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“Whom else indeed would it befit to deliver humankind, but that fiery Son of God, who sprinkled heavenly grace upon his people with the dew of divinity like a drop of honey”

When, near the northeastern facing corner, I saw an image whose face and feet beamed with such brilliance that it turned back my gaze. She was wearing a robe as of white silk, and over that had a green-colored tunic … Continue reading

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“For God is Love in all his works, and holds humility in all his judgments”

And I also saw three images as if in the middle of the aforementioned southern stretch. Two were standing in the clearest fountain, encircled and crowned with a round, perforated stone; and they were as if rooted in it, as … Continue reading

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“Therefore I, the fiery force, lie hidden within these things, and they burn because of me”

And I saw as if in the middle of the southern sky an image, beautiful and wonderful in the mystery of God, like a human in form. Her face was of such beauty and radiance that I could more easily … Continue reading

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“Mary incorporates everything that the icon incorporates: she became the place where God came to dwell”

Without doubt, the most popular of the saints is the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God: the one who gave God her humanity, so that he could become human, become one of us. Mary, then, incorporates everything that the icon … Continue reading

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“The use of perspective is intended to create a space that embraces both what is depicted in the icon and the one who beholds the icon”

My first point concerns the way in which icons occupy a kind of ‘in-between space’, the way in which the icon is essentially something between – between God and human kind, between heaven and earth, between the realm of the … Continue reading

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“A theology based on images can recognize the fundamental mystery that enshrouds the Godhead, the mystery that God is”

Icons, images – of Christ, the Mother of God and the saints – came to be used widely in Christianity, not just as pictures on panels or walls (frescoes), but on sacred vessels, garments, banners and even more intimate objects … Continue reading

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“Not even in heaven does any created power know God in his essence”

Let us now mount up to the heavens and see if there are those on high who know what God is in his essence. But even if there are in heaven beings possessed of this knowledge, we must realize that … Continue reading

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“The glories of Pascha belong to the laudations of His Nativity”

We are assuredly not unaware, brethren, of the mystery contained in these words: that all of creation is a single temple of the Master of creation. But since, when sin intervened, the mouths of those overcome by evil were stopped, … Continue reading

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