to fix, something you have to do, something you cannot leave behind. They will be allowed to tempt you in any way, shape or form, and you will have to experience it. And then you will need to stand there, look down at earth and know if you turn around and walk through the door behind you, you are leaving this planet behind permanently forever.
You will not come into embodiment again. It is a permanent step, more permanent than the death of the physical body. And I am not trying to make it sound ominous, I am just trying to clarify that if it is your goal to ascend, then you will need to set your priorities for the rest of your lifetime, so that you are working towards that goal where you can look at anything on earth and the prince of this world has nothing in you whereby he can pull you in any direction. Therefore, you can stand there, have no reaction, no reaction whatsoever and therefore, you can come to that point where you feel you are looking, you are feeling and it is not a decision, it is not an act of willpower. Even though I am the Chohan of the First Ray of Willpower, it is not an act of willpower, it is one last surrender. It is one last letting go where you feel from the very core of your being there is this letting go: “Ah.” And without any thought, any analysis, any decision that you can call will, you just turn around and you look into the ascended realm and you walk towards that flame that you see and that is it.
The act of final surrender
Now as an ascended master you can choose to continue to work with earth as all of us that you know have done. But certainly, many have ascended from earth and left the earth behind. But again, that is the choice you cannot make now, you make it once you have ascended. But in order to ascend, you have to come to that point. And how do you come to that point where there is nothing that pulls on you? Well, you have to be willing to look at anything and everything that pulls on you. As I said, in previous dispensations we had to adapt to the level of consciousness. We gave a simplified version of the ascension process: You study ascended-master teachings, you give violet flame, you sit down in the atomic accelerator chair, you go to Serapis Bey’s ascension retreat at Luxor and you go through some magical process. There is some machinery that is whirring and buzzing and suddenly, phew, you ascended. That was a simplified version, but think about it. How could it work in a universe where everything revolves around free will?
It has to be, as I said, not really an act of will but more of an act of surrender. And if you want, you could say that surrender is the ultimate act of will. But there has to be that completely free choice to turn around and walk away. And in order to come to that point, is it enough to give three hours of violet flame a day for 30 years? Is it enough to go into some retreat and go through some initiation process? Nay, the initiation process is right here on earth in embodiment. That is the initiation where you constantly look at your reactions, you look for those subconscious selves because what have we said? You came to earth, you reacted to conditions on earth. No blame, we all did it, but you created the subconscious selves here on earth. Well, what did Jesus say 2000 years ago? Only the being who descended from heaven can ascend back to heaven. Only the Conscious You in a state of pure awareness descended, and only in a state of pure awareness can you ascend. Everything you took on here on earth must be left behind, but you can only leave it behind when you consciously see it and let it go.
What is the essence of resolving a subconscious self? It is to stand there, look at it and instead of deciding with the outer will: “Oh, I am letting you go, I am letting you die, I do not want you anymore,” you have that inner letting go and you just walk away from it. You feel it is not you, it is not part of you, it is not real. For every time you work on these subconscious selves and resolve them, you are preparing for your ascension because you are integrating the process of letting go until you have come to a point where you are at the 144th level. You are not really letting go of a self as such, even though there is a sense of self at the 144th level, but there really is not a structure in that self. It is more a focus—a focusing of your attention at a certain point in the material frequency spectrum—identity, mental, emotional, physical. It is a focusing of yourself at that point where now that point is the center of your universe as you experience it because you are experiencing the material world from that point, that vantage point.
As the messenger is sitting here looking out, you are all sitting, facing the opposite direction, looking towards him. You all have an individual physical vantage point, but you have in your identity body that individual focus point from which you are experiencing the entire material universe. And at the 144th level, that is what you give up. You are no longer having a fixed vantage point in the material world. You are letting it go and then walking into the ascended realm. You are not, of course, walking. I am giving you an illustration as if you are standing there with a physical body and then letting go, turning around, walking through the door. Of course, that is not how it is. You let go and then you are instantly in the ascended realm. And in order to have that final release, there cannot be anything unfinished. You have to, in a sense, come to that resolution: It is finished. It is done. There is nothing more. There is nothing more in this realm. There is only something more in the ascended realm.
