The Manuscript of Survival – Part 353, channeled by Aisha North, September 13, 2013 at http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

As the day of freedom approaches, much is getting into gear now. We hear you all draw a collective intake of breath at the mention of the concept ”day of freedom”, so let us just hasten to add that as usual, we do not give any details, nor will we give you any set date to focus on, but let us just say that this day is indeed fast approaching.

And with it, so much is already getting into gear, as we just mentioned. You will see many examples of this on all sides, and even amongst the highest echelons of your governments, the sense that the tide has turned will in many ways become apparent now. Not neccessarily in outwardly noticeable actions, but more as a sense of impending change that will make many a heart flutter.

And as you have already seen, the much prophesied armageddon in that hot spot you prefer to refer to as the Middle East has not come about either. Is it not interesting to see how they are all frantically scampering about trying to find a peaceful solution there?

The defusing of the situation in that current hotspot has nothing to do with chance, and everything to do with the massive injection of light that has been pouring into that area for quite some time now. And if some of you start to think that perhaps you had something to do with this process, the answer is simply a resounding YES. For you are all working oh so hard on behalf of All of creation in all sorts of ways, and so in addition to all of the personal issues you have been clearing out lately, you have been true multitaskers in every sense of the word.

For what you bring to this world, is first and foremost the light, and massive amounts of it. For you are transponders of such a magnitude now, each and every one of you are like a vertitable fountain of light, whether you rest or work, sleep or walk about doing your everyday chores.

For you are all working non stop now, and as you do so, you are also literally having a hand in everything that is happening now. For this is indeed a magnificent teamwork, and as we all are giving all that we have to this process, so are indeed the likes of you. And what you bring to the table, is nothing short of breathtaking.

For you are working so hard not only to complete any unsolved pieces in your own life, you are also heavy into the heavy stuff as is were. In other words, the light that you help to anchor and transmit into this beautiful planet of yours, is being sent where it is needed the most. So every time you look upon the current news, think that your light is almost certain to be a part of this story in one way or the other.

For now, nothing is left to chance, and anything volatile that is being prodded into action by those less in favor of the light, is bound to attract a whole lot of extra light because of it. For whatever shies away from the light now, will only succeed in opening the valves even further, and as such, the more they struggle against it, the more they will become exposed to the rays of change being beamed in from up above as well as below. For your whole planet is sending out these beatific waves now, and no thing and no one can hide from them.

To you, it will be a marvel to behold, but for many others, it will feel as if they are being ripped asunder by all of this light coming at them from all directions. But remember, the light will never destroy, it only seeks to impart balance where none has been before, and as such, it will feel very on the heavy side for all of those still bent on swaying to the shadow side of everything. For they will feel the push the most, and for them, trying to dig their feet in will only serve to increase the pressure from the light.

For this time, it will not take no as an answer, for no is no longer an option. You will all be pushed, and pushed hard, in the direction of the light. And for those already heading that way, you will certainly feel this as a mighty push in the back. A push that at times might seem to bring you too off balance, but never doubt, you will not fall and you will not fail. For you have already chosen, and you have chosen well, and as such, the only way from here is indeed up.

Fanciful depiction of “the last trump”

A reader asked why there is universal silence on the subject of Ascension among the great teachers of Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

The question can be considered from two standpoints. First, why is it that many modern spiritual teachers are not speaking out about Ascension?

I asked the Divine Mother that question in An Hour with an Angel on May 7, 2011 and this is what she told me:

Steve Beckow: Why is it that not many enlightened teachers, like Adyashanti or Mata Amritanandamayi, seem to be referring to Ascension?

Divine Mother: That is not where they have chosen to focus their energies. And they have always, in their journey, wanted to bring their devotees, their students, their family, directly home to full enlightenment.

So it is a difference in the fulfillment of their unique journey. It does not mean that they are not aware of it, but to them they feel that if they can bring their devotees directly home, then why bother with the human Gaia process of this Ascension to the fifth, to the seventh?

So it is a difference in their mission and purpose. (1)

Let’s leave that version of the question and look at a second one. The second version is why classical teachers have not mentioned Ascension. There actually isn’t universal silence on the subject of Ascension itself among classical masters, either long ago or in their channeled messages today.

It’s just referred to by different masters under different names.

