Dear Jim,

In reference to your statement, "Sorry. There was no "time requirement", I think you will see, from the following information, that the person who submitted this, or the source from which you took it, mistakenly quoted only the last part of Omri-Tas's statement on the 10X Violet Flame Dispensation. I have added bold highlighting in each place where the fifteen minute requirement is referred to.

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Vol. 27 No. 50a - Beloved Omri-Tas - October 17, 1984

A Study in Christhood by the Great Initiator XLV A
Saturate the Earth with Violet Flame!
Give the Violet Flame Fifteen Minutes a Day
and It Shall Be Multiplied Ten Times
Send the Messenger to Deliver the Prophecy to the Nations

"Now having delivered to you a bit of the understanding of both the simplicity and the complexity of the Law, I will tell you what my dispensation is. It is this, beloved: If in all reverence, with inner attunement, a sense of yourself in your Christ Self as priest or priestess of the sacred fire, if with all your heart and deep within your heart you will take, then, fifteen minutes each day to give profound and loving invocations to the violet flame in my name (and please remember to use my name, for I am the one from whose causal body this dispensation comes), then we will take that offering, measure for measure as it is devoted, as it is profound and sincere, the very weight of its power and light. Therefore, by the quality of it, quality for quality, it shall be multiplied in your life ten times!"

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"I would therefore further explain to you that [with] this violet flame that you give (and of course you are welcome to give more than the fifteen minutes, but the dispensation can only start once you have given the fifteen) you may use the inserts that you use with your decrees [to] the blue-flame Masters, with the Ruby Ray decrees, with the Ritual of Exorcism, and so forth."

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[Messenger: In this interim of Omri-Tas' dictation I would like to explain to you the particular requirement of this fifteen minutes of violet flame.

The fifteen minutes counts for the actual mantras given, the violet flame decrees. It does not count for the invocations or the inserts because the energy is being multiplied by the momentum you have on the violet flame, and it is being multiplied by your magnetizing the violet flame from the causal body of Omri-Tas. And your magnetization is by your heart, your love, your momentum, and the flow of the Word.

Thus, the violet flame begets the violet flame. The violet flame implements your call, your insert, your invocation. So this is precisely the way in which you should clock each fifteen-minute session.]

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The foregoing was taken from the online pearl search.

Sincerely,
Steven S. Showers

Dear Jim,

Are you going to publish a correction regarding the Omri-Tas Violet Flame dispensation?

Steven S. Showers

Dear Jim,

It is eminently lawful --- and falls within the rubric of duty and obligation --- for any student, including me, to come to the defense of the integrity of the Teaching. You published an incorrect rendition of a particular dispensation. I did my duty, I spoke up, did the research, and provided you with what you needed to correct the mistake.

I will be waiting for you to publish your correction. The Cosmic Honor Flame requires that you do so, that you honor truth above all other considerations. Notwithstanding whatever personal issues you have with me, your first loyalty must be to the truth, and to the well being of your subscribers. The question is, how long will you allow a known error to corrupt the minds of your subscribers and along with it Ascended Master purpose? The recording angels have their stop watches running.

And by the way. It is a mistake to characterize my foregoing communications regarding this issue as criticism of you. Those simple and straightforward communications were nothing more than a good faith effort on my part to correct an error which needed to be corrected. Please make note of the fact that there is an important distinction to be made between criticism and correction. They are not the same thing. You should be as open to such corrections as you are to the Light, because, in the same manner that Light improves the quality of consciousness, corrections, where appropriate, improves the quality of the product that you deliver to your subscribers.

The principle (law) of equal justice, requires you to treat a correction offered by me (if it's valid), the same way you would treat it if it were received from anyone else, including El Morya himself (if he were to appear to you and ask you to please give an accurate rendition of a given dispensation).

