01. OMEGANOTES
OF AN IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHER: Despite my commitment to a variety of other
philosophical texts that year, 1996 saw me bring to a close a further
instalment of philosophical writings which rose above what I had already achieved
in terms of the degree to which I was able to refine upon and perfect my
concept of Truth, bringing to a head my quest for the most exactingly
comprehensive and logically definitive text, a text both more thematically
essential and structurally informal than ever before, and one which was to
serve as a springboard to the texts listed below. Such, at any rate, is how these OMEGANOTES
... now strike me, as I cast my mind back over the torturous paths that were to
lead to the definitive realization of Truth and set me free of metaphysical
uncertainties.
02. ULTRANOTES
FROM BEYOND ('The United Kingdom/Ireland'): This collection of what, in
relation to earlier 'notational' integrities, I am wont to regard as
ultra-notational aphorisms, brings to a resounding conclusion my quest for
philosophical perfection, as it addresses a variety of Social Transcendentalist
concerns in relation to 'Kingdom Come', not the least of which being the salvation
of what I have called Subchristians from theocracy,
and the correlative presentation of a meritocratic
alternative to all forms of religious tradition.
03. THE
SOUL OF BEING: Conceived in continuous aphoristic terms, this 1998 text is
nevertheless divided into twelve sections, each of which bears a bracketed
title in quasi-essayistic vein. Examples
of such titles include 'Fair to Life', 'Collective and Individual', 'Self
vis-à-vis Not-Self', 'Form and Content(ment)', and 'Metaphysical Salvation'. There is also, at the end, a fairly long
appendix which has the merit, not uncharacteristic of my appendices, of both
summing up the text and, in this particular case, illustrating the reculer pour mieux sauter, or stepping back in order to leap forward, attitude
which underlines much of the foregoing philosophy. Certainly this text goes deeper than the
previous one ever did, in terms of its understanding of the self and the
methodology of self-actualization or realization by which the bridge from ego
to soul is crossed.
04. TERMINOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALISM: Conceived in alphabetical order, this
'dictionary' of my philosophy ranges from A - Z in what is arguably the most
thematically comprehensive and structurally definitive of all my texts, one
that not only sums up the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism
but still manages to refine upon and remodel, in typically cyclic vein, some of
the accepted wisdom of the past, as well - dare I say - as add new material to
the overall corpus of philosophical ideas.
05. ETHNIC
UNIVERSALITY - 'The Next Totalitarianism': This text takes my philosophy to an
even more definitive level in relation to those attributes of each of the
elements which make will, spirit, ego, and soul possible and jostle for primacy
or supremacy, according to the context, in individuals both separatively
and collectively, in civilization as a reflection of one sort of society or
another, depending on a variety of factors, not least of all
environmental. But this text is equally
definitive in relation to its understanding of people's civilization and why,
despite appearances to the contrary or what anybody might say, such a largely
urban civilization, built around the proletariat, can only be totalitarian and
is, even now, totalitarian in what most characterizes it and what the author
holds to be the precondition of an ultimate totalitarianism, as alluded to in
the title, which will take this civilization to its omega point and therefore
definitive realization.
06. NO
MAN-OEUVRE: Conceived on the more informal basis of the above text, this title
lays down the case for godly rights in relation to the development of
globalization to its universal summation, and contends, with the aid of
comprehensive logical structures which stretch through the elements (in general
terms) from cosmic and natural to human and divine, that since godliness has
still not attained to its per se manifestation there is no reason to regard such godliness as has and does
obtain as the end of the religious road but, rather, to see how religion still
has to develop beyond its traditional structures if God is to supersede and, in
a sense, supplant man as the logical outcome of historical development and,
indeed, evolution. To that end, it has
been part of the duty of this text to de-bunk conventional religion, both
Western and especially Eastern, in order to demonstrate that all religions
leave something to be desired from the standpoint of true universality in
relation to the final development of religion, of soulful totalitarianism, in
genuinely global terms.
07. THE
HIGH-WAY OF TRUTH: Following on from the above, this companion text takes a
closer look at people's civilization as it bears upon the development of globalization,
and distinguishes between national and international forms of 'people's
ideology' in a way which seeks to demonstrate that even here a 'gender war' is
in operation which pits not only Fascism against Communism and Socialism
against Capitalism but the female forms of Fascism and Socialism against their
male counterparts and, conversely, the male forms of Capitalism and Communism
against their female counterparts, with interesting implications for the future
development of ideology as bearing upon the most logically desirable outcome of
such dialectical struggles in relation to the most universally credible form of
globalization. As a corollary of this,
one is left in no doubt that the people who count for most within the framework
of globalization are more likely to be atheistically opposed to traditional and
conventional religion than staunch believers in their deities and even in such
flawed notions as the Second Coming, their own entitlement to godliness - and
hence religion - being a matter of future judgement when they are able to come
into their religious own in consequence of their willingness to take their
global destiny to its universal conclusion.
