Do you want to play the never-ending game of duality or do you want to find the true spiritual path? If you want to escape the game, you need to learn how to see through the mind games played by those who are seeking to trap you into playing the game indefinitely.

Question from Kim: Jesus, in our previous discussion, we talked about the false hierarchy, namely beings in a lower realm that imitate the ascended masters and bring out teachings that appear to be genuine but are designed to trap people on the false path. You said that whenever you give us a new teaching or concept, the false hierarchy seeks to counteract it and pervert it so that it takes people off the path. I know that years ago, that would have sounded scary to me because it seems like there is no way out of this situation. I mean, if people can’t tell the difference between a false and a true teaching, it seems like they can’t protect themselves. And if they can’t protect themselves, how can they overcome their fear of the false hierarchy, which you said is an open door for the false teachers into people’s consciousness? It sounds like a catch-22, so what is the way out?

 

Answer from the ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

There is no way out—but there is a way in. It goes through the kingdom of God, which is within you. The way is to transcend, to rise above, the consciousness of the false hierarchy so that you make them obsolete in your being.

As I explained in our previous discussion, once we give people an outer teaching, a teaching expressed in words, that teaching has entered the realm of duality. You can compare this realm to a chessboard. Even people who don’t play chess should know that in a chess game both players have the same pieces with the same powers. Therefore, both players have an equal opportunity to win, meaning that there is no fail-safe system that will guarantee that you win a chess game. Any move you make can be counteracted by a move from your opponent—until someone is checkmate. Basically, the only thing that decides who wins a chess game is that one player makes a move which the other player does not counteract—not because he can’t but because he does not see far enough ahead.

So when we give people an outer teaching, that teaching allows people to make a move on the chessboard of life. When people find the spiritual path, they use a teaching to make a move, and their move is defined by their current understanding of the path—which is usually a mixture of true and false ideas. This is a natural reaction, and many people spend decades or even lifetimes playing this game without realizing that their moves are counteracted by their egos and the false hierarchy. As people grow on the path, they realize that there is an adversary (whatever they call it) and they seek to use a spiritual teaching to protect themselves from the adversary or outsmart the adversary. Some even go to the extreme of seeking to destroy the adversary.

The problem is that as long as you are defining your spiritual path in relation to an adversary, you are still playing the game of duality. This is where the analogy between the spiritual path and a chess game breaks down. In a chess game both players play by the same rules and there can be a winner. In the dualistic game, a sincere spiritual seeker is playing by a set of rules defined by his or her spiritual teaching, but the adversary does not respect any rules. Furthermore, the spiritual seeker can never win the game.

As an example, consider the strife between religions. One dualistic extreme causes people to think in terms of black and white, meaning that they think there can be only one true religion. So they engage in an effort to prove that their religion is the only true one by converting other people. Perhaps they even go to the extreme of trying to destroy other religions or undermine people’s faith in them.

From these people’s dualistic viewpoint, it seems as if they can win the game by proving that their religion is the only true one. Yet even if they managed to convert all other people to their religion, they still would not have won the game. They would simply have spent all their energy on a dualistic quest that is not in harmony with God’s law, and they would have been feeding that energy to their egos and the false hierarchy.

For the adversary, the object is not to win the game but to keep you playing. As long as you are playing the game, you are trapped in duality, and thereby you are feeding the spiritual energy you receive from your I AM Presence to the ego and the false hierarchy. This keeps them alive and possibly expands their power—which is their objective for luring you into playing the game.

Regardless of the seeming outcome of the game, they win and you lose. So what is your way out? There is only one way out, and that is to stop playing the game. You must transcend the game and make the adversary obsolete. That is why I told people not to resist evil and why I set the goal that you must reach a state of consciousness where the prince of this world comes and has nothing in you. You no longer have any attachments, illusions or expectations whereby the adversary can trap you into playing the game.

The problem that trips up many seekers is that they don’t understand the game. Therefore, they don’t understand that the aim of a true spiritual teaching is NOT to help you win but to get to the point where you are no longer playing the game. We of the ascended masters want to help you rise above – transcend – the game. Your ego and the false hierarchy want to keep you in the game.

Because people don’t understand this, they don’t see that we face a built-in obstacle in our efforts to free people. In order to help people, we must give them a teaching they can grasp. And when people are trapped in the duality consciousness, that means a teaching they can study with their outer minds. Yet an outer teaching cannot guarantee that you escape the game—in order to do that, you must go beyond the outer teaching. You must use the outer teaching as a stepping stone for entering the kingdom of God within you. You must discover the real path, the inner path, behind the outer path. And to follow the inner path, you must let go of the very mindset that you have used to walk the outer path.

When a person first finds the spiritual path, that person has certain desires, hopes, dreams and wishes. People rarely do something without having a motivation, so most people have a factor that motivates them to seek out and follow the path. At the deepest level, the motivation is that the life-stream feels unwhole and is longing back to oneness with its source. Yet the outer mind can have a number of more specific motives that relate to the self and often even worldly ambitions.

Initially, there is nothing wrong with this. You can only start at the level of consciousness where you are when you find the path, so whatever motivates you to follow the path is a valid motivation—but only at the beginning stages. As you rise higher on the path, you inevitably come to a dividing line. Actually, there are several such lines but I am here talking about the one where you need to go beyond the motivation that got you started on the path. You need to reach for a higher motivation, a motivation that does not spring from duality and (narrow) self-interest. You need to develop a motivation based on love—unselfish love. If you do not do this, your ego and the false hierarchy will use your spiritual teaching – even a teaching released by the ascended masters – to trap you into playing the game over and over again.

Let us look at a specific example. When most people find the spiritual path, they are dealing with the superiority/inferiority enigma. Some people have too little self-esteem and some have too much. Let us look at two common scenarios for how this can outplay itself:

 

• People with too little self-esteem look to the spiritual path to compensate for their lack. They use a spiritual teaching to build their self-worth. A true teaching can help such people build self-worth but there does come a cut-off point. The crucial choice is whether the person will seek to overcome the consciousness of inferiority or whether the person will continue to use the outer teaching to compensate for the lack (without actually removing the cause of the lack). Many people have used an outer teaching or organization to build the sense that because they have done all of these outer things, they are so much better than they were before they found the path. Some get on a treadmill of constantly seeking to do more and more in order to compensate for the lack that is still gnawing at them. The likely outcome is that people eventually break under the strain and give up on the path, yet a few manage to keep up the striving indefinitely. Others decide that they have reached a plateau where they don’t need to go higher. They think they have made a deal with God, and because they have done and keep doing all these outer things, he simply has to save them.
• People with too much self-esteem are looking to the spiritual path as a means to build their sense of superiority and have it recognized by others—especially by the leader of an organization or by the ascended masters. They enter an ongoing quest to do everything right and do more than others, and everything they do on the path is motivated by this goal. The crucial choice for these people is whether they will start looking at the deeper cause behind their need for superiority (To God all people have infinite value, so why do you need to feel better than others?) or whether they will use the outer teaching to continue to seek superiority, even by tearing other people down.

 

My point is, of course, that both of these reactions have the same weakness. The positive side is that either motivation can get people to study the spiritual path and apply valid spiritual techniques. As long as they do this, there is the possibility that they will have a breakthrough and achieve a higher understanding of the path. However, if people do not transcend either motivation, there is – from the very beginning – a limit to how far they can progress on the path. Obviously, both motivations are self-centered—in fact, ego-centered. They are based on duality because it is only the duality consciousness that can make you think your are better or worse than other people. So if you keep following the path while being driven by a dualistic motive, isn’t it obvious that your ego and the false hierarchy can keep you trapped – indefinitely – in the dualistic game? Despite all your striving on the path, you are actually feeding your ego and using an outer teaching to reinforce its hold over you.

Do you follow what I am saying?

Kim: I do, but I also realize that 15 or 20 years ago, I would not have understood what you just said. So I can see that there is a stage on the path where we simply are not ready for the inner path.

Jesus: Right, and so what caused you to discover the inner path and start following it?

Kim: Well, I think it was that I gradually started understanding the value of surrender. I realized that because we have free will, God will not force us to enter Heaven. We must choose to go in, but we can’t make that choice as long as we are attached to anything on Earth. So I started realizing that I had to surrender everything on Earth in order to inherit the kingdom of God. And I decided – perhaps realized – that I wanted God’s kingdom more than anything that is available on this planet.

Jesus: And unless you have made that decision – for it is a decision – you have not entered the inner path. You are still stuck on the outer path, and you are using your spiritual teaching as a means to get what you think you need in order to buy your way into whatever paradise you conceive. As I said, this is all you can do, given your state of consciousness.

You are right that when you are new on the path, you cannot discover the inner path. You have to follow the outer path until you start seeing beyond appearances and begin to glimpse a deeper reality, a deeper understanding. Here are the crucial realizations that will empower a student to go beyond the outer path:

 

• The fundamental realization is that the real goal of the path is that you change your consciousness, that you transcend your old state of consciousness and put on a higher state of consciousness. Many spiritual seekers have not understood this, and they still think the spiritual path is some kind of performance race, just like a sporting competition or a career. They are using a spiritual teaching to increase their outer skills, even their intellectual understanding of the path, so they can please God, defeat the adversary, impress others or live up to some kind of standard defined in their own heads. They are seeking to use the path to justify or spiritualize their egos. Only when you become willing to truly change yourself, and surrender the ego, have you started on the inner path.
• After you know the goal of the path, you begin to see that the world is enveloped in a state of consciousness that is opposed to your growth. You begin to see through the dualistic game and realize how futile it is. In the beginning, you see this in the lives of other people and in world events. You then start longing for something higher and you start thinking about how to escape the dualistic game (no matter what you call it).
• We now come to the crucial point. Do you begin to see and admit that what you see outside yourself – the futility of the duality consciousness – is also present inside yourself? Do you begin to see the beam in your own eye? Are you willing to truly admit that the beam is there and that it has to be removed before your consciousness will change? Are you willing to truly confront – to own – the fact that YOU need to change—or will you decide that you can attain salvation by continuing to do outer things?

 

If we return to the two types of people I described above, we see that those who still have too little self-esteem are often afraid of looking at the beam in their own eyes. They fear that if they were to truly recognize the elements of darkness in their own beings, their self-esteem would be shattered and/or God or the ascended masters would want nothing to do with them. They often fall prey to the mutterings of the ego, which succeeds in making them believe that if they don’t see their shortcomings, God won’t see them either. So they keep doing the outer things, making themselves more attached to the outer path. The way out for these people is to realize that God is not concerned with how much darkness you have in your being. He is concerned about how much darkness you are willing to give up, to surrender. So by looking at the darkness and letting it go, you can free your being from its downward pull and this will build true Self-esteem.

The people who already have too much – false – sense of self-worth have long ago made the decision not to look at the beam in their own eyes. However, they have gone a step further and think they don’t need to look at it. They firmly believe that doing the outer things right will get them to Heaven without having to confront or give up their egos. In fact, many of them seriously believe that they can refine or even spiritualize the ego so that it becomes acceptable in the eyes of God and will be allowed in Heaven. They can spend lifetimes seeking to refine their egos according to a spiritual teaching, and they often don’t realize that it simply keeps them trapped in their own self-defined version of the dualistic game. So the crucial question is whether a spiritual teaching can manage to somehow jolt or inspire these people to abandon the attitude that they don’t need to overcome their egos.

The bottom line is that before you can start walking the inner path, you must recognize that you have an ego, which is born out of the sense of separation from God, and thus it can only think in terms of duality. The real goal of the spiritual path is to come back to a state of oneness with God. And in order to attain oneness, your ego – which is born of separation and must uphold the separation in order to stay alive – must die. This can only happen when you separate yourself from the ego and become one with a higher part of your being, namely your Christ self, your I AM Presence and the greater spiritual Being out of which you are an individualization. So you have to be willing to look at the ego, understand how it traps you with some dualistic line of reasoning and then consciously choose to let go of it. You must see it as NOT being part of the real you, and then allow it to die and be no more.

The crucial point here is your balance between love and fear. Do you love God more than the ego? Do you love something so much that you are willing to give up the ego – and anything in this world to which the ego is attached – in order to become one with what you love? Some people are so trapped in fear that they don’t have enough love to confront their egos. Some people actually love their egos more than God and thus see no need to give up the ego.

Kim: So how does the false hierarchy fit into the picture. I assume they are trying to give people teachings that will reinforce the belief that you don’t need to confront or let go of the ego? And what difference does it make whether you follow a teaching from the false hierarchy or a teaching from the ascended masters?

Jesus: The crucial question is not what type of teaching you follow but what you do with the teaching.

Specifically, the question is, “Are you transcending the outer teaching or turning the outer teaching into a box that confines your mind?” As I explained in previous discussions, even a teaching from the ascended masters cannot guarantee that people will discover and follow the inner path. So following a true teaching will not inevitably lead people to the ascension.

