Hallowing the Name transmutes the lead of distraction into the gold of integral recollection in the cauldron of fire and water, where the golden lion and the silvery unicorn are fighting for the crown. The centre where all centres coincide is everywhere, for it is neither spacial not temporal, but maintains its axial poise always and everywhere. Distraction de-centres the chuntering mind but… Read more »
The alchemy of the Name dissolves division in the water of fire, clarifying confusion in the fire of water, empowering water to interiorise truth as fire. The Spirit inspires tongues of fire whilst the body is cleansed in living waters, uniting the baptising waters of Pascha with the chrismating Pentecost of fire. Water weds fire when wisdom weds glory, uniting body… Read more »
Pure attention is intrinsic to pure prayer, which gathers what inattention scatters, awakening spiritual prayer which nurtures wisdom. Purity of heart is receptive whilst uncreated light is creative, uniting pure attention with the heart, regenerating creation. The mystery of mysteries is the Name, secret of secrets, at once both Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, manifesting wisdom in the realm of the… Read more »
The spirit congeals in the cave of the heart when awareness turns and presence sees, crystallising glory. Suddenly light dawns and the heart is receptive like a bride. Wisdom acts decisively without striving to grasp anything created or acquire anything conditioned, being radically unconditioned grace. The way of Name-hallowing is at once active and receptive, unveiling the mysteries of the Song of… Read more »
Wisdom beholds God ‘all in all’ with the eye of the heart, but in time God is not yet ‘all in all,’ since it is only in uncreated light of timeless glory that completeness of glory is revealed. Temporal perception is not yet able to behold completeness but time gives time to turn and see wisdom’s vision is timeless glorification, embracing love’s… Read more »
The moment of truth is ever-present, timelessly initiating us into purification and illumination, timelessly deifying us in Christ’s glorification. The moment of truth is death, death overcoming death by death, baptising us into Christ’s resurrection and ascension, raising us into his glory. The mystery of Christ’s glory is revealed in his death, for it is the cross that unveils the Lord… Read more »
Uriel’s name means the ‘fire of God,’ and Oriel’s name the ‘light of God,’ and both were sometimes called Phanuel, the ‘presence of God,’ because fire and light both reveal the presence of God that guards the gates of paradise. Uriel manifested Seraphic fire whereas Oriel communicated Cherubic light, both protecting the unveiled face of God’s presence from profanation and satanic… Read more »
When Satan channels Christ for his new age, he accuses Christ of being the antichrist to invert Christianity into his regime of domination and control. He parodies Christ to oppose Christ, accusing Christ of being the antichrist, which is the nihilistic inversion that spawns narcissism, replacing the reign of God with the regime of Satan. In Satan’s regime of lies, truth… Read more »
Parody imitates paradox to deceive, whereas paradox exposes parody to enlighten. Satan loves to parody wisdom, spawning relativism, narcissism and nihilism, cancelling the discernments of wisdom with many kinds of parody, degenerating prophecy into channelled imitation and prayer into manipulative magic, replacing the age of glory with the new age of narcissism and reducing different modes of oneness to relativistic nihilsm…. Read more »
Wisdom is witness to glory, enabling glory to witness wisdom, revealing uncreated light at the heart of awareness. Orthodox Hesychasm bears witness to wisdom that is witness to glory in the purified heart, revealing uncreated light. Souls come with many burdens, weighed down by many opinions, but the Holy Spirit frees them and points beyond their shallow narrowness. If they cling to their… Read more »