A dynamic throne of uncreated glory soars over confusion and division, ever-moving like a merkabah chariot, revealing the dynamic energy of glory. The saving Name is also dynamic, well able to secure wisdom amidst the raging powers of worldliness. Stillness rests in peace through the power of the Name, secured by the Spirit of Truth. Error dissolves into truth when… Read more »
The holy intelligence of wisdom transcends rational intelligence in ways that cannot be conceived, liberating the presence and awareness of wisdom from rational analysis. Grace is not bound by the incapacity of thought to grasp its glory, nor luminosity of heart quenched by the failure of the mind to comprehend wisdom. Though manifold in its subtle activities, wisdom is incisive in its unsullied lucidity and ultimately… Read more »
Grace glorifies those who glorify God in his Name, crowning seers enthroned in Christ, whose glory deifies them. Graced crowning vindicates all who trust God in his Name, opening the mysteries of the throne of grace. Vanity is consumed by glory when wisdom unveils the uncreated Face of God, redeeming saints from vainglory and pride. Grace reveals great mysteries of… Read more »
Persecution of the Name is rife in an age of nihilism, although the Name extinguishes fear and hallows the persecuted. Elders take heart when the Name is hallowed, enthroning saints in glory, crowning them with wisdom. The Name searches minds and hearts, revealing grace from beginning to end and from first to last. Suffering for God’s Name is often excruciating, severing… Read more »
Theosis, deification, is the hidden secret of wisdom, concealed ever since the foundation of the world, waiting to be revealed in glory to those who turn and see. Theosis remains hidden until grace reveals wisdom in glory, unveiling the countenance of God. The unveiled face reveals the image and likeness of God, transforming sinners into saints, opening heaven to earth in… Read more »
Metanoia means change of mind that passes beyond, meta, mind, noia, beyond, that is, both conventional mindfulness and mindless dissipation. Metanoia turns the mind inside out and outside in, reversing self-centred mind-sets so that God-centred wisdom is revealed. Metanoia unites heavenly glory with earthly awareness, that is the function of wisdom, which, like glory, is uncreated. Metanoia appears to begin as something created… 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 »
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 uncreated light of glory is all-pervasive and ever-present, grounding space and time in boundless wisdom. Since Einstein, time has often been spoken of as a fourth dimension, although this way of speaking is still contested, in which case the step back into wisdom would be the fifth and glory the sixth dimension, oneness the seventh and ineffable openness the eighth, being… Read more »