The Apostle Paul says that he heard ineffable words when he was caught up in paradise and experienced revelation of unutterable glory (2 Cor 12:2-4). Hesychasts know that the Holy Name is an ‘ineffable word’ of the eternal Word when it reveals God in glory in the midst. But they also know that the words they use to communicate this… Read more »
The Son of Man partakes in what is ours so that the Son of God can give us what is his. Saint Symeon the New Theologian says the Son of God raises us to what is his by regenerating us in the Holy Spirit in his Kingdom. He opens us to the grace of the glory of his Kingdom by… Read more »
Christly wisdom is a tree of life, whose truth is lived as way and whose way of life is union of spirit and truth. There is here a union of truth and way, lived as wisdom’s tree of timeless life. The Name is way, truth and life, divine life being the union of truth, discerned in theoria, and way, lived as praxis of turning, metanoia. Glory… Read more »
Bees mirror the uncreated love which does not seek its own. Such love forgives and gives life, like the uncreated, loving energy of the cross which radiates divine glory from before the foundation of the world. The Church of God circles round Christ, wisdom of God, like bees around their queen. Wisdom births us spiritually like the queen bee births the… Read more »
‘With thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light.’ Psalm 36:9. Saint Gregory Palamas bears witness that it is in uncreated light that the glory of uncreated light is seen. In Patristic tradition, there is no created way for creatures to know the uncreated. All created ways and means such as discursive reason fall short of… Read more »
A photograph survives from 1933 of Saint Silouan the Athonite seated on the left with Father Sophrony standing behind him to his right. It was taken when both were monks of the Holy Monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos. Monk Basil Krivocheine stands behind another monk on the right and a Monastery guest stands in between. This precious image,… Read more »
Wisdom blesses the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God’s hallowed Name. The Kingdom is spontaneously present as the grace of glory when the Father generates the Son in us, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, praying ‘Abba, Father,’ in our midst. Triune mysteries remain ineffable even when wisdom discerns their… Read more »
A winter sunrise reminds the heart that the Father generates the Son at centre in our midst, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, here, where all centres coincide. God shines forth like sunrise in snow clad hills, the soul as pure and limpid as a frozen morn. The Spirit bears witness to uncreated light generating… Read more »
A rainbow over the Long Mynd calls blind hearts to turn and see, embrace the wisdom of pure seeing and through seeing, embrace pure being, human being translucent with the glory of Great Peace. The fullness of Great Peace is the completeness that is everywhere loved by the children of incompleteness, the completeness that is communicated by the grace of… Read more »
Wisdom unveils the light of glory in Christ’s Cross of love: revealing God, through God the slaughtered Lamb, in God. The awakened heart sees seer and seen as one in wisdom, knowing God through God in God. This seeing is a knowing in God by grace, and grace is God’s uncreated energy of glory in act. Knowing in God… Read more »
