Wisdom abides in timeless realms of light and glory. The Holy Name saves as uncreated light unveiling ineffable completeness, opening translucent wisdom to transfiguring glory, divine awareness to deifying presence, imparted by the Spirit’s direct transmission. The oneness of awareness and presence is evident in the Name ‘I AM,’ wisdom transfigured by glory, glory translucent with wisdom. The hidden meaning of… Read more »
Saint Sophrony the Hesychast bore witness to God’s Name ‘I AM,’ hallowing our age by restoring glory to God. Wisdom unveils the ineffable oneness of ‘I AM,’ God’s awareness conjoined with deifying presence in the timeless openness of glory, in the light of God’s embrace of our incompleteness within his consummate completeness. Glory proceeds from glory to restore glory to the… Read more »
In Abbot Francis Acharya’s translation of Ode 13 of the Odes of Solomon, an early apostolic Christian hymnbook, we read: ‘The Lord is a mirror to us, let us open our eyes and see ourselves in it, discover what we look like, and wipe all the paint from our faces. Then proclaim praises to the Holy Spirit, love his sanctity and… Read more »
Wisdom is beloved of God because she loves to embrace all through all as she ascribes all glory to God. Glory loves to be loved by wisdom because God loves to be known as wisdom knows, with awakening insight and wholeness of heart. Wisdom renews living sacred tradition by purifying the heart and illumining God-centred intelligence, but it is the… Read more »
The Apostle Paul prays that the Father of glory will give the Ephesians a spirit of wisdom and revelation, unveiling glory as fullness of knowledge through Christ, the ‘I AM’ of glory, who illumines the eye of their heart (Eph 1:17-18). Christ’s wisdom imparts the crown of uncreated light that glorifies the saints, glory that generously and without restraint grants grace… Read more »
Like prophets and apostles, elders do impart wisdom, but it is not a sophisticated worldly wisdom but God’s hidden wisdom that discerns the glory of the Age to Come, (Olam Ha Ba), which is the glory of God’s Kingdom come. The mysteries of glory are the unveilings of ‘I AM’ in glory, Christ’s hidden mysteries of the hallowing Name. These… Read more »
The Icon of Transfiguration attributed to Theophanes the Greek, usually dated to about 1403, or at least to the beginning of the fifthteenth century, depicts two hermit’s caves in the shade of two small trees on the slopes of Mount Tabor. Easily overlooked, these hermit cells appear dark within, in contrast to the uncreated light of Christ’s transfiguration, but if their… Read more »
God intends all to be saved, that all without exception shall come to completeness of wisdom in the knowledge of truth, truth that unveils glory in the Name (1Tim 2:3-4) The divine intention has glory in view from the beginning, generating wisdom that recapitulates everything in glory, unveiling consummate completeness, glory reconciling everything to God in the hallowed Name. The light… Read more »
Created in the image of God, we are all God-centred not self-centred, if confusion does not intrude to make us self-centred, separating us from God. Saints are created anew in graced likeness as well as the image of God, because they are gloriously aware of God present in the midst, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of God. Saints become… Read more »
Wisdom bears witness to the way of glory, inspired by the Spirit’s insight into luminous truth, glory of undying life. Desert wisdom has always known that the pure heart sees nothing but God in the midst, embracing transfigured creation off centre. Both Testaments unveil the Name but it is wisdom that unveils glory when the Name is hallowed. The kingdom… Read more »