The ground of the oneness of all being is the oneness of God the Holy Trinity, but there is no common measure between the uncreated and the created, because the uncreated infinitely transcends the created. Wisdom does not waver from the oneness of glory, which is the oneness of God, because wisdom abides in the glory of God. The decisive experience of… Read more »
The ineffable openness of perfect completeness is inherently present in the timeless oneness of enlightening glory. The womb of completeness is the tomb of translucent incompleteness resurrecting as glory, ascending and descending from the sanctuary of the heart. Everything self-empties into glory as glory self-empties into everything, revealing God in everything and everything in God. Glory is ineffable and the… Read more »
The Holy Spirit delights in the enlightening light of Christ, infusing seers with uncreated wisdom, deifying saints with uncreated glory. Delight is ecstatic in hidden ways that go way beyond beginner’s ecstasies, centred in the Spirit’s insight into Christ, transcending all conditioned opinions. Delight rejoices in light from light, welcoming God from God in union with wisdom, rejoicing in God through… Read more »
Wisdom crowns seers with uncreated light, enthroning saints with deifying energy of uncreated glory, revealing the reign of the Name. The body of light manifests the body of glory through the uncreated grace of the Name, purifying the heart by enlightening the mind in the heart, transfiguring creation. Deification remains hidden with Christ in God until wisdom dawns, uniting uncreated wisdom with hidden glory…. Read more »
Dazzling depths of wisdom reveal dizzying heights of glory in the revelatory Name, inspiring Abba Evagrius, the Macarian ‘Homilies,’ the writings of Saint Denys, Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s ‘Hymns of Love’ and the many writings of Saint Gregory Palamas with the experience (peira) of uncreated light of glory. Ecstatic rapture is for beginners, says Saint Symeon, indicating that mature enlightenment is intrinsic… Read more »
Christ sends the Spirit of truth when he dies on the Cross of Golgotha and is resurrected on the third day, leaving the Spirit’s truth with his bereft disciples, integral truth opening through to boundless infinity. Clinging to objective phenomena, some were bound by subjective perceptions that trapped them in self-centred delusions, but the Spirit of truth freed them all,… 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 »
Dove’s wings encircle the heart with grace, hallowing saints with the Holy Spirit. The heart is renewed from within with the joy of the Name, conjoining awareness and presence, wisdom and glory. The Spirit of truth embraces with a kiss of peace, revealing wisdom’s gaze of undying life. Dove’s wings hover over awakened hearts, communicating the loving kindness of the Paraclete,… Read more »
Noetic vision turns and sees God at centre in the midst, awakening to wisdom’s vision of God in glory in the cave of the heart. Self-centred perception usurps God, confusing the ego with God, dividing self from God, obscuring union in the fire of worldly passions. Noetic vision is uncreated fire, consuming confusion and healing division, freeing awareness from dissipating passions…. Read more »
The holy intelligence of wisdom transcends rational intelligence in ways that cannot be conceived, liberating the presence and awareness of wisdom from rational analysis. Grace is not bound by the incapacity of thought to grasp its glory, nor luminosity of heart quenched by the failure of the mind to comprehend wisdom. Though manifold in its subtle activities, wisdom is incisive in its unsullied lucidity and ultimately… Read more »