Sincerely,
Steven S. Showers

p.s. I do not run an "email list" in competition with you. I do not send out emails every day like you do. As a general rule, I only use my email list to notify people of new additions to the Homeward Bound Journal, which do not come that frequently. The average mailing frequency so far has been a couple times a month.

p.s.s. You know Jim, we could be good friends if you could get past this strange propensity to give me the cold shoulder at every opportunity. We have a lot in common. We both love research. We both love writing. We both love freedom of the press. We both love the act of publishing. We are both in pretty much the same profession. We both love the Teachings. We are both committed to the success of this organization. That's a lot of common ground. If I did or said something to you in the past that makes you feel like you need to treat me like a dirt bag, well, you need to get that out in the open, where it can be resolved. It is things like this, profound differences between students of the Ascended Masters that present insurmountable obstacles to making progress on the path, i.e. until they are resolved. The latest pearl of wisdom by Kuan Yin really underscored the importance of forgiveness. So, let me know what I did to you, let me see if I can find it within my heart to apologize and seek forgiveness, and perhaps we can move on in a manner that is at least cordial. Perhaps it might even be something that I did to you in a past life, that you don't remember specifically, but only react to subconsiously when I come to your awareness. If that's the case, let me say now, whatever it was, "I apologize, and I ask for your forgiveness."

Dear Jim,

You should consider the possibility that I am the response to the many calls you have given for personal enlightenment, that I am your good karma returning. And you should seriously contemplate the fact that is it simply not wise to further indulge the self-destructive habit pattern of shutting the door when the answer to your calls appears before you.

There is an important message here for you. Did you realize that in the way you have dealt with me, that you violated the vow you took when you became a Keeper of the Flame? It's very important for you to understand why this is so, and to come to grips with the reason why you feel justified in violating that pledge, and I can help you do it, primarily because you feel justified in violating that pledge in relationship to me. Because I am me, I am qualified to speak with authority about the reasons why it is not right to violate that pledge in regards to me, or in regards to anyone for that matter. When you trample on, and cause pain to another part of life, and you go about your business completely oblivious to the destruction you have just wrought, as if you are completely justified in the sight of God for trampling that flower into the ground, thinking that you have made your world more safe and secure, I am here to tell you that that is a serious illusion, and that it is a serious karma making situation.

Being cruel to people is the biggest obstacle to making real progress on the path. I am not putting labels on you. I am not calling you a cruel person. But your behavior towards me in this situation was cruel. There is no other to look at it. You can change that behavior, and I am here to explain to you why it is important to do so.

Let me first point out, that your characterization of my problem is incorrect. When you say, "You are thoroughly consumed by fanaticism," this is simply not true. The sacred fire does not take up residence in the temple of a "fanatic". A "fanatic" does not know the true and ineffable peace and equanimity of that region of paradise that is created when the sacred fire descends into the temple of man (in response to the invocation of the Word). I know this region of paradise. This peace, this paradise, provides a balancing effect upon the mind of man, putting to rest all the potential earthquakes of unreasonableness which would otherwise populate the fanatic mind. While I am not perfect, and I have my problems, "fanaticism" is not one of them. It is important that you come to terms with the truth in this regard.

Along intellectual lines, considering that the definition of fanaticism includes the qualities of unreasonableness and excessiveness, one must ask, is there anything unreasonable or excessive in any sentence or phrase that I have written to you? An objective analysis would have to conclude that there is no sign of excessiveness or unreasonableness in what I have put before you regarding this Omri-Tas dispensation issue. Was there anything excessive or unreasonable when I first questioned the accuracy of your published rendition of the Omri-Tas dispensation? No. Was there anything excessive or unreasonable in the act of researching the matter and reporting to you what the facts were? No. After waiting for 24 hours, and seeing two Chela News mailings enter my mail box without an acknowledgment, or a correction, was there anything unreasonable or excessive in asking you whether or not you were going to publish a correction? No.

Along more spiritual lines, on the Homeward Bound Journal website, I have posted notes from my personal journal over a several month period. Most of these notes were recorded during decree services in the sanctuary. These will give you an accurate rendition of my character. With your speed-reading skills, you should be able to read them in about ten minutes. Ten minutes of your time should be enough to set you free from this misconception you have about me. There are benefits derived from any effort to seek freedom from misconception. As Mark Twain said, "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus."

