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Ascended Master Archangel Michael through Kim Michaels, October 9, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Asia-Pacific: Opening the Golden Age with One Heart.

I AM the Ascended Master Archangel Michael. Why do I say that I AM both an ascended master and an archangel?

Well, because archangels are not made, they ascend. You can only become an archangel when you have ascended because then you know the process not only of experiencing an unascended sphere, but also experiencing using your free will as both a separate being and a connected being. And thus, you have voluntarily and consciously given up the possibility of using your free will as a separate being, meaning that as an archangel you cannot possibly fall.

Now there are some who might use the linear mind to say: “Well if that is the case, who were the archangels in the first sphere?” Well, there were no archangels in the first sphere, or you could say there was one, the Creator. You see, the Creator created out of itself angels that stepped down the energies from the Creator to the level of the first sphere, and then it created the co-creators that co-created the first sphere.

But there were no ascended beings in the beginning, and therefore there was no need for an archangel because the Creator fulfilled that role. You also realize, of course, that there was only one spiritual ray for the first sphere, and only as we have moved down towards the spheres have the spiritual rays been added, which means that only in this sphere has there been a seventh ray of freedom.

Difficulties with progressive revelation

Now this may, of course, sound different from what we have given previously, and this brings me to the first topic that I want to discourse on, namely the difficulties we face with progressive revelation. It is not really that progressive revelation is difficult for us, but we see, of course, that progressive revelation can be difficult for people in embodiment, especially the people who are still very focused in the linear mind, and therefore have this tendency to compare the present teaching to a previous one, and see if there are any discrepancies, differences, contradictions. And often from the linear mind’s perspective there may seem to be a contradiction which there is not from the ascended perspective.

This is what I want to briefly address because what we aim to do at this conference is that we will give some teachings on angels that we have been wanting to give for some time. We have decided, the Seven Archangels, to give these teachings at this conference partly because we have set the foundation with our teachings about elementals at the Kazakhstan Conference, but also because you are so many people who have gathered here that we can use your chakras to project these teachings into the collective consciousness, and therefore create more of a momentum that can spread like rings in the water. We are very grateful that so many of you have come here physically, that so many of you are joining via the webinars in different languages, and so that you have this collective momentum that we can then use to achieve much more than we could otherwise achieve.

“The ultimate standard” for a teaching

What I want to mention here is that those who might find this teaching at some future time, you might read it, you might hear it, you might be tempted to compare it to previous teachings. You might be tempted to see that there are certain discrepancies or contradictions, and what I would like to make you aware of is that this opens you up to a projection of doubt coming from dark forces, especially the serpentine mind. You see, what the serpentine mind, the fallen beings, ideally would like to have achieved was that the ascended masters would never be able to give a teaching on earth coming from the ascended realm. They were not necessarily denying that there is something beyond the physical realm, but they wanted people to be able to connect only to the emotional, mental, and identity realms so that the teachings that were received from these levels never came from the ascended realm. That would have been their original dream, that they could keep the earth contained so that no direct revelation from the ascended masters was possible.

This, of course, they could not achieve, even though they achieved it for quite a long time, but they could not achieve this. Their plan B, so to speak, is to use one ascended master teaching to create a standard against which all future ascended master teachings should be measured. We have said before that the fallen beings projected there is a standard against which everything must be judged, and they want of course to turn any spiritual teaching into such a standard, be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity. Any teaching they will attempt to turn into a standard for judging any later teaching, especially a direct revelation from the ascended realm.

You will see when you look at the history of a little more than a century that there are still people who believe that the ultimate teaching given was theosophy, whether it was Annie Besant or Blavatsky or Leadbeater or others, they believe that this was the ultimate teaching, and they will actually use that teaching to deny the existence of ascended masters because they were Mahatmas that were in embodiment. You see that there are those who are still loyal to the I AM movement and deny any later teaching. There are those in the Agni Yoga Society who believe that was the ultimate teaching. There are those in the Bridge to Freedom who believe that was the ultimate teaching. There are those in the Summit Lighthouse who believe that was the ultimate teaching. And what I am simply pointing out to you here is that if you use the linear mind to compare one ascended master teaching to a previous one and look for inconsistencies or contradictions, you can very easily open yourself up to this projection that the first one given, the previous one, must be the ultimate standard, and therefore any discrepancy will discredit the later teaching.

