Companions of the Grail in Holy Orthodoxy do not speak of the Holy Grail or the Matter of Britain because the parousia of the Holy Eucharist and the parousia of the Holy Name are already intrinsic to their Holy Orthodoxy. Hallows that shepherds of wisdom always regarded as quintessential, the Eucharist and the Name always lay at the heart of their… Read more »
In Christ, death opens into the uncreated light of glory, because Christ’s death on the Cross overcomes death by death, unveiling the light of glory. Given death opens into uncreated light that overcomes death, revealing uncreated glory, it is an open entrance into realms of light and glory, not what fear dreads. Faith, hope and love know that although fear arises, death… Read more »
When awareness turns, awareness becomes aware of awareness, but does not yet know love of knower as love known. Turning is not yet illumination and so does not yet awaken to the uncreated light of love. When love dawns, the uncreated light of love turns illumination round, which in turn is not yet glorification, because light is not yet… Read more »
At Christmas, the Church celebrates the Holy Nativity of Christ, remembering the story of Christ’s birth in the stable at Bethlehem, the angels and the shepherds on the hill, with the wise men from the east offering gold, frankincense and myrrh at his feet. But wisdom also remembers the eternal birth of Christ in hearts that awaken to his presence,… Read more »
The Bride of Christ is glorious in her uncreated energy, deifying all who gaze with her gaze, or return her kiss with her embrace. She is Christ’s wisdom in her compassionate love, glorious in her hallowing beauty. Wisdom is Christ in her, embracing her in the beauty of her glory, embracing us with her grace that glorifies his saints. Her… Read more »
Wisdom knows as she is known, no longer as in a mirror, indirectly, but directly, as the unveiled face of wisdom to the unveiled face of glory (1Cor 13:12). Between knowing and unknowing, wisdom comes to meet us, knowing as she is known, gently weening us from thinking we know what we know, initiating unknowing that knows we only know as we… Read more »
Christ is the light of the world (John 8:12), revealing we are by grace the light of the world (Mt 5:14), when we turn and see the grace of his uncreated light in the midst. In Holman Hunt’s painting of 1853, the ‘Light of the World,’ Christ stands at the door of the closed heart and knocks (Rev 3:20; Song of… Read more »
If wisdom beholds the darkness that covers the Face of the Deep, revealed in the Spirit to be dazzling love, it is little surprise that science does not behold what only wisdom sees, for it is wisdom, not science, that beholds the dazzling light of the glory of love. Wisdom abides with the Spirit in the Son’s love of the… Read more »
When God’s Name is truly hallowed, as in an attentive praying of the Lord’s Prayer, the Kingdom comes, but confusion between ‘I AM’ and ‘me’ must first be emptied out, so that the glory of the Name, uncreated awareness and uncreated presence, is truly restored to God. Hallowing the Name undoes division between the uncreated and the created by dissolving the underlying… Read more »
The Communion of Saints holds all things in common for the Common Good, because the glorification of saints looks back at the great revolution which turned everything round, as something already given, as grace already present, a cause for indescribable rejoicing. For the saints, there is no trace left of inequality, of oppression, of widening rifts between rich and poor,… Read more »