John Dunn

Eros answers the seekers of truth

Sunday, 17 December 2023 at 14:05

Eros answers the seekers of truth

You ask: if true will is the divine gift of Love, what about those who are condemned to a life devoid of Love, who have never encountered Love, who have never passed through the fire of passion? What of those who reject Love, who crucify Love?

Before I answer this question, you must first accept that Before and after the Beginning there is nothing. The beginning is a constant, now, in active thinking; it is life. All outside active thinking is no-thing; it is death. What is outside of active thinking? A reflected world, where the products of active thinking are reflected back as entities in their own right, as though with existences in their own right, divorced from the Logos; it is a world where the abstract takes on the appearance of the concrete, where living thinking is objectified as dead matter.



To fall outside is to fall into the One, the indiscriminate Oneness, the realm of Ananke. Satan fell to the outside and occupied the objective. To fall into abstraction is to fall to nothing, and nothing is death. Adam and Eve followed Satan to the outside and death, and we too are born fallen to face death. Satan tempted Adam through Eve into knowledge, which is knowledge of an objectivised world, in which both were condemned to exist. They were condemned to a ‘choosing will’ that originates in thought reflected back as material ‘reality’, that believes it can pick and choose its way through the seemingly ready-made material options laid out before it. Adam and Eve objectivised each other and were ashamed of what they wanted, but it never stopped them wanting. Satan tempted Jesus to come over to the objectivised world, where power might be exerted over a temporal realm. The rejection of Satan is the rejection of death and an acceptance of the Beginning, always, an acceptance of Love.

My answer to your question is this: he who has not encountered Love, or who rejects and crucifies Love, is condemned to a ‘choosing will’.

© John Dunn.

Fallen angel: abstraction, no-thing, no-being, death



Sunday, 17 December 2023 at 13:58

Fallen angel: abstraction, no-thing, no-being, death



All in all, when that all is reduced to its absolute limit of reduction, i.e. the reduction of the religionists, the supposed nought (0) before the supposed one-off beginning, or the supposed nought (0) before the so-called big bang, then we are dealing with a nought (0) that is one and all. 0 = 1.



The concrete actuality of anything can only exist now, in Creation, in the Beginning , always. To believe in a self-sustaining oneness of nothing that preceded a Beginning before all our Beginnings, that has nothing to do with our participation, is to believe in an abstraction, a no-thing, a no-being, death.

The darkness of nothing, i.e. death, as preserved by the Prince of Darkness and his followers, is uncovered for what it is - a death cult. The fall away from active thinking is the lot of the fallen angel, the Devil and the Devil’s children who live amongst us. Adam and Eve were tempted to fall too, with the result that we are all born fallen.



What are all these falling metaphors driving at? The answer is that to exist outside of the constant, active, creative, Beginning, is to be subsumed into the one, the interminable equilibrium of Ananke that comes before the Beginning, the state of objectified ‘reality’, the ready-made nature into which we are seemingly dropped.



The saving grace is that this state of subsumption, this death, comes before the awakening. The cosmic Beginning is the metaphor for man’s own Beginning, and that Beginning is always, for ever and ever.

© John Dunn.

Love and the divine implications

Friday, 15 December 2023 at 21:35

Erotic love on the walls of Konark Sun Temple, disrupting the equilibrium

Love and the divine implications



What existed before the Beginning, or if you are of the religion of science,what existed before the Big Bang? Well, there was nothing, no thing, no being. This is hard to imagine, to say the very least. I have tried my best to ‘picture’ it by mythologising it. I resort to personification, calling this state of nothingness Ananke, goddess of determinateness and fate, goddess of the interminable, infinite, and uninterrupted equilibrium. Nothing, so my mythology tells, is the realm of Ananke, the realm of oneness. For the Beginning to happen there must be a penetration of the oneness, a violation of Ananke.

It is in the intervention that the mystery lies, because it exists beyond the oneness. What is that mystery, the Originatory Principle as I have termed it, that which will not be explained, that which will not be objectified? The mystery is Love, but to fully understand, hold on to the idea that all origin stories are metaphors for the individual experience

There was not, or is not, a before, a beginning and an afterwards, there is only a now. All past and all future is in the present. The Beginning is always, the Creation a constant. A corrected translation of John 1 serves to emphasise the point. Using another of my Word options, John’s Gospel begins: In the beginning is living thinking, and living thinking is with God, and living thinking is God.

The implications of this constant Creation for those who reject the dead, reflected thought of an illusory, presupposed ‘reality’, turning instead to the living thinking by which the light of the Logos shines upon the Earth, are thus hugely divine. The living God did not walk amongst us in the distant past, he walks. He is within the ones who live in a concrete rather than an illusory reality. He dwelleth in the ones for whom the Beginning is always.

Again, hold on to the idea that all origin stories are metaphors for the individual experience. What is the mystery, the Originatory Principle as I have termed it, that which intervenes in the oneness? The mystery is Love.

He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.’ (1 John 4:16)

© John Dunn.

The Beginning is always or it is nothing

Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 18:01

The Beginning is always or it is nothing

Correcting the mistranslated Bible

If there is an imminence possible with the Logos, and I have stated repeatedly that it is possible in the realm of living, active and non-objectifying thought, then where will the Logos be found?



A Logos that finds me, or to which I return, is out of the question, as that would involve a presupposed existence that is tantamount to idolatry; it would objectify the the idea of the Logos, making of it an abstraction, a non-entity. The Logos can only be living thinking, the Creation always, the Beginning always, Love. It is always present, never past. The mistranslation in the Bible must be amended to make this clear.


In the beginning was the Word should read In the Beginning is the Word. As discussed above, the Word, in the context of John 1:1, is universally understood to mean the Logos, which is a concept of the intellect meaning the Truth, a concept dependent upon the thinking Mind.

