UNIVERSITATEA PETRU MAIOR DIN TRGU-MURE FACULTATEA DE TIINE I LITERE

LUCRARE DE DISERTAIE

The Self between the Bible, Theosophies and New Age

Conductor tiinific: Lector univ. dr. Andrea Peterlicean Absolvent: Nechita Robert 2013

UNIVERSITATEA PETRU MAIOR, DIN TRGU-MURE FACULTATEA DE TIINE I LITERE Masterat, Zi Studii Anglo-Americane din Perspectiv Cultural

Lucrare de Disertaie

The Self between the Bible, Theosophies and New Age

Conductor tiinific: Lector univ. dr. Andrea Peterliceanu Absolvent: Nechita Robert 2013

UNIVERSITATEA PETRU MAIOR TG.MURE FACULTATEA DE TIINE I LITERE Specializarea : Studii Anglo-Americane din Perspectiv Cultural
Conductorul tiinific : Lector univ. dr. ANDREA PETERLICEAN

LUCRARE DE DISERTAIE Candidat (a): Nechita Robert Anul absolvirii : 2013

Viza facultii

) Tema lucrrii de disertaie:

The Self between the Bible, Theosophies and New Age

) Problemele principale tratate :

Language Origin and Historical Evolution Biblical view vs. Evolutionism Concepts of Language

Self The Origin of the Self English Literature and the Self Mind Issues and Self Perspectives

The meaning of life Mass-Media vs. Economic-Political-Financial Issues Music-Lyrics and the Young Generation's Life Values Cinematography, Science and Reality vs. the Bible

) Bibliografia selectiv: Albert Camus (1955), Sisyphus Myth and other essays. Published by Random House, New York. Charles Darwin (2007), The Descent of Man, Cossimo Classics, London. Englefield, F.R.H. (1996), Language: Its Origin and Its Relation to Thought, Macmillian, New York. H. P. Blavatsky (1888), The Secret Doctrine, The Theosophical Publishing Company, New York. Lieberman, P. (2001), Eve Spoke, Human Language and Human Evolution, W.W. Norton, New York.

Manlly P. Hall (2007), Secret Teachings of All Ages, Wilder Publication, Ratfford. Marilyn Ferguson (1980), Aquarius Conspiracy. Weister Books, Boston. OConnell, Mark and Raje Airey, (2006) The Complete Encyclopedia of Signs & Symbols: Identification and Analysis of the Visual Vocabulary That Formulates Our Thoughts and Dictates Our Reactions to the World Around Us, Hermes House.

Rodney St. Michael (2002), Healing and Developing the Mind, Writers Club Press, New York Lincoln Shanghai.

Roy F. Baumeister (1991), Meanings of life, The Guilford Press, New York.

The King James Study Bible (1988), Thomas Nelson Publishers House, Nashville. The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs (1995), Rosalind Fergusson, Market House Books LTD. London.

Victor Frankl (1980), Men's search for meaning, Random House, New York. Webster Griffin Tarpley (2009), 9/11 Synthetic Terrorism Made in USA, Progressive Press, California.

) Termene obligatorii de consultaii:

12 Iunie 2012; 5 Noiembrie 2012; 14 Ianuarie 2013; 25 Februarie 2013; 11 Martie 2013; 6 Mai 2013; 14 Mai 2013; 17 Iunie 2013; 2 Iulie 2013.
) Locul i durata practicii :

Biblioteca Universitii Petru Maior, Trgu-Mure Biblioteca de Limba Englez, Resource Room, a Universitii Petru Maior Biblioteca Judeean, Trgu-Mure
Primit tema la data de : Iunie 2012 Termen de predare : Iulie 2013 Semntura efului de catedr Semntura candidatului Semntura conductorului Lector univ.dr. Andrea Peterliceanu

Table of Contents
UNIVERSITATEA PETRU MAIOR TG. MURE FACULTATEA DE TIINE I LITERE LUCRARE DE

DISERTAIE.................................................................................................................3 candidat: Nechita Robert......................3 Anul

Specializarea : Studii Anglo-Americane din Perspectiv Inter-Cultural

absolvirii : 2013..............................................................................................................3 Table of Contents............................................................................................................6 Introduction....................................................................................................................8 CHAPTER I..................................................................................................................10 THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: THE BIBLE AND THEOSOPHIES...........................................................................................................10 1.1. The Origin of Language as presented in the Bible .......................................10 1.2. The Origin of Language: The Theosophical View................................................13 1.3. The Origin of Language: Main Interpretations Groups.........................................16 1.4. The Origin of Language and God.........................................................................18 CHAPTER II................................................................................................................20 THE SELF BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE ENGLISH LITERATURE OVER THE AGES...................................................................................................................20 2.1. The Self in Legends, Ancient Stories and Myths..................................................20 2.2.1. The Self in English Literature and Hidden Theosophical Teachings.................22 2.2.2. The Self in English Literature: Symbols and Ciphered Codes in Writings ......................................................................................................................25 2.2.3. The Self in English literature and the Biblical Theme of 'Man's Fall'...............................................................................................................................26 2.2.4. The Self in English Literature and Esoteric Teachings......................................29 2.2.5. The Self in English Literature and Private Club Societies.................................32 2.2.6. The Self in English Literature: Occult Themes..................................................33
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2.2.7. The Self in English Literature: Mind-Issues Themes.........................................33 2.2.8. The Self in English Literature: Themes about Mob Destiny..............................35 2.2.9. The Self in English Literature: Absurd-Plays Genre..........................................40 2.2.10. The Self in English Literature: Religious Issues..............................................42 2.3. The Self in the Bible and its Ancient Teachings....................................................45 CHAPTER III...............................................................................................................55 THE MEANING OF LIFE IN THE BIBLE AND NEW AGE....................................55 3.1 Life Meanings: Definitions along the Time ..........................................................55 3.2 The Meaning of Life and the New Age Culture....................................................56 3.3 The Meaning of Life and the Mass-Media Culture................................................58 3.4 The Meaning of Life and the Conspiracy Theories................................................60 3.5. The Meaning of Life and the Message of the Bible .............................................64 CONCLUSION............................................................................................................69 REFERENCES.............................................................................................................71

