The two-edged sword of prophecy cuts both ways, through hardened institution and through dissipating dislocation, healing destitution. Dislocation shatters union whilst institution reifies it, causing sclerotic fixation, quenching the consuming fire of grace. Glory is the flame of the saving Name, inspiring prophecy, regenerating prayer, curing destitution. The sword of prophecy has a two-edged blade that severs old delusion and cuts… Read more »
The throne of glory symbolises the deification of the three centres beneath the heart, survival, security and control, whilst the crown symbolises the deification of the three centres above the heart, speech, single eye and crown, also called halo of glory. The holy rite of coronation also includes a golden orb and sceptre, because crowning places the cross over the hallowed earth… Read more »
Silent stillness reverberates with ineffable words and numbers, richly adorned with multi-textured glory, shimmering with multiple-dimensional oneness and openness. The practice of completeness hallows the Name with wisdom’s discernment of glory in every breath, beholding the body of rainbow light reflecting and refracting the uncreated body of ineffable glory. It is not that the material body ceases to manifest in the three dimensions of… Read more »
The Eye of the Heart is single, unwavering in its undivided simplicity, when wisdom is unobstructed and glory is unconfused. Grace is glorious in the beauty of its holiness, untroubled by confusion, free from division in its awareness of the Spirit’s liberating presence. Heaven embraces earth as a heavenly earth united with an earthly heaven, when wisdom dispels delusion and illusion releases into… Read more »
The Holy Spirit is the giver of life, unveiling eternal life in Christ to the glory of the Father, communicating deifying life without confusing the uncreated with the created or dividing their holy union from the communion of saints. The Spirit is holy because it grants eternal life to those who turn and see the glory of God, unveiling liberating release… Read more »
The Song of the Name was wisdom song inspiring a wisdom round cell on the hill, infusing the wisdom of prophecy and prayer, prophecy renewing images, prayer transcendending images (Wisdom, Prophecy and Prayer 2013). The wisdom of prophecy regenerated images in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Life of Merlin’ with images of the Manstone’s Christly enthronement on the Stiperstones (Merlin on Manstone Mynd… Read more »
Uncreated energy is winged, giving creation grace to rise with heavenly wings into heavenly realms, like angels whose deified lives are winged, or Seraphic flame partaking in winged Cherubic embrace, images of the ineffable that resonate with music of unseen spheres. Uncreated energy is creative, generating wondrous ways of being renewed by the uncreated imagination, deifying elders and saints with uncreated… Read more »
Prophecy and prayer co-inhere without confusion or division because prophecy is the way of the affirmation of images and prayer is the way of the negation of images, both of which are fundamental and indispensable in Holy Orthodoxy. Pure prayer transcends images but the prophecy of prayer employs images, as the Book of Revelation proves. Imageless prayer is union with the uncreated… Read more »
Companions of the Grail in Holy Orthodoxy do not speak of the Holy Grail or the Matter of Britain because the parousia of the Holy Eucharist and the parousia of the Holy Name are already intrinsic to their Holy Orthodoxy. Hallows that shepherds of wisdom always regarded as quintessential, the Eucharist and the Name always lay at the heart of their… Read more »
The glory of love may first be unveiled in a human salutation of love, as in the love of Beatrice for Dante, then in wisdom’s love of both that unveils human loves as icons of divine love. The way of glorification is the revelation of the glory of love, arising when illumination purifies love at the heart of the mysteries of glory…. Read more »