Dictation by Ascended Master Jesus, November 11, 2002 through Kim Michaels

"If you accept that life has a spiritual side then you probably also realize that there is a difference between this world and the spiritual world. People from every religion share an almost universal belief that there is a difference between the spiritual world and the material world. They also share the belief that earth is not the permanent home for human beings. The goal of life is to ascend beyond the material world and enter the spiritual world. Most people also realize that before you can enter the spiritual world, you must fulfill certain requirements.

Take a look at planet earth as you see it today. I think everyone would agree that the atrocities happening on this planet simply could not be tolerated in the spiritual world. Most people realize that the beings who inhabit the spiritual world do not treat each other the way human beings treat each other.

I have tried to help you understand that there is no fundamental difference between the spiritual world and the material world. The only difference is a difference in vibration. Therefore, you do have the capacity to ascend to the spiritual world. However, before you can enter our Father’s kingdom, you must meet certain requirements.

The key requirement is that you must rise above the death consciousness. The atrocities you see taking place on this planet, and many other actions that people do not necessarily consider to be wrong, are the results of the death consciousness.

Flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the death consciousness, simply cannot inherit the kingdom. Therefore, the only way that you could possibly ascend into our Father’s kingdom is by leaving behind the death consciousness.

Let me make it clear that there is absolutely no possibility of a compromise. The vibrations of the death consciousness can never cross the threshold and enter the straight and narrow gate that leads to our Father’s kingdom. Even if these vibrations are disguised as what one might call human goodness, they still cannot enter our Father’s kingdom. You cannot enter the kingdom by becoming a good human being. In the eyes of God, there is no such thing as a good, or perfect, human being.

You can enter the kingdom only by overcoming the sense of identity that causes you to believe that you are a mortal human being who is separated from God. You can enter the kingdom only by putting off the old human of mortality and putting on the new human, the spiritual being, the spiritual sense of identity. You can enter only by putting on the Christ consciousness and by fully uniting with that Christ consciousness so that you see yourself as a spiritual being. Your sense of identity must be built upon the Rock of Christ instead of the shifting sands of the death consciousness. It is absolutely vital that you come to a conscious, inner realization of the truth behind these words. You must realize and accept that you cannot put the round peg of the death consciousness into the square hole that leads to the City Foursquare.

The goal of life

When you come to an inner realization of this essential truth, you can quickly develop an entirely new perspective on life as a human being. You now see that the very goal of life is your salvation, your ascension into the spiritual world. You also see that the key to realizing this goal is that you must go through a gradual process, which I have called the spiritual path. You must gradually put off the death consciousness and put on the new state of mind, the Christ consciousness.

For centuries, nay, for thousands upon thousands of years, human beings have believed that salvation is an outer process over which they have no control. I am telling you that this is not so. Salvation is not a matter of passively waiting for an outer savior who will suddenly arrive and do the work for you.

I stated earlier that you do indeed need an outer savior. However, that outer savior serves only as the open door through which God can give you a morsel of the universal Christ consciousness. This morsel then acts as a leaven to raise the whole loaf of your consciousness. The passing on of the Living Word, the Bread of Life, is only one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is that you have free will and that the Law of Free Will is the ultimate law of the material universe. You know my parable about the sower whose seeds fall on barren ground. A savior can appear and give you a morsel of the Christ consciousness. Yet if you do not make the free-will choice to accept that Christ consciousness, your salvation simply cannot happen. I can offer you the Bread of Life, but I cannot force you to accept that Bread of Life.

I can lead you to the living waters, but I cannot make you drink. I can impart to you my Christ consciousness, as I am doing in the lines of this book, but I cannot force you to allow that Christ consciousness to raise your consciousness to a higher level.

The raising of your consciousness can take place only if you make the decision to let it happen. In fact, you need to make many decisions. You need to make daily decisions to put off the old human and put on the new, spiritual “human.”

The death consciousness has a very deep belief that there is an easy way out, that there is some kind of quick fix or a form of automatic salvation. This belief has given rise to the idea that I am the only Son of God and that by simply believing on me and declaring that I am your Lord and Savior, you will automatically be saved.

I am Jesus Christ, and I am telling you that there is no such thing as an automatic salvation. Salvation is offered to every human being as a gift from God. Yet the key to salvation is not the offering of the gift because it truly rains upon the just and the unjust. The key to salvation is the acceptance of the gift. Without that acceptance, God cannot save you. God must simply wait until you make a decision to accept his grace."

NOTE: The rest of this dictation is available in the book: The Mystical Teachings of Jesus.

 The test of the Living Christ is:

1. Will you recognize that Christ is MORE than your current mental box?
2. Will you allow Christ to take you beyond your mental box, or will you use the consciousness of anti-christ to make Christ conform to your current perception filter?
3. Will you allow the Living Christ to be born within you, or will you cling to your mortal sense of identity?

