| As
part of our enthusiam for the idea of a Violet
Flame Culture, we present the first issue of our
newsletter The Violet Flame Voice. Each issue
of the newsletter will feature a discussion of
a violet flame "topic," including quotes
from lectures and dictations about the violet
flame, violet flame dispensations, testamonials
about the power and effect of the violet flame,
and much more. We hope this material will help
enliven and enrich your celebration of the violet
flame in the coming year!
April
23rd and the Dark Cycle--Let's Wrap it Up!
In response to the establishment of Operation
Deliverance, it is timely to open our first newsletter
with a review of the teaching on the Dark Cycle
and how the violet flame is the key to victory
as we embark on this final year of the cycle.
The following excerpts from Elizabeth Clare Prophet's
lecture "Prophecy for the 1990s III: The
Four Horsemen--A 2000-Year Ride" (delivered
Feb. 11, 1990; Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 33/6) provide
an excellent overview of the Dark Cycle, karma
and the potential for transmutation.
Prophecy
for the 1990s III: The Four Horsemen: A 2000-Year
Ride (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
On February 22, 1989, the LORD God gave me another
vision of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
I have chosen the occasion of my speaking to you
in New York City, May 21, 1989, to give you this
revelation.
The vision that I received in September 1986 was
not the complete ride of the Four Horsemen. I
was seeing a slice of a ride that had begun in
a.d. 2, which John wrote down in Revelation in
a.d. 90. It will conclude in the year 2002.
In my February 22 vision, God revealed to me that
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have ridden
throughout the centuries of the Christian era.
John saw them riding through his time and through
his history. I am seeing them ride through our
time and our history.
What is even more astounding is that for the last
2,000 years the Four Horsemen have been delivering
a 25,800-year package of personal and planetary
karma! This means that the cumulative karma of
earth's evolutions from 11 past ages fell due
at the dawn of the Piscean age.
Had it not been for the avatar Jesus Christ stepping
in to mitigate that karma of 25,800 years in the
tradition of the adepts of the East, as Lord Maitreya,
Gautama Buddha and Sanat Kumara had borne this
karma before him, that karma would have descended
in full at the beginning of the Piscean age.
But because Jesus chose to take embodiment and
to fulfill his mission, this karma was mitigated
by percentages and allowed to descend in a series
of cycles that would last throughout the age.
As the Four Horsemen move through the cycles of
time, they appear to be riding around a racetrack.
With each cycle-during which they pass through
the 12 signs of the zodiac delivering mankind's
karma on the 12 lines of the "Cosmic Clock"-they
are coming closer to the center, and the cycles
are getting shorter, taking less time to complete.
The first cycle, which began 2,000 years ago,
took 365 years to complete. The last cycle, which
encompasses the decade of the 1990s, will take
just 12 years. And so, during their relentless
ride of 20 centuries the Four Horsemen have been
drawing around us a tighter and tighter coil of
energy that has been coming closer and closer
to the physical octave.
The figure 25,800 years corresponds to cosmic
cycles. It also has to do with what we call the
New Age. The New Age is related to the phenomenon
known in astronomy as the "precession of
the equinoxes," the slow backward rotation
of the earth around its polar axis during which
the point of the spring equinox moves backwards
through the signs of the zodiac.
It takes about 25,800 years for the earth to make
one complete backward rotation around its polar
axis and approximately 2,150 years to go through
30 degrees of the zodiac, or one astrological
sign. Since the earth rotates, or precesses, backwards,
the order of the ages is also backwards through
the zodiac.
The karma they are delivering is the karma mankind
has created in each of the four planes of being:
the etheric, mental, astral and physical. In the
year a.d. 2 they began delivering mankind's karma
created in the etheric plane. In 1307 they began
delivering mankind's karma created in the mental
plane. On April 23, 1969, they began delivering
mankind's karma created in the astral plane. And
on April 23, 1990, the Four Horsemen will begin
delivering mankind's karma created in the physical
plane through the physical body.
When the karma is descending in the etheric quadrant,
only 25 percent of it is physical. When the karma
is descending in the mental quadrant, 50 percent
of it is physical. When the karma is descending
in the astral quadrant, 75 percent of it is physical.
And when it is descending in the physical quadrant,
the entire force and weight of that karma descends.
