To know yourself is to know God, according to the ‘Letters of Saint Antony the Great,’ so to turn and see is to awaken to God at centre in the midst, which wisdom does when she beholds the glory of God. According to Saint Maximus the Confessor, the Name reveals oneness of being, well-being and timeless openness of being, by awakening to… 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 »
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 »
Grace glorifies those who glorify God in his Name, crowning seers enthroned in Christ, whose glory deifies them. Graced crowning vindicates all who trust God in his Name, opening the mysteries of the throne of grace. Vanity is consumed by glory when wisdom unveils the uncreated Face of God, redeeming saints from vainglory and pride. Grace reveals great mysteries of… Read more »
Persecution of the Name is rife in an age of nihilism, although the Name extinguishes fear and hallows the persecuted. Elders take heart when the Name is hallowed, enthroning saints in glory, crowning them with wisdom. The Name searches minds and hearts, revealing grace from beginning to end and from first to last. Suffering for God’s Name is often excruciating, severing… Read more »
When glory is aware of itself, it is wisdom and when wisdom is aware of its heavenly realm, it is glory. The reciprocity of wisdom and glory lies hidden at the heart of the Name, aware and present in each person of the Holy Trinity and therefore: ‘thrice-holy.’ The Name saves by virtue of the wisdom and glory it reveals. Realms… Read more »
The Name of God is uncreated light, turning awareness round from divisive separation into indivisible union, awakening wisdom through glory in realms of uncreated grace. Turning reverses the fall from grace by purifying and illumining the heart, awakening wisdom that glorifies God. Effort is employed for a time to discover effortless grace, revealing the wisdom of theoria that discerns the glory of… Read more »
The spirit congeals in the cave of the heart when awareness turns and presence sees, crystallising glory. Suddenly light dawns and the heart is receptive like a bride. Wisdom acts decisively without striving to grasp anything created or acquire anything conditioned, being radically unconditioned grace. The way of Name-hallowing is at once active and receptive, unveiling the mysteries of the Song of… Read more »
The moment of truth is ever-present, timelessly initiating us into purification and illumination, timelessly deifying us in Christ’s glorification. The moment of truth is death, death overcoming death by death, baptising us into Christ’s resurrection and ascension, raising us into his glory. The mystery of Christ’s glory is revealed in his death, for it is the cross that unveils the Lord… Read more »
Uriel’s name means the ‘fire of God,’ and Oriel’s name the ‘light of God,’ and both were sometimes called Phanuel, the ‘presence of God,’ because fire and light both reveal the presence of God that guards the gates of paradise. Uriel manifested Seraphic fire whereas Oriel communicated Cherubic light, both protecting the unveiled face of God’s presence from profanation and satanic… Read more »