Prophecy and prayer co-inhere without confusion or division because prophecy is the way of the affirmation of images and prayer is the way of the negation of images, both of which are fundamental and indispensable in Holy Orthodoxy. Pure prayer transcends images but the prophecy of prayer employs images, as the Book of Revelation proves. Imageless prayer is union with the uncreated… Read more »
Gnomic Odes were known in Antioch and Edessa that were remembered by some in Nisibis and Tibet as the Odes of Prester John. They were also known as Odes of Solomon, because they were Christian wisdom’s Song of Songs that were also psalms of peace. They were loved and remembered in the Oriental Eastern churches that had no empire to defend… Read more »
When Dom Henri Le Saux, known in India as Abhishiktananda, awoke to the Name as he was awakened by the wisdom of the Name, he turned as he was turned, recognising the enlightening presence of wisdom. Seeing glory as glory is seen by wisdom, he cried out: “I have found the Grail.” Dying into God, as he almost died of a heart… Read more »
The Song of Songs communicates Holy Conjunction, enclosed by the Seal of Solomon, his hexagram, signifying, ‘as above, so below.’ The seal signifies the Grail, Solomon’s empty vessel, at once Grail chalice filled with the life-blood of Christ and Grail vessel crossing over oceans of existence to the safe havens of God in Holy Trinity. As the vessel of Solomon, the Grail is… Read more »
The Threefold Co-inherence of the Triune Godhead is not confused with Christophanic Co-inherence, which is the divine-human co-inherence of Christ’s deiform Personhood, but the love they both inspire beholds both interpenetrate within coalescing Co-inherence. Love is not ignited by abstractions but by love, earthly loves and the Spirit’s love of the Son, the Son’s love of the Father and their fierce and gentle love shared… Read more »
Companions of the Grail in Holy Orthodoxy do not speak of the Holy Grail or the Matter of Britain because the parousia of the Holy Eucharist and the parousia of the Holy Name are already intrinsic to their Holy Orthodoxy. Hallows that shepherds of wisdom always regarded as quintessential, the Eucharist and the Name always lay at the heart of their… Read more »
The Holy Grail is the parousia of Christ’s uncreated presence hidden in the midst of creation, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the parousia of presence that Christ’s Holy Name reveals, Jesus, Yah Shuah ‘I AM saves’. The second coming of Christ is the Grail of eschatological presence that is found when Eucharistic union is unveiled, the Name is… Read more »
Co-companions of glory hallow the Holy Name of God in the midst, acknowledging the love that unites them at centre, in-breathed with the Spirit’s kiss, whose joy is to reveal the Son’s union with the Father, restoring fallen glory to God in Holy Trinity. Bearing each other’s burdens, both die daily into each other’s lives, transforming confusion into union, division into… Read more »
The sacred company of co-companions of the Holy Name was no ordinary company, because it indwelt the hallowing union of the Spirit in Christ that restored glory to the Father. Co-companionship was always communion in the Spirit that opens to union with the Son in his co-communion with the Father, inhabiting the Holy Trinity from within. The Spirit still inspires hallowing communion… Read more »
Conventional religiosity prefers contention without contrition, whereas Saint Silouan the Hesychast taught contrition without contention, preferring the immeasurable measures of love. Contention finds fault with those out there, whilst contrition knows the fault lies nearer home, but does not collapse into the narcissism of self-obsessed self-hatred, for here at home, love dwells where God dwells. Love leaps over the hyper-sensitivity of… Read more »