This is what you can be exposed to, and what will that do for you? Well, it is not a problem for us, but it is a problem for you in the sense that you cut yourself off from the ongoing progressive revelation of the ascended masters. That is, of course, your free will choice. I have no desire to interfere with it, but I certainly do have a right to state the situation. And the reason I am doing it is that we will give some teachings on angels here that will go beyond what was given previously. How could we give you a progressive revelation that did not go beyond what was given previously? Do you not see this very simple dynamic?

New teachings about angels

What we will actually do here is we will simply disregard any ideas about angels, whether they are found in previous ascended master teachings or in religious teachings in the world. There are various ideas out there – angels are the messengers of God, angels are the thoughts of God, and so forth. But we will speak as if we are speaking on a blank slate, and it is then up to you to decide whether you want to go into a neutral state of mind, as we have talked about so many times, and receive these teachings as we give them.

The builders of the mind

Let me begin. What is an angel? Science can tell you an awful lot about electricity and how it works. But you ask a scientist: “What is electricity?” And they cannot come up with an answer. It is, on earth at its current level of the collective consciousness, fairly difficult with words to define what something is. Now angels, of course, have various functions. I will focus for my release on one particular function of angels. This is not to be construed that this covers all angels, but this is one aspect.

What we have said about elementals is that elementals are the builders of form. They take on an image projected by a self-aware being, and they out-picture that by pulling the Ma-ter light into the matrix of the image. They are, so to speak, building the form by causing the Ma-ter light to coalesce around that form at the level of energy of the physical octave so you see an actual thing. Whereas the elementals are the builders of form, we can ask ourselves: “What are the minds that are formulating an image and projecting it onto the elementals?”

You, of course, take this for granted because you have a mind, and you are using it. And you who are ascended master students are becoming more aware of how you are using your mind because we have taught you about the four levels of the mind, the identity, mental, emotional, and the physical. But what makes it possible for you to have a mind, to have these four levels of the mind? Do you think you are just creating this, that the Conscious You is just creating the mind? Nay, you are using the mind. You are not creating the mind. You can co-create with the mind by formulating an image in your mind and projecting it upon elemental life. You can receive an image from the ascended realm that comes into your mind where you individualize it and project it down upon the elementals. But you are not creating your mind.

What is creating your mind? Well, we can say that whereas the elementals are the builders of form, some angels are the builders of mind. Right now, each one of you are sitting here listening to this, and you are receiving these words with your minds. First, the words go into the identity mind, and there is an angel that has out-pictured, we might say, your individual identity mind. Then the words go into the mental where there is another angel that is out-picturing your individual mental mind. Then they go into the emotional, where there is another angel that out-pictures your individual emotional mind. And then they go into the physical, last, where your brain is actually hearing and processing the words, and there is another angel who has the very complex task of actually creating the space so that the physical brain can actually create a mind.

Providing space for the co-creators’s minds

Where do these angels come from? Well, they are created by the archangels in the sixth sphere, and they are created for that specific purpose of providing the individual levels of the mind for one particular co-creator. When the original Earth inhabitants first descended into embodiment, the archangels created the identity mental, emotional, and physical minds for each co-creator. The angels that were created out of the archangels formed those four levels of the mind, and they have served these co-creators throughout their many embodiments. You who are avatars (most of you, not all of you certainly, but most of you) there were angels created to form the four levels of your mind when you first came into embodiment on Earth. Now, of course, you had other angels that followed you from natural planets that formed your minds there, but still others were created specifically for Earth.

You need to understand here that these angels, they do not think or feel for you. They provide the space, so to speak, in which you can formulate your sense of identity, your thoughts, your feelings, and this is a service to you. It is also a service to the ascended masters because naturally your minds need to be able to receive both ideas and energies from the ascended realm. And you could not do this unless there was an angel who could receive this and bring it down through the different levels.

