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Art can be a process that helps you resolve your psychology

Question: As an artist, I know drawing from my traumas and pain to create is not the highest form of art. But at the same time, it is not realistic or even constructive for me to resolve every single self before I begin to create. How should we approach art at this stage? And even if one still has separate selves that may influence their work, are there any particular selves that you recommend addressing, first and foremost? Is it okay to create just for the sake of expressing something as opposed to creating something that will raise vibration? Some of my favorite albums or movies express a certain stage of consciousness that may not be very high, but it is just a matter of experiencing what you want until you feel like you want to move on.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, certainly, nobody says that you need to have resolved your entire psychology before you start doing anything, whether it is art or anything else, you have a right to be a human being who is in the process of growing, you have a right to be at your present level of consciousness, you have a right to expose yourself and live life based on that level of consciousness, while continually striving to raise your level of consciousness by resolving your different selves in your psychology. So I suggest here looking at art, not as a result, but as a process.

If you recognize that you still have unresolved psychology, look at art as a process that helps you resolve your psychology by for example, expressing what you have in your subconscious mind what you have that is unresolved. So what if you paint a picture that is not the highest possible expression? If it helps you see something and then resolve it, then it has fulfilled a valuable purpose. And so there are not any specific selves because this is again individual, but the simple rule is take the tools we have given you take the book healing your spiritual traumas, start working on it, and whatever separate self comes to your attention, this is what you work on, until you resolve that, then the next one that comes up, and you just keep going like that.

Art has many different purposes, and it can be a purpose to express what is in your subconscious, so that you can see it more clearly. Now, there are many artists who are expressing whatever is in their subconscious, and it is very disharmonious, and they can get stuck at that level of just expressing this. This, unfortunately, especially happens to artists that end up becoming famous for certain artistic expression. And then they do not want to let go of it because they are not sure that people will still like their art, if they change it. So they can be stuck, come stuck for the rest of that lifetime with this unresolved psychology. But if you are an ascended master student, then do not be afraid to express whatever is there. As long as you work on resolving it, then you will gradually grow out of it and you will naturally find a higher artistic expression.

Do not overthink, just take one self at a time

Question: Supposedly, the primal self is one of the last things you work on. But in Mother Mary’s visualization for dealing with a primal self, she states that it is actually the first thing you should resolve and at all selves that are come afterwards will be easier to dismantle after you have dealt with a primal self. Having recognized a great number of unresolved separate selves in myself. I am having trouble discerning where one self ends and the other begins. I recognize traumas from my childhood and traumas from things that I cannot yet put my finger on. I get the feeling that certain selves are impossible to dismantle without having resolved the primal self. Because the moment I try to look at it, my primal self will prevent me from seeing things objectively. What is the order in which we should be dealing with these separate selves? And am I right for thinking that would be a waste of time to look at certain separate selves, like childhood traumas before I resolve the primal self, or is it the other way around that I will not be able to resolve the primal self without having gone layer by layer, from the most recent self down?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Well, you need to recognize here that this question is asked from the linear analytical mind. You are trying to categorize and analyze these separate selves, and you are asking the question about what you should work on first. But this is an individual matter. For some people, it will be possible to relatively quickly go to the primal self, and resolve that, and if you can do that, it will be easier to resolve the selves that were created after the primal self, because they are based on it.

Once you have seen the illusion of the primal self, it is more easy to see the illusion of the others. If you go the other way around and start with a more recent selves, then you will not be able to see through the illusion that a primal self is based on which means that for every separate self, you have to discover its own illusion. And it is more difficult to do, it is not impossible.

However, the question about which ones you should start on is, as I said, individual, and the bottom line is simply this, whatever selves come up, you start working on that. Whatever self you become aware of, as you read the books, whatever stands out in your mind, this is what you work on until you resolve that, then you take the next one and the next one. You can still use the exercise that I have given in healing your spiritual traumas, where you go through the different levels into the theater, and you work on whatever self comes up in that process.

You do not even need to necessarily think about whether this is the primal self or not, you just take one self at a time, work on resolving that, then take the next and the next as they come up. Do not overthink it, do not over analyze, simply start with the most obvious self that comes up and then go from there.

Babaji holds a spiritual balance for the planet earth

Question: Is Babaji still working with the planet? If so, how could those who feel drawn to him connect deeper with his presence? Does he have any advice for his disciples living in the West?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2020 Webinar – Choosing America’s Future.

Babaji is not an ascended master. Because he has not gone through the process of the ascension. He has for a very long time maintained the physical body as an anchor point in the earth, which allows him primarily to hold a spiritual balance for the planet, and this is his main function. I know it was said in Yogananda’s book, that he has a small circle of disciples with him and that they often travel with him. But it is not so that Babaji has a wider circle of disciples. It is not his primary role to be a teacher, his primary role is to hold a balance, a spiritual balance for the earth. In a sense, it is a misunderstanding to consider yourself a Western disciple of Babaji. Only those who are in his physical presence in the Himalayas could consider themselves disciples of him. Babaji does not have a teaching mission that reaches out beyond his immediate physical location.

I know there are books that it is claimed they are channeled or dictated by Babaji, but it is simply not the case. It is not a correct understanding. The being who has dictated some of these teachings is not the Babaji that is talked about by Paramahansa Yogananda, or was even mentioned in the summit lighthouse. The thing I would like to ask you here is, if you are aware of ascended masters and therefore asking us the question about Babaji, why would you want to be a disciple of an unascended being when you have the potential to be a disciple of an ascended master? Is not there an ascended master that you could focus your attention on and become a disciple of that master? This would be more constructive for your growth.

We would like to add here and when I say we, I say Babaji, Paramahansa Yogananda and myself, that there is a certain phenomenon that it would be advantageous for ascended masters students to recognize. When Paramahansa Yogananda gave his book, wrote his book, one of his goals was to provide a counterbalance to the prejudice against India and the Indian people that was found in many nations in the West, especially at that time. And he wanted to emphasize the tremendous spiritual development of many people in India. And that is why he mentioned Babaji as a highly evolved Master, which he of course is. Nevertheless, Paramahansa Yogananda, who was not ascended at the time, could not foresee how many people in the West would take the story of Babaji, and build something onto it. That was far beyond what Paramahansa Yogananda or Babaji wanted.

You see what some people in the West and even some people in India have done with Babaji, is that they have used the story in Yogananda’s book to create a fiction about this supposedly ideal master. And the reason they can do this is that they do not have direct contact with the real Babaji. Therefore, they can project an image onto him. That he of course, cannot counteract, because that is not his role. This was more difficult to do for people with Yogananda while he was in physical embodiment, but some people have done it since, where they have now added onto and created their own stories, and made him out to be something more than what he actually was when he was in physical embodiment. They have done the same with Babaji and, to some degree done the same with ascended masters and previous messengers.

There is always this tendency to create an ideal guru that is the way you think a guru should be, and can therefore seemingly validate your view of what the spiritual path is all about and how you should follow it. This has given many people an excuse for not listening to the dictations of the ascended masters, hearing what we are actually saying about the spiritual path, hearing what you need to overcome in terms of ego, separate selves and illusions, in order to make spiritual progress, manifest Christhood and ascend.

Many people have created a false path, the past that seemed right onto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death, as Jesus said. It is a false path where they think they really do not have to look at certain separate selves, certain aspects of their ego and overcome them. Because this and that master says that this is all they have to do. They have to do Kriya Yoga, or do decrees, or whatever it may be. They had to study certain teachings, and maybe they have to look at certain aspects of the ego. But there are certain things that do not have to look at it do not have to give up they do not have to leave behind.

