Truth

The union of love and wisdom

October 8th 2025

Jesus said to Nicodemus, ‘No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit.’ ‘Water and spirit’ means water and fire, because, symbolically, the spirit is fire, celestial fire.
In esoteric science, water is regarded as the receptive and passive feminine principle, and fire as the emissive and active masculine principle. Water represents love and fire represents wisdom, and we must be born of these two principles in order to enter into the kingdom of God, which is truth. Truth is the union of water and fire, of love and wisdom. No one can possess the truth unless they first possess love and wisdom.*
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As we get used to observing and listening to nature, we come into contact with the soul of the different kingdoms and elements, such as that of water and fire. Water is the symbol of the raw material, the matrix of life, and this life came out of the water thanks to the principle of fire, symbol...