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Presence
of Victory, July 3, 2005
There will come
a time of decision
There will come a point beyond which you cannot move, until you move
from within yourself. There are many forces of darkness who will gladly
take away your victory, and they tell you the lie that someone or
something outside yourself can guarantee your victory. That may be
an outer church, it may be an outer guru, it may even be the false
image, the idol, of Jesus Christ that has been raised up by these
orthodox churches for so many hundreds of years.
Jesus Christ cannot give you your personal victory. And your personal
victory is the very meaning of salvation. Therefore, Christ can lead
you to the living waters but he cannot make you drink. You must drink
and become who you are. How else can you win your personal victory?
And what folly it is to think that Jesus Christ, with all his love
for humanity, would want for you to have anything less than your personal
victory, coming from within yourself. That is why he told you that
the kingdom of God is within you.
And so awaken, people on Earth, and realize the true teachings of
Christ that truly are the only key to the victory of the Piscean Age.
The inner teachings of Christ, whereby you realize that when it comes
right down to it, the difference between a Christed Being and a person
who is trapped in duality is one thing—decision.
It will not happen by some force of magic. It will not happen by Jesus
Christ appearing in the sky and rolling up the world as a scroll.
It will happen for you when you make the decision to take that final
step into the God Flame that you are, allowing all that is less to
be burned away by the flame that is you.
Truly, not everyone is ready for that final step and that is why the
Ascended Host come to you and offer you a path that you can follow
step by step, and thereby rise until you are ready. But on that path
of Christhood, there are certain points, where you make bigger decisions.
The entire path is a string of decisions that you must make. And your
magnificent discussion*** this morning showed that most of you here
fully understand that Christhood is self-transcendence and that the
key to self-transcendence is that you make the decision to let go
of a former limitation that you accepted. Let it go. Let it die on
the cross, and then you are reborn into a higher sense of identity.
And the path to Christhood has many small steps, whereby you gradually
rise. But there will come points on that path, where a small decision
is no longer enough. In order to rise to the next plateau, to the
next level, you must make a big decision, a big decision to let go
of something in your former life, in your former sense of self, to
leave it behind to let it die, to step out of that mold and to follow
the Living Christ, whether he appears within or appears without in
the form of a person who is a true spiritual teacher, such as Jesus
Christ.
Let the Living Christ call you
Truly, study how Jesus called his disciples. Imagine yourself going
about your business in your daily life, and suddenly a person comes
up to you with intense, burning eyes and says, “Leave your nets
and follow me!” And then he turns around and walks away without
looking back.
When you are at a plateau, where you need to step up to a higher level,
then – in some form or another – the teacher will come
to you, be it within or without, perhaps as a person, perhaps as a
book, perhaps as a voice in your head that you know is the true voice.
And that teacher will say, “Leave your nets and follow me!”
And that is all he will say. Not necessarily in those exact words
but he will give you a clear instruction that cannot be misunderstood
or misinterpreted.
And so the question is, “What are you going to do?” Are
you going to follow the teacher, even though you do not know where
the path leads you? Or are you going to cling to what is familiar
and ask for guarantees or time to prepare. You see, the eternal motto
of the Ascended Host is that when the student is ready, the teacher
appears. So when that situation does happen to you, you are ready
at inner levels. Your ego, of course, is not ready – and doesn’t
think you are ready – and will come up with a million excuses
of why you are not ready and why you should not follow this person,
or this teacher or this voice inside of you.
Yet I must tell you that when Jesus called his disciples, he did call
more than 12 disciples. And not all of them heeded the call. But those
who did heed the call did so because they instantly followed Christ.
They did not think, they did not plan, they did not prepare, they
did not look back. They simply dropped their nets and they followed
Jesus.
There will come a point, where you will need to do this to step up
to a higher level. This messenger, many years ago, had a discussion
with a minister in a Lutheran church.**** And this very topic of how
Jesus called his disciples was brought up. And the minister, who supposedly
represented Christ, said, “Oh, I am sure the disciples had a
long time to prepare to follow Jesus. They had at least a year to
get their things in order.” And this shows you the state of
consciousness of orthodox Christianity today.
They have taken out the essence of the guru-chela, the master-disciple,
relationship. They have put Jesus on a pedestal. And in order to do
so, they have also elevated his disciples, so that they could follow
Christ directly, but you cannot—because you are miserable sinner,
so you need to follow the outer church instead of following the Living
Christ.