08. THE
END OF EVOLUTION: This text brings my theorizing to a very absolutist head that
refines upon the pluralistic consistency of what has preceded it in relation to
the administrative aside to and the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', as
described in earlier texts both here and, especially, elsewhere (see, for
example, ‘Collected Maxims’ and ‘Cyclic Philosophy’). For the trend of globalization towards a unitive peak in a more genuine universality at the expense
of both Western and Eastern traditions alike presages a transcendentalist resolution which cannot but be equally, if
not more, absolutist, and thus beyond both humanistic/nonconformist relativity
and fundamentalist absolutism. Such, then, is the import of this text as
it develops its revolutionary message for the proletariat and enters into a
more complete solidarity with proletarian internationalism than might have been
expected even as recently as a few years ago.
In this respect, too, it signifies a worthy component in the long
struggle for Truth which has characterized this oeuvre over several decades of
consistent philosophizing with the end of a revolutionary transformation of
society always in mind.
09. THE
VIRTUOUS CIRCLES: This further text in the ever-advancing oeuvre achieves a
more comprehensive understanding and delineation of both the convolutional realities of female hegemonic contexts,
regarded as vicious circles, and the involutional
realities or, rather, idealities of male hegemonic
contexts, regarded as virtuous circles, and therefore as bearing upon the title
in terms of a positive alternative to and solution of the problem, from a male standpoint, of the
vicious circles which are established whenever somatic freedoms take precedence
over their psychic counterparts, as in all heathenistic
or secular societies. It is also subtler
in its understanding of the distinctions between binding and pseudo-freedom as
a precondition of genuine freedom, whether for better, in respect of psyche, or
for worse, in respect of soma. There is
also a certain religiously-oriented terminological comprehensiveness, mirroring
the above-mentioned circles, which does maximum justice to the various
metaphors which are convenient shorthand for gender and class realities and idealities in both sensuality and sensibility, thereby
leaving absolutely no room for doubt as to the significance and status of such
metaphorical terms, irrespective as to which stage of life, from cosmic to suprahuman (cyborg), they can be
variously applied. Therefore with
careful study there should be no doubt as to the applicability or significance
of these definitions, or how to distinguish between them on an underlying
descriptive basis. In that respect, this
text achieves a logical definitiveness which it would be difficult if not
impossible to improve upon, and may justifiably be regarded as the intellectual
culmination-point of my philosophical oeuvre to-date.
10. THE
STRUGGLE FOR ULTIMATE FREEDOM: I ought by now to have learnt my lesson in
respect to the sort of claim made above about definitive texts but, frankly,
some further philosophical progress has been made, if in regard to a
revaluation - evaluating and revaluating being germane to the cyclical
structures of my work - of a quite long-standing evaluation concerning
devolution, which only confirms that intellectual progress happens by degrees
and is a long and often tortuous process during the course of which new
insights and logical configurations come to light which enable one to
re-address an old contention or, in this case, bone of contention, to a more
satisfactory resolution.... Which does not mean that progress towards some
definitive position is not possible or is simply a delusion, as some would have
us believe, but that it takes time and involves many rethinks and revaluations
along the way such that only a very brave and honest type of person, more
likely male and not overly concerned with commercial viability or
attractiveness, would be capable of undertaking, given all the complexities
involved. Nevertheless further progress
or perhaps I should say redress has emerged here, in this well-nigh definitive
text, and it is to my cyclical credit that I have been able to recycle old
material and thereby fashion something new, not least in respect of a more
developed concept of religious freedom which will require the ideological subordination
and even democratic supersession of political
freedoms if globalization is ultimately to emerge in a more credibly universal
guise - a contention which, although touched upon before, here achieves
something like a definitive presentation.
11. APOTHEOSIS
OF THE GNOSIS: If anything seems like a definitive text it is this, which
enabled me to draw the various strands of my philosophy together and to
enunciate my worldview with such 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. What has come to a head here is a sense of
freedom which owes more to theocracy than to democracy but could not
materialize, 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.
12. ESCHATOLOGY
OR SCATOLOGY - 'Judgement at the Crossroads': One can take humble or vulgar
means, including slang or casual obscenity, and seek to develop them
philosophically in such a way that things come to light that would otherwise
probably have remained buried and hidden from view. Sometimes it were better that such things did
remain buried, but if one can bear to contemplate them and grow to understand
them better, then the reward is not insignificant but arguably well worth the
trouble. So it has been here, and in
this latest individualized instalment of homogeneously-structured aphoristic
texts I have come full-circle, as it were, and highlighted a significant
distinction between the two types of people's radicalism which all those of a
progressively unworldly or extreme left-wing persuasion have to choose between,
often unconsciously and according to the kind of society or civilization in
which they find themselves or to which they relate - namely the Social
Theocracy of the highroad and the Social Democracy of the low road, the former
incontrovertibly determined to bring one aspect of the world to Heaven, the
latter just as incontrovertibly determined, so far as I am concerned, to bring
a neo-diabolical mode of Hell to the other aspect of the world, though to find
out which is which you will have to read the text and thus undertake a journey
the likes of which you will never have taken before, one which may even
overtake your prior expectations and leave you marvelling at the situation in
which you then find yourself, for better or worse.
