The Holy Spirit delights in the enlightening light of Christ, infusing seers with uncreated wisdom, deifying saints with uncreated glory. Delight is ecstatic in hidden ways that go way beyond beginner’s ecstasies, centred in the Spirit’s insight into Christ, transcending all conditioned opinions. Delight rejoices in light from light, welcoming God from God in union with wisdom, rejoicing in God through… Read more »
Christ personally reveals himself in uncreated light, restoring glory to the Father, communicating wisdom in the Holy Spirit, renewing Orthodox Hesychasm in the stillness of the Holy Trinity. The wisdom of the Cross cannot be reduced to verbal repetition or external conformity, although worldly powers love to reduce wisdom to external conformity. Stillness is often persecuted for cleaving to the… Read more »
Gracious stillness was the womb of light in generations past, and will be the womb of glory in the age to come, opening mysteries of glory in timeless presence through timeless wisdom. The living movement of Holy Hesychasm abides in the presence of graced stillness, manifesting new dimensions of silence and solitude in the reign of timeless glory. Stillness awakens prophecy in the… Read more »
Sown in light, reaped as light, light gives life to light as light of Holy Trinity throughout centuries of Orthodox glorification. From Abba Evagrius to Archbishop Gregory Palamas, the thread of light weaves sound coherence into Orthodox co-inherence. God enlightens those who awaken to God in his Name, illumining Abba Silvanus with the same uncreated light that illumined Saint Silouan the… Read more »
Christian wisdom has long been distanced by centuries of dualistic thinking that imposed separation on its piercing insight, cancelling glorification. But genuine enlightenment was never totally absent, because Christ lives at the heart of all Christian mysteries, restoring glorification. Conventional clericalism imposed separation because it sought to control large numbers of passive followers, not because Christian wisdom is inherently dualistic. Both… Read more »
Christ sends the Spirit of truth when he dies on the Cross of Golgotha and is resurrected on the third day, leaving the Spirit’s truth with his bereft disciples, integral truth opening through to boundless infinity. Clinging to objective phenomena, some were bound by subjective perceptions that trapped them in self-centred delusions, but the Spirit of truth freed them all,… Read more »
Seeing no longer seeks because seeing sees, whereas seeking seeks because it cannot see. That is why desert elders live from seeing, theoria, rather than seeking ways and means to see. Ceasing to subject themselves to seeking, they see instead what turning sees. Seeking imposes separation between seeker and seeing, seer and seen, whereas turning turns the light of awareness round, seeing God at… Read more »
The still centre of infinite wisdom is love, ineffable love deeper than sentiment, transcending conceptual thought and imagination. The wonder of love bewilders the mind, awakening the heart, silencing mental chatter. Wisdom is pure awareness witnessing the meaning of love, stilling the heart beyond all expectation. The wisdom of pure awareness transcends the mental mutations of the murmering mind, seeing God… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reigns in God’s realms of glory but is contested in satanic realms of vainglorious pride which live as if the Gospel had been withdrawn or cancelled and grace extinguished, leaving only self-centred self-obsession and the strain and stress of saving oneself by one’s own efforts. The regime of pride imposes alienating vanity on glorification, enforcing institutionalised violence,… Read more »
Ecstatic self-emptying is mutually reciprocal: when we give ourselves to God with ecstatic self-emptying, God reciprocates, giving us himself with ecstatic self-emptying. Indeed, divine-human reciprocity, initiated by God, actually means our self-emptying is in response to God’s, whose grace is asymmetrically prior. Our lives are first divine, then humanly divine, communicating incorruptible completeness. The wisdom of the Father is revealed by… Read more »