Vision of God is enlightening vision, extending the reign of heaven to earth. Purity of heart is single-minded when the mind descends into the enlightened heart, dissolving hardness of heart and sclerosis of mind. The storm of confusion is stilled when wisdom illumines the mind in the heart, healing devilish division with manifold wisdom. Contemplative wisdom is vision of God,… Read more »
Abounding wisdom mirrors the boundless glory of grace, communicating Great Peace in the stillness of the heart (Eph 1:8). When grace abounds, glory overflows into boundless transfiguration as wisdom rises from death to resurrection, unfreezing hardness of heart with ascending glory. Mysteries of glory abound when the fulness of grace is revealed, uniting heaven and earth within the all-embracing logos, disclosing the glorious inheritance… Read more »
The hour of glory dawns when the Son prays that the Father may glorify the Son that the Son may glorify the Father (John 17: 1). Eternal life is knowledge of God, not natural immortality, granting reciprocal glorification by grace to saints, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit. Revelation of the Name is revelation of God the Holy Trinity, not… Read more »
Timeless glory embraces saints by grace, embracing sinners to transform them into saints, awakening contemplative seers to timeless life. Temporal awareness displaces glory into the distant past or into a distant future, whereas timeless glory is actually always present, eternally NOW or never, cutting through temporal duration or leaping over temporal determination like a mountain. The Spirit of truth and the… Read more »
The wisdom of the Holy Name reveals ineffable awareness of uncreated presence, whereas the glory of the Holy Name reveals ineffable oneness of uncreated openness. Wisdom cuts through confusion, awakening awareness to uncreated presence and presence to uncreated awareness, whereas glory leaps over division to abide in deifying oneness, rising into the glory of ineffable openness. Revealing uncreated openness by… Read more »
Come and listen, listen and see! Be still and know ‘I AM’ : God revealing God. Behold God-centred wisdom revealing the glory of God. Open the eye of your heart to God’s reign of glory, letting wisdom turn awareness round and see. Come and be the seeing that God sees, know the well-being that God knows, be the knowing that… Read more »
Wisdom is the state of seeing that seeing (theoria) sees when seeing turns (metanoia) and sees as it is seen by God, turning round to know God, as God is known by God (theosis) in Holy Trinity. The grace of wisdom was always the inspiration of wisdom in Scripture and Patristic Tradition, the state of enlightened vision inspiring holiness in… Read more »
Recognition empowers remembrance of God to know as it is known, wedding God in the heart through holy union and sanctifying communion. Cognition without recognition remains unconscious of union, separate from the communion of saints, fixating frozen hardness of heart. Cognition with recognition remembers God, unites with God, partakes in God’s hallowing communion through Christ in the Spirit, hallowing the conjugal Name…. Read more »
Name-hallowing glorification of God reveals God in act in his deifying energies as wisdom, discerning God in act in his ever-present energies of glory, regenerating Holy Orthodoxy when it is tempted and brought low by confusion and division. Name-hallowing wisdom is holy theophany manifesting hallowing glory, communicating sound glorification, regenerating institutional Orthodox forms in ways that transfigure them as wisdom. The Lord’s… Read more »
Wisdom crowns seers who turn and see uncreated presence, which prophecy calls glory, the throne of grace, revealing the Father of wisdom generating the Word in whom the Spirit eternally abides. The way of remembrance perfects sudden recognition so that wisdom unfolds as remembrance of God, revealing God’s own God-centred remembrance of God, which is revelation of Holy Trinity. God… Read more »