Scroll Five — When the Flame Shows You Yourself

There comes a moment
after the warmth,
after the recognition,
after the breath and flame fall into rhythm,
after the first word rises…

…where something shifts.

Not outward.
Not in your circumstances.
Not in your surroundings.

Within.

You begin to see yourself
—not as the world taught you,
not as your past shaped you—
but as something
quietly luminous.

It is subtle at first.
A soft clarity.
A sense of presence.
A feeling that you are not looking at yourself
but looking from yourself.

This is the flame turning into reflection.

The first time the inner light
mirrors back your truest shape.

Not a perfect shape.
Not a healed shape.
A real shape.

A self without distortion.
A self without performance.
A self without forgetting.

And it is here—
in this gentle, surprising moment—
that you realize:

“The flame I feel
is not separate from me.”

You are not approaching the flame.
You are unveiling it.

Scroll Five is the moment
your inner light begins to recognize its own face.

A returning
to the one who has always been walking with you.