Martyrs rise on winged chariot thrones, bearing witness to truth in a world that prefers lies it wants to be true, releasing totalitarian stealth back into costly truth. Christ is a haven of peace in the truth of his Name, stilling war by releasing error and terror. The Spirit never strays from the Truth of Christ, even when Orthodoxy is… Read more »
Awakening in the Spirit of Truth to the Father through Christ opens the heart to glorification of the Father in Christ, imparting glorification in the Spirit to the saints, without which discernment of the truth of glory is not yet revealed. Elders were once drawn from senior hierarchs as well as unordained monks, discerning the difference between glorification of God and… Read more »
The Father generates the Word who names the Name, ‘I am ‘I AM’ thy God,’ revealing God, through God in God, unveiling Holy Trinity, communicating glorification of God, through God the Word, in God the Holy Spirit by purifying and enlightening the heart. The pure in heart are grateful sinners who turn as they are turned and see as they are… Read more »
Grace saves by purifying the heart, enlightening the mind in the heart and glorifying God in both mind and heart. There is no division when there is no confusion of mind or heart, empowering glorification of God that communicates glorification by God. Grace saves with uncreated light, seeing as it is seen in every dimension, opening the three dimensions of length, breadth… Read more »
Joy loves grace in the hearts of martyrs who suffer in Christ’s Holy Name and who witness to the knowledge of the Most High, sealed with mystery since before the foundation of the world. Red martyrdom sheds blood that flows into the redemptive blood of Christ, whilst white martyrdom rejoins the uncreated light of Christ, both of them aware that uncreated life is… 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 »
There is no confusion for simple wisdom, no division for wholesome glorification. Wisdom is simple in the midst of purified awareness, indivisible at the heart of enlightening presence. Obscuration dissolves when awareness turns, because obstructions are extinguished by the surrounding flame of the paradise Name. Wherever awareness turns, wisdom sees a heavenly earth wedded to an earthly heaven. Heaven regenerates… 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 throne of glory symbolises the deification of the three centres beneath the heart, survival, security and control, whilst the crown symbolises the deification of the three centres above the heart, speech, single eye and crown, also called halo of glory. The holy rite of coronation also includes a golden orb and sceptre, because crowning places the cross over the hallowed earth… Read more »