Frankly, John O'Loughlin had no idea, when he tentatively began this title, that it would blossom into what is unquestionably the most eloquent and comprehensively exacting presentation of his philosophy so far, a presentation that has the right to be called revelationary 'revelatory' would be technically more correct but less apposite in this context - editor's note.], in that much of what it reveals is so compellingly cogent as to be positively divine, the divine revelations of a thinker who knows the difference between God and the Devil, but does not make the reductionist mistake of conceiving of history, much less life, as a struggle between Good and Evil, when all the philosophical evidence points to the conclusion that good is merely the relative counterpart of Evil and no more than a just retort to something which is not merely antithetical, in its vainglorious pursuit of power, to anything godly, but the principal obstacle to the salvation of the sinful to that which, gracefully transcending the world, is as far removed from an engagement in any such struggle as it's possible to imagine. Yet it is not, on that account, indifferent to the plight of the meek.