13. APOCALYPSO
- 'The New Revelation': This text
carries on the task of highlighting the distinctions between Social Theocracy
and Social Democracy, though always from a perspective favouring the former,
and brings a fresh sense of exactitude to bear on a number of terms which have
either been used interchangeably or in a more general way in the past, while
simultaneously developing a more comprehensively exacting 'take' upon what
pertains to free psyche and bound soma and what pertains, by contrast, to free
soma and bound psyche, so that one need be in no doubt how criteria applicable
to the former are largely if not completely irrelevant to the latter....Which
is why I have developed a different set of terminological markers for each context,
whether in respect of noumenal or phenomenal, upper-
or lower-class criteria, so that there can be no ambiguity or ambivalence as to
the sense in which these terms are being applied, and no justification, in
consequence, for confusion over their use.
But the 'new revelation' alluded to in the subtitle has to do with more
than specific terminological practice, no matter how comprehensively exacting,
since it is a revelation, above all, about life and the means by which life can
be enhanced in respect of the more than Christian order of salvation which is
what Social Theocracy is really all about.
14. AT
THE CROSSROADS OF AXIAL DIVERGENCE: As suggested by the title, this text
continues to explore the distinctions between what have been termed the bureaucratic-theocratic
axis of a rising diagonal and the autocratic-democratic axis of a falling
diagonal, and to do so in such a way that there can be no doubt as to the
outcome of each axial progression, whether it be in respect of Social Theocracy
or Social Democracy, with eschatological implications which give a
contemporary twist to the concept of
Judgement and the consequences of what is at stake in any contest between the
two axes, the divergent natures of which have been more comprehensively fleshed
out here than in the preceding text. But
as anyone familiar with the preceding text or texts will agree, there can be
only one path for the self-respecting righteous to follow, and such a path
leads up and in rather than down and out.
15. OPTI-MYSTIC
PROJECTIONS: Although structurally and thematically similar to the above text,
composed as ever of aphoristic notes, this work represents a quantum leap
forward in certain areas which are explored more accurately and rigorously than
ever before, progressing from a consideration of the distinctions between
sacred and profane ego to the cultural and political differences between Europe
and America, and of how Britain's attraction towards America undermines Europe
and creates problems which even France cannot avoid being affected by, much as
France differs from Britain in respect of its cultural and political traditions
and should be judged, I believe, by criteria closer, in essence, to those
obtaining in countries like Eire, where the influence of the Catholic Church is
omnipresent. But America is an
altogether different proposition from France, never mind Eire, and its
influence on Britain is such as to make one desirous of a radical change in the
British Isles which will make it easier for any residual influence to be
minimized or even marginalized in the interests of greater European unity and
cooperation, a change which, as the reader may have guessed, points in the
direction of Social Theocracy and its politico-religious aspirations, as
outlined in previous texts, which besides embracing the supranational
transcendence of the British/Irish divide include a more authentic order of
religious transcendentalism as its raison d'être.
Finally, as a word of advice, one should not read this text before one
has progressed, step by step, through all of the preceding ones, but once one has read it one would probably incline, as I
do, to regard it as the best thing I have ever written in terms of what
projects furthest into a mystical, or metaphysically transcendent, future with
the logical optimism which only loyalty to self can vouchsafe.
16. UNFLATTERING
CONCLUSIONS: More than ever I should like this text to speak for itself,
because it does not paint a flattering picture of Anglo-American relations
vis-à-vis Europe as a whole and the world in general, but strives to show not
merely how but why the United Kingdom is
a problem for Europe and the prospect of greater European integration. However, all problems tend to invite
solutions, and my own solution to the problem of the UK vis-à-vis Europe in
general but Eire in particular draws on my ideological legacy as a
self-proclaimed Social Theocrat who, like the French philosopher Michel
Foucault, is not only ranged against an overly Social Democratic 'take' on
progress, but has an alternative path to offer which owes a lot more to
European tradition than ever it does to the long-standing opponents of that
tradition who would be among the last peoples, as things stand, to either
understand or be able to tread this new path which, as far as I am concerned,
is the path to universal harmony and therefore of an end to national divisions.
17. RADICAL
PROGRESS - 'The Only Way Forward': As suggested by the title, this text has a
concept of progress which is radical and far-reaching in its left-wing
implications, albeit in relation to the sphere of religion rather than
economics, which is the only sphere, so far as I am concerned, which can be
genuinely progressive, provided, however, that the religion itself is genuine
and therefore transcendentalist, stemming, as I have argued in the text, from
an antihumanist precondition. But that is only one axis, or diagonal, in
the totality of axial factors at work in different kinds of societies, whether
on a primary or a secondary basis, and in RADICAL PROGRESS I have gone into the
distinctions between church hegemonic/state subordinate and state
hegemonic/church subordinate societies in no uncertain terms, outlining the
different ideals and fates which pertain to them with a logical consistency
that leaves one in no doubt as to the relative value of each type of society,
whether rising diagonally or falling diagonally, and making a conclusive case
for the society that has the capacity to lead people higher rather than simply
rule them from a height in opposition to something lower which is nevertheless
distinct from the kind of lowness obtaining across the great divide of the
world, as explained in this my most definitive and outstanding text
to-date.
