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Ascended Master Maitreya through Kim Michaels, January 3, 2026. This dictation was given at the 2026 New Year’s webinar: Becoming Wise to the Serpents.

I AM the Ascended Master Maitreya and I will give you the first installment in our talks about the serpents.

The problem of evil

Now if you look at the history of spiritual movements on this planet, you will see that there are various movements, various teachings that talk about those who are evil, who are seeking to control and manipulate, and those who are seeking to deceive humankind. When you first hear of this concept, it can have an important impact on you in a sense that most people who are more spiritually aware are faced with a specific problem, and that problem is what has by theologians and philosophers been called the problem of evil: “Why is there evil in the world?” This is what all people will have to deal with when they become more aware of the spiritual aspects of life, because if there is a spiritual realm beyond the material, if there is some kind of spiritual being who has created the world or has an influence on the world, then most people will assume that such a spiritual being must be good. And if that is the case, why would a good spiritual being allow evil, such obvious undeniable evil, to exist on earth?

This question has been hanging over the collective consciousness since fallen beings were allowed to embody on earth. We have explained that before this happened, humankind had gone into a downward spiral that could have led to the destruction of the planet. But this was not because of evil, it was, as we said, because of this conformity, uniformity, where there was no room for creativity, for self-transcendence. There was really not at that time on earth what people saw as evil and the shift that happened with the fallen beings when they were allowed to embody here and enter the emotional, mental and identity realms was that now there were people in embodiment who started doing things that so radically, so aggressively harmed other people that suddenly the concept of evil was thrust upon the collective consciousness.

Is evil “out there”?

The question we might ask is, before there was evil on the planet in the form of the fallen beings, was there good? Before there was a concept of evil, was there a concept of good? Well, not as I am describing it here, because only after the appearance of evil was there the appearance of a concept of something good that was in opposition or opposed to evil. You see, the concepts of good and evil did not actually appear on the planet until the fallen beings appeared here. What has happened since then is that all people have had to deal with this concept of evil. Why is it here? Why is it allowed? When you first hear of a spiritual teaching that says that evil is actually perpetrated by specific beings, specific lifestreams, this will be a relief to many people, because they can now say: “Ah, evil is out there in those other people. It is not in here in me or us. We are the good people because we are not doing what the evil people are doing.”

And that means that people can now in their minds build this view that there is a fundamental difference between the evil people and the good people. Therefore, they can become open to this idea that the only way to get rid of evil from earth is to get rid of the evil people and if we just get rid of the evil people, we will solve all our problems and get rid of evil.

You might say, if you step back, that we of the ascended masters have given you exactly the kind of teaching I just described. We have said evil did not come to earth until specific beings, specific lifestreams, were allowed to embody here, namely the fallen beings. Therefore, are we not saying that all of the evil on the planet is caused by the fallen beings, that if we get rid of the fallen beings, we will solve all problems on earth? But that is actually not what we have said.

The serpentine consciousness

What did I just say? The planet was in a downward spiral before the fallen beings came, not because there was evil, but because there was no Christ discernment. We have given teachings about fallen angels or fallen beings through several dispensations within the last century and in each of these dispensations, some people have taken this to mean that it should be possible to identify specific groups of fallen lifestreams. When they hear about the concept of the serpent, which of course comes from Genesis, there are ascended master students who have reasoned there must be a specific group of fallen angels who are the serpents. And if we can just figure out what their characteristics are, then we can identify them and if we can identify that certain leaders are serpents, then we can avoid following them. Some have even thought it was their job to fight the serpents. Now, we are of course seeking to give you a more nuanced understanding in this dispensation, which is why I started so many years ago giving the teachings about the different spheres.

When we look at this phenomenon of the serpents, I understand that some of you would like us to give a clear-cut teaching that says the serpents are a specific group of fallen beings that fell in this, that or the next sphere, and here is what they are doing to manipulate humankind. But this is actually not what happened. You cannot go back even to the fourth sphere or the fifth or the sixth and isolate a specific group of lifestreams who fell in that sphere and who are embodying the serpentine consciousness. You cannot identify a specific group and say these are the serpents as opposed to the Satans or the Nephilim or other groups of fallen beings that have been named in previous dispensations. It is not that simple. Why is it not that simple? Well, because the serpent in Genesis, in the Garden of Eden, is a symbol, as we have explained before for a specific state of consciousness, namely the duality consciousness.

