It
is time to understand my true message of oneness
A message from Jesus
Note: This dictation was delivered through Kim Michaels
during the Shangra-la Christmas, New Year’s conference, December
25, 2005 in Bogota, Columbia.
I am indeed the ascended Jesus Christ. I come to you on this day with
a mixture of joy and a mixture of sorrow. This is not the human sorrow
that you know. But I desire you to realize that even an ascended being
can feel something comparable to sorrow by watching the people on Earth
suffer needlessly because they have not understood the message that
could have set them free from all suffering. That message is the very
message written into every aspect of my life.
I feel a sense of sorrow on every Christmas season, because I see that
even though people come together in the spirit of giving, they come
together only to celebrate my birth, my entry into this world. Yet was
it really my entry into this world that was the most important part
of my life? Nay, it is not so.
And especially not when people celebrate my birth with elaborate rituals
and beliefs that make me seem even further away from them, as if I am
so far above them because I was born under such miraculous circumstances.
My beloved, when you hear the stories – that I was born of a virgin,
that a star, a physical star, appeared over my birthplace and that three
wise men from the orient came to greet my entry into this world –
surely you will feel that you are not important compared to me. Yet
my beloved hearts do you really think that that is how I want you to
feel?
Nay, I Jesus have no other desire than for you to feel and accept the
absolute fact that God loves you with the same infinite, unconditional
love with which he loves me. My beloved hearts, so many people around
the world look at my life and they see me as being above them. Yet did
I not declare my oneness with all life on many occasions? And truly,
I came as the selfless servant of life who has no desire to be elevated
above others, but only desires to elevate all life.
Is that not why I prayed to my father, saying that I, if I be lifted
up, will draw all men unto me (John 12:32)? Do you see, my beloved,
that I was not praying for God to elevate me above other people? I was
praying because I realized that I had the Christ potential and the potential
to become the way-shower for the age of Pisces. And thus, I desired
to fulfill that potential—not for selfish reasons, not to have
people look up to me, but so that I might serve as the instrument for
raising all life, for raising all people into the love and the joy that
truly is the Kingdom of God, so that they could understand that it is
the Father's good pleasure to give them the Kingdom.
Take me down from the pedestal
Oh can you not see that it is not my desire that so many people should
look at my life and say “Oh well, Jesus was so special, is it
any wonder that God gave him the Kingdom and invited him into his Kingdom?
But I am just a miserable sinner here on Earth and surely I cannot enter.”
My beloved, this is a burden to my heart, and if you love me, and if
you would help me lighten that burden, then you will overcome that belief
in your own being.
You will banish it from your being and replace it with the reality of
the oneness of all life. And then you will go out and share that realization
and that experience of the unconditional love of God with all whom you
meet. For truly, only when you share with others, when you seek to raise
up others, will your own growth and your own joy be full.
My beloved hearts, every aspect of my life was a teaching designed to
help all people overcome the consciousness of separation from God and
help them come closer to oneness with God. Yet so few of those who call
themselves Christians have understood this one teaching. If you imagine
that my entire life was a book, it is as if they are holding the book
in their hands but instead of reading the contents of the book, they
look only at the cover, at my entry into this world. And then they turn
the book over and look at the back cover, my exit from this world. It
is as if they think that my birth and my crucifixion were the only two
important aspects of my life.
Read the message of my life
Can you see that it is a certain disappointment to me that people will
not open the book of my life and read the message? Surely, many have
read the gospels that describe my life, but I tell you that the true
message of my life cannot be understood by reading the outer scriptures
with the outer mind. You must read beyond the words, you must read between
the lines, and you must understand that even though I came as a teacher,
I taught in a very special way. I did not teach primarily by giving
an outer teaching, although I did give outer teachings in parables.
My beloved hearts I came in the tradition of all true spiritual teachers
who have come to this planet. And we have all come to teach one message.
