The Book of Revelation is the mysterious manifestation of the revelatory imagination, rooted in the living flame of glorification in the Name. The function of the revelatory imagination is to communicate the uncreated energies of light and glory, opening the heart to glorification. For the Johannine tradition, the Name is a door into heaven, the mystery of the Name… Read more »
When the Elder Sophrony was asked what constitutes the living heart of Christian Orthodoxy, he answered healthy glorification, explaining that Orthodoxy means right-glorification. Saint Sophrony the Hesychast pointed out that the living heart of Orthodoxy is God’s God-centred right-glorification of God or the glorification of God in Holy Trinity. For Saint Sophrony, the Spirit’s witness to Christ’s glorification of the Father… Read more »
Christ reveals God’s Name ‘I AM’ in the light of ineffable glory, breathing the Spirit of Truth into resurrected hearts. The Spirit seals the heart with Christ’s wisdom mysteries of ineffable glorification, uniting knower and known in God through God. The uncreated countenance of ‘I AM’ never turns away from those who turn and see. ‘I AM’ does not disown his… Read more »