Question: In the My Live’s book, it seems as if Lucifer and Satan could do anything. There was almost no limit to the amount of people they could torture and kill with their free will. Finally only after eons of causing destruction, chaos and mayhem, they crossed the line by killing a high consciousness person, they were forced to do a life review of sorts, given a choice of trying again, and ultimately went through the second death. Why is the bar so, low? It seems random and arbitrary. Why isn’t that even just a tiny bit higher? Is it really necessary to go that low? Who picks where the line is at? The amount of suffering people endure seems excessive. I think I would have found my way back even if the bar was a little higher.
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 Lithuania Conference.
Well as I just explained, the karmic equation on earth is so complex that the human mind, the linear analytical mind, cannot fathom it. It is in essence like you consider that you can personally search the internet for certain information but artificial intelligence can search much more information and come up with more answers. Not the best metaphor perhaps, but still, there is a limit to what the human mind can fathom here.
There are very complex equations, but we can say, Why is the bar so low? Because the collective consciousness is where it is at. You will see that the book talks about previous ages, actually beyond recorded history, and in those ages the collective consciousness was even lower. And that means that when the consciousness is low, the karma for violating people is lower. This may be difficult to grasp, but look at it this way. We have said, for example, that some people go into duality because they want to experience how it is to be a warrior who defeats an opponent. Let’s say you now have two people who have this desire. They meet in a duel. They fight with their weapons. One kills the other. Did he make karma for doing so? Sure, but was it as much karma as if he had killed a person who was not fighting back? No. In a sense, these two warriors agreed to fight each other. As you see, people who go into a boxing ring and hit each other in the face until one of them passes out, both receiving brain damage in the process.
You see, when the majority of people on earth were quite far below the 48th level of consciousness, and very few people were above it, the karma for violating the free will, so to speak, of these people was not as severe. That is why they could go on longer. But when some people began to raise their consciousness towards the 96th level or above, as Jesus demonstrated, the karma was more severe, and now they were taken out of embodiment.
This is not a full explanation, but at least some hint of that equation. You see also in the book that Jesus did not start out with a Christ consciousness, but had to gradually work his way up to where he could serve in that role. “It seems random and arbitrary”. No, it is very, very exact relating to people’s state of consciousness. Of course, if you look at it from inside your outer mind, it will seem arbitrary because you do not understand it. But there is a very scientific method behind it.
“Why is not it just a tiny bit higher?” Well, because the consciousness is not higher. Is it really necessary to go that low? Apparently, it was necessary for the people on earth to go that low. And free will can only allow the school of hard knocks to outplay itself so the knocks become harder and harder. Essentially, people are deciding by their resistance how hard the knocks have to become before they have had enough. We have said it so many times, in the school of hard knocks, you are having experiences until you cannot stand it anymore. And you admit: “I have to change. I have to change, not those other people.”
Who picks where the line is at? As I said, human beings, somewhat influenced by the fallen beings, of course, but still the amount of suffering people endure seems excessive. I agree. I totally agree. But nevertheless, I respect free will. It is difficult to fathom why people want to endure this kind of suffering. And people will, of course, say they do not want to endure it. But as we have tried to explain, in reality, at a subconscious level, they are saying: “I want to have these kinds of experiences.” Because, as we have said, if you are going into duality, you must experience both polarities, the high and the low.
“I think I would have found my way back if the bar was a little higher.” Actually, no. Because, as we have said, the Christ is at every level of consciousness. It does not matter where the collective consciousness is at. You always have to transcend the current level. You could say, you look at the collective consciousness as it was half a million years ago, much lower than today, and you are saying: “Was it harder to raise your consciousness back then?” In a sense it was, but you still had to see beyond the current level of consciousness.
And that will be the same even in the golden age. Even when war and torture is gone from the planet, you still have to see beyond your current illusion. And suffering does not necessarily make it harder. In a sense, you could say that suffering can give you the impetus to look beyond, whereas what we have explained was that when the earth was in the state where you had this uniform society, people were not suffering as they are today. There was not warfare, but it was in a sense more difficult for them to transcend the worldview precisely because they felt comfortable.
But there is of course the equation that as the consciousness is raised, more people will walk the path and demonstrate the path, and therefore there are more examples that it becomes in that way easier to find the path—becomes easier to find the spiritual path, but it does not really become easier to transcend a certain illusion. You still have to shift your mind and see through it.
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