The revelation of the Name unveils the body of uncreated, formless light, which is ineffable in as many different ways as there are divine names colouring its colourless luminosity as a rainbow body of glory. ‘I AM’ is ineffable as formless radiance, so the body of light, too, is ineffable as a body of ineffable radiance. But the Name above all names… Read more »
We fall from grace when the glory of grace is ascribed to ourselves or to something created instead of to God. We fall from glory when the uncreated glory of grace is confused with something created. The fall from grace is a fall from God-centred glorification of God. We fall short of the glory that glorifies God in his Name. Right… Read more »
Hesychasm is silence and silence is not the absence of sound but wholesome completeness imparting wholeness through the uncreated energies of wisdom and glory. Stillness is awareness of presence deifying us, not a philosophy that imposes wordy control by taking sides. Desert wisdom loves silence because it loves wisdom that glorifies the Name, not because it is asserting its opposition… Read more »
The unceasing prayer of the Holy Spirit in the heart gives thanks to God for wisdom which inspires prophecy, wisdom which communicates the Holy Name as a prophetic word awakening the eye of the heart, wisdom that glorifies the Father through the revelatory Name of the Son in the Holy Spirit. Prophecy speaks to the hearts of those who have not… Read more »
Orthodox Christian Tradition teaches that wisdom unveils what God’s grace reveals whereas glory unveils how God’s grace is revealed. Both unveilings are revelations of the ineffable but wisdom is the ineffable awareness of God’s presence whereas glory is the ineffable presence of this deifying awareness. If the revelation of wisdom is what glory unveils, glory is the form of wisdom. If… Read more »
To be God-centred like God is to live God-centred lives like God the Holy Trinity, rather than self-centred lives like demons, whose shortfall from glory destroys likeness to God in his image. Grace restores likeness to God in God’s image by ascribing glory to God like angels do, glorification of God by participation in the God-centred life of Holy Trinity…. Read more »
AD MAJOREM GLORIAM DEI. SOLI DEO GLORIA. … Read more »
The Eucharistic wisdom of Emmaus is the wisdom of the burning heart, the wisdom of recognition that awakens hearts to the living flame of the unifying Name (Luke 24: 13-35). Recognition burns away impurity to purify the heart through the remembrance of God, which is not to be confused with conventional formal memory because it is God’s remembrance of God,… Read more »
Wisdom hallows the Name of God in Holy Trinity by ascribing all glory to God’s Name ‘I AM.’ The Name ‘I AM’ reveals God, not an objectified concept of God as a divine subject or a reified notion of God as a divine object. God in his Name ‘I’ is pure uncreated awareness ever present, and his Name ‘AM’ is pure… Read more »
Wisdom is timeless openness of glory unveiling the timeless radiance of grace. Wisdom awakens the heart to glory by cutting through confusion and leaping over separation, beginning at the end where God unveils God in his Name. To begin at the end means the Alpha initiates wisdom with the Omega of ‘I AM,’ revealing glory which is the timeless openness… Read more »