Wisdom discerns the difference between communion and confusion, difference and division, distinguishing between demonic parody and divine paradox in spheres of wisdom and glory. Crucial difference stems from the wisdom of the Cross which separates delusion from glory by consuming vanity from vainglory. The Cross of timeless wisdom lies at the very heart of Christian Orthodoxy because wisdom lies at the heart… Read more »
Saint Clement of Alexandria discerned the wisdom of the Logos beyond the visible boundaries of Christianity, together with purification, illumination and deification in the uncreated light of the Logos of glory, arising in different wisdoms within the all-embracing scope of the eternal Logos. This gave Patristic wisdom insight into sound wisdom traditions beyond the visible Christian tradition, insight that was directly inspired… Read more »
Wisdom is the state of seeing that seeing (theoria) sees when seeing turns (metanoia) and sees as it is seen by God, turning round to know God, as God is known by God (theosis) in Holy Trinity. The grace of wisdom was always the inspiration of wisdom in Scripture and Patristic Tradition, the state of enlightened vision inspiring holiness in… Read more »
Christ prays: ‘Father, glorify thy Name. The Father, in a peal of thunder, answers: I have glorified it and will glorify it again’ ( John 12: 28). The hour of glorification casts out the ruler of this world and his demon minions, lifting up the Son of Man. Christ is glorified in his Name, which is the seed of the… Read more »
The vision of God is not like the visual perception of something created, nor like the sight of something seen by the senses or grasped by the mind. Only God sees God, but wisdom, which is God’s vision of God, is shared by the Holy Spirit with those who turn, metanoia, and see, theoria. God transcends sight but the vision of God… Read more »
Wisdom proclaims the Gospel of the Name of Glory, which Christ came to reveal and the Holy Spirit discerns, unveiling the Father through the Son. The Spirit awakens hearts to the glory of the Name, deifying those who turn and see, hallowing the Name of glory. The fearful mind tries to control the mind but wisdom empties the mind into… Read more »
Praise of glory, which blesses enlightened hearts, awakens seers to the living presence of the uncreated light of wisdom, opening to the living awareness of the uncreated light of glory. The Name is holy, hallowing seers with the grace of illumination, purifying the heart to deify saints, transmitting holy remembrance. Wisdom is immaculate, effortless and decisive in its uncreated energy,… Read more »
The Holy Spirit, Ruach ha-Qodesh, remembers holy saints so that they are always lovingly remembered, overcoming every confusion that divorces wisdom from glory, healing every division that separates glory from wisdom, curing subtle deviations of heart and mind. Holy wisdom communicates uncreated energies of ineffable power that deify saints by glorifying them as they offer their glorification of God, bestowing… Read more »
Recognition empowers remembrance of God to know as it is known, wedding God in the heart through holy union and sanctifying communion. Cognition without recognition remains unconscious of union, separate from the communion of saints, fixating frozen hardness of heart. Cognition with recognition remembers God, unites with God, partakes in God’s hallowing communion through Christ in the Spirit, hallowing the conjugal Name…. Read more »
Name-hallowing glorification of God reveals God in act in his deifying energies as wisdom, discerning God in act in his ever-present energies of glory, regenerating Holy Orthodoxy when it is tempted and brought low by confusion and division. Name-hallowing wisdom is holy theophany manifesting hallowing glory, communicating sound glorification, regenerating institutional Orthodox forms in ways that transfigure them as wisdom. The Lord’s… Read more »