When the light of awareness is turned around, heaven unites with earth at centre in the midst. Wisdom shines with formless light on earth, as in heavenly realms, awakening tongues of uncreated flame, purifying the pearl in Pentecostal fire. The Holy Spirit does not get confused but consumes dark hardness of heart, turning creation round into uncreated translucence. Conventional… Read more »
The wisdom of the Holy Name reveals ineffable awareness of uncreated presence, whereas the glory of the Holy Name reveals ineffable oneness of uncreated openness. Wisdom cuts through confusion, awakening awareness to uncreated presence and presence to uncreated awareness, whereas glory leaps over division to abide in deifying oneness, rising into the glory of ineffable openness. Revealing uncreated openness by… Read more »
Come and listen, listen and see! Be still and know ‘I AM’ : God revealing God. Behold God-centred wisdom revealing the glory of God. Open the eye of your heart to God’s reign of glory, letting wisdom turn awareness round and see. Come and be the seeing that God sees, know the well-being that God knows, be the knowing that… Read more »
Awakening hearts hear as well as see the hidden glory that wisdom sings, turning awareness round to hear God in the midst, turning to listen to God’s presence in the silence of the night. Glory is invisible to visual perception and inaudible to aural perception, but wisdom discerns God at centre in the midst. Awakened hearts, enlightened by wisdom, contemplate the… Read more »
Encircled by love, gratitude gives thanks that grace illumines and deifies as glory descends to meet ascending light, uniting in the saving Name. Grace encircles light with love, restoring glory to God by hallowing the Name. The Lord’s Prayer reveals how hallowing the Name of the Father, Abba, glorifies Christ’s reign of uncreated grace, completing God’s holy will of union in… Read more »
The Wisdom of the Cross discerns the wondrous realms of love, but it is child-like trust that actually enters the heavenly realms of glorious love. Mother Wisdom works her magic in the liminal realms of childhood, countering the demonic powers that rule this world. Love’s magic spells enchant childhood with drama and mystery, powerfully rooting life in wholesome goodness. The magic… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the difference between communion and confusion, difference and division, distinguishing between demonic parody and divine paradox in spheres of wisdom and glory. Crucial difference stems from the wisdom of the Cross which separates delusion from glory by consuming vanity from vainglory. The Cross of timeless wisdom lies at the very heart of Christian Orthodoxy because wisdom lies at the heart… Read more »
Saint Clement of Alexandria discerned the wisdom of the Logos beyond the visible boundaries of Christianity, together with purification, illumination and deification in the uncreated light of the Logos of glory, arising in different wisdoms within the all-embracing scope of the eternal Logos. This gave Patristic wisdom insight into sound wisdom traditions beyond the visible Christian tradition, insight that was directly inspired… Read more »
Wisdom is the state of seeing that seeing (theoria) sees when seeing turns (metanoia) and sees as it is seen by God, turning round to know God, as God is known by God (theosis) in Holy Trinity. The grace of wisdom was always the inspiration of wisdom in Scripture and Patristic Tradition, the state of enlightened vision inspiring holiness in… Read more »
Christ prays: ‘Father, glorify thy Name. The Father, in a peal of thunder, answers: I have glorified it and will glorify it again’ ( John 12: 28). The hour of glorification casts out the ruler of this world and his demon minions, lifting up the Son of Man. Christ is glorified in his Name, which is the seed of the… Read more »