The Apostle imparted wisdom discerning the glory of release, folly to the powers that be, but liberation of vainglory into glory when wisdom turns and sees. The Logos of the cross of unselfish love, apparently powerless against these powers, crucifies their pretentious parodies of God. The Name conceals unconditional glory unbinding whatever powers have bound, unveiled by wisdom so that… Read more »
The Holy Name of Jesus is witness to glory that is profoundly mysterious, not something that is observable in a science laboratory, but which manifests in any oratory of the desert if we put in practice the living tradition’s spiritual injunction to turn and see. Glory appears on the horizon as a sacred origin and a sacred destination once turning… Read more »
Break-through into Godhead does not privilege the Father alone but also unveils through the Son as release from worldly powers, and in the Spirit as anarchic arche of freedom. Wisdom breaks through calculation and control to retrieve boundless glory, irrupting from the Father, opening to wisdom through the Son, releasing unbound glory in the Spirit. The Holy Name ‘I AM’ is… Read more »
In the desert, philosophy ceases as the unceasing wisdom of the poor in spirit dawns. Metaphysics, which reified the revelatory moments of wisdom’s unfolding, dissolves as wisdom cleanses the heart. True poverty of spirit is the action of wisdom’s radiance not a sophisticated conceptual clarification. Wisdom throws metaphysics into crisis as glory opens old ways in the desert, ways… Read more »
The Odes of Solomon bear witness that nothing is outside God or opposed to God (Ode 34). As above, so below, revealing that below is naught in itself, being heaven above wed with earth here below, known in God through God, as God alone knows. For the Odist, God became as we are so that we may be as he… Read more »
The Apostle says he imparts wisdom, the secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God ordained before the ages for our glory (1 Cor 2:7). This wisdom no eye sees, no ear hears, nor heart imagines, but love prepares for all who love God. all who love enemies as themselves. This hidden wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit to… Read more »
The integral Orthodox wisdom of ‘I AM’ with divine predicates handles multiple Orthodox perspectives within flexible, expanding meta-perspectives, which are timelessly renewed by trans-persectival Orthodox wisdom, the wisdom of ‘I AM’ beyond all predicates. This trans-persectival wisdom heals narcissistic nihilism by guiding narrow, shallow perspectives toward wider and deeper meta-perspectives, capable of embracing what their divisive exclusions were condemning. Free… Read more »
The ‘eye’ of wisdom in the desert sees the divine union of seer and seen, the single ‘eye’ that unites all into one light, one love, one glory. Here, the sound of silence deafens and dark nights dazzle. Here, where an abandoned miner’s cottage was re-inhabited on the edge of the inhabited world, an outlying ruin became… Read more »
Wisdom in the desert is a tree of life whose fruits spontaneously open to release glory. Elders let each fruit release its seeds of light so that saints embrace eternal life. Wisdom’s tree in paradise bears many fruits that open to release glory, full to overflowing with different gifts of healing, opening old wounds to cure them, enabling open wounds… Read more »
Glory throws symbols like rainbow bridges between the uncreated and the created, symbols like light and fire, symbols which wisdom beholds as uncreated, creative energies unifying unity and difference in ways that confusion and division conceal. Uncreated energies wed creation in holy unions of hallowing unity and wholesome difference, a holy love-play between wisdom and glory that sees awareness as… Read more »
