The prayer of the heart regenerates prophecy, transfiguring the vision of the Father’s realm of the Name, recognising Christ’s reign of the Name in the Spirit’s revelation of Seraphic wisdom and Cherubic glory. Unveiling Holy Trinity, Holy Orthodoxy is not the reification of this transfiguring recognition but release of reification into original Christophany in the Spirit’s wisdom, liberating reification into ineffable openness in the eye… Read more »
The Holy Spirit crowns the eye of the heart as it enthrones God in the heart with uncreated glory, initiating glorification through purification and illumination. Wisdom grounds glorification in purity of heart enlightened by the Holy Spirit, whereas fear contracts and hardens the heart, subverting the glory of grace. Love embraces fear with the kiss of peace, transforming terror into trust,… Read more »
Christians are residents of the realm of glory in heaven, not of this world’s ruling empires, whether it be Babylon or Rome, Consantinople or Moscow, for Holy Orthodoxy is not a worldly power but a heavenly realm wedded to an earthly heaven. On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 13th, there was an authoritative Orthodox Declaration condemning fundamentalist Russian phyletism or tribalism, the… Read more »
Wisdom rests in peace in the glory of God, abiding at centre where God centres in God, through God. The heavens of the heart wed the earth in the heart, opening death to resurrecting life. Christ rests in peace in the Father’s presence, embraced by the Spirit, who proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son. Peace is therefore… Read more »
The wisdom function of Elijah, according to the Prophet Malachi, is to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, welcoming the coming day of the revelatory Name (Mal 3:22-24). Elijah’s ultimate concern is the renewal of sacred tradition, awakening hearts to the Name. The prophet’s own name reveals God… Read more »
The dancing presence of wisdom fills the heavens with uncreated glory, singing wisdom songs that glorify God, through God, in God. Holy Trinity is not rigid, reified dogmatism but revelation of dancing presence, unveiling the round dance of God’s three persons among angels and saints in heaven, resounding on earth as the holy dance of heaven. Holy Orthodoxy inspired persons… Read more »
The light of life casts no shadow and knows no death as it turns and sees light of glory in the midst. The material body takes up space because it has length, breadth and height, but if awareness identifies exclusively with these three spatial dimensions, it plunges awareness into confusion and splits presence into divisive dualism, like demons in hell. But if awareness… Read more »
God-centred wisdom reveals sound insight that sees that nothing falls outside God’s omnipresent glory. Wisdom’s sound intent does not fixate exclusively on created things but focuses on glory which is God in action empowering grace, uncovering the crucial difference between self-centred fixation and liberating focus. Insight is focus, not fixation, attentive openness, not conceptual reification. The practice of wisdom turns… Read more »
When awareness turns to unite with presence, wisdom turns to unveil glory, empowered by the reign of glory to reveal its presence on earth as in heaven. Of course, the reign of glory is always present in the Spirit and when the eye of the heart is awake, but is hidden with Christ in God when the eye of the heart… Read more »
The Eye of the Heart is single, unwavering in its undivided simplicity, when wisdom is unobstructed and glory is unconfused. Grace is glorious in the beauty of its holiness, untroubled by confusion, free from division in its awareness of the Spirit’s liberating presence. Heaven embraces earth as a heavenly earth united with an earthly heaven, when wisdom dispels delusion and illusion releases into… Read more »