The way through the woods leads to a burning bush, a moment of revelation, in which the Name is hallowed and the Kingdom comes. Wisdom humbly discerns the glory of the Holy Name, unveiled from the Father through the Son, opened in the Spirit’s hallowing radiance. We are all created for glory, which is the destiny of every human being,… Read more »
Holy tears arise when the mind descends into the heart and emotions rise into the heart purifying both in the heart’s clear light. Wisdom is the state of seeing with the eye of the heart that has been melted by holy tears, which are the waters of wisdom washing our thoughts and emotions clean. Holy tears are a baptism in… Read more »
There has been a dark night of wisdom in the west for several centuries as science and technology have drawn the energies of intelligence away from the uncreated energies of glory at centre, leaving us high and dry on the shores of empirical rationality off-centre. Wisdom handles this dark night as an unavoidable void that empties one-sided extremes and opens… Read more »
The Apostle says that with faces unveiled, we reflect as mirrors the glory of the Lord and are transformed into his image from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). Wisdom beholds the Name as a mirror, revealing glory to wisdom as presence to awakened awareness. The eye of the heart opens, unveiling face to face vision of uncreated glory…. Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of the hallowed Name at the heart of the Kingdom come. God’s will is done when the Kingdom comes and the Name is hallowed on earth, just as it is hallowed in heaven. Christ’s resurrection life is communicated whenever wisdom’s witness to the resurrection is heard and received, which is when the Apostle to the apostles, Mary… Read more »
God gives prayer to those who pray in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24). The Kingdom comes when the Spirit hallows the Truth of the Name, because when the Name is hallowed in spiritual prayer, the Kingdom comes through Christ’s revelation of the Truth. Pure prayer in Spirit is theoria of the Holy Trinity, which is the highest act… Read more »
In St Columba’s underground cell on Hinba, old Gaelic for Isle of the Sea, inspired by Columba’s spiritual elder, Enda of Ireland, it was still possible to pray in the heart, pray in timeless light, lucid and luminous, unveiling primordial glory in the spontaneous immediacy of unconditioned grace. On retreat there in June 1974, this underground cell became a place of grace where… Read more »
Wisdom says: ‘Turn and see.’ The praxis of turning is called metanoia. It turns the nous right round so that awareness turns and awakens to illumined theoria, vision of God through God in God, in the heart. It steps back from oblivious perception into spiritual insight. It restores remembrance of God by awakening the ‘eye’ of the heart…. Read more »
The Stiperstones Rose is a perennial symbol of renewing wisdom. The Apostles transmitted living wisdom to elders, unveiling hidden depths of glory to the saints. Their living witness grounded glorification in a living and unbroken tradition, founded on two injunctions, to turn and to see: to turn from darkness into light and to see light through light. Turning opens… Read more »