The Spirit in the Fire
After twenty years of stone work, a turning point came: the towers were complete, and on the Equinox of 2023, the fires were lit for the first time.
Something was fulfilled; something revealed.
The fire feels like a manifestation of spirit.
Am I merely projecting spirit onto the flames, or is Spirit revealing itself through the moving flames?
The brightness must be lit up, the fire must be kindled.
Black Books, Volume 6
According to a primitive view the soul is a fire or flame, because warmth is likewise a sign of life.
CW8 ¶ 665
C.G. Jung: On Kindling the Fire
What’s going on in this darkness?
Light must be created. You must create it out of raw matter that you’ve received. It must still be uttered. Words! The light has shown itself only as matter. It will only become luminous when it has been lifted on high. What the Cabiri carried up must still be pulled up. It must pass through your highest light, through the highest lights: science and art. All powers must combine for this work.
You are not the only one who must do this. Many must do the same, so that Phanes becomes a kind God of beauty, light, and joy.
You must see and hear more brightly. You must lay stone upon stone. You must bridge abysses, lay a way through the wayless and cover quagmires. Wheat must grow from the mud.
Soul: The brightness must be lit up, the fire must be kindled.
Work must be accomplished, work, the most strenuous work, work toward the one goal, Phanes, the shining one. Therefore you must limit yourself. Cut off others. Complete what has commenced.
You dream too much. I tell you that dreams are over.
Soul: Matter piles up into a mountain. Everything else is flight, avoidance of the mountain. It is to be scaled. No turning back! Arrange everything else under this goal, otherwise the titans of matter will destroy you. What do you want? Do you want your work to be completed? Life goes to one side. Completion comes first .”
~The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page 281-283