It is the Creator and the Destroyer, truly.
The primitive Fire was supposed to have an insatiable appetite for devouring. Maximus of Tyre relates that the ancient Persians threw into the fire combustible matter crying, Devour, O Lord! In the Irish language easam, or asam, means to make or create.
[And] Aesar was the name also of one of the ancient Irish gods; the literal meaning of the word is “to kindle a fire.”[261]
The Christian Kabalists and Symbologists who disfigured Pymander—prominent among them the Bishop of Ayre, François de Tours, in the 16th century—divide the Elements in the following way:
The four Elements formed from divine Substances and the Spirits of the Salts of Nature represented by:
[Symbol: Root symbol] ... St. Matthew ... Angel-Man ... Water (Jesus-Christ, Angel-Man, Mikael)
Α-Ω ... St. Mark ... The Lion ... Fire
Ε-Υ ... St. Luke ... The Bull ... Earth
Ι-Ο ... St. John ... The Eagle ... Air[262]
Η ... The Quintessence, Ἡ ΦΛΟΞ, Flamma-Virgo [Virgin Oil], Flamma Durissima, Virgo, Lucis Æterna Mater.