Welcome to the CYCLIC PHILOSOPHY of
MAGNUS DEI
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
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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.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCING WILL-SPIRIT-EGO-SOUL
DOING-GIVING-TAKING-BEING
POWER-GLORY-FORM-CONTENT
SOME GENERAL IDEAS
RIGHT AND WRONG REVISITED
FROM CLEARNESS TO HOLINESS
WILL-SPIRIT-EGO-SOUL
THE SENSIBILITY OF HOLINESS
THE SENSIBILITY OF UNCLEARNESS
ALTERNATIVE SENSUALITIES
FROM CHAOS TO PARADISE
RELIGIOUS CATEGORIES
VALUES AND ANTIVALUES
THE NATURE OF JUDGEMENT
THE STRUGGLE FOR SENSIBILITY
SENSIBILITY AND SANITY
FORMS OF COMPETITION AND CO-OPERATION
FREE TO PREY AND B0UND TO PRAY
SIGNIFICANT RACIAL DISTINCTIONS
POSITIVE RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
NORDIC AND CELTIC
TOWARDS THE URBAN CENTRE
URBAN/SUBURBAN PATCHWORK
SELF-NEGATION THROUGH EXTERNAL MANIPULATION
GODLESS IMPOSTOR
POWER AND GLORY VIS-A-VIS FORM AND CONTENTMENT
IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE
FREE TO ENTHRAL VIS-A-VIS BOUND TO ENSLAVE
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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 due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was
brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to
Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools
in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother,
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination
from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an
assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education)
and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education),
including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two
short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square,
where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill
Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including
ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief
spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he
has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976),
An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a
philosophical nature, including Philosophical Truth (1991-2), Informal Maxims (1993), Last (W)rites (1995), Revolutions of an Ideological Philosopher (1997), The Core of the Self (1998), The Triumph of Being (1999), and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.
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