Midnight in the Garden Archangel Metatron through James TyberonnGreetings, beloveds. I am Metatron, lord of light. I greet you all in unconditional love. Masters, your lives are magnificent journeys of ever-continuing exploration. Certain lifetimes are more strategically aligned for quantum leaps. You are in such an alignment in the present. Accordingly, the present experience for many of you is more poised for critical gain. The myriad frequencial resonances and embellished energies of the ascension make this so. Yet achieving these gains, these quantum leaps in consciousness, requires concerted effort. Such concerted effort can and does occur in your higherdimensional aspect above duality, and it is available to you in the Earth plane. But a clear mind and appropriate work discipline is required to receive this energetic support in order to move forward optimally in this dawning of the ascension. We know that it is not always easy, dear ones, but we tell you it is extremely important. We say seize the moment and manage your time. For this is crucial to so much in life, from the learning and application of skills to everyday judgment and decision-making. And in the ongoing acceleration of energies, it is essential that you put forth your maximum effort. Masters, you have waited so long to be present at this prolific time, so it is time to bring your best effort, your “A game,” forward! Effort Is Divine Now, many of your epitaphs read “rest in peace.” But while there is peace in transition, you will find that you will receive a vast infusion of incredible light and energy on your passing from the Earth plane, and it will serve you well. You see, the fabled steps of Saint Peter’s heavenly gate are not for sleeping. We tell those of you who are lethargic this: The dimensional transition you term as death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest for a while, if this is your wish, but it will occur in a period that is better defined as a review of the life experience that was just transcended and a garnering of what was gained. A reenergizing occurs in this time that associates you to the true nature and vast energies of your higher self. But be aware that in this higher energy, effort is also needed to move eternally higher. So not only must you use your abilities after death but you must also face up to yourself for those abilities that you did not use during your previous physical existence. This occurs somewhat in the same manner that an athlete may review a game film to determine what was done well and what areas need finetuning. You see, growth is eternal. We assure you that there is nothing more stimulating or more worthy of actualization than your manifested desire to evolve, to change for the better. This is indeed the mission of each of your lifetimes. And that process continues even after the university of Earth is completed. So we tell you that the ascension of 2012 does not mean nirvana has been achieved and you can rest on your laurels. In fact, the current period of the ascending Earth is a time of great intensity. It is quite difficult, and necessitates great effort on your part. In many ways, the astrological gravities bathing the earth in 2011 and 2012 are a purposed training ground, not unlike an obstacle course designed to compel you into greater strength. So it is essential that you do not get tired or become overwhelmed. You can do this. Please do not fall into apathy—do not give up! From the greater perspective, love is the energy required to overcome apathy and inaction, which in your vernacular may be termed laziness. So this leads us into our present discussion. Masters, it may surprise many of you to understand that, in the wider stance and scope, mundane laziness is in opposition to the science and art of love. That is because laziness is the passive failure of love. At times, it is indeed the passive-aggressive nonachievement of love. And masters, learning to achieve the creativity of responsible love in its integral frequency is why you are here—period. In that context, we can say that apathy and laziness are the nemeses of love. Masters, we do understand that it is relatively easy to become confused in physicality and withdraw from the necessary calibrations of self-examination. That often leads to a sense of confused lethargy. If this is allowed to spiral downward, some may find themselves encased in a shell that leads to isolation and wasted opportunity. In this scenario, people may become stuck and not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being becomes a manifestation of nonlove. To be clear, this does not imply that they are evil in your terms but rather that they are not on path. The Polarity of Love and Power Will is required to face the challenges of the university of Earth. And the development of strength of will is essential but must also be balanced in humility. Many of you in metaphysics are familiar with the axiom, “Take your power and stand in your truth.” This is appropriate, for integral love does indeed require a necessary component of great strength. Both power and love are sciences and arts that many of you have devoted many lifetimes to learning. You have devoted lifetimes to servitude to learn the aspects of love, putting others before the self. In this process, the frequencial aspect of self-love and self-worth were somewhat misunderstood and diminished. You have also had many lifetimes devoted to developing love and strength. Often these became quite polarized. In bringing the two together, the nuances of power must be refined and indeed shifted. Within love and strength, you see, the retrieval of what may be termed soul fragmentation may be faced and brought into merkanah harmony through great effort. And then, dear ones, when the segments of power and love are integrated, another process of refining the two incurs and it is complex. The key is to live creatively rather than destructively and to apply the wisdom gleaned from your sojourns in your relationships with yourself and others by dealing with the challenges of life that arise. That refinement is the “garden of power and love,” and it requires the extreme distillation of knowledge into wisdom. You see, every level of advancement creates a new paradigm, and each new paradigm brings with it more complex puzzles to solve. Certainly the challenges facing one on the verge of mastery are far different and far more complex than those in the initial stages of life in duality. And so as you reach the accelerated stages, it is inevitable that you will be