What is a Personage? | Steve Beckow

Matthew and his mother and channel Susy Ward

By Steve Beckow, April 18, 2022

(Golden Age of Gaia)

I promised I’d ask Suzy Ward what “personage” meant and I have her discussion here.

Steve: In early 2014, Matthew said:

“Always I have spoken from personal knowledge as Matthew the apostle—it is the best known today of my lives on Earth—and the thousands of other lifetimes that began when Archangel Michael’s powerful energy manifested its first personage in this universe. (Matthew’s Message, Jan. 5, 2014.)

He continued the next month:

“Now then, as Archangel Michael’s first personage in this universe.“

I’ve read some of his other discussions of personages and I can’t quite get the concept. Is it the same as what Archangel Michael means by an “emanation”?

He also mentions that he as well has many “personages.” It almost sounds in that case as if they may be “past lives.” Can you please correct my impression? Perhaps Matthew could define what a personage is, keeping in mind that my own understanding of all of these processes is not great!

Suzy: Personage is what Matthew says instead of an incarnated person the soul co-creates using Creator’s energy to give birth to its ideas about what it wants or needs to experience in a physical world. Each personage is a lifetime of the cumulative soul.

Matthew is an independent and inviolate part of a larger soul entity, which he calls his “cumulative soul.” He refers to his lifetime as my son as his “personage,” which is only one aspect of his larger soul entity that includes many personages, and each has full knowledge of all the others’ lifetime experiencing. Whereas Matthew and all other souls in his realm have the composite knowledge of their respective cumulative souls available, like a handy reference library, we have no conscious knowledge of our own soul relatives.

I’ll copy below how he explained cumulative soul in Revelations for a New Era.

Love ya!

Suzy
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THE CUMULATIVE SOUL

Matthew, I’m confused about what the cumulative soul is.

All of this is new to you, Mother, and it’s understandable that it is difficult to grasp. I believe this is simplest explanation of the cumulative soul: It is the composite of all its parts starting with the very first division of itself into an independent lifetime for diversity in experiencing.

OK, thank you, dear! Where do cumulative souls reside?

There is no specific place of residence because a cumulative soul is not an individual entity, but rather the indivisible sum of all its personages wherever they are living, and it grows as each one adds its lifetime experiences to the ever-changing composite. Actually, a better description of a cumulative soul than I first gave you is that it is a force field that derives its entire essence from all its aspects wherever they are throughout the universe.

That does make it easier to understand—thank you. Do you personally know the other personages in your cumulative soul or do you only have access to their knowledge?

I know those who are in this realm and some of us have become friends. Some are spending a lifetime on Earth, and I know very well who they are! Some have progressed so far toward the light of God that our densities are incompatible, so a meeting isn’t possible, and others have regressed far from the light into lower densities, and I’m surely not interested in going there! Some have chosen lifetimes out of this galaxy, where I don’t travel often, so I’m barely acquainted with them.

Each has its own soul growth to accomplish, Mother. Wherever the other personages are living for their individual growth, we’re always within the familial bonding of our cumulative soul. But it isn’t necessary that we meet or share interests or know all the details of each other’s lives. What we do share is the essential knowledge of our collective experiencing, otherwise all the individual souls’ learning would be wasted.

And, not to add a complexity here but rather to explain how the cumulative soul has such comprehensive knowledge: All the personages are living simultaneously in the timeless continuum, so not only “past” but also “future” lifetimes are feeding into that force field—it’s not only “old” knowledge that is there for each personage to tap into.

The cumulative soul can advance from its station toward the light only by the advancement of its personages. Therefore, each personage not only has the benefit of the cumulative soul’s composite knowledge, but it is continuously given encouragement at soul level to master its chosen lessons so the cumulative soul can evolve.

However, that is not self-serving—with that soul’s advancement, all of its personages also have the opportunity to evolve. But, depending upon its use of free will choices, each of the personages can either grow toward the light or regress so far as to become trapped in base energy.

If a personage becomes trapped, how does that affect its cumulative soul’s energy?

The lifetime energy registration that consigns a personage to the base energy placement does not affect its cumulative soul because that personage’s unique energy stream made its own way entirely by its free will choices. The cumulative soul may encourage its personages, but it can’t ever interfere with their free will. However, out of love for all its personages, the cumulative soul may request divine grace to assist any that become trapped in base energy.

Are the individual souls always aware of everything their cumulative soul knows?

Let me compare this with your memory, Mother. Nothing you have learned or experienced is ever lost in your memory system, but you can’t remember everything at the same time–it would be overwhelming!

Furthermore, many of your experiences were so trivial that they were irrelevant to subsequent happenings and never returned to your conscious mind, yet all are in your memory bank. It’s the same with the personages of the cumulative soul as they experience their respective lifetimes.

That makes sense. Matthew, with all these parts of your cumulative soul, I just want to be absolutely sure that you are ONLY my Matthew and nobody else!

Oh, Mother, absolutely I am Matthew and no one else! Every personage is its own soul and no one else! The cumulative soul is the synthesis of all its soul-selves that are completely independent beings.

But it sounds as if every soul that divides itself becomes a cumulative soul, so you could do the same and become one, too.

Mother, I realize that in my eagerness to answer your questions, sometimes my efforts result in confusion rather than clarification. The terms I’ve given you for the various aspects of soul expression—cumulative soul, personages, soul fragments or sparks and such—are meant only to show the soul’s long journey striving through multiple lifetimes to return to its Beginnings in the perfect love and light of Creator.

In this realm we don’t need differentiation of terms because each soul’s energy registration in the universe is evidence of its evolutionary station. Since each soul is its own inviolate self regardless of its station or the number of its progeny, we think of each simply as “soul.”

And that is how we speak of each one to you unless we are trying to explain the soul growth stages through its independently functioning aspects, or the inextricable and eternal connection of each soul with God and all other souls in the universe.

A most relevant point here is what I mentioned about all souls’ lifetimes within the continuum, where there is no linear time basis for the dividing and subdividing into independently experiencing entities. The simultaneous “past” “present” and “future” lives of the cumulative soul are simply in different life forms in different stages of development in different placements in the universe.

However, you can’t comprehend the timelessness of the continuum, or imagine being in greatly different kinds of bodies from yours in this moment that are living in places you have no consciousness knowledge of. Therefore, we can only try to explain by using your linear time, calling the various lifetimes “reincarnation,” and placing it all within a spiritual hierarchical structure that can fit into your understanding.

I still may not have clarified this enough, Mother, but the good news is that you will understand this seemingly unfathomable mystery when your soul has returned to Nirvana.

I’ll count on that for later, but I’d like to know NOW if you and I have the same cumulative soul.

We certainly do, Mother! I was hoping you would ask, but if you hadn’t, I would have told you. You and I have such similar energy levels, or vibrations, and special bonding because we go back almost to our cumulative soul’s “birth” in antiquity in a universal placement far beyond Earth; and our lives on the planet began probably half a million or so years ago in your counting of time, maybe even lots farther back than that. Some of our family and dearest other people later came into what became our “soul cluster,” but others were introduced down the line from other cumulative souls when we needed them or vice versa.

Steve: Thank you, Suzy. Now comes the second part of my question.

What relationship does “personage” imply in regard to Archangel Michael?

Is he like child to Michael’s parent?

Suzy: As Creator’s first beings, the archangels originated in the Christed realm, closest to Creator in the cosmos.

Except for Lucifer, those souls remain the pure essence of Creator’s love-light energy.

When It gave them free will with its power of manifestation, they co-created personages. What became Matthew’s cumulative soul was Archangel Michael’s first personage, or first child, in this universe.