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Chapter 37
Beloved Saint Germain - September 11, 1994


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1994
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

37  Beloved Saint Germain - September 11, 1994
    37.1  I AM the Witness - September 11, 1994

Vol. 37 No. 37 - Beloved Saint Germain - September 11, 1994
FREEDOM 1994
The Environment of the Soul
Building Community through Spiritual Mastery
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Be My Emissary
Be God-Centered and Do Not Be Moved!
Claim Your Empowerment by the Holy Spirit

     Thus by sound the worlds were framed. And by the spoken Word of Elohim, all things come full circle. Therefore I greet you, Keepers of the Flame of God across the cosmos. I welcome you and I receive you to my heart!

     [20-second standing ovation. Congregation gives the salutation, clapping:]

     Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain!

     Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain!

     Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain!

     Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain!

     Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain! Hail, Saint Germain!

     Kindly be seated, blessed hearts.

     I wish to begin this day by expressing profound gratitude for those who make up my staff in this Community and for all of you who serve with me throughout the earth and uphold my standard,1 truly the banner of Saint Germain of the Aquarian age, as well as the standards that I have set for you.

     I am grateful for the tremendous effort you have made to make possible this conference, and I include all who have journeyed from far and near. I appreciate your friendship and your understanding of what it means to the hierarchs of Light for you to come together as one body and give the energy we need to deal with pending situations in this earth.

     Thus, beloved, it is sad that it is only possible for our summer retreats to be held for ten days, for I would see my Keepers of the Flame in perpetual vigils by the thousands and the ten thousands here and there everywhere in the earth. And as you have felt the winds of Aquarius blowing, as you have felt the wind of the Holy Spirit, so know that there is deep movement in the earth and in the core of the earth and in your own Causal Bodies.

     That deep movement, beloved, has to do with the assistance you have received from those 144,000 whom Omri-Tas sent to earth and whose coming I announced at last year's summer conference.2 These hosts of the Seventh Ray from the Violet Planet have given you their hearts and their momentum as dispensation. Many are working at deep levels in the earth for planetary transmutation and the adjustment and realignment of the earth body and her inhabitants.

     So now my angels come. They come to prepare you for the final dictation of our Lord the Maha Chohan. And so they saturate you now with violet flame. This is not always easy - not for the angels and not for you, beloved, for many of you do not know how to let go of the misqualified substance of your karma. And not only is it difficult to saturate you with violet flame, but it is difficult to saturate you with any of the rays!

     So I say, let go! This is the time to "hang loose," as they say, and to let your substance fall by the wayside. And think not forward or backward but only think yourselves into the arms of God.

     Ye are children of Elohim. Ye are children of the Central Sun. Now I give you a spin, and I spin you back to the point of the original spinning of your soul from the Mind of God.

     You have strayed far, far - far from the source of being. Yet you have made an about-face and turned and faced the Great Central Sun and bowed before your Father-Mother God, to Alpha and Omega. And because you love and love and love again the flame of freedom for what it can do on behalf of the evolutions of all who are in the Matter cosmos, you have determined to walk toward the Sun, knowing that the heat gets hotter before it becomes a coolant; for your bodies must yet throw off into that sacred fire the accumulations of the debris of centuries.

     So, my beloved, the great joy of my heart is to see that hierarchies of Light, and still others that have come from great distances across the galaxy, are pouring more and more reinforcements into the earth. And I will tell you why, beloved. It is because they have seen your efforts and your determination and heard your calls. And now they cannot be turned back, for you have galvanized your forces.

     And to those of you who know you can do more, I say: Do it! For now is the time for sowing and reaping magnificent karma that will thrust you either into your ascension or into rebirth in the New Age, when all types of opportunity will become available to you to make your final contribution to earth.

     Blessed ones, we are counting on this New Age. We are counting on a golden age of peace and enlightenment and absolute God-freedom for the individual. But it begins in the hearts of Keepers of the Flame of eternal life who are here today. It begins in your hearts and the hearts of those who have captured that spark and are fanning it and have become once again enthusiastic for America, for the principles of freedom and for fighting for the rights of all people to have a quality education, a quality diet and a quality life in every aspect of their world.

