If anything seems like a definitive text it is this one, although it is by no means the last of John O'Loughlin's volumes of aphoristic philosophy. Nonetheless it lives up to its name in that it takes 'the word' to new levels of godly or metaphysical insight which only this author, it seems, can achieve and even, in subsequent works, surpasss. What emerges here, in 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', is a sense of freedom which owes more to theocracy than to democracy but, being Social Theocratic, could not have materialized or, indeed, materialize in the future without the assistance of democracy, which is regarded as a springboard to this ultimate sense of freedom centred not in soma but in psyche.