God-centred wisdom reveals sound insight that sees that nothing falls outside God’s omnipresent glory. Wisdom’s sound intent does not fixate exclusively on created things but focuses on glory which is God in action empowering grace, uncovering the crucial difference between self-centred fixation and liberating focus. Insight is focus, not fixation, attentive openness, not conceptual reification. The practice of wisdom turns… Read more »
When awareness turns to unite with presence, wisdom turns to unveil glory, empowered by the reign of glory to reveal its presence on earth as in heaven. Of course, the reign of glory is always present in the Spirit and when the eye of the heart is awake, but is hidden with Christ in God when the eye of the heart… Read more »
Christ reveals himself to be wisdom, sending the Spirit unveiled in wisdom, restoring glory to the Father. The Father’s Name reveals wisdom and glory through the Son, imparted to saints in the Holy Spirit, unveiling hypostatic dimensions of God the Holy Trinity. Hypostatic dimensions are not confused with dimensions of uncreated energy, but neither are they divided from them. Once again, there is union… Read more »
Wisdom unveils ineffable openness when turning turns and seeing sees, opening the three dimensions of space, (length, breadth and height), into the fourth dimension of ineffable awareness, opening within the fifth dimension of ineffable presence, revealing the sixth, ineffable oneness, unveiling the seventh dimension, ineffable openness. The fourth dimension of awareness is wisdom’s hidden mystery, revealing the fifth dimension of glory within the… Read more »
Ineffable Oneness is not destroyed by the generation of the Son, because ineffable twoness is generated within the unbroken reign of the Father’s Oneness, not outside it, and because the procession of the Spirit from the Father unveils the ineffable three as Holy Oneness generating God from God as the Father, God with God as the Son, proceeding from God as… Read more »
Just as the Apostle Paul speaks of hearing ineffable words in the paradise of the third or highest heaven (2 Cor 12:4), so desert wisdom discerns ineffable number in paradise, unveiling the primordial dimensions of the Holy of Holies hidden at the heart of the heaven of heavens. Oneness generates the second when the Father generates the Son, whilst a third proceeds from… Read more »
The Spirit of wisdom reveals the uncreated glory of grace with unconditioned freedom, transcending conditioned ways and means with uncreated openness. Wisdom and glory bear witness to co-inherent union, revealing unconditioned communion of elders and saints, but this mystery of infinite glory is hidden until wisdom is unveiled by the Holy Spirit in illumined glorification. Pentecost completes Good Friday and Holy… Read more »
Glorification unites purification with Illumination as communion of wisdom and glory. From the perspective of purification, illumination lies in the future and glorification is concealed in eternity way beyond. From the perspective of illumination, purification is due to the presence of uncreated light illumining the heart but glorification is perceived to belong to the reign of God that is not yet… Read more »
Solitude was always persecuted by those who lived in terror of silence and martyred by those who distrust stillness. The original symphony of verbal prayers and stillness was lost when stillness was crucified. Desert seers understand why persecution of stillness was always a martyrdom of silent solitude but also know that glorification of God precedes and succeeds the Cross of loving stillness…. Read more »
The wisdom of the Beloved Disciple inspired the Fourth Gospel and the Book of Revelation in different ways, enabling three epistles to speak of her love of her Beloved who loved her, which is not mere sentiment but the profoundest wisdom. Love of her wisdom regenerates Holy Orthodoxy way beyond the boundaries of the old Byzantine Empire, inspiring many and speaking through… Read more »