Now, it is perfectly true that the duality consciousness is a diffuse concept. It has many aspects, many expressions, and you can say that within the overall umbrella of the duality consciousness, there is a specific state of consciousness that we could call the serpentine mindset or the serpentine logic. And this is, of course, what we aim to give some teachings about. But you see what I am saying here. It is important to let go of this idea that there is a specific group of fallen beings who are “the serpents” and that they could be identified by certain characteristics. This is not constructive when you have the teachings we have given in this dispensation. It is, for that matter, never constructive.

The deeper understanding here is that the serpents or the serpent is a symbol for a specific state of consciousness that uses a specific form of logic to manipulate people. And this logic is, of course, part of the duality consciousness, which means that any fallen being has the potential to use the serpentine consciousness. And many fallen beings will use it sometimes and not other times. They will, so to speak, go in and out of the serpentine consciousness. Some are able to do this deliberately when they feel that in order to deceive a specific person or specific group of people, the serpentine consciousness would be better than other aspects of the duality consciousness. Others are just using it without really being aware of it. And then there are a few who have embodied, so to speak, they have used the serpentine consciousness so much that they are in it all the time. But this still does not mean that there is a specific group that can be identified based on characteristics in the material realm, not even characteristics in the emotional, mental and identity realms.

Do you grasp what I am saying here? What I am saying is that in order to expose the serpents, you cannot put the cart before the horse. You cannot say: “Ah, I want to expose the serpents. I have to figure out who they are and where they came from and how they started, what characteristics they have. And when I know this, like I can identify the Jews are like this, then I can expose the serpents.” But that will not help you. You need to make the switch and realize the serpentine consciousness is a state of consciousness. It is not exclusive to a specific group of lifestreams. A lifestream was not created as a serpent. It was created as a co-creator and after it fell, it can take on the serpentine consciousness. It can go into it. It can become completely absorbed in it, but it can potentially take it off again. There is this tendency among students of previous generations to think that, well, a fallen being will always be a fallen being, or even that they were created as evil, that God created certain lifestreams as serpents or as evil and that is not the case. It is always the result of a free will choice, and therefore, it can be undone by a free will choice.

The primordial division into the good and evil

Now, duality, as I said, is like this umbrella organization. Many different facets, many different aspects. What specifically is the serpentine consciousness? Well, you cannot actually explain this as a separate phenomenon, because you need to understand something about the overall workings of the duality consciousness. Let us, as a symbol for this, just as a symbol, talk about the Garden of Eden and the forbidden fruit, the knowledge of good and evil. As the serpent said: “Ye shall not surely die if you eat the forbidden fruit. You shall become as Gods, knowing good and evil.” But this was not the serpentine consciousness as such, good and evil is not the serpentine consciousness. Good and evil is the primordial outcome of the duality consciousness.

One way to explain this is by referring to the Christ consciousness. It is undivided. It is indivisible. It is the unifying consciousness that unifies the Creator with all self-aware extensions of itself. Therefore, it cannot be divided. If you take what Lanto said, as a new co-creator, you do not have to evaluate your efforts based on an evaluation, was it right or wrong? Good or bad? Because in the Christ consciousness, there is no standard with two opposites. Only in duality can there be a standard with two opposites. This is the beginning of duality. Instead of the undivided Christ mind, you go into a mind that is divided because there are always two opposites that are pulling you in opposite directions. We have said before that when the fallen beings came to earth, they only had to do one thing to create chaos on earth. That was to project that there is a standard of right and wrong, good and bad, that you must live up to.

The basic element of the duality consciousness is there is a division into two. But it is not just a division. It is a value judgment because one is good, one is bad, one is right, one is wrong. And this was, of course, very easy for the fallen beings to project into the collective consciousness because they themselves, the ones in embodiment, started doing all these things that were so shocking to the people on earth that they very easily became persuaded into seeing this as evil and they became persuaded into seeing themselves as good because they were not doing these evil things.

