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Ashes and Embers

Musik by From A Secret Place
Lyrics by Wolf Morrison

From: Consuming Fire, the Zohar, transl. by Gershom Scholem
Copyright Schoken Books 1949, 1977

'It has been affirmed by the Companions that there is a sort of fire which is stronger
than other fire, and the one consumes and annihilates the other. If we continue
this thought, it can be said that he who cares to pierce into the mystery of the
holy unity of God should consider the flame as it rises from a burning coal or candle.

There must always be some material substance from which the flame thus rises.
In the flame itself can be seen two lights: the one white and glowing, the other black,
or blue. Of the two, the white light is the higher and rises unwavering. Underneath
it is the blue or black light upon which the other rests as on a support. The two are
conjoined, the white reposing upon the throne of the black. The blue or black base is,
likewise, connected to something beneath it, which feeds it and makes it to cling
to the white light above.

At times this blue or black light turns red, but the light above remains constantly
white. This lower light […] serves to link the white light above it with the material
substance below to which it is bound and through which it keeps kindled. This lower
light is in its nature an instrument for destruction and death, devouring whatever
comes near it. But the white light above neither consumes nor demolishes,
nor does it ever change.

In this we see the mystery of the sacrifice. The rising smoke kindles the
blue light, which then joins itself to the white light, whereupon the entire
candle is wholly kindled, alight with a single unified flame.'