 

A message from Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels: 

"I AM indeed the real Jesus, and I have sponsored and inspired this website for the purpose of giving you an opportunity to make peace with me.

The person who has created the physical aspect of this website does not claim or believe that he is Jesus, is Jesus in embodiment or Jesus come again. He is serving as my mouthpiece, my messenger, my open door for bringing forth the teachings on this site, as many people have done during the past two millennia.

Planet earth is presently at a rather low level of its cosmic evolution. This planet has made the considerable sacrifice to serve as a home for people who are still in a rather low state of consciousness, giving them an opportunity to live out that mindset until they have hopefully had enough and want more. The hope is that they will one day have had enough of the death consciousness and will want the LIFE of the Christ consciousness that I offer to all people on earth.

Plausible deniability

Due to the Law of Free Will and the rather low state of consciousness of many of the inhabitants on this planet, plausible deniability must be maintained. I do not have the authority to create some kind of undeniable proof that I exist, and thus I have sponsored a website created by a human being, so that it is easy for people to deny the validity of this site and the teachings upon it.

This is the same law I followed, when I walked this earth almost 2,000 years ago. I was allowed to perform certain miracles, but I was not allowed to manifest any phenomena that could not be doubted or denied by those in the consciousness of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ.

This also explains why my non-dualistic, mystical teachings and example were turned into a rigid, abusive, dictatorial religion, that for almost 1,700 years has been in direct opposition to my purpose for coming to this planet. I am perfectly aware of how many people have been abused and hurt by the religion that claims to represent me on earth. I am aware of this because I truly feel the pain of all these people, and that is why I have decided to give all people this opportunity to be free of all pain, fear or doubt related to their relationship with me

Why do you need to make peace with Jesus?

Why do you need to make peace with Jesus? Because no matter where you have grown up – in a Christian or non-christian culture – you have been given a false image of me and my mission. And the real problem is that this has also caused you to accept a false image of yourself, an image that limits your life experience and that will prevent you from following my example. Thus, you can benefit greatly from overcoming that false image and getting some sense of who I am and what I truly teach. Not only will this enrich the rest of your journey on this planet, it will also greatly assist you in what happens after you leave this planet.

• If you consider yourself a Christian, you will want to know that mainstream Christianity presents a false image of me that simply cannot take you to salvation. You will not make it to heaven by following the blind leaders of the Christian churches, regardless of the fact that they claim to be my representatives. You will make it only by knowing my true teachings, as I present them on this website and in other places shunned by orthodoxy.
• If you consider yourself a spiritual seeker, you will want to know that although you do not have to become a Christian in order to grow and make your ascension, you still have to make peace with me by overcoming all false images of me. My true teachings and my example provided an archetypal pattern of the process that all people have to go through in order to graduate from Earth’s Schoolroom. Today, I hold a spiritual office that all people must pass through in order to ascend from earth. Thus, unless you have made peace with me, how can you possibly even approach me and move through my office to your permanent ascension in the light?
• If you consider yourself a non-Christian, and perhaps look upon Christianity with suspicion or hostility, you can benefit from knowing that my true teachings are universal and are aimed at helping all people escape the death consciousness. And as explained above, no matter what is your outer religious affiliation or non-affiliation, you still have to pass through my spiritual office in order to become permanently free from what might be called the treadmill of the death consciousness.

Why Jesus came to earth

Everything that happens on earth is an opportunity and a test. If you really want to understand why I came to earth, you need to understand that my coming was the supreme opportunity and the supreme test. I came to give all people a real choice.

The simple fact is that life on earth has been almost entirely dominated by the consciousness of death, the consciousness of anti-christ, in which people see themselves as being separated from their spiritual source and from each other. If you have never encountered anything but the consciousness of death, how can you actually make a free choice between death and life?

Thus, I came to demonstrate that there is an alternative to the consciousness of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ. It is the Christ consciousness in which you know and accept who you are, and thus see yourself as one with your Creator and one with all life. I came to teach and demonstrate a path that helps you let the mortal self die, so you can be reborn into your true identity as an individualization of your Creator’s Being.

Due to the Law of Free Will, I could not prevent those who are entirely blinded by the duality consciousness from developing a religion called Christianity and setting themselves up as my only representatives. I could not prevent them from creating a religion that teaches the exact opposite of my true teachings, and thus makes an entirely false promise that cannot take people beyond the death consciousness.

Are you ready for the path of Christ?

Yet what the law does permit me to do is to present people with an alternative to the false path, and that is the entire purpose for this website. What I teach on this website is the true path of Christ, the path that can take YOU to the same state of consciousness that I demonstrated, namely personal Christhood.

I am fully aware that those who are still blinded by the duality consciousness will deny, put down or ridicule the very existence of this website and the teachings upon it. And by doing this, they will simply hasten their own judgment, for did I not say that by your words you shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned? Yet the primary purpose of this website is to offer the true path of Christ to those who are ready for it.

