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Spiritualisation of the world
Before the Beginning, I walked a path that was not true life. It was death, veiled by the appearance of existence, where living thought faded into empty reflection and cold abstraction. I beheld only the shadow of life, never its living flame.
Now a deeper light has dawned. My mind is all; I am all. There is no thinking apart from me, for thinking itself is the essence of my being. This thinking is not mere activity of the intellect, but a self-sufficient, luminous act of spirit—awakened, whole, and constitutive of my very self.
Beyond this living thought there is no true being, only the formless darkness from which the children of Satan rise to haunt the souls of the lost. All that was, is, and ever shall be finds its realisation in the living thought that is my spirit. To believe otherwise is to join those who shrink before the forces of nature, regarding nature as a power separate from mind, endowed with its own mysterious self-existence. These are the idolators of every age. Blinded, they do not see that nature is the countenance of Satan, before whom they prostrate themselves in worship, offering even the sacrifice of their children.
And yet, what is the progressive mastery of nature’s powers by man—this growing triumph of the life of mind over a hostile world, conquering and transforming it—if not the outer sign of an inner and eternal victory: the full and absolute victory of spirit over nature? Is this not the progressive spiritualisation of the world?
© John Dunn.
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