     Let us, then, get on with our challenging of mediocrity wherever it rears its head. And let us remember that this is the day [the Fourth of July] that the Messenger has consecrated to the freedom of the child. I dedicate this freedom, beloved, to your inner child as well as to all children of the earth, for they are effectively helpless before those who are bigger and louder and more experienced than they are. I say, beloved, the New Age will be peopled with these children and their children's children, and you must endow them with a momentum that you can transfer to them based on your own victory over the forces that assailed the innocence of your soul when you were a little child.

     These are difficult times due to the signs in the heavens and the astrological charts of individuals and nations. But you are above your astrology, and remember that. For if you are superstitious and if you bow before the negative portents of that astrology as though you were helpless before them, then I say, you will become puppets to the Fates instead of masters all.

     The ascended hosts have told you, beloved, that we will apply our Causal Bodies to the victory of your astrology.3 And when you have difficult times and crisscrossings in your chart, remember that you must be tried, purified and made white.4 You must be able to summon the tremendous strength of your I AM Presence and Causal Body against all odds and recognize that God in you is always greater than anything - I say anything or anyone in the entire Matter cosmos!

     For God is real and only God has the omnipotence to take you forward to ultimate victory, ultimate freedom and then to the unfolding, beloved - the unfolding of sealed talents in your Causal Bodies. Some of you have seen them. Some of you have had parents who have opened your eyes to them and prepared the way for you to draw forth your momentums of creativity and service.

     Blessed hearts, we must win! We must win and we must win fiercely and all the way. There will be no casualties in this battle,5 beloved, for you are in the armour of the Faithful and True. You are marching with his armies.

     Therefore, let us do it and get it over with. When there is a difficult task and when there is a challenge, the best thing to do is to plunge in. Look neither to the right nor to the left but keep on following the mark of the God Star, Sirius.

     Keep on following that mark, and do not neglect to seek the advice of the Ascended Masters through our teachings and from the Messenger - if you can catch her as she moves with God Mercury, sensing the urgency of the hour, sensing where we are in the Darjeeling Council and attempting to convey to you that there is good reason to hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and accelerate your path and be done with the old outmoded shells.

     Yes, beloved, there are victories to be won here and there and everywhere. Do not let the sun set before you have ignited a golden fire of victory within your temple, without your temple. I tell you, there is a thinning of the veil between the physical plane and the etheric octave because of Keepers of the Flame throughout the earth and others who understand the violet flame and call it forth.

     You must know, beloved, that there is an end to evil and there is an end to the Dark Cycle. And there are new beginnings, but those beginnings must be forged and won by you.

     It is the threading of the eye of the needle of the Aquarian age of which I speak - yes, the threading of the eye of the needle. It is the most difficult part of the beginning. But when all are moving toward that end and when the needle is finally threaded and the thread is tied and when greater enlightenment comes upon this people, you will see, even in your own time before your eyes are closed in this octave, changes that you never even dreamt would come. And this is because, beloved, you have been as shock troops, you have been as soldiers of the earth, bearing tremendous burdens, moving with the gnomes of Virgo and Pelleur and all their legions of Light.

     When you are burdened in carrying that which you carry, beloved, you cannot look to the right or the left but you can only keep on keeping on, knowing that you are plowing through, plowing through every level of consciousness, and that you are getting results. For we the ascended hosts of Light stand with you, move with you and bring you to that place of ultimate victory.

     This is surely the time to invoke the gifts of the Holy Spirit, first and foremost the gift of faith, beloved. For that faith, as you know, is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."6 Therefore, faith carries you and carries you again and carries you again.

     And if you are bowed down, blessed ones, write a letter to me, write a letter to my beloved Portia. And you will receive a reply that directly addresses those situations you face in your world.

     Have faith in the violet flame. Have faith in those of us who are the sponsors of the violet flame. We need reinforcements from the Violet Planet and we have called to Omri-Tas to send them. And I tell you, beloved ones, this blessed Master has not refused me. [35-second standing ovation]

     I do not number these reinforcements, beloved, for they come in proportion to your calls to the Seventh Ray and the Seventh-Ray Masters. They come in proportion to your willingness to gain your mastery of the seven rays under the Seven Chohans and to truly immerse yourselves in the sacred fire of the Maha Chohan.

