Cleaving to God in his Name releases into resounding union with God through his Name. The cleaving, devekut, transfigures the human spirit with the deifying resonance of divine life, as it is written, “But you that did cleave to ‘I AM’ your God, are alive every one of you this day” (Deut 4:4). Christ transmits the Name ‘I AM,’ as resounding… Read more »
The Kingdom of God is unveiled by the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, one revelatory Name, ‘I AM,’ three ways that God is arche and telos of all that there is. ‘He who is,’ YHWH, reveals who he is, was and shall ever be in the Name ‘I AM,’ EHYEH, addressing us in the Covenant formula of Theophany as ‘Thou,’… Read more »
The Kingdom of God is unveiled by the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, imparting wisdom which discerns the glory of the Name ‘I AM,’ turning hearts back into God seeing God in God, uncreated light opening to uncreated glory in seven heavens. The Kingdom of heaven unfolds as seven heavens, which fall into confusion as seven hells,… Read more »
When Jesus imparted the Name to the Apostles, he fulfilled the Logos of the prophets, revealing glory without vanity, glory free of self-interest. In the Mosaic theophany of the Burning Bush, the Logos of God unveiled the Name, EHYEH, ‘I AM,’ and on Mount Sinai, EHYEH ASHER EHYEH, ‘I AM who I AM.’ The Johannine ‘I AM’ sayings, both with and… Read more »
The Logos, said the Apostle, is not yes and no but always Yes, always Amen, always glory to God, always glorification in God (2 Cor1:18-20). The Logos in the beginning, the Logos with God in the primordial arche, the Logos who is God from God, is always ‘Yes,’ always the primordial ‘Yes,’ the originative ‘Amen,’ the first glory and the very last… Read more »
The Apostle imparted wisdom discerning the glory of release, folly to the powers that be, but liberation of vainglory into glory when wisdom turns and sees. The Logos of the cross of unselfish love, apparently powerless against these powers, crucifies their pretentious parodies of God. The Name conceals unconditional glory unbinding whatever powers have bound, unveiled by wisdom so that… Read more »
The unspoken horizon of stillness is given within the revelation of the Name, and its ineffable theophany is given the divine name glory, and its ineffable epiphany is given the divine name wisdom. Hesychast wisdom inspires a poetry of vision that plays with multifaceted symbolism, which in turn infuses pure prayer of the Spirit in the heart, prayer that assimilates what… Read more »
Eternal life in Christ is liberating release, undoing every reified fixation as way of revelatory truth. It is deifying life lived out of ‘I AM,’ God dwelling in the midst, the uncreated light of Christ overflowing as transforming grace in disinterested love. The Name is God’s liberating presence in our midst, which is our life in God, present in his… Read more »
The Holy Name of Jesus is witness to glory that is profoundly mysterious, not something that is observable in a science laboratory, but which manifests in any oratory of the desert if we put in practice the living tradition’s spiritual injunction to turn and see. Glory appears on the horizon as a sacred origin and a sacred destination once turning… Read more »
Break-through into Godhead does not privilege the Father alone but also unveils through the Son as release from worldly powers, and in the Spirit as anarchic arche of freedom. Wisdom breaks through calculation and control to retrieve boundless glory, irrupting from the Father, opening to wisdom through the Son, releasing unbound glory in the Spirit. The Holy Name ‘I AM’ is… Read more »