The problem on Earth is that people have separated themselves from oneness
with God. And the way to salvation, the way to enlightenment, the way
to a higher state of consciousness – or whatever you want to call
it – the way home is the way of overcoming separation and coming
into oneness with God. This is the essence of the message taught by
all true spiritual teachers throughout the ages.
Yet my beloved, this message cannot be taught only through words. It
can be taught fully only through example. That is why my life shows
the progression of a person who started out just like you. We may discuss
that I was born with a certain spiritual attainment that perhaps gave
me a head start. But you must see beyond the lie that I was born as
a fundamentally different being than yourselves. This is a most insidious
lie designed by the forces of anti-Christ to destroy my example, to
destroy my teaching. It has been reinforced my the mainstream Christian
churches for 2000 years now. And as I said earlier
this year, I truly am come to bring forth the judgment of the consciousness
that elevates me to being above all other human beings. And that judgment
will come into full manifestation on New Year’s Eve.
The turning point on the spiritual path
Yet my beloved, I desire to give you a teaching that you can contemplate,
so you begin to realize that I was not different from you in the sense
that I did not have to walk a gradual path in order to attain my Christhood.
I did indeed walk a gradual path, and a careful reading of the scriptures
and a little bit of reading between the lines will demonstrate that
I was not born perfect, that I was not born in the fullness of my Christhood
but that I went through many initiations in order to manifest my Christhood.
This is as is has been for many of you, for many students on the spiritual
path, whether they have been in this teaching or that organization,
whether it has been sponsored by the ascended masters or some other
teaching that has helped them grow. There are even many people on Earth
who do not belong to any spiritual or religious organization or teaching
but who are nevertheless walking the path of individual Christhood,
leading them back to a sense of oneness with all life, a sense of oneness
with God.
So I come to give you a discourse this day for those of you who have
been consciously walking the spiritual path for many years, whether
it be in this or that teaching or organization. What I am talking about
is those who have realized that there is a spiritual side to life and
that it is possible for them to raise their consciousness. I see millions
of people who have discovered the path in one form or another and who
have diligently followed that path, some for several decades. They have
put great effort into it, they have studied the path, they have been
willing to inconvenience themselves and give rituals of various kinds.
Yet I also see that many of them have reached a plateau, have reached
a certain point from where they find it difficult to progress. I even
see some who have started a downward spiral without realizing what is
happening to them. My beloved hearts, when you follow the spiritual
path, you will come to an essential turning point. And let me explain
the two phases of the ideal growth for a spiritual seeker.
When you first discover the path, it is natural that you are motivated
by a somewhat self-centered drive to raise your own consciousness, to
improve your own outer situation, to find the truth, to find the highest
spiritual teaching you can find and to solve various problems, from
overcoming disease or addictions to finding the ideal partner. These
are natural desires, yet they are not the motivation that can get you
to the very top of the spiritual path, because they are geared towards
raising up yourself as an individual being that you see as being separated
from all life.
So my beloved, for some time
– and for some people this might be years or even decades, and
for some it will be only months – it is acceptable to walk the
spiritual path based on this self-centered motivation. But there will
come the essential cut-off point, where, if you continue to walk the
path based on a self-centered motivation, you will no longer be walking
the true spiritual path that leads you closer to God. You will actually
be taking what the Bible calls “The way that seemeth right unto
a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
You will be taking what we might call the left-handed path, the path
of the black magicians and those who embody the consciousness of anti-Christ.
Raising yourself or raising all life
For what is the consciousness of anti-Christ? It is the consciousness
that sees the individual being as separated from God and thereby separated
from all life. And suddenly, the individual being begins to think that
it can elevate itself above other aspects of life, that it can elevate
itself to make itself look more important, more spiritual, more powerful,
more wise, even more loving than other parts of life. But this is not
done in order to raise up all life but in order to raise up only that
individual.
Do you see, my beloved, the essential teaching I am giving you here?
