Category Archives: Wisdom and glory

Faith

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Faith trusts in God, seeing as God sees, knowing as God knows, recollecting God through God, recognising God in God, remembering God as God remembers God in Holy Trinity.  Sometimes, faith is called ‘blind faith’ because faith does not see as we see, visually perceiving something, or know as we know, empirically experiencing something knowable, but this way of speaking does… Read more »

Recognition and Remembrance

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The remembrance of God cannot stabilise until recognition of God awakens the heart, uniting awareness and energy in the Holy Spirit.  The Spirit breathes life into the heart with uncreated energy, purifying the heart with uncreated light.  Stillness lives from purity of heart, giving new life to Hesychast tradition, renewing it with the  wisdom and glory of the Name, restoring remembrance with recognition…. Read more »

Turning Vision

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ begins with metanoia, turning, to reveal theoria, vision of God’s Kingdom, opening the eye of the heart to wisdom, consummating love of God in glorification.  Wisdom conjoins heaven and earth in the glory of the Name, discerning the uncreated light of the Gospel, treasuring the pearl of great price in the womb of the heart.  Embryonic union… Read more »

Respectful Recognition

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Pure attention is spontaneous when recognition awakens with respectful recognition. Straining and stressing strive to attain this, but respect re-spects it through wisdom, and recognition re-cognises it through glory, awakening respectful recognition.  The receptivity of the moon hallows the earth, welcoming the blazing activity of the sun, symbol of hallowing heaven, conjoining heaven and earth.  The spiritual alchemy of wisdom lies… Read more »

Decisive Attention

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Turning the light of attention round is decisive, because the living waters of uncreated light baptise awareness when it recognises the uncreated energy of glory, awakening enlightening energy that unites the mind with the heart.  Attention is always decisive, because it unites active wisdom with receptive glory, awakening uncreated creativity in the cave of the heart.  Attention turns the mind around so that… Read more »

Formless Turning

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Formless metanoia turns the light of awareness round so that formless theoria sees the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven.  The Father is the source of the Son’s generation and the Spirit’s procession, but the vision of God is formless, transcending sensation and perception.  The practice of formless theoria discerns the glory of grace deifying sinners,… Read more »

Mari Yah

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Mari Yah, my Lord, Thou art ‘I AM,’ my God, revealing EHYEH, God’s Name, mystery of mysteries in the Holy of Holies.  Wondrous beyond words, revealed by the Word, God’s Word names the Name, unveiling God, astonishing hearts with astounded amazement. O Mari Yah, bless humble awareness with dazzling glory, for Thou art my Lord, Thou art my God!  ‘Mari, my… Read more »

Saint David of Wales

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March 1st is the Patronal Feast of Saint David of Wales, who died around AD 600, but whose legacy still resonates here in the small city of St Davids.  In his ‘Life of Saint David,’ Rhygyfarch, 1056-1099, mentions three gifts offered to Sanctus, David’s father, in honour of Saint David: the stag, the fish and the honeycomb from a hive of bees. These three gifts… Read more »

Saint Sophrony the Hesychast

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Saint Sophrony is called ‘the Hesychast’ because he bore witness to the uncreated light of glory shining at the heart of Orthodox Hesychast wisdom.  He is called ‘the Athonite’ because he spent about twenty years as a monk on Mount Athos and ‘Saint Sophrony of Essex’ because he lived the last thirty-five years of his life in his monastery in… Read more »

Beloved Disciple

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The Beloved Disciple bears witness that she loves as she is loved, handing on the love with which Christ first loved her, revealing the ultimate glory of love.  Her hidden witness gave rise to the Fourth Gospel, the three Epistles of love and the Book of Revelation, all of which reveal the glory of love glorifying beloved disciples in the… Read more »