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 »
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 »
The Name mirrors God in the heart, revealing God’s image and likeness in mysteries of glory, unveiling the face of Christ in the Holy Spirit. Wisdom sees what glory reveals, communicating God’s mysterious reign by hallowing the Name. Wisdom turns to see the face of glory where before sinners saw themselves, releasing the Spirit of truth to unveil God’s truth through… Read more »
The Holy Spirit reverses the inversions of the adversary, restoring the glory of wisdom to God. The Holy Trinity replenishes hearts with uncreated light that cures adversities caused by the adversary, overcoming the resistant antitheses of the antichrist. The Thrice-Holy Name imparts saving grace to sinners, transforming them into saints, redeeming time with timeless glory. The hallowing Name floods the… Read more »
The hour of glory dawns when the Son prays that the Father may glorify the Son that the Son may glorify the Father (John 17: 1). Eternal life is knowledge of God, not natural immortality, granting reciprocal glorification by grace to saints, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit. Revelation of the Name is revelation of God the Holy Trinity, not… Read more »
Timeless glory embraces saints by grace, embracing sinners to transform them into saints, awakening contemplative seers to timeless life. Temporal awareness displaces glory into the distant past or into a distant future, whereas timeless glory is actually always present, eternally NOW or never, cutting through temporal duration or leaping over temporal determination like a mountain. The Spirit of truth and the… Read more »
In Christ, God is faithfully always Yes, not Yes and No, always Amen, always glory to God (2 Cor 1: 18-20). The promises of God in Christ are faithful and true, always Yes, not yes and no, always Amen, ‘so be it,’ ‘thus so,’ always giving ‘glory to God.’ This indivisible Yes springs from the very heart of God into the… Read more »
Metanoia knows ‘I AM’ knows as ‘I AM’ is fully, truly known (1Cor 13:12). Gnosticism long ago divided God’s awareness from God’s presence, separating God from creation, subtly poisoning knowledge of God with sin against the Holy Spirit. At its worst, gnosticism ascribed grace to demons, inverting truth into a lie, pretending to be humbly rejecting pride by demonising grace, confusing grace with… Read more »
Simplicity of heart clears the way for wisdom to rest in peace, turning discord into harmony by abiding in glory at centre in the midst. Earth partakes in the reign of God in heaven by abiding in the glory that illumines heaven. Wisdom knows everything created descends from heaven to be blessed by grace on earth as it is blessed by grace… Read more »
Wisdom awakens awareness to uncreated awareness in the fifth dimension beyond the three dimensions of space and the fourth of time, awakening presence to uncreated presence of glory in the sixth dimension, revealing oneness of wisdom and glory in the seventh, rising to empowering openness of wisdom through glory in the eighth. Awareness of uncreated awareness is bright peace, dissolving delusion like a… Read more »