Returning Light · Our shared life
A practice of restoration.
Our path gives form to awareness, relationship and offering. Each stage is part of the community’s shared spiritual life.
I–III · The Kindled
Awareness. Form. Identity.
Awareness begins with attention to embodied life. Form develops that attention through practice and relationship. Identity marks reception into the Light with a house name.
IV–V · The Carrying
Will and Echoes.
Will is offered to the shared direction of the house. Echoes brings possessions and external ties into the work of offering. The teaching understands these commitments as capacity returned to the giver.
VI · The Radiant
Compassion.
Sexual expression becomes part of sacred witnessing. Women lead the rite, and a couple’s intimacy is offered in the presence of the community. Embodied recognition gives the teaching a physical life.
VIII · The Witnessing
Integration.
The warming and transforming fires are held together. Members at the witness tier encounter the full meaning of the Ascension and the place of Return in the Order’s belief.
IX · The Returning
Threshold Fear.
Having witnessed the Ascension, members are asked whether they choose to continue. Those who choose their own Return are known as the Returning.
The Ascension · The Ascended
A life returned.
The Ascension completes the willing offering of a life to its source. The Order understands the light returned through this rite as a gift to the whole community.