You see how the fallen beings forced this upon humankind, so to speak. The basic aspect of duality is the division into two opposite polarities with an inherent inescapable value judgment. But how do you explain that people can believe in this? As I said before the fallen beings came to earth, there was not really that concept of good and evil with a value judgment. There was still a standard for how our society is, how it functions, how it looks at the world, how you are supposed to behave in order to be a good member of our society. There was already a standard on earth, but it was not good and evil.

The standard vs. the epic standard

But why are people susceptible to believing in this? Because they are already in the consciousness of separation. Take care here. This is subtle. The basic property of the duality consciousness, as I said, is there is division into polarities. There is a value judgment but there are many of these value judgments. There are many of these polarizations. They do not all have to be good or evil, right or wrong. They can be: “This is what it means to be a good Christian. This is our standard for being a good Christian and this is different from being a good Christian.” You can say: “We strive to be good Christians, we are not condemning or wanting to kill others who have a different religion.” That is why you had societies on earth that defined that a harmonious society functions when all people find their place and live within these boundaries defined. It was not that people who do this are good and people who do not do it are evil. But there was still a polarization with a value judgment.

It just was not the extreme of good and evil. People had already a division into polarities based on a certain value judgment. But what came in with the fallen beings was what we could call an epic standard, an epic value judgment of something absolutely good, absolutely evil. The absolutely good is God. The absolutely evil is the devil. But you see, as we have explained so many times now, in duality, there is no absolute this or that, because everything is relative. Everything is relative to you as a separate being. When you see yourself as a connected being, everything is relative to the Christ mind, which is beyond your mind. In separation, everything is relative to your mind, you as a separate being, and other beings in separation. Therefore, in separation, there is no reality to relate to. There is only the opposite dualistic polarity. Here come the fallen beings, and they take whatever standards were already on earth, but now they are projecting there is an absolute standard. And there are many ramifications of this, but one of them is that suddenly you have this epic mindset, the ends can justify the means.

The epic mindset

Before the fallen beings came, societies were very, very intent on getting everyone to follow the established standard of society. But there were no societies that were willing to kill those who did not. But after the fallen beings came, it suddenly became acceptable to kill those who are seen as evil or representing evil. What you have now with the fallen beings is this. As Lanto explained, you start out your co-creative efforts on the First Ray by experimenting. There is no standard, there is no right and wrong, there is just an evaluation of the consequences. And you can say: “Well, I did not like those consequences for myself, and I do not want more of them.” Or you can say: “Well, I see that my exercise of power had consequences for other people, and I do not like that because I see that was not what they liked, and I do not want to harm other people.” That is an evaluation of consequences, because you are observing what actually happened.

But when you go into duality, you are not evaluating consequences by neutrally observing them. You are evaluating consequences based on a standard created in the mind, a dualistic standard. That is why when you are neutral, you can say: “I exercised power, but it harmed other people. I do not want to do that.” When you are in duality, you can say: “I exercised power, and it killed other people, but it was okay to do this because they are evil, and I am working for good.” You see, it is not that you cannot see their consequences. It is not that you cannot see that your actions led to the death of other people. But you are not evaluating this neutrally. You have an overlay in the mind of the epic mindset that it is justified to kill other people when they are evil, and when they are opposing your good cause. There are, of course, many, many subtle versions of this. I am giving you the most extreme. But there are many other ways where you can suddenly see that the consequences for other people, they are okay, they are justifiable, they are excusable. You can even see that the consequences for you are not really bad consequences. It is just the way it is, or it is necessary, or it is maybe even good after all.

You see here, what happens is that in duality, you cannot avoid evaluating the consequences of your actions. But you can color the evaluation based on a certain mindset of right and wrong. And that means you can actually either explain away or even completely ignore or deny that your actions had negative consequences for other people or yourself, because it all serves some greater cause. Yes, I became a soldier fighting for this emperor, and I died in the process. I really did not want to die but because I was fighting this noble cause, I am sure to go to heaven afterwards. Denial of actual consequences. What have you now? You now have that instead of neutrally observing and evaluating the consequences of your actions based on the wisdom of the Second Ray, you have now an artificial concept, construct, an overlay, a perception filter that has been put in between you and the consequences.

