Date Posted:07:12:48 02/17/06 Fri Author: Iymlad Subject: Re: fire and spirituality In reply to:
chrys
's message, "fire and spirituality" on 03:41:02 02/17/06 Fri
I'd say that "passion" conveys what fire represents as well as "emotion" conveys what water represents. No one word can really describe the totality of any of the four.
You kinda have my head in a tizzy trying to sort out your underlying point, but this comes to mind ...
Note that any one thing/event can be described in layers. Let's try an example ... let's say we are speaking of a storm. First we may think this is purely an air thing. But that is just the overlying category. There is also the fire of air (e.g. lightning), the water of air (e.g. humidity and rain), the earth of air (e.g. all the dust and stuff carried by the winds), and even the air of air (e.g. the winds of the storm).
And this can be taken further and further ... for example ... the salt smell carried on the winds of a storm could be considered the earth (salt) of air (smell) of water (from the sea) of air (carried on the winds).
Lemme know if that actually addressed your question or not ...
Not much help here, but isn't it our spirituality that confuses us - that we kinda discard? When something happens, good or bad - we immediately consider the other 3 and toss spirituality aside. And I don't mean this either in a religious sense (which is how I see people take the concept all the time). Perhaps we don't have good words for it because we tend to ignore it within ourselves. Perhaps we are not meant to understand it. I certainly don't understand that part of myself (though I have a pretty good handle on the other pieces I think). Perhaps that's what holds us back and makes us so primitive. But you're right - it's a confusing subject because there aren't any good words to convey spirituality.
