I am ‘I AM,’ the Name sings, singing the Song of one awareness ever-present, one presence ever-aware. I am ‘I AM,’ thy God, and there is no other, uncreated light singing of uncreated glory, free of confusion and division and the conditioning that confuses and divides. The Name sings: I have never not been aware and present, just as I… Read more »
The heavenly twin can manifest in many mysterious ways, but as angel of revelation and wisdom, the twin loves to unveil the angel of the Name, Shemuel, with whom four archangels love to bear witness to the Name, Gabriel, angel of revelation, Oriel, angel of uncreated light and illumination, Phanuel, angel of the unveiled Face of uncreated Presence and revelatory Personhood,… Read more »
Wisdom is uncreated and her uncreated creativity is the creative energy that creates and recreates creation anew in every moment, making all things new. Biblical and Patristic wisdom teaches that wisdom beholds the glory of uncreated grace, being herself, like glory, uncreated energy, endlessly creative in her uncreated creativity. So it should be no surprise that when, in 1922, a wisdom… Read more »
The way of the Name is the way of the unveiled Face, ever-moving, ever still. The Spirit is everywhere present without departing from Christ’s union with the Father for a moment. Wisdom serenely abides in the glory of the Name without separating from Christ or wavering from his union with the Father. The Spirit of wise awareness does not flit around like… Read more »
Heraclitus said that wisdom discerns the Logos that directs all through all (Heraclitus 34). Listening to the Logos, desert wisdom remembers the One in all, gathering all into remembrance of the One in everything. Truth, a-lethia, is un-forgetting that un-conceals the Logos of glory from scattering dissipation, recollecting what unites in whole remembrance, anamnesis. But like the Delphic Oracle, ‘Know Thyself,’ Heraclitus… Read more »
Glorified saints sing the Thrice Holy Hymn Isaiah heard in the Temple in BC 742, sung by six-winged Seraphim before the throne in heaven, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory’ (Isaiah 6:3). ‘Lord,’ here, names God’s Name, ‘EHYEH,’ ‘I AM,’ so the Thrice Holy Hymn glorifies God’s Name ‘I AM’… Read more »
On Monday March 18th 2019, the Harmony Project in the University of Lampeter, inspired by the Sophia Harmony Initiative of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, published an essay on the Harmony Project Website by Father Silouan, entitled: ‘The Practice of Harmony in Orthodox Christian Wisdom,’ There is a link to this at the bottom of the Wisdom… Read more »
Cleaving to God in his Name releases into resounding union with God through his Name. The cleaving, devekut, transfigures the human spirit with the deifying resonance of divine life, as it is written, “But you that did cleave to ‘I AM’ your God, are alive every one of you this day” (Deut 4:4). Christ transmits the Name ‘I AM,’ as resounding… Read more »
According to the Sage Heraclitus, the hidden harmony of the incomprehensible LOGOS is back-turning like the lyre and perhaps also back-stretched like the bow. The desert embraced the wisdom of the Sage of Ephesus, which distinguishes between a rationally comprehensible logic which goes out in a straight line, and the incomprehensible gnomic LOGOS which turns us round, endowing us with… Read more »
Close to a pilgrim’s road in southern Occitania, Santa Majestat has gazed down at weary pilgrims in the cool of Trinity Chapel for nigh on nine hundred years. As gentle radiance of Holy Trinity, his serene gaze has communicated his inexhaustible energies of kindly stillness without demanding from us what we were too tired to give. Instead, he just gives and… Read more »