Spiritual knowledge  vs.  spiritual experience 

Question: Do the fallen angels embodied on earth possess the same knowledge about God, humanity, the universe, Christ consciousness and related subjects that spiritual people study today, perhaps from older or more modern sources, including in particular the teachings sponsored by the ascended masters?


Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels.  This answer was given during the 2026 Kazakhstan Conference.

 

Well again a complex question because, and I am of course not saying there is anything wrong with complex questions, on the contrary, but you have to consider what do you mean with knowledge? You see, our teachings that we are giving are coming from the Christ mind, but as we have explained before, once they are expressed in words, they can of course be interpreted by different people from different backgrounds with different levels of consciousness.

And they can of course be interpreted by the mind of antichrist and therefore, distorted. What you see is that throughout the ages there have been fallen beings who decided to study spiritual teachings, whether it was this religion or that spiritual teaching, whatever you had at the time. And there are of course fallen beings today, both in and out of embodiment, who are studying the teachings of the ascended masters. They are of course not doing it for the purpose of using the teachings to transcend themselves, they are using it either to find a way to sabotage the teachings, to counteract the teachings, and to sow doubt in people’s minds about the validity of the teachings. My point here is this, do these fallen beings who are studying the teachings of the ascended masters have the same knowledge that sincere spiritual students have? 

From one perspective you can say that all the fallen beings have is knowledge, they do not have experience. As we have said before, when you are a fallen being you do not see yourself connected to anything outside your own mind, you cannot have a direct experience of the Christ consciousness as the mind of oneness, the mind that unifies. You can have a mental image of the Christ consciousness, you can even have a mental image of unity, of oneness, but it is just that. You are seeing, studying a topic from a distance. 

Now of course there are also some sincere spiritual students who are still at the level where they are acquiring knowledge from a distance, but most spiritual students have at least some direct experience of the Presence of ascended masters. There is a difference between the knowledge you can have in your mind where you are a subject studying an object, and then the direct experience where in a sense the subject-object barrier dissolves because the Conscious You steps outside the outer mind and now experiences some degree of Oneness with an ascended master or your I AM Presence. There is knowledge in the mind and there is knowledge that is direct experience, not a mental image in the mind. We have before talked about the conceptual mind, but there is also the mind that experiences.

Based on this we can say that fallen beings do not have the real knowledge based on experience, but some of them have a very sophisticated intellectual, rational, logical understanding of spiritual topics, but of course it is all based on a mental image, not on reality. 

When fallen beings can have a very sophisticated mental image of God, it is of course out of touch with the real God. And in many cases, these fallen beings are using their sophisticated knowledge to manipulate other people or to even produce some superficial phenomena that seems like they have the mastery of mind over matter, but again this is acquired through the outer mind, not through oneness, not through what we talk about at this conference, co-creation.

 

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