According to the enigmatic prophecy of the Book of Revelation, wisdom was exiled from the corrupted city and its temple, fleeing into the wilderness to abide in the hallowing the Name, mothering prophecy and wedding saints in holy hiddenness. Hunted by satanic confusion and demonic division, wisdom confronted the dragon whilst her first-born son was concealed in glory, hidden within the… Read more »
Seven flames of glorious completeness surround the Son of Man, who is the incarnation of God, beginning and end of gracious wholeness, first and last to embrace glorification. Seven flames consume every obstruction to glorification, turning awareness round to embrace wisdom with the eye of the heart. The tree of life abides in paradise, crowning those who suffer death and… Read more »
The thrice-holy Name of God reveals the Father’s reign with Christ in the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the hallowing commandments of God to love as God first loved God, before the beginning, raising the dead to resurrection in the end, inhabiting uncreated light of glory in between. Thrice-holy, the Name of Holy Trinity is key to the Spirit’s sevenfold healing of body and… 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 »
Wisdom is God’s yoke of love speaking through prophecy to awaken prayer, conjoining human lovers with the divine Beloved, as in the Song of Songs, opening the Holy of Holies to the ineffable mystery of the Bridal Chamber. Trust in Christ releases fear into love in the Holy Spirit, opening hells to heavens of infinite grace and unconditioned glory. Holy Orthodoxy… 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 »
Lectio divina reads inspired texts with inspiration, gathering deifying glorification from illumination, welcoming the Holy Spirit, purifying the heart. To read with the eye and ear of the heart is to open through wisdom to glory, breaking through external obstructions, leaping over mountainous resistance. Literalism clings to outward, external surfaces, whereas wisdom, awakening to the Holy Spirit, uncovers the living Word… Read more »
The Name enthrones seers in uncreated glory, hallowing saints in wisdom as they invoke and hallow the Name. Wisdom is seated in the radiance of uncreated glory, whose splendour deifies those who are hallowed by grace, dissolving fear into whole-hearted trust. Wisdom abides in the awakened heart, transmuting terror into generous love. Orthodox Hesychasts dwell in the purifying wisdom of gracious stillness,… Read more »