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Ascended Master Hilarion through Kim Michaels, June 7, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Hilarion and there are many people who, when they hear about the concept of Christhood and the concept that Christhood gives you discernment, they think: “Ah, when I have Christhood, I will know ultimate truth and therefore, I can go around here on Earth and give people the ultimate truth.” The ego adds this little voice: “Yes, and when we have ultimate truth, we can beat all people into submission for they will have to submit to this ultimate truth.”

I just ask you to look back at history and see how many times groups of people, organizations, nations, ideologies have claimed that they had the ultimate truth and they attempted to beat all other people into submission. The other people refused to be beaten into submission so they beat back and all of a sudden you had a huge mess. Look how many messes have been created throughout history and look how many of them have been created because some group of people believed they had the ultimate truth.

Taking a different approach to truth

Do you really think that we of the ascended masters want our students to continue this battle of trying to prove who have the ultimate truth, or do we perhaps want you to take a different approach? What is the different approach? Well, it is not really an approach, it is to tune in to the Christ mind. You see, those who believe that the Christ mind will give you ultimate truth, that is the ego’s motivation projected upon the Christ mind and the concept of Christhood and the concept of discernment.

What have we so many times tried to explain to you about the duality consciousness? There are always two dualistic polarities, they are related to each other, they are based on separation. None of the dualistic polarities represent the ultimate truth, none of them have the truth. Is capitalism the ultimate truth? Is communism the ultimate truth? Nay, there is no ultimate truth in duality, in fact there is no truth in duality, but this is what you can only experience when you are connected to the Christ mind. Well, yes you can understand it intellectually but then you tend to take an intellectual understanding and project that onto the concept of Christhood, thinking: “Yes, maybe duality can’t give me the ultimate truth but surely Christhood can, the Christ consciousness can.” Did not Jesus say: “I am the way, the truth and the life?”

Truth is always within a context

Is Christhood, the Christ consciousness, truth or is it not? Well, my beloved, that depends on your understanding of truth. What have we described so many times, something that we could not give in previous dispensations and that hardly any spiritual teaching on the Earth encapsulates? We have described that you have the potential to start out with a point-like sense of self and expand your sense of self until you reach the Creator consciousness. What is then ultimate truth? Well, you can only answer that question within a context and so let us take as our concept this world of form created by our Creator.

What is ultimate truth in our world of form? It is that you understand the Creator, you grasp, you experience the Creator’s vision, the Creator’s decisions, the Creator’s choice of which principles to base this creation upon. That then is ultimate truth in our world of form. Of course, there are innumerable other creations that are based on slightly different principles and decisions made by other Creators and then there is the Allness which is a whole other level. So is there an ultimate, ultimate truth? Not that I am aware of from my level of consciousness as an ascended master. Therefore, it might be very prudent of you, as an unascended being, to realize that you cannot fathom an ultimate truth. Therefore, the concept of an ultimate truth is irrelevant in an unascended sphere and especially on an unnatural planet.

But Jesus said: “I am the truth” or rather the Christ consciousness through Jesus said: “I, the Christ consciousness, am the truth.” Yes, it is the truth in the sense that it is the antidote to duality because it is the way out of duality. What people tend to think, especially with the linear mind, is that if Christ is the truth, then Christ must be able to give you an answer, an explanation, a definition to any question, any conflict, any problem that will resolve it by saying: “Well, this is the truth in this matter.”

There is no ultimate truth in words

You see, as we have explained, the linear mind can ask questions for which there are no linear answers. The dualistic mind can come up with questions, problems, conflicts that cannot be resolved through words. You see, the dualistic mind will always use words in subtle ways. Just look at the story of the fall of Adam and Eve. They had been led to believe that if they ate the forbidden fruit, they would surely die. The serpent twisted the word “surely” and that was enough to confuse their minds. What does that show you? There is no truth in duality and therefore, once you are talking about words, something expressed in words, the Christ mind does not have a truth that can be expressed in words that will counteract a dualistic truth. Once it is expressed in words, it is just words and words can be interpreted.

Just look at how many Christian churches there are that interpret the same scriptures in different ways. Just look at how many Buddhist sects there are that interpret essentially the same scriptures in different ways. Once something has been expressed in words, it is no longer the truth and therefore, the statement “I am the truth” cannot be taken literally. It cannot be taken to mean that the Christ mind can come up with a worded expression that is the truth. You need to go beyond words. You need to go beyond the outer mind. You need to experience the Christ mind. Then you will experience the truth that is beyond duality. It is not the ultimate truth, as I said, because that is only the Creator’s consciousness in our world of form. It is the truth that is beyond duality because it is the truth that unifies you with your Creator and it unifies all people horizontally.

What does the ego, the dualistic mind, the serpentine mind, the fallen mind do? It divides people horizontally and only when you reach for the Christ mind and when your neighbor reaches for the Christ mind, can you be united horizontally through your individual vertical unity with the Christ mind. There is no horizontal unity that can be achieved. There is horizontal conformity through control, through force, through power, through fear, through deception.

