Vol. 37 No. 37 - I AM the Witness

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

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