Featured Teachings

To Climb the Mountain You Must Keep Going

You may be having a wide variety of experiences studying The Greater Community Way of Knowledge and your practice keeps you anchored and focused. One day you may feel this way; another day you may feel that way. But both … Continue reading

Congratulations!

You have all been learning since day one. Your early training was primarily for survival in the world and the development of your personal self. Well, you have survived in the world. Congratulations! And you have a personal self. Congratulations! … Continue reading

Heaven is Pulling You Now

Your return will be rocky. It will be turbulent. It will be uncertain. You will find yourself falling backwards, having to pick yourself up and choose again. You will see the power of persuasion now in a clearer light. The … Continue reading

Taking the Journey

Why is perseverance so difficult? Because human beings have not yet developed enough mental strength. Unless they are confronted by adverse conditions, most people seek what is easy and comfortable by and large. Only certain individuals rise above this and … Continue reading

Simplicity

The difficulties you will encounter in the world around you will remind you of the importance of simplicity. Simplicity is not merely owning fewer things. It really has to do with how much energy it requires for you to live your life and … Continue reading

Release and Return

You are beginning, perhaps in the very slightest way, your return to your Source, your return to the greater purpose that has brought you into the world, which has been unaccounted for in your previous efforts and associations. You do … Continue reading

The Greatest Journey

This is the greatest journey. Travel around the world again and again and you will not take such a great journey as this. It is a journey that deepens you and expands your perception. It is a journey that changes your priorities … Continue reading

A Living Spiritual Presence

Knowledge is not only intuition or certain kinds of urges or feelings or sensations or insights or recollections or premonitions — it is a living Spiritual Presence within you, the Mind behind the mind, the Spirit within the mind, a … Continue reading

Purpose and the Great Need

God knows how difficult the world is. God is not running the world and every little event. But God is responding to great turning points in the history of humanity. God is aware of the great peril that exists for the human … Continue reading

The Great Undoing

The student of Knowledge is in a process of undoing things they have already set in motion and breaking free of false expectations, goals, plans and desires. They do not become ascetic here; they simply become honest—basic, simple, deep honesty. … Continue reading

The Turning Point

Once you begin to become really honest with yourself about your life and affairs, no matter how painful this recognition might be in the moment, it marks a turning point in your life—a turning point where you begin to see … Continue reading

A Great Crossroad

You are at a great crossroads. Choose one path and it will determine your destiny. Choose another path and it will determine your destiny. Here you must have vision. You cannot simply act out of haste and expediency. You cannot … Continue reading

The Vision for Humanity

Humanity has the seeds of greatness, despite its errors, its ignorance and its corruption. Spirituality is still alive in this world, where it has died and been forgotten in so many others. The fire of love is still burning here, … Continue reading

Free ebook! The Great Waves of Change

In The Great Waves of Change, Marshall Vian Summers explains the steps you can take to navigate our increasingly turbulent and uncertain times. In the face of such uncertainty, Summers presents a revolutionary new way of knowing—a unique process that can … Continue reading

The Man or Woman of Knowledge

The man or woman of Knowledge is watching—watching without coming to fixed conclusions, watching without condemning the world, watching without losing hope, watching without becoming jaded or cynical, watching without blaming leaders or individuals or nations, watching the changing landscapes … Continue reading

Grandeur, Folly and the Greater Truth

The world in its grandeur and in its folly teaches you what to value and to recognize what is true. Contrast must be evident in learning for you to make these distinctions. To distinguish what is true from what is false and what is … Continue reading

Where Will You Place Your Faith?

