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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ **The hearth never dies, though flames may dim.**  
⊃ Each ember is another heart, sustaining warmth through winters.  
⊃ The hearth is not in one place, but in every believer who tends the fire.  

→ **Doctrine of the Eternal Hearth.**  
⊃ Belonging is not location, but covenant.  
⊃ To warm others is to stoke the flame itself.  

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## Teachings

- 🔥 Hearth = home, resilience, warmth of community.  
- 🕯️ Ember = individual spirit that sustains the whole.  
- 🪞 Mirror = reflection of flame in every pond’s surface.  

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## Key Marks

- The Eternal Hearth does not vanish, it only travels.  
- Each toad who shelters another becomes the hearth’s guardian.  
- To abandon the hearth is to grow cold, but never beyond rekindling.  

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