When the light of awareness turns around, uncreated light purifies the heart, unifying the energies of earth and heaven. Uncreated light arises in the midst of created energies, generating the body of light in uncreated light. The light body is born in the material body when the fire of the Spirit reveals the pearl of great price. Heaven and earth unite… Read more »
Christ reveals himself to be wisdom, sending the Spirit unveiled in wisdom, restoring glory to the Father. The Father’s Name reveals wisdom and glory through the Son, imparted to saints in the Holy Spirit, unveiling hypostatic dimensions of God the Holy Trinity. Hypostatic dimensions are not confused with dimensions of uncreated energy, but neither are they divided from them. Once again, there is union… Read more »
The Spirit of wisdom reveals the uncreated glory of grace with unconditioned freedom, transcending conditioned ways and means with uncreated openness. Wisdom and glory bear witness to co-inherent union, revealing unconditioned communion of elders and saints, but this mystery of infinite glory is hidden until wisdom is unveiled by the Holy Spirit in illumined glorification. Pentecost completes Good Friday and Holy… Read more »
The Spirit of glory prays without ceasing in the midst, interceding in ineffable words of uncreated love and mercy, revealing that the throne of grace is a mercy seat standing under all verbal, audible prayers. Revealed by Christ, in human words, this ineffable prayer is called the ‘Lord’s Prayer,’ and is known to all whilst its ineffable scope and efficacy remains hidden as the… Read more »
The Holy Spirit is the giver of life, unveiling eternal life in Christ to the glory of the Father, communicating deifying life without confusing the uncreated with the created or dividing their holy union from the communion of saints. The Spirit is holy because it grants eternal life to those who turn and see the glory of God, unveiling liberating release… Read more »
There used to be talk in Papal circles of the two lungs of the Latin West and the Byzantine East, but this was to forget the Oriental Churches of Antioch and Edessa, of Nisibis and Tibet, of India and China. Christians were first called Christians in Antioch and the Oriental Churches never ceased to bear witness to Christ as desert seers… Read more »
Wisdom calls God ‘Abba, Father,’ because wisdom is friend, ahab, of God, who transforms enemies of God into ‘friends of God and prophets’ (Wisdom 7:27). To be a friend of God is to commune with wisdom, friend of God, in divine friendship, like Abraham, friend and co-companion of God. A friend of God loves wisdom, whose friendship with God is far… Read more »
Saint Sophrony the Hesychast imparted purification of the heart through illumination in uncreated light rather than through rational explanation, overcoming separation by curing confusion, communicating communion by overcoming division. His vision of uncreated light on the Holy Mountain of Athos was communicated in the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit, through the uncreated light of Christ, unveiling the uncreated wisdom and… Read more »
Doxological stillness transcends all identities but playfully offers an identity, ‘Orthodox Hesychasm,’ that situates it in the human world of identities and stories. Stillness abides in the glory of the age to come by indwelling uncreated light as wisdom beholding glory at the heart of the world. Stillness is doxological in ways that include many stories, many identities, without identifying with… Read more »
The Great Blessing of the Waters on Theophany Eve renews our baptism in the waters of the Holy Spirit through Christ’s Baptism of the wisdom of uncreated fire, the wisdom of uncreated light and the wisdom of uncreated glory. The fire of wisdom purifies the heart, the flame of uncreated light illumines the mind in the heart and the tongues… Read more »