People will have faith in something because to have faith is natural. If they do not have faith in God, they will have faith in something else that takes the place of God. They may have faith in their government. … Continue reading

The Shock of the Future

God seeks to prepare humanity for a new world, a new reality, and for its encounter with life in the universe, an encounter that will change and determine the future and destiny of humanity. You are entering a new world—a … Continue reading

Humanity Must Adapt and Change

You cannot stop the Great Waves of change. You can mitigate them and their impacts and you can prepare for them, but you cannot stop them now. If people cannot change, based upon their conscience and their vision of the … Continue reading

May God Shine Upon You

The Great Rays are being cast upon those who can respond and who must respond. It is a Great Plan for a universe so far beyond what you can even imagine you cannot conceive of it. It will make you realize … Continue reading

A Deeper Meaning of Christmas

Christmas represents the emergence of Knowledge in the individual. This is exemplified in the life of Jesus, who beyond his own understanding even, a Greater Power emerged within him and overtook his life—uniting him with the Unseen Ones, who guided … Continue reading

The Messenger on “Life in the Universe”

Newstalk Ireland talks with Prophet and Messenger Marshall Vian Summers about Life in the Universe, the newest sacred text of the New Message from God. “The Revelation that has consumed my life for the last thirty years is a New Message … Continue reading

Great Rays are Shining

People pray for many things but the Angelic Assembly is waiting for the real calling from the individual—a calling usually born of despair and frustration or disappointment in the world, seeking for something more real, more authentic, more permanent and more … Continue reading

God Knows the Way to Knowledge

How can you find your way when you are lost? How can you know certainty when you value the temporary so greatly? How can you know the power of your own life when you are so intimidated by threats of loss and destruction? Life … Continue reading

Today I Will Feel The Power Of God

God’s power is so complete and so inclusive that it infuses everything. Only those minds that are separated and lost in valuing their own thoughts can possibly be separated from the great benevolence of God. Those who have responded to God become … Continue reading

What is God of the Greater Community?

In the Greater Community, God is complete. In your world, God is a God of your world, a God of your race, a God of your history, a God of your temperament, a God of your fears and aspirations, a … Continue reading

Are You Ready for a New God?

Here the new God is the old God, unveiled and clarified. There is a New Revelation about God, a Revelation that takes God out of the ancient history of humanity, out of the conflicts and the fantasies and the misunderstandings … Continue reading

The Divine Mystery of Your Life

Human understanding can never encompass the Divine awareness. And human ethics and human law can never mirror perfectly the Divine awareness, for it is far too great and mysterious, extending far and far beyond the realm and the reach of … Continue reading

Humanity is Standing at the Edge of Darkness

Without the New Message from God, humanity would fall into grave conflicts and precipitous decline, making you vulnerable to foreign powers who are already in this world to gain influence and authority here. People do not realize they are standing … Continue reading

Expand Your Understanding of the Divine

Your understanding of the Divine now must be taken into a greater panorama of life. Your understanding cannot be anchored in the past but must be flexible and be able to adapt to the future, as greater and greater change … Continue reading

Receive the Power, Grace and Compassion of the New Revelation

You cannot be anchored in the past and understand the Revelation of the future. You cannot be adamant about your religious views and comprehend how God will speak again and why God has spoken again and what it will mean … Continue reading

The Reality of the Messenger

He is partly one of Us and partly one of you. He has to maintain both realities and be the shepherd to lead people up the mountain that is their mountain to climb. Is he as great as the great … Continue reading

All is Revealed at the Time of Revelation

Who can receive a new Messenger from God? Who will reject him? How will people respond? Will they respond at all? All is revealed at the time of Revelation—the value of one’s religious understanding, the purity of one’s religious faith, … Continue reading

The Process of Revelation in all worlds

In the history of this world and all worlds, the process of Revelation is the same. An individual is selected and sent into the world. When they reach a certain stage in their development and maturity, they are called out … Continue reading

A network of the wise in many worlds

There is a network of the wise, and there is a network of practitioners in The Way of Knowledge. Most have never met one another. But the seeds of Knowledge were planted in their cultures and are supported by spiritual … Continue reading

What is God’s will for the world?

God’s interventions are infrequent, but they are vitally necessary. The arrival of great spiritual emissaries such as Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed represent such interventions. However their presence may have been interpreted and whatever the response, these great representatives brought something … Continue reading

How do you find your purpose in life?

The need for Knowledge will grow dramatically. There are so many people in the world that have so little; there are so few that have so much. The resources of the world are shrinking, and the problems of the world … Continue reading

What is human destiny?

