As suggested by the title (which was evidently influenced by Arthur Koestler's 'Janus - A Summing Up'), this is a book that brings John O'Loughlin's philosophizing-cum-theosophizing, if not philologizing-cum-theologizing, to a kind of cumulative head, as he restates some of the conclusive Social Theocratic theories of his previous books and modifies, expands, and refines upon various of his more characteristic theories. Also, and not altogether usual for him, he has allowed these theories to be complemented by a degree of autobiography which he apparently needed to get out of his system and which, in any case, provides a springboard, as it were, to his regular approach to writing and thinking which, as the reader may already know, can be - and in this case certainly is - intensely metaphysical