Hallowing the Name transmutes the lead of distraction into the gold of integral recollection in the cauldron of fire and water, where the golden lion and the silvery unicorn are fighting for the crown. The centre where all centres coincide is everywhere, for it is neither spacial not temporal, but maintains its axial poise always and everywhere. Distraction de-centres the chuntering mind but… Read more »
The alchemy of the Name dissolves division in the water of fire, clarifying confusion in the fire of water, empowering water to interiorise truth as fire. The Spirit inspires tongues of fire whilst the body is cleansed in living waters, uniting the baptising waters of Pascha with the chrismating Pentecost of fire. Water weds fire when wisdom weds glory, uniting body… Read more »
Pure attention is intrinsic to pure prayer, which gathers what inattention scatters, awakening spiritual prayer which nurtures wisdom. Purity of heart is receptive whilst uncreated light is creative, uniting pure attention with the heart, regenerating creation. The mystery of mysteries is the Name, secret of secrets, at once both Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, manifesting wisdom in the realm of the… Read more »
Wisdom is witness to glory, enabling glory to witness wisdom, revealing uncreated light at the heart of awareness. Orthodox Hesychasm bears witness to wisdom that is witness to glory in the purified heart, revealing uncreated light. Souls come with many burdens, weighed down by many opinions, but the Holy Spirit frees them and points beyond their shallow narrowness. If they cling to their… Read more »
The Name ‘I AM,’ conjoins awareness of presence with presence of awareness, revealing God, one in three persons, embracing glory with wisdom. Presence grounds awareness and awareness presence in wisdom’s uncreated discernment of glory, which permeates all worlds in their gracious co-inherence. Extremes arise but extremism dissolves when wisdom unveils glory, cleansing perception in purification of the heart. Wisdom, therefore,… Read more »
The Father of light is constant and trustworthy, invariably consistent in his wholesome completeness. Free of emotional shadows, his presence in our midst is unwavering in its wisdom and glory, transcending all configured forms, transfiguring all conditioned beings. Realisation of his wondrous presence is easy for uncreated wisdom, curing dissipating confusion and divisive separation with hallowing communion. Wisdom trusts the Father of… Read more »
Obedience to the holy will of God is perfect freedom, a child-like trust in God that liberates the mind by centring in the heart, generating purity of heart. Real genuineness of heart, too, is child-like and trusting, being God-centred in the image and likeness of God. Obedience listens to God and acts in synergy with God, surrendering to the will of… Read more »
The Reign of God is uncontrived within every person, wondrously present and aware, awakening wisdom to glory in God’s presence, opening to pure stillness through self-emptying. Healing stillness is in harmony with the uncreated light of wisdom, so gives rise to the union of the mind and the heart in the Name. The Holy Spirit nurtures this union by imparting… Read more »
The uncreated light of glory is all-pervasive and ever-present, grounding space and time in boundless wisdom. Since Einstein, time has often been spoken of as a fourth dimension, although this way of speaking is still contested, in which case the step back into wisdom would be the fifth and glory the sixth dimension, oneness the seventh and ineffable openness the eighth, being… Read more »
Nothing surpasses timeless union with Beloved Wisdom. Nothing rivals the supreme wonder of uncreated wisdom. The transmission of wisdom is the mission of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and elders, the consummation and completion of the verbal incompleteness of Scripture in the saints. Wisdom enlightens those who turn and see, those who, glorifying God, are glorified by God. Christ chrismates… Read more »