Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels, May 22, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Mother Mary and I wish to give you some more insights about elemental life.

Elementals vs. Form

Now, we can start with a question: What is the difference between the elemental that has manifested this bell and the bell itself? Well, that depends on who is asking the question. From the perspective of an ascended master there is no difference. The elemental is not able to ask the question because it cannot conceive that there could be any difference between itself and the form it has taken on. Of course, from the human perspective the difference is that you see the bell, you do not see the elemental. And that is important to realize because if you are to co-create with the ascended masters by projecting higher images upon elementals that are currently out-picturing a form, then you need to see beyond the image that your senses and your outer mind is projecting into your mind. Because there is a projection at the Conscious You through your subconscious selves that the form is all there is and that the form is independent of any form of consciousness.

I am saying there is a projection and the projection, of course, comes partly from the fallen beings, partly from the mass consciousness, but it comes into your mind through the subconscious selves that you have.

The illusions between the 144th and the 96th level

Now it is important to understand here that these subconscious selves are not dualistic selves. We have explained the Conscious You starts at the 144th level, you take on a certain illusion, descend to the 143rd, take on another illusion and so on until you reach the 96th level. At the 96th level, of course, you take on another illusion, but it is a different illusion than the ones above the 96th. I want to give you, at least, some thoughts about this because what is the purpose of taking on the illusions between the 144th and the 96th level? Well, it is actually to give you the impression that you are living in a world of matter, a world of forms. You can say that you start at the 144th level taking on illusions that relate to your sense of identity as a being who can take on a physical body and live in a physical world.

Then some levels down you go into the mental where you set certain parameters for how you think of yourself. Notice I am not giving you exact numbers. Then the emotional and then the physical. Why this is important is that when you pass that initiation at the 96th level you then need to, at least somewhat consciously, start working on these illusions. It is not that you cannot have hints of this before, but really at the 96th level you need to start working at these illusions about the reality of matter and about the nature of matter. And of course, this is most easily done by starting to contemplate that you are not the physical body. That is relatively easy to see at this level.

Are physical things real?

But you also need to start questioning whether the physical body is a real thing. And with that when I say real, what do I mean? Well, according to the way most people look at this, whether they are scientific materialists or religious or not even thinking about this, they will say: “Well, of course the body is real, of course the planet is real, of course physical forms are real.”

What I mean with real is: Is it real in the sense that it exists independently of mind and if it does exist independently of mind, then is it ultimately real? The real question is if it exists independently of the mind, your mind cannot change the form. But if it is a product of some form of consciousness, then your mind has the potential to change the form. The strong illusion projected from the world is, of course, that physical things are real because they are independent of mind. The Christ reality is of course the opposite, that physical things are dependent on the mind and therefore, not ultimately real, they are changeable. Everything is changeable. These are the illusions you need to start working on so that you eventually – and you do not have of course to rise to the 144th level to accomplish this – you can relatively quickly, at about the 96th level, come to the point where you see physical forms as fluid, not massive, not solid, not unchangeable.

Seeing the elemental beyond the form

But how do you accomplish this? Well, as I said, by questioning why you see this bell and not the elemental that has materialized the bell. And the answer is of course, as Hilarion explained so carefully, that you are using the conceptual mind to project. Again, as Serapis Bey explained, you can use the conceptual mind to project out or down, or you can use the conceptual mind to project in and up. And when you are below the 96th level, you are primarily using the conceptual mind to project out and down. But above the 96th level, you need to start realizing that you are also, or have been up until this level, projecting upon yourself with the conceptual mind and upon the spiritual realm. And you have done this based on what you have seen in the material world. In other words, your conceptual mind has accepted the reality of forms, the solidity of forms. And that is why when you look at the bell, your conceptual mind is projecting the image of a bell, a solid object. You can then, and I am not saying you need to put a lot of attention on this, but you can at least contemplate the idea that you could come to, at least in your mind’s eye, see the elemental beyond the form.