There is a point where it is necessary and acceptable that you seek
to raise up your individual being, because you must do what is necessary
to heal your psychological wounds, to pull yourself away from the mass
consciousness and any downward pull created by you in past lifetimes.
This can be a task that requires all of your concentration, and therefore
it is natural that you are focused on yourself and raising up your individual
being and your individual consciousness.
But my beloved, if you continue seeking to raise up only yourself, it
is inevitable that you will switch from the true path to the false path.
And I must tell you in all honesty that there are many people in the
world who call themselves true spiritual seekers, true Christians, true
Buddhists, true Muslims, true Hindus or even true students of the Ascended
Masters, yet they are still following the path based on the desire to
raise up their individual beings. And they have not even begun to understand
the need to broaden their sense of identity, so they see themselves
as one with all life.
Therefore, my beloved, when you look at any spiritual organization on
this planet, including the organizations that have been directly sponsored
by the Ascended Masters over the last century, you can see those who
have been in the organization, sometimes for decades, who have faithfully
met all of the outer requirements stated by that organization. Yet they
have done it for one reason only, to raise up themselves in comparison
to other people, so that they can create and maintain and reinforce
the illusion that they are more advanced, more spiritual, more wise,
more loving, more giving than other people in that organization or other
people in the world.
Some of these people may actually appear to be humble because they have
learned to play the game. Some of them, in fact all of them, believe
that they are humble, that they are spiritual, that they are loving.
Yet my beloved, they are the lawyers that I denounced 2,000 years ago.
Will you enter in?
You might recall that I talked about the key of knowledge (Luke 11:52)
and that the lawyers had not been willing to enter in, and that they
were seeking to stop others from entering in. Well my beloved, the key
of knowledge is the realization that the true goal of the spiritual
path – and the only key to salvation – is to come into oneness
with God and oneness with all life. Oneness with God as the God Above
and oneness with all life as the God in manifestation here below.
The lawyers have not understood or have not been willing to recognize
the key of knowledge, so they have not been willing to enter into oneness.
And therefore, they are using their spiritual teaching to raise up themselves
in comparison to others. And in so doing they are, in subtle and often
unrecognized ways, seeking to prevent other people from entering into
oneness. Because they do not want other people to exceed their own level
of spiritual growth, for if that were to happen, then they could no
longer maintain their illusion that they were more spiritual, more advanced
than others.
So you see, my beloved, when you walk the spiritual path from a self-centered
perspective, there will come a point where you cannot grow further.
Your growth will come to a halt. Most people do not recognize this with
their outer minds, but at deeper levels of their being they know they
are stuck, they are not growing. Yet they do not realize that the reason
they are not growing is that they have not let go of the illusion of
separateness, of trying to raise themselves up above others.
So because they are not willing to let go of this illusion, they are
attached to the feeling that they are more advanced than others. So
you see, my beloved, the mechanism that comes into play here, when the
person subconsciously knows that it cannot grow beyond its present level,
and when that person is attached to feeling better than others, then
the only way to maintain the illusion of being better than others is
to prevent others from growing!
Because if others were to continue on the true path of growth, they
would quickly exceed the lawyers who have stopped their own growth.
Do you see, my beloved, this mechanism? You need to learn to recognize
this mechanism. It is good if you can see it in others because truly
there are some who have taken this to the extreme, and you will see
them in every spiritual organization where they go around with an aura
of superiority, even if it be subtle. So it is good if you can recognize
it in those who are so extreme that it is obvious.
But I tell you, you must also learn to recognize it in yourself because
this very tendency, that I am talking about, is the essence of the ego.
And the ego of every human being is caught in this trap of not wanting
to grow, not wanting to elevate all life and therefore wanting to hold
back others. And my beloved, when you seek to hold back others, you
truly hold back yourself as well. It is inevitable.
