Prometheus the ancient Greek god of fire defied Zeus and brought the gift of fire to humanity. Prometheus’s punishment was to be chained and pinned to a rock where a giant eagle descended every day to eat his liver. Being immortal, Prometheus’s wounds healed every night only to undergo the same torment each day for eternity. Prometheus’s only solitude was knowing that he had angered the gods by bestowing such a gift to humanity. Eventually after Prometheus helped Heracles with one of his labors, Zeus’s anger waned, and he released Prometheus who spent his days a bit more behaved. The deed, however, was done.
This is the ancient Greek mythological explanation for man’s mastery over fire. This achievement deserves a myth. Arguably it is the mastery of fire that has allowed the human species to dominate the globe. The ability to master fire provided light, warmth, defense against the elements, and predators. It also facilitated early engineering feats. It allowed man to fashion the environment to suit his needs.
Long before the Greco Roman pantheon, there existed a domestic religion, out of which, laws, private property rights, and many of the institutions that eventually gave rise to city states in the Mediterranean arose. The ancient Greeks and ancient pre–Roman Italians worshipped their ancestors as localized deities. Families had their own unique deities. The father was the priest and in charge of the domestic religion. It was the worship of entombed ancestors that gave rise to private property rights as land was passed down to the eldest son. One of the greatest fears was that there would be nobody around to place offerings for a person after they died, as they believed this sustenance was necessary to survive in the next world.
Even as this domestic religion evolved into cities, the private laws emanating from the domestic religion had precedent over the early city laws. Even as the more commonly known Greco Roman pantheon developed each city had its own version of these common deities. This religion developed spontaneously from the bottom up.
The ancient Greeks, Italians, and Hindus were all different branches of the ancient Indo-European peoples and shared a basic worship of the sacred fire, which was embedded in the domestic religion. Each family kept and maintained a sacred fire of the hearth that was maintained at all times in their homes. This was the center of early worship. Later, it was extinguished and reignited on March first each year using the rays of the sun or rubbing certain special twigs together to reignite it. The fire could only be reignited with these specific methods as it was holy.
Later, it was the sacred fire of Vesta that was kept lit by the Vestal Virgins for over a thousand years in Rome. Sylvia a priestess of the temple of Vesta was said to have been impregnated by Mars before giving birth to Romulus and Remus. In the few reported incidents of the fire extinguishing from storms or neglect, it was immediately reignited using mirrors to harness the pure rays of the sun. The sacred fire of Vesta was permanently extinguished in A.D. 391 when Emperor Theodosius I had the fire extinguished to stamp out pagan worship. Less than a hundred years later, Rome fell.
In The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, Gibbons uses a few more words to explain this process, but why mess with tradition?
As Western civilization evolved it was private property rights that gave birth to the more modern conceptions of individual liberty, and unalienable Natural Rights that preexist and transcend government. While people may no longer engage in a domestic religion or literally worship the sacred fire of the family hearth, the sacred fire has become symbolic of human liberty. The flame of liberty or the torch of liberty are metaphors often used to give meaning to the power, importance, and fragility of human liberty. Fire, if neglected, can easily be extinguished. It needs to be fed and nourished.
The men that fought and won the American Revolution epitomize the strength, power, and fragility of human liberty. The flame of liberty was kindled and nurtured, until it became a torch. The torch of liberty was passed on from James Otis to John and Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington, to name a few of the revolutionaries, until it became a brushfire that spread wildly.
Through greed, apathy, ignorance, corruption, cowardice, and neglect, the flame of liberty, that sacred fire, has dwindled to a mere flickering light, that may be extinguished in America, and across the globe.
All fifty state governors failed to defend the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights when the COVID 19 plandemic arrived. Maybe even worse, all fifty state governors have failed, and continue to fail, as they allow weapons of mass destruction in the form of COVID 19 injections to be deployed. There is absolutely no excuse at this point to allow the continued deployment of these weapons of mass destruction.
