It must be said, in relation to the title of this book, that if we are to accept a Last Judgement, we are obliged to acknowledge a First Judgement; for no less than God the Father logically obliges us to come to terms with the contrary existence of Devil the Mother, so Judgement, conceived in this fashion, compels us to distinguish between alpha and omega, metachemistry and metaphysics, in terms of antimetaphysical and antimetachemical, not to mention, where chemistry and physics are concerned, antiphysical and antichemical alternatives which have applicability to our own age and civilization in a way that leaves no doubt as to the significance of gender in bringing such contrary concepts to pass. For here as elsewhere nothing can be understood without reference to the axial divergence which follows from the hegemony of one of the two genders at the opposite gender's expense, making for a sharp distinction between alpha and omega, the first and the last, whether in respect of Judgement or, indeed, of anything else.