How will you know whether you are ready? Well, you will not know with the outer mind. You will know only with the inner mind of the heart, your intuition. Tune in to your heart and consider whether you feel something stirring or burning in the core of your being? If you do, then consider that you might indeed have chosen to take embodiment at this critical time in order to help me and other ascended masters facilitate the transition of this planet into a new phase of its cosmic evolution.

Thus, I encourage you to consider whether you might identity yourself as one of the millions of people I talk about in the following discourse. And if you do, then use the teachings and tools I present to awaken yourself to the true purpose for which you came to this planet at this turning point of cosmic cycles.

I AM the ascended master Jesus Christ, and I am eternally dedicated to your victory and ascension in the light. Are you?"

I'll start with some personal comments, as prologue to Jesus addressing the Title question...

This sub is "Christian Mysticism" ...But what is a "Christian"?

Is a "Christian" merely a member of a Christian religion where Jesus is portrayed primarily as an idol to worship, or... is a Christian a devout follower of Christ and Christ's teachings where much more than merely and idol to worship, Jesus is an example to follow?

The Gospels give us a good starting point but the actual teachings of Jesus are obviously only a starting point, an introduction of everything Jesus has to reveal to us.

 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. John 16:12

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.  John 21:25

What would Jesus' definition be of a Christian -- A Follower of Christ?

“If ye continue in my word then you are my disciples indeed and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”  John 8:31-32

”Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”  John 14:23

“But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.”  John 14:31

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.”  John 15:10

“And ever“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: …” Mt 7:24

“Any one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:…” Mt 7:26

The teachings of the Gospels were given at the level of the consciousness of the disciples at the time that they were given, over two thousand years ago. And even then, only a handful of disciples were ready for them. The majority of the people of Jesus time did not have eyes to see or ears to hear Jesus' message. And the most learned, sophisticated religious leaders greatest could not see or hear Jesus' message at all. In fact they were the mocked Jesus and his teachings and ultimately were responsible for his death on the cross.

Obviously there is much more to know and understand about Jesus' commandments, their importance for our spiritual growth and our reason for being created, the consequences of implementing them or not implementing and how to actually integrate them into our everyday lives.

From the time I was a boy, I had a strong sense, that there was something more to understand, something more to know beyond even what I was taught at a Catholic grade school for eight years. Starting in the fifth grade, when I was ten years old, I began asking sincere questions of the nuns and priests in a sincere attempt for greater understanding, but I honestly never once received an answer that seemed to make sense. When I asked follow up questions to their answers they got frustrated and would often say: "It is really just a matter of faith."

When I was 18, I concluded that I would not find the answers to greater understanding through the church and I spent decades looking for that understanding. When about 20 years ago I stumbled onto the "AskRealJesus" website where Kim Michaels posted answers dictated from Jesus to questions submitted to KIm, I was very skeptical as many of you are to the excerpts I have shared here. But before I finished reading the first answer it was clear to me that this was on a mystical level, far beyond anything I had found over decades of searching.

Now 20 years later, not only have these teachings answered all of my questions, it has enlightened me and given me understanding beyond what I have dreamed of all my life and confirmed my lifelong belief that there is more to know than what science and religions have to offer, the knowing of which is profoundly life changing.

I realize that it may be unbelievable that Jesus would be speaking today through a human messenger. I only recommend that you read and absorb the words and go use your heart, and not your head to discern: Is this real, or is it not? Try not to allow your outer mind to immediately dismiss the messages with convenient labels, like this is New Age malarky, this is tin foil hat stuff, etc. This is only your ego, that does not want to be disturbed out of its comfortability and its incessant desire that might require you to change in any way.

After this post I will begin posting excerpts from two books dictated by Jesus: "The Mystical Teachings of Jesus" and "Walking the Mystical Path of Jesus". Both are available in Kindle and Paperback format on Amazon.

Now, here is Jesus from a message given to us through Kim Michaels in 2004. The full text can be found here: https://askrealjesus.com/stop-rejecting-my-gift-to-you-new/

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A message from the ascended master Jesus through Kim Michaels: (December 24, 2004)

I AM indeed the living Jesus Christ, and I deliver this message through the Living Word that I AM. I know many will doubt that it is truly I, the real Jesus, who is speaking. I know many will look for any little thing they can use to reject my message. I know some have already decided that I could not possibly be speaking to people in this age or that I could not have anything to say beyond what was said in the Scriptures—the Scriptures that are almost 2,000 years old and do not address many of the problems people face today.

Yet if you believe the Scriptures were divinely inspired, then you should realize that those Scriptures were spoken by me through human messengers. So what is to stop me from speaking through a human messenger in this age? Given that I have all power in Heaven and on Earth, there is nothing to stop me. The only question is, “Are you willing to listen—do you have ears to hear?”

