Be
free as a little child
A message from Saint Germain. This dictation was delivered
during the Shangra-la conference in Emigrant, Montana, October 21, 2006.
My beloved hearts, Saint Germain I am, and I am here to greet you in
the Flame of Freedom. Thus, my beloved, what do we of the ascended masters
desire to see for our students, for our chelas? Well, my beloved, I
can assure you that each of the seven chohans of the seven rays desires
to see you benefit from the best qualities of his or her ray.
Thus, my beloved, as the master on the seventh ray – even though
Kuan Yin is presently presiding as the chohan – I indeed desire
all of you to be free, to experience the freedom of being in the Flame
of Freedom. Not in the sense that you see that freedom in opposition
to bondage, but you transcend the duality in which freedom has an opposite,
and you come into that Flame
of Being Freedom.
The false concept of freedom
My beloved, how can you become free? Well, you need to understand freedom,
at least as a start. And so you need to realize that there are many
false concepts of freedom circulating on this planet. And the most subtle
of all of them is the one promoted by the false teachers, namely that
freedom can only come when you can do anything you want. And my beloved,
the only reason this illusion has such a hold on so many people is because
the Earth is currently so dense, and humankind’s consciousness
so dense, that so many people do not recognize – do not experience
intuitively – the direct relationship between their actions and
the reaction from the universe. They do not experience directly the
reality of the law of action and reaction, the law of karma.
So my beloved, how can you have an illusion that freedom means you can
do anything you want? Well, you can have it only when you deny karma.
For when you know the
law of karma, you know that every action has an opposite reaction—at
least when that action is taken from the consciousness of duality. And
so, my beloved, what is truly going on is that those beings who
fell from a higher realm – in their rebellion against God
and against God’s vision, will and law – well they have
attempted to create the illusion that you can escape the reaction to
your actions, that you can escape your karma.
And thus, my beloved, I must tell you that there are indeed some among
the most "sophisticated” among these beings who know that
karma is a reality and that you can never escape the consequences of
your actions. Yet they also know that if they can get other people to
accept the illusion that actions don’t have consequences, that
you can do whatever you want and get away with it, then they can get
some of these people to go along with their schemes. And that means
that the people who go along with the fallen angels, the false leaders,
become partly responsible for the karma created as a result of that
state of consciousness.
And that means that those who are at the top of the pyramid can avoid
reaping all of the karma, because those below them take on most of it.
And so they can dodge that karma and avoid having the return, because
those who are below them, those who are their followers, are bearing
the brunt of the burden. This is very similar to what you have seen
in many cultures, such as the feudal societies in Europe, where you
had a king or a duke or a master who owned – practically –
the people below him. And those people were the ones who bore the brunt
of the physical burden of raising crops and providing the riches that
allowed the leader to sit in his castle and become fat on the labor
of others.
And so this is a physical representation of what is going on in the
hidden realms, in terms of certain false teachers, false leaders, who
are getting other people to follow them blindly into that state of consciousness
of rebelling against the law of karma. They have created the false sense
of freedom, and thus they can sit there as the leader while their followers
carry the brunt of the karmic burden. So this is why these insidious
lies have been spread and continue to be spread, so that someone can
set himself up as a guru and have followers, who then bear the burden
of the karma made through his selfish actions and through the spreading
of the false teachings he is bringing forth.
No action without reaction
So when you realize that the law of karma does indeed work, and that
no action can be taken without generating a reaction from the universe,
then you realize that you need to refine your concept of freedom. For
it no longer makes sense to say that freedom means that you can do anything
you want.
For my beloved, God has given you free will, so you can literally do
anything you want. But you can never escape the consequences, the karma
of your action. So if you are willing to pay the price, then you can
indeed do anything you want, so that you fulfill those desires, those
selfish desires, until you tire of them. And hopefully, you tire of
them before you have made so much karma that you have no chance of balancing
it in the time that is left for you.
Yet my beloved, it should be obvious that neither God nor we of the
Ascended Host desire to see anyone be trapped on this treadmill of karma,
of making more and more karma while sticking your head in the sand and
denying that you are making karma. So we desire you to realize what
it truly means to be free.
The true definition of freedom is that you realize that you are not
a separate being who exists independently, that you realize that no
man is an island because you are, your lower being is, the feminine
polarity to the masculine polarity of your I
AM Presence and spiritual self.