Jesus talked about Ascension all through Revelation. He calls it in the Gospels “the Kingdom of Heaven” and uses parables to explain how to attain it: “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.” (2) I’ve explained what I think he meant by the parables elsewhere. (3)

He or his disciples called it redemption, salvation, overcoming, the rapture, and resurrection. It’s also been called liberation, moksha, etc. Any entry into Fifth Dimensionality, any instance of liberation from the wheel of birth and death is Ascension.

For instance, Archangel Michael told me that the Company of Heaven once called it the “rapture,” but the term had become politicized and so they settled on the term “Ascension.”

AAM: Now when the word … and this is a word that is highly charged, that people talk about … the “rapture.” Well I assure you, dear friend, that when you ascend, you will feel a sense of rapture! Now, because that is a highly charged word, I would say, “you will feel the bliss.” So we will not call it the “rapture.” But that is what it is.

S: I thought that might be the case, that it is a rapture.

AAM: But the word has become politicized. (4)

In 2009, the Buddha demonstrated that the ascended masters had not necessarily all finally agreed on the term “Ascension” when he called it through Marlene Swetlishoff “the Resurrection Dispensation”: “Know that the great Resurrection Dispensation is now in full effect for the Planet Earth and all upon her. All who choose will rise up with the Earth into the Higher Dimensions.” (5)

Here is a source calling itself the “Spiritual Hierarchy” equating Ascension with salvation: “To you we say, your salvation draws nigh.” (6)

Anyone who discusses liberation from the wheel of birth and death is talking about Ascension. Here are some masters discussing Ascension but using the term liberation:

Sri Aurobindo: “It has been said that complete liberation from the human birth, complete ascension from the life of the mental being is impossible until the body and the bodily life are finally cast off.” (7)

Sri Ramana Maharshi: “The Sahaja Nirvikalpa is permanent and in it lies liberation from rebirths.” (8)

Sage Vasistha: “The state of liberation-while-living is … the turiya consciousness. Beyond that is … turiya-atita (beyond turiya). In every atom of existence there is nothing else but the supreme being.” (9)

Another name for liberation is moksha and here Sri Ramana uses that term. But he could have spoken of Ascension: “Getting rid of non-existent misery and attaining Bliss which is the only existence, that is the definition of Moksha.” (10)

Wishing all our sources used common terms is a lament I had when writing New Maps of Heaven. (11) All my informants used different names and differing numbering systems for the planes or dimensions of existence in the afterlife.

It’s a complaint I also had when writing From Darkness unto Light because sages used different names for different levels of enlightenment: What some called Brahmajnana (seventh-chakra enlightenment), others appeared to call kevalya nirvikalpa samadhi, turiya, God-realization, and arahantship. (12) How is one to know which are equivalent and which not?

Thus it has always been. The situation is not unique to Ascension.

Ascension or sahaja or liberation is what’s being discussed in the following passages. King David calls it “salvation’: “He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. … I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.” (13) The “first born” is the Soul, the Christ, the Atman. Others have called the person who reaches this attainment a “Christed” individual. This individual will have ascended.

Sri Ramana called it the estate of the turiya-atita, the overcomer of the turiya or Fourth State of pure consciousness. The Fourth State is akin to Brahmajana. But the overcomer of the Fourth State has reached a higher state – sahaja. He tells us that “the Self is described as beyond the fourth (turiyatita).” (14) “The Turiya … is the self or ‘I’-nature; and what is beyond that is the state of Turiyatita, or pure Bliss.” (15) The Turiyatita is one who has ascended.

Here’s another form of the discussion. In the New Testament, there are references to the “end times.” These are the times that culminate in Ascension; namely, the times that are here today. Hilarion told us in April of this year: “These are the end times spoken of by seers and prophets from the days of old. These are the times of tribulation that have been forewarned.” (16)

SaLuSa of Sirius also identified Ascension with the end times here: “You were always promised that the end times would see you restored to the higher dimensions, and in reality you have never lost faith in those who made it to you.” (18)

The end times, which bring liberation, are not the end of life or end of history, as American sage Franklin Merrell-Wolff explained:

“I cannot too strongly emphasize the fact that Liberation is no more the end of life than is a college commencement the end of the young man or woman who graduates. It is simply the end of one stage and the beginning of another. The really worth-while Life begins after Liberation. When this new Freedom is attained, a Man may return Home, as it were, and spend a long period enjoying the warmth and comfort of that Home.

