Fire, Water, Spirit

Fellow Labourers-

The Greeks of old once thought that all matter was fire, water, and spirit. They came to this conclusion via philosophical argumenatations, rather than through science. Oddly enough they view their philosophical reasonings as science, and Theology was the highest science.

Today these three forces, acts or whatever they are to you, are still in operation in our lives. We are water and fire baptized and Spirit filled. Those of us with this experience know that this makes us restless. Pascal the great Mathematician had his experience and he made a choice. What are we doing with our experience? Pascal came up with a triangle that gave us the geometrical arrangement of the binomial coefficients. But he did not stop there he gave us the penses. In the penses he looked at the misery of man without God and specifically as it relates to order. He said, "I might well have taken this discourse in an order like this: to show the vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary lives, and then the vanity of philosophic lives, skeptics, stoics; but the order would not have been kept. I know a little what it is, and how few people understand it. No human science can keep it. Saint Thomas did not keep it. Mathematics kept it, but they are useless on account of their depth."

To understand life we need an experience with the fire, water and Spirit.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart