John Dunn

How He exists

Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 17:07

The Resurrection, the Logos and the ‘I’ are all connected to the Creation

Read on in such a manner that the Creation is, in itself, a metaphor for the self’s awakening from that which is before the Beginning, i.e. no being, i.e. death.

And was not the state of pre-being the fallen state? Are we not all born into a fallen state, from which it might be argued that most people never rise, i.e. to rise up from death, i.e. the Resurrection.

To be born fallen and to die risen is something to contemplate upon.

And the risen state, be it understood as the cosmic creation or the individual’s awakening, all turns upon the intervention of Love, what I have termed the Originatory Principle, the mystery that will have no explanation.


How He exists

I find that I am not concerned with the question of whether God (as a True Being) exists or not; rather my concern is how (in what manner or mode) He exists.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)

I see Resurrection as the recovery of the content of ‘living thought’ at its inception, before it is almost immediately degraded into ‘fallen thought’, or ‘reflected thought’

This recovery is the result of action by the awakened will.

The thinking ‘I’ grasps the direction of the Logos within itself, which is the elevating of itself to its own pre-reflective moment.

The awakened will marks the insertion of the “I” into the process of thinking.

The corollary of this is that in normal everyday accepted modes of thought, i.e. reflective thought, the “I” is absent.

Thus the connection to pre-reflective, or ‘living thought’, before it falls,is not only a connection to the Logos, but also to the ‘I’.

This connection to the Logos and to the ‘I’ is tantamount to an encounter with the ‘source of life’.

The existence prior to the recovery of the content of ‘living thought’ at its inception equated to subsumption in the realm of Ananke, a state of non-being.

Thus the Resurrection as the connection to the Logos and the ‘I’ is also the Creation.

Turning again to the the connection of the ‘I’ to the Logos; is it a reintegration? Or are the ‘I’ and the Logos to be thought of as one and the same entity.

Either way, the realisation of this reintegration or synthesis has been made possible through fall, incarnation, death, Resurrection and Creation.

© John Dunn.

Resurrected Creation

Friday, 9 September 2022 at 10:43

St Maximus c. 580-662 AD

Resurrection makes sense of the Beginning

Resurrection is life after death.

In my Mythology, the part which is a cosmography, that which comes before the Beginning is the interminable and indiscriminate oneness, the unviolated equilibrium, of Ananke. In other words, that which precedes the Beginning is death

In the Beginning is Love. That which violates Ananke’s endless cycle is Love.

As I have concluded repeatedly before, the cosmic creation story is a metaphor for the individual’s experience. It is just that religionists have made a ‘reality’ a one-off start of things, describing it as an event apart from us, in our cosmic past, so to speak. (And I include the scientists of the Big Bang in with the religionists.)

Read the following with the above in mind.

Dr John Dunn 2022


Saint Maximus’ words in his Centuries on Theology and Economy(1.66): He who is initiated into the inexpressible power of the Resurrection apprehends the purpose for which God first established everything.

Resurrected Creation

We experience a relationship of sorts to the Logos at the very inception of thought.

The Logos is the flaming light, endowed with creative power. This light of fire is continuously extinguished in reflected consciousness. Reflected thought, ‘fallen thought’, has opposed the Logos.

The point is that here, where it is not yet reflected and it has its intuitive moment, it moves as the light of the Logos.

The logical consequence of this is that we must grasp the light before it flickers out.

The secret to healing the human being lies in perceiving the light of fire, of which thought pre-reflectedly burns.

Grasp the moment of thought’s inception and we can be re-born into the light of the Logos.

I am moving towards a position that sees the Creation as the Resurrection and vice versa.

From the moment the Logos incarnated and defeated death, we have had the possibility to think according to the Resurrection, insofar as the flaming light of the Logos lights up within each thought that we think. But to perceive this light, we must overcome the darkness of reflected thought.

© John Dunn.

Amidst whole congregations

Tuesday, 6 September 2022 at 21:32

William Blake's Urizen, dispenser of the laws rhetorical

Until there is Love we live rhetorically, in thrall to Urizen

Love is the awakening to freedom, which is the Beginning. The cosmic story, which is the metaphor for the individual’s story has Love as its Beginning. Love is what I have termed the Originatory Principle, the founding principle beyond which there is not even a metaphorical explanation. Love has no explanation. In the words of a correct translation of John 1 ‘In the Beginning is Love.’

Until there is Love we live rhetorically, in thrall to Urizen, and worship at every moment in the 'Synagogue of Satan’.

Dr John Dunn 2022


Amidst whole congregations

Disenchantment is the necessary precursor to freedom. This applies at an individual and the wider human level. There is no freedom without awareness of error, and in advocating this point I rehearse once more the Christian tradition of felix culpa, (happy fall) and the concept of Luciferic hindrance held by Rudolf Steiner.

The move towards the freedom that not even the angels possess has to occur in a world of error, where freedom can only ever be ‘rhetorical’, where to live ‘rhetorically’ is to be subject to the conventions of social life, rather than being in full possession of oneself

If the pure unheeded relation with the Logos controlled thinking, we would completely realise truth; we would not know error, nor consequently evil, but we would not be free. Each ofus would be an impeccable spiritual automaton, whose imperfect and distorted counterparts are the blind adherents to faith, holding us to laws, religious and scientific, that oppose and block the unseen impulse of the Logos on Earth.

The first steps to freedom will emerge from reflected thought’s adherence to the truth of the other, the mineral “appearing”, which separates subject from object, thought from life and man from God.

Before Love is known, man must take his seat amidst whole congregations in Urizen's 'Synagogue of Satan'.

