Orthodox Hesychasm centres in the heart with vigilant awareness, revealing flawless purity of heart in uncreated light, image and likeness of the radiant beauty of translucent glory. The uncreated clarity of compassionate wisdom severs the passions from their addictive clinging, transplanting them in God as passionate love of God, practicing wisdom with the directness of pure awareness. Quintessentially, the heart… Read more »
Holy doubt dismantles the worldly certainties which usurp God, parodies which parade themselves in worldly minds like false gods, claiming allegiance in opposition to the wholesome reign of God. Holy doubt works together with faith in God, supporting trust, in contrast to worldly doubt, which undermines trust in God. The ‘Book of Revelation’ contains the heart of Biblical insight into discernment between these… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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, 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 »
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 »