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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Salutation of Beatrice 1869
Deviate from the cosmic order
The theme of wilful disobedience is examined in Beatrice’s Paradise I exposition of the Cosmos. ‘All things observe a mutual order among themselves,’ said Beatrice, ‘and this is the structure that makes the universe resemble God’. This too is the premise of Dante's cosmos, in which all natures have their bent, their given instincts. Just as a flame always rises when lit, a stone always falls when dropped. This is the natural order. The question should already be rising in the reader’s mind - are we like that? Think of that child, who turns spontaneously without necessity to what delights it. The answer to the question is, most emphatically, no. Beatrice explains by expanding upon the theme of creativity with a metaphor from art. ‘Just as form is sometimes inadequate to the artist’s intention, because the material fails to answer, so the creature, that has power, so impelled, to swerve towards some other place, sometimes deserts the track.’ In other words, within the description of the order of the cosmos, Beatrice emphasises that human beings are the odd ones out, with the power to deviate from the cosmic order.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Being: what is it?
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Edward Thomas
Extracts from a long out-of-print monograph that I wrote about Edward Thomas twenty years ago entitled 'A Bleak but Honest Resolution'. But it's still on Kindle.
John Dunn.
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Just a thought:
The demand for freedom has been falsely posed and inorganically answered with church and anti-church universalisms, an unholy alliance of media-promoted cultural Marxism, liberal individualism, democracy and internationalism, policed under a world state. All peoples have to submit themselves to these gods of borderless chaos, unrestricted central banking and financial speculation. Jehovianism in its guise of church or anti-church, cultural Marxism and the stock exchange has destroyed personality and will. Its priesthood has decreed that contentment is the order of the day. 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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