In a sense, you could say these people are not ready for the path we are teaching where we are saying, you have to let go of all of the human self, all of the ego, all of the illusions in order to ascend. For some, it can be a temporary thing, where there is a phase they go through and they will eventually grow out of it and be open for higher teaching. But some people do get stuck in these kind of movements, and following these books, thinking they are disciple of this or that master, while in reality, they are not making the progress they could be making.

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Transmuting karma for your children

Question: Can I, as a mother, use the violet flame to consume the karma of my adult child? Or is it a violation of his free will?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, there are two aspects of karma. There is one that is merely the sort of mechanical aspect: there is a misqualified energy that is burdening a person that might be stored in his three higher bodies. And this you can make the calls to consume for other people.

But there’s also a part of the karma that requires a person to see something and transcend a certain state of consciousness. And this of course, you cannot do for other people. It isn’t that it’s a violation of their free will, you simply can’t do it. You cannot make them see something that they are not willing to see. So again, it can have a positive impact that you make calls for others, because by transforming the energy it becomes easier for them to see what they need to see. But it isn’t a guarantee that they will see it because this is subject to free will.

Set yourself and your child free

Question: What can a mother do to help a son that she senses is a fallen being? What can she learn from that and how can she help her son, that she as a mother loves?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, first of all, you can realize that if you are a spiritual person, whether an ascended master student or another kind of spiritual person, you have volunteered to give birth to that son, whether he is a fallen being or not, he is not one of the most close-minded fallen beings or you would not have given birth to him. So, that means he has a potential to grow, and that means that he has the same potential as everyone else for overcoming his psychology, but he’s likely to have a more difficult psychology than most other people.

What can you do to help him? Well, you can work first on resolving your own psychology as much as possible, then you can encourage him and try to help him to also work on his psychology and realize that psychology is the main limiting factor for all human beings. You can of course, make the calls to help him do this as well and use the tools we have given. Try to encourage him to use these tools.

If he will not make use of this, then the best thing you can do is to realize that there comes a point for all parents where you must set your children free and allow them to live their own lives, whatever that means. Even if you don’t approve of it, even if they harm themselves. There comes a point as a parent, where your children are adults and you need to set them free to live their own lives. This also means you are in a sense setting yourself free so you can say: “Given that my child is now living his own life, how do I now want to live my life”? And you can then allow yourself to take your life in a new direction. It doesn’t mean you can have no contact with your son depending on the nature of the relationship. But you can set him free and you can set yourself free.

The fear of falling again

Question: How can we become liberated when we are on the path to Christhood? How can we be liberated from the selves of fear to get lost again, to fall again into duality? If we stop controlling every step we are doing, how do we really know that we have already attained enough Christhood not to get lost again, or not to fall into duality again?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, you can realize that this fear of going backwards or falling again, comes from a separate self, you can then make an effort to uncover that self, to look at it to look at the beliefs behind it. And you can let the self die. You can perhaps as an intermediate measure, need to make some calls for the binding of the fallen beings and the collective entities, the demons that are projecting this fear into your consciousness.

Many people who have in past lives made an effort to raise their consciousness have had this fear projected into their minds by the fallen beings. There is a certain stage on the path where you have made some progress, some decisive progress, but the fallen beings are attempting as a last-ditch attempt, to project this fear into your mind that you could fall again, that you could make this mistake. And it is important to know consciously where this is coming from, and make the determination not to respond to it. It is important to make the calls for your protection of this. But it is also important to realize that there is a self in you that is the anchor point for this fear. And when you see it and let it die, then the fear disappears.

You may also need to make a decision. This messenger dealt with the same issue a number of years ago. And he came to a point where he realized he needed to make a decision to acknowledge that he had attained a certain level of Christhood and that he would not fall again because he would not again go into a self-centered, selfish state of consciousness or respond based on fear. So, you may come to that point where you acknowledge that: “I have simply moved beyond this point and the fear does not apply to me and therefore, I will not allow it in my consciousness”.

One person can and does make a difference

Question: How much impact can one person do for the liberation of women in a large country like Brazil by giving calls? How much of an impact does one person giving the calls have?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, whatever you do, is better than doing nothing. So you can say when you are facing a large nation, whether it be Brazil or another nation: “What difference can it possibly make”? Well, what have we said? In every nation, there are people who have incarnated at this particular time because they have the potential and it’s in their divine plans that they can make a positive contribution. What you can do as an ascended master student is make the calls that will cut these people free, awaken them so they can start fulfilling that potential.

In every nation, there are rungs of these people. It’s like the layers of an onion. There are some that are the most advanced that can be awakened first, then there are others that can be awakened as the next phase and then others and others. So, if there’s nobody in the particular nation making the calls, then maybe even the most mature students will not be awakened. But one person making the call can very well awaken that first group. And that might then help awaken the next group. And if you continue to make calls, and if other people begin to make calls, then it can gradually spread that way.

You also have to recognize that in every nation, there are constantly situations that come up where a nation is standing at a crossroads—it can take this way, or it can take that way. And very often, it can be a very, very small difference that determines whether a nation takes this road or that road. I’m not saying this means that one road would lead to disaster and one road would lead to the kingdom of God on earth. The consequences are not necessarily severe. But still there’s one road that leads to a better situation, better growth and one that delays growth. In these kinds of situations that happen all the time, one person making the calls can make that difference whether the nation goes this way or that way. And so, this can certainly have an impact.

Of course, the bigger the nation, the more people are needed to have a major impact. You can say that as one person giving the calls, you might not see a visible result of it. But I can assure you that it is there. In order to produce a visible result, well it takes more people. You saw, for example, in South Korea, that several times the students there, by making the calls have had a decisive impact on their nation. The same has happened in other nations. When it comes to having this visible impact, it usually takes a larger group of people. Nevertheless, one person can and does make a difference. Look at Jesus look at the Buddha.

Change in Poland driven by women?

Question: A question about Poland. There’s a strong polarization in the Polish nation. Is there any real potential for some people to awaken from duality? Is there enough people, women, a critical mass of women who can get awakened and drive the change beyond this polarization?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, the answer basically is yes there are enough women in embodiment in Poland who have the potential to awaken and drive this change beyond the current gridlock. Poland is an example of a democracy that is not really fully a modern democracy because it has had a very difficult history with being overrun by these larger nations, being part of the Soviet Union. So it hasn’t had time to become a modern democracy, but it obviously has the potential to become so.

And as a result, there are many lifestreams who have volunteered to embody in Poland and they have primarily embodied as women but not only as women. And what will drive this change is, again, the basic humanity, the essential humanity, where women especially, will look at how people are being treated under the current government and what is happening to the nation and to the people as a result of this polarization into these two fronts that cannot cooperate.

It’s not really something that women in general could even create in a nation, this polarized situation. This is primarily something created by men who get as we have said, pulled into this epic mindset, thinking they have to fight for this ultimate cause and it is not in alignment with divine motherhood because the mother, the mindset of the mother will see that all people in a particular nation should be treated well, should be treated equally. And this cannot happen when there is a polarization.

So the perspective again of this basic humanity, and even the essential humanity of what people have the potential to grow into, is the best opportunity for overcoming this. It may still take some time, because with the re-election of the President, you have now extended the time where the current government will stay in power. And this means that it will act out in more extreme ways until people begin to see the absurdity of what they’re actually doing.

You are not created to hold a spiritual office, you need to qualify for it

Question: Is it a correct understanding, that the I Am Presences of Alpha and Omega from the previous sphere create the I Am Presences of Alpha and Omega for the new sphere. Are Alpha and Omega created simultaneously and are they considered as twin flames. What is the correct understanding?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

No, this is not correct. If you look at your sphere, you have two beings named Alpha and Omega, who are now holding the highest spiritual office in your sphere. But they were not created in that position. They have attained that position by growing in your sphere. In other words, they were created inside your sphere as everyone else. They were not created as twin flames. They were created as individual beings, they grew to become ascended masters and they gradually grew in the ascended state to attain that position.

