Christ sends the Spirit of truth when he dies on the Cross of Golgotha and is resurrected on the third day, leaving the Spirit’s truth with his bereft disciples, integral truth opening through to boundless infinity. Clinging to objective phenomena, some were bound by subjective perceptions that trapped them in self-centred delusions, but the Spirit of truth freed them all,… Read more »
Seeing no longer seeks because seeing sees, whereas seeking seeks because it cannot see. That is why desert elders live from seeing, theoria, rather than seeking ways and means to see. Ceasing to subject themselves to seeking, they see instead what turning sees. Seeking imposes separation between seeker and seeing, seer and seen, whereas turning turns the light of awareness round, seeing God at… Read more »
The quintessential song of praise, ‘Hallelu Yah,’ hallows the Name of saving grace that reveals God’s reign of glory, unveiling the face of holiness in the Holy Spirit. Glorification cleaves to the revelatory Name without wavering from the praises of its glory, opening the eye of the heart to wisdom. The mercy prayed for in the Jesus Prayer is God’s loving… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reigns in God’s realms of glory but is contested in satanic realms of vainglorious pride which live as if the Gospel had been withdrawn or cancelled and grace extinguished, leaving only self-centred self-obsession and the strain and stress of saving oneself by one’s own efforts. The regime of pride imposes alienating vanity on glorification, enforcing institutionalised violence,… Read more »
Ecstatic self-emptying is mutually reciprocal: when we give ourselves to God with ecstatic self-emptying, God reciprocates, giving us himself with ecstatic self-emptying. Indeed, divine-human reciprocity, initiated by God, actually means our self-emptying is in response to God’s, whose grace is asymmetrically prior. Our lives are first divine, then humanly divine, communicating incorruptible completeness. The wisdom of the Father is revealed by… Read more »
Wisdom is alive when it crowns illumined seers, flowering with the completeness of the saving Name, bearing fruits of completeness in timeless glory. Just as love awakens love, wisdom awakens illumination and glory glorification, purifying the heart. Abiding in the Holy Spirit, illumined hearts rest in peace, trusting grace that holds nothing back, communicating the goodness of God with ineffable abundance. The… Read more »
A dynamic throne of uncreated glory soars over confusion and division, ever-moving like a merkabah chariot, revealing the dynamic energy of glory. The saving Name is also dynamic, well able to secure wisdom amidst the raging powers of worldliness. Stillness rests in peace through the power of the Name, secured by the Spirit of Truth. Error dissolves into truth when… Read more »
Dove’s wings encircle the heart with grace, hallowing saints with the Holy Spirit. The heart is renewed from within with the joy of the Name, conjoining awareness and presence, wisdom and glory. The Spirit of truth embraces with a kiss of peace, revealing wisdom’s gaze of undying life. Dove’s wings hover over awakened hearts, communicating the loving kindness of the Paraclete,… Read more »
Love’s well-being is timeless as wisdom, beholding the good, sees all shall be well when timeless glory reveals the completeness of being, well-being and timeless well-being. Mother Julian of Norwich was shown the timeless wisdom of Christ in the prophets, apostles, martyrs and saints when she beheld Christ crucified and resurrected in the power of the Name (Showing of Love Ch.32). Love was… Read more »
Older than memory, turning turns and seeing sees, beginning anew, making all things new. Older than prehistory, wisdom turns to return into glory as before the beginning and after the end. Older than creation, uncreated vision beholds glory restoring glory to glory before all falls from glory. Older than time, time is timeless in its revelation of timeless glory, outlasting time… Read more »