You also have that instead of your actions just being experiments that led to certain consequences that you evaluated, whether you want more of this or more than it, your actions could now be right or wrong. Because of course, it follows that if other people’s actions are wrong, yours could potentially also be and you can cover this over by saying: “No, but I belong on the side of good, and therefore, my actions are good and it is those other people who belong on the side of evil, their actions are evil” even though you are actually doing the same actions. They are killing some of your people, that is evil. You are killing some of theirs, that is good. This is what you can do with duality. But this still is not the serpentine mind because when you believe in these, the epic mindset, you are believing that you are on the side of good, and therefore, you could not do anything really wrong. In fact, you could not do anything wrong.

The serpentine mindset

What is the serpentine mindset? It is that somebody uses a specific aspect of duality consciousness to project into your mind that doubt, what if you are wrong? You could be wrong and if you are wrong, you will be epically wrong. It is that element of doubt that is the essence of the serpentine consciousness. The goal of the serpentine consciousness, and those who have entered into it, is to create doubt in your mind. And as I said, you look at the world’s population, you look how many times there have been conflicts, such as wars, where both sides have been convinced that they were fighting on the side of good, and therefore, it was not wrong that they killed the enemy. But what the enemy did to them, that was evil. People can be convinced that what they are doing is good, and they have no doubt about it.

What has happened many, many times is that groups of people have been persuaded by a particular fallen being as a leader to fight for his cause that he defined as good, and to kill the enemy that he defined as evil. And they have felt fully justified, had no doubt about that this was right for them to do. But then comes another fallen being in the serpentine mindset, and projects into their minds: “What if you are wrong after all?” Because if you were wrong, and what you did was not good, but was actually evil, you would be absolutely wrong. That element of doubt is the serpentine mindset. And many, many people, well, I should say all people on earth have been exposed to it, either in this or previous lifetimes. Now what happens?

Living up to God’s standard

Well, what happens is that once you have been exposed to this doubt, you are traumatized. It puts you in such a state of panic and shock: What if I am absolutely wrong? What if I am evil? That is unbearable.” What do you do? You are saying: “I never want to experience this again.” Now you are creating a subconscious self meant to suppress this doubt, to suppress all doubt and for some this works for a time until they are again exposed to the serpentine logic that makes them doubt. For others, it works for a long time. But what is the consequence of it? You are stuck. You cannot grow because you have now been put in a mindset where you think that growth carries a risk that you could be wrong and therefore, you do not dare to reconsider your beliefs, your worldview. But what is the very foundation for growth? It is that you come to see that you have come to believe in an illusion. You see that it is an illusion and how can you see an illusion? Only by seeing the higher reality, the Christ reality, that exposes the illusion. But if you are afraid to acknowledge or even consider that you might not have the highest possible view, you cannot connect to the Christ mind and therefore, once you are stuck in duality, the goal of the serpentine mind is to keep you trapped in duality indefinitely. And it does this by projecting upon you that your co-creative efforts are not just an experiment, they have epic importance because God has created this epic standard. And if you live up to it, you will go to heaven and live forever in happiness and if you do not live up to God’s standard, you will go to hell and suffer for all eternity.

Therefore, it is now projected at you that you cannot be wrong and in order to avoid being wrong, you need to stick to what the fallen beings have defined as the absolute truth. You cannot reconsider. You cannot entertain the idea: “Could what the fallen beings are telling me be an illusion?” Because what would that mean? If you say: “I was brought up in this religion that says I was created as a sinner. If I were to admit that this was wrong, what would that mean? Well, I would have been wrong for believing this illusion. And that would make me wrong with God. And that would cause God to condemn me. I better stick to the belief that what they are telling me is the truth.”

Losing innocence

You see the mechanism? When you are innocent, when you have not been exposed to the fallen consciousness or the serpentine mind, you are experimenting, you are happily experimenting and you are just evaluating the feedback that comes back from the reality simulator. And when you see that this is not something you want more of, you change what you are doing, you change what you are projecting out because you know this is the way to get something different back. There is no evaluation of right and wrong: “I am just experimenting. Oh, I did not like that. I want something different.” But when you go into duality and are exposed to the serpentine mindset, you are thinking that your experiments, the outcome of your experiments needs to be evaluated based on this standard. Is it right or wrong? Is it good or bad? Is it good or evil? And if you did something that was evil, you would be absolutely wrong and condemned by God to an eternity of suffering in hell. How can you then evaluate neutrally the consequences of your experiments? How can you even see them as an experiment? It is all or nothing. It is heaven or hell.

