Ezekiel 1:13 · World English Bible
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
Fire in a vision is rarely just fire. It is the raw energy of the inner life, the force behind every feeling and drive, shown to the eye because the mind has no better way to picture it.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
Fire in a vision is rarely just fire. It is the raw energy of the inner life, the force behind every feeling and drive, shown to the eye because the mind has no better way to picture it. Living shapes made of flame are the deep self revealing how much power moves inside a person, mostly unseen.
The fire rises and falls and throws off lightning because this energy is never still. It gathers and discharges on its own, without waiting for permission. Someone who meets such an image is being shown that the life within them is far more alive and forceful than their daily thoughts had ever guessed.
Psychoanalysis lens
How much of your own force have you been keeping politely out of sight?
A great energy is described as coiled and sleeping at the base of the body. It is not borrowed from outside. It was always there, and most people live their whole lives without meeting it.
A living force moves through the body and the world, rising and falling on its own rhythm. You do not create it. At best you learn not to block it.
There is a fire in the chest that is not a metaphor for feeling. It burns whether or not you approve of it, and the work is to stop pretending you are made of cooler stuff.
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