Fire (n.) made ritually was a mating — the upper stick is the phallus, the bored wood the woman, and the flame their divine son Agni; so the phallus is the son, and the son the phallus.
Fire (n.) may have been discovered by the regressive reawakening of infant rhythm — boring born of frustration striking a spark.
Fire (n.) is in legend always a theft — a forbidden act of usurpation, accomplished mostly by cunning.
Fire (n.) is made by a pre-eminently conscious act and so "kills" the dark union with the mother — whence the fire-bringer is called "he who swells in the mother."
Fire (n.) is, in the alchemical art, the unquenchable living fire wherein God himself glows in divine love.
Fire (n.) is, in a dream, the symbolical equivalent of a very strong, unrecognized emotion — strong enough to change the face, like Moses' after seeing God or Brother Klaus's after his vision.
Fire (n.) signifies the intensity of affect — the symbol of the Holy Ghost descending in tongues of flame, and equally of evil passions; Lucifer is a name for both Christ and the devil.
Fire (n.) is where the Saviour stands, in a saying Origen preserved: whoever is near him is near the fire, and whoever is far from him is far from the kingdom.
Fire (n.) was forged by God in the earth's bowels, as were the flames of hell — and in this fire God himself burns with divine love, says Ripley.