The Violet Flame

What Can You Use the Violet Flame For?

You do not have to wait until something becomes unbearable.

Use the Violet Flame when you notice that an old reaction is beginning again.

Use it when resentment returns.

Use it when you cannot stop thinking about something that happened.

Use it when you recognise fear, jealousy, anger, bitterness, guilt or an old emotional pattern that you no longer want to continue feeding.

Use it when you have made a mistake and sincerely want to change what you are creating.

Use it when you know that you need to forgive.

Use it when you repeatedly find yourself in the same type of inner struggle.

And use it when life is going well.

The Violet Flame is not only for moments of crisis. Regular spiritual practice is often much more valuable than waiting until a problem has become very large.

The original teachings repeatedly emphasise regular application and the building of spiritual momentum through continued practice.

Little by little, what was once difficult can become more natural.

Karma and the Violet Flame

Karma does not need to be made mysterious.

At its simplest, we can understand it as the return and continuation of what has previously been created through thought, feeling, speech and action.

Some patterns disappear quickly.

Others repeat for years.

Sometimes a person asks, “Why does this keep happening?”

Not every difficulty should automatically be called karma. Life is more complex than that.

But within the spiritual teachings of the Violet Flame, karmic records and accumulated misqualified energy are specifically connected with the work of transmutation. The sources repeatedly use expressions such as cause, core, effect, record and memory when describing this work.

This is why the Violet Flame has traditionally been used not only for the emotion you are experiencing today but also for the deeper pattern behind it.

You do not always need to know where a pattern began.

You do not have to spend your whole life analysing the past.

You can recognise what is present now, take responsibility for what you are creating today, and begin changing your relationship with it.That is already a movement toward freedom.

Forgiveness Is One of the Greatest Forms of Freedom

Forgiveness can be easy to speak about and very difficult to live.

Sometimes a person says, “I have forgiven,” while the body still tightens every time the other person's name is mentioned.

Sometimes the mind understands, but the emotional world has not yet released what happened.

Sometimes we need to forgive another person.

Sometimes we need to ask forgiveness.

And sometimes we need to stop punishing ourselves for something that cannot be changed anymore.

The Violet Flame is strongly connected in the teachings with Mercy and forgiveness.

Forgiveness does not mean pretending that something was acceptable when it was not.

It does not mean allowing another person to hurt you again.

It does not remove healthy boundaries.

Forgiveness means that what happened no longer has to remain a permanent inner prison.

You can remember and still become free.

You can learn and still become free.

You can walk away and still become free.

The Power of the Spoken Word

The Violet Flame may be approached through quiet meditation and visualization, but the teachings also give a very important place to the spoken word.

A decree is more than an ordinary sentence that is said once.

Within this tradition, repeated constructive speech, attention, feeling and rhythm are used consciously to build a spiritual momentum. The teaching on decreeing connects spoken repetition with the deliberate qualification of energy.

That is why repetition matters.

At first, speak slowly.

Understand what you are saying.

Feel the meaning.

Do not rush merely to finish a certain number of repetitions.

Once the words have become familiar, however, repetition can become much more rhythmic and continuous.

Within IAMGODIAM practice, the decree may then be repeated increasingly rapidly while your attention remains concentrated on the Violet Flame.

The words do not become less meaningful because they are spoken more rapidly.

The purpose is that thought, feeling, sound, rhythm and attention begin to move together.

That is very different from absent-minded repetition.

A Simple Violet Flame Decree

One of the simplest and most powerful decrees you can begin with is

IAM a being of Violet Fire!

I AM the purity God desires!

Do not change the words.

Begin quietly.

Say them several times and listen to what you are saying.

Then imagine, feel or simply become aware of Violet Fire beginning beneath and around you.

Allow it to rise.

See it surrounding the body.

See it moving through you.

If visualization is difficult, do not worry.

You do not have to produce a perfect inner picture.

Your attention is already important.

In time, the image can become easier.

[VIDEO PLACEHOLDER — VIOLET FLAME IN MOTION]If it is difficult at first to visualize the Violet Flame, you may simply watch the video above. Relax and place your attention on the Violet Flame. Let the movement and colour help you become familiar with it. In time, you may find that you no longer need the video and can bring the Violet Flame into your awareness wherever you are.

Build a Daily Practice

Set aside at least fifteen minutes if you can.

Sit comfortably.

Become quiet.

Bring your attention away from the outer world for a few moments.

Become aware of your breathing.

Then place your attention on the Violet Flame.You may first repeat:

I AM a being of Violet Fire!

I AM the purity God desires!

Say it slowly until you feel that your mind and attention are truly present.

Then begin to establish rhythm.

Repeat it continuously.

As it becomes familiar, the rhythm may become quicker.

Do not constantly stop to analyse whether something is happening.

Work with the Flame.

Let the practice become concentrated.

Fifteen minutes is a good beginning.

Someone who has become familiar with the practice may choose to work for thirty minutes or longer.

The point is not to compete with yourself.

Regularity is more important.

Bring What You Wish to Transform into the Flame

When there is something specific in your life that you wish to transform, become conscious of it before beginning your practice.

Do not spend the whole meditation thinking about the problem.

Simply recognise it.

Perhaps it is anger.

Perhaps fear.

Perhaps resentment.

Perhaps guilt.

Perhaps an old relationship that continues to live in your thoughts.

Perhaps a pattern you have repeated many times.

Acknowledge it honestly.

Then turn your attention toward the Violet Flame.

Let the Flame become more important than the problem.

This shift is essential.

If you spend thirty minutes feeding the problem and only thirty seconds thinking about transformation, your attention remains with the problem.

The practice teaches you gradually to place more attention on what you wish to become.

Use the Violet Flame During the Day

Your spiritual practice does not end when you stand up from meditation.

The Violet Flame can become part of daily life.

When a difficult thought appears, use the decree.

When someone has disturbed you and you notice the mind beginning to replay the conversation, use it.

When you are walking, use it.

When you feel yourself falling into an old emotional reaction, use it.

Before sleep, use it.

After making a mistake, use it, but also correct the mistake where possible.

The purpose is not to use spiritual practice to avoid responsibility.

It is to become more capable of living responsibly.

The decree can become a way of returning consciousness again and again toward the Higher Self rather than allowing every passing thought and emotion to take control.

I AM a being of Violet Fire!

I AM the purity God desires!

Use it until it begins to live within you.