Saint Sophrony the Hesychast bore witness to God’s Name ‘I AM,’ hallowing our age by restoring glory to God. Wisdom unveils the ineffable oneness of ‘I AM,’ God’s awareness conjoined with deifying presence in the timeless openness of glory, in the light of God’s embrace of our incompleteness within his consummate completeness. Glory proceeds from glory to restore glory to the… Read more »
Wisdom is beloved of God because she loves to embrace all through all as she ascribes all glory to God. Glory loves to be loved by wisdom because God loves to be known as wisdom knows, with awakening insight and wholeness of heart. Wisdom renews living sacred tradition by purifying the heart and illumining God-centred intelligence, but it is the… Read more »
The Apostle Paul prays that the Father of glory will give the Ephesians a spirit of wisdom and revelation, unveiling glory as fullness of knowledge through Christ, the ‘I AM’ of glory, who illumines the eye of their heart (Eph 1:17-18). Christ’s wisdom imparts the crown of uncreated light that glorifies the saints, glory that generously and without restraint grants grace… Read more »
The Icon of Transfiguration attributed to Theophanes the Greek, usually dated to about 1403, or at least to the beginning of the fifthteenth century, depicts two hermit’s caves in the shade of two small trees on the slopes of Mount Tabor. Easily overlooked, these hermit cells appear dark within, in contrast to the uncreated light of Christ’s transfiguration, but if their… Read more »
Created in the image of God, we are all God-centred not self-centred, if confusion does not intrude to make us self-centred, separating us from God. Saints are created anew in graced likeness as well as the image of God, because they are gloriously aware of God present in the midst, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of God. Saints become… Read more »
Nothing separates wisdom and glory, revealing unselfish love through love, in love. Love is aware and so present, here in the midst, revealing God’s ever-present presence as glory at centre where all centres coincide. ‘I AM’ is God’s Name revealing God through God. ‘I’ awareness is inseparable from ‘AM’ presence here, where their union blesses every perception, everything perceived. Union with God… Read more »
Wisdom loves glory, inspiring glorifying love of wisdom, raising awakened hearts into realms of integral translucence, integral wisdom discerning translucent glory. Wisdom is integral because she springs from God to embrace everything that gives enduring glory to God, integrating glory with increasing glory in age after age. Wisdom is translucent because she transfigures with glory all that bears witness… Read more »
When the Holy Spirit anoints awareness with wisdom, unveiling presence as glory, the mind descends into the heart, uncovering union with God as fire, light and glory in the midst. This is Hesychast transmission of purification, illumination and glorification through the Name. It is tri-une revelation of the Name, revealing God through God in God, Holy Trinity. The Name transmits… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of the Eternal Gospel (Revelation 14:6), glory unveiled by the prophets and witnessed by the apostles, wisdom awakening elders which imparts glory to the saints. Wisdom is God’s vision of God in God, Holy Trinity in act as uncreated energy, revealing an Eternal Gospel of ever-present grace. This gift of grace is God’s gift of God through God, a timeless… Read more »
Wisdom interprets the beauty of the revelatory Name as glory unveiling God in the midst. Desert elders impart the injunction to turn and see, opening seeing to timeless union of seer and seen, union of the Son with the Father to which the Spirit bears witness, unveiling Holy Trinity. This union is the beauty of holiness which sanctifies all who… Read more »