Saint Sophrony the Hesychast taught that the reason Holy Orthodoxy calls humility a divine Name is because God is humility. God’s Name is ‘I AM,’ humble awareness in communion with humble presence, the humble ‘I’ of wisdom in union with the humble ‘AM’ of presence. God’s Name, ‘I AM,’ communicates God’s humility, curing pride, and does not therefore, like our hardened hearts, require… Read more »
The Cherubic Hymn lays aside all worldly care in order to restore glory to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, glory’s consummate completeness. The Cherubicon also raises on high the anointed King of all, whose Name is ‘I AM,’ wisdom unveiling glory in the highest heaven as glory’s consummate completeness. He who is, who was and who shall always… Read more »
The Holy Name ‘I AM’ is an ineffable union of ‘I’ and ‘AM,’ wisdom’s active deifying awareness and glory’s receptive deifying presence inseparably conjoined as communion of their uncreated creative energies, radiant wisdom and resonant glory. The Name saves by unveiling deifying awareness and glorifying presence. Wisdom and glory are uncreated dynamic energies communicating the mysteries of turning or metanoia, seeing… Read more »
The wisdom of the Cross is the wisdom of unselfish love, which is the wisdom of the Holy Trinity unveiling purifying love, enlightening love through love and love’s God-centred glorification of God through God. It is not only that love’s glory is revealed to be wisdom’s divine intent, but that the glory of love is also the way love is revealed through glorification. The… Read more »
The revelation of the Name unveils the body of uncreated, formless light, which is ineffable in as many different ways as there are divine names colouring its colourless luminosity as a rainbow body of glory. ‘I AM’ is ineffable as formless radiance, so the body of light, too, is ineffable as a body of ineffable radiance. But the Name above all names… Read more »
The Eucharistic wisdom of Emmaus is the wisdom of the burning heart, the wisdom of recognition that awakens hearts to the living flame of the unifying Name (Luke 24: 13-35). Recognition burns away impurity to purify the heart through the remembrance of God, which is not to be confused with conventional formal memory because it is God’s remembrance of God,… Read more »
Wisdom hallows the Name of God in Holy Trinity by ascribing all glory to God’s Name ‘I AM.’ The Name ‘I AM’ reveals God, not an objectified concept of God as a divine subject or a reified notion of God as a divine object. God in his Name ‘I’ is pure uncreated awareness ever present, and his Name ‘AM’ is pure… Read more »
Wisdom is timeless openness of glory unveiling the timeless radiance of grace. Wisdom awakens the heart to glory by cutting through confusion and leaping over separation, beginning at the end where God unveils God in his Name. To begin at the end means the Alpha initiates wisdom with the Omega of ‘I AM,’ revealing glory which is the timeless openness… Read more »
In Abbot Francis Acharya’s translation of Ode 13 of the Odes of Solomon, an early apostolic Christian hymnbook, we read: ‘The Lord is a mirror to us, let us open our eyes and see ourselves in it, discover what we look like, and wipe all the paint from our faces. Then proclaim praises to the Holy Spirit, love his sanctity and… Read more »
Wisdom is beloved of God because she loves to embrace all through all as she ascribes all glory to God. Glory loves to be loved by wisdom because God loves to be known as wisdom knows, with awakening insight and wholeness of heart. Wisdom renews living sacred tradition by purifying the heart and illumining God-centred intelligence, but it is the… Read more »