John Dunn

First born, newborn

Friday, 29 December 2023 at 22:09

First born, newborn

That which the Logos has not assumed the Logos has not healed.

Behold the divine person of the eternal Word or Logos, first born of all creation.

© John Dunn.

Incarnation: Creation and redemption as one

Thursday, 28 December 2023 at 23:33

Incarnation: Creation and redemption as one

Love's perfection is expressed through incarnation because by becoming flesh, the Logos which creates all things brings about the redemption of all things. Creation and redemption are one. The renewal of creation is at once wrought by the Love which made it in the Beginning.

© John Dunn.

Incarnation of Love

Wednesday, 27 December 2023 at 23:12

Incarnation of Love

Love is new, always. Love is not a pre-existent entity and does not precede the encounter; neither does consciousness, which is awakened by the encounter. Similarly, God does not precede the encounter as a pre-existent entity. To accept pre-existence makes of God an idol. God is Love and is present in the encounter. (Child of Encounter)

God in the flesh — something so new that even the angels came rushing down from heaven to witness it.

© John Dunn.

Celebrate the incarnation of Love: variously Logos, God, the Word, the Cosmic Jesus, living thought.

Tuesday, 26 December 2023 at 22:21

Celebrate the incarnation of Love: variously Logos, God, the Word, the Cosmic Jesus, living thought.

© John Dunn.

The Nativity is depicted in a mural titled “Birth of Jesus” in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo. Painted by Benedictine monks in the late 1800s.

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.

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.

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.