     And so, beloved, these seven Ascended Masters, myself included, come with the understanding that, yes, you will pay as you go. But, beloved, your wages are increased. Therefore you can buy more with violet flame today than you could buy yesterday! [21-second standing ovation]

     I want each of you to have the sense that you can make the call to us and the call will be answered. I want you to be in such fine-tune alignment with your Holy Christ Self and with the Chohans of the Rays and the Maha Chohan that you will make the call and the call will be answered. Now you must trust in that. You must trust in that, beloved.

     And I will tell you how you will know that you have made contact with us and with your Mighty I AM Presence. You will know that you have made contact, beloved, if you have ensconced yourself in the center of the Law. And therefore when you make that call and you make it with determination and fierceness and with the power of your chakras, asking of me or one of the other Chohans a favor or for change in the earth, and you send that prayer up, you may know that you have been heard and it will be acted upon by the ray of light and the vibration that is sent back to you from the heart of the Chohan you have addressed.

     I say try this, beloved. Try this again and again until you realize that unless you daily clear away the debris of consciousness by violet fire, you may not feel that ray of light and that vibration returning to you multiplied by the Chohan's heart flame. And then you may feel discouraged because you think that something is not quite right with you, and you will be correct.

     Therefore, get back to the basics, as the Messenger has taught you to do this day.7 For with the hosts of the LORD you must build layer upon layer the foundations of the First Ray of Archangel Michael and the Fourth Ray of Mighty Astrea and the Fifth Ray, the ray of precipitation, of Cyclopea.

     Understand this, beloved, and come, come into alignment with your own God-free being. And do not forget the Holy Kumaras and the Seven Archangels, who await your calls on the hour.8 Whatever it takes to remind you to offer a fiat to God once in each sixty minutes, let it be done. If you will make but one call an hour, you will be summoning untold legions of Light who will come in formation to respond to your call.

     Do not forget this. This is a major dispensation from the heart of God through the Holy Kumaras. And you must not keep your angels waiting, letting them stand idly by because you have not given them their assignments. [15-second standing ovation]

     We who sit at the Darjeeling Council table and deliberate the fate of nations and our chelas have many plans that we are ready to execute. We need those who will study, who will prove themselves, who will perfect themselves in the delivery of the Word. Recognize that the world will respond, as the Messenger has said again and again, because you have the Holy Spirit in your hearts and in your temples, because you dwell with your God and because the Father and the Son have taken up their abode in you.9 You will have to stand before the principalities and thrones of fallen angels as well as before the humble of heart, who will see right through you and know your vibration.

     Beloved, be my emissary. Be the emissary of Portia, I ask you. Go for us! As the Lord has said, "Who will go for us? Who will go for us? Who will be ourselves in form?"10 so I ask it too.

     [Congregation responds: "I will!"]

     I accept your "I will." I accept your "I will" and I ratify it and I confirm it. And I give to you a mighty violet flame angel to confirm it, to assist you and to reinforce your determination to grapple with the oppositions to the victory of the sons and daughters of God in the planet and not dodge these initiations and not duck them and not go this way and that way and quit your sacred labor and quit the assignments of your karma.

     Blessed hearts, time flies. As Morya is wont to say, tempus fugit. Yes, beloved, in that understanding know that you shall not forever be finite beings, you shall not forever be in this octave. But I say, leave those footprints. Leave them in the sands of earth and in the etheric octave. Leave them in your writings and in your speakings. Leave them as the apostle Paul did. Leave them because you are become a mighty apostle of mine and of Jesus and of Kuthumi and of all the hosts of the LORD.

     Yes, beloved, take the high road, take the tough road. Toughen yourselves! Do your daily exercises. Do not let your bodies or your minds become flabby. Watch what you take in through the mouth and watch what comes out of the mouth. For by the power of the spoken Word, as you use it correctly and purely and do not violate it in any way, you will increase your stature as a Son of God, one with your own Holy Christ Self. And do this quickly, for cycles are accelerating.

