Symbolically, it has come to indicate consciousness, intellect, will, and compulsion. It has also been regarded as sacred energy, as a transcending power. . . . And for the metaphysician, it means spiritual illumination. . . . If everything that changes slowly is explained by life, everything that changes quickly is explained by fire. Fire is ultralife.
Fire is intimate, and it is universal.
It lives in our hearts. It lives in the sky. It reveals depths of substance and offers itself as love. It descends once again into matter and hides as a latent force, like hatred or vengeance. Among all phenomena, it is really the only one that can contain two contrary valorizations, good and evil.