Now obviously, you’re logically going to say: “Well what happened when the sphere was just created and no one had had time to ascend?” Who was holding that office? Well, there were ascended beings from the previous sphere that were holding that office. They were also called Alpha and Omega, but they were not the same beings. But as soon as there were ascended beings from your sphere, that were able to hold that office, they took over that office.

So in general, you are not created to hold a spiritual office. You are created with a point like sense of awareness. You grow in awareness until you ascend and then you can from the ascended state, grow further until you qualify for a particular spiritual office.

How to deal with compulsory vaccines

Question: What is the right way for people to act towards compulsory vaccination, especially state employees, who are forced to do this on pain of dismissal?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

You need to take the saying of Jesus: “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”. You need to recognize that if you are a state employee, you have accepted that you work for the state. And the state in its current condition is the way it is. You can work perhaps on changing it in the long term. But as long as you’re working for the state, you need to accept these conditions that are here now. And therefore, you need to perform the job that you agreed to perform.

The same thing if you are a citizen in a country that makes vaccinations mandatory—then you do it. You can use whatever means you have in your country to change the situation in the long term, but in the short term, you need to simply accept that this is the current state of affairs in your country and therefore you accept it. If your country gives you a choice, then you can obviously make use of that choice. But otherwise, you need to accept the conditions that are there. If you don’t agree with them, then you work on changing them with whatever means you have available in a democracy—that obviously means democratic means.

Spreading the golden age ideas among Turkish, Iranian and Altai nations

Question: What can we do to remove obstacles to the widespread acceptance of the Golden Age ideas and teachings or elements of teachings of the ascended masters in all of the Turkish, Iranian and Altai peoples including the Islamic ones? What calls can we make for greater progress in these countries and regions?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, it depends on whether you live in these areas or not. If you live in these areas, you can use the invocations we have given that invoke Golden Age ideas. You can especially select the invocations that deal with issues that are most relevant in your country. And you can make the calls, also, that Islam will change, other people’s views of Islam will change, that there’s a rising awareness that, these nations need to become secular democracies, as we have said at this conference, where you look at the historical evolution and you can see that it is inevitable, what needs to happen in these nations. You can make the calls that those who have embodied in your nation in order to drive this evolution will be cut free, will be awakened and that, as many people as possible will be cut free to awaken these ideas.

This is a somewhat long-term proposition here. You cannot expect to get immediate results of this, because there is such an opposition, such a resistance to this in the majority of the people, but there are, of course, already tendencies. You can also make the calls that there will be a rising awareness of the need to create economic reforms. For example, to overcome the rising youth unemployment in these nations. You cannot have a functioning nation if a majority of young people cannot find a job, even if they have an education.

One of the most realistic ways that will force a change in these nations is simply, the economic reality that either changes are made, so that the nations become more secular and open up more to businesses or the economy will collapse. And then there could be a violent revolution. I’m not saying you should call for a violent revolution, but you can call for an awareness and if the economy isn’t changed, then there will be a violent revolution because this can motivate some leaders to accept changes. You can, of course, also call for people to be cut free from these demons, these mass entities—collective entities, that are keeping them trapped in this Islamic fundamentalist mindset where they are simply so trapped, that they cannot see what is obvious to at least some people in these nations.

Now, if you live outside of the region, then you can make general calls for the Golden Age ideas to be accepted. If you’re living outside, you don’t need to make direct calls for these nations because it’s just better to actually make calls for your own nation. So that, you will raise the collective consciousness in that nation and this will help pull up on these other nations. It is sort of a two-prong approach here, where some of these fundamentalist Islamic countries, they cannot, in the short term be pulled up by themselves. So, they must be pulled up by the rest of the world by a raising of the collective consciousness. But for those people who live in the countries and are open to ascended master teachings, you can make the calls for your nations.

The importance of the idea of the basic humanity in the Muslim nations

Question: Jesus said that the masters would like to see the peoples of the Islamic meta culture less fragmented and more united. In what forms can this convergence and unification take place and on what basis from the point of view of the ascended masters? What calls can we make to contribute to this process?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, if you look at history and go back, you will see that before the time of Mohammed, there was tremendous conflict and basically what you would call tribal warfare in the Arabic nations. They were highly divided into all of these tribes that were constantly warring with each other over grazing for their sheep or whatever the excuse was. It is not necessarily so that we want to see a unification of the Arabic people as such. We wanted to see an end to this kind of very destructive tribal warfare. And this was the point of Archangel Gabriel releasing the original teachings of the Quran through Mohammed.

It was the hope that this could unify the Arabic people and stop the warfare. Of course, it has not exactly had that effect. In a certain sense, it has unified people as Muslims, but it has not stopped the internal conflict between them. And certainly, it has created another level of conflict between Muslims and the rest of the world.

This just shows you how difficult it is to unify people on a planet like Earth. Again, even today, we do not necessarily see that all Arabic or all Muslim nations should be united. As Saint Germain just talked about, in the future, there will be regions and there will certainly be regions of people that go across what you today can call Muslim nations. But we would, of course, like to see that the internal conflict and the conflict with the rest of the world is overcome, is transcended. And the best hope for that is what we have called the “basic humanity”. To some degree, also the essential humanity. But quite frankly, many people in Muslim nations are not able to grasp that.

The best hope is that they will be able to grasp the basic humanity, where they will want a better life for their children than they have had. And they will also see that there are certain things that a government should not do to its own people. For example, you should not put a woman in jail for driving a car in Saudi Arabia or any other nation. You should not execute her for these seemingly, to a western mind at least, not serious offences. You should not have people whipped in public for just being a woman.

There are so many examples of how these Muslim societies and the Sharia law, lead to these very inhumane treatments of people. The best thing to make the calls for is that people will begin to see this. There is also, as Saint Germain just said, the whole concept of the economy in these nations and how the economy can possibly survive, especially with the youth unemployment. Again, these are the two areas where there is the biggest opportunity for some kind of change that will soften up the black and white thinking in Muslim nations.

The secret rays and the material world

Question: We know from the teachings that the entire material world is made up of seven rays and we also know that there are secret rays. My question is how do the secret rays manifest in the material world?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

The secret rays do not manifest in the material world directly. They work through the other rays. You could say that if you look at a figure eight, then in the upper part of the figure are the secret rays, which then stream into the lower figure, in the form of the seven rays. And then there is another figure eight, where the seven rays stream into the material world.

The parable of the unjust steward

Question: Would the masters clarified the meaning of the parable of the unjust steward described in the Gospel of Luke: chapter 16, 1 – 13.

Kim: This parable describes a master who has a servant who manages his estate. And he is being accused of having misused the master’s goods and the master calls him to account. And the servant calls in some of the people that owe the master money, or oil, or whatever it is, and ask them to write down the value of what they owe the master.

And the master then praises him for this and says that the people of the world are, in this generation, wiser than the people of the light, something to that effect. And then the Pharisees, they are criticizing Jesus for having given this parable. And that is what I remember from it. We will see what Jesus wants to say about it.

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

It is not every parable in the Bible that is accurately portrayed. It is not a direct quote of what I said. And unfortunately, both the original quote and the later translations give a distorted image of what was my intent with this parable. My intent was to portray that people who are trapped in the worldly consciousness, what we today call the consciousness of duality, will always be thinking about themselves. And many of these people, including the fallen beings, have a greater mastery of manipulating the material world, the physical octave, than spiritual people, people who are dedicated to spiritual growth. And that is why they are “wiser”, in their generation, in their way, than the people who are spiritual who are not interested in this worldly manipulation.

