"Everything in temporal Nature," says Law, "is descended out of
that which is eternal, and stands as a palpable, visible Outbirth
of it: ... Fire and Light and Air in this World are not only a true
Resemblance of the Holy Trinity in Unity, but are the Trinity
itself in its most outward, lowest kind of Existence or
Manifestation.... Fire compacted, created, separated from Light and
Air, is the Elemental Fire of this World: Fire uncreated,
uncompacted, unseparated from Light and Air, is the heavenly Fire
of Eternity: Fire kindled in any material Thing is only Fire
breaking out of its created, compacted state; it is nothing else
but the awakening the Spiritual Properties of that Thing, which
being thus stirred up, strive to get rid of that material Creation
under which they are imprisoned ... and were not these spiritual
Properties imprisoned in Matter, no material Thing could be made to
burn.... Fire is not, cannot be a material Thing, it only makes
itself visible and sensible by the Destruction of Matter."[45] "If
you ask what Fire is in its first true and unbeginning State, not
yet entered into any Creature, It is the Power and Strength, the
Glory and Majesty of eternal Nature.... If you ask what Fire is in
its own spiritual Nature, it is merely a _Desire_, and has no other
Nature than that of a _working Desire_, which is continually its
_own Kindler_." [46]

All life is a kindled fire in a variety of states, and every dead,
insensitive thing is only dead because its fire is quenched or
compressed, as in the case of a flint, which is in a state of death
"because its fire is bound, compacted, shut up and imprisoned," but a
steel struck against it, shows that every particle of the flint consists
of this compacted fire.