PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

When Christ Reveals Himself and Every Illusion Falls Away “When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. But He laid His right hand upon me.”   — Book of Revelation 1:17 The opening vision of the Book of Revelation is not given to soothe us. It is not a consoling religious picture meant to decorate the mind. It is an unveiling that shatters every false confidence. It does not begin with speculation about the end of the world, but with the end of illusion. The first reali