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APOTHEOSIS OF THE
GNOSIS
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Links to the
files of which follow the introductory remarks below:–
If anything
seems like a definitive title it is this one, a work dating from 2003 which enabled me to draw the various strands of
my
philosophy together and to enunciate my worldview with such a logical
consistency and comprehensive exactitude ... that I felt as though
nothing
significant had been overlooked and there was even room for one or two
long-standing grudges and resentments to be aired in the interests of
enhanced
credibility. This, to me, is akin to a
Seventh Heaven; for in overall creative terms it is in actuality the
seventh
volume in the series of similarly-structured aphoristic works stemming
from Ethnic Universality (2002), the titular independence of all of which is
designed
to maintain a sense of and commitment to individualism in the wake of
the
rather more closely-collectivized texts which came to a head with the
four
parts of Total Truth (2002).
What has come to a head here, however, is a sense of freedom
that owes
more to theocracy than to democracy, but which could not have
materialized, in
any ultimate form, without the assistance of democracy.
That, in itself, is not new to my work, but
the way it has been described, and the extent to which I have exposed
the penalties
of not embracing psychic freedom more absolutely, is really quite
something
else, not least in respect of the covert subversion of male virtues by
female
moralities in sensibility which is the price to be paid in the absence
of a
more complete freedom. – John O'Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1–25
Aphs. 26–50
Aphs. 51–75
Aphs. 76–100
Aphs. 101–127
Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her Aldershot-born daughter upon the death of her husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot (Hants) and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, Carshalton (Surrey). Shortly after leaving secondary school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking ABRSM examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, quit the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, where he also gained some NVQs, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated himself to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned numerous titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988&ndash9), Philosophical Truth (1991&ndash2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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