The consummation of glorification is not our human concern, but it is the ultimate concern of wisdom, whose insight into glorification listens to the Holy Spirit, revealing Christ’s consummation of glorification in the Father. Glorification is consummated by wisdom, whose embrace gazes deeply into the mystery of the kiss of peace, hidden in the Holy of Holies before the beginning and… Read more »
The bedrock of glorification is the remembrance of God, revealing God through God’s remembrance of God, unveiling divine love through deifying love. The Beloved Disciple is loved by God, glorified by love’s remembrance of God, beginning with recognition, ending with remembrance. Union with the Beloved is the bedrock of love’s communion, bedrock of Christian witness to eschatological wisdom, descending as living presence… Read more »
Joy abides with wisdom in her union with glory in the communion of saints. Grace generates trust that welcomes glory with wisdom. Love delights in the joy of wisdom, ecstatic without dissipation, rejoicing in the knowledge of God. Love does not envy the grace that saves, unlike demonic jealousy, that resents the communion of saints. Joy descends from heaven like lightening,… Read more »
Incisive glorification penetrates all ages of enlightened awareness, all dimensions of uncreated presence, opening earth to highest heaven in the empowering Name. The wisdom of the Cross is consummated with the glory of the Name, saving all with love, glorifying all with hallowing holiness. Life in God is God’s way of hallowing those who turn and see his uncreated presence… Read more »
God reveals God in three tenses of the Name, ‘I AM He who is, who was and who is to come’ (Rev 1:8). The three tenses of the revelatory Name look like three separate times, time present, time past and time future, but time present is ever-present, breaking into time from the Age to come, transcending time in the age to come. Time present… Read more »
Holy wisdom suspends optimism and overcomes pessimism as glorification of God transcends desire and despair, enlightening hearts by renewing minds in the heart. Uncreated light is not an impersonal force but a personal energy, dynamically communicating wisdom with dynamic glory, glorifying God with saints in God, communicating liberating freedom. Saint Sophrony the Hesychast handed on a dynamic legacy of freedom that cannot be assimilated… Read more »
Christ never ceases to impart the Great Peace and the Holy Spirit never ceases to reveal the Great Peace of the Name. “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and Great shall be the Peace of thy children” (Isaiah 54:13). Children of God, taught by the Lord, led by the Spirit, come to know the glory of the… Read more »
Christ came to reveal union with God, confirmed by the Holy Spirit as communion with God among saints and angels, revealing union as deifying communion in all through all. Christ was himself the union he came to bring, but he gave his life and shared himself with all, emptying himself out into all to save all. Not all are willing… Read more »
Listening to the Holy Spirit, wisdom discerns the glory of the Name, hallowing the Kingdom come. The post-war generation was very influenced by secularism, but thanks to mothers who prayed in the Spirit for their sons, there were enough Christians left to listen to the Holy Spirit’s whisper in their heart of hearts. Prophecy was not quenched nor prayer extinguished,… Read more »
The remembrance of God is ineffable, reflecting the openness of wisdom and the oneness of timeless glory. The way of truth is the way of abiding that establishes deification as a way of life. This way of life inherits the language of prophecy which inspires pure prayer, listening to the Spirit’s unceasing prayer glorifying God in his Name. The reason… Read more »