As I have stated before through this messenger, the real message behind
my saying to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
is that whatever you do to others, you are inevitably doing to yourself
at a deeper level of your being. So if you seek to hold back others
from growing and coming into oneness with God, it is because you have
allowed your ego to stop your own growth at a certain level.
My beloved, it is most important that you uncover the subtle ways in
which the ego is trying to stop your growth or trying to stop the growth
of others. For if you do not, you will become stuck on the left-handed
path.
Raising your motivation
So what is the key to overcoming this problem? Well, it is to realize
that if you want to grow beyond a certain point, you must raise your
motivation for following the path. You must learn to recognize that
your ego is self-centered and that your ego is very good at using a
spiritual teaching in order to make it seem like it is such an advanced
student. You must learn to unmask this in yourself and then, instead
of feeling guilty, instead of coming down on yourself, you simply realize,
“Oh but this is just the ego playing its games, and I am more
than the ego, and I want to come up higher. I want to really take my
spiritual growth to the higher level that Jesus demonstrated.”
And in order to take your growth to that higher level, you must enter
into the sense of oneness with all life here below and realize that
you need to use what you have internalized in order to help others.
Only when you give out what you have received in the time you have followed
the spiritual path, will you take your growth to the next level. Because
it is only then that you multiply your talents.
Do you see, my beloved, that my parable about the talents is so fruitful
and vast and has so many meanings and interpretations. And one of them
is that when you are following the spiritual path based on the self-centered
motivation, seeking to raise up yourself only, there will come a point
where your growth stops and you have now buried your talents in the
ground. And so only when you raise yourself above that point, will you
multiply your talents. And only then can God multiply your own light,
your own growth, and take you to that higher level.
Simplicity is not so simple
This is the most essential teaching that you could possibly internalize
about the spiritual path. My beloved hearts, I see so many people who
find the teachings I have given through the messengers that we have
set before you. They find the websites, they find a book, they start
reading here and there. And the people I am talking about whose growth
has come to a halt, almost all of them have the same reaction, “Oh
but I already know all of this. And I have found even more advanced
teachings, that give me a far more advanced intellectual understanding
of the path and the spiritual reality. This is too simple for me.”
And so they move on. Yet I must tell you that the teaching I have just
given you here, and the teaching that we have given through these messengers,
is the most profound teaching given on this planet in recorded history,
because no other teaching has exposed the very core of the spiritual
path with such directness and such simplicity.
And what is the effect of the simplicity? Ah my beloved, simplicity
is not nearly as simple as you might think. For truly, that which appears
simple, appears simple only to the ego, to the intellect, to the outer
mind. And it appears simple because the ego and the intellect cannot
do what they always seek to do, which is to interpret a teaching in
such a way that it makes them seem so advanced because they can understand
this teaching.
Do you see, my beloved, that there is a danger for those who have followed
the spiritual path for a long time but have not truly entered into the
inner path of oneness? They seek, inevitably, a higher and higher teaching
just as an addict seeks a greater and greater fix. And they think that
in order to find the higher teaching, it has to be something that is
difficult to understand, because the ego and the intellect reasons that
the more difficult it is to understand, the more advanced it must be.
And so they become almost addicted to seeking spiritual teachings, and
they overlook the very pearls that are so simple that the ego cannot
manipulate and misinterpret it because there is no room for misinterpretation—if
you are willing to look at the teaching and truly listen to what it
says.
My beloved hearts, be not as the lawyers. And if you have been caught
in the pattern of being a lawyer, then be willing to look in the mirror
and say, “This is not why I have striven for these many years.
I have not put forth so much effort on the spiritual path in order to
end up as the lawyers who rejected the Living Christ. I must change
my motivation, I must raise my motivation, I must come up higher. I
must look beyond the ego itself, the self-centeredness, for I will have
no part of it anymore. I am disgusted with that selfishness, that self-centeredness,
I am disgusted with the ego's incessant attempts to elevate itself above
others. I want to find the true path that Jesus and the Buddha and all
other teachers have demonstrated. I want to look at Mother Teresa who
lived an entire life of selflessness, I want to look at Jesus, Mahatma
Gandhi, the Buddha and other great examples of people who lived a life
of selfless service. This is what I want and I am willing to be reborn
and to rethink every aspect of my approach to the spiritual path in
order to really come up to that level of selflessness and service to
all life.”
