Into thy hands I commend my spirit, into thy Spirit I release my life, into thy presence I release my awareness, into thy Name I fly with angel’s wings, joining winged awareness with humble trust. For it is thou who art my life, here on earth, rejoining grace with heavenly glory, ceasing to cling to thy signs and symbols, but… 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 »
Theoria is wisdom’s vision of glory in the Name, not our unaided visual perception of God but God’s deifying vision of God in Holy Trinity. Vision of God is uncreated grace, gift of uncreated light, not objectifying, visual perception of something empirically perceptible, but wisdom’s awareness of imperceptible glory, awakened in the Name. This is why Scripture says we cannot see… Read more »
The Gospel of grace reveals God in his Name, enlightening the eye of the heart in the Holy Spirit. Without the uncreated energy of the Holy Spirit, there would be no revelation of the Name, no gospel and no grace. There would be only the strain and stress of individual effort and struggle, subjection to clerical control and submission to clerical… Read more »
Trusting grace to save is decisive, for without it pride intervenes, refusing to trust grace, trusting instead in self-willed effort to save us. Self-centred voluntarism usurps God by imposing effort, strain and stress in place of holy trust, causing despair. From the perspective of the unredeemed will, grace is delusional and confused with pride, condemned as heresy or as self-obsessed illusion. Self-centred asceticism… Read more »
Wisdom hallows the Name of the Father, discerning his reign of love through the Son, awakening in the light of the Holy Spirit to the uncreated glory of love. Earthly fathers may fall short of the loving recognition that sons need from their fathers, but the heavenly Father imparts healing recognition in the Name, ensuring traumatic brokenness is cured. Wisdom sees past… Read more »
Theosis is divine-human union for which the divine transcends time and movement but for which the human is in time and moves by separating from God or by returning to God. Saint Maximus the Confessor described theosis both as ‘ever-moving rest,’ and as the ‘stationary movement’ of the eighth day. The sixth day completes the ‘being’ of creation, the seventh… Read more »
Can dancing hope renew trust with love? Can dancing love restores hope with glorifying trust? Will dancing trust generate beauty with hope-filled jubilation? Jubilee celebration unites generations with dancing ecstasy, calling sacred and secular to dance one dance, empowering young and old to dance without restraint, bearing unspoken witness to wisdom’s dance of glory in heavenly realms. Rainbow light dances with spontaneous… Read more »
Odes of peace are odes of love in the beating heart of Christ, where wisdom abides with the Spirit in the glory of God’s Kingdom come. Law gives way to love and peace when wisdom and glory together reign. Odes of peace arise from God’s love of Christ and Christ’s love of God that completes the law, completing incompleteness in the… Read more »
The way of the Name is straight and simple in the gaze of wisdom’s ‘single eye,’ pure and clear as the kiss of peace, luminous and enlightening within the embrace of grace. The saving light of grace is uncreated, purifying and enlightening the heart, releasing awareness from divisive confusion. The wisdom of the Gospel of John is decisive for Hesychast saints… Read more »