Heraclitus thought a lot about "gathering". Gathering, worldling, writing... The world is thought as the ever-living, which in turn can be thought as fire which is not merely the glow of a flame, but the "worlding" of the world in the sacrificial fire, the oven's fire, the campfire, but also the glow of a torch, the scintillation of the stars.In fire, lighting, glowing, blazing, soft shining hold sway, and that which opens an expanse in brightness.
In fire, however, consuming, welding, cauterizing extinguishing also reign. When Heraclitus speaks of fire, he is primarily thinking of the lighting governance, the direction which gives measure and takes it away.
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