Christly wisdom is a tree of life, whose truth is lived as way and whose way of life is union of spirit and truth. There is here a union of truth and way, lived as wisdom’s tree of timeless life. The Name is way, truth and life, divine life being the union of truth, discerned in theoria, and way, lived as praxis of turning, metanoia. Glory… Read more »
In the darkness before dawn, the dawn star of wisdom rises all glorious within. When wisdom turns and sees, the noetic intelligence descends into the awakened heart, uniting with the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit praying ‘Abba, Father,’ in our midst. The Kingdom of the dawn star is within us so whoever seeks for it outside will be… Read more »
Wisdom blesses the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God’s hallowed Name. The Kingdom is spontaneously present as the grace of glory when the Father generates the Son in us, and the Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, praying ‘Abba, Father,’ in our midst. Triune mysteries remain ineffable even when wisdom discerns their… Read more »
The Orthodox Catholicity of Apostolic Hesychasm springs from the uncreated grace of union, which is deifying participation in the union of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. It is hidden with Christ in God until the mysteries of glorification are unveiled to wisdom. It is unveiled when we turn and see God, through God, in God, Holy… Read more »
Orthodoxy is Catholic and Apostolic when it sings its wisdom songs to transmit its mysteries to the hearts of mankind as a whole, free of all tribal narrowness and self-interested shallowness. It does not exist to tell the ethnic Orthodox they are right to belong to their tribe of ethnic Orthodoxy or to confirm the ethnic Orthodox in their self- interested… Read more »
Wisdom unveils the light of glory in Christ’s Cross of love: revealing God, through God the slaughtered Lamb, in God. The awakened heart sees seer and seen as one in wisdom, knowing God through God in God. This seeing is a knowing in God by grace, and grace is God’s uncreated energy of glory in act. Knowing in God… Read more »
Wisdom inspires a heavenly cloud of witnesses like a swarm of bees, a communion of angels and saints resonant as one uncreated presence in many voices. Together, they unveil a hidden mystery of glory, which is a Oneness of being alight in many seers, and a Oneness of seeing revealed in many beings. There is here a co-inherence of the… Read more »
The wisdom of turning opens to the mysteries of seeing and ascent so that the mysteries of glory may descend to turn hells of separation into heavens of deifying union. The demons of fear cling to these hells because they are the product of fear’s exclusions. Angels and saints embrace wisdom which empties these hells by overcoming the powers of… Read more »
Mary the Mother of God abides on the Holy Mountain as a radiant emptiness, surrounded by monks whose hearts resonate with her wisdom hymns. Invisible to the naked eye, she is seen by the eye of the heart, surrounded with uncreated light. In 1903, a photograph caught her and her flame of uncreated love passing a seated monk in the… Read more »
There has been a dark night of wisdom in the west for several centuries as science and technology have drawn the energies of intelligence away from the uncreated energies of glory at centre, leaving us high and dry on the shores of empirical rationality off-centre. Wisdom handles this dark night as an unavoidable void that empties one-sided extremes and opens… Read more »
