I am ‘I AM,’ the Name sings, singing the Song of one awareness ever-present, one presence ever-aware. I am ‘I AM,’ thy God, and there is no other, uncreated light singing of uncreated glory, free of confusion and division and the conditioning that confuses and divides. The Name sings: I have never not been aware and present, just as I… Read more »
The heart of living Orthodoxy is alive in the light of love, renewing the tradition from within as vibrant joy. Love of God is the way to God’s light of love, which is the reason elders transmit the mystical theology of the Song of Songs. Without the light of love, Holy Orthodoxy shrivels up, reduced to its external forms and nominal… Read more »
The Name crowns saints by awakening the eye of the heart, enthroning the glorified heart in the temple of uncreated glory. Glory crowns saints with God’s Name, fulfilling the mysteries of the temple throne and crown that realise God through recognition and remembrance. Christ, the Great High Priest, enthrones and crowns his own with the truth of his Name, grafting his own… Read more »
The Name ‘I AM,’ ‘EHYEH,’ communicates the ecstatic joy of divine love, intimate union of God’s ‘I’ awareness with his ‘AM’ presence in the midst, unveiling love’s embrace of wisdom and glory as ecstatic joy, heavenly bliss and hallowing blessing. The Gospel discloses bliss and blessing by bearing witness to this ecstatic union of love. Love’s union of wisdom and glory is… Read more »
Desert elders, initiated in the Beloved Disciple’s School of love, continue to behold the Cross as the glory of love, not as penal substitution demanded by a punishing, feudal deity. Some contemporary secular Christians prefer to identify this feudal monstrosity with Christianity in order, by rejecting it, to advocate their religionless spirituality of love. But this was not the perspective… Read more »
Love of wisdom, in angels and saints, is the love-child of wisdom and the Name, born of glory, unveiling the Name in uncreated light, glorifying the Name in uncreated glory. Love of wisdom is the angelic response to wisdom’s first love, inspiring saints to fall in love with wisdom’s beauty, loving wisdom’s glory to their life’s end. This ‘philosophy’ that inspires… Read more »
Wisdom invites us to behold the heavenly twin that God’s uncreated imagination creatively envisions, when we are created in God’s image. The heavenly twin beholds this divine image with a view to our rising into its likeness, for it is our guardian angel who guides us from way ahead of us, God’s reign of glory, into the mysteries of purification,… Read more »
Pure prayer is remembrance of God and prophecy is witness to pure prayer, clearing away all that hinders the remembrance of God. Saints love to remember God but without turning there can be no seeing, in which case remembrance may, for a time, be extinguished. Prophecy reminds them that the extinction of their remembrance never extinguishes God’s remembrance of them, for… Read more »
Shemuel, the angel of the Name, Shem, is not saying: ‘Look at me,’ but ‘Remember God.’ All archangels and angels agree with him, saying, ‘Do not fixate on us, but remember God, for the remembrance of God is holy and hallows all that there is.’ Shemuel’s love of the Holy Name unveils this love to be loving remembrance of God in his Holy… Read more »
The heavenly twin can manifest in many mysterious ways, but as angel of revelation and wisdom, the twin loves to unveil the angel of the Name, Shemuel, with whom four archangels love to bear witness to the Name, Gabriel, angel of revelation, Oriel, angel of uncreated light and illumination, Phanuel, angel of the unveiled Face of uncreated Presence and revelatory Personhood,… Read more »