Consider the fact that I initiated litigation with Governor DeSantis to try and force him to stop the deployment of weapons of mass destruction in the form of COVID 19 injections in Florida. This is after the Florida Department of Health has called for a halt to the injections and stated that the shots are a threat to the human genome. The case was dismissed, and I filed an appeal. This speaks volumes to the overall situation…
There is a mass migration of illegal aliens into the United States as migrants are being weaponized, and apparently being given a pathway to citizenship, likely to become mercenaries in the U.S. military to be used against U.S. citizens.
How many governors have used their authority to repel this foreign invasion?
The UN and the WHO are moving forward with their attempts at a global coup. The validity of elections are seriously suspect with computer voting, and there is absolutely no way to verify the authenticity of elections. People and organizations are being cancelled, bank accounts closed, and so on.
Of course, the attack on basic human rights, human dignity, bodily autonomy is an overall attack on human civilization across the globe. Where it has not yet been extinguished, the flame of liberty is flickering everywhere. The once relatively free Western nations, such as Canada, Australia, and much of the United States, are under varying levels of authoritarian regimes. Australia is actively seeking to basically outlaw free speech and competition for government controlled media with bogus misinformation laws. The slogan is ‘Social Media Requires Social Responsibility’.
If this sacred fire of liberty is allowed to be extinguished in the West, it will be extinguished everywhere, and it may never reignite. The technology that exists today could usher in a permanent global autocracy in the form of an unstoppable technocratic dictatorship controlling every aspect of human existence for the few that are allowed to live.
This sacred fire needs to be fed and nourished or it may permanently go extinct. If you are not doing everything humanely possible to stop this, you are failing the test. It is time to fan the flames of liberty and ignite a global brushfire that will put fear into the hearts of the globalists that will cause them to run and hide.
It is time to reignite the Sacred Fire in the hearts and minds of everyone you know.
I get called crazy if I mention New World Order, that is even though I have various people like President Bush, a Ukrainian MP and President Biden say the words. The Bush Centre have a YouTube channel with video's with Kissinger talking about women's role, and I think it was the playlist that was called New World Order. So much gaslighting, psychological abuse. People are going to get a shock. I think that is what is expected. At least you have the second amendment in America.
I very much do believe in liberty and for each of us to have our own little safe space in the world (and the ability to have body autonomy and the pursuit of happiness, etc). Just to share knowledge on my understanding of property rights /local history here and current issues.
In the reserve system on Canadian First Nations, there is a lack of personal property rights. For example, people have to be put on a list for band housing, it may be decades before you get one, so there is overcrowding in houses and lots of problems (and even if you get a house you don’t own it, can’t sell it to provide for yourself or grow equity etc). The governments method of managing all of this really sucks and should be a warning for people who think more government control solves problems (or that large scale communism is effective at providing for people).
Now before Canada was Canada and divided into personal property lots maybe small communities could have elements of community with different clans having responsibilities and sharing some food and water resources but people don’t understand the culture of that time, you can’t say that before Europeans they had communism and were great and just add in more communism and it will be great… that is not really true and a clan system isn’t a one state big government system, it’s not China.
And to help people currently oppressed by the reserve system they need more sovereignty, they need to own property and be able to build wealth and not have to suffer the whims of bureaucracy.
What current left wing ideologists miss is that they are making the rest of my country more like a reserve and the people are becoming poorer because of it, there was a time when First Nations people couldn’t leave their reserve without a pass from the Indian agent, and pandemic lockdowns brought that to different areas as well to many Canadians. The solution to poverty isn’t to take away from everyone and have a central power, it is empowering everyone.
Anyway thank you for your article it sparked many thoughts.
(I would also mention that this week I came across a teaching about the healing found in the types of light waves in early morning light and in light from fire. It also has something to do with connection to God/source so physical and spiritual healing. I theorize that this light does something to perhaps our nervous system and that connection to source provided us with a soothing feeling, removes fear and renews faith in that connection).