I received a pocket copy of Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" as a gift from one of the most beautiful people I have ever met many many years ago. This book’s content and its actual physical existence mean a great deal to me as it is one of the few things I have kept over many tumultuous years and has traveled with me around the world. The cover art is kind of a mystery as I have not found the definitive source in his writings which refer to dancing in flames in the hand of god, but many references to all those themes.   “Even we in Persia would see our faces in the disc of the sun and our bodies dancing in the fire that we kindle upon the altars.” “Purification through fire ensures the overpowering of Evil and the continuation of Good. The fire dancers, men and women called nestinari, dance barefoot on embers while one of them divines the future, cautions against coming evil, and presages good or bad omens.”