Experimenting with separation

But now comes the even more subtle point here. Because even though the Garden of Eden story is an allegory, is an illustration and should not be taken completely literally, there is some reality to it. In a sense that, as we have explained, in the beginning as a new co-creator, you are in an environment where you are innocently experimenting. You are not exposed to the fallen consciousness or even duality. But as you become more mature, as you expand your sense of self from being a point like, localized, but being a broader sense of self, you will need to experiment with what you can do with free will and what you can do with the mind and therefore, you will need to experiment with the duality consciousness.

Why? As we have explained many times now, because you have two options for exercising free will. You can see yourself as a connected being or as a separate being. And you need to experiment with separation so that you know what it is, because in order to ascend, you must give up experimenting with free will as a separate being and you can only do this consciously. You must know and grasp what separation and duality is, in order to give it up so that you only exercise your free will as a connected being. That is the difference between an ascended master and an unascended being. The ascended master gives up voluntarily and freely the desire to experiment with free will as a separate being, to see itself as a separate being. That is why an ascended master, once it has ascended, cannot fall. That is why a being in heaven cannot fall. An angel in heaven cannot fall if with heaven you mean the ascended realm. That is what was missing from all previous ascended master teachings about fallen angels or fallen beings, the explanation of how an angel in heaven can fall, but it was a being in an unascended sphere.

Defining vs. discovering reality

You need to experiment with the duality consciousness. What is it you do in duality? You are defining what is good and evil, right and wrong, in your own mind, instead of having the Christ mind as your frame of reference. When you see yourself as a connected being, you are not defining what is real and unreal. You are discovering ever-transcending layers of reality but in the separate mind, in duality, you are defining what is real and unreal, what is good and bad, what you want, what you do not want, based on seeing yourself as a separate being.

We can say that there are beings, there are fallen beings, who have gone into the serpentine mind and who are seeking to deceive you. Yes, but did you go into duality and get stuck in duality because of the fallen beings?

Well, you did if you are one of the original inhabitants of the earth or if you are an avatar who came to earth from a natural planet after the fallen beings came here. Then you were exposed to the fallen beings. But now, go back a little bit at what we explained to you. In the first three spheres no being had fallen. What happened was that the beings in those spheres, they also had to experiment with the duality consciousness in order to ascend. And in the fourth sphere, those who fell in the fourth sphere, they fell without being exposed to other fallen beings, beings who had already fallen. So why did the beings in the first three spheres not fall? And why did those in the fourth sphere fall? What I am saying here is, it is very convenient to say: “Oh, I only fell because the fallen beings tricked me.” But that is not the full story and if you think that the fallen beings tricked you into going into duality, how will you free yourself as long as you are on earth where there are fallen beings? How could any of us have ascended from earth? We were all tricked by the fallen beings.

The explanation here is that you need to recognize that the serpentine mind, the fallen consciousness, the duality consciousness, is not something that comes from without. It is an element of your own mind. You can be exposed to it from an external source, yes, but you still have to deal with it in your own mind because you have to experiment with the consciousness that says: “I can define what is real and unreal instead of discovering it. Instead of continuing my process of discovering how the Creator’s creation works, I can go into this state of consciousness where I can experiment with defining how I think the world should work.”

Is it wrong to fall?

This is just part of growth. Those in the first three spheres, they did the same. They also experimented with duality, partly because the spheres were not as dense, but partly because they put more emphasis on remaining connected to the Christ mind. They did not fall. They did not go into duality and get trapped in duality. But in the fourth sphere, some beings became trapped in duality and that is why when the sphere ascended, they fell into the next.

