The creative person experiences the divine grace of being allowed to light his small torch at the fire of the Creator.

Birkhäuser once dreamed that he was given this grace.

The animal face in the fire in the form of an eight-petalled flower signifies enlightenment and order in chaos.

SOURCE: Light from the Darkness: the Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser, (1980), p.76-7; commentary by his therapist Marie-Louise von Franz.

EDITOR'S NOTE

The German title Gottesfeuer, Godfire, implies more directly that the dragonlike face in the flames is his conception of God.

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