Editor’s note: This article is a companion piece to the previous blog post, “Drama of Planting the I Am Nation.”

El Morya/Mark, 1966
BEFORE YOU CAN JOIN OTHERS in any spiritual nation of I Am citizens, on Earth or in any realm, you must have planned, have planted, have managed and have developed your own spiritual nation. You must have implanted proper spiritual laws, and must have seen to it that all citizens in your nation obey those laws. Those which do not obey must be eliminated from your nation. When you have accomplished this to a major degree, you will have qualified for citizenship in whatever spiritual nation of other sons of God you are attracted to, here on Earth or anywhere else in or beyond this solar system.
The citizens of your own nation are the thoughts which inhabit your total consciousness, consisting of superconscious or I Am Self, conscious, and subconscious or soul. Thus, you have citizens of widely diverse backgrounds, interests, and desires residing in or traveling through your complete consciousness. It is up to you to decide which you will retain, which you will expel, which you will invite to participate in your new, spiritual nation.
Examine Your Citizen Thoughts
In examining your citizen thoughts, you must be aware of the complexity of their backgrounds and natures. Many of them are claiming citizenship in your present, mortal nation; but are not rightfully such citizens and should not be partaking of your national products. Some of them actually are seeking harm to you, even the downfall of your nation. Should you not be aware of these aliens so you can protect your other citizens and your nation, and so you can drive them out of your boundaries?
Others have obtained citizenship under false pretenses, claiming they were born in your nation or were naturalized there, with your express or implied permission. Still others have married legal citizens and have borne children, who now also are citizens. Many have entered as
visitors or as immigrants, without becoming proper citizens. Any and all of these can be draining your resources, breaking your laws, harming your real citizens, destroying your nation’s assets.
Who are these illegal participants in your society? They are those thoughts you have created or have allowed entry into your nation of thoughts. They have come from your own thoughts of this and past lives. They have come from the thoughts of others that you have accepted as your own; which in effect you have granted citizenship, through default in not reviewing their qualifications and desirability before you accepted them into your nation.
These undesirable and alien thoughts, which have no place in your own spiritual I Am nation, have come from your participation in numerous civilizations, religions, races, nations, families and other groupings during your many lives here and elsewhere. Because they were presented to you as worthy citizens of other people’s nations, you also have granted them citizenship or have allowed them residence in your nation or consciousness.
Thus, unless you already have checked your residents thoroughly, your nation may be composed of vast multitudes of highly undesirable citizens. They even may have taken control of your nation, to the point where they have eliminated most of the really worthy, spiritual citizens you need now for implanting your new, spiritual nation.
But there are a sufficient number of true spiritual citizens who still are with you; that still remain in everyone’s nation. These are the thoughts of your I Am Self and of other persons who are part of spiritual nations elsewhere. They are the divine thoughts of God, of spiritual masters, of your fellow citizens in the I Am Nation of our Sonship in God.
This theme could be developed into a lengthy discourse. But there is no need for such, if you can see what is meant by this showing you the true nature of your own nation of collective thoughts. From this you should, and hopefully will, spend considerable time in meditations so your own I Am Self can reveal further examples and discussions of this subject. Instead of continuing along this line of describing your present citizens, let us determine what you can do about the present state of your nation and decide how to implant your spiritual nation.
Follow Your I Am Self
There should be only one supreme ruler in your spiritual nation: God. His laws already have been prepared, and must be the basis of all the laws in your individual nation. His appointed ruler of your spiritual nation is your I Am or Christ or high Self. It is through the at-onement with God of your I Am Self that you already know God and His laws, as well as your powers for ruling your own nation.
Your Christ Self also knows which of the present inhabitants of your mortal nation or consciousness do not belong there, and how to eliminate them. Your I Am Self knows which ones are not citizens, but could be made into desirable ones. Your Self also knows which are the rightful citizens, and how to give them their rightful place, supply and powers.
But your Christ Self awaits your mortal decision. You must recognize this rightful ruler and must grant it full authority to cleanse the present citizenship, to establish and to enforce the proper rules, and to cultivate and to develop the members of your new, spiritual nation. Then, you must have the humility, the continuing will, the desire and the perseverance to follow your I Am Self into this new nation.
