The nature of spiritual things is to be active. The shape of the spoon dominates the metal and defines it, not the reverse. That is the correct order of the world. Form shaping matter. The message shaping the medium.
Fire symbolizes spirituality.
This has been the lesson of history. Someone with a spiritual motivation will ultimately rule over someone with a physical motivation because the physical desires inertia, to be passive, to take it easy. When intellect dominates the emotions, when the message dominates the medium, then we have the very picture of how the Torah was given. Like one man with one heart. However, when the heart dominates the mind, the medium becomes the message.