Returning to your natural state
And then your focus shifts. The sense of self, as focused in this world, in a sense dies, and you are reborn as a focus in the ascended realm. Now in previous dispensations, we also gave the view that this was some glorious process and there would be angels with trumpets and this advanced ceremony. And it is not that there are not ascended masters there to greet you, and there is a certain ceremony. There is pomp and circumstance. Nevertheless, in your mind, it is not that this is a grandiose shift. It is a return to what feels like the most natural state. And some students in previous dispensations thought that this would be like the ultimate peak experience. But you see, a high experience must be contrasted with a low experience. And that is what you experience in the unascended state. In the ascended state, where is the contrast? Therefore, it feels like the most natural experience. It is like: “Ah, this is who I am. This is who I am.” And you can look back and see how, in a sense, manifesting yourself as that focal point in the material realm was an unnatural experience.
It was not that you forced yourself to do it, but still it was not the natural state. It was something you took on and it is a relief to let it go and return to the natural state. And that is why, when you have ascended, it is not like you run around screaming and yelling and high-fiving Saint Germain and high-fiving Jesus. You actually take some time and you just adjust—adjust to your new sense of self, your new focus, your new reality. And then you realize that your I AM Presence is who you are. But of course, from the unascended state, you could not explore the fullness of your I AM Presence, but now you can. You take some time to adjust to that, gradually exploring another realm in your I AM Presence and experiencing: “I AM this and I AM this and I AM this.” And then when you have explored the fullness of your I AM Presence, then you can look into the ascended realm, see what opportunities are there that you might be attracted to, or perhaps even look back to earth and say: “Do I want to stay with earth as an ascended master?”
Serving as an example
But I am, of course, getting slightly ahead of myself here. I just wanted to give you a more realistic impression of what it feels like to ascend, because you are ready for it. The planet is ready for it. The collective consciousness is ready for this to be put into the physical. Again, it is not that the old descriptions were wrong. We are not trying to in any way put them down or replace them. But for those of you who are walking the path that we have outlined in this dispensation, it is what we might call the conscious path to the ascension, whereas what we could give previously was a veiled path. The goal was correct, the ascension, but it was veiled. What it really meant, what it would take to get there, was veiled. And now you have a much more realistic view so that you can walk this path consciously. I am not saying, you understand, that there were not people who used the previous teachings to qualify for the ascension. This did happen. Not nearly as many as some people would like to believe, but it did happen.
But they were not as conscious of what they were doing. And therefore, it was not as easy for other people to follow them. But by you becoming more conscious and walking the process consciously, you can leave a trail that is easier for others to follow. And that is one reason we have encouraged you to share your experiences and your process with others, because it has value. And of course, we want to come to a point where it becomes easier for people to discover the spiritual path, to discover the potential for the ascension, and to walk that path. What have I said? There was a time when we could not even talk about ascension, even though it was briefly mentioned in the story of Jesus. But the Christian churches, the Catholic church, of course, completely distorted it to make it seem like Jesus was the only one. But what is our motto? What one has done, all can do. But you see, the people who call themselves Christians today, do they see Jesus as an example of anything or as an exception to everything?
He was the only son of God. You dare to think you are a son or daughter of God? Blasphemy! You will be cursed and go to hell for all eternity. So, Jesus cannot serve as an example. Well, who then will?
If not you, then who? If not now, then when? With this, I will say, this is the now for me to withdraw, and I thank you for your attention. And I hope that you have found a new appreciation for the will of God that is not some ominous thing, and that the First Ray is as full of joy as any ray you could imagine. I AM as full of joy as any master you can imagine. It has been my privilege and my joy to share myself with you. With that, be sealed in my joy.
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