Question: I was born in a third world country where a lot of money is made through corruption. A lot of people will not advance if they do not get entangled with such practices. A family member just passed away and left an inheritance of such money earned through corruption. It was not openly acknowledged that the money came from that source but while growing up it was easy for me to see the source. I thought about rejecting the inheritance but many circumstances placed me at a crossroads where I already am stained and in the middle of it.
Also I have ill family relatives that depend on it. I feel quite certain that I will make karma just by accepting it but might diminish it depending on the use I do make of the money. At times I feel it hinders my path. At times I feel like just enrolling in a monastery and get away for good. At other times I feel like cashing out and go and live abroad in a more democratic country, seeing the contradictions in doing so. Will the masters please comment on this.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary, through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 American webinar.
We recognize that there are many countries that have this systemic built-in corruption and it is of course a dilemma. You can consider for example what would happen to the money if you rejected it. Where would it then go to and you can see if this would be better for you or if it would be better from an overall perspective that you took care of the money and put it to good use such as helping family members. It is clear that by accepting the money you will make a certain karma because it was acquired the way it was. But it is also correct that you can diminish that by putting the money to use to helping others.
It really is not something that I from an ascended perspective wish to give you a clear answer on what you should do. It is something you need to sense intuitively what is the best way for you in this situation. You need to ask yourself what is in your Divine plan here? Why did you choose to embody in this country in this family situation? What is the lesson you wanted to learn from this? What is the condition in your psychology that you wanted to force yourself to deal with?
You can always consider that part of it may be that you just want to run away instead of stepping up to a higher level of Christ discernment which is your potential. And so it is always the higher way to look at yourself, look at your reaction, look at your psychology, seek to discover what separate selves are there. When you have worked through the separate selves you will gain greater clarity and you might decide to move to another country, not because you are running away from conditions in your native country, but because you see that it is part of your Divine plan to move to another country.
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