Turning and seeing awaken the heart to union with God, whose timeless omnipresence is a liberating unveiling, not a rigid fixation on temporal ways and means. Turning and seeing are indivisible: turning, metanoia, transforms separation into deifying union whilst seeing, theoria, partakes in God’s vision of God through God, the Holy Trinity. Turning and seeing are mysteriously one in their inseparable indivisibility, one… Read more »
The heart is purified by turning the light of awareness round to remember God, stepping back to recognise God in the midst. The remembrance of God opens the eye of the heart to God’s own vision of God through God, restoring the heart to the uncreated light of hallowing wisdom. Wisdom unites the mind with the heart in primordial, pristine awareness, liberating… Read more »
Hallelu Yah is the ancient prayer of glorification that inspires all who are in the Spirit, glorifying God in his hallowing Name. It reverberates through every wave of the sea of shining translucence that surrounds rainbow radiance, the glory of the heavenly throne. It crowns all who joyously surround the throne, whose glorification of God finds expression in the praise… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy bears witness to three great turns, which Saint Denis calls purification, illumination and deification, but which other elders describe in many different ways. The first turn is sometimes referred to as purifying recollection, the second as enlightened recognition and the third as deifying remembrance, pointing to the nature of the action of grace characteristic of each great turn. Saints… Read more »
Here, in the Holy of Holies, I reign in light and glory, calling you by name to hallow my Name. I crown you with light and enthrone you in glory, undoing all falls from the grace of light and glory. I share my timeless life of grace with you so that all confusion and division are undone. You awaken to… Read more »
I am the grace of the Name, the glory of wisdom illumining the saints, the crown of glorification and the throne of deification, communicating the mysteries of grace in the hallowed language of the Jerusalem Temple. I am the hidden wisdom of glory that illumines the angelic hosts of heaven, the flaming presence surrounded with rainbow radiance, gazing out from… Read more »
I am ‘I AM,’ thy God, ever aware in thee, ever-present to thee, my Name, Ha Shem, unveiling God to thee through me. I am hidden in my Name so that, revealing me, my Name is not profaned or taken in vain by those who refuse to turn and see. My Name invites them to turn but they do not see,… Read more »
I am a guardian angel singing my Song, hallowing God’s Name at the heart of awareness, hallowing God’s saints at the heart of his presence. I am witness to his ‘I’ awareness and ‘AM’ presence as your guardian angel, singing a Song of deifying Oneness in the heart of God. You are usually too busy to listen, but my Song… Read more »
I am ‘I AM,’ the Name sings, singing the Song of one awareness ever-present, one presence ever-aware. I am ‘I AM,’ thy God, and there is no other, uncreated light singing of uncreated glory, free of confusion and division and the conditioning that confuses and divides. The Name sings: I have never not been aware and present, just as I… Read more »
The Name crowns saints by awakening the eye of the heart, enthroning the glorified heart in the temple of uncreated glory. Glory crowns saints with God’s Name, fulfilling the mysteries of the temple throne and crown that realise God through recognition and remembrance. Christ, the Great High Priest, enthrones and crowns his own with the truth of his Name, grafting his own… Read more »