Truth Freedom Tradition

The Wings of Wisdom

Isaiah, 30:15, teaches:

(King James:) "...in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:..."

גְּבֽוּרַתְכֶ֑ם תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה וּבְבִטְחָ֔ה בְּהַשְׁקֵט֙

(right to left :)
be•hash•ket quietness
u•ve•vit•chah  and trust  
tih•yeh "become" (but "to cause" also)  
ge•vu•rat•chem  your strength

"In quiet [also: peace] and confidence [properly: the feeling of trust for being in a secure shelter] you could have [see the second part of the verset: but you have not] found  your might
[might, GEBURA, is a very strong word, "mighty" (GIBOR) is often mentioned as one of the attributes of God (e.g.: Siddur passim : ATTA GIBOR LOLAM ADONAI You are eternally mighty, Lord)]."

This teaching is an extraordinary diagnosis of the true condition of the human being: it tells us exactly where we are and what we can do. It tells us that we receive a POWER, a MIGHT and that we can lose it if we don't understand it.
The words of this teaching need to be understood deeply, rejecting any and every trivial interpretation:  which "quiet/peace",  which "trust/confidence"  can be called a "might", a "power"  ?
The quiet and the confidence of knowing that God is all in all, of knowing that God is Infinite Love.
The quiet and the confidence of knowing that God gave us life, and that God will always give us more life.
The quiet and the confidence of knowing that God Who Is Infinite Love is always Present.

Such knowledge frees us from the chains of the lies that teach that there is a non-sacred, a profane, reality.
So free, and therefore again capable of wonder and awe, we can hear the voice of Wisdom (who talks to all the human beings who are willing and capable of listening): this is the MIGHT that each one of us receives from the Infinite Love of God. And that those who choose evil lose.
Wisdom is the Holy Spirit whose wings can carry us through the finite to the Infinite, through the time to the Eternal, through the here of space to the Truth in which every"thing" truly is.
Flying away from the nightmares of nihilism with the wings of Wisdom, we can see why it is true that
"Holy Holy Holy, the whole world is filled with Your Glory !",
and the fact that we can reach this vision is our might, a Divine Grace.

Quiet and confidence are lost if we forget that God Who is Infinite Love is always Present and if therefore  we believe any nihilist, secularist, materialistic description of the world. If we blindly believe that  there is any profane, not Sacred, reality, we will suffer the catastrophe (literally: the down turn), the fall, the crash of that power that has been given to us (compare: Gen. 44:10).
Isaiah continues:

(King James:)
(30:15)
"...and ye would not.
(30:16)
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift."

Compare:
Gen. 44:10 "as per your words, so it will be".

Instead of being profoundly at peace and confident in the Infinite Love of God, and thriving in the MIGHT  that such knowledge evokes, the believers in the nothing try to find strength in a "finite" of their invention - that pretends to be no longer the Wonder of the Creation and that pretends to be profane - and in so doing they chain themselves to a granitic despair that inevitably drives them to crash down.
Let's not bind such a stone to our neck !
Nihilism has invented a devilish pseudo-"freedom" and has opposed it to the Truth but only the Sacred Knowledge makes us truly free, free to contemplate the Presence of God Who is Infinite Love, free to listen to the voice of Wisdom.

Fly  with the wings of Wisdom, in wondrous circles,  in the Kingdom of the Truth !

The Presence of God Who is Infinite Love

Once we have freed ourselves from the chains of nihilism, we can find ourselves puzzled by the apparent diversity of the discourses about God.

But truly there is and there can be only one Sacred Tradition, the one existing from time immemorial that teaches that God is Infinite Love.
The ways in which this can be said can of course be slightly different from path to path, but there is no doubt that, beyond the apparent differences, we have a sure way to know if we are listening to a path of the Sacred Tradition or to  deceiving words: are we being taught Love or not ?

It is the Infinite Love of God that opens the dimension of the Creation as Gift of existence for all that exists.
God Who is Infinite Love is the Heart of all that exists, only God's Love  allows everything to exist.
The Infinite Love of God surrounds and constitutes every reality, is more actual than any "actuality", is the Origin of every "origin", true Nature of the nature.
Glorious, triumphant, Immensity of Love, Wisdom, and Beauty: God the Eternal,  is nailed to the cross of the finite, of space and time - to allow us to exist - and is eternally Resurrected, to lead us to the Sacred Way. God is the Eternity uncorrupted by time and space but Who opens the dimensions of the finite to allow us to exist.

God Who is Infinite Love is our true Mother and true Father, made us and gave us the true Freedom, the Freedom to find the Truth and the Sacred Way.
And God Who is Infinite Love walks with every being who rejects evil. If we reject the deceptions of evil, God is nearer to us than our same self.

In modern times, nihilism has invented ideologies, "visions of the world", that describe the world as made of dead "things", and nihilism has tried to relegate the Sacred to a no better specified "interiority" (but only after describing the human person in terms of ego and mere psychology, thus leaving only space for a "spirituality" interpreted as sentimentalism).
All these lies must be utterly rejected as tools of evil: only the bad will of those who have chosen evil can invent a "profane reality". God is all that is (although we must understand this correctly:  the converse is not true, "all that is" is not God), God is everywhere, always, here, now. There is no dimension of existence where God is not present, except evil. The fact that God does not violate our Freedom cannot be interpreted in nihilistic terms as if God had "abandoned" us: we have to walk toward God, and God Who is Infinite Love is waiting for us. Everywhere, all the time.

The Sacred Knowledge will teach us to laugh at the inane excogitations of nihilism, and to rejoice in the Wondrous Infinite of the Spirit Who is Eternal Love. But of course those who have chosen evil will  try to build a pseudo-culture aimed at making of each one of us a FOOL, and they will always try to create the most horrifying conditions around us, to drive each one of us into despair. By keeping on the Way of the Sacred Knowledge we will be able to see all this for what it is, i.e. the normal way of operation of pure evil, and we will be able to reject at all times any pseudo-concept of any "profane reality":
THUS Wisdom leads us toward God Who is Infinite Love, and Who is waiting for us.


(I was preparing to post this column when I met two Teachings that are perfectly in unison with what is written above:)


WORDS from the Tradition:

The Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry (III-IV Century A.D.)
wrote in his "Letter to Marcella":
" Reason teaches us that God is present everywhere and entirely..."


AND


The Christian Preacher, Writer, Teacher Gerhardt Tersteegen (1697-1769)
(the Wikipedia tells us that) "... In The English Hymnal with Tunes, 1933, he is represented with [the] procession hymn Gott ist gegenwärtig  [GOD IS PRESENT]"

and he wrote:

"The secret of God’s presence is actually believed by very few,...[but]...
In all Christian practice there is nothing more universally needful, nothing simpler, sweeter, and more useful, nothing which so sums up in itself all Christian duties in one blessed act, as the realization of the loving presence of God.”