Christly wisdom is a tree of life, whose truth is lived as way and whose way of life is union of spirit and truth. There is here a union of truth and way, lived as wisdom’s tree of timeless life. The Name is way, truth and life, divine life being the union of truth, discerned in theoria, and way, lived as praxis of turning, metanoia. Glory… Read more »
Bees mirror the uncreated love which does not seek its own. Such love forgives and gives life, like the uncreated, loving energy of the cross which radiates divine glory from before the foundation of the world. The Church of God circles round Christ, wisdom of God, like bees around their queen. Wisdom births us spiritually like the queen bee births the… Read more »
‘With thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light.’ Psalm 36:9. Saint Gregory Palamas bears witness that it is in uncreated light that the glory of uncreated light is seen. In Patristic tradition, there is no created way for creatures to know the uncreated. All created ways and means such as discursive reason fall short of… Read more »
Orthodoxy means right-glorification and Saint Silouan said Orthodoxy is lived as love of enemies. The Apostle Paul bore witness that love’s glory is uncreated grace which wisdom discerns as the glory of the age to come. In Christ, glory is breaking in by grace but Orthodox sinners are painfully aware of falling short of glory, which the Apostle called vainglory. They… Read more »
‘Cry, cry, cry, thou upsurging depths, what distant terrors your vast threatenings hold. Come forth for what you are. Turn, burn and bleed. Resist no more and live.’ Journal January 1st 1965. In ‘Wisdom, Prophecy and Prayer’ 2014, Chapter 58 of Century 3 takes up this word, received well over fifty years ago. Turning is purification that consumes confusion… Read more »
The Eye of the Needle, a gaping hole in the Devil’s Chair on the Stiperstones, points to remembrance of God, opening the eye of the heart to bright stillness. Holy Hesychia is the stillness that finds the narrow way, the eye of the needle that opens to God’s glory through God in God. It is with holy attention that the heart… Read more »
Orthodoxy canonised Hesychasm during the Palamite Councils of Constantinople in 1341, 1347 and 1351, because it recognised Orthodox right-glorification at the heart of love of enemies and prayer for the whole world. Saint Silouan the Athonite taught that love of enemies was the criterion of Holy Orthodoxy and that such love prays for the whole world. Orthodox Hesychasts, inspired by… Read more »
The Orthodox Catholicity of Apostolic Hesychasm springs from the uncreated grace of union, which is deifying participation in the union of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. It is hidden with Christ in God until the mysteries of glorification are unveiled to wisdom. It is unveiled when we turn and see God, through God, in God, Holy… Read more »
Wisdom unveils the light of glory in Christ’s Cross of love: revealing God, through God the slaughtered Lamb, in God. The awakened heart sees seer and seen as one in wisdom, knowing God through God in God. This seeing is a knowing in God by grace, and grace is God’s uncreated energy of glory in act. Knowing in God… Read more »
Wisdom inspires a heavenly cloud of witnesses like a swarm of bees, a communion of angels and saints resonant as one uncreated presence in many voices. Together, they unveil a hidden mystery of glory, which is a Oneness of being alight in many seers, and a Oneness of seeing revealed in many beings. There is here a co-inherence of the… Read more »
