The vision of God is not like the visual perception of something created, nor like the sight of something seen by the senses or grasped by the mind. Only God sees God, but wisdom, which is God’s vision of God, is shared by the Holy Spirit with those who turn, metanoia, and see, theoria. God transcends sight but the vision of God… Read more »
Wisdom proclaims the Gospel of the Name of Glory, which Christ came to reveal and the Holy Spirit discerns, unveiling the Father through the Son. The Spirit awakens hearts to the glory of the Name, deifying those who turn and see, hallowing the Name of glory. The fearful mind tries to control the mind but wisdom empties the mind into… Read more »
Praise of glory, which blesses enlightened hearts, awakens seers to the living presence of the uncreated light of wisdom, opening to the living awareness of the uncreated light of glory. The Name is holy, hallowing seers with the grace of illumination, purifying the heart to deify saints, transmitting holy remembrance. Wisdom is immaculate, effortless and decisive in its uncreated energy,… Read more »
The Holy Spirit, Ruach ha-Qodesh, remembers holy saints so that they are always lovingly remembered, overcoming every confusion that divorces wisdom from glory, healing every division that separates glory from wisdom, curing subtle deviations of heart and mind. Holy wisdom communicates uncreated energies of ineffable power that deify saints by glorifying them as they offer their glorification of God, bestowing… Read more »
Recognition empowers remembrance of God to know as it is known, wedding God in the heart through holy union and sanctifying communion. Cognition without recognition remains unconscious of union, separate from the communion of saints, fixating frozen hardness of heart. Cognition with recognition remembers God, unites with God, partakes in God’s hallowing communion through Christ in the Spirit, hallowing the conjugal Name…. Read more »
Name-hallowing glorification of God reveals God in act in his deifying energies as wisdom, discerning God in act in his ever-present energies of glory, regenerating Holy Orthodoxy when it is tempted and brought low by confusion and division. Name-hallowing wisdom is holy theophany manifesting hallowing glory, communicating sound glorification, regenerating institutional Orthodox forms in ways that transfigure them as wisdom. The Lord’s… Read more »
Holy Theophany celebrates the baptism of Jesus as revelation of Holy Trinity, because as Christ was coming up out of the waters of the Jordan, John the Baptist saw the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, hearing the voice of God the Father saying: Thou art my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased (Mk 1:10-11;… Read more »
Wisdom crowns seers who turn and see uncreated presence, which prophecy calls glory, the throne of grace, revealing the Father of wisdom generating the Word in whom the Spirit eternally abides. The way of remembrance perfects sudden recognition so that wisdom unfolds as remembrance of God, revealing God’s own God-centred remembrance of God, which is revelation of Holy Trinity. God… Read more »
Love completes faith and hope by communicating the ineffable completeness of glory that perfects faith into wisdom and hope into glory, fulfilling temporal incompleteness in timeless completeness. We began the new year 2023 with the language of angels, which is love, centring where God is centred, in the completeness of infinite love. Today is the Feast of Saint Seraphim of… Read more »
Love is the language of angels, uniting heavenly realms with earthly worlds, singing the ineffable language of wisdom. When wisdom sings, prophecy breaks free from the conventional mind that lives from fear and imposes control, cutting through obstructive barriers, soaring over stubborn resistance. Wisdom is prophetic as it prays without ceasing in the Holy Spirit, communicating union with the Father in Christ,… Read more »