The axis of pure turning is the heart in which everything turns round at centre, everything is decisively immersed in uncreated light, revealing deifying glory. When the heart turns, heaven turns, earth into heaven, heaven into earth, revealing glory at centre through wisdom. Active and receptive energies conjoin in the heart, dissolving delusion, undoing division. Dispersing doubt, clarifying confusion, fear’s reign of… Read more »
Today, March 12th, is the Feast Day of the Prophet of Prayer, Saint Symeon the New Theologian, whose prophetic writings have inspired pure prayer since his death in 1022. His ‘Hymns of Love’ declare that love is the uncreated light that illumines seers, love the ineffable glory that deifies saints. For the Prophet of Prayer, the New Covenant is a Covenant… Read more »
The fire of Spirit ignites the flame of wisdom, revealing burning glory through the unveiled Name. The Song of Songs awakens holy wisdom in the Holy of Holies, indwelling the cloud of unknowing like a spiritual marriage, generating rebirth in the Holy Spirit. Christ breathes the Holy Spirit into his disciples when he breathes on them, recreating them in the… Read more »
Pure attention is spontaneous when recognition awakens with respectful recognition. Straining and stressing strive to attain this, but respect re-spects it through wisdom, and recognition re-cognises it through glory, awakening respectful recognition. The receptivity of the moon hallows the earth, welcoming the blazing activity of the sun, symbol of hallowing heaven, conjoining heaven and earth. The spiritual alchemy of wisdom lies… Read more »
Turning the light of attention round is decisive, because the living waters of uncreated light baptise awareness when it recognises the uncreated energy of glory, awakening enlightening energy that unites the mind with the heart. Attention is always decisive, because it unites active wisdom with receptive glory, awakening uncreated creativity in the cave of the heart. Attention turns the mind around so that… Read more »
Mystical Theology, for Hesychast Wisdom, is theological theophany, opening deification, called the angelic estate, to integral wisdom. The sciences of the soul find their fulfilment in theophany as do the sciences of humanity, because the fulfilment of humankind is cosmic as well as divine-human. Cosmotheandric theophany is truly integral in its insight into cosmic dimensions of divine-human love, agape, unselfish love that,… Read more »
Formless metanoia turns the light of awareness round so that formless theoria sees the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven. The Father is the source of the Son’s generation and the Spirit’s procession, but the vision of God is formless, transcending sensation and perception. The practice of formless theoria discerns the glory of grace deifying sinners,… Read more »
The Holy Spirit of Truth frees the heart from the bondage of distracting thoughts, stilling the mind in the heart, awakening the spirit of humankind to the loving-kindness of God. The golden energy of uncreated light crowns seers with the golden light of God’s throne, filling lower and higher energy centres with light, uniting both with the glory of God Most High. Golden… Read more »
Mari Yah, my Lord, Thou art ‘I AM,’ my God, revealing EHYEH, God’s Name, mystery of mysteries in the Holy of Holies. Wondrous beyond words, revealed by the Word, God’s Word names the Name, unveiling God, astonishing hearts with astounded amazement. O Mari Yah, bless humble awareness with dazzling glory, for Thou art my Lord, Thou art my God! ‘Mari, my… Read more »
March 1st is the Patronal Feast of Saint David of Wales, who died around AD 600, but whose legacy still resonates here in the small city of St Davids. In his ‘Life of Saint David,’ Rhygyfarch, 1056-1099, mentions three gifts offered to Sanctus, David’s father, in honour of Saint David: the stag, the fish and the honeycomb from a hive of bees. These three gifts… Read more »