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 »
Wisdom cuts through prevarication and removes mountains of resistance, revealing God’s reign of glory with every turn. The saving function of the Name is to reveal God in all dimensions and in all ages without ceasing to unveil glory to wisdom in the timeless presence of the present. Nothing interrupts glory when wisdom is awake because wisdom is ageless and easily encompasses many… Read more »
The praxis of theoria is the practice of contemplative wisdom that sustains the vision of God in Holy Trinity, standing back from fixated conceptions and conventions. The Spirit blows where it wills, inspiring the practice of wisdom that nourishes the remembrance of God. The eye of wisdom penetrates through obscurities, leaping right over mountains of resistance, leaving no trace of… Read more »
Uncreated wisdom embraces countless created dimensions without fixating on any of them, for creation is grounded in the uncreated, one spirit with uncreated light, opening wisdom to ineffable infinity. There is no fluctuation in uncreated wisdom, no wavering of uncreated glory, for wisdom stands steadfast, communicating the glory of ineffable completeness. Christ opens the eye of the heart to the… 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 »
Theoria is wisdom’s vision of glory in the Name, not our unaided visual perception of God but God’s deifying vision of God in Holy Trinity. Vision of God is uncreated grace, gift of uncreated light, not objectifying, visual perception of something empirically perceptible, but wisdom’s awareness of imperceptible glory, awakened in the Name. This is why Scripture says we cannot see… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reveals God in his Name, enlightening the eye of the heart in the Holy Spirit. Without the uncreated energy of the Holy Spirit, there would be no revelation of the Name, no gospel and no grace. There would be only the strain and stress of individual effort and struggle, subjection to clerical control and submission to clerical… Read more »
Trusting grace to save is decisive, for without it pride intervenes, refusing to trust grace, trusting instead in self-willed effort to save us. Self-centred voluntarism usurps God by imposing effort, strain and stress in place of holy trust, causing despair. From the perspective of the unredeemed will, grace is delusional and confused with pride, condemned as heresy or as self-obsessed illusion. Self-centred asceticism… 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 »
The way of the Name is straight and simple in the gaze of wisdom’s ‘single eye,’ pure and clear as the kiss of peace, luminous and enlightening within the embrace of grace. The saving light of grace is uncreated, purifying and enlightening the heart, releasing awareness from divisive confusion. The wisdom of the Gospel of John is decisive for Hesychast saints… Read more »