When the light of awareness is turned around, heaven unites with earth at centre in the midst. Wisdom shines with formless light on earth, as in heavenly realms, awakening tongues of uncreated flame, purifying the pearl in Pentecostal fire. The Holy Spirit does not get confused but consumes dark hardness of heart, turning creation round into uncreated translucence. Conventional… Read more »
Gathered in the Name, seers awaken to God, ‘I AM’ in the midst. God is always with those who turn and see, even unto the end of all worlds (Mt 18:20). Blessing those who are turned and seen, the Word says: Be not afraid, I am ‘I AM,’ your Lord and God. Christ is risen, ascending in light to glory,… Read more »
The wisdom of the Holy Name reveals ineffable awareness of uncreated presence, whereas the glory of the Holy Name reveals ineffable oneness of uncreated openness. Wisdom cuts through confusion, awakening awareness to uncreated presence and presence to uncreated awareness, whereas glory leaps over division to abide in deifying oneness, rising into the glory of ineffable openness. Revealing uncreated openness by… Read more »
Come and listen, listen and see! Be still and know ‘I AM’ : God revealing God. Behold God-centred wisdom revealing the glory of God. Open the eye of your heart to God’s reign of glory, letting wisdom turn awareness round and see. Come and be the seeing that God sees, know the well-being that God knows, be the knowing that… Read more »
Awakening hearts hear as well as see the hidden glory that wisdom sings, turning awareness round to hear God in the midst, turning to listen to God’s presence in the silence of the night. Glory is invisible to visual perception and inaudible to aural perception, but wisdom discerns God at centre in the midst. Awakened hearts, enlightened by wisdom, contemplate the… Read more »
Encircled by love, gratitude gives thanks that grace illumines and deifies as glory descends to meet ascending light, uniting in the saving Name. Grace encircles light with love, restoring glory to God by hallowing the Name. The Lord’s Prayer reveals how hallowing the Name of the Father, Abba, glorifies Christ’s reign of uncreated grace, completing God’s holy will of union in… Read more »
The Wisdom of the Cross discerns the wondrous realms of love, but it is child-like trust that actually enters the heavenly realms of glorious love. Mother Wisdom works her magic in the liminal realms of childhood, countering the demonic powers that rule this world. Love’s magic spells enchant childhood with drama and mystery, powerfully rooting life in wholesome goodness. The magic… Read more »
The fulness of grace rises into the fulness of glory through the uncreated light of the Name, opening the heart by turning, metanoia, illumining the heart by seeing, theoria, transforming creation by glorification, which Orthodox tradition, following the Greek mysteries, calls deification, theosis. Fulness of glory completes grace by sanctifying seers and hallowing saints, wondrously transcending all expectations. Glorification is… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the difference between communion and confusion, difference and division, distinguishing between demonic parody and divine paradox in spheres of wisdom and glory. Crucial difference stems from the wisdom of the Cross which separates delusion from glory by consuming vanity from vainglory. The Cross of timeless wisdom lies at the very heart of Christian Orthodoxy because wisdom lies at the heart… Read more »
Saint Clement of Alexandria discerned the wisdom of the Logos beyond the visible boundaries of Christianity, together with purification, illumination and deification in the uncreated light of the Logos of glory, arising in different wisdoms within the all-embracing scope of the eternal Logos. This gave Patristic wisdom insight into sound wisdom traditions beyond the visible Christian tradition, insight that was directly inspired… Read more »