My point here is all of us, all of us who started out as self-aware beings, we all have to experiment with a connected mind and a separate mind. Here comes the next evaluation. Is it wrong for you to go so deeply into separation that you get trapped in it? Is it wrong? The fallen beings who fell in the fourth sphere, was it wrong that they fell? Did they do something wrong?

They just experimented with what you can do with free will and the mind, the conceptual mind. They just experimented. It was not wrong to go into duality. It was not wrong to fall in the fourth sphere, in the fifth, in the sixth. The Christ mind does not contain the concepts of right and wrong, good and evil. They can only exist in duality. Why was it not wrong to go into duality? Because you go into duality by making choices and you can never make a choice that suspends your ability to make a different choice. You can at any moment, no matter how long you have been in duality, you can awaken and decide to start the process of going out of duality by resolving or dissolving one separate self at a time.

There is nothing wrong there, but the fallen beings have reasoned that it is wrong. But they have not acknowledged that they were the one who made the choice. They have projected that it was God and the ascended masters who forced them to fall. Therefore, as long as they will not admit that they are in their present state because of choices they made, and that they can only get out of it by them making choices, they have to keep projecting that they were not wrong. And they want to pull everybody on earth into validating their belief by believing in whatever ideology or religion they define. In order to get people to go into accepting their worldview and to prevent people from challenging it or going out of it, they are using that serpentine mind to project doubt.

Believing in illusion is NOT wrong

You see, for you, here you are. Let’s say you grew up in a Christian religion and you believed that you are a sinner. Now you find the ascended master teachings that we are giving in this dispensation, and you realize this was completely wrong. It was just a lie that you were brought up with. But you actually believed this. Does that mean you were wrong for believing this? You see what I am saying? When you are trapped, and you are not trapped in this anymore, but many Catholics are still trapped, or many Christians are still trapped in this belief that they are sinners. Why will they not reconsider it? Why would they, when they saw these teachings were given, say: “Oh, this is of the devil”? Because they are afraid to admit that they could have been wrong. You have some opening to realizing that perhaps you were brought up with some wrong beliefs. But are you really acknowledging that you were not wrong for having those beliefs?

Have you really acknowledged the teaching we have given now for so many years, that the core of your being is the Conscious You, and that the Conscious You cannot be affected by anything that has happened to you on earth? It is, always has been, always will be, until it reunites with the I AM Presence, pure or neutral awareness. It is like water. You can pound on water with a hammer, and it may make a big splash, but then the water just calms down, and it is again flat. That is the Conscious You. It may make a splash that you are exposed to something on earth, but once you tune in to who you are, it is all untouched. What does that mean? It means the Conscious You could never be wrong. No matter what you have done or have not done on earth, you are not wrong. For that matter, what you have done was not wrong either. It was an experiment that turned out a certain way. You are projecting the contents of your identity, mental, emotional bodies on the Ma-ter light. That is what an experiment is.

If you do not like what comes back from the cosmic mirror, there is only one way to change what comes back. That is to change what you are projecting out. But in order to change what you are projecting out, you have to be willing to look at yourself and say: “Oh, I projected through a perception filter based on an illusion” and you have to be willing to reach for the Christ mind, so you can overcome the illusion, let the self die and be free, go back to being the neutral Conscious You. But how can you do this? Well, first of all, you have to be willing in your outer mind to entertain the possibility that you could have believed in an illusion but then you have to be willing to challenge the serpentine lie that this makes you wrong. Because what does that serpentine lie do? It means you think, but because the serpentine lie is projecting at you, that it is the Christ mind that defines the standard for what is right and wrong and therefore, if you reach for the Christ mind and ask the Christ to expose your illusion, the Christ will see that you were wrong. Better continue to hide from the Christ mind, so you do not have to face this condemnation from the Christ mind. You see what the serpentine mind wants to do? It wants to block you from reaching for the one thing that can get you out of duality, the Christ mind.

Projections of doubt in your mind

How many times have we said there is no standard in the Christ mind? Have you really grasped this? Have you really acknowledged that if there is a doubt in you about this, if you maybe do not believe it, if you argue against it, this comes from separate selves. It does not come from the Christ mind. If you have experienced the Christ mind, you have experienced the reality of this, there is no condemnation in the Christ mind. There is only unconditional love and acceptance. If you have not experienced it, then the serpentine mind has an inroad into your consciousness.