The point of drawing in the Scribes and Pharisees is that they are sort of in between. They are still in the worldly consciousness, but they claim to be spiritual. They claim to have risen above the worldly consciousness that wants mammon, that wants to serve the God of mammon, if you will. And they claim to be spiritual but they are not because they have not shifted their consciousness.

This is, unfortunately, a parable that has been misquoted, mistranslated, and therefore caused a lot of confusion. But the main point is this. That you cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and mammon, meaning you cannot pursue both worldly riches, or worldly power, and at the same time, walk the true spiritual path.

This is obvious for the people who are pursuing worldly riches. But even the Scribes and Pharisees, who were also pursuing a certain worldly power over people’s minds, by claiming to be walking the spiritual paths, but they were not walking the true path.

Is the idea of sisterhood a divisive idea?

Question: Kim, your yesterday’s final comment causes misunderstanding for me and did not seem for me complete. I have some clarifying questions. If our life stream is neither male nor female, what is the point of giving teachings that divide people by gender? For example, the idea of a female sisterhood isn’t it a divisive idea? Isn’t bringing people together on the basis of basic humanity regardless of gender a higher idea?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, I would say that this question is asked from the linear mind again. It is an example of the linear mind that always thinks in terms of, if this is said, what is the opposite, and so forth. It is clear that the masters are giving teachings because people are in male and female bodies and most people are still identified with it, and most people cannot immediately let go of it. The masters are giving teachings about a female sisterhood because the realistic way forward is that women can drive change in society and they can drive this by coming together.

In the long run, yes, it can be a divisive idea. As you see that the feminist movement has, to a large degree, been divisive. This is the situation that the masters face. Whatever they do, it can be used for division, but it can also be used for transcendence, and that is what some people can do.

Isn’t bringing people together on the basis of basic humanity regardless of gender a higher idea? Yes, in a sense, it is. But is it realistic to do this as the first step? Or are there other steps that need to be taken.

When reality becomes just an idea which can be argued for or against

Question: What would Mother Mary say to a person that considers himself or herself as a student of the ascended masters, but who has an idea to leave incarnation though committing suicide and justify it by saying that in the current life on earth, he is bored with it and hopes that the next life will be better? What consequences will this livestream face if it leaves the incarnation in this way?

The level of suicide in a country where the student lives is getting high. There have been a lot of causes of suicide in the region where the student lives and even among the close people of this student. I realize that the beast of suicide in the collective consciousness where the student lives is very strong. But after communication with this student, I felt how this beast was trying to test even me. Making the calls of the Christ judgment upon this beast helped me momentarily cut any ties and any suicide projections upon me. While talking with this student, I very quickly realized that none of my arguments would convince this student not to leave the physical body through suicide. I see that this intention is caused by the student’s unresolved psychology, by unresolved primal self. The student doesn’t want to make a living by engaging in worldly activities, saying that they are not interesting. Yet this student’s savings are running out and the decision to leave the physical body is a sort of a way out of not wanting to deal with this situation. I realized that it is nothing but an avoidance pattern in the student, but I feel that my attempts to convince the student to make a decision of LIFE has sort of failed because the current self the student identifies with looks very sophisticated because it knows and has been working with all the latest teachings on the primal self.

These teachings have not worked in the case of this student, but they have tremendously worked in my case and helped me to a great extent to resolve my primal self. And thus helped me a lot to let the student go and do whatever the student wants to do without any value judgment and negative feeling for my side. Now I feel that it is enough for me to force free will of others. I’m really done with that. But since the student shared with me his decision about leaving this embodiment, I felt that there was a reason for me to be involved with that. So, I have decided to express my own free will and be the expression of the Divine Mother in action. I’ve started calling the Christ judgment upon the suicide beast and upon the separate self of the student and ask the ascended masters to help the student’s Conscious You to awaken from this illusion that infinity of pure awareness can be experienced only out of the physical body.

I feel deep compassion for the student, and I do love this lifestream very much as I do love all my brothers and sisters on the path, who are currently facing tough challenges in their lives. Having resolved my primal self to a large degree, I shared with the student about my situation that my savings are also running out and all my attempts to find a job for the last three years were also in vain. But these three years have been a precious time and gift in my life. And after thirteen years of being under the guidance of the beloved ascended masters, I finally feel that I’m at home. I’m in the kingdom of my Father, that is, my kingdom for my father and I are one. Sorry for this long sharing, but I feel a strong inner impulse to do that after getting permission of this student to ask this question. Perhaps Mother Mary’s answer will help this student to make a life decision, for this student has not accepted any of my arguments not to do that.

What would Mother Mary say to such a person?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

I would say nothing my beloved. What would be the point in saying something to a person who thinks that he or she knows better than other human beings and even the ascended masters. When people think they know better, they must experience the consequences of thinking they know better.

You recognize here that one of the things that happens when we give teachings through a sponsored messenger is that people will always interpret these teachings through their separate selves. We can give a teaching about the separate selves or the primal self that is aimed at helping people overcome these separate selves. And they will work for many of the people who sincerely apply them, as you describe. But they will not work for those who are not willing to continue stepping back and looking at even the most subtle aspects of these separate selves.

And there are people who have created very sophisticated separate selves. Many of these beings are fallen beings. Because all fallen beings have created separate selves that are absolutely convinced that they know better than God how the world should be run. There is nothing you can say to a person with this kind of a separate self. You cannot convince them. And you cannot convince them for the simple reason that these people have not only one separate self that is convinced that it knows better, but they have another separate self that has as an absolute rule, that the self that knows better could never be wrong.

What you have in some people is this dualistic polarity of two selves. One thinks it knows better than anyone else, and the other thinks the first self could never be wrong. If you try to reason and prove that the first self does not know better, that there is something it does not know, that there is a contradiction. Then all you will do is activate the second self, which will blankly refuse to look at your arguments.

This separate self has one overriding rule. You could never be right, no matter what you say. It does not matter what your arguments are, you could never be right. And therefore, it is fruitless to reason and argue with such a person.

You might say, when you look at the many people who commit suicide, and have committed suicide, that it never leads them to improve their situation, because they must come back into embodiment with the same psychology that caused them to leave embodiment. You might say this to a person, but it would have no impact, because the person’s self would block it, that it cannot be right.

What has to happen to some people, is that they have to commit suicide, maybe in multiple embodiments, before they realize that it never improves their situation. They cannot actually escape what they are trying to escape, because they cannot escape their own psychology. You may commit suicide and that kills the physical body. But you carry your emotional, mental and identity body with you, after you leave the physical body. What has changed? Your experience of life is primarily through the three higher bodies, not the physical body, and you are still in those three higher bodies. What has changed?

You may say this to a person, but the person’s self would block it, you cannot be right. And therefore, you see what happens in the minds of such people and in the minds of fallen beings is that they think that anything that is presented to them, any idea that is presented to them, is just an idea. And because they are in a dualistic state of consciousness, any idea can be argued for or against.

They cannot grasp that something is a truth, is a reality, that this is just the way it is. You might say to such a person, to put it in an extreme manner, the Earth is round. But the person will not accept that it is a fact that the Earth is round. The person will look at this as an idea. Oh, that is an interesting idea, the Earth is round. Let us look at the arguments for the Earth being round and the arguments against the Earth being round. And then the person’s self will be able to say, well, there are some flaws in these arguments for the Earth being round, and therefore, I continue to believe that the Earth is flat.

