Wisdom unveils the mysteries of Christ as a radical counter-culture of gift, grace lived as glory given and received. This culture of gift has very ancient roots in Israel’s Bridal Time when all things were held in common and mutual exchange was gift. Wisdom remembers that gift predates price, that generosity precedes the market and production to fulfil real needs outruns… Read more »
Nothing separates wisdom and glory, revealing unselfish love through love, in love. Love is aware and so present, here in the midst, revealing God’s ever-present presence as glory at centre where all centres coincide. ‘I AM’ is God’s Name revealing God through God. ‘I’ awareness is inseparable from ‘AM’ presence here, where their union blesses every perception, everything perceived. Union with God… Read more »
Wisdom loves glory, inspiring glorifying love of wisdom, raising awakened hearts into realms of integral translucence, integral wisdom discerning translucent glory. Wisdom is integral because she springs from God to embrace everything that gives enduring glory to God, integrating glory with increasing glory in age after age. Wisdom is translucent because she transfigures with glory all that bears witness… Read more »
When the Holy Spirit anoints awareness with wisdom, unveiling presence as glory, the mind descends into the heart, uncovering union with God as fire, light and glory in the midst. This is Hesychast transmission of purification, illumination and glorification through the Name. It is tri-une revelation of the Name, revealing God through God in God, Holy Trinity. The Name transmits… Read more »
Holy Orthodoxy shares her wisdom with all, the Name of Holy Trinity alight and alive in her elders as uncreated light of glory crowning her saints. Awareness of presence regenerates presence of awareness as wisdom renews glory in the saints. Utterly simple as pure prayer of the heart, Orthodox Tradition offers profound symbols to communicate her hallowing communion. Symbolism frees silence to… Read more »
Wisdom discerns the glory of the Eternal Gospel (Revelation 14:6), glory unveiled by the prophets and witnessed by the apostles, wisdom awakening elders which imparts glory to the saints. Wisdom is God’s vision of God in God, Holy Trinity in act as uncreated energy, revealing an Eternal Gospel of ever-present grace. This gift of grace is God’s gift of God through God, a timeless… Read more »
Wisdom searches out the glory of the Name like a priceless pearl hidden in the depths of the ocean. The dive for the pearl abandons safe convention at the surface, risking all for the Name. Just as a merchant sells all that he has for the pearl of great price, so wisdom renounces all for the glory of God’s Kingdom… Read more »
The union of wisdom and glory, awareness and presence, unveils the dazzling darkness of the Name and illumines mystical theology from within. The wisdom praxis of turning is one with wise theoria, enlightened seeing, and this practice of turned vision in God is a union of wisdom and glory, mystical theology. As the ground of all that is arising, ‘I AM’ is Father… Read more »
Transfiguration unveils the face of Christ, uncreated light and deifying glory, yet veils the revelatory Name from objectifying vanity or dualistic scrutiny. The countenance of God is unobstructed openness but remains hidden from self-interested reification. Saint Maximus the Confessor says that on Mount Tabor, the apostles beheld Christ transfigured, who “in appearing conceals himself, in hiding manifests himself,” (Ambigua to John 10). … Read more »
Wisdom interprets the beauty of the revelatory Name as glory unveiling God in the midst. Desert elders impart the injunction to turn and see, opening seeing to timeless union of seer and seen, union of the Son with the Father to which the Spirit bears witness, unveiling Holy Trinity. This union is the beauty of holiness which sanctifies all who… Read more »