On the other hand, even a teaching from the false hierarchy contains some truth. So if people are willing to transcend the outer teaching, they can still make progress on the path. The Catholic Church contains many doctrines and subtle beliefs that came directly from the false hierarchy. Yet a few people have managed to use the remnants of my true teachings to go so far beyond the outer church that they still discovered the inner path and made major progress. Unfortunately, the majority of Catholics cannot do so and thus remain stuck in the game, stopped in their tracks by a set of false beliefs.

Obviously, the more pure the teaching, the greater the opportunity for discovering the inner path. Some people seem to think that the false hierarchy is unsophisticated or easy to expose. Yet as I explained earlier, the false hierarchy have set up a false duality. Some of them are in such a low state of consciousness that they are very primitive, and thus many spiritual seekers can easily expose teachings from this source. Yet some members of the false hierarchy have a very high understanding of the spiritual path, so they are very skilled at giving people a teaching that contains a high degree of truth, yet there is enough errors mixed in that it can fool many people.

In fact, only the Christ consciousness can unmask the more subtle lies of the false hierarchy. It is therefore crucial to seek Christ discernment rather than thinking you are smart enough to unmask the false hierarchy on your own or based on a set of outer criteria.

Kim: Wait, that is interesting, because I know many people who for decades have been following a genuine teaching from the Ascended Masters. They know the existence of the false hierarchy, and they think that based on their teaching, they have a set of criteria for exposing the false hierarchy. In fact, some of them use that teaching to label me as a false messenger and you as a false hierarchy impostor of the real Jesus. How would you respond to that?

Jesus: I wouldn’t respond at all because obviously such people would never read what I say. Or if they read it, they would not seriously consider it, but would only look to find fault with some detail so they can reject the whole thing.

The simple fact is, as I said above, that any teaching or tool we give people can be counteracted by the false hierarchy. There is nothing in the realm of duality that cannot be counteracted by the false hierarchy, so the only way out is that you base your spiritual path on one simple fact: The driving force behind spiritual growth is self-transcendence, and the need to self-transcend never stops as long as you are on Earth.

This applies to an outer teaching as well. When we give an outer teaching, the false hierarchy can also read that teaching. So they can find ways to neutralize it. One way is to get people to turn the outer teaching into a closed box that prevents people from seeing that the ascended masters have moved on. As I said before, if you are so afraid of the false hierarchy that you do not dare to look beyond a certain teaching – that you do not dare to follow the promptings of your Christ self – then the false hierarchy has become your God. You are no longer following the ascended masters – for we are constantly moving on and forever self-transcending – you are following the false hierarchy who tells you to stay where you feel safe.

The crucial point here is that when you find a true spiritual teaching, your ego and the false hierarchy are very concerned because they might lose control over you. Yet they know that it is easy to get people to become comfortable in the new teaching, and this gives them a second chance to trap you. My point is that no outer teaching will ever be enough to guarantee that you are free from the false hierarchy. The only way to escape them is to continue to self-transcend, to continue to go beyond any other teaching and seek oneness with your Christ self and the ascended masters.

Even this teaching – and this entire website – cannot guarantee that you are invulnerable. Yet because this website and Mother Mary’s section talk about the need to become more, you do have an outer teaching that can raise you above the false hierarchy. They will be able to counteract the outer teaching, but they will not be able to trap you if you keep using the outer teaching as a springboard for self-transcendence. And in this new dispensation, we do talk about these things more openly and directly than we have done in any of the previous dispensations, which means that those who are willing to heed the teachings can go further. Yet don’t let your ego turn this statement into a sense of subtle pride or superiority.

Kim: You say that the false hierarchy can counteract any criteria we define for exposing them. Yet isn’t it valid to use some kind of criteria to evaluate a spiritual teaching and see what might be false?

Jesus: Yes and no. You can set up certain outer criteria, but as soon as you define them, the false hierarchy will know them and thus they can create a new teaching that seeks to neutralize them. I am not saying that it isn’t valid to use your mind to sharpen your discernment, but you must always strive to have discernment from your Christ self rather than relying on outer criteria that are so easily affected by the analytical mind.

Once again, you have to do the best you can, given your level of consciousness. Many new students should seek to protect themselves from the false hierarchy but should not seek to understand their mindset. As you mature on the path, you need to understand how the ego and the false hierarchy seek to trap you in the game. You will then use your current understanding of the path to evaluate a teaching, and obviously this must be based on what you know. Yet as you come to the higher levels of the path, you need to go beyond outer criteria.

What often happens is that a person adopts a set of outer criteria for evaluating a teaching and then considers them complete, perhaps even infallible or beyond questioning. The person will then cling to these criteria even after he or she should have gone beyond them. For example, some people adopt the idea that an ascended master would never say this or that or would always speak in a certain way. They have put us in a box, but they have truly put themselves in a box. This is the excuse used by so many of the students in organizations we have sponsored in the past. They have used it to reject our continued revelation in another organization.

My advice therefore is to never adopt an infallible rule but to only adopt general guidelines. Don’t let the means you use to protect yourself become an impenetrable wall that imprisons you. The simple fact is that if you encase your mind in an impenetrable wall, the false hierarchy can’t reach you but neither can the ascended masters. Yet your ego is inside any wall you create, so it can still affect you. Therefore, you must see any criteria as a springboard for sharpening your discernment, not as an excuse to stop discerning.

One of the greatest problems we face as spiritual teachers is that so many students are not willing to continue their striving for growth. They strive for a while, but then feel they have found the holy grail, and now they don’t need to strive any more. They become comfortable and refuse to rise above their current level, which means we must leave them behind—and guess who is ready to reinforce their sense that they don’t need to rise higher.

The simple fact is that self-transcendence never stops, and this means that you must constantly be vigilant. Many people are not willing to keep up this alertness—we might say they are trapped in a form of spiritual laziness. Unfortunately, there is no surefire cure for this disease.

The ultimate way to expose a false teaching is not through some outer criteria but through the inner criteria of reading the vibration of the teaching and its source. Your Christ self knows the vibrational patterns of the ascended masters and can therefore easily expose a false hierarchy impostor as being of a lower vibration. So only by seeking oneness with your Christ self can you gain ultimate discernment. The false hierarchy can easily change their appearances and adapt to your outer criteria. But they cannot change their vibrational pattern, and thus cannot hide from the X-ray vision of your Christ self.

Kim: It almost sounds to me like you are not that concerned about whether someone follows a false teaching?

Jesus: I am not concerned that someone follows a false teaching—I am only concerned if someone keeps following a false teaching. The ascended masters have a saying that sheds light on this, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears!”

The simple fact is that whatever teaching you find, there is a reason you were attracted to that teaching. The reason is that the teaching resonates with your current level of consciousness, and thus you have something to learn from that teaching.

For a new student, it is tempting to assume that the teaching you have found is the ultimate teaching, that it is absolutely true and that it can teach you everything you need to know in order to be saved. Yet the more experienced student needs to let go of this belief. Instead, you need to adopt the attitude that any outer teaching is meant to teach you something that will help you transcend your current level of consciousness. And in some cases the lesson might be very different from what your outer mind assumes.

For example, there are many of today’s spiritual seekers who have started their path by finding a false teaching. The reason is that you needed to learn something from that teaching that would sharpen your discernment and help you see through the false hierarchy and their methods. In other words, the lesson you need to learn from a given teaching is not necessarily how to walk the path—it might be how NOT to walk the path. Yet this is still an invaluable lesson.

The problem is, of course, if people do not realize they need to learn this lesson and instead cling to the outer teaching, allowing their egos to make them feel comfortable. Yet even this is a natural consequence of people’s state of consciousness. They might have to stay in that illusion of comfortability for a while before they are finally shaken out of it.

Another way to interpret the statement that when you are ready, the teacher appears is that you are always ready for a teacher. The question is whether you can recognize that teacher and whether you are willing to follow him. The goal of the path is self-transcendence, so at any level you are confronted with two teachers. The false teacher is the one who corresponds to your current level of consciousness, and he will seek to make you stay at that level. The true teacher is the one who corresponds to the next higher level of consciousness, and he is the one who can take you to the next level. The question is whether you will cling to the one with whom you are comfortable or whether you will follow the other teacher into the unknown. This depends on your commitment to perpetual self-transcendence.

Take note that when you do rise to a higher level, you will be confronted with a new set of teachers. The true teacher who brought you to that level will now be replaced by another true teacher who can take you higher. Likewise, the old false teacher will be replaced by a new one, seeking to keep you trapped at your new level. If you seek to cling to the old true teacher, you will simply tie yourself to the new false teacher—who is an impostor of the old true teacher.

Obviously, the more mature student should always be on the lookout for the next teacher and should always be willing to follow that teacher as soon as he appears. That is the ultimate – and only – way to avoid being trapped by the false hierarchy. As I said, there comes a point on the path where you have to confront the false hierarchy. Only by confronting them can you learn to see through them and thus rise above them. Studying a false teaching may be a necessary step in this process. The trick is to always look for the hidden lesson and to never stay in a false teaching a moment longer than necessary.

Kim: That makes sense to me because I have met many people who were introduced to the spiritual path by a teaching I consider false. Yet many of them have still grown from it and have now moved on to better things. So it really isn’t a disaster if you have followed a false teaching, as long as you have learned from it?

Jesus:  That is true. It does not matter what you have been into. What matters is what you have been willing to transcend. It is generally better to make a mistake and learn from it than to stand still and do nothing at all. That is why being afraid of the false hierarchy gives them a sure way to keep you trapped. As soon as you stop moving, they will start building a wall around you. Yet if you continue to jump over the wall before it gets too tall, they will have a hard time keeping up with you.

 

 Copyright © 2009 by Kim Michaels

One of the major initiations on the spiritual path is that you are willing to recognize that there are forces inside of you – your ego – and forces outside of you – the false hierarchy of anti-christ – that oppose your progress on the path. This discussion talks about how to avoid being trapped by the false hierarchy that is deliberately seeking to keep you stuck at a certain level of the path, preventing you from taking the very next step.

Kim: Jesus, in a previous discussion, you said the following:

“At an even deeper level, it is a fact that when most people find the spiritual path, they are still partly in the duality consciousness. Thus, they will inevitably be in a state of consciousness that attracts the dualistic opposites.

Even if you find a teaching that is truly from the ascended masters, your ego will still use your dualistic beliefs to distort your view of that teaching. As you become more familiar with the teaching, your ego is also educated in the concepts and lingo used by the teaching. Thus, your ego and any external false teachers can actually use a true teaching to slow down your growth by causing you to close your mind. The only way to avoid this is to constantly be open to being disturbed by your Christ self and the ascended masters, which means that you are willing to let a new idea take you beyond your comfortable beliefs. If you are not willing to be disturbed, you will turn even a true teaching into a mental prison.

When you come up higher on the path, you can completely transcend the level of duality, and thus false teachers and false teachings will no longer be a threat to you.“

I sense that here is an important teaching here that is relevant to our discussion about the psychology of anti-christ. Could you elaborate on how our state of consciousness attracts the dualistic opposites?

A message from the ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

Let me briefly summarize some of the points from our previous discussions that have a bearing on this. The central problem on earth is that people have become trapped in the duality consciousness. In this state of mind they cannot see the one, absolute truth of Christ—the Spirit of Truth. Instead, they see only a relative “truth.” This truth is relative because it is defined in relation to two dualistic extremes, such as good and evil. In the Christ mind, there is an absolute definition of good (what is in harmony with God’s laws) and an absolute definition of evil (what is out of harmony with God’s laws).

In the dualistic state of mind, there are only relative definitions of good and evil, meaning that neither good nor evil are defined based on God’s law. They are defined in relation to each other, but what is called good is not absolute good because it too springs from the consciousness of duality. Thus, people can define good as that which suits their purposes and evil as that which opposes them, which is what you have seen in many cultures and still see today. My point being that what people call good might not be good in an absolute sense. It is a relative definition of good that is not based on Christ truth.

The problem we face as spiritual teachers is that we need to awaken people from the dualistic state of mind, which is truly spiritual death because people have no life in them—they do not have the life of the Christ mind. From a surface viewpoint, this might seem like a simple task. After all, why not simply give people a spiritual truth or a religious doctrine that defines what is true in an absolute sense. The reality is, however, that it is not possible to express absolute truth in words. When you translate a spiritual teaching into words, you bring that teaching into the realm of duality, and thus people can argue for or against that teaching indefinitely. They might feel they are very knowledgeable and pious – as did the scribes and Pharisees – but in reality they are no closer to escaping duality.