In other words, there has to be a chalice that the Elixir of Spirit can be poured into so it is not spilled on the ground. This is the whole idea of the concept of the Holy Grail, where you raise up the chalice, the four levels of your mind become the chalice, and the more pure they are, the more you can receive in the figure-eight flow. You need to recognize here that these, your personal angels, were created for the specific purpose to serve you. They were created in the spiritual realm, and they descended to the four levels of the material universe. But they are created for the specific purpose to serve, so are the other myriad of angels that serve this unascended sphere.

The free will of angels

Does that mean that an angel does not have free will? Well, you could say that an angel has some freedom of choice, but only within certain parameters. For example, the angel that creates your mental body is not choosing how to form your mental body. It is, so to speak, providing a blank slate, like a notepad, and it is up to you to write on that notepad your thoughts. The angel does not have the right to interfere with how you think, what your identity is, how you feel, how you act. The angel has no right to interfere with that. But the angel can rebel against its service. A particular angel could decide: “I do not want to provide the mental body for this co-creator who is thinking such negative thoughts”, for example. If an angel did this, it would fall in consciousness. It could fall to a lower level down, for example, an angel at the identity level could fall to the mental, or it could fall to the emotional. The mental-level angel can fall to the emotional level. But an angel can also fall to the physical level and be given an opportunity to take physical embodiment.

Embodied angels

What happens if an angel does not fall, but serves until you ascend? Well, then the angel can ascend also and become an ascended angel in the sixth sphere, where it can now take on other functions in that sphere. What happens if an angel falls? There are people in embodiment who have this sense that they are angels in embodiment and they attach some importance to this. But you see, it is correct that there are certain people in embodiment who originally were angels that fell into physical embodiment and were given that opportunity.

But two things need to be recognized based on this. First of all, angels were not created to take physical embodiment. This is very important because there are people in embodiment who think they are angels and this means they are higher than human beings. But this is not correct. You can say that an angel, for example, that was created to serve at the identity level was created at a higher level of consciousness than most human beings in embodiment. But you see, when an angel falls, it essentially becomes a co-creator and it must walk the path to the ascension just like co-creators are doing. It can, of course, continue descending in consciousness, but if it wants to come back up to the spiritual realm, it must walk the path to the ascension as a co-creator.

Created to serve

Now when an angel falls, it falls below the 48th level of consciousness. It falls into separation and duality. Why? Because what makes it possible for an angel to fall, it is that it becomes focused on itself instead of its service. You may say that an angel does not have the same makeup as a co-creator. A co-creator is created partly to co-create and experience, but also to transcend from the 48th level to the 144th level and ascend. An angel was not created to co-create. It was created to serve, to provide that identity, mental, emotional, or physical level of the mind and allow co-creators to do with it whatever they want. It is by giving this service faithfully for a long time that the angel can then ascend.

The abrupt fall and difficult process to ascension

When an angel decides to descend, then it goes below the 48th level on Earth, different of course on other planets, but on Earth it goes below the 48th level and therefore it is trapped in duality and must now climb back up to the 48th level and beyond. And this is a more complicated process than the ascension of a co-creator which descended step by step from the 144th to the 48th and possibly beyond.

You see for an angel there was no descent, no gradual descent from the 144th to the 48th level. It was an abrupt fall below the 48th level and therefore it can be more difficult for embodied angels to accept the spiritual path, a spiritual teaching, a spiritual guru, even accept the ascended masters. It is actually not an advantage to be an embodied angel in terms of spiritual growth. It requires a more difficult process to ascend for embodied angels than for co-creators.

Archangel Michael’s perspective on earth

This was my portion of teachings about angels. We will of course build on this during the conference, but we will give it to you in what we hope is more manageable portions for you. What I would like to do now is to switch, because our second task for this conference is to give you the perspective from the levels of the archangels on present conditions on Earth. Naturally as the archangel of the First Ray I will give you the perspective of the First Ray. You do of course know what we have said about the 12-year cycle and how this will intensify the energies. But what we wish to do here is to simply step back and give you some thoughts about how from the perspective of the archangels we look at planet Earth.