You might begin by considering why I speak through a human messenger. I tell you, it is because so many of those who call themselves Christians are not willing to listen to my Living Word that I speak directly in their hearts. Do you think I am happy with the fact that I am unable to reach millions of those who would be my followers, but who have shut up their ears to my Living Word? I can assure you that I am not happy about this state of affairs, and that is why I have decided to use a human messenger in an attempt to reach those who cannot hear me in their hearts but can at least read my words. That is, if they are willing to read my words and have not hardened their hearts against me.

I am come to call those of you who claim to be my followers to stop rejecting the most precious gift I have given to humankind. That gift is the Living Word that I am, a word you can hear directly in your hearts. Why then have so many of those who call themselves Christians become so attached to outer doctrines – many of which are like whited sepulchres filled with dead men’s bones – that they are unwilling or unable to hear my Living Word?

Why do you ignore my Living Word?

Consider some of the reasons people have for ignoring my living word, and if what I say applies to you, then be honest with yourself. Dare to look for the beam in your own eye, for until you see it, how could you possibly remove it. And if you do not remove it, how can you enter our Father’s kingdom? So here are the most common reason for rejecting the Living Word:

Do you ignore my Living Word because you have allowed some hellfire and brimstone preacher to make you afraid to consider anything beyond the outer doctrines and a literal interpretation of those doctrines? If so, why do you fail to see that I was not a hellfire and brimstone preacher but that I preached a gospel based on love instead of fear? Why do you think I said:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. (Mark 12:30)

I knew full well that fear will not take you to Heaven. And how can you love God if you fear God or think he will punish you for every little mistake? That is why I came to give people the perfect love that casts out all fear (1John 4:18).

Do you ignore my Living Word because you have allowed those same hellfire and brimstone preachers to scare you into believing that everything you are allowed to know about me is stated in the Bible and that I could not possibly say something today that is not in the Bible? If so, consider a statement often willfully ignored by those preachers:

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. (John 16:12)

It should be obvious to anyone that I came to raise people’s awareness of the spiritual side of life. And it should be equally obvious that over the past 2,000 years humankind’s awareness of every aspect of life has indeed been raised. Therefore, I can tell you many things today that people simply could not understand, could not bear, 2,000 years ago. What do you think I meant when I said:

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. (Matthew 28:20)

I meant that my Spirit will always be with you and that I will continue to give my Living Word, my progressive revelation, to those who have ears to hear it. And in this age many have ears to hear, although some have not yet realized that they are ready for a higher understanding of the mysteries of Christ. Yet it is never too late for you to awaken to my Living Truth!

Do you ignore my Living Word because you have allowed some intellectual theologians to convince you that their man-made interpretations of the letter of the law is all you need in order to be saved? If so, why do you fail to see that I constantly challenged the intellectual theologians of my time, the scribes and Pharisees? Why do you think 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)

I knew full well that you cannot intellectualize your way into Heaven. You can enter the kingdom of Heaven only by absorbing my body and my blood, my Living Word, and allowing it to raise the whole loaf of your consciousness (Matthew 13:33). I came to give people the gift of the Spirit of Truth that can never be found in outer doctrines. That is why I said:

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)

Do you ignore my Living Word because you have become too comfortable with certain interpretations and rituals or a certain church? Are you thinking you know everything you need to know about me and that your salvation is guaranteed—and therefore you do not want me to disturb you with a higher understanding? Have you become unwilling to leave your nets of worldly pursuits, so that you are not willing to have a direct encounter with me out of fear that I might compel you to change? Or have you allowed some modern-day lawyer to tell you that you do not need to seek my Living Truth because you can be saved simply by declaring Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Do you think I can save all those who call on my name but ignore my commandments? Why do you think I said:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Matthew 6:24)

Contrary to the beliefs held by many, “mammon” is not simply money, but rather “the things of this world,” even the beliefs of this world. So many call themselves Christians, yet they think it is enough to pay me lip service on Sunday, and then they can do whatever they want the rest of the week. Why do you think I so often called the scribes and the Pharisees hypocrites? Why do you think I said it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven (Matthew 19:24)?

The “rich man” is a symbol for any person who is not willing to let go of the things of this world in order to follow Christ. And this includes man-made interpretations that make people think they can be saved by simply calling on my name without being willing to change themselves. You simply cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven as long as you hold on to the things and the beliefs of this world. That is why I said:

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)

I did not come to make people comfortable in their possessions and in their illusions. I came to make them uncomfortable with the things and the beliefs of this world, so that through their discomfort they could reach for the Spirit of Truth and be saved. That is why I said:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34)

My sword is the word of truth that divides the real from the unreal. So for those who are willing to look beyond their fears, their intellectual pride – which tells them they know everything – and their comfort zone, let me now explain to you what is the true gift that I have given to humankind.

I shall send you a comforter

As one of the last instructions to my disciples, I gave them the following teaching:

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John, Chapter 14)

Oh if only all Christians could truly understand the meaning of this teaching, could truly understand who and what is that comforter. So let me now explain, to those who have ears to hear, the true identity of the comforter who is with you even today.

