The Name is the mirror of God, opening the heart to uncreated glory. The Name is the unveiled face of God, revealing God at centre in the midst. The Name saves, curing confusion and healing division, opening oblivious blindness to the vision of God. The Spirit reveals Christ who reveals the Father, awakening sinners to Holy Trinity. God loves holiness… Read more »
The uncreated light of glory is all-pervasive and ever-present, grounding space and time in boundless wisdom. Since Einstein, time has often been spoken of as a fourth dimension, although this way of speaking is still contested, in which case the step back into wisdom would be the fifth and glory the sixth dimension, oneness the seventh and ineffable openness the eighth, being… Read more »
Prophecy reveals timeless well-being overflowing amidst the living heart of prayer, bearing witness to the Gospel of infinite grace in every situation. Prayer is in love with prophecy and prophecy with prayer, concealed in the Bridal Chamber of the Holy of Holies. Wisdom’s conjugal union with glory regenerates the Hesychast Tradition in the holiest of holy sanctuaries, awakening the heart as… Read more »
The Spirit of Truth is Truth, not our conceptual perception of something true, so if we remain attached to perception, what we have is perception, not Truth, nor the Spirit of Truth. Awakening to the Spirit of Truth transcends perception but includes intuitive apperception which wisdom infuses in the Spirit. Truth is not something or nothing, nor is it exhausted… Read more »
The ‘I’ of the Holy Name ‘I AM,’ is wisdom and the ‘AM’ of the Name is glory, revealing their primordial union to be the completeness of hallowed communion, unconfused yet inseparable, indivisible yet ineffable. Glorification of the Name is hallowing joy to Orthodox seers, opening past and future to wisdom’s glory of timeless presence. The glory of the… Read more »
Prayer for peace in Ukraine is the Spirit’s unceasing prayer in Christ, glorifying the Father in the hearts of all who are crucified by war in the devastated cities, towns and villages of Ukraine, but also all who died there a century ago during the Russian Civil War, including countless Orthodox defending Ukraine from the red Russian armies of atheistic communism. The Spirit’s unceasing… Read more »
Martyrs rise on winged chariot thrones, bearing witness to truth in a world that prefers lies it wants to be true, releasing totalitarian stealth back into costly truth. Christ is a haven of peace in the truth of his Name, stilling war by releasing error and terror. The Spirit never strays from the Truth of Christ, even when Orthodoxy is… Read more »
The prayer of the heart regenerates prophecy, transfiguring the vision of the Father’s realm of the Name, recognising Christ’s reign of the Name in the Spirit’s revelation of Seraphic wisdom and Cherubic glory. Unveiling Holy Trinity, Holy Orthodoxy is not the reification of this transfiguring recognition but release of reification into original Christophany in the Spirit’s wisdom, liberating reification into ineffable openness in the eye… Read more »
The Holy Spirit crowns the eye of the heart as it enthrones God in the heart with uncreated glory, initiating glorification through purification and illumination. Wisdom grounds glorification in purity of heart enlightened by the Holy Spirit, whereas fear contracts and hardens the heart, subverting the glory of grace. Love embraces fear with the kiss of peace, transforming terror into trust,… Read more »
The wisdom function of Elijah, according to the Prophet Malachi, is to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, welcoming the coming day of the revelatory Name (Mal 3:22-24). Elijah’s ultimate concern is the renewal of sacred tradition, awakening hearts to the Name. The prophet’s own name reveals God… Read more »