To help people overcome duality, we must inspire people to go beyond the outer teachings and rituals and use the key of knowledge to enter the kingdom within them—in which they can encounter and experience the Spirit of Truth. Only through this direct inner experience – often called a mystical, spiritual or “Aha” experience – will people take a step out of the duality consciousness. When people have such an experience, they receive a morsel of the body and blood – the consciousness – of Christ, and it becomes a leaven that can raise their consciousness to a new level.

Do you see my point? It simply isn’t possible to formulate a spiritual teaching that will automatically raise people out of the duality consciousness and into the Christ consciousness. This spiritual transformation is not a mechanical process; it is a creative process. We can give people spiritual teachings and tools, but unless people multiply what we give them by reaching for the Spirit of Truth behind the outer offering, they will not grow in personal Christhood.

The main ally we have is that people can never fully forget their spiritual origin. They will always have a subtle inner sense that there is something more to life, and it will make it impossible for them to be fully satisfied by the things of this world. By stimulating this inner longing, we can often awaken people to the spiritual path. In ages past, you will see that many people were not aware of the spiritual side of life, spending all their attention on physical survival. In today’s world, you do see the beginning of a spiritual awakening, but making people aware of the spiritual path is only part of the task we face. We also have to make sure they follow the true path and not the path that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 14:12).

As I said in the previous discussions, we form a hierarchy of light that is dedicated to setting all people free from the duality consciousness. However, there is a hierarchy of darkness, a false hierarchy, that is dedicated to keeping people trapped in the mind of anti-christ. Their main weapon is the relativity of the duality consciousness.

The main characteristic of the mind of anti-christ is that it forms a graven image of what it thinks reality is like, and then it projects that upon reality. When we transfer this to the field of religion, or spirituality, we can quickly see the essential problem. The ascended masters will seek to awaken people by giving them a spiritual teaching. The purpose of this teaching is to help people rise above the duality consciousness. Therefore, the teaching contains certain elements that are aimed at neutralizing the outer mind. Yet if people are completely identified with the human ego, they will not be able to find these keys and use them to reach beyond duality. Instead, they will formulate a mental image of what they think the religion is all about and then project that upon the spiritual teaching.

This is precisely what has happened to every major and most minor religions. The followers used their mental images to change the outer religion, and often its teachings, to conform to their dualistic beliefs. They were not willing to multiply the talents they were given but buried them in the ground of the ego. This often causes them to create the image of an automatic or guaranteed salvation, meaning that by being a follower of the outer religion, they will inevitably be saved. I addressed this mindset when I said, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:20).

Today, you see many Christians who believe that if they declare me as their Lord and Savior, they will automatically be saved. You see many New Age people who believe that as long as they follow a certain teaching or practice, they will make their ascensions. In reality, the only true road to salvation is to attain the Christ consciousness and this will not happen by mechanically following an outer religion. It is an inner process that involves transforming your entire state of consciousness.

In today’s world, communications technology has made it easier than ever for people to find a teaching about the spiritual side of life. They can find many teachings that talk about a genuine path to spiritual growth. They can even find this website which talks about the path to Christhood in a more direct and straightforward manner than any other teaching on this planet. The result is that it has become much more difficult for the false hierarchy to prevent people from finding the spiritual path. Therefore, they are now focusing on trying to get people to follow the false path instead of the true path.

In practical terms, this means that we of the ascended masters will always seek to help people transcend duality. Therefore, we will tell them what they need to hear, not what their egos want to hear. We practice tough love and we are always seeking to challenge people’s existing beliefs. It is only by challenging people’s dualistic beliefs that we have hope of helping them rise above the consciousness of duality. We are therefore constantly seeking to challenge people’s mental images, their idols, about the spiritual path. We are seeking to challenge the dualistic beliefs with which people are comfortable because they do not challenge their egos.

On the other hand, the false hierarchy wants people to remain trapped in duality. So they seek to reinforce people’s dualistic beliefs by telling them exactly what their egos want to hear. Obviously, the more people identify with their egos, the more reluctant they are to challenge their comfortable beliefs. Therefore, they are more likely to listen to the false hierarchy – who tells them they don’t need to change – than to the true hierarchy who is telling them they need to change everything.

My point here is that when people are trapped in duality, they can always use a relative line of reasoning to impose an interpretation upon a true spiritual teaching, an interpretation that makes it seem like they don’t really have to change themselves or challenge their egos. For example, many people are extremely comfortable with their membership of an outer religion, be it a mainstream Christian church or a New Age organization. They literally believe they have it all figured out and that if only they keep doing what they are doing, God simply has to save them.

If we are to help such people, we must first shake them out of their sense of comfortability. If they ar not willing to leave their comfort zones, we often can do nothing, and people will instead follow the blind leaders of the hierarchy of anti-christ.

Kim: That is very clear to me, but what exactly do you mean with the words, “a state of consciousness that attracts the dualistic opposites?”

Jesus: As I said in the previous discussions, the mind of anti-christ has a fundamental duality, meaning that it always sees everything in relation to two opposites, such as good and evil. As long as people are trapped in the duality consciousness, they will attract to themselves situations in which it seems as if the only option they have is to choose between two extremes. Yet both of these extremes are defined by the mind of anti-christ, meaning that no matter which extreme they choose, they will only become more trapped in duality.

To give you a historical example of this, take the crusades. One aspect of the duality consciousness is that it thinks in terms of black and white, meaning that if one religion is true, then all religions that are different must be false. So we had members of Christianity and Islam who each believed that theirs was the only true religion. They also believed in the lie – promoted by the forces of anti-christ through their willing representatives in embodiment – that it was justified in the eyes of God to kill nonbelievers.

So it seemed to people that they had to choose between going to hell or going to war. Or it seemed that by going to war they were doing God’s work and coming closer to heaven. In reality, they were only sinking deeper into the duality consciousness and thus removing themselves further from the Christ consciousness that is the open door which no man – meaning the dualistic state of mind – can shut.

My point is that the false hierarchy of anti-christ has created innumerable versions of this artificial conflict between two opposites, and they are constantly seeking to draw people into such a battle. They do this in any way they can think of, and that is why I said, “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” (Matthew 5:39). It is only by refusing to engage in this eternal, dualistic struggle – by turning the other cheek no matter what other people do to you – that you can avoid being caught in the trap set by the false hierarchy.

In reality, and I know this will be difficult to accept for many sincere spiritual seekers, the false hierarchy can use even a true spiritual teaching to create such dualistic opposites. You have to realize that the duality consciousness will always present the spiritual student with a dilemma. At any level of the spiritual path, you will face two extremes that are created by the duality of anti-christ. The inexperienced student will invariably choose one extreme and think he is doing the right thing. Yet the mature student sees through this plot and therefore chooses the golden middle way by always seeking to transcend the duality of any situation. It is only through this self-transcendence that you grow in Christhood. Otherwise, you only stay in the dualistic struggle, which can go on indefinitely.

Kim: You also said, “Even if you find a teaching that is truly from the ascended masters, your ego will still use your dualistic beliefs to distort your view of that teaching.” You already explained how our egos project dualistic images upon a true teaching, but I would like to take this in a different direction. I know many people who for decades have followed a teaching that was given by the ascended masters. Yet they are afraid to look at this website or many other teachings besides their chosen religion because they fear they could be fooled by the false hierarchy. Likewise, many Christians find this website and think it is of the devil or a false Christ.
Obviously, based on what you have said, it is legitimate to be concerned about the false hierarchy. Yet you also seem to say that as long as we stay in the consciousness of fear, we will attract what we fear. I mean, fear is not found in the Christ mind, so it must be part of duality. So if you fear something, it seems like you will attract to you what you fear, is that correct?

Jesus: Certainly. As I have said many times, the universe is a mirror. If you send out fear, the universe will return to you what you fear. This is not actually as ominous as it might sound. The universe is set up to help you become free. Fear keeps you trapped in duality. All fear is based on an illusion; it is a fear of the unknown, meaning what is partially understood. You fear something because you have not taken a closer look at it, whereby you would have seen that it was nothing but a dualistic illusion with no reality in God. So how can you overcome this illusion? Only by being confronted with what you fear, so that you can no longer ignore it. The universe returns to you what you fear so that you can overcome the fear and be free. The only way to overcome fear is to confront it with the mind of Christ.

My point is that there is a fundamental difference between being aware of the false hierarchy and actually fearing the false hierarchy. Some New Age people advocate the idea that people should ignore anything negative in order to avoid giving it power. Yet a tumor will keep growing even if you ignore it, so a spiritual seeker cannot afford to ignore the existence of the false hierarchy. You must be aware of it as you are aware of bacteria that can give you disease. In reality, it is only when you fear something that you give it power. When you are aware that something exists without feeling fear, you do not give it power—you simply separate yourself from it. Thereby, you empower yourself to stay free of the darkness and you can also help free other people, which is how the planet progresses.

I am well aware that many members of the organizations that we have previously sponsored are afraid to look at any progressive revelation we have brought forth after we stopped speaking through their organization. This is comparable to fundamentalist Christians who say I could not bring forth anything beyond what is said in the Bible. It is exactly the same mindset, although many New Age people refuse to see this and feel that they are far more open-mined and advanced than fundamentalists.

Now, there is a point on the path, where it is prudent to be cautious. You do not let small children play on the street because they are not mature enough to keep an eye out for cars. Yet as the children grow, you have to let them out because keeping them locked up inside the house would hamper their natural growth. So it is with your mind. When you are new to the path, it is best to find a reliable teaching and to focus on it for a while. Yet remember what I said earlier. The purpose of a true teaching is to increase your Christ discernment. When you multiply your talents, you will become better at telling the difference between the truth of Christ and a dualistic lie. Therefore, you no longer need to fear the false hierarchy, and thus you don’t need to confine your studies to any one teaching.

It is sad to see people who have been following a true teaching for decades and who are still afraid to exercise their Christ discernment. You cannot develop discernment in a sterile environment. It must be done through hands-on – or rather minds-on– experience. What I am saying is that as you mature, you are no longer so concerned about the false hierarchy and you are not afraid to seek truth wherever it can be found. For example, you are not afraid to read a book that might contain some error because you can separate the chaff from the wheat. A person with full Christhood can read The Satanic Bible and still find some truth. Obviously, you can find the same truth elsewhere, so there is no real reason to read The Satanic Bible, I am simply giving an extreme example.

Let us now take this to the next level. If you fear the false hierarchy, your fear becomes an open door whereby the false hierarchy can influence you and thereby control your path. As I said, when people find the path, they are still partly in the duality consciousness, and as long as you have dualistic beliefs, the false hierarchy can use them to take you in the wrong direction. The more fear you have in your consciousness, the easier they can control you. The problem here is that fear makes you reluctant to take a look at your dualistic beliefs, which means that you cannot free yourself from those beliefs.

Let me make this more practical. When a person finds a genuine spiritual teaching, and perhaps joins an organization, it does not mean that the person is home free. As long as you are in embodiment, the prince of this world – the false hierarchy of anti-christ – will follow you every step of your path. The blind leaders will seek to take you off the true path and get you to follow the path that seemeth right unto a man. Now, you will also be followed by the true hierarchy and by your Christ self. So we might say that every step on the spiritual path represents a decision that you must make. And for every decision, you will have two voices inside your head seeking to influence your decision. The true voice, the still small voice, will seek to help you overcome duality and transcend yourself. The false voice, often a very loud or manipulative voice, will seek to coerce or fool you into staying in the duality consciousness by making you afraid to transcend your current beliefs or so proud that you think you know everything.

My point is that as long as you are afraid to look at something or as long as you are attached to your current beliefs, you will make yourself vulnerable to the false hierarchy. You will literally magnetize these forces to you. Take note of what is quoted above, “Your ego and any external false teachers can actually use a true teaching to slow down your growth by causing you to close your mind.”

My point here is that many students have found a genuine teaching that was released by the ascended masters. Yet through their fear, attachments or pride, the false hierarchy has managed to use the outer teaching to make people feel that they don’t need to change beyond a certain point. People now feel very comfortable, often feeling that they are the most sophisticated students on the planet or feeling sure they have everything they need to make their ascensions. Yet in reality, the true teaching has now been turned into a false path that only traps them even more firmly in duality. The only way to avoid or escape this scenario is to maintain your willingness to self-correct, to self-transcend. You have to “be open to being disturbed by your Christ self and the ascended masters, which means that you are willing to let a new idea take you beyond your comfortable beliefs.”

You have to be alert to the fact that as you follow the spiritual path, you are not simply educating yourself, you are also educating your ego. Your ego learns the words and concepts used in a specific spiritual teaching, and it quickly finds out how to use them to maintain or even expand its control over you. That is why you can never stand still. You have to keep moving faster than your ego or you will inevitably start sliding backwards. If you become comfortable at a certain level, your ego will quickly use this opportunity to get you to stop at that level.

You always need to remember that the path is an ongoing process. The moment you stop moving, you are no longer on the true path. You are on the path that seems right to the ego. Remember the motto, “From this point, forward—always forward!”

