FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD

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FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

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This collection of short prose, written on and off during the winter of 1980-81, starts in a relatively literary fashion with the account of a clandestine visit of a masseuse to a priest who can no longer cope with his celibacy, and ends in a profoundly futuristic manner with an account of evolutionary progress towards a definitive Beyond, as envisaged by a radical philosopher, who regards his thinking as being beyond, though not necessarily above, everybody else. In between, there comes a fairly balanced alternation between fictional and philosophical subjects ... as we follow the voyeuristic pleasures and musings of a man covertly watching his wife getting dressed from the comfort of his early-morning bed; explore the evolutionary revelations of a de Chardinesque gnostic in the face of atheistic unbelief; witness the existentialist horror of a Mondrianesque ascetic, whose rural daytrip out of London with some friends proves to be more unsettling than he had first bargained for; and go beyond conventional concepts of the Millennium, as of Millennialism, with a revolutionary thinker who believes that only when, in general terms, human brains become artificially supported and sustained to a transcendent end will there be any prospect of heavenly salvation of a definitive order! – John O’Loughlin.

CONTENTS

THE TURNING POINT

CAUGHT UNAWARES

FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD

AN UNEXPECTED CRISIS

TO THE MILLENNIUM AND BEYOND

PERFECTION OUR GOAL

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FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD

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JOHN OLOUGHLIN's STOREFRONT

Other prose websites by the author include:-

A VISIT TO HELL

FALSE PRETENCES

POST-ATOMIC INTEGRITIES

TEXT LINKS

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John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and Deceptive Motives (1981). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.