18. STAIRWAY
TO JUDGEMENT - 'The Way to the Eternal Life of Social Theocratic Truth':
Continuing on from the above work, this text is not only more
comprehensively exacting than the previous one - and indeed all the earlier
works - in relation to the various ideological permutations of both state and
church, politics and religion, but more logically insightful of the
diametrically opposite ways in which what has been termed 'world overcoming'
operates, whether from a secular or an ecclesiastical point of view, to the end
of maintaining either the alpha ideal of somatic freedom from the standpoint of
a female hegemony or the omega ideal of psychic freedom from the standpoint of
a male hegemony, neither of which kinds of ideal, respectively criminal and
graceful, are or ever can be compatible, and therefore necessitate and
invariably result in contrary types of society which, for obvious reasons,
rarely if ever 'see eye to eye' but remain at gender loggerheads with each
other for as long as 'the world' persists.
The 'world' as defined in the text, however, is no simple monolith where
the people are concerned but is divisible, on the above-mentioned basis,
between those who take the earth for granted in what I have described as a
democratic/plutocratic type of worldly bias and those, on the contrary, who
live in hope of salvation from the world in what has been called a
bureaucratic/meritocratic type of worldly bias which,
scorning the earth, is avowedly anti-earthly in character and the precondition,
through sin, of heavenly grace.
Therefore, split asunder between two types of worldly society, the
people, 'the meek', the electorate, the many, etc., cannot be evaluated
according to any one set of criteria but have to be differentiated on the basis
of whether they pertain to the one manifestation of 'the world' or to the
other, with contrary fates in both state and church, as described in this, my
most ideologically conclusive text to-date.
19. A
PERFECT RESOLUTION: As suggested by the title, this text resolves some
outstanding problems and anomalies appertaining to the preceding one, including
not least the relative positions of what has been called pseudo-sin and
pseudo-grace on the one hand and pseudo-crime and pseudo-punishment on the
other hand, drawing them closer to their respective primary complements in both
state and church, so that a more integrated conclusion has been reached in
which the hegemonic gender of either axis, as redefined in this text,
conditions the nature of the subordinate attribute in relation to the presiding
ideal, and conditions it, moreover, in its own image. However, this text does a lot more than
correct the 'heathenistic' aberrations of the
previous one; for it also exposes the extent to which criteria appertaining to
good and evil, not to mention wisdom and folly, are significantly dependent on
the nature of the society of which they are a part, so that at the end of the
day it is not whether this or that is right or wrong, good or bad, but what
exactly is conditioning people to take one view or another that really matters,
and this, not surprisingly, is to a large extent dependent on which gender is
effectively controlling society and whether or not there has been a 'transvaluation of values' sympathetic to a formal departure
from sensuality to sensibility. For what
is 'right' in sensuality can become very 'wrong' from the standpoint of
sensibility, provided society has officially gravitated to such a standpoint -
something, I have argued, which contemporary civilization, characterized as
urban proletarian, has yet to do, with consequences that would reverse much of
what currently passes for 'good' and 'wise', as explained in the text.
20. THE
LAST JUDGEMENT: Despite its portentous-sounding title, this work in the
continuing oeuvre progresses through four sections in much the same way as the previous
works and with all or most of the same concerns, except that its grasp of the
distinction between soma and psyche, not-self and self, in relation to the
divergent axes of state-hegemonic and church-hegemonic types of society is more
consistent and methodical than had previously been the case, with a consequence
that one can differentiate quite sharply between the somatic emphasis or bias
of the one context in relation to evil and good and the psychic bias or
emphasis of the other context in relation to sin and grace - something that
puts a new complexion on the corresponding complements of crime and punishment
on the one hand and of folly and wisdom on the other hand. However, it must be said, in relation to the
title, that if we are to accept a Last Judgement, we are obliged to acknowledge
a First Judgement; for no less than God the Father logically obliges us to come
to terms with the contrary existence of Devil the Mother, so Judgement,
conceived in this fashion, compels us to distinguish between alpha and omega, metachemistry and metaphysics, in terms of antiphysical and antichemical
alternatives which have applicability to our own age and civilization in a way
which leaves no doubt as to the significance of gender in bringing such
contrary concepts to pass. For,
here as elsewhere, nothing can be understood without reference to the axial
divergence which follows from the hegemony of this gender or that gender,
making for a sharp distinction between alpha and omega, the first and the last,
whether in respect of Judgement or of anything else.
