Wondrous grace inspires awestruck gratitude, dissolving fear into wholesome thanksgiving. Awestruck wonder edges the soul towards turning, metanoia, which generously generates seeing, theoria, contemplation of light in light. Together, turning and seeing purify and illumine the heart, giving wing to glory. Together, purification and illumination cleanse the heart so that God’s Name is hallowed and reign of glory welcomed…. Read more »
Hesychasm was a big surprise. Here was wisdom, turning the light of awareness around to behold the presence of glory at the heart of awareness. Here was turning, metanoia, uniting heaven and earth, whilst seeing, theoria, united uncreated light with uncreated glory. The practice of turning the light of awareness around was here still sustaining the practice of seeing to purify… Read more »
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The Kingdom comes when the Name is hallowed, unveiling the freedom of grace. Grace is complete freedom, releasing the strain and stress of laboured effort, letting go of the struggle to achieve what is always already graciously given. Faith puts its trust in grace, generating confidence in the unconditionality of God’s blessing rather than in conditioned attempts to earn grace as… Read more »
The timeless expansion of awareness in illumination arises together with the continuing temporal contraction of awareness in purification because whilst glory breaks in with illumination, temporal awareness reasserts itself, dividing future glory from past glory, reducing timeless presence to a fleeting present. Purification of the heart is already illumination in action, but temporal fluctuation subjects experience of uncreated light to unevenness, a coming… Read more »
Wisdom discerns Christ restore glory to the Father in the Spirit, discerning Christ glorified ascribing glory to the Father in seven eyes of the Spirit which deploy the glory of the single eye of the heart to every centre of awareness and presence of deified human being, well-being and timeless being. Wisdom beholds God’s God-centred glorification of God curing all seven spiritual eyes of… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy has its strong ethnic dimensions but at heart it is the right-glorification of the Father by the Son, the Orthodox glorification of the Son by the Father and the Orthodox glorification of the Father by the Spirit in union with the Son. What is decisive, therefore, is not ethnic acculturation but the hallowing glorification of the Father by the Son… Read more »
The witness of the desert is heard in timeless stillness, HESYCHIA, giving Hesychast wisdom a timeless quality. The stages of the growth of spiritual maturation and restoration: purification, illumination and glorification, do appear to manifest in different tenses, purification anticipating illumination, glorification referring back to illumination and illumination to purification, but the sequential drama is more like a temporal play in… Read more »
Heaven and earth are filled with glory, glory which wisdom ascribes to God when the eye of the heart awakens, seeing not just empty space but glory, perceiving not only observable astronomical phenomena but presence of glory, discerning not terrestrial phenomena exclusively but creation transfigured by glory. Prophecy in the desert imparts wisdom’s vision of glory by discerning God’s revelation of… Read more »
When the Apostle speaks of the wisdom, revelation and knowledge of God, he speaks in his Epistle to the Ephesians of the awakening of the eye of the heart (Eph 1:17-18). Without this hallowing awakening of the eye of the heart, there can be faith understood as conventional belief, but not trust in wisdom and revelation that yields true knowledge of God…. Read more »