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With a title that
is obviously a pun on 'Agnus Dei', this eighteenth example of my cyclical
philosophy (theosophy) expands on The Right to Sanity (2000) in order to
embrace a deeper analysis of the distinction between 'right' and 'wrong', or
immorality and morality, and does so in relation to a number of dichotomous
contexts, including sensuality and sensibility, competition and cooperation,
insanity and sanity, race and culture.In fact, this text boldly delves into the ‘racial’ dichotomy between
Nordic and Celtic, and seeks to deduce certain moral distinctions between the
two races, as well as to compare them with the generality of darker races on
this planet from what the author contends, on the basis of metaphorical
illustrations, to be a morally more advantageous, if not climatically favoured,
standpoint.Not least of the subjects
under investigation here is the distinction between immanence and
transcendence, which few thinkers would seem to have treated with the subtlety
and profundity it deserves. – John O’Loughlin.
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 upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband after a lengthy marital absence) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's schools in
Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care with Hill House Children's Home by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, he attended first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter 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 up to London proper 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 examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education 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, left the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer/office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, 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 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).