Kim: What do you mean by saying, “When you come up higher on the path, you can completely transcend the level of duality, and thus false teachers and false teachings will no longer be a threat to you.”

Jesus: As I said, the false teachers will follow you every step of the way. They will be with you as long as you are in embodiment—at least until they are removed from the Earth. Yet as I describe in the Bible, there can come a point where they are no longer a threat to you, “For the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me” (John 14:30). This does not fully happen until you are free of all dualistic beliefs. Yet you can make this threat much less significant by entering into the state of mind in which you are always willing to self-correct and self-transcend. You have decided that you will not let anything – from within or without – prevent you from taking the next step on the path.

Remember that the true hierarchy is always seeking to help you grow, to take the next step. The false hierarchy is always seeking to stop your growth by preventing you from taking the next step. So as long as you are always willing to take another step, the false hierarchy has little power over you. It is your attachments that give them power over you and magnetize them to you. Whenever you start to feel comfortable or attached to anything – including a spiritual teaching, organization or practice – thinking that you don’t have to go beyond it, at that moment the false hierarchy will have gained power over you and they will use it mercilessly to keep you at that level of the path.

Believe me, we have seen this happen numerous times to our students. We give them a dispensation of light, a grace, so that they can discover a true spiritual teaching. Yet although the outer teaching is necessary for growth, the outer teaching is not the key to growth. The real key is to multiply what you have been given by using the outer teaching as a stepping stone for establishing direct contact with your Christ self.
So we always hope that our students will come to understand this principle and thus multiply their talents instead of burying them in the ground. Unfortunately, a large percentage of our students quickly begin to feel that now that they are members of this or that organization, they have found the ultimate. So they just need to believe in the organization’s teachings and follow its practices, and they will automatically qualify for salvation or their ascension or whatever the organization defines as the goal.

The moment you begin to feel this way, the moment you close your mind to the possibility of self-transcendence, you are no longer a student of the ascended masters. You have now made yourself a student of the false hierarchy. You might still be proudly referring to a teaching that was given by the ascended masters, but you have perverted that teaching into something that seems right unto you but has nothing to do with the truth we released.

Kim: So you are actually saying that as long as we are reluctant to grow, we can follow a true teaching and still be the blind followers of the blind leaders because we listen to the wrong voices inside our heads?

Jesus: Correct. There is no automatic path to salvation. That is why you can never allow yourself to confine your path to one particular teaching or organization. You have to be open to your inner teacher and be willing to go wherever you are directed to go, even if it means leaving behind a teaching or organization with which you have become comfortable. In many cases, it is exactly the comfortability that makes it necessary for the student to leave the old teaching and find a new one that is more challenging for the mind.

This is where many students get stuck. They often feel they have followed an organization for so long that they have finally created a secure position for themselves. And they are not willing to leave their nets and follow the Living Christ when he appears to them in disguise. They are like the rich man who would not sell his possessions in order to follow me (Luke 18:22). What could I do for that person? I could do nothing and had to leave him behind. Likewise, the ascended masters have had to leave behind many former students who found our teachings and started applying them with great hope. Yet because they were not willing to truly let go of some aspect of the ego, they used a dualistic line of reasoning to convince themselves – and often other people – that they do not need to grow beyond a certain point.

Although we love our students, we do not have a possessive love. So we will leave students behind if they lose their willingness to take the next step. We are constantly moving higher on the path of life, and if you are not willing to follow along with us, you will be left behind until you decide that you are willing to leave your comfort zone. It has been said that discouragement is the sharpest tool in the devil’s toolkit. In reality, comfortability is a far more dangerous tool because it is so often based on spiritual or intellectual pride—spiritual blindness.

The most dangerous form of ignorance is not that you know nothing, because people who know nothing are often willing to learn. The most dangerous form of ignorance is thinking that you already know everything you need to know, for such people are not willing to learn.

When a person is using the relativity of the mind of anti-christ, the person can always construct a mental image that gives the perfect justification for not taking that next step, for not confronting the next aspect of the ego. Such a person can feel absolutely certain that he or she is an advanced student of the ascended masters. In reality, the person is a student of the false hierarchy, a blind follower of the blind leaders, and both of them are headed for the ditch.

Kim: In a previous discussion you said that the false teachers are good at portraying themselves as very spiritual. So I assume they might actually appear as genuine or benevolent spiritual teachers. I also assume there are non-material forces that appear to be genuine ascended masters?

Jesus: Correct. Life is not like the old Western movies where the hero always appeared in white clothes and the bad guy in black clothes. Whenever the ascended masters introduce a new spiritual concept to humankind, the false hierarchy will seek to counteract it by creating the false duality I talked about earlier.

For the last century we have given people the concept of ascended masters as the spiritual teachers of humankind. The false hierarchy has sought to counteract this by creating a false duality. On one side you have what most people would see as dark forces, namely demons and other forces that are clearly evil. On the other side the false hierarchy has set up a group of non-material beings, residing in the mental or emotional realms, that imitate the ascended masters. These false “masters” will appear to be exactly like us and they will use the same terminology. Yet they have two main goals.

One goal is to draw you into a dualistic struggle against the “dark forces.” So they will try to make you think that you are a servant of the light and you are here to fight the darkness, and as long as you are following their directives, you are doing just that. In reality you are simply trapped in the endless dualistic struggle between two opposing forces, none of which have the life of Christ in them. The other goal is to make you follow the false path that only makes you comfortable at a certain level of attainment but does not guide you on to eternal self-transcendence. Obviously, these two goals can be combined, and when people buy into them, they feel very convinced that they are doing the exact right thing and that they have to keep doing it for the rest of their lives.

Kim: I can understand why this can be confusing to many people and why they find it hard to tell the difference between a genuine spiritual teaching from the ascended masters and an imitation from the false hierarchy. Obviously, we need to have another discussion about this topic.

 

 

Copyright © 2009 by Kim Michaels

Have you ever encountered people with whom you cannot find a common ground? Have you ever felt like they have a hidden agenda or that they seem to have a different approach to the spiritual path even though they claim to be very spiritual people? Have you ever wondered why their arguments often seem contradictory to other people, yet they can’t see it themselves? And no matter what you say, it seems impossible to make them see beyond what they have decided is the only truth. Have you ever wondered if they are from a different planet?

Question from Kim: Jesus, in our last discussion on the mind of anti-christ, you said that the essence of the spiritual path is the willingness to self-correct. Obviously, in order to self-correct you have to be willing to see that you need to change, that there is something you don’t know, that you have made mistakes or that some of your current beliefs are not (entirely) correct. I know many people who are quite willing to do this, and they are sincerely striving to expand their understanding. I see this type of people as true spiritual seekers, would you agree?

Answer from the ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

I do agree, but let me add that it is important not to fall into the trap of degrading yourself or your potential to walk the spiritual path. You have to recognize that the mind of anti-christ is based on a fundamental duality, meaning that it always incorporates two opposites, such as good and evil. So for every issue the mind of duality sets up two opposite polarities, meaning that it is possible to go into one of two extremes. The challenge of the spiritual path is to avoid either extreme and stay on what the Buddha called the middle way—which is not a compromise between the two extremes but above and beyond the level of duality. In this context, some people go into the one extreme of pride and think they know better than everyone else, so they don’t need to self-correct. Others go into the opposite extreme of lack of self-worth, thinking they should follow a leader who seems more sure of himself than they are.

There are many people who are too willing to admit that they don’t know everything or have made mistakes, often to the point of feeling that they are not good enough or doubting that they are worthy to follow a spiritual teacher or teaching. It is important to realize that this feeling is one of the consequences of the mindset of duality and separation from God.

In reality, your lifestream was created by God, and thus you are per definition worthy to walk the spiritual path and be in the presence of any spiritual teacher. You are worthy by the very fact that God created you. God gave you free will, and you used it to remove yourself from his kingdom. Yet that has not diminished God’s love for you or your worthiness in God’s eyes. Therefore, God has no desire to see you remain stuck in a limited sense of identity. God only wants you to come back home, which means you must transcend all aspects of the consciousness of separation, including the idea that because of this or that earthly condition, you are not worthy to come back home. The sense of unworthiness was induced through the mind of anti-christ, and the false teachers will use it to keep you from following the true path.

Kim: Okay, that actually leads into my question. As you said in the last discussion, there are false teachers on this planet, and they are often attracted to spiritual organizations. I believe I have met a number of them, am I right?

Jesus: Yes, as part of your training you have been exposed to a number of people who identify with the consciousness of anti-christ. Part of your mission is to help people free themselves from such false teachers, so you needed to see them in action in order to understand how they work.

Kim: What I have noticed is that these people are always very sure of themselves. As you said, their number one rule is that they could never be wrong, and because they have defined their own relative truth, they can always argue their case so that it seems – at least to themselves – that they are right. It is virtually impossible to make them see that there is an understanding which is beyond what they see as the absolute truth. Would you agree?

Jesus: Certainly. The characteristics you just described add up to what we call spiritual blindness. Contrary to what one might expect, this does not mean that such people cannot see the spiritual side of life. On the contrary, they are often very good at portraying themselves as spiritual, exactly as the scribes and Pharisees did 2,000 years ago. Today, you find them in both traditional religions or in the New Age movement, even in the field of science.

So these people can see the spiritual path, and they often have great intellectual knowledge of the path, which is why they can argue their case with great conviction. Yet they completely fail to see the essence of the path, namely that they need to change themselves, that their egos must die. They are extremely good at pointing to the mote in the eye of the sincere spiritual seekers, but it is very difficult to make them see the beam in their own eyes. This is because of the pride that makes them think they know better. They simply do not have the humility that it takes to submit yourself to a spiritual teacher and to follow the teacher’s directions even when they conflict your present beliefs.

In other words, they see the path, yet they don’t see the true path. They see only the way that seemeth right unto a person trapped in the consciousness of duality. They are not sincerely looking for the true path to Christhood. They are looking for the path of glorifying their self-defined relative truth, elevating it as the “real” truth to replace Christ truth.

Kim: I have noticed that when you put these two types of people together, namely the true seekers who are willing to self-correct and the spiritually blind people who are absolutely convinced that they are right, you have a situation in which the true seekers are often overpowered by the blind but aggressive people. Because they are willing to self-correct, the true seekers are always willing to look for a higher understanding, and when they meet people who are very sure of themselves and very convincing, they often cannot avoid being pulled into following them. Is that a correct assessment?

Jesus: Certainly. That is why I said, “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” (Matthew 15:14).

Kim: How can the true spiritual teachers avoid falling into this trap?

Jesus: Let me first make it clear that the reason people descended into the duality consciousness was that they blindly followed a blind leader. Eve followed the Serpent because she had not reached for the higher understanding behind the Master’s direction not to eat the forbidden fruit. It was only because she did not have this understanding that she was persuaded by the Serpent’s logic. Yet she did not have this understanding because she had not gone within and reached for the truth inside herself. She had not used the “key of knowledge” that God has placed in the heart of everyone.

Before people can rise above duality, they must overcome the tendency to follow blind leaders. They must develop and use their inner Christ discernment instead of blindly following a leader outside themselves. You see, the true teacher will not tell you everything you need to know in order to pass a certain test. If he did, there would be no test and thus no growth. Also, you would become codependent upon the teacher and would essentially become a robot. The true teacher’s goal is to make you spiritually self-sufficient, spiritually independent. To do that, he gives you partial instructions so that by reaching for a higher understanding, you will grow in Christhood.

My point is that the false teachers are allowed to remain on planet Earth because they still have a function here. People fell because they blindly followed the false teachers, so in order to manifest Christhood, they must overcome this tendency to blindly follow an external leader. To do this, people must be exposed to the false teachers, and that is why God still allows them to remain on Earth. It is people who allow imperfect conditions to remain on this planet.

Kim: But I am sure some people would say you are contradicting yourself here. You said in our first discussion that the essence of the path is that you follow a Master’s instructions even though you can’t fully understand them or they contradict your present beliefs. In other words, you have to have faith in the Master. Yet you are now saying that people should not follow any leader blindly. I mean, I understand what you are saying, but I have met numerous people who would call this a contradiction.

Jesus: If you are looking for contradictions and if you look only at the outer teaching – at the level of the words – you can always find contradictions. The reason is that people have created a mental image, a relative truth, and they project that unto the words. So they see only what confirms their mental image and they are not reaching for the higher understanding behind the words.

As I said in the first discussion, Eve was not meant to follow the Master’s instructions blindly or mechanically. She was meant to stay away from the forbidden fruit but she was meant to go inside herself and reach for a higher understanding of why the fruit represents a danger. If she had used the key of knowledge, she would have understood why she would surely die by eating the fruit, and thus she would not have been persuaded by the Serpent’s claim that she would not surely die.

