Hesychast wisdom bears witness to the uncreated light of wisdom and glory in the sanctuary of the heart, restoring access to mysteries that have the capacity to renew Holy Orthodoxy in every generation. Saint Sophrony the Hesychast bore witness to the mystery of the Holy Name, ‘I AM,’ uncovering depths of enlightened first-personhood in the Name, a witness that has been catalytic… Read more »
When the heart abides in Christ, the mind rests in Spirit, united with the heart, partaking in the Great Peace of the Father. Rest in Spirit is not soporific passivity but active remembrance of God, partaking in the Spirit’s insight into the union of the Father with the Son. With Christ’s ascension, the Spirit raises saints on high and deifies them… Read more »
The Name unites awareness with the presence of the Spirit’s unceasing prayer in the heart, deifying the children of God by grace, glorifying the Father through the Son. The Name crowns awareness with the presence of uncreated light, enthroning the heart in the presence of uncreated glory, empowering glorification. Indwelling Christ, saints first become seers in the Spirit, unveiling the face of… Read more »
The heart is purified by turning the light of awareness round to remember God, stepping back to recognise God in the midst. The remembrance of God opens the eye of the heart to God’s own vision of God through God, restoring the heart to the uncreated light of hallowing wisdom. Wisdom unites the mind with the heart in primordial, pristine awareness, liberating… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy bears witness to three great turns, which Saint Denis calls purification, illumination and deification, but which other elders describe in many different ways. The first turn is sometimes referred to as purifying recollection, the second as enlightened recognition and the third as deifying remembrance, pointing to the nature of the action of grace characteristic of each great turn. Saints… Read more »
Here, in the Holy of Holies, I reign in light and glory, calling you by name to hallow my Name. I crown you with light and enthrone you in glory, undoing all falls from the grace of light and glory. I share my timeless life of grace with you so that all confusion and division are undone. You awaken to… Read more »
I am the grace of the Name, the glory of wisdom illumining the saints, the crown of glorification and the throne of deification, communicating the mysteries of grace in the hallowed language of the Jerusalem Temple. I am the hidden wisdom of glory that illumines the angelic hosts of heaven, the flaming presence surrounded with rainbow radiance, gazing out from… Read more »
I am a guardian angel singing my Song, hallowing God’s Name at the heart of awareness, hallowing God’s saints at the heart of his presence. I am witness to his ‘I’ awareness and ‘AM’ presence as your guardian angel, singing a Song of deifying Oneness in the heart of God. You are usually too busy to listen, but my Song… Read more »
The Name ‘I AM,’ ‘EHYEH,’ communicates the ecstatic joy of divine love, intimate union of God’s ‘I’ awareness with his ‘AM’ presence in the midst, unveiling love’s embrace of wisdom and glory as ecstatic joy, heavenly bliss and hallowing blessing. The Gospel discloses bliss and blessing by bearing witness to this ecstatic union of love. Love’s union of wisdom and glory is… Read more »
Love of wisdom, in angels and saints, is the love-child of wisdom and the Name, born of glory, unveiling the Name in uncreated light, glorifying the Name in uncreated glory. Love of wisdom is the angelic response to wisdom’s first love, inspiring saints to fall in love with wisdom’s beauty, loving wisdom’s glory to their life’s end. This ‘philosophy’ that inspires… Read more »