It seems on this thread more than others, so many fascinating subjects have been barely touched and skipped over. So what to respond to? Can they all be responded to within a few points? Probably not, but maybe.
We live in a fractal existence, where all things replicate and are replications in form, quality and function of things above, below, within and without of themselves, to the extent that dimensions and the nature of the matter in dimensions enables. That is what enables symbols and symbolism to work.
All shapes, numbers, elements, forces, things, happenings, in worlds of nature and man, the human body, organs, layers of our nature, Sun, Earth, moon, stars, orbits, ... are all continuations, replications, imprints and reflections of similar things to themselves, connected above and below themselves, and interconnected and communicating. (I know that it is possible for a person to see all this as a result of faith, thankfulness and prayer, and afterwards by lesser but more continuous glimpses.)
The Jews are symbolic of an aspect of humanity and its growth. What happens to/of them has/does/will happen to all.
Its all about fire - the element of. From the first campfire used by the first primitive man, through ceramics manufacture, metal smelting, to the use of electrical machinery like computers, phones, and combustion engines in cars, jet fighters, to guns and bombs, nuclear weapons and medicine, material manufacture, ....etc..the history of man's development is the history of his learning to manage, understand and wield fire, externally and internally, in all its forms - combustive, electrical, radiant, friction, nuclear, biological, spiritual, in body, mind, conscience, heart ...
Even the concerns of western current affairs such as body weight, calorie consumption, environmentalism, energy sustainability, world conflicts, managing the heat and coolness of emotions, developing the light of reason, ... are all part of our ever growing understanding and improved wielding of fire.
Convection, what we might define as the movement of energy and things in relation to heat, drives the universe and all things in it. Temperature, movement, matter, energy, light, calories...are just different aspects of the energy that drives the universe - fire.
All material life on Earth is sustained and driven by material fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsCZVNQf6I That thermodynamics drive existence is well known of course, as Peter Atkins points out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2sq89ZqEMBut the extent of the nature of fire within life, religion, the soul and spirituality is not so well known, not by scientists anyway.
But the extent of the nature of fire is more understood in religion, particularly in Judeo-Christian religion which stands back to back and level with western science. Science and religion are two sides of a coin (
https://lacecurtain.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/science-religion) as are esoteric occultism and mysticism; and what occultism/esotericism is to science, mysticism is to religion, so each and all roll on to truth together.
The old testament reveals a God that is all knowing, all encompassing, all pervading, ever extensive, and from which all comes, exists and returns, and which creates, rules, guides, communicates and retributes by fire.
Most atheist professors of thermodynamics overlooked that, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okbz8ARsm7gFollowing the teachings on fire in the old testament, in the new testament Christ reveals how to rightly wield fire in the heart, as love, which is the light and warmth of God, and how to think and act in accordance with love and express it as goodwill, charity and helpfulness.
Fire is the radiation of God. And is the guard of God, for no one comes to God except through fire - that is by attunement with and right use of fire.
The crown centre is the positive pole of the soul, and the base centre is the negative pole. The crown centre is the centre through which the soul can know God or spirit; through the base centre the soul knows matter. Love, the fire, or light and warmth of God, can be drawn in through the crown and expressed through the heart. It lights the crown and warms the heart. The breath can help facilitate this. As the radiance of heart becomes the common practice and condition, so the fires of matter are automatically drawn up to it and naturally unite with it. The kundalini fires are
automated in response to the heart centre,
no conscious manipulation of them is required. In fact to attempt to raise or meddle with them prematurely, outside of their normal automated process is likely to cause an uncontrolled fire and destroy the mental-emotional vehicle, just as would spilling petrol from the fuel lines onto the running engine or electrics of a motorcar. As the electric, water, fuel and exhaust systems of a motorcar each have their respective channels, chambers and conduits, so too, the soul and its surrounding layers contain different circulating energies which each have their rightful pathways, centres and conduits, and if these energies get into the wrong places then destruction of the vehicle is likely to result. Most psychiatric units contain at least one person who tried to raise his kundalini, and burnt his subtle bodies and turned himself into an insane jibbering idiot, not just for this life, but for many more lives to come. Focus on the heart, on love, goodwill and helpfulness, let the automated kundalini look after itself.
The difference between humans and monkeys is that being a monkey is merely about swinging from trees, but being a human is about learning how to rightly manage fire. And with that task comes great risk and responsibility, but great reward too. We have freewill, the means to learn and grow from sparks to gods. Tread carefully and cautiously. Even angels fear to tread our path.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maRanuCqY64I must cease these long posts. The typing fingers seem to have a fire of their own.