With some twenty-eight cycles of numbered aphorisms, MAGNUS DEI is something of a magnus opus, even if still at quite some rung-like distance from the top rung of John O'Loughlin's ladder-like literary oeuvre. Nevertheless, with a number of elementally-conditioned quadruplicities and gender-conditioned dichotomies that open up new vistas of insight and logical certitude, this work brings the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism a significant stage closer to its definitive realization, as we analyze the various quadruplicities in relation to the fundamental gender dichotomy which divides objectivity from subjectivity and soma from psyche or, in common parlance, body from mind, and draw appropriate conclusions.
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By John O'Loughlin
Sep 5, 2011
"MAGNUS DEI" With a title like that, one would expect this project to be something of a major work in John O'Loughlin's ongoing oeuvre of chronological opuses, and so, in effect, it is, with a confident approach to the analysis of a variety of significant contexts, including religion and politics, based upon an element-conditioned quadruplicity of options which opens out into a comprehensive vista or framework such that few philosophies even approach, never mind attain to. One can only marvel at this comprehensiveness and continue to follow its progress through successive works.
