Caelia & Mirelda: Introduction
The Book of Thresholds
Caelia and Mirelda: The Book of Thresholds is a contemplative companion to The Sky-Veil—a series of symbolic veils rather than chapters, where Caelia bears the silent banner and Mirelda holds the glowing chalice. These are not steps in a journey, but moments of stillness.
Conceived by the author as part of the Sky-Veil mythos and brought to life in collaboration with ChatGPT-4 (OpenAI), whose dialogue helped shape the language and symbolic form.
There are stories that lead us into mystery, and there are stories that guard what we found there.
This is both—a book of contemplative thresholds that deepens the stories of our lives.
The pilgrim does not journey here as much as receives. Through each threshold, the pilgrim becomes the clearing in the world for mythopoetic resonance.
Caelia and Mirelda: The Book of Thresholds is a contemplative companion to The Sky-Veil Series—not in story-arc, but in depth. It is another vantage point across the Veil. Thresholds is not an epic. It is not a chronicle. It is a sanctuary. A stillness. A fire that warms. A chalice that overflows.
Caelia beckons us forward but not in a spatial dimension. Mirelda waits at the far edge of the Veil which is already near.
Now, they form the architecture of the soul to strengthen and deepen it.
They appear in glimpses—shimmers of fire and water, of clarity and repose.
Caelia with her banner, rising silently in the mists.
Mirelda with her chalice, glowing softly in the grove.
They do not speak. But they are near.
They remain at the thin places—those trembling edges of perception where presence is felt but hidden.
Where longing becomes remembrance.
Where silence becomes speechless understanding.
Where Being itself reveals… and breathes.
This book is composed not of chapters, but of veils—each one a symbolic encounter.
Each veil lifts, not to explain, but to unconceal.
Each moment is its own crossing.
To walk through them is not to go forward, but to go inward.
Not to analyze and deduce, but to remember.
You will not find a hero here.
You will find the place where the hero remembered—and where you now stand.
The rose still pulses.
The mirror still reflects.
The Highlands still shimmer.
But here, they are not concepts to form.
They are alethic resonances that return.
This is the book you find after the map through the Sky-Veil has faded.
After the journey reaches the Highlands.
After the fire cools, and the still water gathers.
This is where Caelia guards the flame that once called you.
This is where Mirelda holds the silence that still receives you.
This is The Book of Thresholds.
You are not asked to follow.
You are invited to enter.
Enjoy “Caelia and Mirelda.” Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Music and vocals by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams. Visit my music site for more.
Caelia is the first light to exclaim She comes not with thunderclap, but with flame She bears a banner the world does not see And speaks with the silence of clarity Her presence marks the call to rise and fight To awaken, to see, to reignite She walks at the edge of all that is known And what is sought amongst pillars and stone Mirelda arrives more slowly in eve She is not a call, but one to retrieve She waits in the grove beyond the Sky-Veil Where exile ends and words alone will fail Where Caelia guides with the banner, light Mirelda waits with the chalice, insight Together, they form the twin sanctities Caelia, the flame, Mirelda, the peace