John Dunn

Creation must continually pass beyond non-being

The living thinking of my mind rises like the first light of a sacred dawn. Within it streams the full wisdom and love of the Logos, pouring as pure radiance into the fabric of the cosmos. Before this holy light no hatred, no pain, no fear can endure. Its presence is not a battle; it is the All. The living current of my thinking knows no frontier of space or time, no outer wall. In conceiving the universal I know myself as Reality itself. Nothing that moves within this living thought is ever cast aside to lie cold and lifeless beyond its embrace.

Outside, only the outer darkness remains—the realm inhabited by the children of Satan, the dense and graspable world where the pure innocents of Beulah are held in bondage. Only the golden rising of the vivifying Sun can wash away these shadows of evil. What is this evil, if not the shadow-side of the good I long to realise in myself? The not-being of my mind is the very darkness that the ascending Light must consume. As I think, I already act: I call into life that which has not yet come to be, that which rests before the perpetual Beginning. It is into this dark region of not-yet-being—the place where angels fall—that my spirit reaches for its fulfilment. Before the Beginning there is non-being; after the Beginning there is All. This is Creation, and it is forever, world without end.

My mind is forever face to face with its own negation. I am always the evil (the not-yet) set against the true (the Beginning), which is Creation itself. Evil dwells at the core of my reality because Creation must continually pass beyond non-being. Evil is not a frozen adversary opposing a motionless mind; it is ever-present yet ever-changing, the goad that drives me into fuller being. Evil is the non-being that I am called—and empowered—to determine into being. The deepest purpose of my thinking’s ascent is to transfigure evil into good, to dissolve the last shadows of that dark realm so that the light of the Logos may shine unhindered, made flesh as the power of Love.

Once, deceived by Satan’s children, I regarded the world as something other than the self that beheld it. I looked upon its moral necessities as though they stood apart from me. I repeated the cold formula “freedom is the recognition of necessity,” treating necessity as an idol existing outside my own spirit.

But that was before the Beginning. Now I behold the world as my own living reality—there is no other. I can no longer stand apart from its moral law. The transcendent rationality of my all-embracing mind is itself my sacred law and my holy duty. The law of my own doing is the law of the universe: whatever I do in truth is law, and therefore is moral. This is the opposite of my former blindness, when I sought only my private gain and thereby severed myself from the world, dividing its law from mine.

The awakening of my moral consciousness—the realisation that my reality is the world’s reality—has deepened the spiritual meaning of my life. True fulfilment will come with the full rising of the vivifying Sun, when Satan and all his offspring are at last driven from the deepest recesses of my psyche, which is to say, from existence itself. Then the light of the Logos shall reign without shadow, and Love alone shall be.

© John Dunn.

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