Abounding wisdom mirrors the boundless glory of grace, communicating Great Peace in the stillness of the heart (Eph 1:8). When grace abounds, glory overflows into boundless transfiguration as wisdom rises from death to resurrection, unfreezing hardness of heart with ascending glory. Mysteries of glory abound when the fulness of grace is revealed, uniting heaven and earth within the all-embracing logos, disclosing the glorious inheritance… Read more »
The water of baptism unites with the fire of the Spirit when Chrismation anoints baptised Christians, water purifying the heart, fire consuming whatever separates the heart from God. Water and fire are mystical symbols of the uncreated energies of wisdom and glory, communicating dynamic co-glorification, without which neither glorification of God nor glorification by God can flourish. The vitality of… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Single-minded practice of the remembrance of God cures oblivious neglect and dissipating distraction by centering in the presence of God, which is the practice of glorification. The Holy Spirit breathes hallowing holiness into the midst of the heart, restoring glory to God. Wisdom is uncreated energy inhaling and exhaling holiness, glorifying God. Awareness and breath spontaneously conjoin as awareness turns and… Read more »
Prophecy and prayer conjoin when wisdom dawns, uniting heaven and earth. Uncreated energy of wisdom refines awareness so that the body of glory is revealed in uncreated light. The uncreated fire of the Holy Spirit purifies the heart, revealing the embryonic pearl of priceless stillness, which is the quintessential inspiration of Orthodox Christian Hesychasm. When prophecy is quenched, prayer is… Read more »
Joy abides with wisdom in her union with glory in the communion of saints. Grace generates trust that welcomes glory with wisdom. Love delights in the joy of wisdom, ecstatic without dissipation, rejoicing in the knowledge of God. Love does not envy the grace that saves, unlike demonic jealousy, that resents the communion of saints. Joy descends from heaven like lightening,… Read more »
Wisdom loves her timeless doxology descending from on high to glorify God, restoring glory to the Father with the Son, through the unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit. Doxology is divine essence in act, actively expressing quintessential divinity, revealing Holy Trinity: ‘Glory be to Thee, O our God, Glory be to thee.’ This very ancient doxology predates the dogmatic theology of… Read more »
Wisdom reveals Holy Trinity as God’s witness to God in God, divine reciprocation, answering the Spirit’s witness to the Son, who reveals the glory of the Father. Reciprocation occurs whenever the invocation of God hallows the saving Name, bestowing the reign of God on those who invoke grace in the Name of Jesus, fulfilling the Lord’s Prayer. The remembrance of God in… Read more »