At a subconscious level, the evolutions of earth
sense the wave of returning karma that will come
crashing down April 23, 1990, or thereabouts.
Times have gotten a lot tougher lately. People
talk about the heavy vibrations of the cities
and of the earth itself. This is the weighing
in upon us of the karma that is layered in the
etheric, the mental, the astral and the physical
planes. We can feel it as a weight upon the heart
and the spirit, although we might be perfectly
well physically. The very pores of the earth are
clogged!
The violet flame is the alchemist's universal
solvent and the physician's panacea for all our
karmic ailments. But when these diseases become
physical, although the violet flame does work,
it becomes a matter of whether or not the karmic
time will run out before the violet flame can
complete the necessary cycles of transmutation.
And so it goes with world karma as well.
April 23, 2002, marks the end of the ride of the
Four Horsemen through the physical quadrant and
the end of the return of the karma of 25,800 years.
Remember, we all have positive karma. The good
and the beautiful of our karma is sealed in our
Causal Body. It's there as a positive momentum
to see us through the hard times. Yes, we have
a lot going for us. And that's our momentum that
gets us here and gets us back.
But today's challenge lies not in what we've done
right but in what we've done wrong. It is the
hour when the Lord is reckoning our accounts.
And he looks at our books and he sees our accounts
payable-what we owe to Life, what is our cumulative
debt of 25,800 years. Then he looks at our accounts
receivable; and if we've done meritorious deeds
and rendered service to life, he may balance some
of our accounts payable with the positive karma
of our good words and works in our accounts receivable,
thereby lessening the karmic debt.
So where the accounts receivable show that life
owes us for "services rendered," our
karmic debt may be reduced proportionately.
The Four Horsemen are delivering the unbalanced
debt. This is the debt bomb of karma. It is by
far the greatest of all the debt bombs the nations
are facing.
The Dark Cycle
You may wonder what is significant about April
23. It is the date that in 1969 marked the beginning
of the Dark Cycle. When the clock struck midnight
the Lords of Karma unleashed an accelerated spiral
of personal and planetary karma upon all of earth's
evolutions.
The Lords of Karma are seven beings of Light who
adjudicate the descent of the individual and collective
karma of the billions of souls assigned to this
world. They are divine intercessors who serve
under the Twenty-four Elders as mediators between
a people and their karma.
Whereas Jesus Christ had borne that portion of
the world's karma that had been lawful for him
to carry, lo, these 2,000 years, the hour had
struck when the Lords of Karma decreed: "Every
man shall henceforth bear his own burden."
Jesus Christ came for the mitigation of the returning
karma of 25,800 years and through his sacrifice
he gained the dispensation that it should be doled
out in a spiral over 2,000 years. After his ascension,
he continued to bear this karma. To bear world
karma is to be that point of balance which prevents
the descent of the cumulative weight of mankind's
sins. In the case of planet earth, the weight
is so great that had it not been for the intercession
of the Saviour Jesus Christ it should have already
caused the destruction of the earth.
However, it has been necessary that the saints
in the earth bear in their bodies the karma that
was being held in abeyance, either by focusing
great Light or by suffering diseases and burdens.
Jesus is able to offer them great assistance from
higher octaves, but the requirement is for the
saints in embodiment to bear that weight.
In bearing world karma, Jesus did not simply take
upon himself the individual karma of every single
lifestream on the planet, nor did he act as a
shield to hide people from the face of their karma;
but he was the mitigator and the mitigating factor
who extended to earth's evolutions the opportunity
to avert the coming cataclysm. That means that
he held the balance of a sufficient amount of
Light against that karma so that it would not
destroy the opportunity for life on the planet.
Therefore Jesus said: "As long as I AM in
the world, I AM the Light of the world."
On April 23, 1969, when the ride of the Four Horsemen
entered the emotional quadrant, the full weight
of mankind's karma created in the emotional quadrant
descended. They would receive 25 percent in their
emotional bodies and 75 percent in their physical
bodies.
As earth stood still between two ages, the Twenty-four
Elders gave a final opportunity to the people
of this planet to take the violet flame to balance
all injustices committed against the Great Law.
This open portal would remain open until the last
day of the age of Pisces.
Thus, this stepped-up return of mankind's karma
that takes place in a "Dark Cycle" is
a calculated curtailment of mankind's blatant
disregard for the golden rule: "Do unto others
as you would have them do unto you." Had
this Christic Truth been heeded with Christic
compassion by all, there would be no Dark Cycle
today and I would not be speaking to you about
my most recent vision of the Four Horsemen.