As I said, contradictions exist in the mind of the person, and if people are caught in duality, you can never convince them that what they see as a contradiction – and which in some cases is a contradiction at the level of the words – can be resolved by using the key of knowledge – your Christ discernment – to reach for a higher truth, namely the truth of Christ that is beyond duality and thus beyond all contradictions.

Kim: So does that explain why you can come to an agreement with some people, whereas there are others with whom you can never really communicate? I mean, I have friends who belong to different religions, and we will never agree on specific issues. Yet we have a deeper contact at the heart level that allows us to see beyond these disagreements in beliefs that exist in the mind. We have a deeper agreement and sense of oneness between us that allows us to see beyond the outer beliefs. Yet I have also met people with whom it seems impossible to establish this heart contact. They are seemingly incapable of or unwilling to go beyond the words. It almost seems like they want to keep arguing rather than finding a sense of oneness.

Jesus: And I am sure most spiritual seekers will recognize your experience from their own lives. It was my hope that most Christians would come to this deeper sense of oneness of heart that would allow them to see beyond the differences in the mind’s beliefs. Yet even my disciples did not manage to get to that point, at least not all of them.

However, you also need to be aware that there cannot be complete oneness in a group of people as long as some of the members are trapped in the mind of anti-christ. Whenever a group of spiritual people come together in a true spirit of oneness, the false hierarchy will immediately send their representatives to divide and conquer. If people don’t realize this, they will often fall for the deception and this is how you have seen many spiritual organizations deteriorate into divisions and power plays. It is possible to avoid this but only through constant diligence and Christ discernment. Your determination to keep the integrity of the organization must be greater than the false hierarchy’s determination to destroy it.

So it is always important to look at people’s intentions. As a spiritual seeker, and also for you, Kim, as my messenger and representative, it is essential to always be willing to self-correct. So if someone comes to you with a concern, you listen to them. Yet you do not simply listen at the level of the words they are saying. You listen with the heart and you ask yourself what their intentions are? As I have said, God only wants you to grow. The same is true for any true teacher and for anyone who is in alignment with the hierarchy of light. Such people may take issue with specific beliefs you have or statements you make, but they will not seek to break down your belief in your ability to grow and to fulfill your mission in life. They will seek to help you become better able to fulfill your mission.

In contrast, those who are trapped in the mind of anti-christ do not want you to fulfill your mission. They want to stop you in any way they can. Thus, their criticism is not constructive criticism, it is destructive criticism. They don’t seek to help you grow, they don’t seek to help you better fulfill your mission, they seek to stop you in your tracks so that you cannot fulfill your mission. They might not realize this consciously, but you need to be sensitive to the hidden motivation in the heart, and most people can learn to sense the toxic vibration of this type of people.

You will never make heart contact with such people because their motivation for interacting with you is in complete opposition to your motivation. They will argue only at the level of the words, and they are so trapped in separation that they see you as a threat. Your discussions always turn into arguments, and they are always trying to win by making you lose. They either see you as competition or as an enemy. So they are not seeking to reach a deeper agreement, they are only seeking to prove that they are right and you are wrong. They are the modern-day scribes and Pharisees who are deliberately looking for faults in your beliefs or your teachings. As I said, they are trying to separate you from the path and from the lineage of true spiritual teachers.

What I would love to see more than anything is that people who study this website will come to a deeper understanding of the path, so they are firmly anchored on the inner path of Christhood and cannot be taken off that path by anything that happens outside themselves or anything that is projected at them by their egos.

The essence of the spiritual path is that you must rise above the consciousness of duality and put on the mind of Christ. To rise above the dualistic, relative “truth” of anti-christ, you must find the real truth, the one truth of the Christ mind, which is the truth that will make you free. Yet that truth cannot be found outside yourself, meaning that no spiritual teaching – including this website – can fully capture or define truth. Any truth expressed in words will be affected by the fact that words are relative. The meaning is that as soon as I give a concept on this website, a concept put into words, that concept has been brought down to the level of duality.

This does not mean that the concept or the words are untrue. But it does mean that it becomes possible to argue against both the concept I give and the words I use. People who are in the duality consciousness can and will disagree with what I am saying and how I am saying it. They can argue against my points and my words, and they will be firmly convinced that they are right. If you engage their arguments at the level of duality, you might enter an endless cycle or bantering that leads nowhere or perhaps takes you down.

The purpose of giving a spiritual teaching, as I explain in great detail in this book, is to give you a springboard for contacting the Spirit of Truth. That is why I said, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 2:24). This statement is extremely important, especially coupled with the statement that, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). If you want to know the truth of Christ, you must go beyond the level of the words, the outer teaching. You must go inside yourself and reach for the Spirit of Truth. The truth of Christ exists on its own. It has no opposite and therefore, there are no contradictions in it. When you contact that one truth, you will gain an understanding that is beyond the teaching that is expressed in words, a teaching that can always be counteracted with dualistic arguments. Do you see my point?

Kim: I do, but I have met a number of people who seem unable to see this point. I quite frankly cannot understand why it is so impossible to find a deeper agreement with such people. I mean, I understand what you are saying that they are so trapped in separation, but it is still hard for me to understand that there isn’t some way to break through. I realize the mind of anti-christ is based on a contradiction, but it seems to me it should be possible to make people see the contradiction and then realize they need to look beyond it.
During my life I have been trying to understand how to help people recognize and overcome their spiritual blindness, yet I have never found anything that will allow me to reach these people. Is there something I don’t understand—sometimes it really seems impossible to understand this mindset?

Jesus: All you need to do is to recognize that you cannot understand the mindset of anti-christ because there is nothing to understand. Once you accept that there is nothing to understand – because of its inherent contradictions that make its “truth” relative – you can stop feeling like there is something wrong with you because you cannot reach people trapped in duality.

You need to contemplate my statement, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). The meaning is that nothing you could ever say to such people would make them see beyond their own relative “truth.” There is no arguments you can construct by using words that cannot be counteracted by using words. Therefore, you can never define the ultimate argument by using words. You can never resolve a disagreement by using words.

You can resolve differences between people only by reaching for the Spirit of Truth, the one, undivided and indivisible truth of the Christ mind, rather than the dualistic truth of the mind of anti-christ. To find this truth, you must go beyond the level of words by using the key of knowledge. Yet as I said, “Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered” (Luke 11:52). This is the essence of the false teachers and those who follow them, the false disciples. They will not use the key of knowledge – their Christ selves – to find the absolute truth, the rock of Christ. And they are aggressively trying to prevent others from discovering or using the key of knowledge. They don’t want you to find Christ truth inside yourself; they want you to remain stuck in duality so they can control you with their “sophisticated” arguments.

They also want to hold on to their relative “truth.” Why do they do this? Because as long as truth is relative, they can never be proven wrong. They don’t want to self-correct, they don’t want to come closer to God. Why Not? Because, “Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19).

My point is that no amount of understanding would allow you to construct a line of reasoning that would convince such people to give up their relative truth. I encountered such people many times and awakened very few of them. There comes a point when you simply have to let go of such people and respect the law of free will. It is important for all spiritual seekers to realize that is is not your job to save or convert anyone else. It is your job to be who you are, to express your spiritual identity and God Flame.

Kim: So how can we avoid being pulled into an argument with such people?

Jesus: It helps to understand that the mind of anti-christ is based on a very specific type of logic. It is often called serpentine logic to link it to the Garden of Eden story. It can be symbolized by the ancient symbol of the serpent swallowing its own tail. Although this symbol has several valid interpretations, it can be interpreted as illustrating the circular logic that causes people to become completely focused on themselves. They are so busy consuming their own self-created relative “truth” – feeding on their own pride – that they have no attention left over for the truth of Christ. They have become closed systems and are unreachable for both other people, spiritual teachers and their own Christ selves.

How did this happen? Very simple. When you separate yourself from the one truth of Christ, you step into duality, and in duality there are always two opposites. This is what the philosopher Hegel called the dialectical process. The essence is that for each possible thesis, there is an opposing antithesis. The interaction of the two produces a synthesis that becomes the new thesis with a new antithesis, and this can go on indefinitely. Although Hegel made a correct observation of the pattern, you have to add that there is more to the picture.

The concept of a thesis versus an antithesis has meaning only at the level of duality. The false teachers would like you to think this is not so. They pride themselves of having formed an antithesis to God, and they believe they are actually changing God’s reality, God’s truth, by creating a dialectical cycle, whereby the truth of God comes more and more into alignment with what they think it should be, meaning their own relative “truth.”

This is a complete illusion that exists only in the minds of people who are trapped in duality. As the Bible says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7). In other words, God’s truth, the one truth of the Christ mind, can never be affected or diluted by the mind of anti-christ. The mind of anti-christ does not form an antithesis to the Christ mind, because the mind of Christ is one, indivisible whole. There are no divisions, contradictions or opposites in the Christ mind. There is only the oneness that all life came from the same source. The mind of anti-christ is born of separation, and therefore it is built upon duality. There is a basic division in the mind of anti-christ that results in opposites. It is these opposites that create the dialectical cycles of thesis versus antithesis leading to synthesis.

My point is that the mind of anti-christ creates a state of mind that is completely separate from the mind of Christ. It becomes a closed system, and it can continue the cycles of thesis and antithesis until it eventually creates such internal contradictions that it self-destructs. This is what is described in the second law of thermodynamics. In a closed mind, chaos and confusion will increase until all rationality and logic breaks down and utter insanity is the result. This is what you see in people with a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia.

Such people eventually become so involved in their own circulatory logic that they lose all connection to “reality” or the “real world.” They become unreachable for other people and often end up in a mental hospital. Everyone else can see these people are wrong, but they cannot see it and will not seriously consider it. Unfortunately, some of these people have ended up in leadership positions in society, and they have created most of the major calamities in history.

What I am saying here is that the Serpentine logic forms a closed system because no matter how you define the thesis and the antithesis, the synthesis will always be a relative “truth.” There is no way you can go from a relative thesis to a non-dualistic synthesis. Your only way out of the closed loop is to go beyond duality and reach for the mind of Christ. Yet once people are too trapped in duality, they cannot see the need to do this. Why should they change their entire approach to life when they are so eloquent at supporting their own beliefs?

Such people become self-fulfilling prophecies and they will keep walking toward the abyss while thinking they are absolutely right. If you define the thesis and the antithesis, you can always arrive at a synthesis that supports what you want to believe. This has been called the “privilege of formulating the problem,” whereby you can control the outcome of any discussion (as long as people accept your definition).

Kim: I am beginning to see why it has been very naive of me to assume I could come up with some kind of reasoning that could help people break free of this cycle. How can people get out of this, once they have descended into it?

Jesus: Simple. They have to admit that there is something they don’t know, something that isn’t working, and then they have to look for a teacher who can help them self-correct. For some people this happens through the dialectical process. They are smart enough to see that they are simply going around in circles or that some of their arguments are contradictory. If people are willing to admit this, they can actually come to see some of the fallacies of the mind of anti-christ and then reach for something higher.

Unfortunately, some people are not smart enough to see the weaknesses in their own line of reasoning, so they continue defending their relative truth even beyond all reason. As we discuss in this book, such people can turn their lives around only by hitting rock bottom. The basic problem is that before such people can step unto the path of self-correction, their pride has to be broken. As a spiritual teacher, one always hopes that people’s pride is broken before their spirit is broken, but unfortunately that isn’t always the case and insanity is often the result.

Kim: So you are saying that we have to accept the fact that there are some people we simply cannot help. There is nothing we could say that could help these people break out of their circular logic?

Jesus: That is correct. As you well realize, God did not make you responsible for other people’s salvation. So you must respect other people’s free will and not be attached to saving or converting them.

Kim: This can be hard to do, though. I have noticed it in myself and in many other spiritual seekers. Sometimes I wonder if there is a certain element of pride that makes me want to convince these people. Yet I also feel there is more to it than that, a deeper desire to help others.

Jesus: Pride is always a concern that must be considered. Attachments usually spring from pride or fear. As I said, you are not responsible for the salvation of other people, but you are responsible for your own salvation. And you truly jeopardize your salvation by becoming emotionally attached to people who are trapped in the mind of anti-christ. Allowing this can only pull you down, and some spiritual seekers have eventually become caught in the mind of duality because they wanted to save someone else.

Yet you are right that there is a deeper motivation. Many – but not all – of the people who are on the spiritual path came into embodiment because they want to help bring in a new and more spiritual age. They have a deep love for God, for the earth and for the souls who are trapped in duality. In some cases people have embodied to help others that are part of their spiritual families. Many spiritual people are motivated by love, and that is why they feel so strongly for awakening others.

Yet it is important to stay clear of the conditional, possessive, human love that makes you attached to a certain outcome. The real point of helping others is to present them with the opportunity to choose whom they will serve. You do this by striving to embody the mind of Christ and demonstrate that mind. Thus, you teach more by example than by words, although words do serve an important function.