Stop believing in the orthodox lie
That is the most atrocious lie perpetrated upon humanity over the
past 2,000 years. You are all here because you know in your hearts
that you volunteered to play a part in exposing that lie to the people
on Earth. In demonstrating that you will not believe in that lie,
you will not let it limit you—you will step away from these
false teachers, these blind leaders. You will step out of their churches,
and you will shout the message from the housetops that Christ is risen
in you, and that Christ is real and that all have a Christ potential.
That is what will bring about the second coming of Christ that is
the ultimate victory of the Piscean age and the ultimate open door
to the Aquarian age consciousness.
A critical mass must be reached before you will see physical manifestations
of the Golden Age. That critical mass has been brought much closer
by the vigils you have given to Mother Mary’s rosaries. It will
be brought even closer through the vigils you will continue to give.
Yet I must tell you that there will come a point where no further
progress can be made, until you make the decision to let your former
sense of self die on the cross. You simply let it drop as the disciples
dropped their nets, and you turn around and follow Christ.
You must love something more than you love the ego
And how can you make that decision, when you are so involved with
your lives and the things of the world and your former consciousness?
You can do so only when you love something more than what you are
giving up. That is why so many people get stuck at a certain level
of the spiritual path.
And I must tell you that when I survey planet Earth today, I see millions
of earnest spiritual seekers who are following this or that organization
or guru or this or that teaching. They are sincere, they are earnest,
they are following what is not a false teaching but is not the ultimate
teaching either. Because the teaching does not directly teach that
there does come a point where you must transcend, you must go beyond
what you thought was enough.
This is the essence of self transcendence. You see, my beloved hearts,
when we give you any concept related to spiritual growth, or salvation,
or Christhood – any concept we give you – the duality
consciousness, the serpentine mind, will immediately start twisting
that concept. And it will set up an idol, saying, “As long as
I do this and this and this, I will be saved, I will become the Christ,
I will make whatever goal has been defined.”
Yet the true goal of all spiritual seekers is to continue to self-transcend.
The consciousness of antichrist would prefer to have all people on
Earth remain completely ignorant of the path of self-transcendence.
But for those that they cannot keep in ignorance about the path, they
attempt the next best thing—that is to make them follow the
way that seems right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways
of death.
And the path that seems right unto a man is simply this, “There
must come a point where I am saved, where I am the Christ, where I
am perfect, where I am immortal. And then I will be home free, and
I can sit down and relax and I no longer need to grow and transcend.”
This is the dream of the carnal mind, that some kind of plateau is
reached and from then on no more growth is possible, no more self-transcendence
is needed. This is what the false teachers will tell you over and
over and over again. “We have the truth. Our church is the only
one. As long as you are a member of this church, you will be saved,
you are home free. Don’t challenge your ego. Don’t transcend
yourself. Don’t let go of the past. Just be comfortable. You
are saved. You have it made.”
There are millions of versions of this lie, and they all do the same
thing. They seek to lull people into the state of consciousness where
they think they don’t need to transcend themselves and come
up higher. They don’t need to take that big step forward that
brings them to an entirely new level that they could hardly even envision
before.
I am here to challenge the momentum of anti-victory
This is the anti-victory that has been rampant on this Earth for thousands
of years, and I am here to challenge it. And I – because I love
you – will start by challenging it in you.
Whatever you think is enough, I serve you notice this moment, “It
is not enough!” Because what is required of you is ongoing,
perpetual self-transcendence. Do you think it would be right for a
river to say, “I have flowed along long enough, I am going to
stop right here.” Nay, because at that moment, the river would
die, because the river is the ever-moving stream.
And thus, you are created as the offspring of God. You were created
to be a co-creator with God and take part in the ever-flowing River
of Life that is God’s creation, for in God’s creation
nothing is stationary. All is moving and transcending and even God
itself, the Creator itself, is transcending all the time. And thus
if you are part of that river of life, you are transcending. You never
stop. You never become attached. You never say, “I have done
enough.”
This, however, does not mean that you come from fear or a sense of
lack or a sense that you are not good enough or that nothing you do
is good enough. The entire shift in consciousness that you need to
make is the shift that because life is an ongoing process of self-transcendence,
there is no ultimate goal that will stop the self-transcendence. And
when you fully accept this one fact, you realize that there is no
point in feeling that you are not worthy because you have not reached
the ultimate level that isn’t there.