To understand the comforter, you need to step back and take an overall look at religious life on this planet. You will see that there are two ways to approach religion. One is what I call the outer approach. It is the approach taken by the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the lawyers and the temple priests, the very people who condemned me to death.

Oh yes, I know that all Christians think they could never have condemned the Living Christ as these people did. Yet I tell you that you ought to look for the beam in your own eye before you judge the mote in the eye of another. The outer approach is not simply confined to a certain type of people living at a certain time. The outer approach to religion springs from an aspect of the human psyche, and thus all people have the potential to fall into this approach to religion.

What is the outer approach? It is based on the belief that you can enter Heaven by observing certain rules here on Earth. You think that as long as you believe in certain doctrines, defined by the right scriptures or the right authority figures, you will be saved. As longs you follow the rules defined by your religion and don’t do or say the wrong things, you will be saved. As long as you belong to the right religion and observe its rituals (at least on Sunday), you will be saved. In other words, you can be saved by performing certain outer acts and you do not have to take on the much more difficult task of examining yourself, your beliefs, your attitudes and your psychological wounds. You can be saved by changing your outer actions without changing yourself, your state of consciousness.

My beloved friends, how could you fail to see that millions of Christians have fallen into this outer approach to religion, thinking that because they belong to the only true religion – Christianity – and because they have declared Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they will automatically be saved? Do you see that millions of Christians expect that some day I will appear in the sky and whisk away all humankind’s problems, lifting all good Christians – that is “good” according to an outer standard – to Heaven and sending all nonbelievers to Hell?

How can you fail to see that this is the exact same approach to religion taken by those who condemned me when I walked the earth 2,000 years ago? Oh yes, I know full well the hearts of those who think they are good Christians and who judge all others based on their own standard. Oh yes, I know that different groups of Christians think they are the righteous ones and that they would have instantly recognized and followed me if they had met me in the flesh 2,000 years ago. Yet I tell you that this is far from being the case, and it is, in fact, a very dangerous illusion that could cost you your salvation.

You see, my beloved, salvation cannot be won by taking the outer approach to religion. That is why I said that the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was not enough to get you to Heaven. Why not? Listen to one of my most profound statements, a statement often overlooked or misinterpreted by Christian preachers:

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke, Chapter 17)

Is it not clearly stated by me that you cannot enter the kingdom by observing outer rules and doctrines? Is it not clearly stated that the kingdom does not come as long as you are looking for it outside yourself? The kingdom does not come for you until the moment when you find it inside yourself!

What does it truly mean that the kingdom of God is within you? It means that the door to the kingdom of God is located inside of you, or rather inside your mind. It means that you cannot gain entry to the kingdom of God by performing outer actions, be they recitations of scriptures and creeds or the performance of rituals. You can gain entry to the kingdom in one way only, and that is by changing yourself, by changing your state of consciousness.

How can you change your state of consciousness? You must follow the very path followed by Paul, who said, “I die daily” (1Corinthians 15:31). Which part of Paul died every day? It was what he called his carnal mind—the natural man. This is the very mind that causes people to sin, to judge one another and to believe that the observance of outer rituals can get them to Heaven. That is why Paul said:

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ephesians, Chapter 4)

Paul was willing to go through the difficult and painstaking process of examining himself and putting off that which he found to be unacceptable in the all-exposing light of Christ Truth. He was willing to let his carnal self die because he understood that he could not take this old man with him into Heaven. He knew that in order to enter the wedding feast, he had to put on the wedding garment (Matthew 22:12) of the new man, the new state of consciousness. Here is how Paul described this new man:

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. (Colossians 3:10)

So who was it that created this new man? It was none other than I, the ascended Jesus Christ, who created the new human that all people have the potential to put on, thereby entering the kingdom of Heaven within them. This new man can be described simply as a state of mind, namely the mind of Christ, but it is even more. How do you put on this new man? You cannot do so through outer observances. You can do so only by allowing this Spirit of Truth to dwell in you until you become one with that Spirit. Paul knew this, and that is why he said:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:5)

When you allow the old state of consciousness, the carnal mind, to die and allow the new state of consciousness, the mind of Christ, to be born within you, then you will understand the true meaning of being born again. Oh how many Christians think that being born again means to simply declare me as their Lord and Savior. Nay, I say, no outer declaration can make you reborn in Christ! To truly be born again in Christ means to allow the mind of Christ to be born within you. That is why I said:

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John, Chapter 2)

That which is born of the flesh is not simply your physical body. It is the human state of consciousness, the carnal mind, that cannot recognize the Living Christ when it stands before him in the flesh. The people who did not recognize me 2,000 years ago were blinded by their carnal minds. That is why I said:

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive. (Matthew 13:14)

Likewise, if you do not recognize my Presence within you – or within this message – you too are blinded by your carnal mind. This carnal state of consciousness will not allow you to see that the door to the kingdom of Heaven is located within you. And that is why you look for an outer Savior who will do all the work for you instead or realizing that the true Savior, the only Savior, must be found within your own mind. Who is that inner Savior?