This is what fallen beings have done since the fall in the fourth sphere. It is what some of them will continue to do until the second death. They will stand there in front of the second death, when they are faced with ultimate reality, and they would still in their minds come up with some argument to reject the path that is being offered to them. There is nothing that an ascended master can say to such people, because we respect free will. You also need to come to a point where you respect free will and say: “I have done everything I could do. I must let go”.

The confederation of free peoples of the Caucasus?

Question: Is there a future perspective to create a confederation of free peoples/nations of the Caucasus? And how realistic is it under the current military-expansionist policy of Armenia, with its explicit support of the Russian Putin regime trying to become an empire once again?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, there is always the possibility that people in a certain region can look beyond national, or even ethnic or racial boundaries and realize they have a common power bond and therefore, out of free will, desire to create a unit similar to a nation but even a federation of nations. This is always a possibility and it will happen, in many cases, many places around the world as we move further into the Golden Age. Some of these big nations that you see today will actually be broken up, and they will become smaller regions that can still cooperate with each other. But there will be a closer relationship based on these regions.

Of course, it isn’t realistic right now. Putin would never allow this to happen if he could do anything to stop it. But of course, Putin will not be there forever. On a little more long term view, there is that potential, as there is the potential many places around the world. As I have talked about before, that we have actually come to a point when nations states have started to have outlived their purpose, and it is time to move into a broader, more regional approach, where people come together based on regional, cultural, or other commonalities.

The Venusians’ role is to ascend

Question: What is today’s mission for those who are the Venusians? Is it to build a Golden Age? Or is that not their purpose and it should be done by the original Earth inhabitants and a Venusian should ascend? How many Venusians are now on earth? Does Sanat Kumara continue to work with earth and the Venusian rescue team?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

The Venusians did not come to earth to build a Golden Age. They came to earth for a specific purpose of rescuing it from a downward spiral. Their role is not to stay on earth and build a Golden Age here. Their role is to ascend. There are still tens of thousands of Venusians left in embodiment because they have entered into a reactionary pattern with certain fallen beings. You can take the book, My Lives, and the description of avatars coming to earth. Basically, most of what is said there about avatars applies equally to the Venusians.

Even though you can say that the book describes a natural planet that was not part of this solar system, still the Venusians came on a very similar mission as avatars—for a similar reason as avatars, to create a positive change on earth. They have, of course, as avatars been the targets of the fallen beings where the fallen beings have attempted to draw them into a reactionary pattern and keep them locked in that indefinitely.

The primary task of the remaining Venusians is to get out of this pattern and qualify for their ascension from earth. And by qualifying for your ascension, you are, of course, doing the maximum that can be done to pull up on the earth. You can, therefore, use our teachings on avatars, Healing Your Spiritual Traumas and so forth, to come to this point. Sanat Kumara is obviously still working with earth and Sanat Kumara and Venus and others from Venus are seeking to help the Venusians, particularly, but all of us are really seeking to help both the Venusians and other avatars come to the point where you can ascend from earth.

The Advaita teaching

Question: How close is the eastern Advaita teaching to the ascended masters teaching about the conscious you? Have any of the Advaita masters ascended in the last 200 years?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

The Advaita teachings are very close to the teachings we have given, not just about the conscious you, but also about duality and non-duality and the epic mindset. They are not quite as specific and related to specific conditions in the world as the teachings we are giving now. But they are from their origin inspired by us, and over the last 200 years, several of the Advaita masters have ascended, including as the latest one, Ramana Maharshi.

A genuine charisma

Question: Regarding the concept of charisma or attractiveness, there are people who have it in different degrees and there are leaders who have it with an excess, allowing them to manage people. At the everyday level there are people who can have a lot of friends and girlfriends, and there are those who cannot make friends because of a lack of charisma and attractiveness. What is this charisma from a spiritual point of view? Can a person control it? Can having these personal qualities be included in one’s divine plan?

Answer from the Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, you have to make a distinction here between charisma that comes from control, and charisma that comes from spiritual growth and the resolution of psychology. There can come a point where you have walked the spiritual path and resolved your psychology, where the light from your I Am Presence and the masters begins to shine through you and this will give a certain charisma in the eyes of people who can tune into this light.

You can also have a person who is not attuned to anything and who meets a spiritually evolved person, even a spiritual master and senses nothing special about him. You saw even in the scriptures how there were people who met me 2000 years ago, and didn’t see any anything different about me. There were also people who met me and could sense that I had greater light streaming through me than the average person. This is the so to speak, valid aspect of charisma.

But the other aspect of charisma is that many fallen beings have what you in the world normally called charisma. And it is because they have learned to control other people psychologically. You see that certain fallen beings are able to almost hypnotize people into following them, into submitting to them. Hitler was able to do this to a quite high degree, Mao also. Stalin really didn’t have the charisma, he had to resort to fear to get people to obey him although some people were overwhelmed by the energy surrounding him that was built up.

This actually leads to a consideration of the third aspect of charisma which is simply idolatry, an idol worship of certain people that gradually is built up. You saw this less in ancient times. But with the advent of modern mass communication, you see this far more. You can take a movie star that has played in several movies, have gotten an Oscar, have gotten a lot of attention in the press and media and many people will build up a certain idolatry of that person and think he must be something special.

He may even drink his own Kool Aid or drink the Kool Aid and believe he is special and start acting as if he was. But there are people who have met some of these movie stars and realized they are just human beings as everybody else. You see, of course, that there are certain fallen beings that have the ability to hypnotize people. There are certain spiritually evolved people who have a genuine charisma. But both of them, both the spiritual leader and the fallen leader can be subjected to this worldly created idolatry where people project certain qualities onto that person that are simply not realistic.

We have seen in the Summit Lighthouse and in the I Am movement, how there was tremendous idolatry created around the messengers. And we even see in this movement how some people have an idolatrous view of this messenger which he has not encouraged, which he has actually spoken about and which those who have met him and interacted with him will know that there is no reason to have that. He does not claim to be special, does not set himself above other people because he is a servant-leader.

I was the same 2000 years ago. But there was even then, some projection of idolatry. But it is nothing compared to the idolatry that has been projected upon me since the formation of the Catholic Church which elevated me to this superhuman status of being equal to God.

So, can it be part of your divine plan to develop this charisma? Well, why would you want to develop charisma? In other words, if you are a spiritual student, why would you want to have the charisma of the fallen beings where you can manipulate people? What you would want is to perhaps develop a natural charisma that comes from the resolution of psychology and spiritual growth. And this can certainly be part of your divine plan, but it’s not focused on charisma. Charisma might be a side effect of it, but it’s not your goal. It’s not a goal you define for yourself.

There are certainly spiritual people, including ascended master students, who have some far-flung dreams, that they would develop this charisma, so that they would be able to attract people to them, as they have seen some spiritual leaders do. There are people who have dreamt about gaining the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that they can make people faint just by waving their hand or by walking into a room so that people will see these visible manifestations that will make them believe that there is something to what these people are saying or believe that these people are special. But this is not what we encourage in our students. It is not what we encourage in anyone because what is the point of this idolatry?

What we desire to create is a teaching and a movement that is based on all people having a spiritual potential, all people having a potential to transcend themselves. So, if you are a messenger in a true ascended master movement, you are not special, you are not setting yourself apart as being special. You are an example that other people can follow. You may have walked further on the path than many other people have. But it doesn’t mean that they cannot walk the same path and reach your level of spiritual attainment. It may not mean that they are going to do what you are doing in terms of, for example, being a messenger, but they have other things they can do that is part of their divine plan.

So really, the goal of a true messenger for the ascended masters is to raise people up to the highest level of consciousness, to help them reach that consciousness. Whereas the goal of a false leader is to make himself continue to be the one who is the head of others. So, he is the leader. He is clearly above the others. He is looked up to as the leader. And therefore, is always special. The goal of a servant-leader is basically to make himself superfluous, where the people no longer need him or her.

