John Dunn

Kabbalistic mysticism - the suicide of the self


Wednesday, 3 April 2024 at 21:22

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Kabbalistic mysticism - the suicide of the self


The mystic’s absolute reality is not subject but object. The mystic's reality, so essentially objective and anti-spiritual, has no place for anything depending on the subject. The individual personality of the mystic is tormented by the desire for a God who is, in comparison with his own sense of nothingness, everything. Man, the world and all particular things exist as but modes of existence of the super-objective One, the Absolute.



All particular things dissolve as illusive shadows as the mystic strives to turn the dross of one reality into the pure gold of another. The spirits must be seen, one’s guardian angel evoked, super-objectivity upon objectivity. Ultimately the kabbalists’ struggle must lead to the surrender of the self to the envisioned super-Objective. Mysticism is the suicide of the self.

© John Dunn.

That which I know is what knows

Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 21:52

That which I know is what knows 



That which I know is what knows. This identity is the perpetual Beginning.

Not to know this identity would be to live with the same limitations as religionists, philosophers and rationalists.

 That which I know is the transcendent Logos - the unifier of the Divine and the human.

© John Dunn.

Absolute autonomy not to be traded for religionism or rationalism

Monday, 1 April 2024 at 21:19

Absolute autonomy not to be traded for religionism or rationalism

My thinking does not repeat the ready-made, nor does my thinking have the logic of the ready-made. Instead, my thinking is the perpetual Beginningof creation. The Creation continues as my living thinking, which is transcendent and is made possible by my absolute autonomy.



I distinguish myself from all religionists and mystics, who believe in a thinking process which presupposes an object already realised before the process itself begins. The mind for them creates nothing, does nothing,merely contemplates existence, as a passive and indolent spectator.



The few creative greats that shun the contemplative life of the religionists and rationalists are themselves turned into objects of contemplation by the dumb masses, and objects of profit by the makers ofmoney by money.



Religionists are the same as rationalists. One may try to think of the mind in warm and fuzzy terms of seeking and searching, the other as a cold and calculating intellect, but they fail,because thinking must be transcendent, and freedom is impossible where the mind as the perpetual Beginning is not absolute. Hence religionism falls back on concepts of fate, surrender, worship and the like, whilst rationalism takes solace in never-ending observation.

© John Dunn.