21. THE
FREE TESTAMENT OF A BOUND GENIUS: Beginning with doubts about a certain number
too often used in religious connections, this text progresses through a
development of my own religious theories and numbers towards a conclusion
which, while not entirely removed from the magical number alluded to above,
endorses a rather larger figure when once the numbers attaching to my divisions
and subdivisions of each axis - descending and ascending, female and male -
have been multiplied by four in relation to what has been regarded as the
principal stages of both death and life as applying in previous texts to
element-conditioned environmental means, from the Cosmos and nature to mankind
and cyborgkind, the latter of which is already here,
if rather more on sensual than sensible terms at present. Nevertheless, this text is about a lot more
than numbers, however significant or insignificant one chooses to regard them,
being an extension and refinement of my recent axial theorizing which,
frankly, leaves little or nothing to be desired - at least not in terms of the
way and extent to which everything adds up in what must be a definitive
comprehensiveness which takes my philosophy-cum-theosophy to an all-time peak,
and establishes if not proves, once and for all, my pre-eminence as arguably
the foremost metaphysical thinker not only of this age but of virtually any
age, a self-thought thinker whose corporeal existence remains bound even as his
largely ethereal thoughts range freely over the entire compass of devolutionary
and evolutionary actuality or possibility, from the alpha-most point of Devil
the Mother/Hell the Clear Spirit to the omega-most point of God the
Father/Heaven the Holy Soul.
22. REVELATIONARY
AFTERTHOUGHTS: Stemming in large measure from the above text, this work
restates in greater detail many of the principal contentions of my recent
philosophy and arrives at some new conclusions which render it all the more
logically unassailable and entitled to be regarded as the criterion by which
not only contemporary morality but the distinction between morality and
immorality, the light and the dark, should be judged, even if this does mean
that some or many of one's treasured illusions should ultimately be discarded
in order that the light of truth may shine through in as unimpeded and
unequivocal a way as possible. Frankly,
I had no idea, when I tentatively began this text, that it would blossom into
what is unquestionably the most eloquent and comprehensively exacting
presentation of my philosophy so far, a presentation that has the right to be
called revelationary, in that much of what it reveals
is so compellingly cogent as to be positively divine, the divine revelations of
a thinker who knows the difference between God and the Devil
but does not make the reductionist mistake of
conceiving of history, much less life, as a struggle between Good and Evil,
when all the philosophical evidence points to the conclusion that good is
merely the relative counterpart of Evil and no more than a just retort to
something which is not merely antithetical to anything godly but the principal
obstacle to the salvation of the sinful to that which, gracefully transcending
the world, is as far removed from being engaged in any such struggle as
it is possible to imagine, but not, on that account, indifferent to the plight
of the meek.
23. REVOLUTIONARY
AFTERTHOUGHTS: Dealing with essentially the same subject-matter as its
companion text above, this work is even more exactingly insightful in its
understanding of the differences between the Eternal freedoms that rule or lead
and the temporal bindings that submit, in worldly fashion, to the alternative
dispensations so antithetically ranged above them, whether in contemporary or
traditional guise. Here there is no
question but that the worldly division between what has been called the meek
and the just is symptomatic of two entirely different and largely
independent axial orientations, an ascending axis of church-hegemonic criteria
and a descending axis of state-hegemonic criteria, and that the salvation of
those who meekly pertain to the former is crucial to the undermining if not,
eventually, complete invalidation of the latter, but that salvation, for it to
work, must be conceived on higher and more radical terms than has ever before
characterized the diagonally ascending axis if the meek, as defined in
the text, are to be more lastingly and efficaciously delivered not only from
their own worldly limitations but from the sorts of netherworldly
predations to which, via those limitations, they are perforce subjected by the
Vain, or those who rule the just to their mutual exploitative and
immoral advantage. As in all my works,
there is both further logical progress and, in the achievement of such
progress, the necessary correction, from time to time, of previous contentions,
and this work is no exception, all the more gratifyingly so in that what it has
progressed to is nothing short of an unequivocal endorsement of a truth that
dares to speak its name because it is genuinely universal and capable of
resolving, once and for all, the dilemma of worldly division.
24. JUDGEMENTAL
AFTERTHOUGHTS: This text brings to a 'judgemental' head a loose quartet
of works beginning with THE FREE TESTAMENT OF A BOUND GENIUS, and has
been subtitled 'As Testamentary Evidence of a Free Genius', since it rather
departs from the terminological bounds set by the other work, not to mention
the two intervening ones, as it explores, in some detail, the use and
applicability of common slang and verb-noun expletives from a comprehensively
exacting philosophical standpoint, with many interesting and novel conclusions,
some of which might well contribute towards undermining the mindless alacrity
with which certain persons go about denigrating others in carnally reductionist terms.
Therefore I have, in a sense, 'judged' such terms, however
irrational their common usage, and, I trust, brought some logical sense to bear
on them, thereby removing them from the stagnant pit of vulgar or obscene slang
in which they tend, with unthinking people, to languish. But that is not all I have done in this
highly demanding text; for the reader will soon discern that I have a gift for
parables and metaphorical irony which should shed some light on recent history
and the contemporary political scene most especially, thereby preparing the
ground for progressive radical change in the decades and centuries to come. Finally, I have returned to one of my
favourite subjects, which might be described as the ideological or ontological
understanding of literature in respect of its four principal branches, viz.
drama, poetry, prose, and philosophy, and have, with the assistance of my
customary elemental and axial theories (here brought to a veritable
apotheosis), endeavoured to shed some light on their differences, in both
gender and class terms, thereby indicating the path which leads
not only to the understanding of literature in a deeper and wider sense but,
hopefully, to its eventual overcoming on the most synthetically artificial
basis, with especial reference to philosophy of the utmost truth-oriented order
which, with me, attains to an all-time peak of metaphysical perfection which
should suffice to expose the poetic half-truths and perhaps, indirectly, see
off the dramatic lies and prosaic half-lies in the difficult but interesting
times ahead.
