The Holy Spirit sustains us breath by breath, divine life renewing life with life, revealing love through love, with love’s inexhaustible glory. The presence of God infuses us with deifying presence in the Name, inhaled by glory as glory is exhaled as the inexhaustible glory of the Holy Name. Oneness of God transfigures everything, encompassing all in all with ineffable… Read more »
The Name of glory is wisdom’s joy, waiting to be loved and known, saying ‘I AM who I AM,’ in all who are present and aware. The glory of wisdom is present in the Name, awakening to be known and loved, turning awareness round so wisdom sees. Hidden in the presence of awareness is the glory of gracious wisdom, ever-present… Read more »
Saint Silouan left us a legacy of wisdom awakened by unselfish love, whereas Saint Sophrony bequeathed to us a love of wisdom that re-envisioned personhood in the light of the three divine persons, revealing thrice-holy love. The consummate legacy of both Russian Orthodox saints is the glory of love revealed by wisdom, uniting ineffable wisdom and profound love in deifying glorification. It was… Read more »
‘I AM,’ is God’s Name, so God is aware, ‘I,’ as well as present, ‘AM.’ To turn is to turn awareness round to awaken to God’s awareness, as well as to be aware of the presence of God’s presence. This personal awareness awakens us to God’s personal presence, a mystery which lies at the heart of enlightenment. The key to… Read more »
The Father bears holy witness to the Kingdom through the Son, bearing holy witness to his reign of union in the Holy Spirit, restoring glory to God with Christ’s holy witness to the Father in the Holy Spirit. The restoration of glory bears holy witness to God’s completeness completing our incompleteness, the consummation of our destiny and deliverance in the vision… Read more »
One Spirit descends as many tongues on many members of the one Christ, discerned by the Spirit of truth as ever one and ever many. Wisdom is the Spirit discerning the glory of Christ in his many glorified saints, eternally one in their many holy differences. When dictatorial power imposes undifferentiated uniformity, the Spirit is violated and Christ divided, but Satan… Read more »
The third day of Pentecost is the Day of the Holy Trinity, unveiling poetic prophecy and apophatic prayer, revealing the primordial harmony between cataphatic affirmation and apophatic negation. Prophecy and prayer are wisdom’s witness to Holy Trinity, employing cataphatic imagery in prophecy, transcending all imagery in pure prayer. The harmony between affirmation and negation still stands steadfast because wisdom holds it’s ineffable mysteries steady…. Read more »
Monday of Pentecost, being the Day of the Holy Spirit, is the feast of the Spirit’s ineffable co-inherence in the Father and the Son, proceeding from the Father to abide in the Son in a round dance of reciprocity, mutuality and communion. The Spirit of truth reveals the truth of co-inherent communion which characterises God in Holy Trinity, which is… Read more »
Holy Pentecost is the Feast of the descent, with tongues of uncreated fire, of the Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father to abide in the Son, fulfilling the promises of the New Covenant. It is the Spirit’s function to initiate and complete the revelation of the Holy Trinity through deification, theosis, by way turning, metanoia and seeing, theoria, transforming spiritual blindness into wisdom,… Read more »
Unknowing wisdom unites awareness and presence in the Holy Name ‘I AM,’ transcending dualistic cognition, conjoining awareness with its ground like the uroboros, which consumes its tail. The Wisdom of unknowing unveils the uncreated depths of God, the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, plunging awareness into the uncreated heights of awareness in heavenly realms. Wisdom then reveals the… Read more »