If you give people an example of a person who responds to them from the Christ mind, you have done all you can do. What they do with that demonstration, that lifeline, is entirely up to them. That is the way God set up free will, and anyone with love for God can understand and respect that, thereby letting go of attachments to people who are not willing to self-correct.

Kim: So are you saying that if we try to interact with the mind of anti-christ on its own terms, trying to convince it by using an argument based on words alone, we run the risk of becoming trapped by it?

Jesus: Yes, it is like seeking to catch the greased pig. You end up covered in mud with nothing to show for it. That is why I rebuked the devil without trying to convince him of anything (Matthew 4:1).

But if many of us came into embodiment to help awaken other people, how do we deal with that. I mean, we are here to awaken people who are trapped in the mind of anti-christ, so how can we do that without interacting with such people?

I didn’t say you can’t interact with people. I said you must interact without attachments to whether or not you awaken or convince them. You must strive to get to the point of complete non-attachment, where the prince of this world comes and has nothing in you (John 14:30). The way to achieve this is to increase your understanding of how the mind of anti-christ works, so you can interact with people in this frame of mind without being pulled into their circulatory logic. Obviously, I have already given some understanding of this, but let me approach it from another perspective.

The only way to avoid being tempted by the serpentine logic is to increase your Christ discernment, so that you can see through the logic used by those trapped in the dualistic mind. Ultimately, this ability must come from within, but as a start, let us look at the following quote:

15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. (Matthew, 16)

It is unfortunate that most mainstream Christians only look at the first part of this passage and pay no attention to the last part. They think I was talking about the person of Peter and that my church is based upon him. This is not correct, as an objective evaluation of the last part of the passage will show. How could the church of Christ be built upon a person that I rebuked as Satan?

So the real question people should be asking themselves based on this passage is how I could first say that Peter represented the rock upon which I would build a church that Hell could not destroy, and then shortly afterward say to the same person that he was a representative of Satan? Obviously, some will say this is a contradiction, but the mind of Christ can resolve it.

The deeper meaning is that “Peter” is not simply one person, as “Eve” was not simply one person. Peter represents the potential that each person has for recognizing and rejecting the Christ. Each person has the potential to recognize the embodied Christ, the Christ that appears in the flesh. I am not saying every person has developed this ability, but everyone can do so. The ability to recognize the Christ in the flesh is the rock upon which the true church of Christ is built. In order to follow the Christ, you must first recognize the embodied Christ as a representative of the hierarchy of true teachers. You must recognize and admit that the embodied Christ has something you do not have.

At the same time, and as the inevitable consequence of free will, each person also has the ability to reject the Christ or refuse to follow the Christ (all the way). Some people have not sharpened their ability to know the Christ, and thus they simply cannot recognize the living Christ even if he or she stands before them in the flesh. These people are trapped in ignorance. Yet some people have the ability to recognize the Christ but they do not have the willingness to follow the Christ until they become one with the Christ, until they become the Living Christ themselves. These people are trapped in spiritual blindness.

My point being that Peter represents a person who has risen above ignorance but is still influenced by spiritual blindness. Obviously, the purpose of the embodied Christ is to help people escape spiritual blindness so they can manifest their Christhood. Yet Peter was not willing to do so because he did not want to identify himself fully with me, which is why he denied me three times before my trial.

That is why the Catholic Church, from its inception, has been heavily influenced by the mindset of Peter, which also explains why Padre Pio did not fulfill his mission. He was meant to declare his oneness with the Living Christ, to declare himself as the Living Christ, yet he could not rise above the centuries-old denial of the Christ that permeates the Catholic Church. The same holds true for other saints, including Francis of Assisi who did not ascend after that embodiment.

What prevented Peter from going all the way? It was spiritual blindness, but we can be even more specific. Look at the statement, “thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” When you compare it to what I said in the previous discussion about the mind of duality, you can now see the true meaning. The essence of the mind of anti-christ is that it is based on duality, which means that it defines a relative ”truth.” This dualistic truth becomes the graven image mentioned in the second commandment, it becomes an idol that prevents people from recognizing and worshiping the true God, and instead they dance around their self-made golden calf.

Do you see my point? Peter represents a person who has the ability to recognize the Christ but who is not willing to let go of his own relative “truth.” He has created a mental image of what he thinks the Christ should be like – the things that are of men – and he projects it upon the Living Christ. He then wants the Living Christ to conform to this graven image, and this prevents him from following the teachings and the example of the true teacher. He cannot see the things that are of God because they are obscured by his graven image. Take note of what I said after the above quote:

24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. (Matthew, 16)

What does it mean to deny yourself? It means to deny your human, mortal sense of self, your ego and the mental images created by your ego through the mind of anti-christ. You must take up your cross, and one meaning is that you must be willing to do the work necessary to free yourself from the consciousness of anti-christ. You must be willing to lose your dualistic self in order to be reborn into the Christ consciousness.

Another meaning is that you must be willing to be the hands and feet of God, meaning that you are willing to do or say whatever God wants, no matter how it conflicts with your outer expectations or beliefs. You must never allow any dualistic expectations to prevent God – your I AM Presence – from expressing himself through you because this is a denial of God where you are, which is the hallmark of the mind of anti-christ. As I said:

For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you (Matthew 10:20)

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.(John 8:28)

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. (John 12:49)

If you are not willing to let the Spirit speak through you and say something that goes beyond your human expectations or those of others, you are trapped in duality and thus cannot possibly be a messenger for the ascended masters. You will not have the Holy Spirit but a lower spirit that speaks from the duality of anti-christ.

My point is that as a spiritual seeker, you need to understand that the essence of the spiritual path is that you overcome the consciousness of duality. You can do this only by building upon your ability to recognize the embodied Christ or Christ truth. Yet to sharpen this ability, you must understand the workings of the mind of anti-christ, namely that it projects a dualistic image upon the embodied Christ and upon the truth of Christ. You must learn to recognize this tendency in yourself, so you can stop being a blind follower of your own ego. And you must learn to recognize it in others, so you can stop being a blind follower of the false teachers or the false disciples.

The key is to realize that you have an inner ability to recognize Christ truth, namely through your Christ self. One might say that the spiritual teacher who is most important to you is your Christ self because only by learning how to recognize truth from within yourself will you be spiritually self-sufficient. The role of a true teacher is to help you sharpen your ability to recognize truth by reconnecting you to your Christ self. The goal of a false teacher is to have you follow him blindly, so you become codependent upon the outer teacher or your ego.

Kim: That is very enlightening to me because I couldn’t understand how we can have both of these tendencies within us. I mean, how come some people find the spiritual path and follow it for many years, yet they never really seem to change. Now I see why, because they simply aren’t willing to give up their mental images of what the path should be like, they are not willing to let their ego’s die in order to become one with the inner Christ. Yet I sometimes wonder how these people find the spiritual path in the first place. I mean how come they recognize the path yet do not recognize the need to let go of all dualistic images of the path?

Jesus: The explanation is that most people who find the spiritual path do so because they have been given a dispensation, a grace, from a true spiritual teacher. As I said, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:22). So a spiritual teacher can give a person the grace of a transfer of light that enables the person to discover a true teacher or teaching. Yet this does not mean that the person is home free. As I explain in my parable about the talents (Matthew 25:14), every gift from above must be multiplied.

There are some people who find a spiritual teaching and refuse to multiply their talents. As a result they attain a great intellectual understanding of the path, but they never internalize the teaching. They follow the teaching mechanically instead of using it as a springboard for reaching the Spirit of Truth inside themselves. Therefore, they never come closer to Christhood but only envelop themselves more deeply into spiritual blindness and pride. They think that because they have been following a particular teaching for so long and have done so many outer things, they are very advanced students. Yet in reality they have not taken the very first step unto the inner path to Christhood. That is why I said, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20).

Kim: That is a rather humbling realization, yet I still don’t fully understand something about this. I mean I can see how a person who is completely trapped in the mind of anti-christ can be spiritually blind. Yet it seems that Peter was not completely blind, is that correct?

Jesus: It is. If Peter had been completely blind, he would not have been willing to become one of my followers. He would have either ignored me or condemned me. So one could say that the rock upon which I built my church is the ability to recognize the Christ and the willingness to start following him or her. The problem is that you cannot forever follow the Christ—at some point you must rise to the next level and become the Christ. Nevertheless, you have to start by following a teacher—you must crawl before you can walk.

Kim: Okay, so would you say the scribes and Pharisees were totally blind or at least more blind than Peter?

Jesus: Yes.

Kim: So how come they could still recognize you as a threat to them? I mean, if they had not seen the Christ in you, why would they have been threatened by you and have condemned you? If these people were trapped in the mindset of anti-christ, how come they could recognize the Christ. I guess what I really mean is, how can the mind of anti-christ recognize the Living Christ without recognizing the truth of Christ and following that truth? How can a person recognize Christ yet remain trapped in the mind of anti-christ?

Jesus: You are getting very subtle here aren’t you? It is a very good question, but the answer cannot be grasped by people in the duality consciousness. As I said in our first discussion, the mind of Christ is the only begotten Son of God. This means that the mind of Christ was created by God, and therefore it has a permanent existence. It is self-sufficient, meaning that it can exist on its own.

The mind of anti-christ was not created by God and thus it has no permanent existence. Likewise, it is not self-sufficient and cannot exist on its own. It is born as a reaction (based on free-will choices) against the mind of Christ. Thus it can exist only in opposition to the Christ mind. It is defined only as being against the mind of Christ, whereas the mind of Christ is defined as being one with God. The mind of Christ can exist without the mind of anti-christ but the reverse is not true.

My point is that because the mind of anti-christ exists only in opposition to the mind of Christ, it does have the ability to recognize Christ. That is why the devil came to tempt me and try to prevent me from manifesting my Christhood. You see, false teachers are not trapped in ignorance. They are trapped in spiritual blindness, which means that they know that Christ and Christ truth exist. Yet they do not accept the Christ as being the savior and they do not accept Christ truth as being superior to their own relative “truth.” They don’t see Christ truth as one and indivisible, and they think it is just one more viewpoint that can be debated through an endless dialectical cycle.

The reason for this is that the mind of anti-christ is born from separation, which creates an inevitable, built-in, duality in this mind. The mind of anti-christ can never see the one truth of the Christ mind. It can see only a dualistic, relative “truth” that is defined by two polar opposites. In the Christ mind there is no good and evil in the sense that good and evil exist only in relation to each other. In the Christ mind, good is not defined as the opposite of evil because the absolute good of God can have no opposite. The mind of Christ can see this but the mind of anti-christ cannot.

One might say that the mind of anti-christ sees everything through the filter of duality, and therefore it can see only concepts that have opposites. To this mindset, good has meaning only in relation to evil, meaning that good can exist only if evil also exists. Therefore, good and evil are relative concepts. In the Christ mind, good is completely self-sufficient and its existence or definition does not depend on an opposite concept of evil. Absolute good is that which is in harmony with God’s laws, is one with God. Something that is out of harmony with God’s laws is not evil to the Christ mind. It is simply unreal and exists only as a temporary result of choices made by self-conscious beings trapped in the mind of anti-christ. It is the absence of truth as darkness is the absence of light. When people replace those choices with choices based on the rock of Christ, evil ceases to exist.

People trapped in the mind of anti-christ think evil has a real existence. They often think it is necessary and even beneficial, and thus it is okay to make choices based on the consciousness of anti-christ. This leads to the belief that people have a right to define their mental images of what Christ truth should be like and how a representative of Christ should behave. Such people also believe they can define what a Christed being should and should not say. Which explains why some people find this website and reject it as soon as they find one statement that does not conform to their mental image of what Christ should say.

Kim: So based on everything we have discussed here, what is the one thing that prevents agreement between people?

Jesus: Kim, do you have any absolute beliefs? Is there anything you believe in so firmly that it could never be expanded by a higher understanding?

Kim: No, I no longer have any absolute beliefs. I realize that what I know and believe right now is simply the highest truth I am able to grasp with my current level of consciousness, and at any moment you – or another teacher (even a teacher disguised as an ant) – could help me discover a higher understanding.

Jesus: So you recognize that there is a higher source of truth than your own mind, your own sense of logic?

Kim: I do.

Jesus: As a result of that, you will be able to come to a deeper agreement, a deeper sense of oneness, with anyone who has that same approach to life. There can be oneness among people only when they are open to the possibility that their current beliefs are not the absolute truth and that there is a higher authority, the authority of Christ, who is beyond any earthly authority, including false teachers and people’s own egos. When people do not recognize an authority beyond their own minds, there can be no deeper sense of oneness. There can be only an agreement based on words, and it will always be a house built on sand.