     And so, as it has been said, now is the time to move with the tide of Light that beckons. For I tell you, as you take advantage of the solicitous presence of the Great White Brotherhood, you will be able to move mountains. This is the moment, I tell you, beloved. It is the moment when the first shot was fired, yes, for the independence of the colonies. Yes, it is one of those moments in liberty that you have celebrated, that you have extolled, that you have understood from the depths of your being.

     Count yourselves, then, as those who were there, who have championed the cause of liberty throughout the ages. You have known it all. You have been thrown to the lions. You have been burned at the stake. All these things you have known.

     Therefore, what is it that you fear? How can you be afraid of anything when you have seen everything?

     [18-second standing ovation]

     And the mighty sound of worlds turning, of planets moving in their courses, of stars dying from the moment they are born - this is a gentle and a powerful hum, perhaps not even recognizable to the ear, even as sometimes the sound of the wind cannot be heard. These sounds, beloved, draw down lower and lower into the physical octave that mighty momentum of the Spirit.

     Sound, therefore, is a funnel for the higher light to be channeled into the lowest levels of being. Sound will remove and erase - in fact it will totally erase, beloved - the records that the fallen angels have deposited in the subconscious levels of your being. Thus, when you get the idea to make the call for these insidious implants to be excised from your being, act upon it, for when you act upon it, it is done! And it is done because you have made the call for it to be done in keeping with the will of God. Get this one idea in your head - that it is done when you make the call, and you need not worry or wonder about it.

     I say again: It is done when you make the call!

     [24-second standing ovation]

     Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD and he is not divided!11 Therefore ye, his sons and daughters, cannot be divided in your members. Cease the division! Become one-pointed! Cast all lesser consciousness, philosophies and ideas into the wind of the Holy Spirit.

     What matters most is that you become the essence of that Spirit. That is the point. You do not need the demons and psychics who pander their wares among the children of the Light. You need only the one God and his commandments, fiery and burning within you.

     Be on fire for the LORD! And be able to say with those who have gone before you:

     The zeal of the LORD hath eaten me up.

     The zeal of the LORD hath eaten my whole house!12

     The zeal - what is the zeal?

     Take the z, beloved, of zeal and the zeal of Zarathustra. It is a mighty Z-ray and that zeal intensifies determination so that there is not even a question in your mind of failure or that perhaps you are at the wrong place at the wrong time or should have been born two centuries ago or two centuries later.

     All of this is nonsense! Identify with your Christhood and you shall manifest it. And none shall be able to hide it, and you shall not be able to hide it. Therefore, get rid of the lower consciousness. Douse the astral body with the sacred fire of God! All things are possible to you this day.

     I come. I have been through every woe and burden of condemnation and trial and betrayal that anyone could ever know upon this planet, for I have been here a long, long, long time.

     [17-second standing ovation]

     It is true that we have other worlds to conquer,13 but we are not interested in hearing about them this day, are we?

     [Congregation responds: "No!"]

     We are interested in calling to the Great Causal Body of Omri-Tas, which I now do!

     Hear, Omri-Tas! Hear my call! For I call for the replica of the Great Causal Body of the Violet Planet to be sealed in this earth this day! [34-second standing ovation]

     The sails of the sailing vessels of old had to be tied down. I say tie down this Causal Body of Omri-Tas' planet. Tie it down, beloved! Put weights upon it. Draw that Causal Body into the physical octave. Draw it in to saturate the astral plane. So saturate that astral plane that these fallen angels who inhabit that plane, these very ones will become nauseated by the very fragrance of the oil of the violet flame.

     Blessed ones, this you must do, for the Causal Body of Omri-Tas is of the highest octaves. That Causal Body is in the realm of Spirit and fills also the etheric plane. But you need it in the mental belt, you need it in the physical belt and you need it throughout the emotional body of the planet.

     Of all people, beloved, I counsel you: Be God-centered and do not be moved. Do not be moved! It is a weakness of the flesh and the human mind. Do not be moved. Do not feel that this one or that one has betrayed you or criticized you or done this or that to you.

     Do not be a reactor, beloved. Be proactive and know that as you are strong, as you are determined, as you are filled and empowered with the will of God and the hosts of the LORD, you will see that this nation may once again be protected, that every nation may be protected and that those of merit will not be denied - will not be denied the flame of freedom.