The potential of protests in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk

Question: Thousands of people of the Russian Far East Khabarovsk Krai region, have rallied for the 22 days to support the arrested ex-governor Sergei Furgal, who is a member of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Furgal was elected by a wide margin in 2018 over the incumbent candidate from Putin’s ruling United Russia party. But on July 9, Furgal was arrested and transferred to a jail in Moscow for what authorities said was suspicion of involvement in several murders in 2004 and 2005. Furgal supporters say the charges against him are politically motivated retribution for the 2018 election defeat of Putin’s ally. The Khabarovsk rallies have attracted thousands of people and are the largest protests in any city since the fall of the Soviet Union. Sustained demonstrations against the government in Moscow are unusual for Russia’s regions, as is a lack of response from authorities to break them up. What potential does this situation have for Russia. And how do the people in Khabarovsk need to act in order for a government in Moscow to meet them halfway?

Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, certainly, it is encouraging that so many people have joined in these protests. It is also encouraging that the local authorities, regional authorities have not yet used violence to stop the protests. The question that remains to be seen is whether Putin will use a federal force to go in and stop these protests or whether he is just hoping that they will wear themselves out.

The situation here is simple. Regardless of what the governor has done or not done in his past; the current charges are obviously politically motivated. Otherwise they would have been brought much sooner. It’s clear that the people in the region have a right to elect a governor they want to elect—in a democratic nation that is. The question is how democratic Russia still is? And that is the question that is being tested here. Will Putin and the central government allow these regions some autonomy or will they not?

Basically, the biggest potential here is that the inhabitants of the region continue to protest, but also continue to do so in a nonviolent matter. And no matter what your authorities do, they do not respond back with violence. Any response back with violence will only give Putin an excuse for using more violence and therefore stopping the protests, which of course he can do if he decides to send in the necessary force.

You need to find some very delicate balance here of continuing the protests, keeping them nonviolent, and demanding the release of the governor or that he be tried in some independent way of these charges. Whatever that might be in Russia is a good question.

It’s clear that Putin has, already total control over the central government. But he does not have complete control over these regions that are further away from Moscow. If there is to be any change in terms of the people rising up against Putin and his regime, it must come from these more faraway distant regions where the power of the federal government is not as strong.

So, this is something that could potentially lead to a change in the political equation in Russia. Whether it can actually unseat Putin, it cannot be done by just one region there would have to be others that will join in. And since these protests are not directly against Putin, but related to the governor, it is questionable how far they will go in actually changing the political situation in Russia, but at least they can serve to clarify the situation so that maybe the people and leaders in other regions begin to see that they need to demand greater autonomy.

We have said before that, in an ideal situation, Russia could potentially be divided so that the regions east of the Ural Mountains could form a separate nation. And this is of course, a potential although not realistic in the short term. It is not necessary that it comes to pass but you consider the vastness of Russia and the differences in culture and geography and you see that it is certainly one logical outcome of the situation in Russia.

How to deal with a person who doesn’t want to live

Question: My daughter developed schizophrenia and she does not want to live. How can I work with my psychology? And how can I help my daughter psychologically? What kind of trauma is the key here? And what needs to be resolved in the first place? I’ve tried various methods including prayers invocations, casting out the spirits of sickness in the name of Jesus Christ and I Am, and others, but this is not enough. There is a feeling that the more I invoke light, the worse the situation with my daughter gets.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

You have to recognize here that no prayers, decrees or invocations will work against a person’s free will. That is why there are some situations where the more you invoke light, the worse it seems to become because the light is having an effect on the person and the person does not want to make the choice to shift back into a positive attitude to life. And therefore, the light is agitating the person or the demons or entities that are possessing the person and causing the person to act out in more extreme ways.

There can be necessary in such situations, to take a break from invoking light on behalf of that person. It can be necessary in cases like this, and I’m here speaking generally for people who are in the similar situation, that you stop focusing on the other person, but you instead focus on yourself and your own psychology and seek to resolve your own psychology. You also can focus on and make calls for the resolution of any karma you have with that person.

I know that it will be a difficult message for some people to hear but you live in a world where free will is the ultimate law. There can be situations where people do not want to live and you of course feel compelled to save them from this condition so that they will continue to live because you do not want your loved ones to die. But there can be cases where it can be necessary to allow a person to die because that is the only way that the lifestream can learn its lesson. Namely, that suicide or even dying does not free you from the condition you’re in because you carry your psychology with you.

I’m not hereby encouraging anybody to let people commit suicide or allow them to die. But I’m saying that there’s a point where you need to stop using spiritual tools. I’m not talking about breaking the law. But I’m saying that if you’re decrees and invocations are agitating the situation, it can be necessary to stop using them and let the situation run its course.

What you can do is work on your own psychology and seek to resolve the reactions that come up in you to the entire situation. This can be very subtle and very profound things about how you look at other people, how you look at yourself and your responsibility towards other people. You need to recognize here that you live on a very dark planet, a very chaotic planet. You look again at history and you can see how many people have been severely traumatized in past lives. There are people who come into embodiment today who carry with them these very deep traumas from a recent embodiment.

Your responsibility may not be to save that person or heal that trauma because it isn’t possible. Sometimes your responsibility is to give that person an opportunity to seek healing. But if the person does not want to use that opportunity, then that can be the end of your responsibility towards that person. I’m saying this so you can deal with these feelings of responsibility, of guilt and of hopelessness and despair of not being able to help another person.

There are times where there will be people who are close to you or even people you encounter in your work, that you simply cannot help. And you must therefore, simply watch as they do whatever they do of self-destructive actions. Again, I’m not talking about breaking the law and allowing someone to commit suicide against the law. But there comes a point where you need to let go of your responsibility towards another person and allow free will to outplay itself.

I’m not saying this is your first cause of action, but you have all obviously already taken actions. What you must do is step back from the situation and say, I will focus on working on my own psychology. And if you do this, there may sometimes come an inner intuitive insight that now that you have resolved something in yourself, you can approach the other person in a different way. And this may enable you to help that person in a way you could not have done before because your psychology caused a certain reaction in you and that blocked you from helping that person.

The challenges of being a single parent

Question: The woman gives birth to a child and the husband leaves the family. A woman gives all her strengths into raising a child, goes to work to provide for a child. A child stays with a grandfather, grandmother or nanny, but the child grows up with a feeling of being useless, inferior. In adolescence, the child becomes aggressive, alienated and explicitly disobeying his mother. What can a mother do to help her child take the spiritual path, regardless of the circumstances in which the child grows up so that the child does not destroy himself?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well my beloved, I fully understand the difficulty that many single mothers go through, especially in the poorer nations, but even in the more affluent nations. When you are a single provider for one or several children, how do you have energy and attention left over to spend time with the child and give the child the sense that it is important and that it matters. In many cases, this sense of not being important comes from the child feeling abandoned by the father, but since the father is not around the child, when it becomes a teenager takes it out on the mother.

However, for those who are open to the spiritual path, you can follow the advice I gave in my recent dictation where I said, work on your own psychology and seek ways to help your child work on his or her psychology. And that will for some women have a positive impact. But for those who are not open to the spiritual path, there is not much I can suggest, they would not be open to it anyway. Of course, again an awareness of psychology is the only solution here.

The generational conflict in a family

Question: The issue of generational conflict. My mother was born after the war. My daughter was born at the beginning of the 21st century. I love both of them very much but there is a constant conflict between them. I cannot take sides but I really want them to find a common language. Both of them do not believe in the teachings of the ascended masters. What are the calls for resolving such conflicts?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, again, the ultimate way to help them was to help both of them or at least your daughter see the value of healing psychology. This could have a positive impact where your mother might be too old, might be too set in her ways to work on her psychology but if your daughter could do it, she could stop having as confrontational of a relationship with her grandmother.

