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Child of Encounter
Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 23:43
Rainer Maria Rilke
Child of Encounter
An extract
The only way to remain outside of God, distinct and separate from God, is to trump Spinoza by creating God, in effect, trumping God. In his 1925 work Essays on Magical Idealism, Julius Evola declared that ‘God does not exist. The Ego must create him by making itself divine’. The youthful Evola was onto something here. He was rejecting God as a presuppositional object of idolatry, locating the Divine instead in the mind of man. I sense too that this was something Rainer Maria Rilke was expressing in his Letters to a Young Poet when he wrote of God -‘As bees collect honey together, so we fetch the sweetness out of everything and build Him’. Notably, Rilke added parenthetically to this ‘(so long as this comes about through love)’.
© John Dunn.
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Satan as the god Urizen, the demiurge, the distant Jehovah
Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 22:31
Blake's Urizen and the nets of debt
Satan as the god Urizen, the demiurge, the distant Jehovah
The anti-Love, the masonry of hate, the followers of Urizen
With self-hatred substituting for Love in their own lives, their quest is to impose a Loveless life upon others
Satan fell into the objectivised world, to become god of this world, and Adam and Eve and their issue worshipped Satan as the god Urizen, the demiurge, a distant Jehovah, the 'self-deluded and anxious' shaper of pre-existent matter. And the children of Satan led men and women into Beulah with the promise of happiness to come, into the land of false innocence, that is innocence devoid of Love, from which arises the constant and nauseating refrain… “we just want to be happy…, we just want to be happy…”
In a world devoid of Love, Urizen and his tribe objectified god, which is to say they idolised their god. They were idolaters and their children were born into idolatry. Their god was an all-knowing god who controlled the affairs of man from across a divide, the puppeteer pulling the strings of mankind, an over-bearing father, a failed architect, and the ‘Accuser of the World' who unfairly condemned Adam and Eve when he was the one at fault.
The deluded innocents of Beulah had carried over the worshipping of the demiurge from the followers of Urizen, which made it Devil Worship.
What neutralises the salvific outcome of encounter?
Answer: the inability to respond to encounter.
What is the cause of that inability?
Answer: the followers of Urizen.
What distinguishes man from animal?
Answer: Dante and Coleridge would say - the ability to create, above all the ability to create oneself.
What does it mean not to create?
Answer:it means being at the mercy of others who will do the creating for you,as such, it reduces man to being led by the nose as an animal.
Who is doing the leading?
Answer: again, the followers of Urizen.
Children of the fallen angel, they are fallen themselves, with no hope of redemption. Their ring through the nose of the forlorn and lost is an amalgam of financial insecurity, debt and an assortment of drugs, not all of them by any means chemical. With self-hatred substituting for Love in their own lives, their quest is to impose a Loveless life upon others.
They that dwelleth without love, what are they?
The anti-Love; the masonry of hate; the followers of Urizen.
Root them out, pleads Eros to the Innocents,
In the name of Love, root them out!
© John Dunn.
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Ogilby's Britannia
Friday, 22 December 2023 at 21:48
John Ogilby 1600-1676
Ogilby's Britannia
The image below is a section from a map which depicts the route from Oxford to Cambridge. It is an old route, one to be found in John Ogilby's road atlas, entitled Britannia, published in 1675.
The routes included in the atlas take the form of strip maps. The work contains 100 strip road maps that are accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map use, and notes on the towns shown and the pronunciations of their names.
The reason why I have inserted the following section of a strip road map is that I have long cherished the notion of following, as closely as practicable, Ogilby's route from Oxford to Cambridge. Starting at the bottom of the strip map, this section of the route runs up the page as far as Gosford and the bridge over the River Cherwell.
My plan is to eventually include a video of my experiences on my YouTube Channel, but I first wanted to see how feasible it might be to run the strip maps together with footage of my ride. I have hit limitations due to the primitive nature of my basic editing suite, but I do think that something passable can be produced and published.
(Ido like to include works in progress from any one of my numerous interests on this home page, just to keep the Google search process fresh and refreshed.)
© John Dunn.
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Being and Beginning are one and the same
Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 22:01
Being is to worship, always
Dante pedestalises Beatrice in a painting by Ary Scheffer 1795-1858
Being and Beginning are one and the same
You must now understand that being follows the state of non-being, or death. The great cosmic metaphor of in the Beginning, represents the violation of the interminable equilibrium, the indeterminate oneness, the realm of Ananke (as I have mythologised it). That which violated Ananke is the mystery without explanation, what I have termed the Originatory Principle, Love.
