When there is suffering for God’s Name’s sake, love’s glory is revealed. When we are falsely accused and set aside, Christ secretly weds us to himself in the Bridal Chamber of hidden holiness, unveiling holy union in the Holy of Holies. We could never have received the hallowing grace of passionate love for him, if he had not first passionately… Read more »
The desert transmits the Holy Name in accordance with the revelation of the Name on Mount Sinai, in the light of the ‘I AM’ sayings of Christ in the Gospel of John, which unveil the transmission of the Name to the Beloved Disciple. This revelation of the Name on the Mountain of transfiguration informs every dimension of desert wisdom, unveiling… Read more »
The awakened heart is pure because uncreated light is primordially pure. It is the light of glory that opens the eye of the heart, which being invariably pure, purifies the heart. The illumined heart knows that uncreated light does not require purification, nor does uncreated glory need saving, because uncreated light purifies and glory cures every ill. When demonic energy demonises light, it… Read more »
Desert wisdom transmits transfiguring light in the Name, inspiring glorification of God in God through the Name, turning seers of glory into friends of transfiguration. Prophecy hands on the uncreated Word that reveals the Name which pure prayer is empowered to assimilate, embraced as revelation of glory in the awakened heart. Friends of transfiguration live in the light of glory, the… Read more »
Revelation of the Name is inconceivable and ineffable, being the glory unveiled to wisdom in the radical openness of the awakened heart. Hallowing the Name, the Kingdom comes but glory is unknowable and unutterable, even when wisdom opens the eye of the heart and the light of glory illumines. The Father generates the Son anew in every moment, so that when the Spirit… Read more »
The Holy Transfiguration on Mount Tabor transmits vision (theoria) of uncreated light, opening glory to glory in the Kingdom of God. Participation in this uncreated, creative vision of light is incorporation into the glory of the Kingdom. Transfiguration unveils light of glory that consecrates and blesses purity of heart, true turning that sees God (Mathew 5:8). Transfiguration hallows God’s Name ‘I… Read more »
Prophetic wisdom springs from the ineffable openness of uncreated awareness, opening prayer to the ineffable oneness of uncreated presence, wisdom beholding glory in the Name, unveiling God in the midst. God unveils God through God, the Spirit proceeding from the Father to abide in the Son, revealing God’s Name, ‘I AM.’ Elders know that God’s ‘I’ awareness is ever-present, beholding God’s… Read more »
Orthodox Christian tradition is not defined by its ethnocentric politics nor by the reactionary fundamentalism that narrows its conventional shallows into sectarian nationalisms. True Orthodoxy is right-glorification of God the Father, by God the Son, in God the Holy Spirit, glorification which glorifies the saints who awaken to wisdom’s vision of glory in the Kingdom of God. Ethnocentrism is not definitive in Orthodoxy because… Read more »
The awakened heart is a sanctuary of peace, a place of joy, a cave of mysteries and home of glory where shadows flee and darkness dazzles. The heart rejoices in the beauty of its King whose glory fills his Kingdom with boundless love, whose face unveils glory to the saints. Abidng in the mysteries of the Bridal Chamber, elders weep for all… Read more »
Pentecost transmits glorification but glorification is ineffable, so the symbols and icons that communicate its mysteries are not rational concepts, although reason may play a humble part in communicating them. If the ineffable ‘words’ of revelation are confused with words of Scripture, the literal usurps the spiritual and uncreated energies of glory are shut out. Elders constantly remind the saints not to confuse God with concepts of God. Although… Read more »