Saints are sinners who turn and see God in the midst, turning away from vanity as they turn round into God, painfully incomplete as sinners but trusting the completeness of grace to complete them. Grace loves to make sinners saints, so whilst sin separates them from holiness, grace hallows them with its completeness. Prophecy employs poetic prose to awaken hearts to wisdom,… Read more »
The Holy Name communicates the co-inherent communion of wisdom and glory, uniting the awareness and presence of God, transmitting wisdom’s awareness and glory’s presence in the Holy Name, ‘I AM who I AM.’ The revelation of God on Mount Sinai (Ex 3:14),was confirmed on Mount Tabor, embracing sinners unto repentance, turning awareness round to face saving presence face to face, not… Read more »
Older than memory, turning turns and seeing sees, beginning anew, making all things new. Older than prehistory, wisdom turns to return into glory as before the beginning and after the end. Older than creation, uncreated vision beholds glory restoring glory to glory before all falls from glory. Older than time, time is timeless in its revelation of timeless glory, outlasting time… Read more »
The thrice-holy Name of God reveals the Father’s reign with Christ in the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the hallowing commandments of God to love as God first loved God, before the beginning, raising the dead to resurrection in the end, inhabiting uncreated light of glory in between. Thrice-holy, the Name of Holy Trinity is key to the Spirit’s sevenfold healing of body and… Read more »
The way of glorification is ineffable in at least two ways, the hallowing way of glorification of God and the sanctifying way of glorification by God. The greater the glorification of God, the greater the glorification by God, which is the ineffable mystery of mutual, doxological reciprocation. From the beginning, reciprocation reveals the co-inherence of God and humanity, unfathomable in its… Read more »
The praxis of theoria is the practice of contemplative wisdom that sustains the vision of God in Holy Trinity, standing back from fixated conceptions and conventions. The Spirit blows where it wills, inspiring the practice of wisdom that nourishes the remembrance of God. The eye of wisdom penetrates through obscurities, leaping right over mountains of resistance, leaving no trace of… Read more »
Can dancing hope renew trust with love? Can dancing love restores hope with glorifying trust? Will dancing trust generate beauty with hope-filled jubilation? Jubilee celebration unites generations with dancing ecstasy, calling sacred and secular to dance one dance, empowering young and old to dance without restraint, bearing unspoken witness to wisdom’s dance of glory in heavenly realms. Rainbow light dances with spontaneous… Read more »
The cultivation of metanoia, turning, upholds theoria, seeing, which awakens the eye of the heart to wisdom, initiating seers into healing glory. Theosis, deification, begins when metanoia turns awareness round and centres in God in the heart, seeing God, through God in God, Holy Trinity. Vision of God, theoria, is not visual perception or imaginative visualisation but pure awareness of uncreated, originating presence,… Read more »
Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954) said that evil begins where the person begins, inverting the vision of the person that inspired Saint Sophrony the Hesychast, turning Holy Orthodoxy into an ideological gnosticism serving totalitarian Russian nationalism. Ilyinism sharpened White Russian ideology into Slav Fascism, giving to Mussolini and Hitler the right-wing Hegelianism he thought they needed to oppose Bolshevism, justifying Russian totalitarianism. A century… Read more »
Joy loves grace in the hearts of martyrs who suffer in Christ’s Holy Name and who witness to the knowledge of the Most High, sealed with mystery since before the foundation of the world. Red martyrdom sheds blood that flows into the redemptive blood of Christ, whilst white martyrdom rejoins the uncreated light of Christ, both of them aware that uncreated life is… Read more »