The uncreated presence of glory is wisdom’s holy secret, called a precious pearl by Christ, inspiring many centuries of spiritual pearl questing. The myth of the pearl symbolises the awakened heart, which completes the incompleteness of temporal experience. The scope of wisdom is the scope of glory, uncreated presence whose completeness loves wisdom as wisdom loves glory. Uncreated awareness is ever-present in… Read more »
The remembrance of God is ineffable, reflecting the openness of wisdom and the oneness of timeless glory. The way of truth is the way of abiding that establishes deification as a way of life. This way of life inherits the language of prophecy which inspires pure prayer, listening to the Spirit’s unceasing prayer glorifying God in his Name. The reason… Read more »
The Holy Name communicates the co-inherent communion of wisdom and glory, uniting the awareness and presence of God, transmitting wisdom’s awareness and glory’s presence in the Holy Name, ‘I AM who I AM.’ The revelation of God on Mount Sinai (Ex 3:14),was confirmed on Mount Tabor, embracing sinners unto repentance, turning awareness round to face saving presence face to face, not… Read more »
The Holy Spirit delights in the enlightening light of Christ, infusing seers with uncreated wisdom, deifying saints with uncreated glory. Delight is ecstatic in hidden ways that go way beyond beginner’s ecstasies, centred in the Spirit’s insight into Christ, transcending all conditioned opinions. Delight rejoices in light from light, welcoming God from God in union with wisdom, rejoicing in God through… Read more »
Gracious stillness was the womb of light in generations past, and will be the womb of glory in the age to come, opening mysteries of glory in timeless presence through timeless wisdom. The living movement of Holy Hesychasm abides in the presence of graced stillness, manifesting new dimensions of silence and solitude in the reign of timeless glory. Stillness awakens prophecy in the… Read more »
The still centre of infinite wisdom is love, ineffable love deeper than sentiment, transcending conceptual thought and imagination. The wonder of love bewilders the mind, awakening the heart, silencing mental chatter. Wisdom is pure awareness witnessing the meaning of love, stilling the heart beyond all expectation. The wisdom of pure awareness transcends the mental mutations of the murmering mind, seeing God… Read more »
Co-suffering martyrs bear witness to mysteries of co-glorification in Christ, according to the Apostle Paul (Rom 8: 16-17). Just as illumination sees in a mirror what glorification beholds face to face, so formal prayers give way to unceasing prayer in the Holy Spirit when spiritual prayer mirrors love that does not give way to anything, except perhaps more love (1 Cor 13:… Read more »
Older than memory, turning turns and seeing sees, beginning anew, making all things new. Older than prehistory, wisdom turns to return into glory as before the beginning and after the end. Older than creation, uncreated vision beholds glory restoring glory to glory before all falls from glory. Older than time, time is timeless in its revelation of timeless glory, outlasting time… Read more »
The holy glory of the gospel of grace grounds Orthodox hesychasts in the peace of pure stillness, way beyond a formal grasp of doctrines and ritual, practicing the invocation of the Name. God communicates God through God, empowering revelation of the Holy Trinity transfiguring seers and glorifying saints. Formal dogmatism and external ritualism are transitional, therefore provisional, because it is the prayer of… Read more »
Wisdom bestows a kiss of peace unveiling the Song of Songs in the Holy of Holies, embracing the beloved with her radiant gaze. Returning to the Father through the Son, saints rest in peace in the Holy Spirit, abiding in the serenity of stillness. The gentle humour of wise stillness is kindly as it deifies saints in the way of the… Read more »