What is the Violet Flame in Spirituality? Plus, How to Use It for Healing

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Learn to incorporate this holy flame into your spiritual life

Co-authored by Maryana Lucia Vestic, MFA, M.Phil. Reviewed by Stina Garbis

Last Updated: February 25, 2025 Fact Checked

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Violet Flame Spiritual Meaning

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Benefits

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Violet Flame Meditation

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Violet Flame Mantras

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Violet Flame in Science

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The violet flame is a spiritual source of energy that can transform negative thoughts and feelings into positive ones. It’s also said to cleanse auras and heal trauma. Dive into the history and meaning behind this esoteric flame (also called violet fire) and find out how it could benefit your life. In this article, you'll learn how to work with the violet flame through meditation, mantras, and more.

What is the violet flame?

The violet flame is a spiritual energy source that transforms negative energy, like feelings, thoughts, and karma, into positive ones. It’s associated with St. Germain, an 18th-century alchemist and Aquarian movement leader. Doing violet flame meditation is said to cleanse your aura and help embrace new energy.

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What is the violet flame in spirituality?

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The violet flame is known as a spiritual “fire” that can transform energy. It’s believed to burn away negative thoughts, feelings, or trauma that block energy. Spiritual blocks are caused by things like anger, fear, hate, jealousy, or the inability to forgive.^{[1]
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Research source} Violet is also a color linked with spiritual transformation, visualization, growth, and healing. It relates to the crown chakra, which can help you connect to divine consciousness while balancing your chakras as a whole.^{[2]
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- Saint Germain is considered the keeper of the violet flame. He was an 18th-century mystic and alchemist known as the “ascended master,” and is one of the founders of the modern-day Aquarian (or new age) movement. ^{[3]
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What are the benefits of the violet flame?

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Working with violet flame energy has numerous benefits. You can invoke and visualize the violet flame to alter the energy you feel in your spirit and body. The process is said to both raise the vibration in your body and improve your wellbeing. Many people believe that connecting to violet flame energy has the power to heal and help move practitioners beyond trauma.^{[4]
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Research source} Other benefits include the following:
- Channel positive energy: Transform negative energy into positive energy.
- Elevate energetic vibration: Raise your vibration to invite peace and joy.
- Trust intuition: Gain a clearer sense of what you want and how you can achieve it.
- Improve wellbeing: Find calm, reduce stress, and gain mental clarity.
- Healing of trauma: Let go of negative karma and old patterns of thought.
- Find twin flame: Connect to the pure love found in twin flame energy.^{[5]
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How to Practice Violet Flame Meditation

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Sit in a comfortable position using a chair or on a pillow on the floor. Close your eyes and breathe in and out deeply a few times. By concentrating on your breath, you can begin to let go of any tension you felt previously.^{[6]
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Channel your mental energy toward a particular issue or problem you’re facing. You can also direct your thoughts to a positive outcome you’d like to see in your life. Concentrate on setting your intention and, rather than trying to shut out any distractions, acknowledge them and let them pass by.^{[7]
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Slowly inhale through your nose so your lungs fill up with air. Hold the breath in for a few moments and then exhale through your mouth. As you breathe, your belly should rise and fall, which allows your body to more completely relax into the meditation.^{[8]
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Allow the white light to surround your body and encompass your being. You should feel a sense of protection from the white light, as if it envelops you completely. Concentrate on the purity of its bright light and how powerful yet safe it feels around and within you.^{[9]
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By focusing on the white light turning into a violet flame, you’re working to transform any negative energy, blockage, or past trauma into positive energy. Allow your mind, emotions, and body to feel cleansed by the violet flame. Move your visualization over each part of your body until you feel the presence of the violet flame in every cell.^{[10]
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Invite the violet flame into whatever your intention was at the start of the meditation. Visualize the powerful purple flames burning away your negative emotions, traumatic experiences, or bad karma. This is a good time to use a mantra if you’re including one in your violet flame mediation.^{[11]
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Picture it slowly fading away into the distance of your mind’s eye. Though the flame may disappear, you can take its positive energy into yourself completely. This ensures you continue to embrace the violet flame transformation in your everyday life. Once this is complete, slowly open your eyes and allow the feeling of calm to remain.^{[12]
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Violet Flame Mantras

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A mantra is a set of words you can use during a violet flame meditation. Popular mantras to say during the violet flame meditation come from the “I AM” movement, which bases its teachings on Saint Germain, the keeper of the violet flame.^{[13]
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Research source} You can also use candle magic to further emphasize your intention during your violet flame meditation and mantra practice.
- I AM a being of violet fire
  I AM the purity God desires.
  Earth is a planet of violet fire
  Earth is the purity God desires.
- I AM THAT I AM,
  In the name Saint Germain,
  Blaze and expand now the violet flame!
- Save the world with violet flame
  By the power of the three times three.
  This waltzing, spinning energy
  Will set all life now free.

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Do violet flames exist in science?

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Violet flames are chemically created by burning specific elements. A flame can show a violet, purple, or indigo hue during a flame test. To create this hue, potassium compounds need to be introduced to the flame. A violet flame is one of the hottest burning flames possible, with only a blue or white flame burning hotter.^{[14]
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- The spiritual concept of a violet flame is inspired by scientific ideas, but it’s important to note that the violet flame in spirituality is not based on science.

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Violet Flame FAQs

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If you attempt to make colored fire in a scientific experiment, you may notice purple-colored flame; this is due to a chemical reaction. A purple flame usually represents electrons engaged in rapid movement which causes a bright flash of light to appear.^{[15]
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Research source} A flame that appears ultra-violet or indigo typically has the hottest temperatures and can arise from different elements, such as potassium.^{[16]
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The archangel Zadkiel is associated with a violet flame. Though not one of the 12 traditional archangels, Zadkiel appears in lesser-known Christian and Jewish religious texts, like the Book of Enoch. He is the archangel of forgiveness and mercy, and appears with a dagger in one hand and a violet flame in the other.^{[17]
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Research source} He’s called the “angel of transmutation” and is linked to the 7th violet ray of transformation and purification.^{[18]
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Those in the Reiki tradition are taught how to see auras around people. Those with a violet or purple aura have a strong sense of intuition. They also easily connect to the divine or universal consciousness around them. They are so in-tune with the universe that they can feel disconnected from those who don’t share the same connection. In those cases, they sometimes need an aura cleansing to feel balanced again.^{[19]
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