forced to make choices that are less immediately apparent. Often these are no longer obvious choices between love and hate or good and evil in the subtlest of manners; the choices shift to those between love and power. Each gain achieved carries you into higher realms and higher dimensions. Indeed the polarity paradigm differs in each new stage. You see, love and power are perhaps the most compelling and complex of life lessons. True power exists within the gracefulness of love. But the seeming paradox is that love also requires the strength of will to complete it in duality. And in the development of will, it is crucial that this strength contain humility, lest one develop control issues. Lifetimes of Servitude and Lifetimes of Learning Power So, masters, we tell you that in your advanced path toward completion, each of you will face a juncture, a defining yet subtle directional choice that will either take you forward or circle back again to the same decisional crossroad. It is not the simple choice between evil and good but rather the choice between illusionary power and the true path of love. And so very, very often, the path of illusion is taken long before it is realized. This is because what is appropriate for one level of growth, once completed, is not necessarily best suited for the next. There are certain intermediate sojourns in which the requisite for developing strength of will was indeed the right choice. In such sojourns of learning power, the decisions were true-or-false choices, but now the testing becomes far more complex. It is a multiple-choice question with an essay, and all of the choices contain some of the answer. But only one contains your full truth. The dawning of 2012 is the quickening, the eleventh hour before the midnight of the illuminating morn. It is midnight in the garden of power and love. In the crucible of the ascension, the forks in the road are not always two-pronged. A singular path can open to multiple intersections, and none of them are clearly marked. Accordingly, many of you in advanced sojourns have a series of lifetimes—within multidimensional time holograms—that follow the focused study of either love or power. These lifetimes can become drastically different and separate sequences of experience, and many of you are now engaged in the task of joining the two in the final stages of lessoned growth. In other words, specific lifetime quests of learning to create power responsibly are paralleled within two separate series—one string devoted to learning the aspects of love and the other to learning the aspects of power. Often the earthly expressions and experimentations of these two strings take such powerfully contrasting soul paths that what may be termed soul fragmentation occurs. As a case in point, many of you have a series of lifetimes in the cloth—lifetimes of servitude in the realms of monkhood, sisterhood, priesthood, and so on. The focus is learning humility and the benefit of serving others in an open, loving nature. And then you also have a connective string of sojourns in explorations of power, sojourns in which you assume key leadership roles. These lifetimes may be spent as rulers, leaders in government or commerce, members of ruling dynasties, and people of immense commercial wealth. Polarized consciousness It is an interesting aspect of the filters of duality that your personality expressions in these two parallel studies are often so starkly dissimilar and contrasting that there is a separation of consciousness polarity between the two. This occurs in somewhat the same fashion, albeit to a different purpose, in your male/female sojourns. Humans tend to consider that most of their lifetimes are either male or female. Most males in humanity do not recognize or relate to the many lifetimes they have lived in female form and vice versa. It is a three-dimensional separation. This differential occurs even more potently in your lifetime strings of learning responsibility of power and learning the nuances of love. Both of these polar lessons are so comprehensive that completely different environmental and astrological patterns are chosen for them, and a soul chasm separates the two that necessitates bringing them back together. As we have stated, you all need to learn how to love and also how to create responsibly, so you plan separate lifetime strings in power setups and love setups. The focal study and experiences of these setups can become so vastly different that they become extremely polarized. Personalities within each setup evolve so differently that, in some cases, what may be termed a soul fragmentation, or soul polarization, seemingly occurs within the multidimensional holograms of your lifetimes. Some of you would be quite shocked at the extremities. Many of you in your spiritual contexts would feel repulsed by the personality expressions you have experienced in learning power, and vice versa, thus the soul fracture. Yet all must be harmonized, retrieved, and reconciled into soul harmony. The good in each must be chosen, and what does not serve must be released. This retrieval and harmony can and must occur. A process for this is taught in the merkavah phase, the second level of the merkanah crystalline lightbody, as well as the third. As you reach the more complex stages of your lifetimes, you blend the two life streams. This is among the most complex of puzzles and one of the last pieces required for true mastery. And so as you retrieve the soul—and many of you are doing that now—you will blend the two chains of studies into the present experience. This presents a great challenge, for at times as you travel along the pathway of enlightenment, you will come to algorithmic forks in the road where you must choose between two directions. A fork in the road appears that will seem to you to be right in either direction. The fork is between power and love, and both are necessary, dear ones. So the decision is which one takes precedent, and that lesson is among the most difficult you will encounter. Love does not mean allowing someone else to step on your foot, and power does not mean stepping on the feet of others who are in the way when you are sure you are right. The Double-Edged Sword of Leadership The decision process becomes so much more critical for those who achieve influential authority in spiritual leadership, for responsibility to enact the truth is required to keep what has been learned. Influence is the double-edged sword of spiritual leadership, dear ones, and it must be tempered and ever wielded in wisdom. All