The Logos of glory unveils yet wisely veils the Name of God. It reveals God in his Name ‘I AM,’ but does not profane it, because Logos veils the Name from profane scrutiny. Wisdom discerns what the Logos reveals by hallowing the Name so the Kingdom comes. The Logos unveils glory by purifying the heart with uncreated fire,… Read more »
Saint Clement of Alexandria spoke of the Father as God beyond God, transcending all, the Son as God within God embracing all as God in all, and the Holy Spirit as God beside God, proceeding from God to abide with God as God in all through all. For Clement, there was no division between the unseen God beyond God and… Read more »
Icons of the Dormition bear witness to the mystery of glorification as does the mature wisdom of the Apostle Paul. Orthodox wisdom is the secret and hidden wisdom of God which discerns the glory of the age to come, the glory of the crucified Lord of glory who glorifies elders and saints. (1 Cor 2: 6-16) This wisdom of the… Read more »
Wisdom in the desert is timeless flame, since every day is equivalent to any day in the Name, which begins where it ends and ends where it begins. The step back of true turning awakens the heart to the consuming fire of uncreated energy, which sees union of seer and seen in the Name. The uncreated river of fire is… Read more »
According to the Sage Heraclitus, the hidden harmony of the incomprehensible LOGOS is back-turning like the lyre and perhaps also back-stretched like the bow. The desert embraced the wisdom of the Sage of Ephesus, which distinguishes between a rationally comprehensible logic which goes out in a straight line, and the incomprehensible gnomic LOGOS which turns us round, endowing us with… Read more »
Edward Curtis (1868-1952), in a photograph of Hollow Horn Bear (1850-1913), taken in 1907, caught him gazing into us out of a sorrow that does not define him, with a serenity that does not confine him, open to ‘I AM’ that transcends him and opening, inspires him, saying: ‘I AM’ is one. ‘I AM’ is closer to him than he… Read more »
Close to a pilgrim’s road in southern Occitania, Santa Majestat has gazed down at weary pilgrims in the cool of Trinity Chapel for nigh on nine hundred years. As gentle radiance of Holy Trinity, his serene gaze has communicated his inexhaustible energies of kindly stillness without demanding from us what we were too tired to give. Instead, he just gives and… Read more »
Prophecy communicates the Word that unveils the revelatory Name, pointing out where God is to be found, so that prayer can assimilate the glory of the Name, which imparts uncreated harmony with consummate completeness. To keep the vision, wisdom turns and sees, letting harmony transfigure what glory completes. Curing confusion that separates us from God, ourselves and one another, the delusion of… Read more »
When we witness the devastation of the environment wrought by oblivious materialistic consumerism, harmony appears to us as a long lost past or as a distant aim that seems irredeemably divided from us. Pre-modern worlds appear as paradise lost and the ruthless rape of the earth’s resources as a brutal dislocation from true harmony. When science is divorced from wisdom,… Read more »
Great harmony and great peace are always already present in wisdom’s discernment of uncreated, creative glory, which raises us from purification through illumination to glorification in the Name. Purification encounters harmonious peace through pure prayer whilst illumination experiences harmonious peace through wisdom’s vision of uncreated light. The experience of glorification, fruit of turned seeing in pure prayer and illumined vision,… Read more »
