Multi-dimensional awareness is natural to wisdom just as multi-dimensional presence is characteristic of glory, opening glorification way beyond the three dimensions of space; namely, length, breadth and height, and the fourth dimension of time. Wisdom begins as a fifth dimension and glory as a sixth, but go on transcending as they unite in the seventh dimension of ineffable oneness. The eighth dimension of… Read more »
Joy abides with wisdom in her union with glory in the communion of saints. Grace generates trust that welcomes glory with wisdom. Love delights in the joy of wisdom, ecstatic without dissipation, rejoicing in the knowledge of God. Love does not envy the grace that saves, unlike demonic jealousy, that resents the communion of saints. Joy descends from heaven like lightening,… Read more »
Totalitarian religion condemns to hell those it cannot control, whereas Christ descends to empty hell, releasing the condemned. Wisdom through Christ puts right what religion gets wrong, descending into hell to quench its infernal fires, turning them into purgatorial flames of love, completing Christ’s passion by suffering love’s passion as the Song of Songs. Wrought in the fathomless depths of hell,… Read more »
Incisive glorification penetrates all ages of enlightened awareness, all dimensions of uncreated presence, opening earth to highest heaven in the empowering Name. The wisdom of the Cross is consummated with the glory of the Name, saving all with love, glorifying all with hallowing holiness. Life in God is God’s way of hallowing those who turn and see his uncreated presence… Read more »
Manifold wisdom shimmers and resonates with many qualities, many divine names, intelligent and holy, subtle and unique, active and incisive. Lucid and unsullied, the perfect completeness of wisdom is invulnerable and benevolent, sharp and irresistible. Love of wisdom lovingly embraces all souls, steadfast and dependable, unperturbed and all-penetrating, almighty and all-seeing. (Wisdom of Solomon 7:22-23). Manifold wisdom breathes the uncreated energies of God,… Read more »
The remembrance of God is in the image and likeness of God’s remembrance of God through God, Holy Trinity, securing remembrance from degenerating into obsession with anything other than God. Remembrance knows God alone is God and there is no other. When vainglory glorifies empire, race, nation, language or culture instead of God, ethnocentric addictions arise that usurp God, spawning phyletistic heresies that… Read more »
There are three states of the Name which look like stages from a temporal point of view but which are states from the timeless point of view of wisdom and glory. As stages, purification, illumination and union proceed from purification of the heart to illumination of mind in the heart, which opens to the union and ineffable openness of deification…. Read more »
God reveals God in three tenses of the Name, ‘I AM He who is, who was and who is to come’ (Rev 1:8). The three tenses of the revelatory Name look like three separate times, time present, time past and time future, but time present is ever-present, breaking into time from the Age to come, transcending time in the age to come. Time present… Read more »
There are three pronouns of the revelatory Name, the first person pronoun of revelatory wisdom, the second person pronoun of revelatory prayer and the third person pronoun of revelatory prophecy. The Name reveals God in all three pronouns of the Name, ‘I AM who I AM,’ ‘THOU ART who THOU ART,’ ‘HE IS who HE IS.’ Wisdom is always awake to God first personally, praying to… Read more »
Holy wisdom suspends optimism and overcomes pessimism as glorification of God transcends desire and despair, enlightening hearts by renewing minds in the heart. Uncreated light is not an impersonal force but a personal energy, dynamically communicating wisdom with dynamic glory, glorifying God with saints in God, communicating liberating freedom. Saint Sophrony the Hesychast handed on a dynamic legacy of freedom that cannot be assimilated… Read more »