The Reign of God is uncontrived within every person, wondrously present and aware, awakening wisdom to glory in God’s presence, opening to pure stillness through self-emptying. Healing stillness is in harmony with the uncreated light of wisdom, so gives rise to the union of the mind and the heart in the Name. The Holy Spirit nurtures this union by imparting… Read more »
The Name is the mirror of God, opening the heart to uncreated glory. The Name is the unveiled face of God, revealing God at centre in the midst. The Name saves, curing confusion and healing division, opening oblivious blindness to the vision of God. The Spirit reveals Christ who reveals the Father, awakening sinners to Holy Trinity. God loves holiness… Read more »
Nothing surpasses timeless union with Beloved Wisdom. Nothing rivals the supreme wonder of uncreated wisdom. The transmission of wisdom is the mission of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and elders, the consummation and completion of the verbal incompleteness of Scripture in the saints. Wisdom enlightens those who turn and see, those who, glorifying God, are glorified by God. Christ chrismates… Read more »
Uncreated wisdom embraces countless created dimensions without fixating on any of them, for creation is grounded in the uncreated, one spirit with uncreated light, opening wisdom to ineffable infinity. There is no fluctuation in uncreated wisdom, no wavering of uncreated glory, for wisdom stands steadfast, communicating the glory of ineffable completeness. Christ opens the eye of the heart to the… Read more »
The Spirit of Truth is Truth, not our conceptual perception of something true, so if we remain attached to perception, what we have is perception, not Truth, nor the Spirit of Truth. Awakening to the Spirit of Truth transcends perception but includes intuitive apperception which wisdom infuses in the Spirit. Truth is not something or nothing, nor is it exhausted… Read more »
Wisdom has many modes of union in the Name, each integrating different divine names in many different ways, ensuring communion in the Holy Spirit includes an infinite variety of ways union sustains communion with the ineffable oneness of God. Indivisible yet differentiated, communion remains without confusion, revealing the infinitely different ways saints bear witness to holy communion in the Name. There… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reveals God in his Name, enlightening the eye of the heart in the Holy Spirit. Without the uncreated energy of the Holy Spirit, there would be no revelation of the Name, no gospel and no grace. There would be only the strain and stress of individual effort and struggle, subjection to clerical control and submission to clerical… Read more »
Theosis is divine-human union for which the divine transcends time and movement but for which the human is in time and moves by separating from God or by returning to God. Saint Maximus the Confessor described theosis both as ‘ever-moving rest,’ and as the ‘stationary movement’ of the eighth day. The sixth day completes the ‘being’ of creation, the seventh… Read more »
Odes of peace are odes of love in the beating heart of Christ, where wisdom abides with the Spirit in the glory of God’s Kingdom come. Law gives way to love and peace when wisdom and glory together reign. Odes of peace arise from God’s love of Christ and Christ’s love of God that completes the law, completing incompleteness in the… Read more »
The way of the Name is straight and simple in the gaze of wisdom’s ‘single eye,’ pure and clear as the kiss of peace, luminous and enlightening within the embrace of grace. The saving light of grace is uncreated, purifying and enlightening the heart, releasing awareness from divisive confusion. The wisdom of the Gospel of John is decisive for Hesychast saints… Read more »