Fire
The way of Intellect and Inspiration
Fire is the way of the Mind... the means to create...
to inspire the self...and many many more
Fire
burns... it warms...it clears away the old...
Ever
seen a forest after a burn ? If the burn has not been too high, meaning
it consumed everything..
the
trees that remain, in short order , are full and green and growing
in
better shape and vigor than they were before...
So
it is ,with man
When
you burn out the trash and litter of the mind..
the
mind works better... faster, with better growth
and
inspiration than if it's strangled off with the old,
the
dead and outdated
This
is fires lesson... to grow one must keep up to date,
not
only with the world but inside ones self......
It
does little good to know the latetess news,
if
one is so preoccupied with the past that you cant use it !
Now
this is not to say that the past and it's lessons
have
no purpose
That
is another lesson of fire...if the fire is too high...
it
consumes all and must start over...from nothing...
so
a fine balance must be maintained
This
is yet another lesson...when one builds a fire,
if
it's to burn well the wood must be close enough to each other
to
keep the fire going, yet far enough apart to allow air to flow
through
them or the fire smothers and dies....
Balance...the
need to use the fire to its best and fullest capacity
and
so it is with us
Keeping what is useful and getting rid of the rest
This
takes a keen mind to make such discriminations between
what
to keep and what to toss out...but most of it is pretty apparent..
Like
the clothes in your closet..if it hasn't seen the light of day
in
a year and you can not see yourself wearing it anymore....
Why
are you keeping it ?
Was
it a gift ? If so is it a gift worth keeping ?
Practical
reality says that to keep the clutter one is forced
to
forever wade thur what is of no value to get to what you want..
be
it your closet or your mind.. :)
Neat,
organized and in style with the times
is
how we want our closet to look...
Should
we do less for the mind that makes to choice
of
what to wear ?
When
we call on Fire in the circle we are asking for wisdom...
for
inspiration...for balance between the blaze and what feeds it...
the
way of the mind...the
sword of
intellect...
which
must be keen to be of any use
It
is not for nothing that the Archangel Michael's
icon
is
the flaming sword... both these concepts in one image...
to
remind us to use it wisely
May
your sword be bright and Keen !
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