Awakening hearts hear as well as see the hidden glory that wisdom sings, turning awareness round to hear God in the midst, turning to listen to God’s presence in the silence of the night. Glory is invisible to visual perception and inaudible to aural perception, but wisdom discerns God at centre in the midst. Awakened hearts, enlightened by wisdom, contemplate the… 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 »
Love is the language of angels, uniting heavenly realms with earthly worlds, singing the ineffable language of wisdom. When wisdom sings, prophecy breaks free from the conventional mind that lives from fear and imposes control, cutting through obstructive barriers, soaring over stubborn resistance. Wisdom is prophetic as it prays without ceasing in the Holy Spirit, communicating union with the Father in Christ,… Read more »
The three gifts of the Magi, gold for crowning, frankincense for praying and myrrh for anointing, honour Christ the King, the Priest and the Prophet, pointing to three temple mysteries, spiritual crowning, glorifying sacrificial prayer and hallowing death, holy martyrdom (Mt 2:1-15). When we discover the golden crown, we uncover hallowing wisdom. When we offer incense, we offer the sacrifice… 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 »
Multi-dimensional awareness is natural to wisdom just as multi-dimensional presence is characteristic of glory, opening glorification way beyond the three dimensions of space; namely, length, breadth and height, and the fourth dimension of time. Wisdom begins as a fifth dimension and glory as a sixth, but go on transcending as they unite in the seventh dimension of ineffable oneness. The eighth dimension of… Read more »
Totalitarian religion condemns to hell those it cannot control, whereas Christ descends to empty hell, releasing the condemned. Wisdom through Christ puts right what religion gets wrong, descending into hell to quench its infernal fires, turning them into purgatorial flames of love, completing Christ’s passion by suffering love’s passion as the Song of Songs. Wrought in the fathomless depths of hell,… Read more »
There are three pronouns of the revelatory Name, the first person pronoun of revelatory wisdom, the second person pronoun of revelatory prayer and the third person pronoun of revelatory prophecy. The Name reveals God in all three pronouns of the Name, ‘I AM who I AM,’ ‘THOU ART who THOU ART,’ ‘HE IS who HE IS.’ Wisdom is always awake to God first personally, praying to… Read more »
Christ never ceases to impart the Great Peace and the Holy Spirit never ceases to reveal the Great Peace of the Name. “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and Great shall be the Peace of thy children” (Isaiah 54:13). Children of God, taught by the Lord, led by the Spirit, come to know the glory of the… Read more »
Christ came to reveal union with God, confirmed by the Holy Spirit as communion with God among saints and angels, revealing union as deifying communion in all through all. Christ was himself the union he came to bring, but he gave his life and shared himself with all, emptying himself out into all to save all. Not all are willing… Read more »