Liminal realms of uncreated creativity may appear marginal from an institutional point of view, but wisdom loves liminality which centres in God rather than institutional structures. Axial centredness is God-centred, because what appears peripheral from the standpoint of conventional conformity, may in fact be the axis of centred wisdom, the centre-point of integral glorification. Uncreated creativity unites the uncreated with creation… Read more »
When the light of awareness is turned around, heaven unites with earth at centre in the midst. Wisdom shines with formless light on earth, as in heavenly realms, awakening tongues of uncreated flame, purifying the pearl in Pentecostal fire. The Holy Spirit does not get confused but consumes dark hardness of heart, turning creation round into uncreated translucence. Conventional… 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 »
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 »
There are three states of the Name which look like stages from a temporal point of view but which are states from the timeless point of view of wisdom and glory. As stages, purification, illumination and union proceed from purification of the heart to illumination of mind in the heart, which opens to the union and ineffable openness of deification…. Read more »
Holy wisdom suspends optimism and overcomes pessimism as glorification of God transcends desire and despair, enlightening hearts by renewing minds in the heart. Uncreated light is not an impersonal force but a personal energy, dynamically communicating wisdom with dynamic glory, glorifying God with saints in God, communicating liberating freedom. Saint Sophrony the Hesychast handed on a dynamic legacy of freedom that cannot be assimilated… Read more »
The uncreated presence of glory is wisdom’s holy secret, called a precious pearl by Christ, inspiring many centuries of spiritual pearl questing. The myth of the pearl symbolises the awakened heart, which completes the incompleteness of temporal experience. The scope of wisdom is the scope of glory, uncreated presence whose completeness loves wisdom as wisdom loves glory. Uncreated awareness is ever-present in… Read more »
The remembrance of God is ineffable, reflecting the openness of wisdom and the oneness of timeless glory. The way of truth is the way of abiding that establishes deification as a way of life. This way of life inherits the language of prophecy which inspires pure prayer, listening to the Spirit’s unceasing prayer glorifying God in his Name. The reason… Read more »
Severance cuts through confusion so that sublation rises above division, curing coonfusion and division in different ways. Both severance and sublation are life-giving acts of uncreated energy, but severance begins with wisdom whilst sublation ends with glory. The Father begets the Son as God from God and light from light, regenerating saints in light through light of glory. Severance separates out… Read more »