‘Cry, cry, cry, thou upsurging depths, what distant terrors your vast threatenings hold. Come forth for what you are. Turn, burn and bleed. Resist no more and live.’ Journal January 1st 1965. In ‘Wisdom, Prophecy and Prayer’ 2014, Chapter 58 of Century 3 takes up this word, received well over fifty years ago. Turning is purification that consumes confusion… Read more »
Glorification springs from recognition, as when the disciples recognised Christ at the Eucharist in Emmaus and their hearts burned within them when he opened to them the mysteries of glory in the Scriptures, unveiling the glory at the heart of his suffering (Luke 24:13-25) Hearts burn when recognition of the Name sees Christ at centre in the midst. Deep turning… Read more »
The glory of Hesychast Ortho-doxology is ineffable glorification and the uncreated grace of purification, illumination and glorification that understands it or stands under it. Hesychast wisdom discerns love’s glory at the heart of the Eternal Gospel, a love that seeks not its own, a love that embraces all mankind, leaving none shut out, abandoned outside in outer darkness. The temporal gospels tell… Read more »
A photograph survives from 1933 of Saint Silouan the Athonite seated on the left with Father Sophrony standing behind him to his right. It was taken when both were monks of the Holy Monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos. Monk Basil Krivocheine stands behind another monk on the right and a Monastery guest stands in between. This precious image,… Read more »
The wisdom transmission of Yah Shuah Mari Yah is the mystical legacy of Yeshuah, the Beloved, through MariYah, his Beloved Disciple, deliberately hidden at the heart of the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of Saint John and the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of Philip remembered their holy co-companionship to be the concealed key to what MariYah, Apostle to the Apostles,… Read more »
Wisdom blesses the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God’s hallowed Name. The Kingdom is spontaneously present as the grace of glory when the Father generates the Son in us, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, praying ‘Abba, Father,’ in our midst. Triune mysteries remain ineffable even when wisdom discerns their… Read more »
A winter sunrise reminds the heart that the Father generates the Son at centre in our midst, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, here, where all centres coincide. God shines forth like sunrise in snow clad hills, the soul as pure and limpid as a frozen morn. The Spirit bears witness to uncreated light generating… Read more »
A rainbow over the Long Mynd calls blind hearts to turn and see, embrace the wisdom of pure seeing and through seeing, embrace pure being, human being translucent with the glory of Great Peace. The fullness of Great Peace is the completeness that is everywhere loved by the children of incompleteness, the completeness that is communicated by the grace of… Read more »
The Eye of the Needle, a gaping hole in the Devil’s Chair on the Stiperstones, points to remembrance of God, opening the eye of the heart to bright stillness. Holy Hesychia is the stillness that finds the narrow way, the eye of the needle that opens to God’s glory through God in God. It is with holy attention that the heart… Read more »
Orthodoxy canonised Hesychasm during the Palamite Councils of Constantinople in 1341, 1347 and 1351, because it recognised Orthodox right-glorification at the heart of love of enemies and prayer for the whole world. Saint Silouan the Athonite taught that love of enemies was the criterion of Holy Orthodoxy and that such love prays for the whole world. Orthodox Hesychasts, inspired by… Read more »