"I would like you to consider why there is religion in this world. Do you think that God needs religion? Do you think that the Being who created an incredibly vast and complex universe has some kind of need to be worshiped by human beings living on a planet that is like a speck of dust in infinity? I am not hereby saying that human beings are not important to God. I am simply saying that God is an unlimited, infinite Being, and God does not have human needs. The idea that God needs to be worshiped is yet another example of backwards reasoning.

The simple fact is that God has no need to be worshiped by human beings. Religion was not created for God’s sake. It was created for your sake.

The simple fact is that God does not need religion. Human beings need religion, and it is very important that you understand why. God created you in his image and likeness. You have the capacity of consciousness to experience the fullness of God’s infinite Being. Yet as your lifestream decided to descend into the material universe, you faced a challenge that is quite severe.

You must understand that my Father’s house has many mansions. By that I mean that there many different levels of God’s creation. Modern scientists have found that the entire material universe is made from energy. Energy is vibration.

You know that your eyes can detect only the types of energy which you call visible light. You also know that there are many forms of light, and many other forms of energy, that your eyes cannot detect. Therefore, there are many different layers or levels of vibration. In fact, one might consider that the totality of God’s creation is a vast, but not unlimited, continuum of vibrations.

Visible light is simply part of a continuum of vibrations. Your eyes can see only one pocket of that continuum. Likewise, the material universe is simply one pocket in a larger continuum of vibrations. Your senses, and the lower consciousness of the human mind, can perceive and fathom only a small pocket of the continuum of vibrations that comprise God’s creation. That small pocket is what you call the material universe.

The only difference between visible light and invisible light is a difference in vibration. The only difference between the material universe and higher levels of God’s creation is a difference in vibration. The only difference between Heaven and earth is a difference in vibration.

There are no impenetrable barriers in God’s continuum of vibrations. There is a dividing line between the vibrations of the material universe and the vibrations of the lowest level of the spiritual universe, the level that is right above the material universe in vibration. That dividing line is not an impenetrable barrier. However, your physical senses and the death consciousness will never be able to cross that dividing line. Therefore, to the physical senses and the death consciousness, there seems to be a barrier between the material world and the spiritual world."

The Ascended Master Jesus through the messenger Kim Michaels

https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-4/

"I would like you to consider why there is religion in this world. Do you think that God needs religion? Do you think that the Being who created an incredibly vast and complex universe has some kind of need to be worshiped by human beings living on a planet that is like a speck of dust in infinity? I am not hereby saying that human beings are not important to God. I am simply saying that God is an unlimited, infinite Being, and God does not have human needs. The idea that God needs to be worshiped is yet another example of backwards reasoning.

The simple fact is that God has no need to be worshiped by human beings. Religion was not created for God’s sake. It was created for your sake.

The simple fact is that God does not need religion. Human beings need religion, and it is very important that you understand why. God created you in his image and likeness. You have the capacity of consciousness to experience the fullness of God’s infinite Being. Yet as your lifestream decided to descend into the material universe, you faced a challenge that is quite severe.

You must understand that my Father’s house has many mansions. By that I mean that there many different levels of God’s creation. Modern scientists have found that the entire material universe is made from energy. Energy is vibration.

You know that your eyes can detect only the types of energy which you call visible light. You also know that there are many forms of light, and many other forms of energy, that your eyes cannot detect. Therefore, there are many different layers or levels of vibration. In fact, one might consider that the totality of God’s creation is a vast, but not unlimited, continuum of vibrations.

Visible light is simply part of a continuum of vibrations. Your eyes can see only one pocket of that continuum. Likewise, the material universe is simply one pocket in a larger continuum of vibrations. Your senses, and the lower consciousness of the human mind, can perceive and fathom only a small pocket of the continuum of vibrations that comprise God’s creation. That small pocket is what you call the material universe.

The only difference between visible light and invisible light is a difference in vibration. The only difference between the material universe and higher levels of God’s creation is a difference in vibration. The only difference between Heaven and earth is a difference in vibration.

There are no impenetrable barriers in God’s continuum of vibrations. There is a dividing line between the vibrations of the material universe and the vibrations of the lowest level of the spiritual universe, the level that is right above the material universe in vibration. That dividing line is not an impenetrable barrier. However, your physical senses and the death consciousness will never be able to cross that dividing line. Therefore, to the physical senses and the death consciousness, there seems to be a barrier between the material world and the spiritual world."

The Ascended Master Jesus through the messenger Kim Michaels

https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-4/

"It is completely and utterly amazing to me that someone can study my teachings, even the incomplete teachings found in the New Testament, and conclude that the only road to salvation goes through an outer organization and an outer doctrine. How can anyone fail to see that I did not come to create a totalitarian organization or to bring forth a closed and closed-minded outer doctrine?

