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“the purer the soul and the greater its estrangement from everything but God, the more intimate His converse and the closer His embrace. He dwells there then in secret, for Satan cannot come near His dwelling place, or see the embracing; nor can any understanding explain it.”

When a log of wood is set on a fire, and when it is transformed into fire and united with it, the longer it burns and the hotter the fire, the more it glows until sparks and flames are emitted from it. So too the soul-and this is the subject of these stanzas- when transformed, and flowing interiorly in the fire of love, is not only united with the divine fire, but becomes a living flame, and itself conscious of it.

Amazing so far... His imagery is always the best. "Symbol" has a way of speaking through intuition and directly to the heart.