And when you recognize this, you realize that freedom comes at two levels.
At the higher level of freedom, you have the decisions made by your
own higher being, which sets certain parameters for what you want to
accomplish on Earth, not only when you came the first time but also
in this particular lifetime. And so, when you bring your lower being,
your conscious self, into alignment with that will of your own higher
being, then you have outer parameters for what is your goal in life.
And when you stay within those outer parameters, virtually anything
you do within those parameters will contribute to your spiritual growth
and the fulfillment of your divine plan. And what does that mean, my
beloved? Well, it means that when you have aligned your lower being,
your conscious self, with the will of your own higher being, when you
have made that commitment to staying within those parameters, well then
my beloved, you are free to do anything you want within that framework.
And when you do so, you will not make karma and you will not hinder
the fulfillment of your divine plan. Yet you still have immense freedom
for how to specifically fulfill your divine plan or fulfill certain
desires you have—the freedom from which will ultimately contribute
to your spiritual freedom and your ascension.
The freedom of the childlike mind
So my beloved, when you understand this, you realize that the true freedom
you can enjoy as a human being in embodiment on Earth – or should
I say as a spiritual being embodied in a human body – the true
freedom you can enjoy is in essence the freedom of a child, the freedom
of a child who has been placed in a safe environment by a loving parent
or teacher. And so within that safe environment, there are no dangerous
things that can hurt the child, but there are many different forms of
toys or crafts or lessons that the child can learn. And so, once the
child is in that environment, the child can choose for itself and it
has unlimited possibilities for choosing, but no matter what it chooses,
it will not hurt itself, it will not hurt others and it will, indeed,
grow from the experience.
And this, my beloved, is one interpretation of Jesus’ wonderful
statement that unless you become as little children, ye shall in no
wise enter the kingdom of Heaven. For truly, you can see that the kingdom
of Heaven is a symbol for a state of consciousness. And it is precisely
the state of consciousness I have described, where your conscious self
has come into such alignment with, such oneness with, your own higher
being that you – without even having to make a decision about
it – you stay within that framework of your own higher will.
And therefore, you are now free to play as the innocent child, who really
has not a care in the world. And this, of course, is that state of freedom
that you see in many children, who are not yet burdened by the adult
consciousness. They are open, loving, creative, free to just enjoy life
without being burdened by so-called responsibilities, without having
to deal with what adults mistakenly call “the real world”
but which is truly a world of their own making. A world where they create
their own suffering through the dualistic struggle that they perpetuate
lifetime after lifetime.
So my beloved, we desire all of you here below to attain that freedom,
that alignment with your own higher being, so that you can now be as
the free, innocent children who can look at the Earth as a playground
and joyfully explore, follow your heart’s desire and within the
framework of your higher will do whatever your conscious self desires,
for it will all lead you toward your goal.
How religion can take away your freedom
So my beloved, what is the one condition that prevents so many people
from attaining that state of childlike innocence, even as adults? Be
honest with yourselves, beloved, and look at your own life, look at
the people you know, whether they have followed this spiritual organization
or that spiritual organization, or this or that religion.
Be willing to recognize that in spiritual and religious circles, there
is a very clear and obvious tendency that people feel very burdened,
feel a need to be very serious and to take life and the spiritual path
or salvation very seriously. And so they turn the spiritual path into
a state of stress instead of being like the joyful children, who joyfully,
lovingly run to the Living Christ and sit at his feet, sometimes not
even listening to his words but just gazing into his eyes and absorbing
the vibration of the Living Christ, thereby internalizing it and coming
closer to oneness with it.
Well, the one condition you see in so many people who are spiritual
and religious is that they have come to believe that they need to take
spirituality so seriously, that they need to accept some kind of standard,
compared to which they judge everything and everyone. And so when their
own behavior does not live up to that standard, they feel a need to
judge and condemn themselves or feel guilty. And of course, in engaging
in these feelings, immediately the innocence of the child, the childlike
mind, is lost and cannot manifest.
And they also often feel a need to look upon the actions of others and
judge them according to this standard they have accepted. And so, instead
of looking in the mirror, they look at the splinter in the eye of their
brother and they judge everything according to some standard. And my
beloved, if you will be free of this, one way to do so is to start realizing
that you are doing this and then start becoming more aware of what standard
you actually have.
