There is no confusion for simple wisdom, no division for wholesome glorification. Wisdom is simple in the midst of purified awareness, indivisible at the heart of enlightening presence. Obscuration dissolves when awareness turns, because obstructions are extinguished by the surrounding flame of the paradise Name. Wherever awareness turns, wisdom sees a heavenly earth wedded to an earthly heaven. Heaven regenerates… Read more »
The wisdom function of Elijah, according to the Prophet Malachi, is to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, welcoming the coming day of the revelatory Name (Mal 3:22-24). Elijah’s ultimate concern is the renewal of sacred tradition, awakening hearts to the Name. The prophet’s own name reveals God… 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 »
The dancing presence of wisdom fills the heavens with uncreated glory, singing wisdom songs that glorify God, through God, in God. Holy Trinity is not rigid, reified dogmatism but revelation of dancing presence, unveiling the round dance of God’s three persons among angels and saints in heaven, resounding on earth as the holy dance of heaven. Holy Orthodoxy inspired persons… 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 »
The light of life casts no shadow and knows no death as it turns and sees light of glory in the midst. The material body takes up space because it has length, breadth and height, but if awareness identifies exclusively with these three spatial dimensions, it plunges awareness into confusion and splits presence into divisive dualism, like demons in hell. But if awareness… Read more »
God-centred wisdom reveals sound insight that sees that nothing falls outside God’s omnipresent glory. Wisdom’s sound intent does not fixate exclusively on created things but focuses on glory which is God in action empowering grace, uncovering the crucial difference between self-centred fixation and liberating focus. Insight is focus, not fixation, attentive openness, not conceptual reification. The practice of wisdom turns… Read more »
When awareness turns to unite with presence, wisdom turns to unveil glory, empowered by the reign of glory to reveal its presence on earth as in heaven. Of course, the reign of glory is always present in the Spirit and when the eye of the heart is awake, but is hidden with Christ in God when the eye of the heart… 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 »
When the light of awareness turns around, uncreated light purifies the heart, unifying the energies of earth and heaven. Uncreated light arises in the midst of created energies, generating the body of light in uncreated light. The light body is born in the material body when the fire of the Spirit reveals the pearl of great price. Heaven and earth unite… Read more »