Why do you think I repeatedly rebuked the religious authorities of my time? Why do you think these religious authorities considered me to be such a grave threat that they repeatedly plotted to kill my body and eventually succeeded? The authorities of the Jewish religion wanted to get rid of me because I was the ultimate threat to their power structure.

I rebuked those who set themselves up as the only doorway between human beings and God. They created a belief system which stated that no human being could get to God without going through the orthodox religion and its hierarchy of human beings. They created a belief system which stated that unless a person believed in the outer doctrines, that person would not be saved.

I came to overthrow that closed system. I came to denounce the people who had set themselves up as the link between God and the people. I came to overthrow the power structures and to expose the power plays. I came to restore the key of knowledge which these people had taken away in an attempt to control the population."

The Ascended Master Jesus through Kim Michaels

https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-3/

"I have been with this planet for a very long time. I have seen everything there is to see. I have seen every aspect of the lower state of consciousness that I call the death consciousness. If you desire to be my true disciple, you must realize that the central, in a way the only, key to discipleship under me is that you must overcome the death consciousness.

This is a twofold process. You must overcome the lower consciousness and at the same time you must unite with the higher consciousness. My beloved Paul said: “I die daily!” He meant that a part of his human mind, his death consciousness, died every day. Paul also said that you must put off the old human and put on the new human. He meant that you must put off the death consciousness and put on the Christ consciousness.

This is a process that will take time, and it must happen gradually. If you were to be stripped of the death consciousness all at once, your soul would be thrown into an identity crises. You would no longer know who you were; you would lose all sense of continuity and identity. You would literally go insane. This has in fact happened to people who discovered the spiritual path and attempted to force the process of spiritual growth. They attempted to take Heaven by force and in so doing they invoked so much light from Above that they were not able to hold that light. Instead of raising them up, the light damaged their sense of identity.

The very essence of my message is to point out to you that there is an alternative to the way of life practiced by most people on this planet. Some religious people claim that everything is subject to the will of God, and therefore there is nothing you can do to change who you are. God created you, and that is it. Some scientific authorities claim that your personality, your identity, is the product of environmental and hereditary factors over which you have no control. Both of these belief systems are incomplete.

Obviously, some of the characteristics of this universe are the products of the will of God. Therefore, your personality and individuality are to some degree affected by the will of God. Your personality and individuality are also affected by your heritage and the environment in which you grew up. However, the essential point that I am trying to get across is that you do not have to live the rest of your life as a slave of circumstances beyond your control. You have the potential to take control over your destiny and rebuild your identity. You have the potential, and it is a potential given to you by God himself, to reshape your destiny, to change your psychology and to remake your sense of identity in the image and likeness of God."

Dictation by Ascended Master Jesus, through Kim Michaels

https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-3/

"It is completely and utterly amazing to me that some people can seriously believe that the teachings I gave forth 2,000 years ago represent the ultimate or highest teachings that God could ever bring forth on this planet.

Let me make this absolutely clear. The teachings that I gave 2,000 years ago were not the highest or ultimate teachings that God can bring forth on this planet. My teachings were nothing more than the highest teachings that could be brought forth at the time, given humankind’s state of consciousness.

My teachings were incomplete, and they were limited in many ways. That limitation was not due to a limitation on the part of God or on the part of his mouthpiece, meaning myself. That limitation was due to the fact that humankind was not ready to receive a higher teaching. One might say that my teachings represent a measured response to a crisis. It was not the highest possible response; it was the highest practical response.

Today, humankind has progressed to a higher state of consciousness, and therefore I can now bring forth a higher teaching than I did 2,000 years ago. This book is but one chapter in my teachings for this new age.

Yet despite the fact that humankind has progressed, the people of today are still in a very limited state of consciousness. God is, and always has been, unlimited.

The gap between the limited consciousness of human beings and the unlimited consciousness of God, is, figuratively speaking, almost unlimited. Yet God created human beings in his own image and likeness. A human being has the capacity of consciousness to experience the fullness of God. Yet to experience that fullness a human being must rise above the state of consciousness that is dominated by limitations, relativity and mortality.

The true meaning of the statement that you cannot serve two masters is that you cannot be in two states of consciousness at the same time. The lower consciousness – what my beloved Paul called the “carnal mind” but which I prefer to call the “death consciousness” – simply cannot fathom the reality of God. It will never be able to fathom the reality of God."

Dictation by Ascended Master Jesus, through Kim Michaels

Link to dictation: https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-2-2/

The brutal fact about the current state of affairs on planet earth is that human beings have accepted so many lies, so many erroneous concepts, so many unbelievable ideas that even I, Jesus, find it difficult to know where to begin. You have grown up in a culture that is so permeated by erroneous concepts that one might say that your mind is encaged in a labyrinth. The labyrinth has many blind alleys, and it has only one way that leads to the center of being.

