What is the light that lights the lights? What is the power which turns on our machines, which hums through our power lines? What is it which we call energy in this modern landscape, where does it come from?
Fire. Wood. The life of the tree, its energy, the sunlight which gave it strength released in flame. The tree’s life is sunlight, wood is grown by sunlight, fire is sunlight. The earth, the earth is the ashes of the wood. The seasons are the cycles of the earth, the seasons are the growth rings of the wood. The breath of the wind are its leaves, the air that gives life to the smallest mouse and the greatest buffalo. The rains are its sap reaching skyward. The flowers, fruits, and seeds are promises that life goes on, that the seasons go on, that the heavens and earth endure forever. The flame is sunlight.
They say that man invented fire, but fire was always there. Man simply unlocked the key to fire, and ever since the obsession with mastering the forces of nature has driven the conquest of the earth. This urge is considered holy, sacrosanct, and innate. It is called our intelligence, our destiny, our responsibility and our right. To control. To carry the flame.
“Lucifer” means “Light Bearer.” He tempted Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. That got us kicked out of paradise. Prometheus stole fire from the gods. He was a thief. He came bearing light to humanity, and was punished by having his liver eaten eternally by birds of prey.
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