John Dunn

Urizen fills the gap vacated by the Logos



Sunday, 11 February 2024 at 10:51

William Blake, Satan 



Urizen fills the gap vacated by the Logos



William Blake chose his words carefully. His famous metaphor, the Synagogue of Satan, was not only about a fallen state of mind, it was also about the evil force which holds men there.

The task of thinking is to incarnate the element of life that already lies within it and from which it alienates itself. What is that ‘element of life’? It is the source of the thinking by means of which you think. The ‘source’ is equated with the Logos. Thinking man is the incarnation of the Logos. This is not any old thinking, but only that thinking which is pure, unsullied and from the source, the source being the Logos. I have already stated that all creation and origin mythologies should be treated as metaphors for the individual experience. So, rather than ask: ‘What was there before the Beginning?’, it is better to ask, what was there before the pure and unsullied thinking from the source, i.e. the Logos? The answer to both questions is NOTHING, and 0=1.

If you bother to think at all you will often believe that you are connecting to something spiritual, but all you feel is a profound sense of nostalgia for something you think is lost and out of reach, a fantasy. The search for truth through the religion of your fathers turns into misplaced loyalty,or even a mind-numbing hobby. The impulses of asceticism and devotion in whatever form have been corrupted by the spiritual darkness of the corporal world, which leads you away from the Logos, not towards it. Your apparently devout and mystical feelings are false, and amount to a false religion. Satan’s Synagogue was William Blake’s name for the false religion.

Blake knew that 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. Blake called it a synagogue because its participants crucified Love, adhering instead pharisaically to a vengeful law:

Urizen called together the Synagogue of Satan in dire Sanhedrin
To judge the Lamb of God to death as a murderer and a robber. (Blake’s Jerusalem)

Blake did not see the Creator as an entity apart, an all-knowing God which controlled the affairs of man from across a divide. Such a distanced entity Blake described rather as Urizen, the demiurge, a 'self-deluded and anxious' shaper of pre-existent matter. By implication, this made of the Bible's Jehovah a Satan, 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.

Christian religionism for Blake had carried over the worshipping of the demiurge from the followers of Jehovah, which made it, essentially, Devil Worship. The demiurge fills the gap vacated by the Logos, for the Logos is not to be found amongst the crucifiers of Love, for God is Love. The devout and mystical feelings described above as false are for a god who is also false.

Only those in whom the Logos lives have the capacity for freedom from this bleak conditioning and animal-like existence, in thrall to Ananke.

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

For those in whom Love dwelleth, the task of thinking is not to comprehend or intuit the Logos - an empty rhetorical undertaking, conceivable only on the basis of a false understanding of the Logos as an entity wholly apart, as Him ‘up there’, as Urizen. The task of thinking is to incarnate the element of life that already lies within thinking itself and from which it alienates itself, i.e. the element of suprasensory life from which it moves and without which it would not be, even when it thinks in error. The task of thinking is to realise its own intuitive nucleus, in which the Logos is present as an original force. The way to the Logos does not lie within feeling, but at the source of the thinking by means of which you think. There must be an awakening to Love, which is the Originatory Principle, in the Beginning, always.

© John Dunn.

Being just is

Sunday, 11 February 2024 at 10:44

Being is to worship, always

Dante pedestalises Beatrice in a painting by Ary Scheffer 1795-1858


Being just is


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.

Eros on the transfiguring power of Love


Saturday, 10 February 2024 at 10:44

Eros on the transfiguring power of Love



Reverse the ages-old petrification of thought. Bear the force of the Logos. The goal of your times must be to incarnate the Logos. All feeling, all things mystical must be thrown out. New ageism, eco-cultism, food faddism, Tarot, star reading, hermetic-alchemical symbols, yoga, occultism, magic, church and temple ritual, masonic ritual, drug-induced zombieism, above all, kabbalism, are all captive to reflected thought and its false (material) ‘reality’, in fact they reinforce it. Mysticisms, wherever they are found, whatever they are, are the weaponry wielded by the Children of Urizen in their control of you, the innocents.



Through Spinoza this mysticism entered the Enlightenment and infected mainstream thought with its obsessive return to the One, which reverberates too, politically and socially, in the globalism of our day. Traditional spiritualism is the way the globalists block the living experience of the Logos. Kabbalah and other mysticisms are just as much a part of the reflected, ready-made world as anything materialistic or otherwise mundane to the pseudo-spiritual mind.



