The heart sings wisdom songs when grace overflows the heart and glory soars over mountains of resistance, prevarication, postponement and perversion. The Spirit prays as it wills in the depths of the heart, so why fuss about ways and means? Our spirit rejoices in the Holy Spirit when wisdom turns and sees God present at centre in the heart, dissolving… Read more »
The Name is revealed by all three persons of the Holy Trinity, each of whom is the completeness of God in person, revealing the completeness of God in his Name. Mirroring Holy Trinity, the Spirit unveils the Son in the heart of the Father, revealing God in Holy Trinity through the thrice-holy Name, indivisibly communicating God, through God in God,… Read more »
Theosis, deification, is the hidden secret of wisdom, concealed ever since the foundation of the world, waiting to be revealed in glory to those who turn and see. Theosis remains hidden until grace reveals wisdom in glory, unveiling the countenance of God. The unveiled face reveals the image and likeness of God, transforming sinners into saints, opening heaven to earth in… Read more »
The way of truth is eternal life for seers who see as they are seen, know as they are known, glorified by God through God in God, Holy Trinity revealing wisdom and the way of wisdom, wisdom’s truth and life: glorification. But the way was lost among those who read down wisdom to ways and means to acquire it, distancing union and… Read more »
Hallowing the Name transmutes the lead of distraction into the gold of integral recollection in the cauldron of fire and water, where the golden lion and the silvery unicorn are fighting for the crown. The centre where all centres coincide is everywhere, for it is neither spacial not temporal, but maintains its axial poise always and everywhere. Distraction de-centres the chuntering mind but… Read more »
The way of glorification is ineffable in at least two ways, the hallowing way of glorification of God and the sanctifying way of glorification by God. The greater the glorification of God, the greater the glorification by God, which is the ineffable mystery of mutual, doxological reciprocation. From the beginning, reciprocation reveals the co-inherence of God and humanity, unfathomable in its… Read more »
When awareness unites with presence, ecstatic joy blesses wisdom’s communion with glory on the inside of the Holy of Holies. This is the wondrous opening of the eye of wisdom in the heart. Elders point directly to the eye of wisdom, cutting straight through to enlightenment in uncreated light. Wonder steps back into the translucent clarity of wisdom, emptying awareness… Read more »
The radical ineffability of Orthodox Hesychast wisdom is indefinable, endlessly transcending ecclesiastical and theological sectarianism. This transcendence is not understood by those who condemn wisdom as heretical. They think they know what wisdom is and condemn it as Gnosticism, or Montanism, if they are referring to wisdom’s prophecy, or Messalianism, if they are condemning wisdom’s prayer. Hesychast saints remain silent,… Read more »
Into thy hands I commend my spirit, into thy Spirit I release my life, into thy presence I release my awareness, into thy Name I fly with angel’s wings, joining winged awareness with humble trust. For it is thou who art my life, here on earth, rejoining grace with heavenly glory, ceasing to cling to thy signs and symbols, but… Read more »
Wisdom hallows the Name of the Father, discerning his reign of love through the Son, awakening in the light of the Holy Spirit to the uncreated glory of love. Earthly fathers may fall short of the loving recognition that sons need from their fathers, but the heavenly Father imparts healing recognition in the Name, ensuring traumatic brokenness is cured. Wisdom sees past… Read more »