“On the other hand, He may return and continue with his chosen profession on a larger field. Some, who have been highly exhausted by their labors at college, may need a long rest, but obviously Those who are strong should occupy Themselves with the Activities of Real Life.” (19)

The Bible called these times of Ascension the end times. But does it matter that they didn’t use the term “Ascension”?

No matter what name is used, Ascension has been known and has been in the work for millennia, which is why Jesus spoke so much of it in Revelation. SaLuSa reminds us:

“The process of Ascension … has been taking place for many years, and has now reached its final stages in readiness for the great upliftment in 2012.” (20)

“From the commencement of the last cycle over 12,000 years ago, it was known that it would be completed through the process of Ascension. It is therefore an extremely important time for all souls engaged in the experiences of duality. At the end of every cycle there is an emergence of those who are ready to move on to the higher realms.” (21)

The very best description of Ascension from long ago is found, as far as I’m concerned, in St. Paul. St. Paul’s description of what happens at the last trump is a description of Ascension. (22) However because it’s so long, I’ll place it in the footnotes along with an interpretation of the terms of the Biblical code he uses.

But just briefly here, the trumpet is the Universal Mother’s divine sounding of Aum, the music of the spheres, the sound of the cosmic motor, which releases us from one dimensionality and raises us to another, just as it brought us into that dimensionality in the first place. The dead that are raised up are the unenlightened, who must suffer birth and death until the time of their Ascension, which for us is now. The explanation of more terms appears below the passage in the footnotes.

So it isn’t accurate to say that Ascension as a process or as an event isn’t discussed elsewhere. The entire chapter of the Bible called Revelation is given over to discussing it. All the masters discuss it as a process of liberation or redemption or salvation. The only difference is that our mentors of this generation have settled on the term “Ascension” to denote it and that one term has stuck. But Ascension by any other name is still Ascension.

Footnotes

(1) “Transcript of the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel, May 7, 2012,” athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/the-2012-scenario/what-role-are-the-angels-playing/transcript-of-the-divine-mother-on-an-hour-with-an-angel-may-7-2012/.

(2) Jesus in Matthew 13:44. “Heaven” is a common term used for the Mental Plane or Fifth Dimension, the attainment of which constitutes our “Ascension.”

(3) See for instance “I Am the Light of the World” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/cross-cultural-spirituality/i-am-the-light-of-the-world/; “Jesus was a Non-Dualist” athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/cross-cultural-spirituality/jesus-nondualist/; and “This is the Christ” at http://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/cross-cultural-spirituality/this-is-the-christ-2/.

(4) “Archangel Michael: Creating a World of Peace,” Sept. 15, 2011, athttp://stevebeckow.com/2011/09/archangel-michael-creating-a-world-of-peace/.

(5) “A Message from Maitreya and Buddha,” April 1, 2009, through Marlene Swetlishoff, athttp://www.therainbowscribe.com/.

(6) The Spiritual Hierarchy, “Welcome the New (7th) Day!,” November 02, 2010, through Lauren Gorgo, at http://transmissionsfromhome.blogspot.com/.

(7) Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1983, 379.

(8) Sri Ramana Maharshi in S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993, 88.

(9) Sage Vasistha in Swami Venkatesananda, ed., The Concise Yoga Vasistha. Albany: State University of New York, 1984, 314.

(10) Ramana Maharshi in M. Subbaraya Karnath, Sri Maharshi: A Short Life-Sketch. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasaramam, 1986 51.

(11) New Maps of Heaven at http://goldengaiadb.com/New_Maps_of_Heaven.

(12) From Darkness Unto Light at http://goldengaiadb.com/From_Darkness_to_Light.

(13) Psalm 90:26-7.

(14) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Spiritual Instruction of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Eighth Edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1974, Chapter 4, Question 8.

(15) Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry. Trans. T.M.P. Mahadevan.http://www.realization.org/page/namedoc0/self/self_0.htm Downloaded 1 August 2005, Question 28.

(16) Hilarion, April 7, 2013, at http://www.therainbowscribe.com/.

(17) SaLuSa, June 15, 2009, athttp://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.

(18) Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Pathways Through to Space. A Personal Record of Transformation in Consciousness. New York: Julian Press, 1973, 89.

(19) SaLuSa, May 20, 2009.

(20) SaLuSa, April 3, 2009.

(21) This is the best description of ascension I’ve seen in the ancient masters. With the physical ascension that’s happening now, a new innovation in the Ascension process, it can no longer be said: “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” Oh, yes, we can! Is this an example of what Jesus was referring to when he said you shall do greater than I?

