Like prophets and apostles, elders do impart wisdom, but it is not a sophisticated worldly wisdom but God’s hidden wisdom that discerns the glory of the Age to Come, (Olam Ha Ba), which is the glory of God’s Kingdom come. The mysteries of glory are the unveilings of ‘I AM’ in glory, Christ’s hidden mysteries of the hallowing Name. These… Read more »
God intends all to be saved, that all without exception shall come to completeness of wisdom in the knowledge of truth, truth that unveils glory in the Name (1Tim 2:3-4) The divine intention has glory in view from the beginning, generating wisdom that recapitulates everything in glory, unveiling consummate completeness, glory reconciling everything to God in the hallowed Name. The light… Read more »
Wisdom is not only love of beauty, philokalia, but is in love with beauty, wedded to glory that is beautiful and loves beauty. Saint Denis sees this glorious co-inherence as wisdom’s vision of theadrocosmic radiance, a resplendent icon of divine beauty that embraces the cosmos with Christ’s divine-human glory. Visible worlds are theophanies of invisible glory, but this is visible through Christ’s grace… Read more »
Our human lives are sealed by the signature of God, written ineffably in our hearts, saying: ‘I AM’ is God’s Name, revealing God, through God, in God. In Ode 23 of the Odes of Solomon, the Odist sings of the revelatory Name as God’s dispatch, his sealed letter, shot like an arrow from his bow to unveil the insignia of the… Read more »
The Logos, said the Apostle, is not yes and no but always Yes, always Amen, always glory to God, always glorification in God (2 Cor1:18-20). The Logos in the beginning, the Logos with God in the primordial arche, the Logos who is God from God, is always ‘Yes,’ always the primordial ‘Yes,’ the originative ‘Amen,’ the first glory and the very last… Read more »
The Apostle imparted wisdom discerning the glory of release, folly to the powers that be, but liberation of vainglory into glory when wisdom turns and sees. The Logos of the cross of unselfish love, apparently powerless against these powers, crucifies their pretentious parodies of God. The Name conceals unconditional glory unbinding whatever powers have bound, unveiled by wisdom so that… Read more »
Eternal life in Christ is liberating release, undoing every reified fixation as way of revelatory truth. It is deifying life lived out of ‘I AM,’ God dwelling in the midst, the uncreated light of Christ overflowing as transforming grace in disinterested love. The Name is God’s liberating presence in our midst, which is our life in God, present in his… Read more »