The Apostle says that with faces unveiled, we reflect as mirrors the glory of the Lord and are transformed into his image from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18). Wisdom beholds the Name as a mirror, revealing glory to wisdom as presence to awakened awareness. The eye of the heart opens, unveiling face to face vision of uncreated glory…. Read more »
In St Columba’s underground cell on Hinba, old Gaelic for Isle of the Sea, inspired by Columba’s spiritual elder, Enda of Ireland, it was still possible to pray in the heart, pray in timeless light, lucid and luminous, unveiling primordial glory in the spontaneous immediacy of unconditioned grace. On retreat there in June 1974, this underground cell became a place of grace where… Read more »
Wisdom says: ‘Turn and see.’ The praxis of turning is called metanoia. It turns the nous right round so that awareness turns and awakens to illumined theoria, vision of God through God in God, in the heart. It steps back from oblivious perception into spiritual insight. It restores remembrance of God by awakening the ‘eye’ of the heart…. Read more »
The Stiperstones Rose is a perennial symbol of renewing wisdom. The Apostles transmitted living wisdom to elders, unveiling hidden depths of glory to the saints. Their living witness grounded glorification in a living and unbroken tradition, founded on two injunctions, to turn and to see: to turn from darkness into light and to see light through light. Turning opens… Read more »