When the light of awareness turns around, uncreated light purifies the heart, unifying the energies of earth and heaven. Uncreated light arises in the midst of created energies, generating the body of light in uncreated light. The light body is born in the material body when the fire of the Spirit reveals the pearl of great price. Heaven and earth unite… Read more »
Christ reveals himself to be wisdom, sending the Spirit unveiled in wisdom, restoring glory to the Father. The Father’s Name reveals wisdom and glory through the Son, imparted to saints in the Holy Spirit, unveiling hypostatic dimensions of God the Holy Trinity. Hypostatic dimensions are not confused with dimensions of uncreated energy, but neither are they divided from them. Once again, there is union… Read more »
Ineffable Oneness is not destroyed by the generation of the Son, because ineffable twoness is generated within the unbroken reign of the Father’s Oneness, not outside it, and because the procession of the Spirit from the Father unveils the ineffable three as Holy Oneness generating God from God as the Father, God with God as the Son, proceeding from God as… Read more »
The Eye of the Heart is single, unwavering in its undivided simplicity, when wisdom is unobstructed and glory is unconfused. Grace is glorious in the beauty of its holiness, untroubled by confusion, free from division in its awareness of the Spirit’s liberating presence. Heaven embraces earth as a heavenly earth united with an earthly heaven, when wisdom dispels delusion and illusion releases into… Read more »
The Spirit of glory prays without ceasing in the midst, interceding in ineffable words of uncreated love and mercy, revealing that the throne of grace is a mercy seat standing under all verbal, audible prayers. Revealed by Christ, in human words, this ineffable prayer is called the ‘Lord’s Prayer,’ and is known to all whilst its ineffable scope and efficacy remains hidden as the… Read more »
In the beginning, the Logos names the Holy Name upstream from ordinary language, showing us how to turn the light of awareness round to awaken the heart to the glory of God. The Name unveils the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, crowning saints with uncreated light. Crown and throne are ancient symbols of uncreated glory pointing to… Read more »
Wisdom calls God ‘Abba, Father,’ because wisdom is friend, ahab, of God, who transforms enemies of God into ‘friends of God and prophets’ (Wisdom 7:27). To be a friend of God is to commune with wisdom, friend of God, in divine friendship, like Abraham, friend and co-companion of God. A friend of God loves wisdom, whose friendship with God is far… Read more »
The purified heart beholds the vision of God that illumines saints in the age to come, restoring glory to God that was lost when the fall deprived seers of wisdom. The ineffability of wisdom discerns the openness of glory, awakening wisdom to the spontaneous presence of glory in the Oneness of the Name. The Spirit of truth abides with Christ… Read more »
Saint Sophrony the Hesychast imparted purification of the heart through illumination in uncreated light rather than through rational explanation, overcoming separation by curing confusion, communicating communion by overcoming division. His vision of uncreated light on the Holy Mountain of Athos was communicated in the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit, through the uncreated light of Christ, unveiling the uncreated wisdom and… Read more »
The Holy Spirit awakens the heart in Christ to the Name above all names, revealed at centre in the midst, in whom the Father is unveiled in uncreated wisdom, embracing uncreated glory. The practice of wisdom turns light around into union with glory in the Name, which is no ordinary name, because it names God, ‘I AM,’ God’s ever-present awareness, discovered at… Read more »