Now first I want you to understand that contrary to, or perhaps not directly contrary to, but certainly beyond what has been said in previous dispensations, I am not the archangel of the First Ray for the entire unascended sphere. Nor am I of course the archangel of the First Ray for the entire creation, the entire world of form. There are archangels at many different levels. I am the archangel of the First Ray specifically for Earth. This does not mean that my work is entirely confined to Earth because I have other tasks, we might say, but I am specifically affiliated with Earth as the only planet that I am affiliated with.

I am of course as an archangel at a much higher level of consciousness than even many of the ascended masters working with Earth such as the Chohans. I have a broader perspective, you might call it a galactic perspective, on Earth. And when I focus myself on the broadest perspective that I am, Earth is one very, very small planet in a very big galaxy. And Earth is of course one of the lower planets in the galaxy. Many millions upon millions of planets with intelligent life, the vast majority of them at a much higher level than Earth.

The tiny dot in the huge universe

This of course, when I then shift from this perspective to looking at human beings on Earth, the first thing that I notice is the enormous contrast between the galactic perspective and a perspective that people have historically had here on Earth. Where you go back in time and you see people who thought that the Earth was the center of the universe, that the Earth was a flat disk with a dome above it that therefore was fairly small. And above that dome was God and the angels. And God, the ultimate Creator, the ultimate God, was so close to Earth, was looking down upon Earth as if this was God’s only creation, this planet. And therefore, they have thought that they were so important to God. Their group of people were surely God’s chosen people, and you see people today from different backgrounds who hold the view that they, in their little group, are so important to the ultimate God.

The contrast between what I have called the galactic perspective and this perspective of people on earth is… huge. I know you cannot fathom this, but you can have perhaps, as ascended master students, some appreciation for the difference. Then you could, of course, go beyond this to the entire unascended sphere, to the sixth sphere, and going all the way up to the perspective of the Creator. And you see how vast our world of form is, and how earth is this very, very, very tiny dot in this huge space.

The momentum of “the ultimate truth” on earth

This is not to say that Earth is not important. It is particularly not my intention to say that you are not important. But it is my intention to say that what human beings have created now for a very long time on this planet is this idea that they, in their minds, here on planet Earth, can fathom what God is like, and can fathom some ultimate truth about the universe. There are even those who believe that with the minds that human beings have, they can define, or at least discover, or at least receive, as some revelation from a higher level, an ultimate truth.

This we have attempted since almost the beginning of this dispensation to help you overcome. What I am pointing out is that this momentum is very strong in the collective consciousness on earth. It is very, very strong. And you have all been affected by it when you grew up, you have all been grown up in a culture, wherever it was around this planet, where you have been programmed with this subtle belief that your culture had something ultimate figured out. Whatever it was – a religious culture, this or that religion, no religion, materialism, communism, whatever it was – there has been this belief that your culture had some ultimate truth, some ultimate insight into how the world works. And this is what hits me as the archangel of the First Ray, how completely self-centered, self-focused and how incredibly narrow-minded this is. This collective momentum of thinking that human beings in embodiment on this very dense planet, with all of these incredible manifestations of war and poverty and murder and mayhem, that human beings here can fathom some ultimate reality.

Now, if you are to ascend from earth – I am saying “you” in general – if you are to ascend from earth, you need to free yourself from this collective momentum. And we have, both through previous dispensations, but especially through this one, given so many teachings that could be said to have the main purpose of helping you free yourself from this pull of this collective momentum. Because the reality is that this momentum cannot carry you into the ascended realm. In fact, it cannot carry you beyond the 96th level of consciousness. If you believe that you have some ultimate truth – which of course is what your ego wants you to believe – well then, you cannot go beyond the 96th level. Because you cannot let go of that focus on self that causes your ego to think it has figured out how to become immortal, how to enter heaven. There are so many people who are blinded by this momentum who believe that their religion is the only true way to salvation. And if they follow the outer rules and teachings of that religion, they are guaranteed to enter heaven after this lifetime, or at least after some future lifetime.

But it is simply not the case. Why is it not the case? Well, what have I said? The incredible difference between a broader ascended master perspective and a perspective human beings have. It simply is such a huge difference that it is simply not possible to ascend when you are trapped in this. You need to recognize that there is a higher level of consciousness than what you have. Because if you do not recognize this, you cannot let go of this sense that you, your ego, your separate self is in control. You cannot let go of the self-focused self.