I clearly see that human beings are entrapped in a jungle of lies. I also know the truth and reality of God. The problem is that in trying to impart this truth to you, I must begin at your present level of consciousness. I cannot possibly give you truth in its purest form because in your present state of consciousness your imagination simply cannot cope with that truth. Likewise, your free will cannot accept a truth that is so different from the lies and errors that you have come to accept and that you have incorporated into the very fabric of your being—your sense of identity.

Please take a look at the Bible. Please recognize that the Law of Moses was given to a group of people who were trapped in a very low state of consciousness. That is why this law is a set of commandments, saying: “do this” and “don’t do that.” It was given to spiritual children who needed a very simple set of rules. It was aimed at changing their outer actions.

Now, compare the Law of Moses to the higher law that I brought forth in the Sermon on the Mount and other teachings. For example, I said that it is not enough to abstain from the outer act of adultery. You must overcome the state of consciousness that makes you desire to commit adultery. In other words, it is not enough that you do not commit an outer act that is wrong. You must rise above the state of consciousness in which you desire to commit such an act. My teachings attempted to transform people’s state of consciousness.

For anyone with an open mind, it should be easy to see that the teachings I gave 2,000 years ago represented a progression compared to the Law of Moses. The reason for this progression is that between the time of Moses and my appearance in Israel, humankind had progressed. Humankind had risen to a higher state of consciousness, and therefore people were now ready to receive a higher understanding and a higher teaching; even a higher law.

Dictation by Ascended Master Jesus, through Kim Michaels

Link to dictation: https://ascendedmasterlight.com/jesus-2-2/

"My beloved, there are quite a number of you who have followed these teachings for years, who have made significant progress in overcoming things in your psychology, most of you still have things in your psychology that you are not quite ready to look at. But you understand that there is a certain stage on the path where it is not only legitimate but absolutely necessary that there are certain things you do not look at in your psychology, because you are not ready to deal with it.

As we have said, there are 144 levels of consciousness. For each level, there is an illusion in your own psychology that you need to look at. But if you are at the 87th level, you are not ready to deal with the illusion at the 120th level. No one is. This is simply the mechanics of the path and you cannot blame yourself and you cannot blame others for not being at a higher level than where they are at.

What you can do is look at yourself and make a decision that you are willing to deal with the issues in your psychology that you are ready to deal with right now. And if you make that decision, you will know what those issues are. Because they will be affecting you every day and affecting how you feel about yourself and how you feel about other people and how you feel about life on this planet.

You see the next level, the second level of Christ discernment is the emotional level of sensing these energies. There are temporary vortexes that people are pulled into. But there are also ongoing emotional vortexes. There is an ongoing emotional vortex of anger throughout the world, but more in some regions than others. Again, the Middle East is an example of how this anger has been perpetuated from generation to generation for thousands of years.

There is another big vortex, which is sexual energy, where people are pulled into feeling an artificial need to have sex, promoted by movies, TV series, commercials, books, all of these things that make you feel like you should be having sex more often than you are, or you should be wanting to have sex all the time. And this of course, is not natural. It is not even natural at the physical level. But it is certainly not natural at the emotional level to have your base chakra constantly stirred up with sexual energy, so that you, as Astrea said in a previous webinar, are addicted to sex. This is also things you can look at and see how this might have affected you.

There is also in the seat of the soul chakra, there are certain vortexes that make you feel that you should be taking life seriously. You cannot be creative because creativity is not rational. It does not make money, it does not do anything. You cannot be playful anymore, you are an adult now. You cannot play anymore, you should not be like a child. There are these ongoing matrices that stir up the base chakra, the seat of the soul chakra and the solar plexus chakra in order to pull you into this negative reaction.

There is even an ongoing vortex that pulls on your heart chakra to distort love, where you should have a certain attitude towards love relationships, you should behave a certain way if you are a loving person, and it is absolutely wrong not to be a loving person. So, if somebody accuses you of this, you have to tie knots in yourself in order to not be accused of being an unloving person and all of these things.

These are things you can begin to look at in the more long term. But the first task is to look at yourself and see if you are being pulled into these solar plexus reactions of anger and agitation either on a personal level or on the level of society, certain religions, ideologies, political figures, what have you, that are pulling on you to feel anger against a certain scapegoat, a certain other group of people. This is clearly the most destructive example of these emotional vortexes, where you direct anger against other people, and even may be encouraging or performing violence against them. When anger builds to a certain level a large group of people on this planet cannot refrain from violence. Anger building to a certain critical intensity will lead to violence in at least a third of the people currently embodied on earth.

You, if you are serious about walking the path to Christhood, do not want to be among them. For this will not further your Christ discernment."
The Ascended Master Jesus through the messenger Kim Michaels

Full Dictation: https://ascendedmasterlight.com/pull-yourself-out-of-the-emotional-vortexes/