It is almost as if you could shift your vision and you could see the atoms, the little dots that make up the image. It is kind of like if you take a computer monitor of very high resolution like you have today and you have a beautiful photograph of a mountain landscape. But then you change the settings of the monitor so it displays the image at a much lower resolution, which means that the individual dots or pixels that make up the image now become bigger so you can actually see them.

That is what you can learn in your mind’s eye at least. I am not saying you need to see this physically, but in your mind’s eye you can learn to see that this form that appears so solid, it is made up of these smaller dots, these smaller images. And just like on your computer screen, the dots, the pixels that make up the screen can display any image. Instead of displaying the image of a bell, it could display another image. Instead of displaying the image of an unhealthy organ, it could shift and display the image of a healthy organ. But this can only happen when your mind is not trapped in seeing the image because if your mind is focused on the image of the bell, you are reinforcing the elemental out-picturing the bell.

Overriding an elementals’ resistance

You need to work with yourself, find a way to work with yourself so that you begin to question the solidity of matter, the unchangeability of matter, and then you can receive a higher image from the ascended realm, project that, for example, on an unhealthy organ, and project it in such a way that you are absolutely sure that the elemental will take on the form. As we have said: “The elemental, once it has taken on a form, it thinks it is its job to maintain that form over time.” But you see, that gives the elemental a resistance to you wanting to change the form, and that is why you need to override this.

Now this is not as difficult as you might think because there are groups of elementals. As we have said: Identity level—fire elementals, mental level—air elementals, emotional level—water elementals, physical level—earth elementals. What you see is, of course, the elementals at the identity level are experiencing their level as much less fluid than the elemental at the physical level. There are elementals at the three higher levels where it is much easier to get them to change the form. The biggest resistance is from the earth elementals. But even there, there are differences.

Now you take, for example, an elemental out-picturing a rock. A rock might last for a very long time in a particular form. If the rock happens to fall in a stream, it might be worn down by the water and become more smooth. The elemental experiences that even though it is holding a certain form, it will change over time. But now when you step up to the plant kingdom, you have plants that might start as a seed, grow to a flower, then wither and disintegrate. Elementals that out-picture a biological form, they are more used to that their form changes in certain cycles. Then of course you have animals where the body grows from an embryo to an adult form, then gradually ages and dies and disintegrates. The elementals that out-picture your physical body, they have an awareness that things change all the time. They do not understand how these changes occur but they at least have an awareness that there is change, therefore, they cannot be as clingy about maintaining their form as, for example, the rock elementals.

But still there is some resistance to out-picturing or to changing the form. It is as if the elemental can accept that there are certain biological processes that change the body, but it has never before experienced that a mind projects a different image than the one it originally took on. Therefore, there is a certain resistance there.

Projecting without force

Now we reach the question that I really wanted to present to you in this discourse, and that is: “How much force should you use to project a higher image on an elemental? If the elemental resists changing its form, do you need to increase the mental force you are using to project the image?” And this is what at least some students in previous dispensations would have said that you have to do. You have to create enough psychic force, mental, emotional, identity-level force to override the resistance of the elementals. And this can be done. Some people have done it. Not all people can do it. But the teaching we want to give you here as part of progressive revelation is that this is not the highest way.

In other words, we are not telling you to, in your mind, formulate that image of a healthy heart, for example, and you project it with as much force as you can from the identity, mental, emotional, and onto the physical. Instead, we are asking you to take the approach that you can learn to do this without force, without force. In other words, there is a force-based approach to projecting with the mind, and there is a non-force-based approach. And what is the non-force-based approach?

Well, somewhat of a complex topic, but to get us started on the discussion, let us say you become aware that there is an issue with your heart. You reach up to the ascended masters for guidance on how to deal with this. You receive the impulse that there is an immaculate image in the ascended realm, in your I AM Presence, for a healthy heart. You just need to bring that image down. And how you do this is you focus on your identity mind, and you simply allow the image to descend to your identity mind. When it is there, you focus on the elemental at the identity level, and instead of projecting the image upon the elemental with force, you allow the image to descend.

