The Name of glory is wisdom’s joy, waiting to be loved and known, saying ‘I AM who I AM,’ in all who are present and aware. The glory of wisdom is present in the Name, awakening to be known and loved, turning awareness round so wisdom sees. Hidden in the presence of awareness is the glory of gracious wisdom, ever-present… Read more »
Saint Silouan left us a legacy of wisdom awakened by unselfish love, whereas Saint Sophrony bequeathed to us a love of wisdom that re-envisioned personhood in the light of the three divine persons, revealing thrice-holy love. The consummate legacy of both Russian Orthodox saints is the glory of love revealed by wisdom, uniting ineffable wisdom and profound love in deifying glorification. It was… Read more »
‘I AM,’ is God’s Name, so God is aware, ‘I,’ as well as present, ‘AM.’ To turn is to turn awareness round to awaken to God’s awareness, as well as to be aware of the presence of God’s presence. This personal awareness awakens us to God’s personal presence, a mystery which lies at the heart of enlightenment. The key to… Read more »
The Father bears holy witness to the Kingdom through the Son, bearing holy witness to his reign of union in the Holy Spirit, restoring glory to God with Christ’s holy witness to the Father in the Holy Spirit. The restoration of glory bears holy witness to God’s completeness completing our incompleteness, the consummation of our destiny and deliverance in the vision… Read more »
One Spirit descends as many tongues on many members of the one Christ, discerned by the Spirit of truth as ever one and ever many. Wisdom is the Spirit discerning the glory of Christ in his many glorified saints, eternally one in their many holy differences. When dictatorial power imposes undifferentiated uniformity, the Spirit is violated and Christ divided, but Satan… Read more »
Christ conjoins with his beloved bride, embracing her with his yoke of kindly love, restoring her to the ineffable glory of unselfish love. Hell empties into heaven as heaven embraces earth, raising the dead to timeless life. Kindness has no bounds nor love limits to its kindness, when God’s Holy Name is hallowed and his reign of glory loved and known…. Read more »
The golden flowering of uncreated light unites mind and heart with blessing, purifying the heart with uncreated glory in the depths of pure being, well-being and eternal being. Glorification embraces being in well-being within timeless being as three dimensions of uncreated life, each of which expresses the meaning of being in uncreated-created modes. This is unfolding of deification which desert… Read more »
Uncreated light reveals the sevenfold glory that deifies the saints. Uncreated glory reigns in seven invisible realms encircling the Holy Trinity. Uncreated wisdom embraces glory in seven hallowing spheres of glorification, each of which reveals the Holy of Holies. Leave-taking of the Feast of Mid-Pentecost
The Beloved Disciple becomes son by grace, because she is loved by the Son, transcending gender in her union with him, for she would not have known love if she had not been loved. The Third of Solomon’s Odes says love is discerned because love was shared and received, for whoever chooses love will be loved, whoever chooses eternal life… Read more »
What the informational mind sees as repetition, wisdom sees as confirmation, repeatably dancing round symbols to confirm them in the heart. What the informational mind would edit out, the heart embraces as wisdom, integrating what the mind excludes. These two mentalities are not distinguished until wisdom dawns, dissolving confusion and divisive exclusion, releasing imposed, rational control. Wisdom loves repeated clarification because she loves… Read more »