FROM PUNISHMENT TO GRACE is in many respects the sequel to 'From Satan to Saturn' (1994), since it follows a similarly cyclical approach to text, with numbered aphorisms that spiral, through several cycles, towards a philosophical summit which is both an end and the portent of a fresh beginning. Suffice it to say that the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism is given a further boost with this project, whose subject-matter, though wide-ranging, always relates, in one way or another, to the ideology in question, which is conceived as being preponderantly religious in its quest for self-transcendence.
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By John O'Loughlin
Nov 5, 2010
"FROM PUNISHMENT TO GRACE" This 1994 project, comprised of cyclically aphoristic philosophy which, more accurately, could be simply described as a theosophical project, was intended by the author to signify a kind of alpha-to-omega 'progression'; though punishment, in truth, is anything but alpha but nearer, if the truth be known, to an anti-alpha position. Nonetheless truth comes 'dripping slow', takes many years to elaborate and finally nail both in relation to itself and the relative or comparative positions of everything else. This is not a definitive statement of John O'Loughlin's philosophy, but an important rung on the ladder of its evolution and gradual ascent towards something more definitive. Therefore it should be respected for itself, irrespective of its overall - as things turned out - shortcomings.
