Wisdom’s yoke of holy love crucifies division to resurrect union on earth as in heaven, hallowing all who trust in God’s Holy Name. Nothing can sever this holy yoke because nothing can quench holy love, which together inspire prophecy, renewing prayer. Wisdom’s yoke descends to hell by unbinding infernal perversions, liberating reversions that ascend to heaven, conjoining heaven and earth… Read more »
The Father bears holy witness to the Kingdom through the Son, bearing holy witness to his reign of union in the Holy Spirit, restoring glory to God with Christ’s holy witness to the Father in the Holy Spirit. The restoration of glory bears holy witness to God’s completeness completing our incompleteness, the consummation of our destiny and deliverance in the vision… Read more »
The third day of Pentecost is the Day of the Holy Trinity, unveiling poetic prophecy and apophatic prayer, revealing the primordial harmony between cataphatic affirmation and apophatic negation. Prophecy and prayer are wisdom’s witness to Holy Trinity, employing cataphatic imagery in prophecy, transcending all imagery in pure prayer. The harmony between affirmation and negation still stands steadfast because wisdom holds it’s ineffable mysteries steady…. Read more »
Christ conjoins with his beloved bride, embracing her with his yoke of kindly love, restoring her to the ineffable glory of unselfish love. Hell empties into heaven as heaven embraces earth, raising the dead to timeless life. Kindness has no bounds nor love limits to its kindness, when God’s Holy Name is hallowed and his reign of glory loved and known…. Read more »
The Beloved Disciple becomes son by grace, because she is loved by the Son, transcending gender in her union with him, for she would not have known love if she had not been loved. The Third of Solomon’s Odes says love is discerned because love was shared and received, for whoever chooses love will be loved, whoever chooses eternal life… Read more »
The Beloved Disciple communicates love, having first been loved, which is why love became the overarching theme of the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation. Forty-two Odes of love were the Church’s first Hymn Book from the circle of the Beloved Disciple, lost for many centuries but found again by the Quaker scholar, James… Read more »
The mystery of glory is revealed by wisdom but hidden from ambitious scrutiny which seeks to puff up pride. When wisdom is awakened, pride is humbled, because vainglory subjects glory to vanity instead of restoring glory to God. Hell is what happens to heaven when pride rides roughshod over wisdom, preferring arbitrary opinion to wise discernment. That is why self-condemnation to… Read more »
Today, March 12th, is the Feast Day of the Prophet of Prayer, Saint Symeon the New Theologian, whose prophetic writings have inspired pure prayer since his death in 1022. His ‘Hymns of Love’ declare that love is the uncreated light that illumines seers, love the ineffable glory that deifies saints. For the Prophet of Prayer, the New Covenant is a Covenant… Read more »
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 angels fall from glory, demonic confusion ensues, but when sinners rise into glory, demonic division is consumed. Paradise lost gives way to paradise regained, due to saving grace, revealing the ineffable glory of grace. Abraham’s faith led him from Ur, in the Chaldees, to Canaan, founding the people of Israel on God’s promise of abounding grace. Christ founded the new… Read more »