Some will say, How are the dead (1) raised up? (2) And with what body do they come? (3)

Thou, fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: (4)

… There are … celestial bodies, (5) and bodies terrestrial: (6) but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. (7)

… So also is the resurrection of the dead. (8) It is sown in corruption; (9) it is raised in incorruption. (10)

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. …

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; (11) neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (12)

Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (13)

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, (14) at the last trump: (15) for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (16)

For this corruptible must put on incorruptible, and this mortal must put on immortality. (17)

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (18)

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (St. Paul in I Corinthians 15:35-55.)

(1) Mortals, the unenlightened, who are “dead” to Spirit or unconscious of It.

(2) Made immortal, enlightened.

(3) To God.

(4) The lower self or ego the carnal self, is not profitable except it be transcended.

(5) The eternal Self and its higher sheaths or koshas.

(6) The lower physical and astral bodies.

(7) The glory of the celestial bodies is in enlightenment, Self-realization; the glory of the terrestrial bodies lies in lesser worldly aims like gratification of the senses, ambition, pride of accomplishment, etc.

(8) The attainment of full enlightenment, raising one from mortality (“the dead”) to immortality.

(9) We are ordained to attain God by overcoming the conditions of the world through mastering the lessons of physical, worldly life.

(10) We then leave the world behind, unstained, perfected, raised to immortality and able to enter the New Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Heaven.

(11) Nothing physical can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

(12) Neither can evil deeds and sensuality win us heaven.

(13) Not everyone shall remain unconscious of God and the spiritual life, as the unrealized are. Some will wake up and realize the Self. All will eventually do so.

(14) Enlightenment happens in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

(15) Yogananda suggests this “trumpet” is the sound of OM heard in the energy centers of the body. (Cf. Paramhansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ.Dallas: Amrita Foundation, 1979, 1, 15-21.)

(16) The unenlightened shall be purified and raised beyond the touch of materiality forever, through Self-realization.

(17) It is God’s plan for everyone that they move from darkness into light, from unenlightenment into enlightenment.

We’ve heard Matthew say how the CIA “black ops” unit provided the manpower for 9/11 and the leading officials of the Bush Administration provided the authority. Beyond invading countries and lowering the living standards of so many people, they began a phony “war on terrorism” which provided the cover for all else that followed.

Out of that conspiracy, because “conspiracy” it was, a new edifice of control arose.

It took in the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Administration, the military laboratory at Fort Dedrick, parts of the Environmental Protection Agency, and many, many other confederates in a vast network of individuals and organizations that intended to erode the civil rights of Americans and others around the world.

It included the Federal Reserve, elements of the judiciary, police and military, and a large number of financial, petrochemical, technological, communications and even religious companies and organizations, all of which aligned on the overall plan of world domination.

We know this through the medium of channeled messages. And via channeled messages as well we know that the approach to dissolving the problem that these organizations presented to humanity may perhaps not go as we might want or expect.

Archangel Michael told me in an interview on An Hour with an Angel that the Federal Reserve, for instance, would not be shut down but reformed.

“There will be new vitality breathed into the area of the Federal Reserve. It is in conjunction with the, what you can think of as global reorganization of financial systems. … I am not speaking of the collapse of financial systems, which would cause panic and disarray. But what we are talking about is reorganization.

“Now, usually reorganization is a bureaucratic term for shuffling the deck with the same cards. That is not what I am referring to.

“We are talking about reorganization of financial systems — political financial systems, bureaucratic financial systems, global financial systems — that are becoming more congruent with the divine qualities of equity, of fairness, of ethical behavior, of charity, of prudence, and of becoming.

“And so you can look to not only the leadership, but the role of the Federal Reserve to begin to shift dramatically.” (1)

If it were left up to me, I’d shut down the DHS, CIA, NSA, FEMA and numerous other alphabet agencies. But there’s a more refined plan at work here and it may be a tough sell, even to other lightworkers.

Part of it is containment. Archangel Michael explained the new process of containment in 2012:

“We have a process that you do not understand, because you tend to think in terms of your reality on Earth, of course. But you can think of it as a process of containment and of restraint so that these beings are restrained and contained, and for all intents and purposes, for your purposes and references, they are taken out of action. Or the actions that they are permitted to participate in are mostly illusion, and they do not affect the collective. In fact, if anything, they simply bounce back at the individual. …

“We have never spoken to you, or we have not spoken in such a public forum, let us put it that way, of putting restraints or containers around those who do not wish to contribute to the growth and the evolution and the shift of Gaia and of the human race.