Yet when people are willing to look beyond the dualistic “truth” of anti-christ and reach for the one truth of Christ, they can form a sense of oneness even if they have many different beliefs at the level of words. This is the oneness that is based on the perfect love that casts out all fear. This is the true rock upon which I will build my church in this age. And truly, as long as people remain committed to always resolving differences by reaching for the higher authority of the Christ mind, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

 

 

Copyright © 2009 by Kim Michaels

Have you ever noticed that some people are very aggressive in trying to convert you to their beliefs? Some are even willing to destroy your beliefs in the process, seeking to cast doubt upon the teaching or teacher you follow or the entire spiritual path. Learn how to recognize such people, what their agenda is and how to protect yourself from their aggressive mental suggestion.

Question from Kim: Jesus, please help me understand what happened between Eve and the Serpent. I know you have said that the story of the Garden of Eden is a symbol for what has happened to every soul. In other words, it does not truly mean that women are responsible for the Fall. Eve is a symbol for the feminine polarity of our beings, our conscious selves, whereas the I AM Presence is the masculine polarity. What I would like to understand is what it really means that Eve was tempted by the Serpent and what the Serpent represents.

 

Answer from the ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels:

 

Eve before the fall represents the evolving lifestream who has not yet attained the Christ consciousness but is actively – and without any internal divisions – growing toward that state of God-awareness. The Serpent represents a lifestream who has embodied the consciousness of anti-christ and is therefore actively seeking to prove God wrong by trapping other lifestreams in the mindset of anti-christ. Eve after the fall represents the lifestream who has partaken of the mind of anti-christ – the fruit of the knowledge of relative good and evil – and is therefore a house divided against itself.

When you first descend into the material realm, you – meaning the conscious self – have limited experience and self-awareness. We might say that you are what Paul called a “babe in Christ.” God is well aware of this, and thus provides newly descended lifestreams with a protected environment and a spiritual teacher. The Garden of Eden represents such a spiritual schoolroom for evolving lifestreams and the “God” in the garden was a member of the ascended masters, serving in the capacity of a teacher, guide, guru or Master.

The age-old and time-tested method for helping evolving lifestreams attain the full Christ consciousness is the Master-disciple, or Guru-chela, relationship. What is the basis for this relationship? It is that the Master knows more about the universe and God’s laws than the disciple—meaning that he/she has a higher level of Christ consciousness. If the disciple had the same spiritual attainment as the Master, the disciple would not need a Master but would be a Master. Yet if the disciple was a Master, he or she would not be in embodiment on Earth, and thus it is safe to say that every person on Earth needs a Master (inner or outer) in order to reach Christ consciousness.

One of my Masters was John the Baptist who helped me recognize my true mission. Without him I would not have achieved the breakthrough that was necessary before I could begin my mission. He also helped me in other ways that are not recorded in the scriptures. My point being that no true spiritual seeker ever assumes that he or she does not need a Master or can make it to Christ consciousness without a Master. Doing so would be pride, which results in spiritual blindness.

So the very basis for the Master-disciple relationship is that the Master has a higher level of Christ consciousness than the disciple. Therefore, the Master instructs the disciple, and if the disciple follows the instructions, he or she grows toward the Christ consciousness. Yet for the disciple to follow the Master, the disciple must trust the master and the process of growth.

This means that the disciple must be willing to follow the Master’s instructions without fully knowing why they are given. The Master-disciple relationship is based on trust, a promise made by the Master and a covenant between the two, which says that if the disciple stays true to the Master, the disciple will attain the same level of consciousness as the Master. The obligation of the Master is to impart his/her own level of consciousness to the disciple, and the obligation of the disciple is to maintain faith in the process of growth, the process of self-transcendence.

It is essential to understand that the Master’s instructions are graded and carefully adapted to the student’s present level of awareness. As you see in the school system on Earth, you do not teach university level courses to students in kindergarten. In other words, the instructions you receive at any given point are always at a slightly higher level than your current awareness. You can grasp the instructions, but you have to stretch the mind to apply the instructions.

The important effect of this is that the disciple, especially a beginning disciple, does not have enough attainment to understand why the Master’s instructions are given or why they take a certain form. This is not because the Master necessarily hides anything from the disciple, but if the disciple had the attainment to understand why a lesson is given, the disciple would not need the lesson. So there is a built-in gap between the disciple’s attainment and the awareness required to pass the test hidden behind the instructions. It is by overcoming this gap that the disciple passes the test and grows in attainment. Yet for the disciple to overcome this gap, he/she must be willing to follow the Master’s instructions without full knowledge of why they are given.

It is also essential to understand that the form of learning provided in a spiritual schoolroom is not passive learning. It is active, hands-on learning that requires the disciple to integrate the lesson through his or her own efforts, ingenuity and creativity. A part of the learning process is that the disciple, especially the more advanced disciple, is tested, which means that the disciple is given a set of instructions, and although the instructions are not wrong, the disciple cannot pass the test by taking them literally. It is up to the disciple to figure out exactly what the instructions mean. That is why a spiritual schoolroom is often referred to as a “Mystery School.”

In other words, the disciple grows by figuring out the deeper understanding behind the Master’s instructions. This is an essential concept because it explains why you cannot blindly or mechanically follow the Master’s instructions. You have to follow them creatively by reaching for a higher degree of Christ awareness—which is multiplying your talents. This is the process seen in Zen Buddhism of having the student contemplate a koan, which is a contradictory riddle that cannot be solved literally.

Nevertheless, the disciple does have to follow the spirit of the instructions and cannot redefine the instructions to his or her liking or convenience. In other words, the disciple must reach for the higher state of consciousness required to pass the test instead of reinterpreting the Master’s instructions to fit the disciple’s current level of consciousness. If the disciple is not willing to rise to a higher level of awareness, he/she will pull the Master’s instructions down and will not grow. My point is that in order to grow, the disciple needs faith in the Master and in the process of growth. However, it cannot be blind faith; it must be a faith based on the desire for a higher understanding. That is why the Bible says, “With all thy getting, get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7), and why I said, “Seek and ye shall find” (Matthew 7:7).

Let us now take another look at the Garden of Eden. Eve, representing the evolving disciple, had been given a very specific instruction by the Master, namely to avoid the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. The forbidden fruit is a representation of the consciousness of anti-christ, the consciousness of separation from God and the mindset of duality and relative truth. Eve did not have the full awareness of the reason the instruction was given, because in that case there would have been no test.

Eve could have passed the test by following the instructions while seeking a higher understanding of why they were given. Yet instead of following the instructions of her Master, Eve listened to the temptations of the Serpent. In the Biblical story, this was a specific being who had embodied the consciousness of anti-christ and was fully identified with it. This being was allowed in the Garden because the real test behind the Master’s instructions concerning the forbidden fruit was that the disciple needed to deal with the temptation to disobey God’s laws.

When God gave lifestreams free will, it became inevitable that they received the potential to go against God’s laws and the creative intent. There is no guarantee or necessity that a lifestream will use its free will to go against God’s laws, but is does remain a potential, and for the evolving disciple it remains a constant temptation. That temptation is not fully overcome until the disciple manifests full Christ consciousness and thus leaves the consciousness of anti-christ behind for good. For that to happen, the Master must allow the disciple to be tested by the consciousness of anti-christ, as I was tempted by the devil after my stay in the wilderness.

How was Eve tempted by the consciousness of anti-christ? The disciple was tempted because the Serpent performed a deliberate and calculated attack at the very heart of the Master-disciple relationship. As I said, the essence of this relationship is the disciple’s faith in the Master, and thus the Serpent attacked this faith by sowing the seed of doubt in the disciple’s mind. This was done with the words, “Thou shalt not surely die.” That one word, “surely,” was the arrow of doubt that caused the disciple to doubt the Master’s instructions.

By allowing the mind to dwell upon and take in this doubt, the disciple became a “house divided against itself,” and thus the disciple could no longer stand in the Master’s presence. The disciple sought to hide from the Master, and in so doing the sense of separation from the Master was further solidified. The disciple finally descended so far into the consciousness of separation/duality/relativity – the consciousness of anti-christ – that the disciple lost the connection to the Master and even the memory of the Master. All that was left was this subtle inner longing for something beyond this world, a longing that can never be fully eradicated but can be covered over.

Kim: So can you help me understand the consciousness of anti-christ. I mean where did it come from and what is the essence of it?

Jesus: It came into being as a companion to free will. As I explain throughout this website, God defined certain creative principles, or laws, to make sure the universe can grow in a sustainable manner and will not self-destruct. You are designed to be a co-creator with God and to help bring God’s kingdom to Earth by using your creative abilities within the framework of God’s laws. The laws are meant to maintain the perfect harmony between individual co-creators and the whole, so that one co-creator cannot use his/her creative abilities to destroy other lifestreams or the whole.

God wants the whole to grow, not just one lifestream. When you stay within God’s law, there is harmony between your individual creativity and the whole, meaning that your creative efforts magnify both yourself and the whole. If you go outside God’s law, you act as if the rest of the universe doesn’t matter or is subordinate to you. Thus, everything you do serves to limit both yourself and the whole.

Obviously, this isn’t God’s intent, so as a safeguard, God designed the material universe as a mirror. Whatever you do to others is magnified by the universe and mirrored back to you, which has the effect of limiting your creative powers. This prevents you from destroying the entire universe because you will reduce your creative powers to zero before you can destroy too much of your environment.

However, this is only a safeguard for co-creators who do misuse their free will. There is no necessity for you to do so. It is perfectly possible to use your unlimited creativity in ways that magnify both yourself and the whole. To teach you how to balance individuality with the whole, God created the spiritual schools, the mystery schools, and provided inexperienced co-creators with more experienced teachers.

If you do separate yourself from a true spiritual teacher, the law of karma, or action-reaction, becomes your teacher. Obviously, the Master-disciple relationship is designed to help you stay within the safe haven of God’s law. Yet that only works as long as you have faith in the Master, and the ultimate Master is your Creator who designed the universe for your growth and his laws for your protection. If you separate yourself from the Master who is assigned as your teacher, the law of action and reaction will teach you by returning to your doorstep everything you send out. Hopefully, you will one day realize that if you keep throwing hatred into the universe, the cosmic mirror keeps throwing it back at you, so if you don’t want hatred coming back, you need to start sending out love instead.

The role of the true Master is to help you learn this lesson without suffering the consequences of your actions. Yet that only works when you believe the Master’s instructions, for example if the Master tells you not to eat a certain fruit because you will surely die by doing so.

It is essential to understand that because of the law of action and reaction, God is not overly concerned about you violating his laws. You are allowed to experiment and you are allowed to make mistakes. In other words, you can learn both from following and from going against God’s laws. The problem comes in when you go against God’s laws and then refuse to admit that you made a mistake that limits yourself (and all other parts of life).

My point is that the purpose of life is growth, and because of free will, no one can force you to grow. You can grow in only one way, namely through self-correction, self-transcendence. So what happens when a disciple makes a mistake and refuses to understand or admit that it was a mistake—refuses to face the teacher? Obviously, such a lifestream cannot/will not self-correct, and consequently it cannot grow. This is against the very creative intent itself, and if the lifestream keeps it up, it will eventually self-destruct. Needless to say, God much prefers that his sons and daughters do not fall into this trap.

To prevent this, God has created the consciousness of Christ, which serves as a safeguard. The universal Christ mind is the only begotten Son of God, and as I said, only the Son knows the Father (Matthew 11:27) and no one comes to the Father except through the Son (John 14:6). The meaning is that the Christ mind is one with God and God’s law. A co-creator who has attained Christ consciousness sees itself as one with God and with the Body of God. Therefore, such a being understands that following God’s law is best for itself and for the whole—which is part of its larger sense of Self. Thus, a Christed being would never violate God’s law, and such a being has an absolute standard for knowing what is in harmony with God’s law and what is not.

Yet a co-creator is not created with the full Christ consciousness. It is created as a babe in Christ with the potential to attain full God-awareness. This must be attained through choices, whereby the truth of Christ becomes fully integrated into your being. You are not blindly following God’s laws, you know why they are enlightened self-interest. A co-creator grows by choosing the absolute truth of Christ over the relative truth of anti-christ.

The mind of anti-christ is born out of separation from God and God’s law, which is a potential because of free will. This separation leads to a fundamental duality, meaning that you see yourself as being here and God is somewhere else. You separate yourself out from God and thus you no longer see yourself as one with the Body of God. You have now lost the ability to balance your individuality with the larger whole, and you seek to glorify the individual self instead of the larger Self. That is why people in this state of mind become increasingly egotistical, until they become unreachable for both other people and a spiritual teacher.