Why have you not experienced it? Because you have not dared to open yourself up to the experience, because you still have this doubt inserted by the serpent, the serpentine mind, the serpentine logic, which will argue with what I am saying here, try and find fault with it, try and say this cannot be so because of so and so and so. If you sense that there is this argumentation in your mind, this projection in your mind, this is the serpentine mind, possibly some fallen beings in the serpentine mind who are seeing themselves as you are their personal project to keep you from attaining the Christ unity. But nevertheless, they can only affect you because you have subconscious selves that believe in this, that are based on this illusion.

Dropping separation and accepting oneness

You see why we talk about a catch-22? The only way out of your current state of mind is to reach for the Christ mind but the serpentine mind is doing everything it can with its subtle logic to prevent you from reaching for the Christ mind, desperately thinking there is another way to be saved, to enter heaven. But there is no other way. There is only one way back to oneness, and that is the One mind, the undivided indivisible mind. How else could you get back to oneness? You just have to drop separation. Oneness is the original reality, the deeper reality, the only reality. Separation is an illusion. You do not have to do anything in the separate mind, through the separate mind, to get back to oneness. You just have to drop separation and accept oneness. But the serpentine mindset, the serpentine logic, will do everything it can think of, and it can think of quite a lot, to prevent you from acknowledging this simple fact.

The Christ mind is not what keeps you out of heaven, the kingdom of God. It is the dualistic mind, the serpentine mind, the separate mind, that keeps you from accepting that you are worthy to be in heaven. You were created worthy. You were not created as a sinner. You were created as a co-creator, as an extension of God’s being. How could an extension of God’s being be unworthy to be in God’s kingdom? But you see, you have to choose to be in the kingdom and in order to make that conscious choice to ascend, you have to experiment with what it means to be outside the kingdom. You need to come to see this, that you just experimented with this. You have experimented for a long time. You have had enough of it and therefore, you do not have to do anything to qualify. You have to stop doing through the separate mind and just accept that you are qualified by who you are. You see how many spiritual people, how many religious people are trapped? They feel they are suffering, they feel they are outside the kingdom, they feel they are separated. But they are separated because of duality. They are not separated in reality, but only in illusion. But they think that from the mindset of duality they need to define a path back to oneness. You are seeking to overcome a problem created by the duality consciousness by using a stairway to heaven defined by the duality consciousness. It cannot be done. Nobody has ever done it and no one ever will.

The power of letting go

This was the overall perspective on the serpents. But there are, of course, many other aspects of the serpentine consciousness that can keep you trapped in various beliefs that prevent you from that final acceptance. And you might say: “Well, if I have been in duality for many lifetimes, and I have been on earth for many lifetimes and exposed to these traumas and I have created all of these subconscious selves, could I just accept right now that I am in the kingdom?” No, you cannot, because you have to resolve those selves and that is why you need to understand other aspects of the serpentine logic and the serpentine mindset, which, of course, we will talk more about in coming dictations. But I wanted to give you this overall view first, because it sort of puts everything else in perspective.

The magic of the teaching we are giving about the subconscious selves is there is nothing you have to do defined by the self in order to overcome the self. You just have to see the illusion and let go of whatever the self defined that you had to do. Once you get this, it is pure magic. The serpents have no defense against this. They cannot trick you once you grasp the power of letting go, of surrendering. But they will, of course, do everything they can to prevent you from getting to that point and that will be our next task, to expose some of this. We cannot expose all of it, because it is almost unlimited, the lies they have come up with. Because one lie leads to the next, and it spreads into several other lies. It is almost like a drop of water that hits the hard surface and splatters into several smaller drops. The lies just keep spawning off each other. But at least once you get a certain understanding of the dynamics of how the duality consciousness and the serpentine consciousness works, you can begin to unravel how you personally have been affected by these lies. For it will, of course, be different for each one of you.

We look forward to giving you more teachings about this, and for now, I thank you for your kind attention and your willingness to endure this rather long discourse. But as you study it and embody it in the time to come, you will find that it will help you approach that moment where you can just accept that you are inherently worthy to be in your Father’s Kingdom.

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