Faithful to the end, holy martyrs receive the crown of life; after suffering trial and tribulation, even unto death, wisdom anoints them with glory’s crown (Rev 2:10). Tempted by anti-christ, Christ purifies his own by fire, refining wisdom’s witness in the uncreated flame. Division transmutes into discernment, dividing pure awareness from impurity, separating out confusion to unite with hallowing communion…. Read more »
When angels fall from glory, demonic confusion ensues, but when sinners rise into glory, demonic division is consumed. Paradise lost gives way to paradise regained, due to saving grace, revealing the ineffable glory of grace. Abraham’s faith led him from Ur, in the Chaldees, to Canaan, founding the people of Israel on God’s promise of abounding grace. Christ founded the new… Read more »
When the light of awareness is turned around, heaven unites with earth at centre in the midst. Wisdom shines with formless light on earth, as in heavenly realms, awakening tongues of uncreated flame, purifying the pearl in Pentecostal fire. The Holy Spirit does not get confused but consumes dark hardness of heart, turning creation round into uncreated translucence. Conventional… Read more »
Come and listen, listen and see! Be still and know ‘I AM’ : God revealing God. Behold God-centred wisdom revealing the glory of God. Open the eye of your heart to God’s reign of glory, letting wisdom turn awareness round and see. Come and be the seeing that God sees, know the well-being that God knows, be the knowing that… Read more »
Encircled by love, gratitude gives thanks that grace illumines and deifies as glory descends to meet ascending light, uniting in the saving Name. Grace encircles light with love, restoring glory to God by hallowing the Name. The Lord’s Prayer reveals how hallowing the Name of the Father, Abba, glorifies Christ’s reign of uncreated grace, completing God’s holy will of union in… Read more »
The Wisdom of the Cross discerns the wondrous realms of love, but it is child-like trust that actually enters the heavenly realms of glorious love. Mother Wisdom works her magic in the liminal realms of childhood, countering the demonic powers that rule this world. Love’s magic spells enchant childhood with drama and mystery, powerfully rooting life in wholesome goodness. The magic… Read more »
The fulness of grace rises into the fulness of glory through the uncreated light of the Name, opening the heart by turning, metanoia, illumining the heart by seeing, theoria, transforming creation by glorification, which Orthodox tradition, following the Greek mysteries, calls deification, theosis. Fulness of glory completes grace by sanctifying seers and hallowing saints, wondrously transcending all expectations. Glorification is… Read more »
Wisdom is the state of seeing that seeing (theoria) sees when seeing turns (metanoia) and sees as it is seen by God, turning round to know God, as God is known by God (theosis) in Holy Trinity. The grace of wisdom was always the inspiration of wisdom in Scripture and Patristic Tradition, the state of enlightened vision inspiring holiness in… Read more »
The vision of God is not like the visual perception of something created, nor like the sight of something seen by the senses or grasped by the mind. Only God sees God, but wisdom, which is God’s vision of God, is shared by the Holy Spirit with those who turn, metanoia, and see, theoria. God transcends sight but the vision of God… Read more »
Wisdom proclaims the Gospel of the Name of Glory, which Christ came to reveal and the Holy Spirit discerns, unveiling the Father through the Son. The Spirit awakens hearts to the glory of the Name, deifying those who turn and see, hallowing the Name of glory. The fearful mind tries to control the mind but wisdom empties the mind into… Read more »