(Gate 13 — The Hidden Gate of Union)
Eliah stood before a shimmering pool that reflected not just his face, but every version of himself—child, elder, shadow, and light.
The wind was silent. The stars held their breath.
From the stillness came a figure clothed in starlight—a woman whose eyes held the wisdom of ages and the gentleness of the dawn. She was both familiar and unknown, and Eliah’s heart stirred with a quiet awe.
“I am She,” the woman said softly, “your counterpart, your mirror, the part of you you left behind when you entered the world.”
Eliah stepped closer. “Are you… my soul?”
She smiled. “I am the part of you that remembers all. I am the Bride, the Divine Within, the union you have always longed for.”
The Gate of the Bride was unlike the others—it did not open with effort or searching. It opened with surrender. With trust. With the letting go of everything Eliah thought he was.
“The Bride is not just a woman,” she said. “The Bride is the soul that longs for God. And when that longing is complete, the soul becomes one with the Beloved.”
Eliah felt his chest open like the morning. The Great Light he had followed since the beginning was no longer ahead of him. It was within him.
He and the Bride joined hands.
“This is the Gate of Union,” she whispered. “Where the soul marries the Spirit, where the human becomes the Holy.”
Above them, the words appeared in living gold:
“Gate 13 — The Bride: The Soul Weds the Light.”
A thousand petals rained down from the heavens. The stars burst into song.
And in the silence that followed, the voice of the Divine echoed:
“This is My Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.”
Eliah stepped forward—not as one, but as Two made One.
To be continued…
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