METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY
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FATHER OMEGA’S LAST TESTAMENT
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
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the ensuing introduction:–
Despite its slightly ironic title, Father omega's Last Testament is perfectly serious in its most exactingly comprehensive analysis of the
four main elementally-conditioned class/gender contexts, which have been
described as noumenally sensual, phenomenally sensual, phenomenally sensible,
and noumenally sensible, the first and third of which form an axial integrity
on a diagonally descending basis, and the second and fourth of which form such
an integrity on a diagonally ascending one, so that they divide into two types
of society which, as in previous works, have been characterized as either
state-hegemonic and church-subordinate or church-hegemonic and
state-subordinate, as the axial case may be. Therefore each of these
contexts is more complex than the initial terminology might suggest, because
further divisible between male and female elemental positions which, in turn,
subdivide into psychic and somatic aspects that conform to either church or
state on what has been described as primary or secondary terms, depending on
which gender is hegemonic in any given context, be it upper- or lower-class, in
sensuality or in sensibility. Consequently, our four basic contexts
quickly mutate into eight positions that further subdivide along somatic and
psychic lines, each of which is subdivisible between will and spirit in the
case of soma, and ego and soul in the case of psyche, as described in previous
texts but not, I believe, with the same logical authority as comes to light
here and reveals, for the first time, just how interdependent state and church
can be for better or worse, depending on the axis. The conclusions that
have been drawn, however, are not such that any self-respecting person could
quibble with; for they point to a solution to the problem of contemporary
state-hegemonic civilization which would return civilization, in duly
transmuted church-hegemonic guise, to its true stature as something worthy of
the utmost respect for its moral insight and cultural accomplishments. – John
O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1 – 25
Aphs. 26 – 50
Aphs. 51 – 75
Aphs. 76 – 100
Aphs. 101 –
125
Aphs. 126 – 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 Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly
due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal,
had served in the British Army), he was brought to England by his mother and
grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her husband after a lengthy marital
absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private
tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's infants and St.
George's RC junior 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, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys in Sutton, where he
ultimately became a sixth-form prefect. Upon leaving high 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 proceeded, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music in Bedford Square WC1, where, with some prior experience himself of having
sat and passed (with merit) a Gd.4 ABRSM piano exam, he eventually became
responsible as a clerical officer for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with
English and History A Levels at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was
then living, he returned to his former job in the West End but, due to a
combination of personal factors, not the least of which had to do with the
depressing consequences of an enforced return to north London, he left 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, during which time he added some computer-related NVQs to his other qualifications, he has
steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Logan's Influence (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and False
Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has dedicated
himself almost exclusively 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 (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) 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). John O'Loughlin is a bachelor who, more from necessity than design, has lived at various addresses in the north London borough of Haringey since 1974.
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