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[Alexandr Korol]

Fire symbolizes fertilizing, purifying, and illuminating action, but also destruction. It is associated with the flames of hell — devouring but not annihilating; it is a symbol of torment and punishment. But above all, it is a sacred symbol of the home hearth: fire brings coziness, nourishes, and protects.

Connections with other elements
The association of the elements of fire and water symbolizes manifesting energy, material spirit, foundation and form, fuel (essence) and matter (content), and so on. The numerical value of this connection is 5.
The association of the elements of fire and air symbolizes the union of microcosm and macrocosm, the sun, the enlightened spirit, the center and the periphery (circle), heavenly origin, and so on. The numerical value of this connection is 4.
The association of the elements of fire and earth symbolizes the torch, the light of knowledge, that which illuminates everything, and so on.”

One more thing I’d like to emphasize separately is that when I was reading about Agni in Hinduism and Buddhism, I saw it mentioned in Hinduism that there are five great elements, which I am studying and following this path. This is called Mahabhuta — translated from Sanskrit as “primordial element.” “In Hinduism, the five great or universal elements are: ether, air, fire, water, and earth; in Buddhism — this refers to the four components that make up the first skandha — rupa (form). In Buddhism, the term mahabhuta has a dual meaning, used not only to describe physical and physiological phenomena, but also psychological, as a type of tangible.
• “Element of hardness-softness” — earth, inertia;
• “element of smoothness-roughness” — water, cohesion;
• “element of heat-cold” — fire, radiation;
• “element of lightness-heaviness” — wind, vibration.
The literal translation of the term means “gross element,” since the first skandha is the only physical component of the individual, unlike the other four “subtle” (“mental”) primordial elements.”

“In Hindu philosophy, five “great elements” or Mahabhutas are distinguished. In the philosophy of Kashmiri Shaivism, they represent the final level of manifestation of the primordial light of consciousness (prakasha).