God’s self-revelation of timeless presence through his Name communicates spontaneous blessing, joy and peace as it awakens the eye of the heart to deifying wisdom and glory. Cooling showers of graced stillness nourish parched souls with timeless presence, nurturing growth in the Spirit, generating completeness from incompleteness. Hallowing the Name aright, delusions vanish into timeless presence right away. The… Read more »
Blessed is the Holy Name of glory that unveils God in the midst, purifying and illumining the heart, uncovering hidden heavens of uncreated wisdom, restoring the glory that underlies all worlds. The Father of glory grounds us in Christ through revelation of his Name, sharing the luminous mysteries of his ineffable grace, whose glory generously deifies us with profound insight… Read more »
The eye of the throne is the eye of the heart, beholding the glory of the crown in the communion of saints. On turning, the eye of the heart turns to see the glory that enthrones the saints, awakening to the wisdom that crowns saints with the sevenfold completeness of glory. Infused wisdom, like a two edged sword, reveals the… Read more »
The Spirit of Truth comes to guide us into all truth, that is, truth in its wholeness and completeness. Fear haunts the institutions of incompleteness, returning in dreary dreams of incompleteness to frighten us back into the clutches of reigning powers, clinging to familiar darkness. Authorities may appear benign until the Spirit unveils what they really are, blind guides that… Read more »
Like poetic prophecy, the Song of Songs is lyrical wisdom poetry and like Hosea’s prophetic poetics of love, the Song offers us a wisdom poetry of love that employs lyrical love tropes to transfigure love. Poetic prophecy communicates wisdom mysteries of love’s ineffable glory, opening the human heart into transfiguring glory in the very heart of God. Mystical theology can… Read more »
The Name seals the heart with a flame of love stronger than death, a flame of Yah consuming confusion and diffusing division at the heart of the Burning Bush. The seal’s transfiguring flame purifies desire of all that usurps God, illumining the heart by unveiling divine desire, embracing a glorified earth with heaven’s ineffable wisdom. Earthly loves are completed when passionate heavenly… Read more »
Because we have received the grace of God’s forgiveness, we can forgive one another as ourselves. Because we have forgiven one another as our very life, we can truly receive the grace of God’s forgiveness as the timeless life of love’s ineffable glory. Gratuitous love manifests doxological circularity that takes the form of a co-inherence of grace and forgiveness, generating the… Read more »
The Book of Revelation unveils the glory of the life, death and resurrection of Christ in the light of his ascension and glorification, opening the prophetic imagination to the mysteries of his glorification, which are the consummating completion of Biblical prophecy. As the only work of Christian canonical prophecy in the New Testament, the Apocalypse is also the culmination of Christian prophetic… Read more »