The Threefold Co-inherence of the Triune Godhead is not confused with Christophanic Co-inherence, which is the divine-human co-inherence of Christ’s deiform Personhood, but the love they both inspire beholds both interpenetrate within coalescing Co-inherence. Love is not ignited by abstractions but by love, earthly loves and the Spirit’s love of the Son, the Son’s love of the Father and their fierce and gentle love shared… Read more »
In Christ, death opens into the uncreated light of glory, because Christ’s death on the Cross overcomes death by death, unveiling the light of glory. Given death opens into uncreated light that overcomes death, revealing uncreated glory, it is an open entrance into realms of light and glory, not what fear dreads. Faith, hope and love know that although fear arises, death… Read more »
The glory of love may first be unveiled in a human salutation of love, as in the love of Beatrice for Dante, then in wisdom’s love of both that unveils human loves as icons of divine love. The way of glorification is the revelation of the glory of love, arising when illumination purifies love at the heart of the mysteries of glory…. Read more »
Before there was light, darkness was upon the Face of the Deep, but the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, so the formless void had a Face (Gen 1:2). The Face of the Spirit manifests in uncreated energy, before created energy transmutes into created matter, which is the material creation. The revelation of uncreated light above the… Read more »
The wisdom of Christ holds everything together, including the paradox of time and the timeless. Christ is divine-human, so his wisdom is uncreated yet also created, curing confusion whilst healing division. Gathering what was scattered, wisdom discerns the glory of grace, integrating apparently exclusive opposites. The story is dialectical when it discerns the unfolding of divine-human coherence in time, but paradoxical… Read more »
Awakening to wisdom generates wonder so that wonder may sustain wisdom. Fairy tales communicate wonder long before wisdom makes sense of religion. Because entry into wonderland empties us of everything, wonder has the magical capacity to raise us from nothing through wisdom. Tales of wonder are true, long before science begins to test its theories against known facts, just as elven… Read more »
Nobody can visually perceive God objectively in the world but theoria turns and sees the glory of God’s reign, initiating seers into the mysteries of contemplative vision by awakening the eye of the heart. For Hesychast saints, theoria is the indispensable and quintessential opening, beyond the visible heavens, into the invisible mysteries of wisdom and glory, the revelation of God’s Name that… Read more »
Wisdom releases her reifications by liberating the intelligence, the will and the emotions to abide in the timeless freedom of God’s presence. Hells of separation are freed in union with heavens of infinite grace. Extinguishing deception, delusion is extinguished by the Spirit of truth, freeing all things in uncreated light, transfiguring all things in uncreated glory. Hearts are freed in… Read more »
Wisdom’s Eternal Gospel reveals that the Holy Name unveils God to the whole of creation, invisible and visible, not just to the human world (Rev 14:6). For wisdom’s gospel, the invisible creation includes the angelic worlds of bodiless powers who are created in the timeless Logos, just as humanity is, including all beings of awareness and presence. Angels are created… Read more »
The sword of the Spirit guards the Word of God that unveils the Name, communicating saving wisdom, worthy of trust: ”I AM’ is our God, ‘I AM’ is one” (Deut 6:4). The Holy SHEMA hears and bears witness to the SHEM or Name of glory the Word reveals. The Name is one and saints are one in the Name’s unveiling of the reign… Read more »