Question: I was born and live in Russia. As I have studied the history of my country, I have noticed a pattern that in my view has shaped its development up to this day. Until the mid-15th century, the state of Moscow did not seem very different from other medieval states, but around that time the rulers of Moscow began using the title Tsar from the Roman Caesar, adopted the Byzantine double-headed eagle as the state emblem, and the state’s name changed to Russia. Byzantine culture, especially through Eastern Orthodoxy, began to influence Russia more deeply. In the early 16th century, the idea of Moscow as the Third Rome emerged within the Russian Orthodox Church, declaring Russia the spiritual heir of both the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.
Over time, this idea took root in the collective consciousness. From the end of the Middle Ages to today, a dominant ideology in Russia has been chauvinism, proclaiming Russia’s divine chosen-ness and sacred mission to oppose Western civilization and justifying the seizure of foreign lands. I feel that the same ideas were present in the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium, which from its founding competed with the Western Roman Empire and at its height occupied nearly the same territory. My question is this. Is it possible that after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the hierarchy of fallen beings that had controlled the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium, transferred and began to control Russia? Were these historical events random, or were they the result of the activity of the same hierarchy of fallen beings that had ruled over Byzantium?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Ukraine Webinar.
While your observation is valid, not in the sense that the entire hierarchy of fallen beings from the Byzantine Empire transferred to Russia, but that some of them did, you have to realize that when you look back at history, there is a limited number of fallen beings who have taken embodiment over and over again and have put themselves into these leadership positions in various empires.
And even though they have time and time again created an empire and then destroyed it from within through their limited vision, they have never given up. They are still trying to create the ideal empire that will last for a thousand years, as they often use that number. They are trying to create a lasting empire, and when one empire self-destructs, they immediately start looking for where else they can go and find a group of people that they can turn into their willing and obedient slaves so that they can create another empire. But this is not limited just to Russia, and it is not particularly that it came from Byzantium or the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was more that the Eastern Orthodox Church became used by the fallen beings as a tool to generate this view of superiority and that the people are chosen by God for some important mission. This is what we have called the epic mindset that these fallen beings have used over and over and over again in various disguises to create this sense of superiority, and you see it in many nations throughout the world, even today, but certainly historically.
The simple fact is when you look at history, you see that this belief that our people have a special mission, that we are superior, that we are selected by God, it always leads to the downfall of that civilization. In some cases, it takes a long time, in other cases it takes a short time, but the result is pretty much inevitable when you look at it historically. But it is an important observation, of course, that there is a certain belief of this in the collective consciousness of Russia, as we have mentioned before. You have to, though, be careful about tracing this to a specific historical event and saying it all started there, because it really comes from the fallen beings who are not using just one group of people or one nation. They are trying the same plot, the same scheme in many different nations, and just seeing where does it take hold, where they can give it a push and take it in a more extreme direction. In a sense you could say Russia is not unique. This is a pattern that has been repeated over and over and over again, and is being repeated even today.
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