Akin in structure to 'From Satan to Saturn', its immediate predecessor, this second 1994 text is nonetheless arguably more cyclically methodical and aphoristically consistent, as it develops its curvilinear style through some seventy-two cycles comprised of varying numbers of aphorisms, which continue the author's quest for philosophical - or, more accurately in relation to their metaphysical scope, theosophical - perfection along both old and new channels of speculative investigation.