If the Logos is coterminous with Mind, then Mind is God and God is Love. This means that any one of Logos, Mind, God or Love, would be better in the correct translation than Word. I choose one of these in my preferred translation: In the Beginning is Love, and Love is with God, and Love is God.

The Logos, the living God, as the living thinking of Mind, dwells in rather than amongst us. There is agreement with this elsewhere in the Bible: God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)


To understand the Beginning as a Big Bang, one-off, event is to objectify the Logos making of it an abstraction, a non-entity. This is exactly what the mistranslation of the Bible does; it crucifies God. Where then is the Beginning, and how can it be discovered without objectifying it and thereby idolising an abstraction?



The answer to this is that the Beginning is always or it is nothing. The Beginning is living thinking, not dead thought. Here we come to the Originatory Principle for which there is no explanation. Here we come to the mystery. That which will not be objectified or rationalised into abstraction is Love. Immanence with the Logos is to be found in Love.

© John Dunn.

Before and after the Beginning

Wednesday, 13 December 2023 at 20:22

Before and after the Beginning



The thinking subject’s divine potential has its moment in the original connectivity with the Logos. However, this moment is not the thinking subject’s reality, who loses this moment. The thinking subject thus loses the possibility of an essential reality, since it believes that thought relates to objects or phenomena outside itself, and not to its own shaping power. Thought fails to see within itself the relation with the Logos that is immediate to it. It transfers this relation outside of itself. We not do the same to the Logos, i.e. to the Originatory Principle itself, and the resultant externalisation and deification of God is the act of idolatry that I have discussed repeatedly.

The departure from the possibility of an essential reality is that which is expressed through the metaphor of the Fall, which separates man from God. Loss of connectivity to the Logos, loss of God, loss of Love, is the Fall. Fallen thought relates to objects or phenomena outside itself,and not to its own shaping power. Thought which is one with the Logos at its inception falls away from the Logos, as a falling angel. Dead thought.

The fallen world is the world before the Beginning, Ananke’s realm. The indispensable condition of understanding life after the Beginning is that the object must not be detached from the subject and posited in itself, independent, as though it could self-project its own existence. An object which appears to have its own self-projecting existence can only be presupposed abstractly in a way which renders it dead. It is the separation of the Logos from the thinking subject that results in the objectivising that I have described repeatedly elsewhere as idolatry.



Connectivity,or immanence with the Logos is an attempted metaphorical expression of living thinking. The Logos is living thinking, but there is no thought dead or alive without mind. Johann Angelus Silesius, 17th century priest poet knew this and attempted to express the coterminology as follows:



“I know that without me no God can live; were I brought to naught, he would of necessity have to give up the ghost.”

© John Dunn.

True will is the divine gift of Love



Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 21:45

True will is the divine gift of Love



The deluded state before encounter might be interpreted as the personal choice of the individual. What right have I, or anyone else, to say it is deluded? Is it not the free will of the free individual?



Wrong.



‘Freewill’ is the ‘choosing will’ that originates in thought reflected back as material ‘reality’, that believes it can pick and choose its way through the seemingly ready-made material options laid out before it. The uncontaminated true will originates in the divine will of the Logos,which distinguishes the self from all other selves. The divine will incarnates in the self as the living thinking which shapes the world. True will follows the divine intention for its deification. It is ‘free will’ that needs salvation.



The Fall resulted in ‘free will’ and reflected thought. ‘Free will’ makes choices in a fallen world of thought, which originated in the Logos, but is lost and reflected back to the self as a pre-existing, separate and self-sufficient material reality with an existence somehow emanating from itself. After the Fall,Adam objectified the world as a material reality. This was the forbidden ‘knowledge’ gained from the tree. Before the Fall, Adam and Eve saw each other through the eyes of true will, through Love, which isto say the Logos or God. Following the Fall, having gained knowledge, Adam and Eve objectified each other each other, discovering shame, rather than Love.



True will is the divine gift of Love. ‘Free will’ is false, deluded and evil, but we will it, we want it and take a sordid pleasure in the objectified. Only Love overcomes the need for this, there being no shame in love. Love does not belong over there with the objective and problematical. I quote a relevant piece from my Child of Encounter:



If consciousness and mind cannot be subject to rational explanation, then the answer to this question will not be found in the domain of the problematical and the objectively valid. Love is the only starting point of such mysteries of body and soul. It is a dizzying reflectiveness without reference points. I am not referring to love in the agape giving sense; I mean unrelieved sickness and nausea, Eros, sexuality, destructive lust. To be stuck in the domain of the problematical and the objectively valid is to be enveloped in assurance and certainty. And yet what are the criteria of true love? There are none. Criteria only exist in the order of the objective and problematical. Criteria, those presuppositions, belong over there, with them, ‘the they’. Love belongs over here, with me as an individual and the mystery.



Love shapes the world. ‘A chance encounter can have consequences for eternity’.

© John Dunn.

The self originates in encounter

Monday, 11 December 2023 at 20:17

The self originates in encounter

Thus spake Eros...

Everyman lives a deluded life, but some are awakened to the divine potential for their being. Whether or not man acts out the potential given by God, his true self is nevertheless kept in God and, contemplated by Him.That is to say the divine potential is constant, and is the true self of any individual, regardless of the deluded persona under which he might exist. The point at which the deluded individual recognises that he is divinely interconnected with another being’s true self is Love. Love transcends the deluded state in which one or both or more true selves are enshrouded, and establishes a relationship of true selves, a communion, however fleeting, during which they more closely track the divine intention given to them.



The cosmic metaphor of Love’s penetration of Ananke’s dreary equilibrium and interminable cycle symbolises the impact of encounter upon the individual. The self originates in encounter, in Love, in the Beginning.

© John Dunn.