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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
The God of whom John says…
Like Spinoza, Fichte and Gentile, we can choose monism and argue that there is only one sole being. Or we can choose dualism and see that there are two principles in the world: good and evil, spirit and matter. After all, did not Zarathustra, Prometheus and Jesus of Nazareth epitomise the good confronted by evil? And in the same way that Buber called this dualistic mode the ‘encounter’, (the mode of I–Thou), insisting that it is best described as love, Tomberg also argued that:
Two... is the number of love or the fundamental condition of love which it necessarily presupposes and postulates... because love is inconceivable without the Lover and the Loved, without ME and YOU, without One and the Other.
If God were only One, be that an infinitely distant Jehovah, or the solipsistic ‘I am I’ of the idealist philosophers, or Spinoza’s Substance, he would not be the God of whom John says:
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (I John 4:16)
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
The Turning
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Scaligero
The writer who fused the thinking of Giovanni Gentile, Julius Evola and Rudolf Steiner and went beyond each of them.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Consider once more the centrality of Transfiguration in Seneca’s tragedy of Jesus. Jesus unquestionably praised one being with god. This was his redemption, his goal. This was the Eleusinian mystery that found expression in the works of Dante and others in the conspiracy of intelligence. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch
I will follow these routes and others by map and by cycling and motorcycling along the roads to unearth the archaeology of this ancient Gough map and the later accretions that followed in its path.
John Dunn
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