The experience of a mind beyond your own

I can tell you this, I can give you words, but truly what we all desire to give you is what many of you have already had, of course: an experience of the presence of the being, of the mind of an ascended master. This messenger many years ago had this experience listening to a tape of a dictation by Mother Mary given through Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the messenger of the Summit Lighthouse. He went beyond the outer recording, beyond the outer voice, and experienced the presence of Mother Mary. And that shifted him more than anything else, any words, any understanding.

And that is, of course, what we hope all of you can have. Because when you have experienced even a glimpse of the presence of an ascended master, then you know experientially, not theoretically, that there are minds that are so far beyond your own that you could never again believe your own ego, your own self-focused self, projecting at you, at the Conscious You, that you have it all figured out. You could never again believe the serpentine mind that whispers in your ear that you are like a god who can know good and evil, real and unreal, true and false.

There is nothing to figure out!

You see, even ascended master students, as I said in the beginning, we have seen so many times – they find a genuine ascended master teaching given at a certain time for a certain level of consciousness, and now they allow their outer minds, the self-focused self, and the serpentine mind to whisper in their ear: “This is the ultimate teaching, and if you keep following this teaching, you are guaranteed to ascend.” We have already seen many sincere, devoted students who followed the I AM Movement or the Summit Lighthouse. They pass from the screen of life, leaving the physical body, being absolutely convinced that they would ascend, because they had done all of the outer things right. But we had to confront them with the reality that they were not ready to ascend, because they had not given up that self-focused self that had used the ascended master’s teachings to make them believe they had it all figured out.

My encouragement to you as ascended master students is: be mindful of this trap so that you do not fall into it. Yes, we have given elaborate teachings, teachings that are beyond what we have given before. You do have a lot of knowledge, but if you use that to allow your self-focused self and the serpentine mind to make you believe that you now have it all figured out, then you do not have it figured out. Because there is nothing to figure out.

The key is connection, not truth!

You can only go within and experience. You cannot pass the initiation at the 96th level through the analytical thinking mind. You can only pass it through the intuitive mind, where you connect to an ascended master, your I AM Presence. You experience that there is a mind that is more sophisticated than your own, and therefore you realize: you do not have it all figured out.

This messenger saw this, the vanity of his own mind thinking he had it all figured out. He saw the vanity of it. He saw how far his self-focused self was from actually having it figured out, and he let it go. That is why he became a messenger. But since then, he has continually reached up to us for a higher understanding, because he has not allowed himself to think: “Oh, now I have it figured out.” He has faced a temptation, as you all must, to think that “now we have this level of teaching, now I understand this level of teaching about avatars, about the cosmic birth trauma, the primal self, this and that, surely now I have it all figured out.” But as we have said before the teachings we have given so far are like a spoonful of water compared to the ocean. How could you ever think you have it all figured out based on the little bit we have given of our total knowledge?

What happens is, when you think you have it all figured out, you cut yourself off from your connection to us. And it is only through that connection that you will grow in consciousness beyond the 96th level, that you will pass the 96th level, and that you will ascend. Some of you have not quite grasped what I am saying here.

Your self-focused self will never ascend. It is completely impossible. And that is what you see from the perspective of the First Ray: the complete impossibility that this self-focused self could ever make its way into the ascended realm. It is as impossible as thinking that planet Earth could have the gravitational force to spin the entire universe around itself. It is beyond impossible. And I am of course saying this partly so that you can avoid falling into this trap, but also to spread this into the collective consciousness, so that many other people can come to re-evaluate their belief from their culture that they have it all figured out.

The central challenge of the 12-year cycle

Why is that so important? Because you could say: “What is the central challenge of this 12-year cycle? What is the central challenge of the golden age?” Well, it is that you are not going to bring forth something new by holding on to the old. It is that simple. Look throughout history. What has brought progress? Was it the people who were fanatically holding on to their existing beliefs and ideas, who were fanatically holding on to the idea that they had it all figured out? Were they the ones who brought progress? Did that ever happen? No, of course it did not happen. How can you bring forth something new by holding on to the existing? Yet this seemingly simple logic is what the vast majority of people in embodiment on Earth simply cannot fathom. It hasn’t broken through this encrusted shell around the collective consciousness, that is like black lava that absorbs light and keeps people trapped in these fanatical beliefs, whether it be in this or that religion or this political system or this scientific materialism. They are fanatically holding on to the belief that they have it all figured out.

