"Thus we understand the soul; that it is an awakened life from God's eye; its primal state is in fire, and fire is its life: but if it does not go from the fire with its will and imagination into the light, as if through grim death into the other Principium, into the Love-Fire, it remains in its own original fire, and has nothing but bitter fury, a desire in the fire, a consuming and a hunger; and yet an eternal quest which is eternal fear." Jacob Bohme