But how this happens is not in a smooth movement. It happens in pulses, in cycles. It is as if the image is gradually lowered, then withdraws, lowered again, then withdraws, lowers, goes a little lower, withdraws again, goes back and forth in a motion like this.

However you visualize it – it can be back and forth, it can be in and out, it can be a projection, then the light fades, you project again, but there is this cyclical movement of the image. It gradually works its way down upon the elemental. It is not forced upon the elemental. We might say you are sort of playing it onto the elemental. And this requires you to have some awareness, some sense of connection to the elemental, where you are connecting to that elemental at the identity level. You are not resisting it, you are not seeing it as something outside yourself. You are literally giving that elemental recognition and acceptance. Instead of projecting that the elemental is a slave that has to obey you, you are acknowledging the individuality, the uniqueness, the being of the elemental.

And you are just sort of playing with the elemental, almost like you are dancing with the elemental, back and forth, round in circles, and as this happens, the mental image is lowered upon the elemental. The elemental dances its way into it.

And then as that is fulfilled, you now reach up for the mental element of the image and you then connect to the elemental at the mental level and again you are sort of dancing with the elemental, going around, back and forth in circles, playing that mental image upon the elemental. And because you accept the elemental, the elemental will accept you. And therefore, it will accept the image. Of course, you repeat the same at the emotional level and finally at the physical level. This is the non-forced base. There can be other ways to do this, but we will start here.

Running up against free will

Now the question is: “Is this always going to work?” And the answer is, realistically: “No, not always, because there will be some elementals that are trapped in a lower image, especially at the physical level, where you cannot play them out of it.” And the reason you cannot play them out of it is, if they are very trapped in lower energies, you cannot connect to them. They cannot connect to you, because they are trapped. It is almost as if you can say there is a normal dog, you see the dog, you walk up to it, it is curious, it wants to sniff you, it wants to be petted by you, and you feel you connect to the dog. Then there is an angry dog that is just barking and snarling at you, and you obviously cannot connect to it. Incidentally, the angry dog is because the elemental of the dog is trapped in a lower matrix.

What to do in those cases? Well, in some cases, it can help to call to Archangel Michael, to call to Astraea, to invoke the violet flame, to transmute the energy burdening the elemental. But you also need to recognize that there are cases where an elemental can be trapped in a matrix that is very strong in the collective consciousness. This is where you sometimes run up against this problem of free will, that you as an individual cannot override the free will of the collective. There can be cases where your physical body has a disease, where the collective momentum is so strong that you cannot free the elemental from it. There are some instances where you must accept the condition. But in general, this non-force-based approach will work. The more you can see matter as fluid, the better it will work. The more you can see – I am not talking about physically seeing, but mentally seeing – the elemental behind the form, the better it will work.

Elementals trapped by the fallen beings

Now as a somewhat separate topic, I do want to talk about elementals that are imprisoned – deliberately, maliciously imprisoned – by the fallen beings. Because as you go beyond the 96th level, you will occasionally start to encounter this phenomenon. And this will especially be so when you go beyond healing your body, but start doing something in society. As we have said one expression of Christhood is that you go out and seek to change some condition in your society. And when you seek to change something that is held firmly in the minds of a large number of people, you will in some cases encounter an elemental or a group of elementals that have been imprisoned in a lower matrix.

There are of course many examples of this, but as just one example, let us look at a group of fundamentalist Christians. They feel holier than thou because they have the only literal interpretation of the Bible. Their pastor is the only one who can literally interpret the Bible. They feel better than others, they are sure they will go to hell. And they are absolutely sure that they will go to heaven as long as they hold on to that view of the Bible. What they do not realize is that at the elemental level, there are elementals that have been imprisoned by the fallen beings to take on the form of this belief.

We are not here talking about physical elementals, earth elementals, but identity, mental, emotional level elementals. They have taken on the form of this belief that there is only one way to interpret the Bible, only one way to be saved. And these elementals, they have had an image put upon them by the fallen beings that is much more intense than what human beings could project. You could say, let us just say that a group of human beings had by themselves started to believe in this fundamentalist world view. And gradually they had projected this on the elementals. That would have been possible, but the elementals would not have been imprisoned by this in the same way, because even a large group of human beings are not as powerful in projecting an image as the fallen beings are, who have had much longer time to develop this ability.

What I am saying is fundamentalist Christianity was not developed by human beings, it was conceived by the fallen beings, and they used all their power to project this upon a group of elementals who took on this form and created what we have sometimes called a collective beast. You can also call it an entity, or you can in extreme cases call it a demon. These elementals who are imprisoned by these matrices created and projected by the fallen beings, they have a very great resistance to being changed, and they have a very great resistance to being challenged.

Let us say you grow up in a small town in the Bible Belt of America. And now you have gone away to college, you have found ascended master teachings, and you decide: “Perhaps it would be a good idea to go back to my hometown and tell the people, ‘I know about these wonderful teachings I discovered about the real Jesus.’” You happily go and you start talking to people, and what do you encounter? You encounter anger, hostility, perhaps even hatred and negativity from the people. But where does this come from? Does it actually come from the people? Nay, it comes from the elementals who have been imprisoned by the fallen beings.

You see what I am trying to point out here is there are two kinds of ways to imprison elementals in a lower image. One is that human beings use the powers of their minds collectively to project an image upon elementals. But the other is that the fallen beings use their greater power to project. Now the natural, you might say, flow of things would be that only human beings project on elementals, because human beings are the next level up in the hierarchy. But on a planet with fallen beings, they can project from below, so to speak. And therefore, instead of being the masters of the elementals, human beings can now become imprisoned by the elementals. You can, of course, in a certain sense say that fundamentalist Christians are imprisoned by the fallen beings ultimately, but this happens through the intermediary of the elementals.

Avoiding reacting to the people and elementals

Why is this important to know this? Well, because as we said, many of you will as part of your Christhood have a desire to go out, to directly go out and seek to help other people to change certain areas of society. And you need to be aware, you need to be aware of this phenomenon of these elementals imprisoned by fallen beings. There are two reasons for this. Number one is, when you encounter this anger and hostility from human beings, you need to be able to look beyond this. You need to not react to the people, not become angry with them, not feel hurt or put down by them. You need to see that this comes from beyond the people or an individual person. It comes from that level of the elementals. This means that it really is not personal, that the people are personally directing this against you. That way you can more easily avoid reacting to them personally and therefore creating a downward spiral, a reactionary spiral. And it is very important when you are new in expressing Christhood that you are consciously aware of the need to avoid creating these reactionary spirals with other people.

This is one thing. The other thing is of course you need to recognize that there is a force, there is a force that is opposing you. It is at the elemental level. Now of course the elementals have had a matrix put on them from the fallen beings. But the elementals are not personally angry with you, they are just out-picturing the matrix. In other words, when you encounter an angry elemental, you need to realize that that elemental is not different from the elemental who out-pictures a beautiful rose. It has just been trapped in a different matrix. And therefore, you need to first of all not blame the elemental, but see that it has just been enslaved by this matrix. And you cannot blame the elemental for being enslaved, because the whole nature of an elemental is that when a being with a stronger consciousness than the elemental projects an image, then the elemental must take it on.

Freeing elementals from the fallen matrix

At the lower levels of Christhood, you need to know this so you can avoid reacting to the people or reacting to the elementals and their energy. In other words, you can have an intense anger directed at you, but you do not allow it in, you do not react to it, you realize it is just energy. There is no more need to react to anger energy than sunlight. But as you mature in Christhood, it is possible that you can come to a point where you can now serve to free the elemental from the matrix put on them by the fallen beings. But here is of course a distinction. You cannot acquire the power and the ability in your own mind to do this. You need to be mindful of what Jesus said: “I can of my own self do nothing.” You of your own self, even as an avatar, who is above the 96th level and close to the ascension, you do not have the power in your mind to counteract or go against the fallen beings and you never want to put yourself in a direct conflict with the fallen beings, seeking to overpower them.

