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 »
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 »
Wisdom has many modes of union in the Name, each integrating different divine names in many different ways, ensuring communion in the Holy Spirit includes an infinite variety of ways union sustains communion with the ineffable oneness of God. Indivisible yet differentiated, communion remains without confusion, revealing the infinitely different ways saints bear witness to holy communion in the Name. There… Read more »
Wisdom song chants the revelatory Name, unveiling God at centre in the midst. Wisdom, turning awareness round, opens to glory ever-present, infinitely nearer than near. Glory restores glory to God, purifying the heart, liberating glory from vanity. Vainglory reigns when confusion spreads division everywhere. Dull darkness dims what dazzling darkness illumines, extinguishing stillness and love. The Name whispers in the… Read more »
The Word names the hallowing Name, revealing the glory of the Father, through the wisdom of the Son in the peace of the Holy Spirit, unveiling God’s blessed Reign in his Name. Hallowing the Name, Kiddush haShem, sanctifies saints who die to death before they die, rise from the dead to ascend in uncreated light, glorified by the uncreated grace of the… 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 »
Joy loves grace in the hearts of martyrs who suffer in Christ’s Holy Name and who witness to the knowledge of the Most High, sealed with mystery since before the foundation of the world. Red martyrdom sheds blood that flows into the redemptive blood of Christ, whilst white martyrdom rejoins the uncreated light of Christ, both of them aware that uncreated life is… Read more »
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 »
Glory be to thee, O Christ, love of my life, overcoming my death by your death, resurrecting my death in your life, ascending my light through your light, descending as glory from your glory, glorifying my brokenness with ineffable light. Glory to thee, Father of light, generating light from light in the night of my life, light of turning, light… Read more »