Consider your Christ Self to be the messiah for your new nation, the one who competently can take your thought inhabitants into the promised land. Let your Self lead the present spiritual thoughts out of their present bondage in your subconscious and conscious realms. The Self knows the destination, knows the way, knows how to provide proper sustenance, knows how to protect your spiritual thoughts, knows how to provide new citizens and other visitors or guides to inhabit your nation.
Again, much more could be said here about this project. But it can be better revealed and perfectly developed by your own spiritual ruler, your own I Am Self. So, we of the Hierarchal Board turn this over to you for your own freewill choice. If you have not planted your own I Am spiritual nation already, will you do so now? Or will you continue to allow anyone to be a citizen of your mortal nation, knowing that they can bring about the eventual destruction of your present mortal nation at any time, especially in these Latter Days?
Birth Your I Am Nation
Assuming you will work on planning and planting your I Am nation, when you have accomplished a sufficient cleansing so as to provide the fertile lands and the proper climate for your spiritual thought-citizens, you will find much help in the Mark-Age materials and workers already aiding your I Am Self to prepare a new spiritual nation on Earth.
Then you can work with many others who are and will be helping to develop the new spiritual nation through the externalization of the Hierarchal Board via Mark-Age. All of us together then can teach, example, demonstrate, project, visualize and participate in the I Am Nation of spiritual light workers who are preparing Earth for the Second Coming of Sananda as Jesus of Nazareth. Then he, and probably many of you, will establish fully the New JerUSAlem and will give its citizens the laws, the information, the education and the assistance which will manifest the true spiritual nation on this Earth.
So, will you give birth to your own I Am nation now? Will you allow its true spiritual ruler, your own I Am Self, to be its rightful guide? Will you then join with others in helping the Hierarchal Board, the spiritual government of this solar system, to externalize through Mark-Age so as to implant the I Am Nation for all those on Earth who will learn of it?
Will you help make it such an appealing nation that at least 144,000 elect citizens will join this nation soon? Will you be one of those 144,000 or more spiritual citizens who will teach and will demonstrate so man of Earth will know of, and will ask God for, the Second Coming?
It is not a simple matter to change one’s consciousness from mortal to spiritual. It is not correct to believe that all one need do is say that one has decided to become spiritual, and that is all there is to it. Rather, there’s a tremendous amount of work to do in examining, evaluating, cleansing and refurbishing one’s consciousness in order to establish the new nation.
The University of Life and other Mark-Age material will help show you how to go about examining your present thought-citizens, and to retrain or to replace them for your I Am nation.
Reprinted from an article Mark-Age published in July 1974.
Absolute Purity & Love
“You must analyze and work with the outer world conditions as being the same reflection of that which is going on in the inner planes. These conflicts and upheavals are the workings of the inner conditions to get into and out through the matter form, to dissolve or to decrystallize the present status quo in the effort to re-form and to recrystallize truth.

Sananda/Jesus
“Our new spiritual I Am Nation can only be based on a solid foundation and core of absolute truth, understanding and love. It cannot be partly truth, partly understood, and halfhearted love and support. That absolutely and unconditionally is not permitted. . . . You must do for me, as my physical agents, what I direct and teach are the correct and proper methods for the New Age government on Earth. . . .
“Conscious and subconscious must be awakened and wed in you all for this challenge and road. You have not understood. You have not believed. Yet you have been given all opportunities and information necessary for this. Now it has begun. So you have waited, wondered, watched and now are warned. You are on notice. The new day of the New Age is upon you, and all who have not prepared shall weep and cry aloud; for the agony in this rending between spiritual I Am consciousness and dedication is severe in the subconscious and conscious fabrics of all beings on Earth, in the astral, and anywhere in this solar system where they have not heeded this declaration of the spiritual government upon Earth.”
— Sananda; May 15, 1974
Photos: (1) El Morya/Mark, 1966, Mark-Age Archives. (2) Sananda/Jesus overshadowing Earth; collage by Phillel; spaceships © by Hartmut Jager. (3) Sananda/Jesus, Mark-Age Archives.
An excellent companion piece, challenge, and opportunity! So, be it!