What is the standard you are using to judge everything? Where did it
come from? And then, my beloved, if you start looking at that standard
and comparing it to the teachings of the Christ, the teachings of the
Buddha or the modern teachings of the ascended masters, you will be
able to see that that standard could not have come from an ascended
being who is beyond duality. For truly, as we have now said many times,
we do not judge anyone, we do not condemn, we do not feel threatened
by anything, so we have no need to control.
Thus, my beloved, we of the Ascended Host do not have a fixed standard
for how our students should behave, for we see each student as a unique
individual, and we want you to be free to be who you are, to express
not only your God Flame but also the divine individuality anchored in
your I AM Presence and the individuality that your conscious self has
created through your sojourn in the material universe. As long, of course,
as that individuality is within the framework of your higher being and
contributes to your growth.
Let not spirituality become a straightjacket
So you see, there are some people who believe that when you enter a
spiritual or religious organization, it is as if you have to put on
a straightjacket. And you have to come into alignment with a standard
that everyone else is to follow as well, so that all move in the same
way, almost like robots who mechanically move along and recite whatever
prayers or rituals and blindly confess their faith in whatever doctrines
are accepted in the organization. And thereby, people become literally
like automatons, who bear no resemblance to the self-aware, creative
beings that God created, who bear no resemblance to the Living Christ.
And yet they think that if they keep marching blindly along, following
the blind leaders, they will one day suddenly wake up, and “Puff,
now I am in Heaven.” Yet my beloved, you will not get to Heaven
by following the crowd, by following an outer standard. You will get
to Heaven only by being yourself, by following your higher self, by
being that higher self in action and expressing it through you. That
is how you will be in Heaven, for Heaven is a state of consciousnes—of
oneness, of integration between your higher and lower being. And that
is the state of ultimate freedom, of being free, of being freedom itself
in expressing your God Flame and your individuality.
So this, of course, is what we desire to see for all of our students,
and as an absolute requirement for moving toward that freedom, you must
heed El Morya’s warning about the state of judgment, of judgmentalness,
that causes you to compare everything to this standard that really is
not clearly defined. And if you look at it closely, you see that it
is illogical and often comes from people who are very self-centered,
egotistical, judgmental and are so anchored in fear that they have a
need to control everything. And so they invent this standard as a means
of control, as a means of comparison.
So my beloved, be willing to admit if you have been affected by this
consciousness, which as I said pervades most of the spiritual and religious
organizations on this planet. Be willing to admit that it comes from
duality and then use the tools we have given you to rise above it.
An overlay in the mind
For let me tell you with absolute certainty that as long as you feel
the need to judge anyone, including yourself, you are not free to be
yourself. For you see, my beloved, what happens when you judge is that
there is an overlay in the mind, in the analytical mind. It is like
a computer running, and whatever happens in your life, whatever input
comes to you, is filtered through that computer, which instantly compares
it to the database of this standard which it has created or accepted.
And so, because there now is an interim step between the input that
comes to you and your reaction to it, your reaction no longer flows
spontaneously from within. It is not created by, it does not come from,
your higher being. For all of a sudden your every action has to live
up to this undefined standard, and your computer will surely come down
upon you if you do not follow that standard. And so, my beloved, this
of course is not the innocence of the childlike mind because the innocence
of the mind of the child is that the child responds spontaneously to
life. The child does not analyze its actions or reactions. The child
simply responds spontaneously, joyfully, lovingly.
And yes, I know you will say that many children make mistakes or commit
selfish actions. And while it is true that you cannot remain in that
state of childhood for your adult life, I am talking about a higher
sense of innocence. For as I have explained, when you do come into alignment
with your higher being, you will spontaneously do what is right, what
is within the framework of your higher will. And thus, it now becomes
possible for you to spontaneously do the right thing. And you thus have
no need to analyze everything before you do anything or before you respond
to any situation.
You see, my beloved, instead of this lower standard created in the realm
of duality, you have a higher standard of being so aligned with your
higher being that you spontaneously know what is right and do what is
right. And this, as you have discussed earlier, is then a higher form
of integration and oneness than the lower level, where you still need
an external direction.
For you see, my beloved, we of the Ascended Host are more than happy
to give you Divine Direction that will help you grow on the path, but
there does come that point where you need to become self-sufficient.
And thus, we cannot continue to give you those directions that tell
you what to do, so that you do not have to draw on your own inner being
to make those right decisions.