Your conscious discovery of the living thinking that shapes our world is the discovery too of the Logos. It is the discovery of the Logos inside of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ must be the centre of dominion and power, which is synonymous with creative power. To be at the centre of creation is to reject Urizen and to deify the ‘I’, which is the Logos incarnated and resurrected.



How is the conscious discovery made? What awakens the consciousness? There is no initiation without a teacher. Connection with the Logos is an individual experience, but it is not something the individual will experience without external intervention. There must be an encounter; a transfigurating moment of epoptika. This is certainly not a kabbalistic, mystical or religious experience, but rather the metaphysical principle of absolute individuality and freedom, which you encounter as Love; and I am Eros, I am Love.

© John Dunn.

Whores for Eleusis


Friday, 9 February 2024 at 10:53

Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis. (1889) By Henryk Siemiradzki


Whores for Eleusis


And yet, what stands between non-being and the Beginning? The question must first be on the table before it can be answered. A debate needs two sides. Today there is one side, therefore there is no debate, be it political, philosophical or scientific. The real socio-political bifurcation is hidden. It is in questions about the self and its objectives we lay bare the truth of the real bifurcation, not the pathetic banter between various branches of psuedo-Marxism, which passes for democratic debate in the thought-controlled political talk-shops and media.



The ‘I’ must be the centre of dominion and power, which is synonymous with creative power. To be at the centre of creation is to reject Urizen and his followers and become one with God as the unadulterated self. The rightful role of man is to model the world after his thinking; and consciously being the master of his thinking he is to be master of what the thinking produces. The real bifurcation is between those who want this and those who promote the de-centring of theself, which means replacing it with a globalist unicultural non-self which has its thinking done for it.


If the Originating Principle is Love, then its opponents are the anti-Love. They crucified Love and continue to crucify Him in their rejection of Love. As the murderers of Love, their hope is to snuff out the light of the world, the light of life, and return us to the darkness that preceded and continues to precede the Beginning. But these half-beings will ultimately fail. The Beginning is born from the death that precedes the Beginning. That which preceded Love was death. Love walked the Earth and there was life. The intervention of the Logos is the Beginning, cosmically and individually.Indeed the former is the metaphor representing the latter. Such is the turning point of the Cosmic Eleusis, the individual’s Epoptika. Death will finally be overcome in the victory of Love, but this will only happen when the half-beings, these children of Urizen, are rooted out for good and for all. Until then, they bring whores for Eleusis.




Free will is false, deluded and evil.

Thursday, 8 February 2024 at 11:00

Free will is false, deluded and evil.

True will is the divine gift of Love.


'The they' listen to Eros

You all live deluded lives, but some will be awakened to the divine potential for your being. Whether or not you act out the potential given by God, your true self is nevertheless kept in God and, contemplated by Him. That is to say the divine potential is constant, and is your true self, regardless of the deluded persona under which you might exist. The point at which you recognise that you are 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.Your deluded state before encounter might be interpreted as your personal choice. What right has anyone to say it is deluded? Is it not the free will of the free individual?



Wrong.



Your ‘free will’ 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 is to say the Logos or God. Following the Fall, having gained knowledge, Adam and Eve objectified each other, discovering shame, rather than Love.



True will is the divine gift of Love. ‘Free will’ is false, deluded and evil, but you will it, you 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:



Love… 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.

Lightning strike upon thought petrified

Wednesday, 7 February 2024 at 10:28

The voice of Eros... listen

Lightning strike upon thought petrified

The light of the Logos, shines upon nature through your eyes … unless that light is extinguished at the point of its emergence. The truth is that nature before the light shines through is the cosmos before the Beginning, before ‘be’ing, before life. Before the light of the Logos shines through there is death. 


The cosmic creation story is the metaphor for the individual's awakening. Before the individual's awakening there is death. Through living thinking the light of the Logos shines through the individual upon the world. Life follows death. With your awakening will come the consciousness of the principle from which Nature is alienated. This consciousness enables the Logos flash of lightning to strike animal nature and render it human. The lightning strike is the destructive act upon reflected nature, or ‘thought petrified’, i.e. that which appears to be ready-made and devoid of your own shaping content. Until that strike, light remains solidified in the denying of itself. However, each disintegration of matter is a moment of ascension of the light, rendering the miraculous as an actuality, the Beginning, always.