While all the Footprint on the Mountain pages that I have posted can be accessed from the home page, they are sequentially linked, so you can go from one to the other without having to return to the table of contents. Start here, and you can follow the links at the end of each page to each successive page:

http://www.HomewardBoundJournal.com/2000/jun/footprints.htm

On page 2-1, lines 6 and 7, of Keepers of the Flame Lesson No. 2, Serapis Bey writes, "So precious is the prize, so transcendent the goal that the price too must come high. Those seeking the ultimate purposes in life are tested most thoroughly ... "

Situations present choices, and these choices are always tests. The test in every situation is how one reacts to a given situation, or in other words, what choices are made in response to a given situation.

As I look at what came my way in terms of the latest responses to the Omri-Tas dispensation issue, I have to ask myself, what is it about Jim's response to me that will tell me whether or not he has successfully passed the test that was before him? These are the characteristics of your two (2) responses that followed my question about publishing a correction:

1. The responses were cruel. No one deserves to be treated like that.

2. There was a total lack of kindness in your responses.

3. There was no sign of any desire to illuminate the mind of the recipient so he could see the error of his ways.

4. There was no sign of any desire to set the recipient free from the perceived problem.

5. When you say, "You are thoroughly consumed by fanaticism", the only desire evident in this, was to place me in a cage of condemnation and to throw away the key. When you say that you won't response to any further correspondence, you are saying, "I won't let you out of that cage. You are in that cage, and by golly, you are going to stay in that cage." Here we see one of the key characteristics of condemnation, which is to broad-brush-stroke the character of a fellow student with a single negative quality. Think about it in a rational manner. It is highly unlikely that anyone could be "thoroughly" consumed by fanaticism. As a general rule, there is good in everyone, and that is what the Masters teach. What you have in that expression is the blatant spirit of falsehood spouted not for the purpose of raising someone up, but for the purpose of putting someone down.

6. There was a definite sign of hatred and loathing in your responses, in as much as you push away and try to keep away that which you hate, like a person with leprosy. Even the most rudimentary love and compassion draws students closer together.

7. Overall the responses represent the complete abrogation of your pledge to the Knight Commander Saint Germain, in reference to the vow stated in the second paragraph: "I vow to be a keeper of the Light of God in man and I affirm that I am my brother's keeper. I will strive to be a living example of the Law of Life, to espouse virtue and shun evil, and to bear witness to the Truth. I will recognize all members of the fraternity as brothers and sisters ..."

If indeed you sincerely have reasons to believe that I am consumed by fanaticism, and that this is a fatal flaw, you refused to be your brother's keeper by refusing to extend a hand of assistance to help set me free from that condition. It's like you saw a person drowning, and you simply walked away, didn't want to get your hands wet. Moreover, by refusing to publish a correction in regards to the Omri-Tas dispensation, by refusing to even recognize that a correction needed to be published, you have refused to bear witness to the Truth. Moreover, by broad-brushing stroking my character with a negative quality, you have again refused to bear witness to the Truth, choosing to champion falsehood instead of Truth. In this regard, you prefer falsehood over the truth for some unknown reason. Moreover, by treating me with contempt and cruelty, you have refused to recognize me as a brother.

I can forgive you for all of this, because I know who I am. And I will forgive you, the more so, when you can find it in your heart to say, "I am sorry for treating you so contemptuously."

Beyond that, I believe it is very important for you to come to terms with what it is that causes you to break your pledge to Saint Germain, when I make a simple request that you publish a rendition of Omri-Tas's dispensation that is accurate. In other words, you need to come to terms with why you allowed your heart and mind to be animated by a spirit that is anathema to your vow. You need to come to terms with why you didn't see the error of it while you were in the midst of it. And you need to come to terms with why you feel such a strong reluctance to come to terms with it, even when it is being plainly pointed out to you.

By reacting this way to my simple request for accuracy, you have created an increment of karma, a debt to life, that must be resolved before you can move forward on the path. This is what the Masters teach. In that respect, what I mean primarily is that you need to root out of your consciousness the cause and core of whatever it is that causes you to break your vow under these circumstances. The Masters cannot initiate you into higher regions of awareness until you take care of that, because they will not take the chance that you will misqualify that greater level of light in the same manner. You need to realize that there was a quite a bit of negative energy released with each one of your responses, and it was hurtful energy, causing pain, and that it took me quite a while to move above it and beyond it. The Masters will not give you greater light if you are prone to placing a ray, or a blanket, or a cloud of destructive energy on people who come by and press a particular button in your electronic belt. And that's for your own good because that energy by law must return to your own doorstep one day. The less there is of it, the easier it will be for you to transmute it.

