The desert transmits the Holy Name in accordance with the revelation of the Name on Mount Sinai, in the light of the ‘I AM’ sayings of Christ in the Gospel of John, which unveil the transmission of the Name to the Beloved Disciple. This revelation of the Name on the Mountain of transfiguration informs every dimension of desert wisdom, unveiling… Read more »
The Holy Transfiguration on Mount Tabor transmits vision (theoria) of uncreated light, opening glory to glory in the Kingdom of God. Participation in this uncreated, creative vision of light is incorporation into the glory of the Kingdom. Transfiguration unveils light of glory that consecrates and blesses purity of heart, true turning that sees God (Mathew 5:8). Transfiguration hallows God’s Name ‘I… Read more »
Prophetic wisdom springs from the ineffable openness of uncreated awareness, opening prayer to the ineffable oneness of uncreated presence, wisdom beholding glory in the Name, unveiling God in the midst. God unveils God through God, the Spirit proceeding from the Father to abide in the Son, revealing God’s Name, ‘I AM.’ Elders know that God’s ‘I’ awareness is ever-present, beholding God’s… Read more »
Orthodox Christian tradition is not defined by its ethnocentric politics nor by the reactionary fundamentalism that narrows its conventional shallows into sectarian nationalisms. True Orthodoxy is right-glorification of God the Father, by God the Son, in God the Holy Spirit, glorification which glorifies the saints who awaken to wisdom’s vision of glory in the Kingdom of God. Ethnocentrism is not definitive in Orthodoxy because… Read more »
Wisdom sings at the heart of the Church, unveiling the Bride of Christ hidden in the Holy of Holies. She awakens union in the Bridal Chamber so as to communicate communion, gifts of Christ her Beloved in mysteries of glorification. Wisdom sings through the heart of the Beloved Disciple, inspiring the Fourth Gospel which imparts illumination and glorification through revelation of… Read more »
The beauty of holiness, which is glory, is union and communion with the oneness of the Name. Glory is the healing oneness of the Name, embracing one and all in beauty of holiness through union and communion. Oneness calls forth union and communion but is not heard until wisdom embraces the Name. True hearing happens when wisdom bears witness, shema, to the Name, Shem, revealed on… Read more »
Wisdom is not only love of beauty, philokalia, but is in love with beauty, wedded to glory that is beautiful and loves beauty. Saint Denis sees this glorious co-inherence as wisdom’s vision of theadrocosmic radiance, a resplendent icon of divine beauty that embraces the cosmos with Christ’s divine-human glory. Visible worlds are theophanies of invisible glory, but this is visible through Christ’s grace… Read more »
The Holy Name is the mystery of mysteries, the sacrament of sacraments and symbol of symbols, no mere sign, but an integral symbol of the wholeness of being. The Beloved Disciple transmits revelation of the Name without predicates in the Fourth Gospel, ‘Before Abraham was, I AM,’ (John 8: 58) and with predicates, ‘I AM the way, the truth and the life,’… Read more »
Glory reigns when Christ shares union with the Father with those who who turn and see him in the midst. For ‘I AM,’ which is God’s Name, ‘I and the Father are one,’ (John 10.30), revealing the mystery of glory which Christ opens with the words, ‘the Father is in me and I in the Father’ (John 10.38). The Name ‘I… Read more »
Our human lives are sealed by the signature of God, written ineffably in our hearts, saying: ‘I AM’ is God’s Name, revealing God, through God, in God. In Ode 23 of the Odes of Solomon, the Odist sings of the revelatory Name as God’s dispatch, his sealed letter, shot like an arrow from his bow to unveil the insignia of the… Read more »