25. FATHER
OMEGA’S LAST TESTAMENT: Despite its slightly ironic title, this text 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 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. 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 which 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 accomplishments.
26. REVALUATIONS
AND TRANSVALUATIONS: This text not only revaluates certain positions
recently postulated in my philosophical works, and therefore corrects or
modifies their conclusions, but extends my transvaluating
towards a totally new understanding and conception of Christianity and what
logically followed it, so that the path is prepared, as it were, for the
revelations concerning religion and the destiny of the phenomenally sensual
'meek' which owe more to this transvaluation than
ever they do to any conventional or traditional notions concerning such
subjects as the Immaculate Conception, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and,
indeed, the entire belief system of Christianity in respect of a Second Coming
and Day of Judgement. In the end, what
transpires is a revaluation of Christianity in light of my mature philosophy
and its Social Theocratic commitment to Truth of an ultimate order which
exposes the errors that stem from presumption of the death of God on the Cross
and lead, inevitably, towards a humanistic dead-end. I also expose the limitations of terms
like 'mankind' and 'man' in relation to the full-gamut of class and gender
possibilities which actually exist and condition or characterize life from one
standpoint or another, and show more fully how things actually divide into two
axes which are not only divisible in themselves but antithetical in virtually
every respect, even in regard to sport and sex, on both somatic and psychic,
state- and church-oriented terms. In
sum, this important text not only revaluates a number of important
philosophical contentions on my part, making for a new and better understanding
of ideological distinctions between 'Left' and 'Right' and of how amorality
factors in to the opposition between immorality and morality in such fashion
that they are never strictly polar, but extends my thinking towards a
culmination-point which is the fruit of both a correct premise and an ability
to transvaluate certain presumptions concerning God
and man which turns things around and enables one to make sense out of the
historical struggles leading, as it were, from the 'Garden of Eden' to the
world and from the world, hopefully, to 'Kingdom Come', as reinterpreted from a
standpoint firmly centred in an ultimate transvaluation,
the product of all previous revaluations.
27. THE
CLASSLESS SOLUTION: As it follows on from the above, this text is bound to
restate many of the philosophical positions and contentions already taken, but
it does so with even greater certitude and a more exactingly comprehensive
assessment of the various components of the total picture which leaves
one in no doubt that something philosophically definitive has been achieved,
and that any further revaluations or transvaluations
are only likely to happen in relation to that which is already broadly or
essentially true, not contrary to it.
Yet even then that would not be entirely the case, for this text still
manages to refine on and even to modify certain of the contentions or positions
taken above, not least in respect of the evaluation of class on a more axially
specific basis which helps, I believe, to clarify the distinctions between noumenal and phenomenal, noble and plebeian, in such
fashion that one could never again accept anything less comprehensively
exacting for gospel or fail to understand just how different the two axial positions
really are.... As in the case, for example, of their contrary social and moral
fates, not least in respect of salvation and damnation, and who or what is
saved or damned, counter-damned or counter-saved, and how that should be
morally or socially interpreted. But I
would be understating the achievements of this text if, quite apart from its
contribution to our understanding of literature from a more axially
comprehensive point of view, I were to ignore the original contribution it
makes to an understanding of how civilization progresses or regresses on both
positive and negative terms in an alternation, stemming from primal action,
between reaction and attraction which takes it through successive stages of
devolutionary or evolutionary development on both a liberal and a totalitarian
basis towards the possibility of a culmination which, antithetical to how it
began, will signify a sort of omega freedom that contrasts with the alpha
freedom as the most positive psychic reaction with the most positive somatic
action, having passed through several intermediate phases of reaction and
attraction in soma and psyche which both confirm and advance a dualistic
alternation between pluralistic and monistic systems.
28. THE
DIALECTICS OF SYNTHETIC ATTRACTION: As suggested by the title, this work
carries on my investigation of the dialectical process in terms of successive
stages of civilization from alpha to omega, and does so in considerably more
detail than THE CLASSLESS SOLUTION, not only correcting but expanding certain
of the theories put forward at the tail-end of the above-mentioned work, with a
consequence that what was virtually embryonic there has come to something
approaching full maturity here, even down to the way in which the outcome of
the historical process is envisaged. For
this work leaves nothing, so far as that is concerned, to be desired, and I can
confidently say that I have achieved here the summation of my life's work,
bringing to a very confident conclusion matters that were first broached
several years, if not decades, ago, but with nothing of the logical clarity and
sophistication which has since ensued.