That which will not be explained and cannot be explained is Love. After Love, being is. It is at this point that metaphors break down. There can be no before and a once and for all aftermath. Being and Beginning cannot be objectivised as separate things. These words, so close in their etymology and construction are really one and the same.
Being is Beginning, always.
Being is Love, always.
To love is to worship.
Being is to worship, always.
Being just is.
It just is. Being is living thinking, the Logos and Love; for the Logos is Love. Man can be dragged in and out of being, some are never in it. The children of Satan actively oppose being. They murdered Love and continue to do so.
The Resurrection is the victory over death and the pathway to redemption; easier for the meek than the rich. Redemption is the escape from the clutches of Satan and the fallen world, the objectivised world; it is a return to active thinking, the Logos. It is the interjection of Love. It is the resurrection of the self.
The adoration followed the birth of Love; for to love is to worship.
Being is living thinking, the Logos and Love.
To be is to worship.
What is a world devoid of Love? It is a world devoid of being. It can be likened to the nothing that preceded the Beginning, the dried-up withered womb of blank indeterminate and indiscriminate oneness. To live in a world devoid of Love is to be subsumed into the oneness, to live in harmony with nature, if you like, to be an animal.
The Beginning is where the animal is left behind and the human begins. The metaphors break down at the point where chronology is introduced. There cannot be a before and an after state. There must be always a Beginning,or the before and after states will become objectified as something apart, things pre-existing in which you might exist or between which you might move. There is only now, the Beginning, Love, always. But then there are the murderers of Love, of course…
© John Dunn.
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New YouTube video To the lowest land point in the UK: Below sea level in the Cambridgeshire Fens
Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 21:26
New YouTube video
To the lowest land point in the UK: Below sea level in the Cambridgeshire Fens
To see and hear, please click here
I continue my pursuit of the historical, quirky and unusual features of the English countryside in the Fenlands of the eastern England. In doingso I reach lows in my motorcycling experience. Passing through the village of Holme, I ride into the Holme Fen Nature Reserve and largest silver birch forest of lowland England There I visit the Holme Posts at the lowest land point in the UK, before riding along the lowest classified road in the UK.
The Fens are the naturally marshy region of eastern England, drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels, man-made rivers and water pumping stations.
The Fens have an atmosphere all of their own which I find fascinating.One place in the Fens has been on my list to visit, and, well, that’s where I’m heading now. The place is Holme Fen, the lowest point on the map in the UK.
If you enjoy the ride please like, subscribe, perhaps even share, I’ll then let you know when I’m next out and about. For now I’m done.Motorcycle Honda CB500F
© John Dunn.
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The seekers of truth ask Eros
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:04
The seekers of truth ask Eros
Thus spake Eros:
You ask: how can I know such things? How can I know the fate of those who have not encountered Love?
Understand, you seekers of the truth, that the Beginning is a constant, now, in active thinking, and the cosmic Beginning can only ever be a metaphor for man’s own Beginning. Once understood in this way, a personal narrative could almost already be written. There was nothing before the Beginning, a nothing that equated to an infinite, interminable oneness. That was the fallen state into which I was born. I was not the first, the Devil beat me to it, as did the Devil’s children, who want to drag everyone down with them. They succeed with most, but not all. Satan tempted Christ to his realm, where power might be exerted over a temporal world; you know,stones into bread, defying gravity, ruling over nations. Christ’s rejection of Satan was an assertion of the point I made above, that there’s nothing outside my living thinking, that is, nothing but death.
The good news at a personal level, to be taken from the cosmic narrative, is that death precedes life. But this needs a chronology to work as a metaphorical narrative which is not sustainable, because the Beginning is now and it is always, or it is nothing. The interminable equilibrium must be violated at every moment for being to be. No chronology means Beginning, always. There is nothing before or after the beginning.
The beginning is a constant, now, in my living thinking. There is nothing outside my thinking, that is, nothing but death; believe me, I have been there. It is a world where thoughts are reflected back as entities in their own right, with magical existences in their own right, a world where the abstract takes on the appearance of the concrete, where living thinking is objectified as dead matter. I was once there, before the Beginning, before my encounter with Love, where there is unity, one nothing. I believed that I could pick and choose my way through the seemingly ready-made material options laid out before me, but the options were illusory. Yes, I was there, thrown into the reflected worldat birth, a fallen state, but I knew no other. I return there still in my moments of death.
That is how I know the fate of those who have not encountered Love?
© John Dunn.
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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.
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