Incisive glorification penetrates all ages of enlightened awareness, all dimensions of uncreated presence, opening earth to highest heaven in the empowering Name. The wisdom of the Cross is consummated with the glory of the Name, saving all with love, glorifying all with hallowing holiness. Life in God is God’s way of hallowing those who turn and see his uncreated presence… Read more »
Christ came to reveal union with God, confirmed by the Holy Spirit as communion with God among saints and angels, revealing union as deifying communion in all through all. Christ was himself the union he came to bring, but he gave his life and shared himself with all, emptying himself out into all to save all. Not all are willing… Read more »
Unknowing knows as it is known, which is wisdom’s way of knowing, not to be confused with nihilistic agnosticism or relativist ignorance, which does not know as it is known. Wisdom’s way of knowing transcends dualistic knowledge, so is described as unknowing, but knows that it humbly knows as wisdom knows, surrendering the controlling desire to know. Love knows in this way, transcending faith… Read more »
The still centre of infinite wisdom is love, ineffable love deeper than sentiment, transcending conceptual thought and imagination. The wonder of love bewilders the mind, awakening the heart, silencing mental chatter. Wisdom is pure awareness witnessing the meaning of love, stilling the heart beyond all expectation. The wisdom of pure awareness transcends the mental mutations of the murmering mind, seeing God… Read more »
A dynamic throne of uncreated glory soars over confusion and division, ever-moving like a merkabah chariot, revealing the dynamic energy of glory. The saving Name is also dynamic, well able to secure wisdom amidst the raging powers of worldliness. Stillness rests in peace through the power of the Name, secured by the Spirit of Truth. Error dissolves into truth when… Read more »
Love’s well-being is timeless as wisdom, beholding the good, sees all shall be well when timeless glory reveals the completeness of being, well-being and timeless well-being. Mother Julian of Norwich was shown the timeless wisdom of Christ in the prophets, apostles, martyrs and saints when she beheld Christ crucified and resurrected in the power of the Name (Showing of Love Ch.32). Love was… 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 sovereign majesty of God in Scripture is intimately connected with the glory of God, kabod in Hebrew, doxa in Greek. The glory revealed on Mount Sinai is the glory of the Name, the majesty of God unveiled in tabernacle and temple, the majestic glory that leaves the corrupted temple and adorns Christ in his incarnation, full of grace and… Read more »
Orthodox asceticism is training in unselfish love, turning the light of awareness round into uncreated light, seeing God with the single eye of the awakened heart, glorifying God with the deifying glory of hallowing glorification. Metanoia turns the mind back into the heart where love dwells in God, enabling seers to see God’s love with God’s eye of wisdom, theoria, opening… Read more »
Resurrection reveals love and love trusts resurrection. Trust in love and trust in resurrection are one holy mystery. Holy Orthodoxy teaches that training in love is asceticism in resurrection, purification of the heart, illumination of the mind in the heart and deification in the glory of love. Love trusts love because God first loved us, empowering us to love God in… Read more »