Pure attention is spontaneous when recognition awakens with respectful recognition. Straining and stressing strive to attain this, but respect re-spects it through wisdom, and recognition re-cognises it through glory, awakening respectful recognition. The receptivity of the moon hallows the earth, welcoming the blazing activity of the sun, symbol of hallowing heaven, conjoining heaven and earth. The spiritual alchemy of wisdom lies… Read more »
Turning the light of attention round is decisive, because the living waters of uncreated light baptise awareness when it recognises the uncreated energy of glory, awakening enlightening energy that unites the mind with the heart. Attention is always decisive, because it unites active wisdom with receptive glory, awakening uncreated creativity in the cave of the heart. Attention turns the mind around so that… Read more »
Formless metanoia turns the light of awareness round so that formless theoria sees the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven. The Father is the source of the Son’s generation and the Spirit’s procession, but the vision of God is formless, transcending sensation and perception. The practice of formless theoria discerns the glory of grace deifying sinners,… Read more »
The Holy Spirit of Truth frees the heart from the bondage of distracting thoughts, stilling the mind in the heart, awakening the spirit of humankind to the loving-kindness of God. The golden energy of uncreated light crowns seers with the golden light of God’s throne, filling lower and higher energy centres with light, uniting both with the glory of God Most High. Golden… Read more »
Mari Yah, my Lord, Thou art ‘I AM,’ my God, revealing EHYEH, God’s Name, mystery of mysteries in the Holy of Holies. Wondrous beyond words, revealed by the Word, God’s Word names the Name, unveiling God, astonishing hearts with astounded amazement. O Mari Yah, bless humble awareness with dazzling glory, for Thou art my Lord, Thou art my God! ‘Mari, my… Read more »
O Thou That Art, revealing ‘I AM’ through ‘I AM,’ be Thou my delight, Mother Wisdom, through the grace of Thy Glory! Thou art my life, light of my heart, love of my life! Open my heart to Thee, my Bride, my Beloved! May nothing separate me from thee, here in God’s Holy Presence, here in His vision of Thee, Mother… Read more »
Saint Sophrony is called ‘the Hesychast’ because he bore witness to the uncreated light of glory shining at the heart of Orthodox Hesychast wisdom. He is called ‘the Athonite’ because he spent about twenty years as a monk on Mount Athos and ‘Saint Sophrony of Essex’ because he lived the last thirty-five years of his life in his monastery in… Read more »
Glorification lives from self-emptying love, but when self-realisation is weak, self-emptying may descend into psychotic disintegration. Casualties of psychotic dislocation may occur in souls who by-pass psychological integration with unintegrated self-emptying, in which case spiritual integration must include psychological with spiritual realisation. Elders normally stand back when Christ awakens in the heart, but there is no avoiding withdrawal of psychological projections in healthy spiritual… Read more »
The Beloved Disciple bears witness that she loves as she is loved, handing on the love with which Christ first loved her, revealing the ultimate glory of love. Her hidden witness gave rise to the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of love and the Book of Revelation, all of which reveal the glory of love glorifying beloved disciples in the… Read more »
Wisdom’s yoke of love stands over the beloved who loves as she is loved, hallows as she is hallowed, remembers as she is remembered. Satan’s ‘no’ has no hold over the yoke of love, which is God’s ‘Yes’, always ‘Yes,’ not ‘no,’ always ‘Amen,’ always ‘Glory to God.’ (2 Cor 1:20). The yoke of love embraces those who embrace the… Read more »