The Word names the hallowing Name, revealing the glory of the Father, through the wisdom of the Son in the peace of the Holy Spirit, unveiling God’s blessed Reign in his Name. Hallowing the Name, Kiddush haShem, sanctifies saints who die to death before they die, rise from the dead to ascend in uncreated light, glorified by the uncreated grace of the… Read more »
Saint Silouan taught that love of enemies was the criterion of genuine Orthodoxy, revealing costly love that resists enemies who invade to destroy a neighbouring people accused of being a mythic enemy. But how does love remain faithful to Christ in the Spirit, restoring glory to the Father’s reign of the Name, so as not to return evil for evil? When an Orthodox… 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 »
Grace saves by purifying the heart, enlightening the mind in the heart and glorifying God in both mind and heart. There is no division when there is no confusion of mind or heart, empowering glorification of God that communicates glorification by God. Grace saves with uncreated light, seeing as it is seen in every dimension, opening the three dimensions of length, breadth… 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 »
Wisdom rests in peace in the glory of God, abiding at centre where God centres in God, through God. The heavens of the heart wed the earth in the heart, opening death to resurrecting life. Christ rests in peace in the Father’s presence, embraced by the Spirit, who proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son. Peace is therefore… Read more »
There is no confusion for simple wisdom, no division for wholesome glorification. Wisdom is simple in the midst of purified awareness, indivisible at the heart of enlightening presence. Obscuration dissolves when awareness turns, because obstructions are extinguished by the surrounding flame of the paradise Name. Wherever awareness turns, wisdom sees a heavenly earth wedded to an earthly heaven. Heaven regenerates… Read more »
The dancing presence of wisdom fills the heavens with uncreated glory, singing wisdom songs that glorify God, through God, in God. Holy Trinity is not rigid, reified dogmatism but revelation of dancing presence, unveiling the round dance of God’s three persons among angels and saints in heaven, resounding on earth as the holy dance of heaven. Holy Orthodoxy inspired persons… Read more »
The light of life casts no shadow and knows no death as it turns and sees light of glory in the midst. The material body takes up space because it has length, breadth and height, but if awareness identifies exclusively with these three spatial dimensions, it plunges awareness into confusion and splits presence into divisive dualism, like demons in hell. But if awareness… Read more »
When awareness turns to unite with presence, wisdom turns to unveil glory, empowered by the reign of glory to reveal its presence on earth as in heaven. Of course, the reign of glory is always present in the Spirit and when the eye of the heart is awake, but is hidden with Christ in God when the eye of the heart… Read more »