God intends all to be saved, that all without exception shall come to completeness of wisdom in the knowledge of truth, truth that unveils glory in the Name (1Tim 2:3-4) The divine intention has glory in view from the beginning, generating wisdom that recapitulates everything in glory, unveiling consummate completeness, glory reconciling everything to God in the hallowed Name. The light… Read more »
Wisdom bears witness to the way of glory, inspired by the Spirit’s insight into luminous truth, glory of undying life. Desert wisdom has always known that the pure heart sees nothing but God in the midst, embracing transfigured creation off centre. Both Testaments unveil the Name but it is wisdom that unveils glory when the Name is hallowed. The kingdom… Read more »
Wisdom unveils the mysteries of Christ as a radical counter-culture of gift, grace lived as glory given and received. This culture of gift has very ancient roots in Israel’s Bridal Time when all things were held in common and mutual exchange was gift. Wisdom remembers that gift predates price, that generosity precedes the market and production to fulfil real needs outruns… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy shares her wisdom with all, the Name of Holy Trinity alight and alive in her elders as uncreated light of glory crowning her saints. Awareness of presence regenerates presence of awareness as wisdom renews glory in the saints. Utterly simple as pure prayer of the heart, Orthodox Tradition offers profound symbols to communicate her hallowing communion. Symbolism frees silence to… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of the Eternal Gospel (Revelation 14:6), glory unveiled by the prophets and witnessed by the apostles, wisdom awakening elders which imparts glory to the saints. Wisdom is God’s vision of God in God, Holy Trinity in act as uncreated energy, revealing an Eternal Gospel of ever-present grace. This gift of grace is God’s gift of God through God, a timeless… Read more »
Wisdom searches out the glory of the Name like a priceless pearl hidden in the depths of the ocean. The dive for the pearl abandons safe convention at the surface, risking all for the Name. Just as a merchant sells all that he has for the pearl of great price, so wisdom renounces all for the glory of God’s Kingdom… Read more »
The union of wisdom and glory, awareness and presence, unveils the dazzling darkness of the Name and illumines mystical theology from within. The wisdom praxis of turning is one with wise theoria, enlightened seeing, and this practice of turned vision in God is a union of wisdom and glory, mystical theology. As the ground of all that is arising, ‘I AM’ is Father… Read more »
Transfiguration unveils the face of Christ, uncreated light and deifying glory, yet veils the revelatory Name from objectifying vanity or dualistic scrutiny. The countenance of God is unobstructed openness but remains hidden from self-interested reification. Saint Maximus the Confessor says that on Mount Tabor, the apostles beheld Christ transfigured, who “in appearing conceals himself, in hiding manifests himself,” (Ambigua to John 10). … Read more »
When there is suffering for God’s Name’s sake, love’s glory is revealed. When we are falsely accused and set aside, Christ secretly weds us to himself in the Bridal Chamber of hidden holiness, unveiling holy union in the Holy of Holies. We could never have received the hallowing grace of passionate love for him, if he had not first passionately… Read more »
Revelation of the Name is inconceivable and ineffable, being the glory unveiled to wisdom in the radical openness of the awakened heart. Hallowing the Name, the Kingdom comes but glory is unknowable and unutterable, even when wisdom opens the eye of the heart and the light of glory illumines. The Father generates the Son anew in every moment, so that when the Spirit… Read more »