Soul and spirit

The soul eats fire, the spirit drinks light

December 30th 2024

The soul is hungry and the spirit is thirsty. The soul eats fire and the spirit drinks light. The spirit is a masculine principle, the soul a feminine principle, and they each nourish themselves with the complementary element. The soul – which aspires to a positive, active and dynamic principle – eats fire, whereas the spirit – which is masculine – needs to be nourished by the feminine principle, and so drinks light.
And just as the masculine principle begets the feminine principle, fire begets light. Light is a manifestation, an emanation of fire. When you light a fire it produces light. And the purer the materials that feed this fire, the more subtle and bright is the light.*
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