     In addition to ministers of the Word and preachers of the gospel of the Piscean age, we require those who are teachers of the Aquarian age principles. The entire world may be successful in rising up to the level of the Aquarian-age octave if you play your part.

     If you write the books, if you get out the Teachings, if you spread the word, the message will catch, beloved. It will catch as quickly as wildfire! It will catch even as there have been the forest fires in the earth. And in some places that burning has been ordained by Elohim because of the horrendous records of human infamy that have been outplayed in those areas all the way back to the continent of Lemuria and up to the present.

     Look at what is being done in the earth in the vileness of the repetitive murders of Abel by Cain, in the vileness of the repetitive attacks upon little children, older children and people of all ages. Blessed hearts, this equals and exceeds the repetitive vileness of the last days of Atlantis that caused the flood to descend, as described in Genesis.14 And the wanton acts of murder and mayhem that are being perpetrated today are the replication of brother spilling the blood of brother on Atlantean soil. And I tell you, were it not for those who keep the violet flame of freedom, far greater, far greater and more beastly devastating situations should have already descended.

     It may take one and five and five hundred and five hundred thousand people to form the capstone of the pyramid of civilization, but it truly does not take the entire population of the earth to form it where the violet flame is centered in that capstone. So you see, beloved, each one of you becomes a repository of mighty forces indeed, forces that can move with Mighty Victory. You have but to climb the ladder fearlessly. You have but to enter this glorious moment of the liberation of peoples. I tell you, there is no limit to what you can accomplish except your own self-limitation. [22-second standing ovation]

     How, then, can I or the Maha Chohan empower you this day if you have not even considered empowering yourself by your own call to your own Mighty I AM Presence, by your own determination that God has already empowered you from the Beginning, that the Seven Mighty Elohim have empowered you?

     You see, you are not claiming your birthright in the Great Central Sun. Who has told you that you do not have this birthright?

     I will tell you. All of the fallen angels have drummed it into your minds and hearts for centuries. You need not go along with it: You have free will and you must have the victory! You must have the victory over yourself. I am not going to get the victory over you. You are going to get the victory over yourself. Because you are the only one who can get that victory!

     And this is the day and this is the hour and this is the moment! For I, Saint Germain, am standing with you now. Therefore take the tide at its flood. Take your own empowerment and declare it in the words you frame as you commune with your God and implore your empowerment. You may say: In the name of my Mighty I AM Presence, I claim my empowerment by the Holy Spirit. And I shout it to the heavens and I reach the God Star!

     Do it now, beloved!

     [Congregation gives fiats, claiming their empowerment.]

     I have just shown the Messenger a thoughtform that will enable you to understand what is happening to you now. The great hand of God takes a scoop - a scoop such as you would see in a candy shop. This scoop is filled with grains of gold as grains of golden sand. And this scoop is pouring into each of your chakras the nature, the quality, the gift, the vibration of empowerment you have invoked for yourself, what you can receive and what you can use. Through this internalization, then, of the grains of the God-flame the manifestation of reempowerment is coming to you this day.

     Thus understand that there does come a time in the life of the ascending one that increments of the ascension flame begin to be leveled into that person's etheric body, then into the mental, then into the desire body and finally into the physical. Make room in your cells and atoms. Revere your organs as the organs of God-man yet to be transformed.

     And remember, beloved, you began as immortals. You lost the flame of your immortality. Now you are striving to enter in as mortals. This means that in calling for empowerment, you must call for the flame, the lost flame of your immortality, so that the transition from this life to higher octaves may come to you gradually over the period and term of years that life has allotted to you. See this, beloved.

     The very beginning of empowerment is to understand that empowerment is a bestowal whereby you internalize increments of God's omnipotence. It is not a thing of mortals; it is a thing of God. Yes, beloved, empowerment is of the omnipotence of God. For you to make this power your own you must become humble.

     You must self-monitor, for you do not all have a Guru that is ascended whom you may speak with and talk with. Thus, listen to your Holy Christ Self, and know when you have vexed the Holy Spirit or grieved the Holy Spirit15 or even snuffed out the candle of your own being. Self-monitoring is far more important than watching all of the sports events that pass on the TV screen.