“But if you are looking for storm troopers, dear one, if you are looking for the activation of forces, then you are looking in the wrong place, because what you have need to do and what I am asking you to do is … to begin to witness and to observe how these beings are being restrained and contained. And how what you think of as their sphere of influence is simply disappearing. …

“So this I ask of you. Do not become entrenched in what you think is going to be a third-dimensional quasi-military maneuver to go to people’s homes and put people in jail or in contained environments. The containment is on a whole, completely different level.” (3)

We saw that containment took even some galactics like SaLuSa by surprise. SaLuSa was predicting mass arrests until Archangel Michael outlined the new use of light boxes. Perhaps three-quarters of a year after they were introduced, SaLuSa also acknowledged them.

“In the past there have been many references to arresting those who are the ringleaders of the dark Ones, and steadily they have been rounded up. You have also heard of ‘Containment’ and in this way we have been able to severely restrict their activities. Mass arrests were considered likely to evoke panic amongst you, as few would have had any knowledge of why it was happening.

“So we have opted for gradual changes and placed our representatives who are our allies, in positions that give more control to those of the Light. However, once we can come out openly, you will then see rapid changes taking place for which we have long been prepared. We assure you that you will eventually enjoy all of the benefits that have been promised to you, and we will be doing all we can to assist you.” (2)

Keeping the Federal Reserve and containing the cabal rather than arresting them were not the only changes. Matthew Ward told us about another: the plan to bring in altogether new governments had also been superseded.

“The provision of NESARA that calls for the resignation of the entire US government no longer applies. The act was written more than a dozen years ago when the president was a top-ranking Illuminati—he is among the defectors who became active lightworkers—and almost everyone in Congress was either a member or under the control of Illuminati outside the government. Rejoice with us that this is not the case today!” (4)

I’d imagine that the nearness of Ascension (expected next year) makes many plans and lines of conduct inadvisable.

If we’re to spread peace around the world, bring in prosperity, introduce our star family to terrestrials, and position ourselves in readiness for the shift, beginning with mass arrests and closing all the agencies tainted with corruption and black purposes is apparently too disruptive and counter-productive.

But the level of trust required to proceed in the manner we apparently are doing is high and calls upon lightworkers to let go of their desire for radical, sweeping action such as mass incarceration.

Easing matters is the continuous increase in elevating light energies and the massive clearing that everyone on the planet has been doing throughout the “chaotic nodes” and other times of release.

Nonetheless, the energy levels on the planet are apparently not high enough yet to permit the return of the masters, Archangel Michael told us recently:

“My purpose as archangel of peace is to anchor peace on Earth on behalf of the Mother/Father One. And until that has truly taken place, there are many other events, such as the return of particular masters, that do not and cannot take place, because the vibration is too low. So every opportunity in the physical realm, in the human realm, of bringing forth peace has need to be heartily, immediately, and deeply, embraced.” (5)

What it calls upon us as the section of lightworkers aware of the Divine Plan generally and the plan for the redemption of Earth’s governmental, adjudicative and enforcement arms particularly is to hold the space for these more gradual and peaceful means of reviving our social structures to take place.

Not many people would accept the reality or importance of our sources … yet. That makes our job somewhat more difficult.

Many of us are weary of waiting, wanting more tangible signs than we have, and wondering when we’ll experience more ease and ability in our lives to impact events.

But the real job for us right now, in my opinion, remains capitalizing on the peace of mind that knowing about these things affords and holding the space for what are immensely complex and vast operations to take effect, as we take our first steps into the lower planes of the Fifth Dimension.

Footnotes

(1) “Archangel Michael: Violence and War Cannot Continue – Part 2/2,” Sept. 4, 2013, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/09/archangel-michael-violence-and-war-cannot-continue-part-22/.

(2) Archangel Michael on the Containment of the Cabal, July 3, 2012, athttp://the2012scenario.com/accountability/the-process-of-accountability/archangel-michael-on-the-containment-of-the-cabal/.

(3) SaLuSa, March 1, 2013, athttp://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.

(4) Matthew’s Message, March 11, 2013, athttp://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm.

(5) “Archangel Michael: Violence and War Cannot Continue – Part 1/2,” Aug. 4, 2013, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/09/archangel-michael-violence-and-war-cannot-continue-part-12/.