It is important to understand in this regard, that the because the goal of the path is to embody the love of God (for all life), that this really is an issue of power, because love is the ultimate power. Because love is such a great power, you cannot make progress on the path towards the assimilation of that power, until you have proven that you will not misuse the power that God has given you already. In other words, until you can figure out why you turned the energy of your being into such a destructive manifestation towards me, and determine to never do it again, your potential to make progress on the path, progress towards the greater assimilation of love, will be capped at your current level.

And I think that it is important to understand that we are probably not talking about a condition that is unique to our relationship. It is very likely, that what you have done to me, because you have done it so callously, and with such self-assurance, with no feeling of remorse, or second thoughts, that you have done it to others. And therefore, by working with me to resolve this, you will reduce the likelihood that you will burden someone else with the same kind of energy.

Remember the message of the Universal Christ, "What ye have done to the least of these my brethren, ye have done unto me." By resolving this issue, you will come into a greater level of friendship with the Universal Christ, and have access thereby to greater portions of your own Causal Body.

What is the essence of the Christ Self? It is essentially the awareness of the right way to go. If you know the right way to go, then you know a portion of your Christ Self. If you go that way, in terms of your words and actions, then you have integrated yourself with that portion of your Christ Self. Knowing and doing can be two different things. And therefore, if you refuse to go the way that you know is right, what you have done is integrated yourself with that aspect of your synthetic identity (the dweller). Not a good choice. I think that, upon reflection, you should be able to come to the conclusion that in this situation, you did not choose the path of your Christ Self.

Now, while calls and decrees are important, and they are very important in this case, in terms of rooting out the cause and core of that aspect of the dweller that can take over your mind and heart under these circumstances, it is important to understand that this is only one-half of the equation of freedom. The Masters will require proof of progress in this respect, and that means that you will need to find it within your heart to apologize to me personally, and to deal with me in a civil manner in regards to this issue of publishing the correct rendition of the Omri-Tas dispensation, and to undo your unsubscription to the Chela News. If you are reluctant to do any of these things, and you indulge that reluctance, that means that you are retaining that aspect of the dweller that will cause you again, when the right electronic belt button is pushed, to break your vows again in the future.

When I mentioned the issue of friendship in my last communication, this was not a reference to a shallow principle. When I first made your acquaintance a couple of years ago, I had the distinct impression that we could become good friends. (So, I was quite surprised when I got the cold shoulder the first time.) But it is important to understand that this vision of friendship was something beyond an intellectual idea. I believe that the Masters gave me the immaculate concept for our relationship, that if we can work through these issues we can become good friends. I believe that is God's desire for you and for me. And that is why I am making the effort to reach out, and to work with you, to get this resolved.

Finally, in Keepers of the Flame Lesson No. 2, (pp. 2-27 to 2-28) I found a passage that applies to this situation as follows:

St. Germain ... "Yet today mankind come suddenly into those juxtapositions whereby they meet individuals upon the streets of life that they may not have seen before in their entire embodiment, yet suddenly that person may become a vital friend or a vital enemy. But what a tragedy it is when mankind choose the prerogative of identifying that person as the latter; for wherever there is discord or inharmony, it immediately produces that dark fruit which is a poison within the world body and eventually reacts upon the entire human race to produce those manifestations which are vile, to say the least. I want you to understand, then, that true love --- that love which casts out all darkness, that love which establishes the banner of freedom over the world, over the fountain of mankind's hearts, that produces a pool of cosmic reserve energy which can rush in to quench those unfortunate human flames and conflagrations --- must indeed be exercised by those who understand it."

In this respect, it is just as important to make daily calls for the elimination of discord between students of the Ascended Masters, as it is to make daily calls for the elimination of the discord between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Remember, wherever there is no love, there is by definition discord. I pray that you will work with me, under the banner of the Master's hopes and dreams, to remove all discord between us, and to establish in its place, mutual respect, cordiality, and common decency, which represent the only foundation for the friendship that ought to exist between students of the light.

Sincerely yours,
Steven S. Showers