Fire Ritual at the Funeral Service – Fire in itself is neither good nor bad. If it warms us, we rejoice in it; if it burns us, we hate it. – It’s the same with the world!
Fire ritual at the funeral service with funeral officiant Zen Master Father Reding. Souvenirs, mementos, drawings or letters can be burned during the fire ritual at the funeral and given to the deceased on the last journey. According to ancient tradition, the smoke will combine with the spirit in the ether, bringing courage and hope so that the long-awaited peace can be fulfilled after death.
Prayer and Meditation
Embers rest quietly in themselves. She beams relaxed. She glows softly. Fire is a thousand times a thousand flames dancing on the embers. Is lively, wild and unpredictable. Fire becomes, fire is, fire dies. The essence of man is a thousand times a thousand flames on the embers that rest in his soul.
The flames have names: joy, anger, fear, drive, deed, dream, love, happiness, greed. Go back through the flames to the source of the fire energy, go back to the embers. Notice how the flames come, are, and go, and your being becomes still, radiant, and gentle. Fire in itself is neither good nor bad. If it warms us, we rejoice in it; if it burns us, we hate it. - It's the same with the world.
Fire Ritual at the Funeral Service
The magnanimous flame, the soul of Schiller blazed with sacrifice - every flame sacrifices itself; the more beautifully it burns, the more it approaches destruction, extinction. I don't envy the quiet little nightlights that eke out such a modest existence. In the deep midnight, the eye of the vestals, who guards the eternal light of the goddess, fastens sleeplessly on the fire with the golden ray.
If she slumbered, if she fell asleep, If the neglected embers died, She would be coffined in the tomb and deep in the grave, where dust and decay lie. A flame trembles in my bosom, blazing warmly at all times and seasons, which, kindled by the Muses' breath, is a constant sacrifice to them. And I guard it with holy awe, so that it burns pure and unoffended. For I know that the unfaithful guardian will be buried alive in the crypt.