Now you can also work on your own psychology and say: “Why do you feel powerless to do something about this? Why do you feel that it is either a matter of taking sides or not doing anything?” If you can resolve certain things in your own psychology, you can certainly help at least your daughter and perhaps even your mother, adopt a different approach a different attitude to each other. In terms of making calls, well you can give invocations on their behalf for the resolution of psychology, but I suggest giving the violet flame to consume karma that they have with each other.

It is not so that you can necessarily thereby heal the relationship because they have to be willing to consciously change. But if you can consume some of the karma that causes this conflict and has caused them to be in conflict in several embodiments, then perhaps they will be able to make that conscious change which they cannot do now. There is of course a more realistic hope that your daughter can do this as she grows older and matures and hopefully can start working on her psychology and realizing that there really is no point in her fighting with her grandmother in the few years her grandmother still has left to live.

What beliefs are behind the female genital mutilation?

Question: What beliefs and ideas are behind the mutilation of women’s organs. What do people need to recognize in Islamic nations in the Middle East and in African countries to end this inhumanity?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, the ideas behind this actually go very, very far back beyond recorded history. They go into things that we have never even really talked about, certainly not in this dispensation, but a little bit in the previous dispensation of the Summit Lighthouse, where we talked more about the persecution of women on Lemuria and Atlantis, the murder of the Divine Mother, and so forth and so on.

But in recorded history, it can obviously be traced back to the Old Testament, the view that women caused the fall, that Eve caused the fall of Adam and therefore women are responsible for the fall of mankind. This has caused some cultures, some groups of people to believe that eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden was a symbol for Adam and Eve having sex in the Garden of Eden.

And therefore, some believe that sex is sinful, inherently sinful and that what caused Eve to seduce Adam was that she wanted sexual pleasure for herself. And this sexual pleasure is centered in the clitoris and therefore when that is surgically removed, women cannot have sexual pleasure and therefore they cannot seduce men, they will not have the same drive to seduce men and lead men into sin. There are also some that believe that women should be punished for the fall of man by not being allowed to have sexual pleasure.

All of these ideas are completely wrong. They are complete lies and illusions out of touch with reality. They have nothing to do with divine revelation but they originate with the fallen beings who are only seeking to create division and chaos and put women down.

So what needs to happen in Muslim countries and African nations? Well, ultimately these beliefs need to be challenged but because these beliefs are so interwoven with Islam, even though they are not in the original revelation given through Mohammed, it is difficult to eradicate them.

The best opportunity to eradicate this is an increase in the level of the basic humanity. And as we have talked about before, it must start with mothers who have had their own genitals mutilated, who have experienced this as a very traumatic experience, for many the most traumatic experience in their lives. And they will awaken to their own humanity and say: “I will not do this to my own daughters.” And as they refuse to do so, it will begin to have more of an impact, because the men also will not want to do this.

Many men will not want to do this, some of course will, but if women say: “I will not allow this to happen to our daughter, if you want it done, you do it, you take her.” That can begin to have an impact where men also will directly experience the trauma their daughters go through, and they will not be able to continue it. Unfortunately, the realistic scenario is that many more young girls will have to suffer in these nations before the practice is fully abandoned. This is an unfortunate reality on a planet like earth.

Spiritual perspective on telegony

Question: Is telegony real?

Telegony (by Wikipedia) is a theory of heredity, holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent. Thus the child of a woman might partake of traits of a previous sexual partner. Experiments in the late 19th century on several species failed to provide evidence that offspring would inherit any character from their mother’s previous mates. It was superseded by the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance and the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory. Although no evidence exists of any true genetic mechanism of heritance. A similar phenomenon whereby environmental non-genetic traits of a prior mate affected the development of a subsequent mates offspring was recently discovered in species of fly.

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, as you can see, even from this quote, the theory was developed before there was the modern understanding of genes. So that was why it was believed that certain traits from a sexual partner could be physically inherited by the child of a woman. This of course, isn’t the case. When there is no gene from the sperm of a previous sexual partner that fertilizes the egg there can be no genetic transference.

However, when you look at the fact that you have energy bodies, then it is possible that a woman can have had a previous sexual partner that has affected her energy field. In extreme cases, which most of you don’t need to worry about, there could be a demon from the male partner that invaded the woman’s energy field and is still there. There could be discarnates, who have done the same. In a more realistic, more common scenario there could be separate selves from the previous partner that has invaded the woman’s energy field, or the woman could have created separate selves as a reaction to the previous partner.

So whatever you carry in your energy fields can obviously have some influence on the emotional, mental and identity bodies of the child. How big that influence will depend on the child’s level of awareness, it’s vulnerability, whether it has deep wounds from past lives, then it might take on more both from the mother and what is in her energy field.

So you could say that if you have had a previous sexual partner where you had a sense that there was some negative energy or some negative beliefs that you might have taken on from this, it might have been a traumatic experience for you, then you would do well to use spiritual tools and even psychological tools to cleanse your energy field, heal your psychology. You could do this before you have children, you can do it after because from the moment you have cleared your energy field, it obviously will not affect your children as much. And you can also use the tools to clear the energy field of your child from this influence. So this is something that can be valid to do, but it is strictly on the energetic level that there can be a transference.

The concept of the soulless beings

Question: Does everyone in embodiment have a soul? Does everyone have a threefold flame? Would the ascended masters care to give some progressive revelation around the Great Divine Director’s teaching in the Summit about soulless beings?

Answer from the Ascended Master The Great Divine Director through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Again, you need to recognize here that progressive revelation is progressive. This means that if you go back to previous dispensations, what was given at the time, was what could be given at the time given the level of the collective consciousness and how words and spiritual concepts were used and understood. So, what we gave through the Summit Lighthouse was this concept of the soulless beings, the soulless one. This is basically what we today call fallen beings. The reason for this was that at the time of the Summit Lighthouse, the word “soul” was generally (when you look at the planet as a whole) used in an uncritical way. It was believed, even by many teachings in the East that talk about reincarnation, that there is a soul that was created in heaven, that descended into embodiment and it kept incarnating.

So, what was given in the Summit Lighthouse was that fallen beings could come to a point where they no longer had a soul. We also gave many more teachings in the Summit Lighthouse about the threefold flame, where the light, the energy from your I AM Presence descends into the secret chamber of the heart chakra which is behind the heart chakra. It springs out of a white unit of light, it then splits into these three colors, the pink, the blue and the yellow, representing love, wisdom and power. It was said that a fallen being loses its threefold flame. There were also teachings given that there are people who are in a physical body who do not have a threefold flame because they belong to what was called mechanization man. These were people who did not really have a spiritual potential.

Now, today we have as a result of progressive revelation, we have given some teachings that distinguishes “what you really are,” that gives a more nuanced, more profound teaching about what kind of a being you are. In these teachings we have chosen to not really talk about soul anymore. We have said that what actually is created out of the I AM Presence and what descends, is the Conscious You. As the Conscious You prepares to take embodiment in an unascended sphere, it creates an identity body, a mental body and an emotional body. This is what we today have called the soul even though we normally use the terminology, your three higher bodies or your four lower bodies including the physical. This is simply to give you the idea, which is a higher understanding than could be given in the Summit Lighthouse, that there is a part of you that descended and it is that part that will again ascend.

