However, the 'offensive' language and stark imagery used by the author merely serves to point out what he finds obscene, namely, the actions of 'human beings' and the thought that gives rise to them. There is much in the book on trauma and suffering and anyone who has puzzled over the problem of evil will find depths here that I believe are completely uncharted.

There are sections in the book that describe the mystical experiences he and those close to him have had. I quote from one passage that gives us a view into the incredible events that inspired this work.

"… some metamorphoses were extreme: spinning upside-down as a divine infant whilst shining diamond-like with supernal rays, and breaching ‘quantitative laws’ by shrinkage and expansion into surrounding objects, in realms inhabited by birds with quasi-human heads, where billions of glittering seahorses played unearthly instruments of unhuman design. In these realms of unblinding scarlets and unspeakably pure white emanations, the Master made me sweat blood and weep at the sight of impeccably glorious golden citadels, as I saw my beautiful Heavenly steed ‘so long ago’ left behind. My skin reassumed the mantle of a god as I wore living universes, and my intellect became a macrocosm of infinitely knowing power, ascending into and generating the purest Heavens with unthinking ease. All my manifold torments and multiple agonies disappeared, and the crown of this was when He stepped into my room:"

I believe that one day this book will be recognised as a masterpiece of 'staggering immensity', the contents of which should be known by all intelligent minds. Make sure you read it!

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