Hesychia, stillness, empties us of all that is not God so that the Holy Name of God can unite us to God. The Hesycahast turns to see and sees to be the union that wisdom discerns when the eye of the heart is awake. Hesychast elders transmit this prayer of the Spirit in the heart, which the Apostle… Read more »
Wisdom unveils the light of glory in Christ’s Cross of love: revealing God, through God the slaughtered Lamb, in God. The awakened heart sees seer and seen as one in wisdom, knowing God through God in God. This seeing is a knowing in God by grace, and grace is God’s uncreated energy of glory in act. Knowing in God… Read more »
Wisdom inspires a heavenly cloud of witnesses like a swarm of bees, a communion of angels and saints resonant as one uncreated presence in many voices. Together, they unveil a hidden mystery of glory, which is a Oneness of being alight in many seers, and a Oneness of seeing revealed in many beings. There is here a co-inherence of the… Read more »
Wisdom sees things as they are, discerning the glory of the Kingdom come. Prophecy tells things as they are, communicating the glory of the Kingdom come. Prayer lives things as they are, abiding in the glory of the Kingdom come. The bees go about their business in the monastery, bringing blessing with them wherever they go. Wisdom, prophecy and… Read more »
The wisdom of turning opens to the mysteries of seeing and ascent so that the mysteries of glory may descend to turn hells of separation into heavens of deifying union. The demons of fear cling to these hells because they are the product of fear’s exclusions. Angels and saints embrace wisdom which empties these hells by overcoming the powers of… Read more »
Mary the Mother of God abides on the Holy Mountain as a radiant emptiness, surrounded by monks whose hearts resonate with her wisdom hymns. Invisible to the naked eye, she is seen by the eye of the heart, surrounded with uncreated light. In 1903, a photograph caught her and her flame of uncreated love passing a seated monk in the… Read more »
Hallowing the Name (KIDDUSH HA SHEM), right glorifies God here in the midst. Glory shines forth in the heart, opening the eye of the heart to God through God in God. The Holy Name ‘EHYEH,’ ‘I AM’, when hallowed, unveils the uncreated presence of God to uncreated awareness, the divine ‘AM’ to the divine ‘I,’ with translucent clarity. It empties… Read more »
Saint Mary Magdalene is called the apostle to the apostles because according to all four gospels she bears witness to Christ’s resurrection, empowering the Paschal sunrise in her awakened heart to dawn in every generation. The apostles, prophets and saints received her prophetic word, the injunction to turn and see Christ risen in their midst, by awakening to the uncreated… Read more »
Wisdom turns and sees the uncreated light of Christ in the midst, opening hearts to the light of Transfiguration on Mount Tabor (Mark 9:1-13; Luke 9:28-36; 1 Peter 16-18). The Chrism referred to in the first Epistle of John, is Christ imparting his holy mysteries to the heart, fulfilling the prophecy of the New Covenant of the awakened heart… Read more »
The wisdom of Yeshua Mariyah surfaces whenever love’s glory is unveiled, as in the Shrine of Saint Melangell at Pennant or here in Saint Melangell’s Cell, hidden in old woodland over a running stream. There is no end to love’s glory whether here where elemental energies meet, or in the Wisdom Cell where the Beloved Disciple’s witness to resurrection soars… Read more »
