The Way of the Name transcends ordinary thought and imagination, communicating the wisdom of uncreated awareness and the glory of uncreated presence to all who turn and see. Turning, metanoia, awakens seeing, theoria, that together awaken the uncreated awareness of wisdom to the uncreated presence of glory by turning the light of awareness round so that it beholds the presence of… Read more »
Wisdom dances with glory within everything, unseen until wisdom turns and sees the glory of God in the midst. The insights of wisdom are not logic or science, but prophetic vision, valued in the desert but undervalued today. Prophecy employs poetry inspired by the Spirit, not futuristic speculation. The dance of glory is invisible although visible in the dance of stars, which encircle each other… Read more »
The Song of the Name is not unreasonable in its humble awareness of God present and aware of God’s ever-present awareness, humbly aware of the presence and awareness of God. But it is in unknowing that awareness knows as it is known. When rationalistic thinking usurps the heart, what is lost is awareness of the body as uncreated light. This… Read more »
Prophecy imparts holy images, inspiring imageless prayer of the Holy Spirit in the heart, the Spirit’s unceasing intercession for all in the hidden heart of Christ. Prophecy has nothing to do with self-centred fantasy or self-obsessed day dreams, but with the purified imagination regenerated in the heart by the glory of grace, prophecy working together with imageless prayer to deify… Read more »
Is Christmas a dangerous blasphemy? Those who shouted for Christ to be crucified thought it was. Was Christ’s incarnation a disastrous idolatry? Many monotheists thought so, but they were confused by what they saw as his confusion. Was his crucifixion proof that he was a Jewish heretic? In which case, what did his resurrection prove? Was his ascension really his disappearance… Read more »
The invocation of the Name revokes the ancient curse as it undoes the fall from grace. It breaks the curse of evil enchantment with the grace of uncreated love, whose glory was hidden when Beauty was asleep. The Beauty of glory sleeps forever unless the kiss of grace breaks the curse of enchantment with genuine love. The dis-enchanting kiss of love awakens beauty… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the union of beauty and glory in paradise, the paradise that transfigures the earth with the union of holiness. Heaven and earth are conjoined as a visible union in the Holy of Holies, whilst the invisible is joined with the visible in the Holiest of Holies. The holy heart of the Holiest conjoins creation with uncreated glory, which his… Read more »
Wisdom abides at the heart of glory, delighting in the beauty of her glory’s holiness, rejoicing in the limpid purity of her uncreated energy. She does not neglect those she loves, but embraces them with her in-seeing gaze, seeing through the hardened surfaces of external form to the formless translucence of God’s Holy Name. To love her is to die… Read more »
The wisdom hermitage is redundant in monasteries that have forgotten what they are for, although in the desert, Orthodox monasticism began with hermit cells and on the Holy Mountain, the hermitage still survives between the monasteries. The wisdom round cell becomes a place to store whatever has nowhere else to go, when once it had been the place of stillness at the… Read more »
When Dom Henri Le Saux, known in India as Abhishiktananda, awoke to the Name as he was awakened by the wisdom of the Name, he turned as he was turned, recognising the enlightening presence of wisdom. Seeing glory as glory is seen by wisdom, he cried out: “I have found the Grail.” Dying into God, as he almost died of a heart… Read more »