04-11-2008, 12:00 AM
Vril, my apologies for the momentary deviation of the topic in my replies to Sid's mirror image (beloved materia).
You started this thread with a questioning... so here, a small contribution to the topic...
Everybody talks about fire and flames, but I dare ask how many can answer a simple question... "WHAT" is fire? "What" is a flame?
The ortodox scientific establishment will promptly jump in with a myriad of descriptions of Fire's attributes, without however, suceeding in explaining
anything at all about "what" fire or a flame are.
Combustion is an effect, not the thing itself, that is, fire, flame...
Likewise, the cause(s) of fire or flames aren't themselves the very fire or flames.
So, I would suggest you to start asking yourself a few simple questions, like... is Fire the product of something else? Is it a process? A function of
something else? An abstraction powerful enough to materialize effects that we can detect sensorially? An entity in its own right? What is fire?
Never mind from whence it is or might be, i.e., from within or from without or from wherever. Until you find out and understand "what" is fire, your
pursuit of the answer to the question "what is the fire from within" is condemned to failure.
But lo and behold... you already have the answer. You only need to study it. Study yourself and you won't be able to miss the answer to the questions you
are asking, Vril, this much I do promisse you. And those who know me know only too well that I'm a man of my word whom ALWAYS keeps his promisses...
Be well
Joao
You started this thread with a questioning... so here, a small contribution to the topic...
Everybody talks about fire and flames, but I dare ask how many can answer a simple question... "WHAT" is fire? "What" is a flame?
The ortodox scientific establishment will promptly jump in with a myriad of descriptions of Fire's attributes, without however, suceeding in explaining
anything at all about "what" fire or a flame are.
Combustion is an effect, not the thing itself, that is, fire, flame...
Likewise, the cause(s) of fire or flames aren't themselves the very fire or flames.
So, I would suggest you to start asking yourself a few simple questions, like... is Fire the product of something else? Is it a process? A function of
something else? An abstraction powerful enough to materialize effects that we can detect sensorially? An entity in its own right? What is fire?
Never mind from whence it is or might be, i.e., from within or from without or from wherever. Until you find out and understand "what" is fire, your
pursuit of the answer to the question "what is the fire from within" is condemned to failure.
But lo and behold... you already have the answer. You only need to study it. Study yourself and you won't be able to miss the answer to the questions you
are asking, Vril, this much I do promisse you. And those who know me know only too well that I'm a man of my word whom ALWAYS keeps his promisses...
Be well
Joao