fire

The image of Fire has many possible associat ions, among them: love, energy, spirit , creatvity, desire, anger, destruction, suffering and courage. LeClerc, speaking of Brother Fire writes,

“Fire is innate in the human psyche: in the ardor of (eros) desire to become attached, to love and hate; we feel this force as consoling but also consuming; in short, we experience it as a fire. Fire is thus one of the reat symtbols of the libido (energy), the god who speaks in the fire is a life-giving force that seeks union, communication, and self-propagation as does a flame. ‘The arrow of fire never flaggng, crosses the vast universe and leaves nothing at rest (Heraclitus). This living fire, ‘this power that seeks to fuse all things into oneness was named Eros by the ancient Greeks; it is the power to love, that great active energy of the soul. (But) life-giving fire is also imagined as a devouring fire, for it can destroy as well as give life.’”

Fire can exist under many aspects: wildfires, hearth-fires, camp fires, candle-flames, infernos; each form means something very different , ...