It is even good to be reminded that one's texts are thematically
cyclical in character, spiralling up towards an ever-more comprehensively
exacting summit which brings to a centro-complexifying
head things that, in the very nature of such matters, it was only
possible to introduce in more general terms earlier on or, rather, lower down
the work's inner structure. In that
respect, what I have achieved here with regard to the interaction and interrelativity of psychological and physiological factors
on either a female or a male basis, depending on the elemental context,
surpasses, by far, whatever had been achieved before, and not only, I wager, by
myself. For this final working out of
such psychological/physiological dualities puts everything in perspective, and
it only remains for those who are capable of reading and appreciating my work -
doubtless a tiny minority - to confirm me in the correctness of my vision and
the accuracy of my truth, a truth which should endure for ever.
29. THE
DIALECTICS OF CIVILIZATION: This work proves like no other that the use of
certain colloquial expressions can, if revaluated on a sufficiently
comprehensive basis, with one or two original additions thrown-in for good
measure, lead to startling insights which enable one to deepen and/or broaden
one's philosophy in such fashion that it ends-up doing greater justice to the
truth (in both specific and comparative terms) than had been the case
hitherto. Thus with THE DIALECTICS OF
CIVILIZATION I have carried what was achieved in the preceding text to a new
and, I would suppose, altogether more definitively comprehensive level, a level
which plots the development of civilization, in the broadest sense, from its
alpha-most inception to its projected omega-most consummation, and does so with
respect to both linear and axial perspectives which combine to permit of yet
another fresh perspective which takes my theorizing to an all-time peak of
dialectical insight, a worthy culmination to my philosophical quest! For in this text I have achieved a well-nigh
definitive insight into the distinctions between Space and Time which should
leave one in no doubt as to the path that leads to Eternity and thus to a
definitive resolution of life, the culmination not only of all civilization
but, in a deeper sense, of that which transcends civilization in truly
post-historical terms.
30. THE
DIALECTICS OF GENDER AND CLASS: As the logical successor to the above, this
text delves more profoundly into the distinctions between 'historical' and
'post-historical' civilizations, not least in respect of the shift from a
genuine phenomenal and pseudo-noumenal status in the
one to a pseudo-phenomenal and genuine noumenal
status in the other proportionate to the degree of post-historicity actually
obtaining. With that in mind, we also
find, in this work, a more definite sense of the relationships between gender
and class, as well as the extent to which the seemingly complementary
co-existence of the genders on a given class basis requires a hegemonic/subordinate
dichotomy between them which, however it pans out, enables such a co-existence
to prevail in the first place, quite apart from the modification of relations
which results from the interactivity of antithetically complementary classes when
once axial polarities have been established, with their gender paradoxes, as
also described in one or two previous texts but with less methodical exactitude
than here and certainly less overall certainty as to the specific class status
of a given elemental position, be it phenomenal or noumenal. For the linking of class with element and/or
of anti-element with anticlass is now brought to a
conclusive resolution which reaffirms the standing of gender in relation to
each, making the relationship between gender and class complementary to an
elemental persuasion, whether in sensuality or sensibility, that is the basis
from which all gender and class distinctions spring. Yet my philosophy would not be true to its
genius if it did not also, and categorically, affirm an ideological bias in
respect of a specific elemental and anti-elemental persuasion, thereby bringing
to the plethora of options and findings a destiny which, for the seeker after
ultimate truth, should leave him in no doubt as to the correct solution to the
problem of choice and reality of options - a solution which can have only one
outcome, and that of divine devising.
31. YANG AND
ANTI-YIN: After a brief flirtation with numerology and a kind of oblique
debunking of the esoteric or occult significance of triple-digit figures, this
text quickly sets about its main task, which was to explore in more detail the
dialectics of Yang and Anti-Yin, as already intimated at in previous texts, and
bring to a conclusion matters which, in respect of noumenal
sensibility, had been pending a more definitive resolution such that, as often
in my work, could not but spill over into a more general resolution of other
factors which had still not reached that definitive comprehensiveness such has
been my goal all along and which, once reached, would confirm and enhance the
truth of what most specifically pertains to the Truth as an exemplification of godly resolve. But for every advance in the development and,
ultimately, achievement of such a definitive working-out of all the parts in
all the right places, there must come a corresponding advance to one's
commitment of what most constitutes Truth and a willingness to illustrate or
exemplify it in terms of an appropriate textural presentation, one that cannot
be merely phenomenal and 'human all too human', but must first acknowledge and
then scale and finally conquer the heights of a presentation of Truth that is
incontestably godly and thus the only apt vehicle for what would traditionally
have been called 'the Word of God' but which I, fearing worshipful devotion,
shall simply call 'godly word' and leave for others to approach according to
their abilities or capacities for the noumenally
sensible heights, whether on a metaphysical or, indeed, an antimetachemical
basis, as explained, together with so much more, in this definitive
presentation of my philosophy which summarizes and brings to a conclusive
resolution what in previous texts had still been in a formative stage of
logical development and by no means as categorical a statement of Truth,
together with what is less than and contrary to Truth, as is to be found on the
pages of Yang and Anti-Yin, the End and Anti-Beginning of all philosophizing.
