The moment of truth is ever-present, timelessly initiating us into purification and illumination, timelessly deifying us in Christ’s glorification. The moment of truth is death, death overcoming death by death, baptising us into Christ’s resurrection and ascension, raising us into his glory. The mystery of Christ’s glory is revealed in his death, for it is the cross that unveils the Lord… Read more »
Uriel’s name means the ‘fire of God,’ and Oriel’s name the ‘light of God,’ and both were sometimes called Phanuel, the ‘presence of God,’ because fire and light both reveal the presence of God that guards the gates of paradise. Uriel manifested Seraphic fire whereas Oriel communicated Cherubic light, both protecting the unveiled face of God’s presence from profanation and satanic… Read more »
Parody imitates paradox to deceive, whereas paradox exposes parody to enlighten. Satan loves to parody wisdom, spawning relativism, narcissism and nihilism, cancelling the discernments of wisdom with many kinds of parody, degenerating prophecy into channelled imitation and prayer into manipulative magic, replacing the age of glory with the new age of narcissism and reducing different modes of oneness to relativistic nihilsm…. Read more »
Wisdom is witness to glory, enabling glory to witness wisdom, revealing uncreated light at the heart of awareness. Orthodox Hesychasm bears witness to wisdom that is witness to glory in the purified heart, revealing uncreated light. Souls come with many burdens, weighed down by many opinions, but the Holy Spirit frees them and points beyond their shallow narrowness. If they cling to their… Read more »
Blessing descends on those who turn and see, discovering God at centre in the midst, beholding Christ transfigured in uncreated light, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, who transfigures sinners by turning them into saints. Wisdom discerns the heart of stillness in uncreated glory, uncovering peace that is timeless and immaculate, purifying the mind in the heart. Delusion dispels as confusion releases into communion,… Read more »
The way of glorification is ineffable in at least two ways, the hallowing way of glorification of God and the sanctifying way of glorification by God. The greater the glorification of God, the greater the glorification by God, which is the ineffable mystery of mutual, doxological reciprocation. From the beginning, reciprocation reveals the co-inherence of God and humanity, unfathomable in its… Read more »
The Name is the mirror of God, opening the heart to uncreated glory. The Name is the unveiled face of God, revealing God at centre in the midst. The Name saves, curing confusion and healing division, opening oblivious blindness to the vision of God. The Spirit reveals Christ who reveals the Father, awakening sinners to Holy Trinity. God loves holiness… Read more »
Nothing surpasses timeless union with Beloved Wisdom. Nothing rivals the supreme wonder of uncreated wisdom. The transmission of wisdom is the mission of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and elders, the consummation and completion of the verbal incompleteness of Scripture in the saints. Wisdom enlightens those who turn and see, those who, glorifying God, are glorified by God. Christ chrismates… Read more »
When awareness unites with presence, ecstatic joy blesses wisdom’s communion with glory on the inside of the Holy of Holies. This is the wondrous opening of the eye of wisdom in the heart. Elders point directly to the eye of wisdom, cutting straight through to enlightenment in uncreated light. Wonder steps back into the translucent clarity of wisdom, emptying awareness… Read more »
Wisdom cuts through prevarication and removes mountains of resistance, revealing God’s reign of glory with every turn. The saving function of the Name is to reveal God in all dimensions and in all ages without ceasing to unveil glory to wisdom in the timeless presence of the present. Nothing interrupts glory when wisdom is awake because wisdom is ageless and easily encompasses many… Read more »