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Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels, June 6, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain. Let us go with the biblical story of Saint Joseph being the father of Jesus and what has been said in previous dispensations that I was the being who was embodied as Joseph. Again, as Mother Mary explained, this is all symbolism and you can look at symbolism at different levels. Certainly, you can look at the fact that the Christ child was nourished by the mother but also had a father figure. What does the father do for the Christ as the Christ grows up, as the Christ child matures?

Well, first of all, the father teaches the Christ child a trade, a skill. This, of course, applies to you in the sense that you are the father of the Christ in you. You are that father figure as well as the mother figure for the expression of your personal Christhood. You need to teach the Christ a certain skill, a certain knowledge. This does not necessarily mean a trade like a carpenter or a scientist or whatever. It may be that you pick a topic that is close to you, that is dear to your heart, and you study that topic.

It does not have to be in a formal education. It can be that you study this topic on your own. You become an expert on the topic in the sense that you know the topic from different angles, different perspectives. What does this do? It creates a structure whereby the Christ mind can express itself through your mind so that there is a chalice to flow into. You have, of course, another symbol from the Bible of the cup that Christ used at the last supper, the Holy Grail, as it has often been called. The symbol for this is, that as you are acquiring a certain skill, a certain knowledge, you are forming in your four lower bodies that cup, that chalice, so that as you mature in Christhood, there is a chalice, a structure for the wine of the Christ consciousness to be poured into. Because the Christ will not flow into nothing, will not flow into an empty vessel where it will be spilled on the ground.

The Christ mind needs a structure for its expression

Now again, as Padmasambhava pointed out, the outer mind, the rational mind, can take anything we say and give it a twist and say: “Is it not a contradiction, for did not Padmasambhava talk about coming to see all of these selves that you have that are tied to the past, that are tied to the future? Could we not then from this infer that if you empty your mind of all of these selves, then the mind will be clear and the Christ light can flow.”

Now, I am talking about becoming an expert in some topic, raising up a structure in the mind. I am not talking about raising up a structure that is formed by these separate subconscious selves. I am talking about raising up a structure of knowledge, understanding, skills, so that the Christ mind has something it can be expressed through. You may say: “Here is this messenger who is taking a message from an ascended master that is naturally flowing through the Christ mind, and yes, the messenger, as he explained, seeks to be neutral.” If he knew absolutely nothing about the topic, then I could not give a dictation through him. I cannot, through this messenger, give a meaningful dictation about astrophysics or nuclear physics or brain surgery. Because there is no structure in the messenger’s mind that can receive the concepts that I have in my mind.

This is what I mean when I say you are raising up a chalice, forming a chalice. This chalice is not made up of separate selves. It is made up of concepts, ideas, language, so that you can receive the impulses coming from the Christ mind. Now it is clear, of course, that this is not a simple thing to do. It is not just a matter of finding every book you can find on a certain topic and studying them all and writing down notes—and here you know all of these things. Because the challenge is to provide a structure that the Christ can flow into, but that limits the expression of the Christ mind as little as possible.

Worldly knowledge can limit Christ

What do I mean with this? Well, what I mean is that if you take as an example a scientist who grew up in a Western or a modern society, went to school, goes to university, studies for a number of years, receives a degree, gets a job, keeps experimenting and studying, that scientist in the current climate on Earth is going to be programmed, indoctrinated, brainwashed with the philosophy, ideology, religion called scientific materialism. This means that if the scientist takes what has been put upon it into its mind, then the scientist will not dare to receive anything from the Christ mind that questions, challenges, goes beyond the materialistic worldview. This, of course, will limit the expression of the Christ mind.

You see that the challenge is to become an expert in a certain field without adopting the limiting beliefs that are also found in that field. This may not be materialism, this can be other ideas. It can be subtle ideas that are not part of any ideology or religion. In any field, there are certain limitations and why do I say this? Because if you look at any field of society, there is a certain thinking, there is a certain paradigm that dominates that field. Even though this sets a foundation for the field, it also sets limits to a people’s ability to receive new ideas from the ascended realm. This is, of course, the challenge for you, but it is not as big of a challenge as it is for people out in the world who know nothing about Christhood.

When you have the knowledge we have given you about Christhood, you can see that you can study a field, you can know what is brought forth in that field so far, without limiting your mind by thinking: “Oh, this is the ultimate knowledge.” You know, when you have a spiritual outlook, for example, that scientific materialism is not the ultimate worldview, or that the Catholic worldview is not the ultimate view. Therefore, you can avoid having your mind be limited by these mental boxes that have been created in the world, so that your knowledge does not limit my ability, or another ascended master’s ability, to give you new ideas that can bring that field forward, that can allow you to speak about the field in a way that is new, that is different, that gives a different perspective that can help other people think.

Disciplining the Christ mind

Now, there is another aspect of the father element, which is that the Christ child, as it is yet a child, needs to have boundaries set for it. There are some stories that Jesus, when he was a child, experimented with his abilities, such as creating figures of clay and breathing life into them. Now, even though these stories are fictional, it is an example of what many people dream of when they hear the concept of Christhood. They think they can do these miraculous things, manifest all kinds of miracles, all kinds of signs and wonders. This is where the Christ mind needs to be disciplined so it tunes in to what is the time, the society that you are living in.

As we have said before, at Jesus’ time, the collective consciousness was so dense that it was necessary for him to perform certain seemingly miraculous feats in order to catch people’s attention. Now, you could of course look at all the miracles described in the scriptures in a purely symbolic way and see a deeper symbolic meaning behind them instead of taking them literally, but that is another discussion for another day. What I want to point out here is that the Christ mind can express certain things in its enthusiasm for finding expression that are not necessarily constructive for the particular situation.

You have to discipline your own mind by realizing that you will have selves in your subconscious mind that want to produce some kind of undeniable manifestation so that you can prove that there is something beyond what people believe. This is especially true for avatars because you have the dynamic that you had a certain vision, a certain desire before you came to Earth for what you wanted to achieve. Then you received the birth trauma, felt rejected, started doubting that it could be achieved. When you start learning about the concept of Christhood and open yourself to the possibility that you could have the Christ be born in you, then you can very easily transfer this and think: “Ah, when I attain Christhood, then I can do what I wanted to do before I came here, then I can manifest something that they cannot deny, that they cannot put down.” This is not an appropriate expression of Christhood in most cases and therefore, the father element needs to come in and discipline the Christ child. What is the father element in your being? It is not the Conscious You, it is the I AM Presence. By the Conscious You tuning in to the I AM Presence, you can learn to be careful with the expression of Christhood.

Now, it may seem again, as PadmaSambhava pointed out, that we are contradicting ourselves for it has been said, even in the scriptures, that the Holy Spirit bloweth where it listeth. How does that harmonize with the idea that you should restrict the expression of your Christhood? Well, I did not say that your outer mind should restrict the expression of your Christhood. I said your I AM Presence. The outer mind will restrict Christhood based on the culture, for example, you grew up in or the family and what is appropriate there. The I AM Presence is not bound by this. It does have that higher vision of what is the most constructive way to express Christhood.

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.