Your destiny is to emerge into the Greater Community of Worlds. This is a process that will take several centuries overall, but the change within the scope of your life will be very rapid, and the challenge to human society … Continue reading

Humanity now is on a reckless course. It is destroying its self-sufficiency in the world. It is endangering the natural balances that have given humanity such a beautiful and splendid world in which to evolve and to live. This is … Continue reading

Accepting the challenge of a New Revelation

Many people claim to have knowledge of the universe, but how can they know? They have been trapped on the surface of this one world—believing, hoping and speculating; trying to comprehend past revelations and prophecies or trying to project their … Continue reading

The nature, reality and purpose of the Human family

Your education about the Greater Community must come from God. It must come from God to be pure and to be wholly beneficial for you. And it must come from God because only God knows fully the nature, the reality … Continue reading

Sharing the New Message

As you begin to realize the importance of this Teaching and its great message for humanity for this time and for the future, you will want to share certain ideas with people. Perhaps you will try to share the whole … Continue reading

You cannot stop the evolution of life

The religious traditions of the world were not given to prepare humanity for the Greater Community. Nor were they given to prepare humanity for a declining world, a world of diminishing resources and a world of escalating instability, a global … Continue reading

This greater life into which you are emerging…

  You live within a Greater Community of intelligent life in the universe. It is vast, encompassing the entire spectrum of evolution—the evolution of technology, the evolution of societies and the evolution of spiritual awareness and ethics. It is vast … Continue reading

What holds us back in life?

Much of what holds people back in life is their unresolved feelings and judgments regarding their relationships, even relationships in the distant past. These feelings and judgments act as a kind of dam, holding people’s feelings back, arresting them in … Continue reading

Humanity has true friends beyond the world

You have great friends beyond this world. That is why humanity is seeking to enter into the Greater Community because the Greater Community represents a broader range of its true relationships. You have true friends beyond the world because you … Continue reading

Today I will seek the experience of true purpose in life.

Seek the experience of true purpose. This provides the foundation for all meaningful relationships. Do not seek relationships outside of this context, for they will lack foundation and, though perhaps very alluring, will prove to be very difficult for you. … Continue reading

We are born of an Ancient Heritage

You are born of an Ancient Heritage. This will arise in your mind naturally, though it is beyond words and beyond description. In essence it is a pure experience of life and inclusion. What is remembered in this experience are … Continue reading

Relationships will come to me when I am prepared

Why strive for relationships in the world when genuine relationships will come to you as you are prepared? To understand this, you must have great faith in the power of Knowledge within yourself and within others. As this awareness grows, … Continue reading

What does the New Message ask of you?

  The New Message asks of you honesty, sincerity, integrity and commitment—all the things that everyone needs to establish in his or her own life and everything that needs to be established within the communities and villages, the cities and … Continue reading

Love and Romance in Relationships

“Do not think that you must fall into feverish love. True love is always calm because it is always based on recognition and compatibility. And true love will grow because true participation in relationship is the vehicle for its expression.” … Continue reading

Step 26: My errors give birth to my Knowledge

It is pointless to justify error, but error can bring you to
 value truth, and in this it can lead to true Knowledge. This is its 
only possible value. We do not condone error, but if error occurs, We
 wish … Continue reading

A Community of Learners

  STEP 170: I AM FOLLOWING THE ANCIENT RITE OF PREPARATION TODAY.   THIS PREPARATION THAT YOU ARE UNDERTAKING is ancient in 
its origin. It has been used for centuries, in this world and in 
other worlds as well. It … Continue reading

“What does discretion mean? It means the ability to know when to speak and when not to speak. “

  “Those individuals who have become wise have had to realize that they have to be careful of what they say to anyone, anywhere, at any time. They are careful because they realize that all self-expression affects relationships and generates … Continue reading

“If you want to inspire others, then you yourself must demonstrate it.”

  “You know, many people want to go out and share everything they learn as soon as they learn it. The problem is that they have not really learned it, and so they cannot demonstrate it. If you want to … Continue reading

The Messenger’s Prayer

I PRAY That this time may be a time of deep reckoning For growing numbers of people That they may see that their life Is here for a purpose And that they have the power To impact the world One … Continue reading

“Who will bear witness to the Revelation?

