Seeing no longer seeks because seeing sees, whereas seeking seeks because it cannot see. That is why desert elders live from seeing, theoria, rather than seeking ways and means to see. Ceasing to subject themselves to seeking, they see instead what turning sees. Seeking imposes separation between seeker and seeing, seer and seen, whereas turning turns the light of awareness round, seeing God at… Read more »
The quintessential song of praise, ‘Hallelu Yah,’ hallows the Name of saving grace that reveals God’s reign of glory, unveiling the face of holiness in the Holy Spirit. Glorification cleaves to the revelatory Name without wavering from the praises of its glory, opening the eye of the heart to wisdom. The mercy prayed for in the Jesus Prayer is God’s loving… Read more »
Co-suffering martyrs bear witness to mysteries of co-glorification in Christ, according to the Apostle Paul (Rom 8: 16-17). Just as illumination sees in a mirror what glorification beholds face to face, so formal prayers give way to unceasing prayer in the Holy Spirit when spiritual prayer mirrors love that does not give way to anything, except perhaps more love (1 Cor 13:… Read more »
A dynamic throne of uncreated glory soars over confusion and division, ever-moving like a merkabah chariot, revealing the dynamic energy of glory. The saving Name is also dynamic, well able to secure wisdom amidst the raging powers of worldliness. Stillness rests in peace through the power of the Name, secured by the Spirit of Truth. Error dissolves into truth when… Read more »
Integration into God generates integration in God, the straight way that opens the way of the Spirit in God, awakening to God, through God. Crowning changes everything, consummating enthroning deification. Integration grafts sinners into God, enlightening the mind in the heart, awakening the eye of wisdom in the heart, restoring glorification to God in the Holy Spirit. Glorification of God reveals… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of saving grace, hallowing those who dwell on earth as in heaven, indwelling heavenly realms in divine-human ways. The Holy Spirit reveals Christ who mediates between the uncreated and the created, on earth as in heaven, communicating mysteries of glory, invisible and visible, indwelling paradise on earth. Wisdom’s love of the stranger, philoxenia, extends to refugees… Read more »
Prophets saw God glorified in his Holy Name and handed prophecy down to the apostles, who saw God in Christ fulfilling prophecy in the unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit in the saints, transmitting an unbroken tradition of hallowing glorification. The reign of grace is the reign of glory awakening seers to the vision of God, purifying, illumining and deifying saints in… Read more »
The way of wisdom cures the deep-seated pathologies of the dualistic mind, emptying its warring thoughts into radiant peace. Old obsessions dissolve as long as self-emptying does not fixate into a fresh obsession, instead freeing wisdom to embrace glory in the heart of Christ. Strain and stress struggle against the passions but wisdom releases them into divine-human glorification. The root… Read more »
The holy glory of the gospel of grace grounds Orthodox hesychasts in the peace of pure stillness, way beyond a formal grasp of doctrines and ritual, practicing the invocation of the Name. God communicates God through God, empowering revelation of the Holy Trinity transfiguring seers and glorifying saints. Formal dogmatism and external ritualism are transitional, therefore provisional, because it is the prayer of… Read more »
The way of truth is wisdom’s way of life, uniting noetic intelligence with the heart, revealing wondrous mysteries of glory. Binary thinking opposes the real to the unreal, good from bad, being with nothing, unable to embrace opposing extremes before they degenerate into warring extremism. Wisdom empties the dualistic mind into the undivided heart, opening noetic purity to uncreated light…. Read more »