The chief purpose of the Dark Cycle is to so tie
up people in their old bad karma that they simply
don't have time or space or energy to make new
bad karma. The reality is that returning negative
karma keeps people from making more negative karma.
For above all, karma is limiting. It limits free
will and its free expression. It limits the expansion
of mind and heart. It limits people's ability
to do anything they might want to do. Karma, and
specifically the karmic return of this Dark Cycle,
is, simply put, a roadblock.
When karma descends it feels like molasses; it
is so sticky and so heavy that it reduces the
people's capacity to wreak havoc and work evil.
Karma is a tar baby. Karma descends to limit the
destructivity of mankind and to preserve their
option to do good. And therefore since April 23,
1969, people have become literally stuck in the
sticky stuff of their karma.
When the Karmic Lords release a spiral of karma
of the magnitude we are seeing, the entire Nature
kingdom plays a part in its descent, which is
always according to the law of cycles. And it
is the law of cycles that is illustrated in our
work with the Cosmic Clock.
In this capacity the elementals have been the
foremost instruments of the karmic return of mankind's
discord. The earliest memory we have of this phenomenon,
which some have likened to Atlas shrugging, is
the sinking of the continent of Lemuria beneath
the Pacific 50,000 years ago for the karma of
the abuse of the sacred fire by priests and priestesses
at the altars of God.
The theme was a war of the gods, who misused atomic
energy-hurling and heaping destruction upon one
another from one end of the continent to the other
until cataclysm destroyed that continent by fire.
I myself remember seeing Lemuria break up in flames.
Then, of course, there was the sinking of Atlantis
11,500 years ago, described as the Noachian deluge.
And history records cataclysm on a smaller scale,
as in the sudden burying of Pompeii and Herculaneum
by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a.d. 79.
The rise in hostilities in the Middle East was
a key factor in the decision by the Lords of Karma
to begin the Dark Cycle on April 23, 1969. There
has been no real period of peace in the Middle
East since Israel declared its independence at
midnight on May 14, 1948. Many of the world's
current economic, political and military problems
are rooted in ancient strife revisited by the
evolutions embodied in the Middle East. It goes
back to the time of Sumer and beyond to their
planets of origin.
This strife has been ongoing in that piece of
territory for 10,000 years and more. Some of the
lifewaves who are a part of that strife have reincarnated
again and again to deal with the karma of past
struggles. Theirs are ancient animosities that
antedate their current modes of consciousness.
The Dark Cycle of the accelerated return of mankind's
karma was scheduled to begin January 18, 1969,
but by a dispensation from Lord Gautama Buddha
it was postponed. On January 19, 1969, Gautama
Buddha warned that "the warlike manifestations
currently being exercised in the Holy Land represent
to us the most dangerous single factor that is
calculated to plunge mankind headlong into a holocaust
of planetary destructivity. Therefore, if Israel
shall persist and the Arab League shall join her
in another round of destructivity, it can well
be the trigger which will launch the sign of the
Dark Cycle."
This is because if these battles had escalated,
the United States would have taken the side of
Israel and the Soviet Union would have taken the
side of the Arab states, beginning a global war
based on the karmic records of their animosities.
On April 22, 1969, U Thant, secretary-general
of the United Nations, said that Israel and Egypt
were in "a virtual state of active war"
and that the UN cease-fire had become "totally
ineffective in the Suez Canal sector."
The following day, April 23, Egypt formally repudiated
the cease-fire and the Dark Cycle began. Its purpose:
to let the karma descend and therefore diminish
the destructive capacity of both sides, thus controlling
the damage. And the Dark Cycle is exactly that,
damage control. But the period of a Dark Cycle
does not eliminate free will. And people have
to work to do better in order to do better.
There are laggard evolutions on the planet today
who despite their heavy karma have figured out
how to outwit the odds, dodge their karma and
use the Dark Cycle to their ends: they wage war,
manage both sides of the conflict, and use the
chaos to rearrange the territory so that their
net gain is more power, money and control over
the people and the planetary resources. And the
Lightbearers have less, and less, and less each
time the formula is reapplied.
