A exploration of the Hermit archetype through Lizzie MacKenzie's recent documentary The Hermit of Treig. THE GREAT FIRES Love is apart from all things. Desire and fulfilment are nothing beside it. Neither body nor mind can truly love. Even if they try to lead us there. What is not love provokes them. What is not love quenches them. Love lays hold of everything we hold dear, But we are not able to hold onto it. Passion is one of its many paths but passion does not bring us to love. Desire opens the castle of our spirit so that we might find there the inner mystery of love: hidden, intangible, silent. Love does not last, but it is different from the passions that do not last. Love lasts by not lasting. Isaiah said each of us walks in our own fire for our sins. Only Love allows us to walk free in that sweet, transitory music of our pained and particular hearts. -Jack Gilbert Thanks to Sophie for her FFA (Free Free-Association) of this card. Each FFA involves Sophie, freely-associating around the episode card which until that moment she had never set eyes on before. I see the FFAs as buckets of cool spring water from The Well of The Collective Unconscious.