What you can do as you mature in Christhood is you can acknowledge: Here is an elemental that has been imprisoned by the fallen beings. It is a very powerful matrix that the fallen being has projected on the elemental, more powerful than you could have projected, therefore, you cannot directly counteract it. But the matrix projected by the fallen beings is not stronger than what the Christ mind can manifest. I am not saying project, but manifest. When you open yourself up to be the open door for the Christ mind, meaning the ascended masters to work through you, then you can with us co-create the event of freeing the elemental from the matrix of the fallen beings. And you have a perfect right to do this because the elemental does not have free will. It has just taken on the strongest image projected upon it so far.

But again, you are not forcefully projecting upon the elemental. You are again just allowing the image to descend from the ascended level through your mind upon the elemental. And when you are neutral, the power of the ascended masters will do the work. And that can free that elemental from being a slave of the fallen beings, and this can have a positive impact on the collective consciousness because now other people can suddenly pull away from being so overpowered by that energy that they can actually begin to think again. Because what you realize is, if you know I never encountered, for example, fundamentalist Christians, but of course many other people, is these people are not thinking. They are not using their self-awareness, at least not with regards to this issue. They are not thinking about the Bible and what it means. They are just mindlessly repeating that matrix projected upon them by these elementals, this collective beast.

What is required for you to reach that level is that you overcome division in yourself because you cannot go up against these elementals trapped by the fallen beings or even the people who are overpowered by these elementals, if you have a division in yourself because they will exploit it. It is like they say about an aggressive dog that it can sense if you fear it, but if it senses that you do not fear it because you are undivided, it will not attack you. You have to be undivided and how can you be undivided? By being neutral, by being the open door. You do not have any subconscious selves that react. If a door is solid, it can be cut in half and opened as two parts. But if there is no door, how can you divide anything?

I am not saying these teachings are relevant for all of you at this point. Of course they are not. Many of you can ignore most of what I have said about elementals imprisoned by fallen beings, although I will say that even though many of you may not have as part of your Divine plan to directly work on freeing these elementals, you can still benefit from knowing of their existence because you can then evaluate that there are certain people you encounter that have a reaction to you that just is not rational. Many of you have people, maybe even family members, who have a very strong reaction to you. And when you know about this phenomenon, you can see that these people have been overpowered by some external force. And therefore, again, you can react to them differently. You can depersonalize what they are doing to you, and therefore, pull yourself out of a reactionary spiral.

Now you recognize perhaps that we, or I, in this discourse have given you a slightly different view of something we have talked about before, such as entities or demons. So far, we have said that people have gradually over time created these collective beasts that can in extreme cases become a demon or an entity. But what we are giving you now is that nothing can be created out of nothing. Everything is created out of some conscious being. There is no form, not even a demon, that can be created without a matrix being projected on elementals. What you need to recognize is that even a demon, there is an elemental trapped in it. This does not mean, as we have said before, that you can reason with a demon, because the elemental does not have self-awareness. But what it does mean is that the elemental could be freed from the matrix put upon it by the fallen beings and reinforced by human beings.

And that gives you at least the beginning of a different perspective, that there is absolutely nothing that cannot be changed. Not even at the deepest levels of hell, or on the most dense and unnatural planet you could imagine, even denser than Earth, there is nothing that cannot be changed, because every form is out-pictured by an elemental. The elemental did not choose to take it on, and therefore, a new form can be superimposed upon the elemental that frees the elemental from the previous form. And that is how things can go down and things can go up.

In fact, we can say the entire process of bringing an unascended sphere to the ascension point is that higher and higher images are superimposed upon the elementals, until even the elementals begin to become self-aware. But that is a more complicated topic than I wish to go into at what is for you this time of night. I am of course as fresh as you were hopefully this morning, for there is no morning and night for me. I just AM. I will continue to be and let you go to your rest. I thank you for your attention. I have actually been wanting to give this teaching for some time, but have not found the opportune moment.

With this I seal you in my love.

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