     Be players, beloved, for as Morya has said, life is not a spectator sport.16 You are making things happen! You are not spectators. [21-second standing ovation]

     I give to the Maha Chohan my place at this altar and I ask you to be seated.

     The ten-day conference FREEDOM 1994: "The Environment of the Soul" was held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. Throughout FREEDOM 1994, conferees were blessed by teachings and darshan from the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood, Elizabeth Clare Prophet. On Monday, July 4, 1994, the Messenger delivered "Lesson Five from the Holy Spirit: Healing the Soul and the Environment of the Soul - Building Community through Spiritual Mastery" and this dictation by Saint Germain, Representing the Lords of the Seven Rays and the Hierarchs of the Age of Aquarius, in the Presence of the Fourteen Ascended Masters Who Govern the Destiny of America. The Maha Chohan's dictation followed. Before Saint Germain's dictation, the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was played as the meditation music. "Lesson Five from the Holy Spirit" and the dictations by Saint Germain and the Maha Chohan are available on audiocassette (includes the Messenger's "Healing Invocations for Organs and Ailments as They Correspond to the Seven Chakras" and a presentation on the Royal Teton Ranch News): 3 cassettes, 4 hr. 38 min., A94098. The dictations by Saint Germain and the Maha Chohan are also available on videocassette: total 56 min., HP94034. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Saint Germain's direction.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom. Sections printed in bold italic type highlight fiats, mantras, affirmations, prayers and decrees that you can use in your daily decree sessions. The Messenger recommends that each week when you receive your Pearl of Wisdom, you type or write these out and place them in a special section in your decree book. The Messenger also encourages you to compose your own fiats and affirmations based on the Teachings of the Ascended Masters given in the Pearls of Wisdom.

37.1  I AM the Witness - September 11, 1994

Vol. 37 No. 37 - I AM the Witness - September 11, 1994

     I AM the Witness

     The Violet Flame Quickened Me and Saved Me in a Way That

     Fundamentalist Christianity Never Could and Never Did

     Dear Mother,

     I am grateful for your continual sacrifice and surrender for students of the Ascended Masters. I am especially thankful that you surrendered to Saint Germain's call to go stumping, which resulted in the 1978 Stump of sixty-seven cities. I feel fortunate to have been contacted on that Stump. The path I was following would have ended at best in a mediocre life, or at worst in skid row or an AIDS ward.

     My parents rarely attended church. Occasionally my grandparents or aunt would take me to the Mormon church. When I was in my mid-teens, we moved near my stepfather's relatives, who were Christian fundamentalists. I started attending church with them. I thought I was "saved" and continued attending fundamentalist churches until about my second year in college.

     I was taking a pre-med program in college and could not reconcile what I was learning in the sciences, especially concerning evolution, with the strict fundamentalist Christian viewpoint. I felt that I had to choose between religion and science. I chose science and became an agnostic. With rare exceptions, I stayed away from formal religion for several years.

     One day a friend loaned me a book on meditation. I had heard that meditation could increase creativity, so I read the book. Subsequently, I took classes in meditation offered by devotees of three different Eastern teachers. At first, I ignored the spiritual principles brought up in these classes, but then I began to wonder if there might be something to the spiritual aspects if different groups believed in them. I started paying attention to the spiritual principles and then actively seeking spiritual truth.

     I feel fortunate that I had only been seeking about a year when I saw the Stump poster that changed the course of my life. The main concept on the poster that attracted me was the idea of Ascended Masters. I had been studying a false teaching that discussed masters, and I wanted to discover if these were the same masters. I could not figure out why I was so excited about going to the lecture, and I stayed at the lecture much longer than I had planned.

     My intellectual mind, stuffed full of worldly knowledge, could not relate to the wisdom found in the books on the sales table at the Stump. (It took me months before I could comfortably read the books and Pearls of Wisdom.) What I could relate to was the tremendous multimedia show that accompanied the Stump. I was completely "blown away" by what was accomplished with all that sophisticated audio-visual equipment. I had a background in visual aids and knew this group had to have something behind it to pull off such an excellent multimedia extravaganza.

