According to the enigmatic prophecy of the Book of Revelation, wisdom was exiled from the corrupted city and its temple, fleeing into the wilderness to abide in the hallowing the Name, mothering prophecy and wedding saints in holy hiddenness. Hunted by satanic confusion and demonic division, wisdom confronted the dragon whilst her first-born son was concealed in glory, hidden within the… Read more »
The thrice-holy Name of God reveals the Father’s reign with Christ in the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the hallowing commandments of God to love as God first loved God, before the beginning, raising the dead to resurrection in the end, inhabiting uncreated light of glory in between. Thrice-holy, the Name of Holy Trinity is key to the Spirit’s sevenfold healing of body and… Read more »
Wisdom is God’s yoke of love speaking through prophecy to awaken prayer, conjoining human lovers with the divine Beloved, as in the Song of Songs, opening the Holy of Holies to the ineffable mystery of the Bridal Chamber. Trust in Christ releases fear into love in the Holy Spirit, opening hells to heavens of infinite grace and unconditioned glory. Holy Orthodoxy… Read more »
To know yourself is to know God, according to the ‘Letters of Saint Antony the Great,’ so to turn and see is to awaken to God at centre in the midst, which wisdom does when she beholds the glory of God. According to Saint Maximus the Confessor, the Name reveals oneness of being, well-being and timeless openness of being, by awakening to… Read more »
The sovereign majesty of God in Scripture is intimately connected with the glory of God, kabod in Hebrew, doxa in Greek. The glory revealed on Mount Sinai is the glory of the Name, the majesty of God unveiled in tabernacle and temple, the majestic glory that leaves the corrupted temple and adorns Christ in his incarnation, full of grace and… Read more »
The heart sings wisdom songs when grace overflows the heart and glory soars over mountains of resistance, prevarication, postponement and perversion. The Spirit prays as it wills in the depths of the heart, so why fuss about ways and means? Our spirit rejoices in the Holy Spirit when wisdom turns and sees God present at centre in the heart, dissolving… Read more »
The Name of God unveils the Face of God, opening the eye of the heart to uncreated light, realising the holiness of God in uncreated glory. Grace forgives by freely giving forgiveness, because as God forgives, a new creation manifests. Forgiveness is the very heart of the Holy Gospel, revealing the very heart of God. Forgiveness makes all things new,… Read more »
The Name of God is uncreated light, turning awareness round from divisive separation into indivisible union, awakening wisdom through glory in realms of uncreated grace. Turning reverses the fall from grace by purifying and illumining the heart, awakening wisdom that glorifies God. Effort is employed for a time to discover effortless grace, revealing the wisdom of theoria that discerns the glory of… Read more »
When Satan channels Christ for his new age, he accuses Christ of being the antichrist to invert Christianity into his regime of domination and control. He parodies Christ to oppose Christ, accusing Christ of being the antichrist, which is the nihilistic inversion that spawns narcissism, replacing the reign of God with the regime of Satan. In Satan’s regime of lies, truth… Read more »
Parody imitates paradox to deceive, whereas paradox exposes parody to enlighten. Satan loves to parody wisdom, spawning relativism, narcissism and nihilism, cancelling the discernments of wisdom with many kinds of parody, degenerating prophecy into channelled imitation and prayer into manipulative magic, replacing the age of glory with the new age of narcissism and reducing different modes of oneness to relativistic nihilsm…. Read more »