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The fiery nature of man is but a dim memory of his days with God when the creation danced in the buoyancy of the divine flame. Mortal comprehension of Matter and substance is of but a low degree when it does not take into account the fiery basis of Matter itself. The fire of the electron is the fire of God, and everywhere in nature the manifestation of our blessed salamanders1 carries out the will of God in the natural order of things.
Among the four elements, the fire is deemed the highest and requires the air element to exist in the combustion of material substance. It is quenched by the earth and by water, yet neither could exist without the bathing of the celestial fires or the content of the fiery element in the atomic structure thereof.
I am concerned today with fire as it relates to the etheric body - the fire of memory, the fire of the heart. Among mankind today the firm resolution and resolve of the soul should be to reestablish in everyone's life the mighty impetus of victorious Godhood. Forgotten by most men is the fiery crown of the soul, the indwelling Presence of God in the temple of identity and being.
Without the soul, man would be no more than a falling leaf or a fading flower. As the grass withereth, as the flower falleth, the being of man would be only a transient manifestation, a tramp concept upon the stage of life. Tribute, then, must be paid to the changeless being of man which works such wondrous change in the footstool kingdom of God and elevates and ennobles all life in the progressive manifestation of transcendence.
That being is progressive is a reality; and the tiny elementals and builders of form that so wondrously serve to hold together the form elements of man's being must be taken into account in their offering unto life. They epitomize the givingness of God, and all of us yearn to render proper service to both angels and men.
Few realize that their own physical bodies are draped with a covering of the four elements. The cotton fibers and yarns which come from the earth are no different than those which come from the back of a sheep or a yak. The former, coming forth directly from the growing kingdom of the world, is from a kingdom more closely related to the mineral elements of the earth; the latter is a product of a simple consciousness and the outer garment of that consciousness, derived also from the fruit of the earth which passes through the biological system of the animal to become the wool or product of the skin.
Neither one could exist without the fires of the sun, without the descent of the moisture from the water element, without the nourishment and support of the mineral crystals in the ground. Thus earth, air, fire, and water correlate the spinning and weaving of the clothes that you wear upon nature's looms. And truly the mind is enriched by fire itself, thriving upon the vital electronic essence released through the subtleties of nature to the individual body of man and to the body of the planet.
Of all the fabrics which hold together identity and being, memory is the greatest. This is the etheric level of identity, charged with the fire of divine memory. Banked often upon the shores of identity, the divine memory requires the stimulus of the Holy Spirit to burst forth into action in the identity of man. Then the cloven tongues descending upon man signify the descent of the fiery element and the new birth into the consciousness of God.2
God is indeed a consuming fire,3 but one which consumes but the dross of life, the refuse, the unfit, the rejects, and that which requires transmutation. The fire is the servant of all, and yet God himself has chosen to honor it. As the Prince of the Fiery Element, I am content to rest our case in the bonds of love and service to all.