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deviadah
07-21-2007, 01:09 PM
It has been argued that storytelling was invented not long after the discovery of creating fire. It was after this that man could sit down and rest, become warm and as night fell have a source of light.

If you have ever been in nature sitting by a fire you know the trance-like state you can easily put yourself in by stearing at the flames.

Although scrying can be done looking at many objects, even candles, I think a live burning fire is by far the best thing because it has sound. The crackle and pop of burning twigs is extremly relaxing - and it helps to be relaxed when meditating.

In modern society, unless you live in a house, it is very rare that one gets to enjoy a fire. This is too bad because we loose contact with a source of power that nature has given us. Seems now the only time fire - for citydwellers - enters our lives is when a Firetruck is steaming past us on the street. This it too bad...

Also I always feel that fire is the same fire that has always burned, as if it was part of some collective unconcious fire. As if in the flames aeons of time were kept. The fires that burn now are part of the same fire that burned thousands of years ago.

Perhaps that is why the past - more than the future - shows its face when I stare into the flames!

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Naomi
07-21-2007, 01:42 PM
Awesome. Yeah I was taught to scry into the depths of the fire since I was little. Oddly enough, I've had an aversion to fire and heat until only recently. Sometimes what you are most attracted to isn't always the most...uh...profound presence readily accessible as a gateway to higher realms. Shadow and darkness has always been a protective covering for me. Earth+Akasha, water, later, which connects directly to fire through air.

Fire is the primary element of all magic, in the branch of Hermeticism I study, anyways.

deviadah
07-21-2007, 03:10 PM
Yes, let us not forget the Serpent Fire!

:viper:

And yeah I too don't like fire - or more so a fire - that is I have a fear of my house burning down (my papers/books). But I do not fear an actual fire. I love them, just which I could stare into them more often- a candle is NOT the same.