What can God do for others through me?
My beloved hearts, the true spiritual teachers of this planet have always
taught the path of oneness, and an essential aspect of this path is
selflessness, where you realize that you are one with all life and therefore
the only way to truly raise yourself is to raise all of life. For only
then will you have fully grown. My beloved hearts this is the essential
path—selfless service.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me—that is how you must feel, and you
must then look around you and say, “How can I help raise up other
parts of life?” And it might give you some humility to take a
look at the many people in the world who are seeking to solve concrete
physical problems, be it starvation, poverty, child abuse, disease or
any other things. I must tell you, my beloved, there are many people
in the world who are working selflessly to improve the conditions of
humankind. And even though they are not following an outer spiritual
teaching or belonging to a particular religion, they have internalized
the path of selfless service and they are demonstrating it in their
lives.
So when you recognize this, you might be humble and ask yourself, “I
have followed the spiritual path for some time now. What have I done
to elevate the rest of life?” And I am not hereby saying that
you need to go out and battle these concrete physical problems, for
there are other people whose mission and karma it is to solve these
problems. But what I suggest you do is that you say, “How can
I use my experience on the spiritual path? How can I use the teachings
that I have internalized and the love I have garnered to inspire other
people to awaken to the spiritual path, to the spiritual side of life?”
I am not hereby talking about getting people to join a specific church,
religion or organization, I am talking in the broadest sense of helping
people discover the universal path that transcends outer teachings and
organizations. What can God do through you to elevate other people and
help them grow spiritually? That is the question to ponder. And then
you need to look at your approach to the spiritual path and change it,
so that you do not seek to elevate the individual self but seek to elevate
all.
Why the first shall be last
My beloved, if you look at spiritual organizations, you will see that
there are many people who have put forth a great effort. They have taken
up leadership positions in those organizations. And many of them have
been responsible for putting forth the effort that has helped those
organizations grow to where they are today. Yet too many of these leaders
have become stuck in the consciousness that I am talking about here,
of seeking to elevate themselves and their organization, building the
subtle sense of superiority that they belong to the most important spiritual
organization on the planet—because their organization has the
highest teachings on the planet or is sponsored by the Ascended Masters
or whatever outer characteristic they use to build a sense of superiority
that truly can spring only from the ego.
And so you see those who have taken up leadership positions and consider
themselves worthy to hold a leadership position in a spiritual organization.
Yet I must tell you frankly that nobody who has not stepped onto the
path of selfless service is worthy to hold any position of authority
or leadership in any spiritual organization whatsoever. That is why
I said to my disciples, “He who would be greatest among you, let
him be the servant of all” (Matthew 20:27).
But you see, my beloved, what I am asking you to do today is to realize
that what I said to my disciples 2,000 years ago was a reflection of
humankind’s consciousness at the time. It is now 2,000 years later.
We are now on the brink of entering the Aquarian age, and if you want
to be a true spiritual seeker in the Aquarian age, you need to raise
your consciousness beyond what it was in the past. And you need to raise
your consciousness beyond the entire level of consciousness that compares
itself to others.
Do you see, my beloved, that my disciples, even though they had followed
me for three years and had the opportunity to internalize my teachings
through my example, by being in my Presence, they had not truly internalized
my message. They were fighting amongst themselves about who would be
the leader among them when I passed from the screen of life. Can you
see that in so doing they were stuck in the duality consciousness of
comparing, of thinking that one person was more important than others,
that one position in a spiritual movement is more important than others.
And thus, by attaining this position, you have elevated yourself above
others and now your ego can feel safe that it must be saved when you
hold such a high position. Can you see that this is simply the consciousness
of duality?
