The way of truth is wisdom’s way of life, uniting noetic intelligence with the heart, revealing wondrous mysteries of glory. Binary thinking opposes the real to the unreal, good from bad, being with nothing, unable to embrace opposing extremes before they degenerate into warring extremism. Wisdom empties the dualistic mind into the undivided heart, opening noetic purity to uncreated light…. Read more »
Lectio divina reads inspired texts with inspiration, gathering deifying glorification from illumination, welcoming the Holy Spirit, purifying the heart. To read with the eye and ear of the heart is to open through wisdom to glory, breaking through external obstructions, leaping over mountainous resistance. Literalism clings to outward, external surfaces, whereas wisdom, awakening to the Holy Spirit, uncovers the living Word… Read more »
Hallowing the Name transmutes the lead of distraction into the gold of integral recollection in the cauldron of fire and water, where the golden lion and the silvery unicorn are fighting for the crown. The centre where all centres coincide is everywhere, for it is neither spacial not temporal, but maintains its axial poise always and everywhere. Distraction de-centres the chuntering mind but… Read more »
The spirit congeals in the cave of the heart when awareness turns and presence sees, crystallising glory. Suddenly light dawns and the heart is receptive like a bride. Wisdom acts decisively without striving to grasp anything created or acquire anything conditioned, being radically unconditioned grace. The way of Name-hallowing is at once active and receptive, unveiling the mysteries of the Song of… Read more »
Blessing descends on those who turn and see, discovering God at centre in the midst, beholding Christ transfigured in uncreated light, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, who transfigures sinners by turning them into saints. Wisdom discerns the heart of stillness in uncreated glory, uncovering peace that is timeless and immaculate, purifying the mind in the heart. Delusion dispels as confusion releases into communion,… Read more »
The radical ineffability of Orthodox Hesychast wisdom is indefinable, endlessly transcending ecclesiastical and theological sectarianism. This transcendence is not understood by those who condemn wisdom as heretical. They think they know what wisdom is and condemn it as Gnosticism, or Montanism, if they are referring to wisdom’s prophecy, or Messalianism, if they are condemning wisdom’s prayer. Hesychast saints remain silent,… Read more »
Wisdom cuts through prevarication and removes mountains of resistance, revealing God’s reign of glory with every turn. The saving function of the Name is to reveal God in all dimensions and in all ages without ceasing to unveil glory to wisdom in the timeless presence of the present. Nothing interrupts glory when wisdom is awake because wisdom is ageless and easily encompasses many… Read more »
The eye of the heart is fundamental, giving Holy Orthodoxy its cutting edge. Crowning with uncreated light and enthroning in uncreated glory sustain the awakened heart with the wisdom of the Cross, cutting through endless defilements with the flame of the revelatory Name. Christ does not let things degenerate but opens them to heavenly wisdom again and again, unveiling ineffable glory… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reveals God in his Name, enlightening the eye of the heart in the Holy Spirit. Without the uncreated energy of the Holy Spirit, there would be no revelation of the Name, no gospel and no grace. There would be only the strain and stress of individual effort and struggle, subjection to clerical control and submission to clerical… Read more »
Theosis is divine-human union for which the divine transcends time and movement but for which the human is in time and moves by separating from God or by returning to God. Saint Maximus the Confessor described theosis both as ‘ever-moving rest,’ and as the ‘stationary movement’ of the eighth day. The sixth day completes the ‘being’ of creation, the seventh… Read more »