But look at Earth. Look at what is actually happening. Warfare, torture, crime, poverty. If you had it all figured out on this planet, would you still have these manifestations or would you have the abundant life for all people?

And who is it that thinks they have it all figured out? As always, the elite. But they have managed to pull the vast majority of people into following them blindly. They think: “If I follow this leader or that leader, I have it all figured out.”

Shattering the fanatical mindset of absolute truth on earth

Therefore, I say: “Shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter in the four levels of the material universe that fanatical mindset that is not open to new ideas.” That is the mindset in all of its different versions found around the planet that will primarily be challenged in the next ten years of this cycle. And you see it already being challenged and how it is becoming harder for people to hold on to it and how some people are becoming more and more unbalanced, more and more extreme in trying to maintain this underlying belief that: We in our group, we have it all figured out. Shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter that fanatical mindset on planet Earth.

From a galactic perspective, a cosmic perspective – what I want to say here is how unrealistic this mindset is. But there is no logic. There is no reasoning that can shatter it because it is completely closed to logic or reasoning based on the Christ mind. You see, what makes it possible for people to be in this mindset where they think they have it all figured out? Well, it is simply the duality consciousness, that they are in separation. But they have used the duality consciousness to define one dualistic polarity as not being relative but being absolute. The belief in an absolute truth. The belief that human beings on this very dense planet could ever fathom an absolute truth. It is unreachable for reason, logic, because it creates its own logic, its own line of reasoning and there is only one rule for this logic: “We cannot be wrong.” And that is why planet Earth is the school of hard knocks, because the only thing that can shatter this mindset for many people is that the knocks become so hard that they become willing to question: “Do we really have it all figured out?”

You can, as ascended master students of course, make the calls that more and more people will be freed from this mindset as has already been happening for a long time. But you will still see that even though there has been a process that has been going on for centuries of freeing people from this mindset, still the vast majority of humankind are trapped in it in one form or another. You will see many people, for example, in the democratic world who have risen above a certain religious mindset, be it Christianity or another religion, but then they have become trapped in another version of it. That they, in their country, with their welfare system, they have it all figured out.

And that is what must break in this 12-year cycle, hopefully sooner rather than later, so that the knocks do not have to become so hard that people suddenly switch into the opposite extreme, where instead of being unwilling to question anything, they are now suddenly willing to question everything, and therefore the fallen beings can so easily manipulate them into the opposite extreme, where they are again denying the Christ consciousness, the Christ perspective, as they are in a fanatical mindset.

You see, in a fanatical mindset you believe there is only one truth and it is ours. But in the opposite dualistic polarity you believe there is no truth, and you are not better off unless at least you have opened your mind to something. But that is what the fallen beings will do everything they can to prevent, that people connect to the ascended level and experience there is something that is real. There is something beyond duality. That is, of course, our goal.

You have connected. You can expand your connection, and therefore you can be the open doors for spreading this into the collective consciousness, so that more and more people begin to awaken and realize that it is precisely this mindset that has always prevented progress, delayed progress. And that it is time to leave it behind so that the earth can make these giant leaps into the golden age, instead of taking one step forward and sliding two steps backwards as the old saying goes.

I am releasing from my being this impetus of the energy of the First Ray to shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter the fanatical mindset on earth. I am grateful that so many of you have been willing to tune into this and therefore reinforce this momentum that can go out and challenge people.

You see, even though you can say they have used their free will to go into the fanatical mindset, we still have a right to challenge them. We – meaning the ascended masters, you – in embodiment. The fallen beings and a majority of humankind have not suspended the law of free will. They have a right to go into the fanatical mindset, but they do not have a right to not have that mindset challenged by those who have freed themselves from it.

With this, I am grateful for your assistance in spreading this impetus of light and I seal you in the blue flame protection of the First Ray. Archangel Michael, I AM.

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