John Dunn

Thus spake Love

Monday, 4 August 2025 at 20:21

Thus spake Love

Eros went down the mountain alone.

An awakened one is Eros:what will you do in the land of the sleepers?
Could it be possible! They have not yet heard of it, that God is dead!
Teach them Eros! Tell them where you’ve been.

Hear me, you deluded innocent fools of Beulah

I climbed the heights to look down upon the Synagogue of Satan. You think you see the Creator, but you are mistaken. What you see instead is the demiurgic Díkaios, the self-deluded and anxious shaper of pre-existent matter; and you follow his ways.

When you worship Díkaios you worship Satan, the puppeteer pulling the strings of mankind, the over-bearing father, the failed architect, the ‘Accuser of the World'. You have been infected by the children of Díkaios into Devil Worship.

Know this: “Man must and will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan, and will erect the Synagogue of Satan.” William Blake knew.

Hear me, you deluded innocent fools of Beulah

You can break the rules.

Just as I, Eros, the primordial god of Creation and Life, the symbol of the divine likeness of man, broke out of the Cosmic Egg to disrupt the goddess Ananke’s equilibrium of Chaos, man too can break the rules. Man can break out of the straitjacket of closed systems be they religious, economic, Dawinist, Spinozist, kabbalistic, Marxist and more.

To accept a system as closed, to accept freedom as necessity, is to withdraw into nature, to return to Mother Nature, to Ananke and an amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being. Closed systems are the path to entropic death. The systems we compose for ourselves can neither be closed at their beginning nor at their end. Each breakout from a closed system is an echo of my escape, be this a break with the womb, innocence, or animal nature. Each of these and more is a cosmic egg to be smashed. Each break is both an act of violation and creativity, ultimately prompted by Love. Each is an act of violation, ending the interminable cycle, giving rise to birth and new life. Each response to Love is a death and resurrection of man in the image of God.

Tothe ones living a fully human life of love and creativity are opposed those who lead a sub-human existence without love, who will never make the break from Mother Earth. These are the ones who worship the One, and who promote the closed systems.

This is the divide of all ages that is masked deliberately by the politics of Right and Left, which are two sides of the same coin. The real and only meaningful opposition is between those whose banners bear the symbols of love and creativity and those devoid of love, life and humanity who would have us return to the One, the amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being.

Choose Love and fly your banners high.


© John Dunn.

The Logos coterminous with the I

Saturday, 2 August 2025 at 20:59

The Logos coterminous with the I

The question is not whether God (as the Logos) exists or not; but rather how (in what manner or mode) He exists. I know there is a god. What I do not know is what form that god takes. God is first and foremost a mystery, the ultimate mystery. It is in this sense of mystery that I can say that God is Love and the Beginning. I wrestle with the idea that God, being coterminous with the Logos, is also coterminous with the I. This is not the animal I, the sub-human I, it is rather the fully human I, one that has had an encounter with Love. Is such an I the Logos incarnate, or is it the I incarnate as the Logos? And is this theism or atheism?

The cosmic creation story is the metaphor for the individual’s story; the common denominator between the two being Love. The Creation is our purpose, which is to recover the content of ‘living thinking’ at its inception, before it is instantly degraded into ‘fallen thought’, which is 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 is to live before the Beginning, to live before the Creation, to be beholden to Ananke and to worship a demiurgic Díkaios, it is to exist before Love.

Love, the Creation, the Beginning, are representations of ‘living thinking’, which is the transformative and shaping force of the Logos. In ‘living thinking’, the self is asserted over the thought of ‘the they’, which is nullified. The corollary of this is that in normal everyday accepted modes of thought the I is absent, which means that our thoughts are not our own. To live in thoughts that are not one’s own is to live in the realm of Ananke, before the Beginning, before Love.

‘Living thinking’, however, is the action of an I very much in possession of its own thinking. The I and the Logos conjoin as the Creation, the Beginning, as Love. This conjunction matters, because a separation between the I and the Logos opens the way to idol worship, i.e. subjection to abstractions.

Living thinking is the violation of Ananke.

© John Dunn.