Stage Seven of the Spiritual Transformation in the Acts of Paul & Thecla

Stage Seven is coming home.

And this is the seventh and final stage. It’s the return to the place where the call first came from. It’s a reintegration of that life before the revelation came. But it’s an entirely new person who returns back to the start. Or it’s the person we already were from the beginning. It’s just now we are simply ourselves. We are now our own. We are no one else’s expectations. We are no one else’s possession. We are no longer the fulfillment of what others desire us to be or become. We are now just the truth of who we are.

We have pulled back, and reclaimed all the power we had been projecting onto the people and the places we called home. We can return home now, or we are finally home, because all of that power is realized as something that actually had always been within us, sitting there silently, as if behind a small door, a hidden reliquary in the back of our back. The place we couldn’t reach before, because we didn’t know it existed yet, because we didn’t yet exist fully within ourselves.

Now we can grasp clearly the truth that was revealed along the way. We have always been our own; we are free. And this is the truth that had called to us from within.