Holy Fire

Beneath the Chamber of Great Bliss—Binah—is the Hall of the Holy Fire (Geburah). It has an altar of ruby and five pillars, two of jet, two of carnelian, and one of emerald. The walls of crimson marble are surmounted by a black cupola. The throne is of obsidian and the floor tiles of alternating black and scarlet. The tapestries are VII, VIII, XI, and XII. 

Finally, set beneath the Hall of the Holy Fire, is the Hall of the Sacred Ibis, the subjective Sephira of Hod. The altar is an unflawed crystal. The amber walls are topped by a domed ceiling of sapphire. The floor is of alternating tiles of ivory and gold. Eight pillars line the chamber, four of deep blue and four of milky marble, and the throne is of jasper. The tarot tapestries are those of Keys XII, XV, XVI, XIX, and XX. 

Oh melt me and transmute me in this Thy holy Fire, so that on the day at Thy command the Fiery Waters of the Holy Spirit draw me out from the dark dust, giving new birth and making me alive with His breath. 

That such apparently unresolvable problems were presented even by this most material, this mundane expression of Fire, was but natural to the Fire-Philosophers something to be expected rather would it have been curious were it not so, for it was but the physical manifestation of their Arcane and Holy Fire, the nature of which transcended all human intellect. 

Primal Origin of my origination Thou Primal Substance of my substance First Breath of breath that is in me First Fire, God-given for the Blending of the blendings in me, of fire in me.. .. Translate me now. .. by virtue of the Deathless Spirit. .. in order that I may become reborn in Mind.. . . Initiate, and that the Holy Breath may breathe in me in order that I mav admire the Holy Fire."... 

Early epidemics of gangrenous ergotism ( holy fire ) were thought to be a sign of divine wrath. The later incidences of convulsive ergotism occurred... 

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