But all of these outer aspects, which we today now call the separate selves cannot ascend. So, what we have given you now is this teaching that you need to let all of these things fall away before you can ascend. As was just said, Jesus said: “If you seek to save your life, you shall lose it.” So, basically you could say that you have to be willing to die for the sake of following Christ, you have to be willing to let your mortal sense of identity die, your outer selves die. This is a teaching that for a variety of reasons we did not feel could be given at the time of the Summit Lighthouse because the collective consciousness was not there, people were not ready for it, even the students were not ready for it.

So, you cannot necessarily as we have talked about before, take one teaching and in a linear mindset transfer it to another teaching. But there is really no contradiction here. What we today call fallen beings is what was previously called fallen angels. We have switched to saying fallen beings because we have now given you the teaching of the spheres, that there were spheres before this one where beings fell. Therefore, you realize that it was not angels in heaven that fell. It was beings in an unascended sphere. Logically, and many students have wondered about this including this messenger, how could an angel fall? How could there be a war in heaven where Archangel Michael would have to fight other angels as it says in the book of Revelation? So, you see here that this is a deeper teaching, but it does not necessarily contradict what was said before, if you realize that the soulless one refers to a fallen being who had lost its threefold flame, its spark of life and therefore could not be considered a normal human being.

You can also say that there were the mechanization men who did not have that threefold flame and therefore did not have the same potential. They could receive a threefold flame, but they did not really have the same potential. This is something we have chosen not to really expound upon in this dispensation, because it is something that some people have used to create a sense of prejudice and discrimination against certain groups of people. We have previously said that many people in the Middle East are these laggard evolutions. Some of them are mechanization men who do not have a threefold flame. But we no longer want to focus on this because we would rather focus on the fact that all people have a potential to transcend themselves.

You could therefore say that as we use the terminology today, all people in embodiment have a soul in terms of they have an emotional, mental and identity body, otherwise you cannot be in embodiment. Even fallen beings have an emotional, mental and identity body or they could not have a physical body, because the physical body is a projection from the three higher bodies, it does not exist independently. You cannot have a physical body that does not have an emotional, mental and identity body, it cannot be done.

You can have a physical body that does not have a Conscious You residing in it, it basically functions to some degree at the level of an animal even though it can have a certain higher programming because of the three higher bodies. This is again a topic that we have chosen to not expound upon in this dispensation for various reasons. First of all, that we want to focus on all people having a potential to transcend themselves, which they do. It isn’t necessarily realistic that all people will do so, but it is more constructive for you to focus on this, focus on your own growth and self-transcendence and pulling up as many people as possible because this is what will change the planet.

The Golden Fleece and a fountain of youth

Question: In the decrees and invocations that talk about the Golden Fleece and a fountain of youth, what do these terms mean spiritually?

Answer from Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Okay, so I will address this because I sense the masters want me to just go over this quickly. There are certain decrees and invocations where they talk about these concepts. They use these words, there are not very many. And it’s partly because they rhyme. You have to understand that when a decree is given that rhymes, you have to find words that rhyme with other words. That’s one requirement. And so there are sometimes a limited number of words, but they are also sometimes that the masters want to use a certain concept that has been used historically.

And the Golden Fleece goes back to Ancient Greece where there was, if I remember correctly, there was this in Greek mythology, there’s somebody who had this fleece, this skin of an animal that was made out of gold. And if I remember, it could even grow gold. So it’s a symbol of abundance. And from a spiritual perspective, the Golden Fleece is, in a sense a symbol of nature’s abundance, you put one grain of wheat in the ground and you get 20 in return. It’s the multiplication of the talents and the fact that the mother wants to nurture us if we allow her to do so.

The Fountain of Youth is, if I remember correctly, basically a concept that comes from South America where when the Spanish Conquistadores came over there, they heard about the Incas and the Mayans who had this myth about there being this spring somewhere in the jungle or in the mountains, where if you jumped into it, you would receive immortal life. And that’s basically a symbol for the Christ Consciousness. Also, spiritual growth in general, but specifically the Christ Consciousness, that’s the fountain of youth. That’s the only thing that can give you immortal life. You cannot receive that through the ego.

And of course, the fallen beings have perverted this, and many people have perverted it, they think somewhere there is this physical thing called the Golden Fleece, or the goose that lays the golden egg and if I could just capture that, then I would have unlimited riches. Or they think: “If I could just find that Fountain of Youth and jump into it then I would receive physical immortality.” It has never been talked about physical immortality, and not even really about material abundance.

Spiritual potential of France

Question: What can be done spiritually to move forward the nation of France?

Answer from the Ascended MasterSaint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given at the 2020 Webinar – Being the Divine Mother.

Well, this is a difficult question in the sense that you can say at what level are you asking the question? Are you asking at the level of the few people in France who are open to ascended master teachings? There are so few that are open to ascended master teachings that you cannot have a major impact in the short term on the nation. You can of course do something positive by giving invocations and decrees by raising your consciousness. But there are still so few ascended master students, whether from this or other dispensations, in France that it will take a long time before you see any results of this, you may not even see it in this lifetime.

France is sort of a challenging nation for me and my plans for the golden age. There has been progress in the nation of France, even in terms of recognizing the basic humanity but not so much the essential humanity.

France is still very much trapped in not having freed itself from the Catholic past and having too many people who have been blinded by materialism, even socialism, or some of these more black and white, almost fascist belief systems. So when you look at the population of France, you see some very big contradictions: many people who are still firmly in the Catholic belief system, many who are still in a socialist belief system even though socialism is essentially dead, and many who are just trapped in a materialistic way of looking at life and so there is not that much unity in France. This is what prevents the nation from actually moving decisively into the golden age, and even having a greater impact in Europe.

The French also have a peculiar mentality that they haven’t quite dealt with. It’s a mentality that is, in some ways similar to what you’ll find in Britain, and in Germany. There is that sense of superiority. There’s the sense that France is or should be an important nation.

You can look back at history, you can look at various things that people used to say: “Look, France did this.” There was the French Revolution, there was democracy, there was Voltaire, Rousseau, the philosophers, there was all of this that shows that we are a highly developed civilized nation. There is technology, there is all of these things that people point to. But what drives this is not really a sense of humanity, a sense of oneness. It’s sort of a desire to set yourself above other people, and a sense that they should recognize your superiority. And if they don’t, it’s because they are not as sophisticated, as civilized as you are. I’m not talking about spiritual people, I’m talking about the French collective consciousness. And there is this sense that people should then be forced to recognize us. And this affects how France relates to the rest of Europe, even the European Union.

Now you can all see when you look at history going back before the First World War, the three nations of France, Germany and England had that sense of superiority. And they were the ones who were the primary reasons for the First World War and the Second World War, it was this sense of superiority. And quite frankly, Britain still has it, France still has an aspect of it, and the only nation that has really made sincere efforts to move beyond it is Germany. And that is why if you look at Europe today, you can say that France thinks it is or should be seen as the leading nation in Europe.

But in reality, the leading nation in Europe is Germany. And the reason for this is that Germany has, more than most other nations in Europe, adapted this attitude of what you can call “servant leadership”. The Germans are not serving from a sense of superiority, they are serving from a sense of wanting to give service. The French could make that transition, but they haven’t. They haven’t done it. And that’s why they can’t be considered the leaders of Europe.

So what can be done spiritually? Well, you can make calls for this. You could hold the vision for this, but from a realistic perspective it will take time before France makes this transition. It is not an easy task because as I said, we simply don’t have enough people in France who are open to ascended master teachings or even spiritual ideas in general. The realistic scenario is that France needs to receive some hard knocks, before the collective consciousness can shift and the French people can adopt this servant role that the German people have been more willing to adopt. I’m not saying all German people have done it, but a critical mass of them have.

There are also some of the smaller nations that have adopted more of this kind of a role, where they’re not always thinking about themselves first, but looking at how they can make a contribution to Europe and even the world.