Beginning with doubts about a certain numeral too often used in religious connections, this title progresses through a development of the author's own religious theories and numerals towards a conclusion which, whilst not entirely removed from the magical number cited at the beginning, endorses a rather larger figure when once the numbers attaching to his divisions and subdivisions of each axis - descending and ascending, female and male - have been multiplied by four in relation to what has been regarded as the principal stages of both death and life as applying to Element-conditioned environmental norms, from the cosmos and nature to mankind and cyborgkind, the latter of which is, according to John O'Loughlin, already here, if rather more so on sensual than on sensible terms at present. Nevertheless this title is about a lot more than numbers, however significant or insignificant one chooses to regard them, being an extension of and refinement upon John O'Loughlin's recent axial theorizing in a variety of previous books which, frankly, leaves little or nothing to be desired - at least not in terms of the way and extent to which everything conclusively adds-up in what seems like a definitive comprehensiveness that takes his philosophy-cum-theosophy to an all-time peak, and establishes, if not proves once and for all, his pre-eminence as arguably the foremost metaphysical thinker not only of this age but of virtually any age, a self-taught thinker whose corporeal existence remains bound to his time even as his largely ethereal thoughts range freely over the entire compass of devolutionary and evolutionary actuality or possibility, from the alpha-most point of Devil the Mother/Hell the Clear Spirit in metachemical free soma to the omega-most point of God the Father/Heaven the Holy Soul in metaphysical free psyche.