Christ, for Orthodox Hesychasm, is the wisdom of God, all-embracing in his expansive openness but utterly specific in his rooted human transfigurement (1 Cor 1:24 & 30). Desert wisdom is intrinsically mystical theology because prophecy and prayer belong in the midst of the mysteries of the Holy Trinity. Prophecy in the desert communicates Christ’s witness to the Name, expressing the wholeness… Read more »
Wisdom in the desert regenerates the imagination, inspiring radical transforming vision, renewing the language and imagery of vision for an age that has lost vision. Desert wisdom retells old myths and stories in new, liberating ways, to awaken hearts in times that have lost faith in wisdom. Desert prophecy was always radically counter-cultural, inspiring imagery that regenerates degenerated imagination, imagination conditioned… Read more »
Wisdom, clear as crystal, flows from the glory that enthrones the Name, communicating the life-blood of boundless love that flows forth as grace from the wounds of the slaughtered lamb, restoring healing glory to the Father in his Kingdom. Christ dwells in the midst of this glory, enthroned with the Father at centre, where all centres coincide. He is the wisdom… Read more »
Desert wisdom beholds the glory of grace which sustains the incomprehensible mysteries of revelation. It understands the dogmas of the Church to be mysteries of grace which wisdom embraces as glory without confusion or division, beyond delusion and separation. The way of doxological negation does not fixate on itself as destructive nihilism but negates negation and so releases nihilism as well… Read more »
The mystical theology of Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm speaks words of wisdom as prophecy which elders impart to awaken prayer, but elders know it is the Spirit that utters ineffable words in the heart that open the eye of the heart. The Apostle Paul says he cannot express what was communicated to him as ineffable utterance in the third heaven (2… Read more »
The Eternal Gospel (Rev 14:6), is unveiled in the desert as the hidden gospel concealed from before the foundation of the world, the primordial gospel unveiling the most ancient of days, the timeless Day of the revealed Name, awareness of wisdom and presence of glory. The Eternal Gospel unveils ‘I AM’ in the midst, inspiring glad tidings that are timeless,… Read more »
Desert elders abide in the Holy Name of God, ‘I AM,’ a union of deifying awareness and uncreated presence which reveals the enlightened state of hallowed glorification as wisdom’s living stream to the saints. ‘I AM’ is ever-present as timeless awareness, but without recognition, there is no remembrance of God, only the endless confusion of conditioning thoughts grasping at conditioned phenomena, or… Read more »
Christ reveals God’s Name ‘I AM’ in the light of ineffable glory, breathing the Spirit of Truth into resurrected hearts. The Spirit seals the heart with Christ’s wisdom mysteries of ineffable glorification, uniting knower and known in God through God. The uncreated countenance of ‘I AM’ never turns away from those who turn and see. ‘I AM’ does not disown his… Read more »
Christ is primordially aware and present in the pure realm of the Spirit’s unceasing prayer in the heart, easily bearing the heavy burdens of fear, lightening the darkness of narrow and shallow religion. He is aware and present as ‘I AM,’ his saving Name, YAH SHUAH, ‘I AM saves,’ Jesus. The prayer of Jesus becomes the Spirit’s unceasing prayer in the… Read more »
Angels glorify God, inspired by wisdom that communicates God-centred glorification. Saints have tended to experience angels as messengers of God but angels transcend what they do as messengers by partaking in the light and grace of unceasing glorification. Angels belong to the invisible creation which Christ unites with our visible creation in his incarnation, a union of illumination and glorification… Read more »