Even after the Dark Cycle began, the United States
and the Soviet Union were nearly drawn into a
war in the Middle East. On October 24, 1973, the
threat of direct Soviet intervention in the Yom
Kippur war between Israel and a coalition of Arab
states almost provoked a nuclear exchange. [It
is interesting to note that in this final year
of the 1990 Dark Cycle, the warring factions of
the Middle East--the agents that precipitated
the 1969 Dark Cycle--are not only "still
at it," but have escalated their aggressions
to an intense fever pitch of destruction and loss
of life. The Middle East needs the violet flame
now more than ever!]
We might ask ourselves, then, why Jesus Christ,
the avatar of the age of Pisces, has been bearing
our karma for these long centuries. Jesus was
indeed chosen by God to be the example of the
Christ for the Piscean age and, in counsel with
the hierarchies of Light, he volunteered to descend
to earth to bear the cross of world karma for
a 2,000-year period.
Before Christ's coming, it was evident to all
of the host of heaven that the failure of the
sons and daughters of God upon earth to deal either
with their karma or with the karma of the laggards
and fallen angels, and their failure as well to
lead the people in Light, was due in great measure
to their being deprived of the truths of the divine
doctrine that is being given to us today by the
Lord God through the Ascended Masters. Of course,
this doctrine is not confined to any religious
tradition.
It was the assessment of the Twenty-four Elders
and the Lords of Karma that the people were not
prepared to deal with the karma that was to be
delivered through the ride of the Four Horsemen.
Jesus perceived their pitiful plight and agreed
to take embodiment at this crucial hour of earth's
dark cycle to show the children of God the way
of the incarnation of the Word that others might
follow. His life revealed a path of discipleship
in the chain of Hierarchy descending through the
great lights of the Far East. His teacher was
Lord Maitreya, whose teacher was Gautama Buddha,
whose teacher was Sanat Kumara. His life was a
journey of footsteps all could follow-of learning
and practicing the Law.
Jesus' 17 "lost" years that are unaccounted
for in the Bible, from age 13 to 29, were spent
in the East. He went there to show that the Master-disciple
path was a necessary path and that by the inner
Work and Word of the Lord, by receiving initiations,
by bearing a portion of world karma, we could
also realize the Light of the Inner Buddha and
the Inner Christ within our body temples.
What happened, then, is what had happened before.
The fallen angels in embodiment, who had caused
the fall of man and led us, together with our
twin flame (our spiritual "other half"),
away from the octaves of perfection, were ready
to strike again.
They embodied in the hierarchy of the early Catholic
church and effectively destroyed the teaching
of Jesus Christ, our brother. They made of him
a god, one who would be unreachable and untouchable.
Jesus cried out in despair over the fate of Jerusalem
before his final appearances in Palestine, saying,
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest
the prophets, and stonest them which are sent
unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold,
your house is left unto you desolate. For I say
unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till
ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord." Here our Lord was announcing
the dark cycle that was about to descend on Jerusalem
and Rome for their rejection and crucifixion of
the Christed One.
Jesus also lamented because the people did not
recognize in him the one who had sent him. They
did not recognize the Father, who was with him
in the Mighty I AM Presence and in the person
of his Teacher, Lord Maitreya. Nor did they embrace
the path of the ascension that he demonstrated,
which was also theirs to walk. He wanted them
to worship the Light within themselves and not
his flesh-and-blood person-and through that Light
to contact the same fount that was the Source
of his own Light.
An inner circle of disciples kept this teaching
and passed it on to those who in later centuries
called themselves Gnostics. For their rejection
of the authority and teachings of the orthodox
Christian church, which the Gnostics believed
did not reflect the true teachings of Jesus, these
devotees were persecuted and labeled heretics.
Gnostic scriptures were suppressed and almost
completely destroyed. Some of these texts have
been discovered again in modern times. I have
examined them and they corroborate the Teachings
of the Ascended Masters.
The fallen angels denied the people of this planetary
home a personal path of individual Christhood,
a path we should have been following for the last
2,000 years. All that Jesus was and is we are
intended to be. We have an I AM Presence as he
did, and we have a Holy Christ Self as he did.
We have the divine spark in our hearts. We are
not second-class citizens but joint-heirs with
Jesus Christ, as Paul wrote: "The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we
are the children of God: And if children, then
heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
if so be that we suffer with him, that we may
be also glorified together."
