Daily Meditation: Monday, June 24, 2002

Many religions say God is like a fire, but we do not know a …

06/24/2002

Many religions say God is like a fire, but we do not know a great deal about this fire except that it is of an unbearable intensity. It is the fire of the pure Spirit and all forms melt and are destroyed upon contact with it. All those who have been embraced by this fire, have melted into it and merged into one flame. Many complicated books have been written about the experience of mystics. In fact it is very simple, the experience of mystics is the experience of fire, of the sacred fire. A person who has lit this divine fire within them feeds it every day by throwing pieces of his lower nature into it, in the same way that we throw wood into the fire. Watch a fire burn: all the dead pieces of wood that were until then separate, dispersed and useless, are united in one and the same light, one and the same heat, and they are forced to become incandescent like the fire itself. Similarly, by offering our lower instincts in sacrifice to the fire of the spirit, we will know what God is, the divine fire, because we will become like Him.