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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Spirit is freedom
I breathe new life into the forms that the common herd has frozen into the idols of Nature and History.
To the sleeping souls of Beulah, Nature and History appear as absolute Other—something wholly outside the spirit, known only as shifting shadows and appearances. History becomes an unfathomable ocean of the past that dissolves into the misty realms of the prehistoric; a procession of human deeds whose living spirits can be recalled only by an imagination that has left the realm of outer knowledge. Thus Nature and History have been turned into radical Otherness—the shared vision of the unawakened. Yet what remains is only abstract Nature and abstract History, and as such they are empty of true being.
If this Otherness, which rules the common vision, were truly as absolute as it seems, it would mean not only that Nature and History are forever closed to us, but something far more decisive: that Spirit itself would be impossible. For if anything stands outside the Spirit in an absolute sense, the Spirit is thereby bounded by it. Bounded, it is no longer free—and therefore no longer Spirit, for Spirit is freedom itself.
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Questions
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My living thinking is the Logos
Were there any reality beyond the infinite unity of my living thinking, there would be no Beginning, no Creation, no being. For being to be, there must be Beginning always—the eternal, living Word speaking itself into the world.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
Thomas More developed this theme in Utopia, in which he argued that to become Platonic ‘philosopher kings’, all the nation’s citizens would have to be schooled, for it was ‘impossible to do all things well unless all men are good’. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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Evola - formless to formed
Transmutation – stated Evola – must always proceed from ‘formless universality’ to ‘formed individuality’ and not the other way around.
John Dunn
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