of you are sparks of Creator. All of you are family composed of divine mind. So remember as you move forward that love is a frequencial key that can never be forgotten. Yet there will be times when all humans do forget. And I speak to all of you when I say this. Walking your talk is imperative in spiritual leadership. Yet the pitfalls are more difficult to see as you move forward, and there may be times when you are less patient with others of a different mindset or lesser advancement. And that in itself is a setup of trial and growth. We beseech you not to put yourself on a throne and not to forsake those who abide in what may appear to you as the dimmer recesses of heart and mind. Do not so quickly condemn those who attempt to cast doubt on you or point fingers at the errors of others, even when the accusers refuse to see the faults within themselves. And while we recognize this is easier said than done, do not turn away from conflict so quickly and selfrighteously that your haste and knee-jerk reaction blinds you to a greater truth. Take time to self-review, and do so from a stance of dispassion. Doesn’t one of your four agreements tell you never to take anything personally? There is indeed wisdom in this. The Path to True Wisdom We will share another pearl of acumen. Take a moment to deeply consider this: Wisdom does not automatically occur through the mere collation of knowledge, regardless of how vast. Rather, it comes through the intense distillation of experience and self-review in pure unbiased thought. True wisdom can only occur in states of nonemotional examination of your experience via your own inner third-person stance. And to do this, you must filter out the untoward unconscious beliefs associated with experience in your three-dimensional mind. Do you understand? It is a conceptual shift. Indeed all of you will at certain points encounter this conceptual shift as a subjective experience of clear mind when you access the fifth dimension. It will enter as a pure, unbi- ased thought and feel like a refreshing, invigorating wave. It is a fifth-dimensional vibrational matrix that each of you must recognize and then nurture. For it is the mechanism that removes you from the gilded cage of hidden ego aggrandizement. When you blend lifetimes of power and love, all of you will have certain obstacles to clear. You will not yet understand that these were blockages at all because they may have served you to get to a certain point of growth in your threedimensional lessons. This will inevitably occur as you retrieve your life streams of power and love into oneness. It will occur as a moment of clarity. It enters in a crystalline wave, a blue tsunami in a field of seeming superconductivity explored and experienced within merkanah. But this achievement requires focus and effort in unification. The Unending Journey of Integrity As we have told you so many times, spiritual growth and spiritual leadership are journeys and not destinations. They require constant self-review and recalibration to maintain. So many through the eons of time have defaulted when the power of leadership led to ego imbalance. For indeed the steed of power can blind and unseat the rider and lead in its speed into rocky paths and untoward grounds. All of you will be tempted by the seduction of power, especially when notoriety and celebrity come into play. When the self-aggrandizement of ego enters, it often does so as if through a back window left open. It moves in unnoticed and unrecognized because it was not your intent. The tell-tale marking is revealed when being right takes on greater importance than love. Masters, the weave of ego into the energy field is often so subtle that the fall is unseen by the individual. How many of your wars have been fought in downward-spiraled destruction by so-called religious factions fighting over the dogma of what is sacred and whose truth is the real truth? Masters, humility is the key. Never take yourself so seriously that you lose sight of your own humanity within duality. Discernment Is Key to mastery Many in metaphysics who carry a great deal of spiritual knowledge develop the urge to share this knowledge. While this in itself is a positive attribute, it is also necessary to avoid the ego trappings of spiritual one-upmanship and guruship. It is correct to make known the mystery, yet each must use individual discernment to find his or her own inner voice. The time of the guru has passed. Each of you are now compelled to be your own guide. Discernment is the key. If it does not resonate, reject it. The goal is to develop the divinity within the self. The goal is not to channel ascended masters or angelic beings but rather to channel your own inner divinity. To be clear, there are indeed souls who channel ascended masters and angels, but this cannot be achieved without first channeling the divinity of self. Access to the master within you is all that is ever needed or required. You are gods! So we end this essay in acumen of truth: Individual discernment is ever the key, for one man’s truth may be another man’s folly. And the manner in which you harmonize multiple truths is a great test of spirituality. An Exquisite Odyssey of Algorithm Your sojourns on the Earth are a marvelous opportunity to discover and explore what is within and without you. You are on an exquisite odyssey of algorithm. The third dimension serves to assist you in moving higher and thus works hand in hand with the algorithmic puzzle by facilitating and prompting the outward manifestation of inner spirit through frontal mind. The octaves available in the third dimension are highlighted in your initial tarriance and campaigns on the Earth plane. But as you progress, the third dimension must give way to the higher crystalline octaves of the fifth dimension for true advancement toward merkanic, harmonic enlightenment. As each of you progress in spirit and wisdom, the path quickens into more challenging and complex sojourns, and the polarity shifts in kind. The forks in the road become less polarized in the obvious manner. The clarity between black and white becomes a bit more shaded in gray, and greater thought is required to differentiate the true path of mastery. The greatest power is the power of love. Love yourself and love one another, for the unity of love is a great and beautiful accomplishment for humankind in micro and macro terms. Masters, know that we are ever with you and we ever honor you on this incredible journey. I am Metatron, lord of light, and I share with you these truths. And so it is.