The purified heart beholds the vision of God that illumines saints in the age to come, restoring glory to God that was lost when the fall deprived seers of wisdom. The ineffability of wisdom discerns the openness of glory, awakening wisdom to the spontaneous presence of glory in the Oneness of the Name. The Spirit of truth abides with Christ… Read more »
Saint Sophrony the Hesychast imparted purification of the heart through illumination in uncreated light rather than through rational explanation, overcoming separation by curing confusion, communicating communion by overcoming division. His vision of uncreated light on the Holy Mountain of Athos was communicated in the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit, through the uncreated light of Christ, unveiling the uncreated wisdom and… Read more »
The Dance of Co-inherence is first of all a dance of God in God through God as Holy Trinity, then a dance of uncreated and created energies in Christ that embraces us by grace in the Holy Spirit, then a dance of wisdom and glory in the Holy of Holies that Biblical prophecy calls the Bridal Chamber. On the natural… Read more »
Doxological stillness transcends all identities but playfully offers an identity, ‘Orthodox Hesychasm,’ that situates it in the human world of identities and stories. Stillness abides in the glory of the age to come by indwelling uncreated light as wisdom beholding glory at the heart of the world. Stillness is doxological in ways that include many stories, many identities, without identifying with… Read more »
Christ reveals his glory in us by sending the Spirit to unveil his wisdom to us, deifying creation in us for the good of all, completing the circle of completeness. Deification is the grace of Christ’s resurrection and ascension conjoined with the grace of Christ’s glorification, which descends with the Spirit like a dove. Ascent transcends all resistance to God whilst… Read more »
Wisdom dances with glory within everything, unseen until wisdom turns and sees the glory of God in the midst. The insights of wisdom are not logic or science, but prophetic vision, valued in the desert but undervalued today. Prophecy employs poetry inspired by the Spirit, not futuristic speculation. The dance of glory is invisible although visible in the dance of stars, which encircle each other… Read more »
The Song of the Name is not unreasonable in its humble awareness of God present and aware of God’s ever-present awareness, humbly aware of the presence and awareness of God. But it is in unknowing that awareness knows as it is known. When rationalistic thinking usurps the heart, what is lost is awareness of the body as uncreated light. This… Read more »
Uncreated energy is winged, giving creation grace to rise with heavenly wings into heavenly realms, like angels whose deified lives are winged, or Seraphic flame partaking in winged Cherubic embrace, images of the ineffable that resonate with music of unseen spheres. Uncreated energy is creative, generating wondrous ways of being renewed by the uncreated imagination, deifying elders and saints with uncreated… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the union of beauty and glory in paradise, the paradise that transfigures the earth with the union of holiness. Heaven and earth are conjoined as a visible union in the Holy of Holies, whilst the invisible is joined with the visible in the Holiest of Holies. The holy heart of the Holiest conjoins creation with uncreated glory, which his… Read more »
When Dom Henri Le Saux, known in India as Abhishiktananda, awoke to the Name as he was awakened by the wisdom of the Name, he turned as he was turned, recognising the enlightening presence of wisdom. Seeing glory as glory is seen by wisdom, he cried out: “I have found the Grail.” Dying into God, as he almost died of a heart… Read more »