The thrice-holy Name of God reveals the Father’s reign with Christ in the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the hallowing commandments of God to love as God first loved God, before the beginning, raising the dead to resurrection in the end, inhabiting uncreated light of glory in between. Thrice-holy, the Name of Holy Trinity is key to the Spirit’s sevenfold healing of body and… Read more »
Integration into God generates integration in God, the straight way that opens the way of the Spirit in God, awakening to God, through God. Crowning changes everything, consummating enthroning deification. Integration grafts sinners into God, enlightening the mind in the heart, awakening the eye of wisdom in the heart, restoring glorification to God in the Holy Spirit. Glorification of God reveals… Read more »
The Holy Spirit regenerates saints in Christ, uniting souls with God, singing wisdom songs that listen to the Word of truth. The realm of prophets, priests and kings descends to earth to nourish thirsty souls, reigning on earth with a sceptre of empowering truth and a crown of deifying glory. Regeneration makes all things new with the blessing of completeness, ascending… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of saving grace, hallowing those who dwell on earth as in heaven, indwelling heavenly realms in divine-human ways. The Holy Spirit reveals Christ who mediates between the uncreated and the created, on earth as in heaven, communicating mysteries of glory, invisible and visible, indwelling paradise on earth. Wisdom’s love of the stranger, philoxenia, extends to refugees… Read more »
The legacy of wisdom is the discernment of glory, the vision of glory in the age to come, baptising seers into Christ’s reign of glory, chrismating saints into the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit’s vision of God’s reigning glory. The legacy of glory is wisdom, awakening hearts to purifying illumination. welcoming saints into the eucharistic feast of the Kingdom, into… Read more »
Prophets saw God glorified in his Holy Name and handed prophecy down to the apostles, who saw God in Christ fulfilling prophecy in the unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit in the saints, transmitting an unbroken tradition of hallowing glorification. The reign of grace is the reign of glory awakening seers to the vision of God, purifying, illumining and deifying saints in… Read more »
Simplicity of heart dissolves confusion in the depths, healing division in the heights, enlightening seers, glorifying saints. Grace rejoices hearts simplified by uncreated light, inspiring wisdom song in praise of God’s Name. Wisdom discerns the glory of grace in its ineffable simplicity, restoring glory to the Father through Christ in the Holy Spirit, integrating whatever separation divides. Grace saves lost souls in… Read more »
The way of wisdom cures the deep-seated pathologies of the dualistic mind, emptying its warring thoughts into radiant peace. Old obsessions dissolve as long as self-emptying does not fixate into a fresh obsession, instead freeing wisdom to embrace glory in the heart of Christ. Strain and stress struggle against the passions but wisdom releases them into divine-human glorification. The root… Read more »
Wisdom is God’s yoke of love speaking through prophecy to awaken prayer, conjoining human lovers with the divine Beloved, as in the Song of Songs, opening the Holy of Holies to the ineffable mystery of the Bridal Chamber. Trust in Christ releases fear into love in the Holy Spirit, opening hells to heavens of infinite grace and unconditioned glory. Holy Orthodoxy… Read more »
The holy glory of the gospel of grace grounds Orthodox hesychasts in the peace of pure stillness, way beyond a formal grasp of doctrines and ritual, practicing the invocation of the Name. God communicates God through God, empowering revelation of the Holy Trinity transfiguring seers and glorifying saints. Formal dogmatism and external ritualism are transitional, therefore provisional, because it is the prayer of… Read more »