We cannot make your ascension for you
You see, my beloved, we do have the knowledge of how to ascend, but
even so we cannot direct you all the way to your ascension. For in the
end, you must walk on your own, on your own internalized knowledge and
being, so that you can walk through that eye of the needle on your own
inner being, freedom, internalization, wisdom, love.
You see, my beloved, if we could have brought about your ascension for
you, you would already be ascended. And thus, the realization is that
we cannot do this for you; you must BE for yourself.
And this, of course, is our joy—to see our students come into
that state of being, that state of freedom. This is what we desire.
We have no desire to see you become robots who blindly follow us, even
though we are not the blind leaders. But precisely because we are the
seeing leaders, we want you to become the seeing students so
that you become masters in your own right.
Ah my beloved, could I only convey to you the freedom of rising above
that state of judgment, that state of analyzing everything, comparing
everything to this non-existing or completely illogical standard. Could
I only convey to you what freedom it is to let it drop from you and
come into that oneness with your higher being, so you no longer need
any outer standard but you are being the Living Christ, letting
your light shine regardless of what the world thinks about it.
This, my beloved, is such a joy, such a freedom, such a sense of being
one with God, being one with all life, that you can scarcely imagine
it. But yet I desire to convey at least some vision of it, that you
know that this is indeed such a joyful state that once you reach it,
you will look back on your current troubles and your spiritual path
and say, “No matter what I had to go through to reach this state
of mind, it was worth it.”
Your volunteer work
Truly, my beloved, there is no effort, there is no hardship that will
not melt away when you reach that state of innocence, of freedom. You
will feel – literally – spiritually reborn, as Jesus said.
You will feel like a new being in Christ. And you will look back and
say, “But why on Earth did it take me so long to reach beyond
that consciousness that was so unreal?” And yet the reality is
that many of you could have reached beyond that consciousness long ago,
but you volunteered to take on some of the planetary consciousness and
transform it, to lighten the load and pave the way for others.
And thus, again, even though you might go through burdens right now,
could I at least make you contemplate that these might not be your own,
self-created burdens, but you are bearing those burdens for others,
then I think it would make it easier for you to carry that load. For
you know there is a higher purpose, and you know that one day, you will
have transformed it, you will be able to throw away that yoke and be
free in the light and the love of your own I AM Presence.
This, my beloved, is my true desire for you. And so I hope you will
contemplate my words, look at your path, look at your involvement with
a spiritual organization, and see if that spiritual organization or
teaching is taking away your innocence and your freedom. This does not
mean that there is something wrong with the teaching or the organization,
at least not necessarily. But it does mean that there is something wrong
with your approach, and so you need to strive for that non-attachment
of the Buddha, that was so beautifully described yesterday by Gautama.
So again, my beloved, go back over the dictations we have given at this
conference. Do not simply read them once and think you are done with
them. Go back over them, including the ones that will be given tomorrow,
and strive to internalize them at a deeper level than you have ever
done before. And if you will do this, I know that you will experience
a greater freedom than you ever thought possible.
You will feel a shift in your approach to the spiritual path, and you
will gradually begin to glimpse that freedom of the innocence of the
child, of coming into oneness with that higher being, coming into oneness
with the River of Life and feeling it flow through you—which is
the ultimate state of freedom and joy.
So I leave you with these thoughts, for I have no desire to burden you
by talking about world conditions. For my beloved, could you only come
into that innocence of the child, in that innocence you would do more
to transform the burdens of the world than you could ever do by remaining
in the dualistic state of consciousness of analyzing and judging. You
see my beloved, the innocence of the child can transform a thousand
times more than any amount of seriousness of the adult.
So dare to be free. Be not afraid of freedom. Do not cling to your prison,
in which you have become comfortable because it gives you that inner
sense of what you are allowed to be and what you are not allowed to
be.
You see, my beloved, to be or not to be is really a matter of whether
you are willing to be free or whether you will cling to your self-created
prison and the security that it sems to offer as opposed to the seeming
insecurity of freedom.
So dare to BE FREE.
And I leave you with the joy of my heart, the joy of seeing so many
of you come together, dare to express that freedom, dare to express
some humor, dare to just be playful. For my beloved, this gathering
truly has been a joyful event, and we look forward to seeing what will
transpire on the morrow. Thus, I bid you, goodnight.
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