Holy Orthodoxy bears witness to three great turns, which Saint Denis calls purification, illumination and deification, but which other elders describe in many different ways. The first turn is sometimes referred to as purifying recollection, the second as enlightened recognition and the third as deifying remembrance, pointing to the nature of the action of grace characteristic of each great turn. Saints… Read more »
I am the glory of grace upholding you like a chariot throne, the light of glory illumining you like dazzling wings. I am your recreation, empowering your spiritual purification and illumination, sustaining the glory of your deification. I carry you over hell’s abyss into the safe havens of heaven, winged like a chariot throne, sustained like a victorious, angelic host, sure in your… Read more »
I am ‘I AM,’ unveiling realms of joy to thee, once you cease to confuse yourselves with me. I came to reveal my Name. Restore my Name to me and I will to glory raise thee. My realms stand firm in joyful remembrance, opening wisdom to glory through Christ in the Spirit. My Word names my Name and my Spirit… Read more »
I am the Spirit of Truth enlightening those who turn and see. I am the Word of Presence blessing those who glorify my Holy Name. The timeless life of glory is completeness incorruptible, inviting incompleteness to empty into completeness. Great shall be the peace of God’s holy ones, secure in my reign of joy, steadfast in my realms of glory. Wisdom… Read more »
I crown all who turn and see my presence in the midst, imbibing the Spirit of Truth with every breath, illumining the eye of the heart with the uncreated light of love’s glory. The fulness of my completeness blesses seers and saints with uncreated grace, sharing the glory of my love with you as you glorify me with your whole-hearted… Read more »
Here, in the Holy of Holies, I reign in light and glory, calling you by name to hallow my Name. I crown you with light and enthrone you in glory, undoing all falls from the grace of light and glory. I share my timeless life of grace with you so that all confusion and division are undone. You awaken to… Read more »
I am present in my Name, regenerating the temple of the heart, renewing creation from the throne of uncreated grace. I am enthroned between the Cherubic seers, whose knowing is God’s knowledge of God, generating wisdom’s love of glory in the Holy of Holies. I am wisdom embracing glory, regenerating the spiritual rebirth of saints in the reign of timeless grace…. Read more »
I am the grace of the Name, the glory of wisdom illumining the saints, the crown of glorification and the throne of deification, communicating the mysteries of grace in the hallowed language of the Jerusalem Temple. I am the hidden wisdom of glory that illumines the angelic hosts of heaven, the flaming presence surrounded with rainbow radiance, gazing out from… Read more »
The whisper of presence is unveiled in the silence of awareness when the breath of oneness dawns. Whispering oneness of silent awareness, the breath of presence silently weaves oneness out of confusion. Dreaming of awakening from the dream of forgetting does not awaken, whereas oneness of awareness and presence awakens to wisdom in glory. Awareness coincides with presence, revealing wisdom coinciding with… Read more »
I am ‘I AM,’ thy God, ever aware in thee, ever-present to thee, my Name, Ha Shem, unveiling God to thee through me. I am hidden in my Name so that, revealing me, my Name is not profaned or taken in vain by those who refuse to turn and see. My Name invites them to turn but they do not see,… Read more »