Saint Clement of Alexandria spoke of the Father as God beyond God, transcending all, the Son as God within God embracing all as God in all, and the Holy Spirit as God beside God, proceeding from God to abide with God as God in all through all. For Clement, there was no division between the unseen God beyond God and… Read more »
Icons of the Dormition bear witness to the mystery of glorification as does the mature wisdom of the Apostle Paul. Orthodox wisdom is the secret and hidden wisdom of God which discerns the glory of the age to come, the glory of the crucified Lord of glory who glorifies elders and saints. (1 Cor 2: 6-16) This wisdom of the… Read more »
Wisdom in the desert is timeless flame, since every day is equivalent to any day in the Name, which begins where it ends and ends where it begins. The step back of true turning awakens the heart to the consuming fire of uncreated energy, which sees union of seer and seen in the Name. The uncreated river of fire is… Read more »
According to the Sage Heraclitus, the hidden harmony of the incomprehensible LOGOS is back-turning like the lyre and perhaps also back-stretched like the bow. The desert embraced the wisdom of the Sage of Ephesus, which distinguishes between a rationally comprehensible logic which goes out in a straight line, and the incomprehensible gnomic LOGOS which turns us round, endowing us with… Read more »
