John Dunn

Resolution of nature in mind



Wednesday, 13 March 2024 at 22:38

“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” [Gen 1:26–28].








Resolution of nature in mind



If mind is the defining and differentiating factor of humanness, then who are the anti-humanists? They are the ones who would retreat before the forces of nature, who regard nature as an entity apart from mind with a magical self-expressed existence of its own. These are the idolators of our times and all times, and nature is the Urizen to whom they scrape and worship and sacrifice their children.



And yet… what is the historically ever more complete harnessing of the forces of nature by man, this progress and increase of the life of mind triumphing ever more surely over the adverse environment, conquering and subduing it; what is this but the empirical and external representation of the immanent eternal victory, the full and absolute victory, of mind over nature, of the immanent resolution of nature in mind? The spiritualisation of the world no less.


© John Dunn.

Fallen Angel

Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 20:08

Fallen Angels, Anselm Kiefer

Fallen Angel

Beginning is a constant, now, in active thinking.



We are all born fallen (Fallen angel tempted Adam and Eve).



Death, comes before life

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The cosmic Beginning is the metaphor for man’s own Beginning.



The fall away from active thinking is that of the fallen angel, the Devil and the Devil’s children who live amongst us today. 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, i.e. 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, this life. The cosmic Beginning is the metaphor for man’s own Beginning.

© John Dunn.

Spiritualisation of the world



Monday, 11 March 2024 at 22:26

Spiritualisation of the world



My thinking would be inconceivable if I as the subject were not at the same time my object, and vice versa. The opposition is inherent to my self-concept. It is between me and myself. My difference and otherness belong wholly to me. I cannot express the opposition in any other way. My own identity is my own difference.



Both my being as subject and not-being as object are a synthesis, but the synthesis is not subject and object, but only subject. The synthesis is the REAL subject, which trumps the falsity of the pure abstract subject and the pure abstract object. I think of me and am thought of by me. The thought of me cannot escape from the thinking me. The synthesis is the concrete reality of my self-consciousness, which is not fact but being, living and eternal being, simply just being.



Past,present and future are realised in my living thinking. It is here that the path to freedom lies, in the reign of mind over nature and the progressive spiritualisation of the world.


© John Dunn.

Now all is different

Sunday, 10 March 2024 at 19:05

Now all is different

I once led a life that I truly did not live. I perceived only its sensory manifestations. By deceiving myself into believing that I lived, I did in fact die. My death in spite of my apparent existence began with the dying of thought into reflectivity and into abstractness. This give me the image of life, but not life itself.

Now all is different. My mind is all, now I am all. There is no process of thinking without me because thinking is me. My thinking is not mere activity but activity which is self-sufficient, and is me as a person. I realise myself as an object of knowledge.



When I envisage myself as the subject, then myself as the object is also conceived. Each is real since my thinking is real, but nothing is real outside my thinking, there is no being outside my thinking, only the abstract realm of darkness from which the children of Satan haunt the lives of the damned, i.e. those who have an image of life, but not life itself.

© John Dunn.

On evil and its eradication

Saturday, 9 March 2024 at 20:32

The Great Red Dragon, William Blake's depiction of purest evil

On evil and its eradication

The living thinking of my mind rises like a dawning sun rises. Such thinking has all the wisdom and love that flows as the light of the Logos into the cosmos. No hatred, or pain, or fear can exist before it. Its presence does not imply a struggle. It is everything.

The living movement of my thinking has no limit of space and time or external boundaries. In conceiving the universal I conceive myself as reality itself. Nothing in the living movement of my thinking is expelled to fall outside, inert and brute.

Outside there remains only the darkness inhabited by the children of Satan, the world of the material and graspable, where the innocents of Beulah are held in thrall. Only the dawn of the vivifying sun will cleanse the shadows of this evil.