Allow yourself to feel the victory
Do you see my point? You can go on for eternity, feeling you are not
there and you are not worthy. And you will be chasing that carrot
because you will never, ever, catch up to the ultimate. So, the change
is simple. Allow yourself to know that the path is an ongoing process
of self-transcendence. And each time you transcend yourself, you have
touched the hem of Christ’s garment. You have touched the hem
of the garment of the Presence of Victory that I AM.
And you should allow yourself to feel that joy of the Lord, of having
come up higher. And as you begin to make this shift in consciousness,
you will sense God’s unconditional love. And there is no greater
love than the love of a spiritual teacher, who sees the student take
that very next step and leave behind the old state of consciousness.
That is the greatest love you will experience. And when you begin
to experience that love, there will come a point, where you suddenly
look at your life, and you look at planet Earth and you say, “There
is nothing in this world that compares with the love I feel for my
God, for my teacher. Thus, there is nothing in this world that I would
rather have than the unconditional love of God.”
And thus, you become willing to give up anything in this world to
experience that love. And that is when the path ceases to be a struggle,
and it becomes a joyful walk. It ceases to be the Via Dolorosa that
the churches have again set up as an idol, thinking they should focus
on the suffering of Christ.
Suffering is not necessary
Their mistake is to think that the suffering was necessary. Yet the
suffering only comes from an attachment. Something that makes you
attached, so that you cannot let go of the former self and take that
giant leap to the next plateau. For truly, to let go you must be willing
to let your former sense of self die. And if you will look at Jesus’
life without the glasses of idolatry, you will see that he faced the
exact same decisions that you will face.
And even when he was hanging on the cross, he was faced with a decision.
And in his mind, he had an expectation of what should happen, and
suddenly he realized that that expectation would not be fulfilled,
because God would not come and save him. And at that moment Jesus
realized that he would have to die on the cross. And for some brief
moments, even Jesus hung on to the physical life. And then, finally,
he surrendered, and he gave up the ghost of his former expectation.
He let his body die on the cross, as a symbol for letting a part of
your ego die on the cross. And because he was willing to let the former
state die, he was reborn into the resurrection, that is the eternal
life.
This is the process you must follow when you realize that Jesus was
the example, the wayshower, and not the idol to be worshiped. And
I can assure you, that the decisions you face will be [no more or]
no less difficult than the decisions faced by Jesus. So many think
it was easy for him. But if you read the scriptures carefully, you
will see that it was far from easy. And you can take some comfort
in that, and realize that it is a difficult decision, but that it
can be done.
And you can even take some comfort in saying, “But I can learn
from Jesus' example. I can learn that if I can tune in to the love
from Above, then I do not have to feel attached to the former. I can
let it die without resistance, without a struggle.” And the
less attachment you feel, the more willing you are to come to that
point of saying, “I recognize I have come to a turning point
where I need to rise higher, and I need to let go of this old self.”
Welcome the big decisions
When you recognize this consciously, and have the momentum of love,
you can let it go without the suffering, the pain, the going back
and forth, the arguing with yourself, reasoning whether you should
do this or that. Instead, it just drops from you.
You keep your eye on Christ, and you follow Christ. And before you
know it, you look back and you say, “But that wasn’t such
a big decision—why did it seem so hard at the time?” And
when you have done this a number of times, you build the momentum
of victory. And now you see the decision coming. You welcome it instead
of resisting it. And because you are not resisting it, you do what
Jesus
said at Easter—you own it.
You own the condition that you need to surrender. And when you fully
own it, and are no longer resisting it, then you can let it go with
ease. And it drops as the scales fall from the eyes of those who are
blind. It drops away, and you see the new day. And suddenly, you are
spiritually reborn into a new sense of self. And did not Jesus tell
Nicodemus that unless a man is reborn, he cannot enter the kingdom
of Heaven (John 3:1). And this truly is a spiritual rebirth, and not
the physical rebirth that Nicodemus – as a symbol for the human
consciousness – could envision.
Let it go! Let it drop. Learn to recognize when it is time to take
a major leap forward on your path—and then take it with joy.
Welcome it. Anticipate it. See it as the doorway to a greater freedom,
the freedom of a new sense of self as a co-creator with God, basking
in the Light of the God of Freedom for the Earth—Saint Germain.
Basking in the radiance of the love of Jesus, who is your forerunner
on the path. And basking in the warm glow of the love of Mary, who
is there to congratulate you any time you take that step higher. And
I, too, will greet you when you make those important decisions. And
I will respectfully let Mary get there first . . .
[Audience laughs.]
. . . for I know that my time will come.
Copyright
© 2010 by Kim Michaels |
