Holy Orthodoxy is not an ethnic commitment but a martyr’s costly witness, willingly laying down one’s life for the Holy Name of God. The Name asks, who is it who says I AM? God answers, it is I: ‘I AM HE,’ revealing God, through the Holy Name of God. I am ‘HE WHO IS,’ unveiling God in your midst. I… Read more »
The difference between division and difference mirrors the difference between confusion and communion, revealing the paradoxical completeness of co-inherent communion. Completeness is not totalitarian sameness nor divisive, premature closure, suppressing difference out of fear of division. The Spirit prays unceasingly for the reign of the Name to be revealed, lovingly communicating decisive wisdom, wisely curing dithering indecision. The rational mind cannot conceive the ineffable glory… Read more »
The ground of the oneness of all being is the oneness of God the Holy Trinity, but there is no common measure between the uncreated and the created, because the uncreated infinitely transcends the created. Wisdom does not waver from the oneness of glory, which is the oneness of God, because wisdom abides in the glory of God. The decisive experience of… Read more »
The Holy Name communicates the co-inherent communion of wisdom and glory, uniting the awareness and presence of God, transmitting wisdom’s awareness and glory’s presence in the Holy Name, ‘I AM who I AM.’ The revelation of God on Mount Sinai (Ex 3:14),was confirmed on Mount Tabor, embracing sinners unto repentance, turning awareness round to face saving presence face to face, not… Read more »
The ineffable openness of perfect completeness is inherently present in the timeless oneness of enlightening glory. The womb of completeness is the tomb of translucent incompleteness resurrecting as glory, ascending and descending from the sanctuary of the heart. Everything self-empties into glory as glory self-empties into everything, revealing God in everything and everything in God. Glory is ineffable and the… Read more »
Wisdom crowns seers with uncreated light, enthroning saints with deifying energy of uncreated glory, revealing the reign of the Name. The body of light manifests the body of glory through the uncreated grace of the Name, purifying the heart by enlightening the mind in the heart, transfiguring creation. Deification remains hidden with Christ in God until wisdom dawns, uniting uncreated wisdom with hidden glory…. Read more »
The Holy Spirit descends to reveal God’s reign of glory in Christ’s Name, hallowing the Name of the Father unveiled by the Son, revealing mysteries of glory through the Paraclete. The Paraclete’s descent proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, resting in peace in the hallowing Name. Christ conjoins earthly humanity with heavenly divinity, generating ineffable divine-human mysteries,… Read more »
Sown in light, reaped as light, light gives life to light as light of Holy Trinity throughout centuries of Orthodox glorification. From Abba Evagrius to Archbishop Gregory Palamas, the thread of light weaves sound coherence into Orthodox co-inherence. God enlightens those who awaken to God in his Name, illumining Abba Silvanus with the same uncreated light that illumined Saint Silouan the… Read more »
Dazzling depths of wisdom reveal dizzying heights of glory in the revelatory Name, inspiring Abba Evagrius, the Macarian ‘Homilies,’ the writings of Saint Denys, Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s ‘Hymns of Love’ and the many writings of Saint Gregory Palamas with the experience (peira) of uncreated light of glory. Ecstatic rapture is for beginners, says Saint Symeon, indicating that mature enlightenment is intrinsic… Read more »
Christian wisdom has long been distanced by centuries of dualistic thinking that imposed separation on its piercing insight, cancelling glorification. But genuine enlightenment was never totally absent, because Christ lives at the heart of all Christian mysteries, restoring glorification. Conventional clericalism imposed separation because it sought to control large numbers of passive followers, not because Christian wisdom is inherently dualistic. Both… Read more »