You see that throughout history what the fallen beings have been trying to do is to make all people come to accept the same belief system, thereby thinking that they could create unity. The excuse is to create unity by everybody believing the same thing. Has it ever worked? No. Why not? Because as Abraham Lincoln was inspired to say: “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” You cannot make all people believe that a horizontal man-made belief system will unify everyone and solve every problem. Why not? Because of the duality consciousness. Some will take one dualistic extreme, some will prefer the other. Once you create a dualistic belief system called Christianity, it will attract a dualistic opposite called Islam and then you have the Crusades.

Dealing with personal conflicts

How does this apply to you in your daily life? Well, so many times we have seen ascended master students get into conflicts with each other because two people thought they each had Christ truth. Both people thought they were right because they are tuned in to the Christ mind. They believe that through the Christ mind they have received an insight that this was the truth and this was what needed to happen in the spiritual organization. Otherwise, everything would be lost and the ascended master’s cause would be lost if that other person did not agree with the first person. This is not the Christ mind. A conflict where two people both believe they have the Christ mind and yet they disagree, none of them have the Christ mind. Does this mean that you cannot have a situation where one person has the Christ mind and the other person does not? No, of course not. That can happen. Then the person who has contact with the Christ mind does not treat the other person as an enemy and seek to prove them wrong or destroy them or get them to leave.

You take a different approach as we have said of seeking to raise up the person. If that is not possible, well then in a spiritual organization you may sometimes have to exclude people. This is not done from the level of the ego where you need to demonize the other people and make it seem like they are so wrong for doing what they are doing. You realize they have a limited vision, you realize they are disruptive to the group and then you can ask them to leave. You do not do this from a fear-based state of mind, for what would the Christ possibly fear?

You see, so many times you have people who project fear into a spiritual movement, an organization. They project that things need to be a certain way because this is how the ascended masters want it, and if not, there will be disastrous consequences. Things are not that black-and-white. When you see that there is a conflict where people are reacting based on this epic mindset, black-and-white thinking, fear-based thinking, you need to step back and look at psychology. First of all, your own, your own reactionary patterns. Resolve those selves that are causing you to react this way. Then talk to the other people. Seek to make them aware that they have selves they have not resolved and if they are willing to do this, you can come to a higher understanding, a higher unity.

You can also realize that there is not just one way things can be done here on Earth and therefore, it is sometimes necessary to compromise, to do what is practically possible in a situation. What have we said about the interdependent originations? You have a group of people who are forming a spiritual organization. These are the interdependent originations where you are all part of this particular localized whole. The interaction of all of you, all of your consciousness is what creates a certain outcome. If you can step outside of this ego-based reaction that causes the conflict, you can say: “Our meeting, our organization, is this about producing a certain outer result? Or is it about helping all of us grow and come to a higher level of unity and harmony? Is perhaps harmony more important than specific outer results? What would happen if we all focused on attaining harmony and let the outer results be secondary?”

You will see in some cases that if you could do this as a group, there might be one person who is not willing to do this, who is not willing to let go of the idea that he or she is right. Then, if the others in the group are willing to focus on harmony, you have a right to make that person aware that: You are not stepping up and that means you are not coming from the Christ level. You are not seeking the higher unity. You are not seeking to go beyond the focus on self.” Then, ultimately you can come to the point where that person has no more space in the group because the group has raised its consciousness to a higher level. A person is below that level and therefore, you have a right to say: It is time for you to go, for we have accelerated ourselves beyond that level of consciousness where we want to be right.

A Christlike approach to dealing with conflicts

You can transfer this to any situation you encounter in life: in families, at work, in friendships. You can look at yourself and see: Do I have a reactionary pattern? Do I want to be right? Is it so important for me to have the truth and make other people see the truth that I see? Then you can realize it comes from a subconscious self. It may even go back to your birth trauma where you felt rejected and put down by the fallen beings and you want to compensate for this by thinking: “Oh, if only I find the highest truth, then they must accept what I say.”

As we have said, the fallen beings will never accept what you say for they have their own dualistic truth that they believe is the ultimate truth. When someone believes they have the ultimate truth, how could you convince them otherwise? Why would they listen to anyone who does not have the truth that they have when they think theirs is the ultimate? What am I saying here? I am saying that in any situation, the question for you is: “Am I willing to reach for a higher truth, a higher vision, than what I have right now?” If you are willing to reach for that, you can grow from any situation and then it is not your concern whether the other people grow. Well, it may be your concern in a close relationship, such as a group or a family, but still when you continue to reach for the higher truth, in many cases the situation will gradually change.

Why? Because when you are interacting with other people, even two people form the interdependent originations. You accelerate yourself, you will accelerate the relationship and maybe the other people will tune in to this and be willing to change and maybe they will not. Then, you will still have moved on and your reaction to the other people will change so you have benefited from this. If you take what Serapis Bey said about coming to a point on the spiritual path where you need to start serving something other than yourself, you can say: “I am focusing on serving some greater cause, which is an impersonal cause. It is impersonal for me, but it is also impersonal for the people around me, whether it be in a personal relationship, a family, friendships or a group. I am not serving my own ego, neither am I serving other people’s egos and therefore, I am striving to depersonalize these relationships so that I am not seeking to force other people to change in order to change my own state of mind. I am willing to focus on changing my own state of mind and leaving it up to the other people’s decisions whether they will change or not.” If you do this, every situation becomes an opportunity to grow.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.