     I started attending a beginners' class at the local Summit Lighthouse Study Group. A few weeks after the Stump lecture, you held The Feast of Saint Stephen New Year's conference at Camelot. After I heard about the conference, I eagerly looked forward to it, especially in anticipation of experiencing dictations by the Ascended Masters. I was not disappointed. However, my faith was not as strong as some people's. I was not sure whether I had "found it."

     I still had a few problems with the Teachings. I had been heavily into the population control movement and therefore had a difficult time accepting the Ascended Masters' stand on abortion. A member of the local Study Group wisely suggested that I put these problems on a shelf in the back of my mind and let them sit for a while. Fortunately, I did just that and, with enough light, I was eventually able to "see the Light."

     As late as the summer of 1979, I was still investigating other spiritual groups. About every night of the week was taken up by a different group's teachings. Then, late that summer came A Retreat on the Ascension in San Francisco. I should have known this retreat would have something special for me because my first dictation had been by Serapis Bey. The greatest gift for me from the Retreat, and possibly the greatest gift of this lifetime, was your challenge:

     I challenge you, then, to experiment with the Path, to take a six-month cycle of your life and to give thirty minutes in concentration ... of the violet flame and write down the new and exciting things that happen in your life day by day. ... You won't remember in six months where you were when you started, you will be so many miles from the point of your origin. This alchemy of violet flame in your life can save you six hundred or six thousand years of wandering in the miasma of your karma.

     I say that to you directly from the heart of Saint Germain. If you really want to accelerate, experiment with his law. Experiment with the violet flame and find out why the God of Freedom to the earth and the Hierarch of Aquarius has considered the single gift of the violet flame to be the key to America's destiny, to the ending of war, to the bringing together of the Lightbearers of all nations.

     Since I was scientifically oriented, this challenge to experiment with the violet flame was just what I needed to test the Teachings. To my amazement, old habits just melted away with no effort. Without the violet flame, I am sure that quitting those habits would have been a major struggle. The violet flame "quickened" me into the Teachings and "saved" me as nothing in fundamentalist Christianity ever did.

     Thanks again for your continual sacrifice for us.

     Gratefully, I AM


Footnotes:

1 standard: banner, used to mark a rallying point in battle or to serve as an emblem; personal flag of the head of state or a member of a royal family.
2 144,000 sent to earth by Omri-Tas. See Saint Germain, July 4, 1993, "We March!" in 1994 PoW, vol. 37 no. 25, pp. 276-77.
3 The replacement of the planets and stars in your astrology with the Causal Bodies of the Ascended Masters. See Lord Maitreya, March 24, 1985, "Astrology for Twin Flames: Maitreya's Causal Body Is the Key to the Golden Age," in 1985 PoW, vol. 28 no. 53, Book II, pp. 623-26.
4 Dan. 12:10.
5 "This battle." See vol. 37 no. 34, pp. 399-402, 403; no. 35, pp. 409-13 and no. 36, p. 415.
6 Heb. 11:1.
7 See "Lesson Five from the Holy Spirit" (ordering information is listed in introductory note above).
8 Calls to Sanat Kumara and the Seven Archangels. See 1992 PoW, vol. 35 no. 49, pp. 619-24, 625; no. 65, pp. 731-32; 1993 PoW, vol. 36 no. 30, p. 440; and 1994 PoW, vol. 37 no. 25, p. 282.
9 John 14:23.
10 Isa. 6:8.
11 Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29.
12 Ps. 69:9; John 2:17.
13 "We have other worlds to conquer." Archangel Michael, June 27, 1982, in 1982 PoW, vol. 25 no. 37, Book II, p. 360.
14 Gen. 6, 7.
15 Eph. 4:30; I Thess. 5:19.
16 Life is not a spectator sport. "The major underlying cause for the continuation of unrest, which must be universally corrected upon earth, is the attitude, held far too long, of regarding life as a mere spectator sport." El Morya, April 9, 1963, "Encyclical on World Good Will," in Morya: The Darjeeling Master Speaks to His Chelas on the Quest for the Holy Grail, p. 115.