32. LAMB AND ANTI-LION:
Taking its thematic structure from the previous text, this work delves deeper
into noumenal sensibility and its full gender and
ideological implications, taking the biblical metaphors of ‘lamb’ and ‘lion’ to
their ultimate conclusions in what becomes an exact parallel to the ‘yang’ and
‘anti-yin’ of our metaphysical and antimetachemical
elemental positions. But these elements
are also investigated in greater detail, and provide ample scope for the
enhancement or clarification of certain terms, including those with other
elemental affinities than that with which we are chiefly concerned here. Thus a broadening out from the central and
core position of my philosophy is once again to the fore, and other positions
are accordingly revaluated and modified in the light of my principal
contentions. Also modified, in this
respect, are theories concerning life-after-death, which are now shown in a new
light, not least in relation to my philosophy of history and the subdivisions
which accrue to each of the three principal stages of civilization. I think this is one of the factors which, in
this text, has made it possible for me to be tougher on the Catholic Church
than ever before and to demonstrate, logically and rationally, that the destiny
of globalization can only be independent of both Western and Eastern
traditions, since the full-flowering of noumenal
sensibility is beyond the scope of any tradition rooted in its noumenal antithesis, no matter how obliquely.
33. CELESTIAL
CITY AND ANTI-VANITY FAIR: Like its two textural predecessors, this text takes
what I had been building towards in the previous works to its ultimate logical
conclusion and establishes, categorically and without equivocation, a
definitive presentation of my work such that reaffirms the gender distinctions
that exist at all points of what I am rather metaphorically wont to call our
‘axial compass’, and underlines the importance of taking such distinctions to
their logical conclusions in the interests of philosophical certitude and, where
noumenal sensibility is concerned, enhanced
credibility in respect of godly truth.
For anything short of this logical distinction between the various
gender positions, not least in relation to metaphysics and antimetachemistry,
will betray Truth and render it difficult if not impossible to realize. I hope others will agree with me when they
come to read this text that it is the crowning achievement of my philosophy and
the product of one who is in no doubt as to what Truth is and of just how
difficult it will be, even with the best of ideological wills, to grant it its
proper place in the edifice of religious progress and, what’s more, keep it
there at the expense of everything else, not least that which appertains, in
one way or another, to beauty. Difficult,
yes, but not impossible! For this is the
summation of reason, which is mind utilized in the interests of a beingfulness so supreme as to be heavenly and nothing short
of the resolution of godly intent.
34. JESUS
– A SUMMING UP! (of supreme theosophical genius): As suggested by the title,
this is my final text and one that brings my philosophizing-cum-theosophizing, if not philologizing-cum-theologizing,
to a cumulative head as I restate some of the conclusive Social Theocratic
theories of my previous work and modify, expand, and refine upon various of the
more characteristic theories of the recent past. Also, not altogether usual for me, I have
allowed these theories to be invaded by a degree of autobiography which I
needed to get out of my system and which, in any case, provided a springboard,
as it were, to an enhanced approach to my more regular approach to writing and
thinking. As also noted in this text, much of the writing is more blog-like than has usually been the case, and that
doubtless owes something to the fact that I now blog
on the Internet and regard blogging as the electronic
successor to my e-books or, rather, e-scrolls, since I prefer HTML files to,
say, Adobe files if only because there is a scroll-like continuity involved
which takes text to an altogether different place on the axial compass, so to
speak, from where it would otherwise be, and one, I am sure, which does more
justice to universality in relation to global civilization than must any
electronic extrapolation from books which, to my mind, are simply more Western
in character. However that may be, blogging is gradually taking over from book and/or scroll
writing in my literary predilections, and therefore it is fitting if my
conclusive text happens to be more blog-like than
book-like. Also, now that I have so many
websites, I find it laborious to the point of exasperating to add a new short
text to each directory, especially since this requires an updating if not
replacement of any lists and synopses which may already be there in order to
incorporate the new work. Frankly, even
my synopses are now something of a major work in their own right! But, that said, I am first and foremost a
writer of literary texts and have progressed, over the years, from philology to
theology and philosophy to theosophy, sacrificing knowledge to truth and
pleasure to joy. My work is its own
vindication, and anyone with enough intelligence who reads it will sooner or
later come to the conclusion that it both adds up and provides a basis or blueprint
for what has been colloquially described as ‘Kingdom Come’, a radically
progressive alternative to either regressive or sensually-based structures of
society that should lead, among other things, to the salvation of the world, as
defined in this and other texts, and to eternal peace (for males) in the
transcendent Beyond which it has been the privilege of this self-styled theologist (I have purposely avoided the more conventional
term) and theosophist to delineate for the benefit of those who come after me
and may well inherit, if all goes according to plan, the ‘Kingdom of God’ in
question, such a ‘Kingdom’ being of course anything but a kingdom in the usual
sense but, in actuality, the theocratic antithesis, in subjective truth, to
anything autocratic and factually objective.
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John O'Loughlin