© John Dunn.

Violation, disruption and overturning

Sunday, 4 September 2022 at 21:41

Living thought. Logos and the discovery of the ‘I’

Well the ideas are coming together at this point, particularly with regard to the ‘I’
as presented in the following re-posted blog.

The cosmic creation story becomes the metaphor for the individual shedding of dead thought, the acquirement of living thought, and the discovery of the ‘I’; the common denominator between the individual and cosmic stories being Love.

Who would have living thought it? Read on below.

Dr John Dunn 2022


Violation, disruption and overturning

Our purpose is to recover the content of ‘living thought’ at its inception,before it is almost immediately degraded into ‘fallen thought’, or ‘reflected thought’ i.e. thought reflected back to us as though it represented an external reality with an external existence inherent to it.

To live through the eyes of reflected thought isto live before the Beginning, to live before the Creation, to be beholden to Ananke and worship Urizen; it is to exist before Love.

It is violation by Love, i.e. the Creation, in the Beginning, that awakens us to the Logos within ourselves, enabling us to grasp the content of ‘living thought’, which brings with it the transformative and shaping force of the Logos. The 'I' is inserted into the process of thinking.

The corollary of this is that in normal everyday accepted modes of thought the 'I' is absent. The connection to ‘living thought’, before it falls, is not only a connection to the Logos, but also to the 'I'.

This connection to the Logos and the 'I' is an encounter with the ‘source of life’. The Logos and the ‘I’ are coterminous at this point.

The Logos is incarnated in the ‘I’.

So the earlier statement that ‘out thoughts are not our own’, might be restated as our thoughts are from the ‘I’, which has broken free of the normal everyday accepted modes of thought, i.e. the ‘I’ which perceives thoughts at their originatory and uncontaminated source, whereas before it only saw the reflected ‘reality’ of Ananke.

Is the uncontaminated source the Logos or the ‘I’ or both?

A theme is emerging here again, and that is that the ‘I’ cannot achieve the break from Ananke by its solipsistic self, it needs the violation, disruption and overturning of equilibria by Love.

© John Dunn.

Root them out

Saturday, 3 September 2022 at 20:47

The murderers of Love - Christ Carrying the Cross (Bosch)

The doors of perception must be opened, but who keeps them closed?

The metaphysical force would incarnate, but first there must be love. Who would prevent this? Who murdered Love and continues to do so?

We are playing around with metaphors here, largely because there is no other option.

But in answering the questions posed above, no metaphors are needed. There are clear answers to which relate to a material reality in our midst.

The goal of this material reality? Undifferentiated, indiscriminate oneness and sameness the world over, a return to the realm of Ananke, which was before the Beginning, which was before ‘be’ing, which was death.

Metaphors, questions and material realities, all have a bearing on a re-reading of the blog re-posted below.

Dr John Dunn 2022


Root them out

Union with the Divine seems impossible, because there is no identity between being and thinking

The conditions must exist for the metaphysical force to incarnate, but it does not have any other arouser and awakener than Love.

Once Love is found, the Logos is found. The Logos virginally fertilises the soul. This moment coincides with the Creation.

Escaping Beulah

Friday, 2 September 2022 at 21:20

So where is liberation to be found?

Liberation from fallen thought, the illusory medium of false ‘reality’ in which most of us spend our lives, where is it to be found?

If living in a falsely perceived medium is no life, in other words, death, where is the source of resurrection?

There is one source and that is Love, and Love is God.

Many people experience a glimmer of the life beyond death, but it is usually snuffed out, often by the followers of Urizen, the demiurge of the false ‘reality’.

These are key considerations amongst others when reading the re-posted blog below.

Dr John Dunn 2022


Escaping Beulah

Humankind is the conduit for the descent of the Logos to the earthly realm as thought.

Fallen thought is a condition which believes these thoughts are our own.

Fallen thought is separated from the Logos and takes on a life of its own, being reflected back to us as a representation of what appears to be a pre-existing world of things and people, i.e. as Nature, as though existence lay outside of man, rather than shaped by man.

This medium of fallen thought, or reflected thought, in which we exist and have our being, is symbolically the realm ruled over by Urizen. Encouraged by the followers of Urizen, man is dragged down into the passivity of Beulah, where is heard constantly the nauseating refrain - ‘I just want to be happy…’

Creativity, imagination, thinking and mental picturing, need to be reconnected to that of the will.

There is precedent for this possibility: thinking can arouse the profound will, as is normally the case when simple mental picturing arouses the movement of the limbs.

The will can redeem fallen thought to the point of connecting with the Logos, thus becoming living thought, rendering humankind as the unimpeded conduit for the descent of the Logos to the earthly realm.

To feel the Logos, man must first be liberated.

Until liberated, he will suffer and rejoice illusorily, because the Logos content of each experience is lost.

Liberation comes with the restored marriage between thinking and the will.

We see a tantalising shadow of such liberation in human love, which is always imperfect.

Love, the Originatory Principle, is the true meaning of human love. All human love unknowingly moves from its celestial content, but without the hope of realising it, because within the sphere of the psyche it endures the enchantment of the appearing which, assumed as reality through reflected consciousness, generates irresistible desire, the continuous greed of the ephemeral and its delusion.

The above piece was prompted by a re-reading of the blog Imperfect love, now transferred to Scaligero in 'Thought pieces'. I’m not altogether happy with this. I'm not sure that the will can awaken living thought as a creative act. In a sense the above thoughts do acknowledge this inevitable imperfection. Perhaps only the perfection of Love holds the true creative act.

© John Dunn.