Wisdom and communion co-inhere in deification, because wisdom, the state of seeing, reveals deification in communion, the state of union. The Paschal mystery harrows hell by overcoming death by death, communicating resurrection as wisdom, communion and deification. Communion is ineffable mystery, turning attention round, METANOIA, communicating THEORIA, God’s vision of God, awakening METANOIA and THEORIA, unveiling THEOSIS. There is no end… Read more »
The Name shines with the glory of wisdom in the paradoxes of impasse, shattering the dualisms that confine the mind, revealing glory to wisdom. The past leaves relics of revelation scattered in desert sand, waiting to be discovered and questioned. Some question us and our conventional mind-sets, opening us to uncreated wisdom, empowering glorification. Awareness turns around to see God’s presence, discovering God… Read more »
Christ bears witness to the Father in the Holy Spirit, as way, as truth and as life (John 14:6). There is no division concealed here, nothing satan can control to separate us from God. God the Holy Trinity is sound through and through, curing separation, healing division. The way of the Name is therefore true right through, sound from beginning… Read more »
The Feast of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin into the Temple anticipates Christmas and the mystery of the incarnation which unveil the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Neither monism nor dualism do justice to the mystery of the Holy Trinity because monism confuses the uncreated with the created and dualism divides the uncreated from the created. The Holy Spirit proceeds… Read more »
The feast of the myrrh flowing martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica on October 26th was chosen by Saint Sophrony thirty years ago to impart the Great Schema to this unworthy monk, twenty-five years after first meeting him in his monastery. The mysteries of the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation open wisdom mysteries of glory to save us, raising us from our unworthiness to… Read more »
Today is the Feast of the Holy Martyr Longinus, whose spear pierced the side of Christ, revealing the holy waters of Baptism and the blessed blood of the Eucharist. As the Centurion commanding the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus, he was witness to his resurrection at the garden tomb of Holy Pascha, empowering his martyrdom in Cappadocia to bear witness… Read more »
Today is the feast of the Holy Apostle Philip, who bore witness to the glory of the age to come, empowered by wisdom to awaken to the Kingdom of God, but today is also the day we remember the Optina elders and their witness to the glory of the Holy Name. Hesychast wisdom continues to witness to the glory of… Read more »
The fulness of grace is inseparable from the co-inherence of truth, being indivisible from wisdom in the completeness of glory, revealing God through the eternal Logos. The origin is both light and life to all, gathering together whatever has fallen apart. Recognition of grace and truth opens earth to heaven, unveiling God in his Name, revealing truth in the fulness of… Read more »
The Holy Apostle John gave us the Fourth Gospel, three epistles and the Book of Revelation, handing on the wisdom and witness of the Beloved Disciple. The Church’s first hymn book, the Odes of Solomon, comes from the same circles if not directly from the Beloved Disciple, stemming from the wisdom of deifying glorification. The feast of Saint John the… Read more »
The Completeness of God is ‘eternally now,’ unveiling temporal incompleteness in timeless presence, awakening uncreated wisdom in uncreated glory. Christ, divine but human, communicates theandric co-inherence by grace to all who receive him, embracing the cosmos with cosmo-theandric glory. The Holy Spirit enlightens seers with uncreated wisdom, transfiguring saints with uncreated glory, communicating mysteries of glorification to all whose hearts are open. Orthodox Hesychasm… Read more »