And therefore, I tell you that in the organizations we are now sponsoring,
the Shangra-la and the Guardians
of the Mother Light, this state of consciousness will not be tolerated.
We will, as long as we have messengers who are able to receive our word
in a pure form, mercilessly expose those who come to our organizations
with this state of consciousness. They will not be allowed to enter
and attain leadership positions.
The requirement is clear. You must be committed to overcoming the ego.
You must be committed to walking the path of selfless service. For truly,
as Archangel
Michael has said, it is not the outer results you achieve that are
the most important to us. What is most important to us is the sense
of inner oneness with each other, with the Ascended Host and with God
within you. This is what matters to us, because we desire to create
a spiritual movement that will demonstrate the path of selfless service,
as it has not been demonstrated for the past 2,000 years and beyond.
This is our commitment from Above and we are looking for those who will
make that same commitment here below.
Our real goal is oneness
Let me state something very, very clearly. In past organizations too
many students have become trapped in thinking that because their organization
was sponsored by the Ascended Host, it had to be the most important
organization on the planet, it was the essential organization for saving
the world and bringing in the Golden Age of Aquarius. And therefore,
the organization itself became a goal instead of a means to an end.
Suddenly people started thinking that the most important thing was to
make the organization grow and to get the teachings out no matter how
they did so. People began thinking that they did not have to internalize
the teachings but that it was more important to focus on outer achievements,
giving so and so many decrees, putting on so and so many lectures, selling
so and so many books. My beloved hearts, this is not important to our
new movement! It is not the outer results we look for.
We do not care how many members you attract, how many books you sell,
how many people you reach, how many people you convert, how much money
you have, how much property you can buy. We do not care about these
outer things, for we would rather have a few people who would come into
total oneness with each other and total oneness with the Ascended Host.
For I will tell you that if even a small number of you in embodiment
would come into that oneness, then through your oneness we could save
the world.
I will not tell you how big that number is, but I will tell you that
compared to the size of many spiritual and religious organizations in
the world today, it is a very small number. In a sense we might say
that the number is one. For if we have a number of people who have come
into oneness, then we have the oneness of God in manifestation on Earth.
And the oneness of God is always a majority, is always the decisive
force that can solve any problem. For as I said, “With man this
is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
With the consciousness of separation, where people seek to elevate themselves
rather than elevating all life, it is impossible to solve the many problems
you see in the world. But when people come into the consciousness of
oneness, the power of God through them can solve all of the problems
you see in the world.
Thus, this is what we desire to see for you. We applaud you, those of
you who have already demonstrated that you are willing to come into
oneness and use this teaching as a tool to expand your oneness. We see
you not only here, not only here in Bogotá, Columbia where you
have come together in a group, but we see you around the world, many
of you sitting individually, but you come together in other ways through
the means of communication here below, or you come together in the spiritual
realm, in the spiritual sense, through a sense of oneness that transcends
all physical means of communication.
We applaud those of you who have started walking that path of oneness.
And I hope that my discourse today will clarify for you what the path
is really all about. I even hope against hope that my discourse will
reach some of the lawyers who are stuck on the path of separation and
awaken them and make them realize that no matter what they have done
in the past, they can transcend that state of consciousness and they
can be welcomed into oneness—as they are willing to raise their
motivation and their approach.
So my beloved hearts, I now bless the communion and I hope you will
partake of this communion with a greater sense of why Christ gave his
body and blood so that you might absorb it, and through absorbing the
consciousness of Christ, come into oneness with Christ, oneness with
God and oneness with God in each other and in all life. Thus I, Jesus
Christ, charge this communion with the Spirit of Oneness that I AM,
with the Spirit of Oneness with which I have been one for now 2,000
years, with the Spirit of Oneness with which every Ascended Master has
become one and remains one.
Thus, I say, "It is done. It is finished!"
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