Fire and Spirit
Fire and Spirit Lightning and forest fires could strike terror in primitive humans, yet they also cherished fire as a life-giving gift from the gods. The Holy Spirit, like fire, is a two-edged sword:…
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Fire and Spirit
Lightning and forest fires could strike terror in primitive humans, yet they also cherished fire as a life-giving gift from the gods. The Holy Spirit, like fire, is a two-edged sword: it brings the blazing wrath of God's judgment, consuming all that is dead and cold in us, but also the radiant warmth of his love, mercy, and redemption.Though Inner Land was not explicitly critical of the Nazi regime, it nevertheless attacked the spirits that animated German society at the time: racism and bigotry, nationalistic fervor, mass hysteria, and materialism. Eberhard Arnold surveys the symbolism of light and fire in the Bible, literature, and history to illuminate our love/fear relationship with God.
Eberhard Arnold sent Hitler a copy on November 9, The chapter "Light and Fire," in particular, was a deliberate public statement at a decisive moment of Germany's history.