As man was tempted to eat of the tree of knowledge, he was unable to fulfil his vocation as mediator of all creation. Meant to rule over creation in a relationship of love, Adam instead gave himself over to his senses and became dominated by creation. The task for you as a descendent of Adam is to reassert control over creation. You ask: but won’t it take an all-powerful god to meet this challenge?

I say to you…

Man is a microcosm, the universe as a macrocosm is a man distended. As body and soul constitutes but one man, so the visible and invisible aspects of the universe constitute but one cosmos. The relationship between man and the universe does not remain static, but takes on a dynamic element -the duality should be transformed into a unity unthreatened by dissolution. This role of mediation and unification, of uniting diversity, with all diversity preserved, is a consequence of man’s bearing the image of God. This role of unification is the Logos of man, and man in this role is the Logos, the all-powerful god.

Through love, man inclines his will to that of God, and thus human nature is no longer at variance with its Logos. What is God and where is he?



God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16)

The Originatory Principle is Love; and the Beginning is the violation of the interminable cycle of nature by Love. This act of annihilation is the only true revolutionary goal…

I say to you...

Destroy unthinkingly accepted nature. With self-consciousness and freedom, lead the process of disintegration and reintegration. With consciousness and will, reverse a process that is ages-old, one in which the shaping force of thought has been reflected back to you and falsely understood by you to be self-sustaining nature, or matter. As an awakened man, who has escaped entrapment as a sub-humanoid of Beulah, with self-consciousness and freedom, you must lead the process of disintegration and reintegration in a direction opposite to that of accepted nature, which attracts the shaping light of mind, reflecting it back as reality to the bestialised masses. Within the vehicle of pure living thinking, invert such a direction and destroy unthinkingly accepted nature.

This is the difficult part - impossible for anyone who has spent a life on his knees to Yaldabaoth, for you must embrace the role of destroyer wholly and internally, annihilating the parasitical children of Yaldabaoth, to live a life open to the Logos shining through. This act of annihilation is the only true revolutionary goal, and puts the awakened man at odds with the determiners of globalist ethical culture and socio-economic processes. Our truly revolutionary act of annihilation will lead to a discovery of the ‘I’ of Dantesque proportions, the discovery of the ‘I’ in the Logos and vice versa.



You seek the Logos because, obscurely, you seek the Originatory Principle that will deliver you from evil, from error and from destruction, but you will not find it as long as you ignore your own ‘I’, which bears the force of the Logos within it. The Originatory Principle is Love and the Beginning is the violation of the interminable cycle of nature by Love,and the birth of the ‘I’ as self-consciousness is the issue of this violation. The ‘I’ as self-consciousness has one goal, not to be bound to pysycho-physiological nature, not to become a kind of epiphenomenon of it but, rather, to achieve an ascension from it. That ascension is the Beginning.

© John Dunn.

WILLIAM WHISTON 1667-1752

Tuesday, 6 February 2024 at 22:04

WILLIAM WHISTON 1667-1752

He was a close associate of Isaac Newton, being appointed assistant to Newton at Cambridge in 1701, and succeeding Newton as Lucasian professor in 1702.

Whiston fell out with Newton over Bible chronology for, unlike Newton’s, his cosmology involved direct intervention by God.

In May 1702 Whiston succeeded Newton as Lucasian professor. He eventually lost his position, being charged with heresy by his Cambridge colleges.

He did not believe in the Trinity.

In the 1720s, Whiston came to believe that Jews manipulated the chronology of the Bible to support the view that Bar Kopha was the Messiah.

Whiston believed that Josephus drew upon an earlier unmanipulated authentic Bible as his source for history.

The Discourse on Hades,that Whiston thought was by Josephus is a Christian-like text about Hell and resurrection. Most scholars think it was actually by Hypolitus Bishop of Rome, but Whiston was sure it was by Josephus because of some verbal parallels.

Whiston believed that Josephus dealt with Jesus, John the Baptist and James favourably. The simplest explanation for Whiston was that Josephus was a Christian, an Ebbionite, a Jewish Christian, who saw Jesus as the Messiah of the Jews, but who still followed the Torah.

Whiston thought also that Josephus went back to Jerusalem from Rome to become the Bishop of Jerusalem.

© John Dunn.