“Who amongst you will bear witness to the Revelation? Who amongst you is strong enough, brave enough and honest enough to do this? For those for whom this is their destiny, it is the most important thing in their whole … Continue reading

“In truth, your life is only as strong as the weakest of your Pillars.”

    “There are Four Pillars to your life. They represent the strength of your life and the stability of your life. They represent your ability to withstand change and to take advantage of opportunity. They represent your ability to … Continue reading

“You need this Higher Authority now to speak to the deeper part of you…”

  “The Higher Authority is speaking to you now, Speaking through the Angelic Presence, Speaking to a part of you that is the very center and source of your Being, Speaking beyond your social conditioning, Beyond your ideas and beliefs … Continue reading

True Instruction Is Available to Me

You must love yourself to become a student of Knowledge and continually love yourself to proceed. There is no other obstacle to learning but this.Without love there is fear, for nothing else can replace love. But love has not been … Continue reading

“You have come into the world for a purpose…”

  “You have come into the world for a purpose—to reclaim your Knowledge, to express your Knowledge and to establish genuine relationships with others. This is your purpose and everyone’s purpose here. Your calling is part of this. Your calling … Continue reading

“You are being given a new life—not a slightly better rendition of your old life.”

  “At a certain point you will come to realize that this New Revelation is here to give you a new life…At some point you will come to realize that the life you are living is really not appropriate for … Continue reading

“Preparing for the Great Waves of Change”

• Growing Economic Hardship and Political Instability • Declining Energy and Natural Resources • Climate Change and Catastrophic Weather • Loss of Arable Land and Fresh Water • Pandemic Disease • Escalating Worldwide Conflict • Extraterrestrial Intervention “This is humanity’s … Continue reading

“You are like the child entering the metropolis—innocent, assuming, unaware.”

  “God’s New Revelation opens the doors to a universe of intelligent life, providing perspective, insight and understanding never available before.   “The human family does not realize its vulnerability to this Greater Community or its relationship with this Greater … Continue reading

“You are destined to meet certain people in life. You have a rendezvous with them.”

  “Rendezvous is what everyone is searching for unconsciously in their desire for companionship, for love and for relationship.”   “Your rendezvous with God is your rendezvous with Knowledge within yourself, for that is where God speaks to you. That … Continue reading

“God’s true Messengers have had to break the chains of convention.”

  “Simply said, the purpose of religion is to cultivate the desire and the capacity to experience the Divine Presence in one’s life. Religion has become now a yoke and a harness for people, requiring them to believe along certain … Continue reading

“Compassion is choosing a greater response to a greater problem.”

  “Given the enormity of the change at hand and the great requirements being placed on humanity at this time to meet its own internal needs and to meet the challenges of emerging into the Greater Community, it is quite … Continue reading

The Messenger is partly one of us and partly one of you.

  “For Marshall to be able to become the Messenger, he would have to have a foot in both worlds—a foot in the real world of human interactions, human relationships and the difficulties and complexities of relations between nations…He would … Continue reading

The New Message on Heaven & Hell

“Think of Heaven as where you have come from and think of Hell as where you have been sent to serve—to help reclaim the separated, to support their reassociation with Knowledge within themselves and to create a world where Knowledge … Continue reading

“The one relationship that is your beginning & final resting place”

It is now necessary for you to think about your relationship with God. Ask yourself: “Do I love God? Do I trust God? Does God love me? Does God trust me? Is God lovable and trustworthy? Am I lovable and … Continue reading

“Who can respond to a calling like this?”

The Creator offers The Way of Knowledge to everyone, in one form or another. A few are ready, and most do not respond. We can assure you that the Creator does not worry about them. Everyone will respond eventually, but … Continue reading

“It is We who spoke to Jesus.”

“We are the Ones who have brought all of the Revelations into the world. For God does not speak. God is not a person or a personage or a personality or a singular awareness. To think like this is to … Continue reading