What else is this evil but the contrary to the gain that I seek for myself? My mind's not-being is the darkness that must be extinguished by the rising sun. As I am thinking I am doing, bringing to life that which is not yet being, that which is before the perpetual Beginning. It is in that which is not yet being, the realm of Ananke into which angels have fallen, that my mind seeks fulfilment. The need to violate Ananke is the driving force of my being. Before the Beginning there is non-being, after the Beginning there is everything. This is the Creation; and it is always, for ever and ever.

My mind always confronts itself as its own negation. There is no respite from Ananke, who spurs me on from task to task, the providential pain goading me on to penetrate her non-being as the condition of my being. I am always the error (non-being) opposed to the true (the Beginning) which is the Creation.

Evil is at the heart of my reality because the Creation must always move beyond non-being. Evil is not a fixed reality opposed to a static mind. Evil is always there, but metamorphosing, driving me forward to be. Evil is the non-being that I must and will determine to be.

The ultimate purpose of my thinking’s transcendence is to transform evil into good, to dissolve the darkness of Ananke’s realm and let the light of the Logos shine through, incarnated as the power of Love.

Deceived by the children of Satan, I once conceived the world as other than myself who conceived it. I observed the world and its moral necessities as though it did not concern me. I proclaimed the unhuman mantra - 'freedom is the recognition of necessity’, where that necessity stood apart from me as a self-sustaining idol.

But that was before the Beginning, and now I survey the world as my own reality, there being no other. Unlike before, I cannot suppose the world outside the necessity of my own cosmic conception as though moral law did not concern me. The transcendent rationality of my own cosmic conception is my own law, my duty. This duty is the unity of the law of my own doing, which is the law of the universe. In other words, what I do is law and moral. This contrasts with my former immorality, with eyes only for my own interest, which separated me from the world, from its law and my law.

The formation of my moral consciousness as the realising of reality as self-conceived has deepened the spiritual meaning of my life. Spiritual fulfilment will come with the dawn of the vivifying sun, and the final eradication of Satan and his children from the darkest recesses of my psyche.

© John Dunn.

Religionists, artists and scientists - collaborationists all

Friday, 8 March 2024 at 19:38

Complicit in idol worship

Religionists, artists and scientists - collaborationists all

History is only concrete in the eternal act of my living thinking. That which falls outside is one with the idolatrous mysticism promulgated by the Children of Satan, and their collaborators, the religionists, artists and scientists who are complicit in their evil. The collaborators serve the Children of Satan by objectivising God, and distancing the Originatory Principle, Love, from man.



The artist only expresses his own world in his art. When he returns from art to life, he feel as though he returns to a reality different from that of his own fantasies. His art is a subjective free creation detached from the real, a creation in which the subject himself is realised and enchained. He posits himself in his immediate abstract subjectivity; and an abstraction is nothing.



Religion is the antithesis of art. Art is the exaltation of the subject released from the chains of the 'real'. Religion is the exaltation of the object, released from the chains of the mind. Whereas art is abstract subjectivism, religion is abstract objectivism. The object of worship is in abstract opposition to knowing. By that opposition knowing is excluded from reality, and the object of worship is therefore unknowable, only affirmable mystically as the dependence of the subject upon the object. In presupposing its object, religion is always idolatrous.



Science is a religion, which by presupposing its object is inherently idolatrous. Science arises from the presupposition that the object exists before it is thought, and independently altogether of being known.

© John Dunn.

History belongs to the living movement of my thinking mind

Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 17:00

It all comes together in my head

History belongs to the living movement of my thinking mind

I do accept that there is a past, but I do not accept the stages of that past as a succession of points on a timeline that stands apart from me. No object from the past present or future, has a magical self-existence that allows it to live outside the process that is my thinking. I do notbring a stage of history to life, only to drop it and then hop from this to the next stage, since a stage from which I detach myself is no longer an act of my mind, it falls outside my mind as a kind of Lucifer,a fallen angel.

Nothing abstracted from the living movement of my thinking has value to me, and this includes the facts of history, which cannot be grasped in any thought frozen in isolation. Just like the multiplicity of all other things, history belongs to the living movement of my thinking mind, the centre from which all time radiates, whether it be past or future.

© John Dunn.