Wisdom awakens the ‘eye of the heart’ to the uncreated glory of God’s reign, opening to the timeless presence of uncreated light, revealing vision of God in the ‘Eternal Now’ of God’s Holy Name. Presumptious parodies fall far short of uncreated glory, failing to give glory to God, but the eternal covenant of uncreated grace restores glory to God, redeeming… Read more »
Wisdom is ineffable in the openness of stillness. Oneness of God’s presence abides in silence. Stillness infuses solitude with wise ineffability. Saint Thomas Sunday
Stillness abides in uncreated light, revealing glory to wisdom, knowing God as God knows God, transcending worldly knowledge. Stillness awakens the inmost heart where God dwells, revealing glory to wisdom, uniting awareness with presence through the Holy Name of God. Hesychast tradition bears witness to the divine presence, partaking in the timeless life of heaven, which is God’s eternal life in heavenly… Read more »
The Beloved Disciple communicates love, having first been loved, which is why love became the overarching theme of the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation. Forty-two Odes of love were the Church’s first Hymn Book from the circle of the Beloved Disciple, lost for many centuries but found again by the Quaker scholar, James… Read more »
The mystery of glory is revealed by wisdom but hidden from ambitious scrutiny which seeks to puff up pride. When wisdom is awakened, pride is humbled, because vainglory subjects glory to vanity instead of restoring glory to God. Hell is what happens to heaven when pride rides roughshod over wisdom, preferring arbitrary opinion to wise discernment. That is why self-condemnation to… Read more »
Orthodox Hesychasm centres in the heart with vigilant awareness, revealing flawless purity of heart in uncreated light, image and likeness of the radiant beauty of translucent glory. The uncreated clarity of compassionate wisdom severs the passions from their addictive clinging, transplanting them in God as passionate love of God, practicing wisdom with the directness of pure awareness. Quintessentially, the heart… Read more »
Faith trusts in God, seeing as God sees, knowing as God knows, recollecting God through God, recognising God in God, remembering God as God remembers God in Holy Trinity. Sometimes, faith is called ‘blind faith’ because faith does not see as we see, visually perceiving something, or know as we know, empirically experiencing something knowable, but this way of speaking does… Read more »
The remembrance of God cannot stabilise until recognition of God awakens the heart, uniting awareness and energy in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit breathes life into the heart with uncreated energy, purifying the heart with uncreated light. Stillness lives from purity of heart, giving new life to Hesychast tradition, renewing it with the wisdom and glory of the Name, restoring remembrance with recognition…. Read more »
The Gospel of Jesus Christ begins with metanoia, turning, to reveal theoria, vision of God’s Kingdom, opening the eye of the heart to wisdom, consummating love of God in glorification. Wisdom conjoins heaven and earth in the glory of the Name, discerning the uncreated light of the Gospel, treasuring the pearl of great price in the womb of the heart. Embryonic union… Read more »
Hallowing the Name cannot be separated from the reign of the Name, because God is the subject and object of both, his uncreated awareness discerning uncreated presence in the Name. Purity of heart blesses those who turn and see God with the eye of wisdom, discerning uncreated glory with the single eye of uncreated light. The practice of the presence of God is… Read more »