Question: Maitreya, in his book talks about how the leaders and their followers fell into duality in the fourth sphere. I sense this was a very traumatic event for many other inhabitants also. Where many tried to convince their brothers and sisters not to turn away from God and follow the leaders into separation. When they could not change the others in their futile attempts, their hopelessness turned to anger with themselves and anger at the leaders, and because of this, they too fell into the next sphere. Could the Masters elaborate on this?
Answer from the Ascended Master Maitreya through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.
Well, yes, there is, of course, much that can be said about this. We always try to give our revelation in stages, based on what we think people can handle. We also sometimes give a certain revelation for specific groups of people. So far, we have focused more on giving revelation for avatars and for the original inhabitants of the earth, because these are the ones who are most often attracted to spiritual teachings. We have not really given specific teachings for the people who, as you describe, fell because they tried to help others.
We could make a distinction here, and we could say that there were fallen beings that fell because of their denial of the reality of the ascended masters—of the Christ consciousness. They fell in a conscious deliberate denial—a refusal to shift, to let go of their separate selves. Then there was a large group of people who had followed the beings who fell on whatever planets they were on, whether it was the fourth sphere or later spheres. And they fell, simply because of loyalty you might say, to the fallen beings, or rather, the beings who fell, as they were not fallen beings in the fourth sphere.
And then there is a certain group of people, as you describe, who fell because they were trying to prevent others from following the fallen beings. Now, it is correct that some of these have anger, like you described, but not all of them do. Some of them actually consciously volunteered to follow the beings who fell, in order to help them, in order to try to help them. We might say, this is somewhat similar to an avatar, who has reached a certain level of attainment on a natural planet and is willing to risk that attainment by going to an unnatural planet. Many of these beings had a certain attainment and therefore, they thought that they could help either the beings who fell or at least those who blindly followed them, by going with them into the next sphere, instead of ascending from their original sphere.
Many of the teachings we have given, will of course, apply to these beings as well because you need to come to see the fallen beings, you need to come to see through the duality consciousness. You need to come to this realization that you cannot actually save other people, if they are not willing to be saved. You cannot truly save another person, if they are not willing to look at themselves and their own state of mind. You cannot force people to be saved, you cannot make them. And you need to come to that resolution where you say: “Well, I see that the fallen beings are trying to force other people to remain in the lower state of consciousness. But obviously, I do not want to do this. And I also see the futility of trying to force people to raise their consciousness; it cannot be done through force”. And when you recognize this, then you can either refine the way you seek to help other people. Or you can say: “I’ve had enough of this, it is time for me to ascend”. And then you can focus on that.
Of course, if you have anger against the fallen beings or anger against yourself, then you need to really work on that. The anger is in separate selves. You need to use our tools to resolve them, because you as the Conscious You do not actually feel anger, neither with the following beings, nor with yourself. You need to come to this point where you recognize that the fallen beings exercise their free will. And if you respect free will, then you are not responsible for saving these people.
If you take Jesus’ dictation that he gave today about the anger of Christians because they feel trapped, you need to recognize that you feel anger because you feel trapped. But you feel trapped because you are looking at the situation from a limited perspective. You think you have to do something about other people. But you can see that it is impossible to do something about other people. But you can change the idea that you should change other people. Therefore you feel trapped, and that gives rise to anger—the frustration of feeling you are in a situation that you cannot stand. But you cannot see how to get out of it. You are bound hand and foot and cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But you have bound yourself, your separate selves have bound your Conscious You because you are identifying with these separate selves. You think this is your reason for being here on earth, that you have to help these people. And you need to free yourself from that belief, seeing it as an illusion, letting it go, letting the separate self die—the separate selves die, that support this decision, that sprang from this decision and recognize that it is time for you to ascend regardless of what other people do or do not do. Because you will never ascend until you decide to focus on your own ascension, regardless of what other people do or do not do. The same goes for avatars, you can keep reembodying on earth, until you decide that regardless of what is going on on this planet, regardless how bad things seem to look, you are ready to ascend. You have had enough and you want to move on.
It is your right to make that decision. I am not saying you should, it is up to the Conscious You. But you cannot really make that decision until you have freed yourself from these selves. Once you free yourself from the selves, you can make a free decision. You can say: “I want to leave the earth behind”. Or you can say: “I want to stay with earth and seek to help people”. But now you are not doing it through these separate selves that feels the obsessive compulsion to do it—that you have to do this. Therefore, you no longer feel trapped. You can recognize you are voluntarily choosing to stay here. And you are doing it because you want to seek to help people, but you are not attached to the result. And therefore, you do not feel frustration and anger, you do not feel trapped.
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