If we had been taught these teachings in our churches,
in our synagogues, in our mosques, in our temples
East and West (for Jesus came to bring this message
to all people), we would have been able to balance
our karma embodiments ago. We would have had the
opportunity to become initiates of the Christ
and the Buddha and by the grace of God we could
have been ready to deal with the challenges of
these final hours of the Piscean age.
In order to save us for our own path of personal
Christhood, Jesus took upon himself the sins of
the world as much as the Great Law would allow,
and he has borne the karma that has been descending
these 2,000 years with the continuous ride of
the Four Horsemen around the Cosmic Clock. At
the conclusion of his life he stood as the Mediator,
the avatar, which means the God-man, or incarnation
of God, even as he stood as the Ascended Master.
And Jesus bore that portion of karma until April
23, 1969.
On that day and date this dispensation and grace
for the planet came to a conclusion. Mankind began
to know what it meant to have no Mediator. Now
it was up to those in embodiment to be the mediators,
to be Christed ones, to be the saints and the
faithful, either inside or outside of world religion,
to intercede by words and deeds and fervent prayer.
Yes, to invoke the violet flame and to keep the
Flame of Life alive.
However, Jesus did retain the further dispensation
to bear the karma of those individuals who embodied
the Christ. To the extent that a person embodies
the Christ, Jesus can bear that one's sins. Jesus
also has a dispensation to assist certain of those
who have the potential to embody the Christ, even
though they may not have brought any significant
portion of their Christhood into manifestation.
By April 23, 1969, the people of earth had had
40 years to take up the teachings of the Ascended
Masters, to know their Mighty I AM Presence and
to develop a momentum on giving violet flame decrees.
Saint Germain originally released this dispensation
of the violet flame through Guy and Edna Ballard,
who founded the I AM Activity in 1932. At one
time their members numbered in the hundreds of
thousands, if not in the millions.
It was Saint Germain's hope to provide the people
of earth with the necessary impetus and acceleration
to bring in the Golden Age of Aquarius. Working
with Jesus at the conclusion of the Piscean age,
Saint Germain came as the hierarch of the Aquarian
age to deliver to the children of the Light the
grace of the outer knowledge of the violet flame
and its specific application in the transmutation
of world karma.
The Masters have said that if the Chart of the
I AM Presence and the teaching of the violet flame
had been accepted by religious leaders in every
church and pulpit, Americans would be one and
not divided by religious bigotry and racism. And
had they been vigorously applying the violet flame
since 1932, they would have the momentum they
need today to save America and the planetary home.
The Dark Cycle on the Cosmic Clock
Since the people did not have either the momentum
of a personal Christhood or of the violet flame,
the Dark Cycle descended on April 23, 1969. With
every passing year the karmic return of the Dark
Cycle has intensified.
Every year, we receive the initiations of our
returning karma of the Dark Cycle on one of the
lines of the Cosmic Clock under one of the 12
solar hierarchies (i.e., the signs of the zodiac).
Since 1969, the Dark Cycle has gone around the
Clock and back again. We are now in the year of
the Dark Cycle in Virgo on the 8 o'clock line
(fig. 5), which is in the astral quadrant-where
lies the subconscious, the records of Darkness
and the seething emotions of mankind.
What is significant, then, about April 23, 1990,
is that the Four Horsemen will begin a 12-year
cycle of delivering mankind's physical karma from
the last 25,800 years in the physical plane. As
I mentioned earlier, these 12 years are the final
cycle of the 2,000-year ride. So in the first
three years of the cycle, from April 23, 1990,
to April 22, 1993, the ever-narrowing spiral of
the Four Riders will coincide with the three hierarchies
of the physical quadrant-Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius
on the 9, 10 and 11 o'clock lines.
This means that the physical momentums of the
physical quadrant and its hierarchies will be
greatly intensifying the nature of the physical
karma. When the Dark Cycle hits Capricorn on April
23, 1993, we will have another year of the same.
Capricorn is a powerful earth sign and it will
do its work to ground the descending physical
karma. Having made one complete round on the Cosmic
Clock from Libra to Virgo by April 22, 2002, the
Four Horsemen will have delivered earth's physical
karma of this 2,000-year ride of the Four Horsemen
under every sign of the zodiac. By this time we
should be seeing the Light of the Cosmic Christ
at the end of the tunnel.
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