Humility is Christ-like when there is no trace of self-interest but simply obedience to the divine will, which hallows the Name so the Kingdom comes. The Holy Spirit abides in the Son at the heart of the Church, humbly interceding in the Name, witness to God’s Kingdom in the hallowing. Sacred tradition has nothing to do with pious addictive habits… Read more »
God the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, so the union of the Father and the Son, which is the mystery of the Holy Name, is opened to us in God. It is not something we observe from without; it is revealed through God, in God, from within. Orthodox tradition sees the Patriarch Enoch as… Read more »
When Jesus imparted the Name to the Apostles, he fulfilled the Logos of the prophets, revealing glory without vanity, glory free of self-interest. In the Mosaic theophany of the Burning Bush, the Logos of God unveiled the Name, EHYEH, ‘I AM,’ and on Mount Sinai, EHYEH ASHER EHYEH, ‘I AM who I AM.’ The Johannine ‘I AM’ sayings, both with and… Read more »
The Logos, said the Apostle, is not yes and no but always Yes, always Amen, always glory to God, always glorification in God (2 Cor1:18-20). The Logos in the beginning, the Logos with God in the primordial arche, the Logos who is God from God, is always ‘Yes,’ always the primordial ‘Yes,’ the originative ‘Amen,’ the first glory and the very last… Read more »
Break-through into Godhead does not privilege the Father alone but also unveils through the Son as release from worldly powers, and in the Spirit as anarchic arche of freedom. Wisdom breaks through calculation and control to retrieve boundless glory, irrupting from the Father, opening to wisdom through the Son, releasing unbound glory in the Spirit. The Holy Name ‘I AM’ is… Read more »
The Odes of Solomon bear witness that nothing is outside God or opposed to God (Ode 34). As above, so below, revealing that below is naught in itself, being heaven above wed with earth here below, known in God through God, as God alone knows. For the Odist, God became as we are so that we may be as he… Read more »
The Apostle says he imparts wisdom, the secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God ordained before the ages for our glory (1 Cor 2:7). This wisdom no eye sees, no ear hears, nor heart imagines, but love prepares for all who love God. all who love enemies as themselves. This hidden wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit to… Read more »
The ‘eye’ of wisdom in the desert sees the divine union of seer and seen, the single ‘eye’ that unites all into one light, one love, one glory. Here, the sound of silence deafens and dark nights dazzle. Here, where an abandoned miner’s cottage was re-inhabited on the edge of the inhabited world, an outlying ruin became… Read more »
Wisdom in the desert is a tree of life whose fruits spontaneously open to release glory. Elders let each fruit release its seeds of light so that saints embrace eternal life. Wisdom’s tree in paradise bears many fruits that open to release glory, full to overflowing with different gifts of healing, opening old wounds to cure them, enabling open wounds… Read more »
Holy Tradition in the desert is a wisdom transmission of the Name, a golden chain which imparts the explicit Name, EHYEH or ‘I AM,’ in two different forms, unique and complete. The explicit Name is transmitted from elder to disciple in accordance with ‘I AM’ sayings with and without predicates in the Gospel of John. The unique Name is the… Read more »
