This 1996 project, the title of which, viz. 'Book of Beliefs', arguably owes something to Henry Miller's 'Book of Friends' in its informal structure and the subtitle of which, viz. 'The Omegala', is an oblique tribute to anything omega-orientated, is more informally cyclic than 'Eternal Life' (1995), its immediate precursor in John O'Loughlin's aphoristic canon, but remains, nonetheless, one of the most comprehensively exacting and demanding of all his philosophical works, and also, in the long run, one of the most thematically rewarding.