Kwan Yin and the Lavender Flame Initiations

Quan Yin is one of the most universally beloved of deities in the Buddhist tradition. Also known as Kuan Yin, Quan'Am (Vietnam), Kannon (Japan), and Kanin (Bali). She is the embodiment of compassionate loving kindness. As the Bodhisattva of Compassion, She hears the cries of all beings. Quan Yin enjoys a strong resonance with the Christian Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the Tibetan goddess Tara.

In many images She is depicted carrying the pearls of illumination. Often Quan Yin is shown pouring a stream of healing water, the "Water of Life," from a small vase. With this water devotees and all living things are blessed with physical and spiritual peace. She holds a sheaf of ripe rice or a bowl of rice seed as a metaphor for fertility and sustenance. The dragon, an ancient symbol for high spirituality, wisdom, strength, and divine powers of transformation, is a common motif found in combination with the Goddess of Mercy.

Sometimes Kuan Yin is represented as a many armed figure, with each hand either containing a different cosmic symbol or expressing a specific ritual position, or mudra. This characterizes the Goddess as the source and sustenance of all things. Her cupped hands often form the Yoni Mudra, symbolizing the womb as the door for entry to this world through the universal female principle.

Quan Yin, as a true Enlightened One, or Bodhisattva, vowed to remain in the earthly realms and not enter the heavenly worlds until all other living things have completed their own enlightenment and thus become liberated from the pain-filled cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

There are numerous legends that recount the miracles which Quan Yin performs to help those who call on Her. Like Artemis, She is a virgin Goddess who protects women, offers them a religious life as an alternative to marriage, and grants children to those who desire them.

The Goddess of Mercy is unique among the heavenly hierarchy in that She is so utterly free from pride or vengefulness that She remains reluctant to punish even those to whom a severe lesson might be appropriate. Individuals who could be sentenced to dreadful penance in other systems can attain rebirth and renewal by simply calling upon Her graces with utter and absolute sincerity. It is said that, even for one kneeling beneath the executioner's sword already raised to strike, a single heartfelt cry to Bodhisattva Quan Yin will cause the blade to fall shattered to the ground.

The many stories and anecdotes featuring this Goddess serve to convey the idea of an enlightened being who embodies the attributes of an all pervasive, all consuming, unwavering loving compassion and who is accessible to everyone. Quan Yin counsels us by Her actions to cultivate within ourselves those particular refined qualities that all beings are said to naturally possess in some vestigial form.

What is the violet flame?

The Lavender Flame of Quan Yin is a fraction of the Violet Flame of Transmutation. It is part of a triad of energies sourced from that flame, namely Purple, Amethyst and Lavender. All of the energies sourced from Violet have something to do with transformation, transmutation, purification or divine alchemy. In the case of Lavender we deal mostly with purification and divine alchemy, which is clearing the unwanted and turning our experiences into the Light.

Lavender comes from Quan Yin, the bodhisattva of Compassion, the Chohan of the Violet ray previously to St. Germain. She still acts on the Violet ray as the source of the Lavender Flame.

The Lavender Flame is a gentler version of Violet with nurturing aspects and a definite Feminine feel to it. Lavender soothes away negative energies, slowly purifying our fields and bringing us back to our balance. It clears the blocks we may have put up against the Feminine Divine as the result of social or religious conditioning. It brings a feeling of peace and mercy with it and as a result, may be used when Violet seems too strong an energy for us. Lavender embraces us, nurturing away our traumas and is good for those of us who need Mother's Love.

The healing aspect of Lavender surrounds disease with a layer of love, guiding it out of the system.

This energy teaches us that it is all right to be gentle with ourselves, that nothing is gained by self-abuse or being extreme with ourselves. It tells us to "Be here Now. You are perfect as you are and need nothing else to be complete. You are a precious Child of God and you are Enough".

The Lavender Flame has been described as pure 5th dimensional energy that has not been toned down. It is possible for us to connect with this energy since it burns away what is lower/denser than 5th dimensional energy.

It first works its way through the different subtle bodies from outside in as well as going through crown chakra and third eye at the same time. So far, before QYLF, all higher dimensional frequencies had to be toned down so that our denser bodies were able to receive higher energies in a diluted version.

The Lavender color has been described as "not of 3rd dimensional Lavender, but the 5th dimensional color of 3rd dimensional Violet, since this Lavender is mixed with silver and has a liquidity and translucent energy to it."

Whether or not you have previously been attuned to the energy known as St Germain and the Angels of the Violet Flame, I wholeheartedly recommend this path to you now. Only very recently available to us on the Earth plane, this energy is strong and empowering and yet  gentle and yielding. It is highly recommended to energy therapists and all who wish to progress along the path that is Ascension in 2012.