Duality gives rise to an entirely new state of consciousness in which there is no appreciation for the absolute truth found in the Christ mind, the truth based on God’s law. “Truth” has now become a relative concept that is defined by the being trapped in the mind of anti-christ. This is the fruit of the knowledge of relative good and evil, where you have no absolute way of defining truth, so it all becomes relative to how you want to define it. You can always justify glorifying the individual self while ignoring the whole.

The essential point here is that in the mind of anti-christ there is no truth whatsoever. So the more a being is trapped in, identifies with, this consciousness, the harder it becomes to see and admit that it has made a mistake. After all, if there is no absolute truth, how can one say that a given act was a mistake? When truth is relative, it is always possible to define a “truth” that makes it seem like you didn’t make a mistake and thus you don’t need to self-correct. When you define “truth” you can always make it seem like you are right and everyone else – including God – is wrong.

Obviously, you can only maintain this illusion by ignoring what is said by true spiritual teachers and by ignoring what is reflected back to you from the universe. In other words, you must ignore the consequences of your own actions, and this becomes an uphill battle. If you send out hatred, the universe mirrors it back, and the more hatred you send out, the more comes back, making it more difficult to ignore or explain away. In order to continue to ignore that you are responsible for what comes back from the universe, you must enter into a state of total pride and arrogance that makes it seem like what comes back is not caused by you. It is the fault of other people or an unjust God. Therefore, you are right and everyone else, even God, is wrong. You essentially engage in a fight to control the universe, thinking that when everything lives up to your self-defined world view, you will have the ultimate proof that you – and your relative definition of truth – are right.

When your definition of truth is relative and your pride is absolute, you can maintain this illusion until you face the trial by fire that goes before the second death (Revelation 20:14 and 21:8). At that moment, a soul can no longer ignore truth, but it can still maintain the pride that makes it refuse to self-correct, even in the face of absolute truth. So one might say that the basic element of the serpentine mind is the relative definition of “truth,” but the real problem with it is the refusal to self-correct.

This refusal springs from doubt in God’s promise, as I expressed in my parable about the talents, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord” (Matthew 25:21). The disciple either doubts the validity of this promise or is unwilling to “be faithful over a few things,” meaning multiplying your talents and making the best of what you have right now, in order to prove the promise.

Kim: That is very interesting to me because it might explain why certain people are so aggressive in denouncing any idea that doesn’t fit into their world view. I could never understand why such people cannot just let other people have different beliefs. I mean, why feel so threatened by the fact that other people follow a different religion, why be so aggressive in converting them to your beliefs? Is that because such people are trapped in the serpentine mind?

Jesus: That is correct. Their life, in fact their existence as the beings they are today, is based on an illusion that they have created from their own relative definition of truth. If that illusion was challenged or proven wrong, they would have to admit that it was a Tower of Babel—and thus they would have to change. The absolute law for such people is that they can never be proven wrong, and thus they will go to great length to prevent their relative “truth” from being challenged or proven wrong. This automatically puts them at odds with people who are sincerely striving to embody the truth of Christ. They feel threatened by such people and especially by anyone demonstrating his or her Christhood.

People who are completely trapped in this combination of fear and pride are willing to kill those who follow what they must define as a false religion. This is the basis for every religious war seen on this planet. Some people are not ready to kill to maintain their illusion, but this is often because they think they cannot get away with it. Yet they have no compunctions about killing your beliefs, which can be said to be a form of psychic murder. Here is how I addressed these people: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). The devil’s primary concern is to kill your faith in God and separate you from a true teacher.

One might say that such people are the false teachers or the false prophets that I warned people about. You might notice that I said they come in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves (Matthew 7:15). The meaning is that such people often appear to be religious or spiritual. In fact, a certain type of them are attracted to spiritual organizations, and as a true spiritual seeker you should expect to meet some of them.

Kim: Okay, that is a statement I think will surprise many people. In fact, I think many people will refuse to believe it. I see so many people who want to believe that their church is better than anyone else’s or is the only true one. Therefore, it could not possibly be influenced by the mindset of anti-christ.

Jesus: Well, you just need to look at history and see that virtually every religion or church has gradually become rigid or dogmatic, thereby losing or perverting the original teachings. Christianity is the perfect example, as I explain throughout this website. I think anyone open to this website will be open to this fact.

The real point here is that as you grow in spiritual maturity, you will put away your former beliefs, including the naive belief that a given organization cannot be influenced by the mindset of anti-christ. As Paul said, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1Corinthians 13:11).

It is a basic fact that, after the Fall, every aspect of life on this planet has been somewhat influenced by the mindset of anti-christ. As you grow toward Christhood, you will gradually attain the discernment to separate the absolute truth of Christ from the relative truth of anti-christ, yet you have to be willing to consciously use this ability. If you think you can make spiritual progress without discerning between truth and relative truth, you are still trapped in the consciousness of relative truth.

Therefore, as a more mature seeker, you should expect and anticipate that you will be tempted by or otherwise exposed to people who are trapped in the mindset of anti-christ. As I said, this is an inevitable result of the current state of affairs on Earth, but it is also allowed by God as a necessary step to you redeeming yourself and separating yourself from the mindset that caused you to leave the Master-disciple relationship. You have to separate yourself from the false teacher before you can reunite with your true teacher.

My point is that you need to be aware that false teachers exist, and you need to be on the lookout for them. The better you become at identifying them and their methods, the less likely you are to be led astray by them, thereby taking a detour. As part of this, it is necessary to be aware that the ascended masters form a hierarchy of spiritual teachers who serve to help you grow toward personal Christhood. Our role is to set people free from the consciousness of anti-christ, and any true teacher works under the lineage of our hierarchy of light.

Yet there is also a hierarchy of darkness, we might call it a false hierarchy, and they are very aggressive and very organized. Their ultimate goal is to prove that God was wrong by giving co-creators free will, and their aim is to make everyone on Earth misuse their free will through the consciousness of anti-christ. Many of these beings exist as disembodied beings on lower realms, including the mental and emotional realms, as explained elsewhere. Yet there are many people in embodiment who serve as either knowing or unknowing representatives of the false hierarchy.

As I said, they will do everything possible to destroy your faith in a true teacher or in the entire process of redemption. The essence of the problem on Earth is that people have become trapped in the consciousness of duality. From the very beginning God designed a process that allows any being – no matter how far it has descended into the consciousness of anti-christ – to redeem itself. This process is the spiritual path, whereby you follow a true teacher until you attain Christ consciousness and know God’s truth from within yourself. The false hierarchy will do anything possible to prevent you from knowing about this path or following it.

Their first goal is to prevent people from knowing anything about the true path and its goal, whereby people remain trapped in ignorance. When you rise above this ignorance, they seek to destroy your faith in the process of redemption or in a specific teacher or teaching that represents the ascended masters. Or they seek to destroy your faith that you are able or worthy to be a disciple. If that doesn’t work, they seek to tempt you into following one of the many false paths, the way that seemeth right unto a man because it is defined by the duality consciousness.

You need to be aware that there is an entire group of people who serve as the spoilers, and they are actively seeking to accomplish the above goals by destroying any spiritual teacher, teaching or organization. When a new spiritual initiative springs up, the false hierarchy will send their representatives (be they knowing or unknowing representatives) to the leader in order to destroy, or at least control, him/her. This first of all means destroying the leader’s faith in his mission or ability to fulfill it, but it can also involve killing the person as my experience clearly demonstrates. If that doesn’t work, they will move on and seek to destroy anyone following that teacher, and from there they seek to discredit the teaching.

If a movement survives these first attacks, plan B comes into effect, and it is essentially based on the philosophy that, “If you can’t beat’em—join ‘em.” The representatives of the false hierarchy will now join the organization (some might actually have been there from the beginning) and they will seek to take it away from its original purpose. In Christianity, you can see this very clearly. The Roman empire first attempted to kill all Christians, and then Christianity was turned into the official state religion. Thereby, I was turned into an idol to worship instead of an example to follow, and as a result my original mission has been subverted—or so it seems to the false hierarchy.

Kim: How can you defend yourself from these attacks, which I assume can be very subtle?

Jesus: The first line of defense is always to expand your awareness. You need the basic understanding that the spoilers exist and that they always use the same strategy. They seek to “divide and conquer,” meaning that they seek to plant doubt in your mind, so that you become a house divided against itself. In an organization, they will seek to divide the leaders and or followers, again by planting doubt.

Yet the true defense is a firm understanding of what the spiritual path is about. The purpose of the path is to give you the opportunity to redeem yourself and reunite with your true teacher (so that you are no longer divided in your own being). You can then come back to the oneness with God and with the Body of God on Earth and in Heaven that is the true abundant life.

How can you do this? By being willing to self-correct, being willing to self-transcend. Do you see the point? No matter what mistakes you have made, you can always come back to the teacher. Yet to do so, you must be willing to admit that you made a mistake and then rise above the state of consciousness that caused you to make the mistake—you must be willing to self-correct.

This is the essential truth that the false teachers do not want you to know about, understand or accept. They want you to think that you have made such a mistake that you cannot come back to the teacher, cannot come back to God’s kingdom. And they will use every conceivable plot to destroy your belief in the possibility of redemption or prevent you from walking the path to redemption. The aim of their effort is to stop you at a certain step of the spiritual path and prevent you from taking the next step.

How can you overcome this plot? By always – and I mean ALWAYS – being willing to take the next step. NEVER allow any force – be it a false teacher outside yourself or the false teacher of your own ego – to prevent you from taking the next step on the path. NEVER allow anything to prevent you from transcending your current level of consciousness and taking the next step toward Christ consciousness. As long as you are transcending yourself, you are moving toward Christ consciousness, and no false teacher can stop your progress unless you allow them to convince you not to take the next step. The motto must be, “From here forward, ALWAYS forward!”

Kim: So are you saying that there are people in the world today – some of them in spiritual/religious organizations – who are false teachers and are – whether or not they know this consciously – acting as the representatives of the false hierarchy of anti-christ?

Jesus: Certainly. Anyone who is aggressively promoting a teaching based on the consciousness of anti-christ or is promoting the false path is actively helping the cause of the false hierarchy. Basically, anyone seeking to destroy other people’s faith in the spiritual path is serving the cause of the false hierarchy—which is to separate the disciple from the teacher. There are also some people in embodiment today who in past lives served as leaders and led many lifestreams astray, causing them to fall into the consciousness of duality or preventing them from following a true teacher.

As I said, the characteristic of the serpentine consciousness is an unwillingness to admit an error, an unwillingness to self-correct. There are people in today’s world who have been in this state of consciousness for a very long time. They have therefore become extremely skilled at using a dualistic “truth” to convince others that they are right. They can often seem very sincere, very knowledgeable and very persuasive. That is why they continue to lead many people astray even today.

Kim: Could one say that such people share in the responsibility for leading people on Earth astray? I mean, I once heard someone use the expression that a person can “carry the karma of Eve.” Does that apply to what we are talking about here?

Jesus: It does in the sense that “Eve” represents what has happened to more than one lifestream. The karma of Eve has two aspects. The karma made by the disciple is the karma of disobeying the Master, and that karma is individual. Most people on Earth carry an individual karma of Eve. You are always responsible for the choices you make, even if you allow a false teacher to influence your choices.

Yet Eve was tempted, and thus the other aspect is the karma made by the false teacher who led Eve astray. One might say that the real karma of Eve is that of aggressively and maliciously separating a disciple from the Master. This is a collective karma, meaning that a false teacher carries a certain karma for each person he/she led astray. The Serpent is the primary being that carries the karma of Eve. Yet anyone who has come to embody the consciousness of the Serpent will also have been instrumental in leading people astray. There are a number of people on Earth today who in past lives led many people astray, and therefore one can say that they carry the karma of Eve.

Kim: How can such people redeem themselves from that karma?

Jesus: By meeting one inescapable condition, namely that they must abandon the consciousness of the Serpent, which means that they must be willing to admit their past mistakes and self-correct. They must rise above the relative truth they have defined and confess the absolute truth of Christ, whereby their former errors become obvious and are no longer shrouded in the veils of duality. In order to balance the karma for taking people off the true path, a person must be willing to demonstrate the true path. And this can be done only by completely abandoning the consciousness of anti-christ.

This can be very difficult for a lifestream who has been stuck in duality for many lifetimes. How can such a person admit that he or she has created a world view that is entirely based on duality—that is a house built on sand? Such people often believe they know better than others, and therefore they cannot/ will not see that they need to abandon their “perfect” world view and humble themselves before a true teacher until they attain true Christ discernment.

Such people are often very reluctant to acknowledge the truth of Christ, seeking to explain it away and turn it into a relative truth. They often seek to undermine a true teacher because they think they know better than such a teacher. And because their world view is based on relative “truth,” they can always argue their case in a way that is convincing to people who cannot see through duality.

It is therefore extremely important that spiritual seekers learn to recognize the mindset of the serpent, so they can avoid following people who are stuck in this frame of mind.

 

 

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