Introduction

Today, society faces the strangest evolution ever recorded in history whether that is connected to language, self or the meaning of life. The first chapter of this dissertation studies language origin theories. The dilemma is divided into two main groups: one of evolution followers and the second of the Bible believers. Human language was considered from ancient times to have been descended from the gods. However, today the most evolved human society of all times is considered to be unable to give reasonable arguments or prove to be accepted by the majority, but provides mere presuppositions. On the other hand, the only way to accept the true origin of the language is to accept its Creator, a way which implies faith and belief, which is from God Almighty who established the Heaven and Earth. Therefore, the controversy could not have arrived at its bottom because it is considered by the very evolutionist group to be an unexpectedly subtle issue, as it can be understood even by a toddler but cannot be explained by the adults. Thus, evolutionists develop many complex systems of experiences and propose polished arguments. They recognize that all their constructions are false if they do not respect the main principle, which is namely that everything develops from the simple to complex, even when it seems that the language may be an exception. If language has arrived at a completely multilevel and complex system, today evolution proves an oversimplication or an unexpected reduction that was expected by scholars to be otherwise. The second chapter resumes the study of the issue of language at another level: language works as a tool used to develop a certain human self. Literature can contain

veiled messages that the receptors many times are unaware of - the external appearance of the book. Thus, from the time that humanity was bestowed with language, Satan was not content with the deception he performed in the Garden of Eden on humankind, but he continued to pervert the relation of Man with his creator by any means. Thus, he invented a strange philosophy from the teachings given by God in the garden to man, named some ages later - theosophy. This odd spirituality aims to alienate the human self from its Creator and is abundantly exemplified by English literature titles from all the cultural periods. Here are mentioned titles from the ancient Beowulf ballad, Arthurian legends, Elizabethan Age, Restoration Age, Romanticism, Victorian Drama, and Postmodernism to the 20th century literature with its various genres. The third chapter records the New Age spirituality proposed throughout all channels of Mass Media using as the main tool of manipulation - language. The meaning of life is decided not only by spiritualized pop culture but also by political ideologies and economic reforms advertised to the masses. The questions raised as a conclusion are: in all this New Age culture what is useful and hurtful, what is the truth and the lies, who wins and who loses in this life?

CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: THE BIBLE AND THE THEOSOPHIES

O brave new world That has such people int! William Shakespeare, The Tempest (V, I)

1.1. The Origin of Language as presented in the Bible The history of human words and human language was lost in the past. There is no evidence of how the sounds of speech came into being for the first time but many ancient or mythical stories recorded such a notable event. Since the 18 th century, philologists and men of science have tried to explain the phenomenon, but they only increased further the blur that already spread over such controversial issues. There are some sources considered to contain the elements of the first language used and the words first uttered. Of course, the unusual interpretations that have been offered until now are not generally accepted but they contain strong references to the mentioned issue. In this first section, the first thread in our approach to be studied is the Bible. In the Book of Genesis a very odd story relates languages have been multiplied and spread into a constellation similar to what we know today. Thus, what does not satisfy everyone within this story is that the ramifications of languages are shown but not the source. The story introduces only that the knowledge was received upon man's creation (Gen. 1:28)1. Deceived by Satan, man rebelled against his own Creator. The Angel of Light led man astray many times in the past. He became known later as Lucifer, an angel of
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darkness and sin, after being cast away from the vicinity of Gods throne for falling into arrogance and self-pride. This time human beings started to build a tower to defy the Supreme Divinity. For such boldness human kind is again punished by God, but this time with confusion not with complete destruction as had been in the stories of The flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the like. The disorder sent is an inner social affection and not societys total condemnation as previously. The story indicates that in the period when the construction of Babels tower began there was one language spoken only and one body of people: And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do (Gen 11:6). This Bibles chapter also geographically locates the origin of these people, and where they were displaced. What we can see here also is that this first language was about people that journeyed from the east. Even the words symbolically record the matter of facts; thus Babel has the meaning in the Hebrew language, a descendent of the Aramaic language, confusion= or mixing2. An interlinear Hebrew-English Bible gives the following translation mix (someone) up= ( ( : Come, let Us go down and mix up (confuse) there their language so that they cannot understand one anothers speech. (Gen. 11:7).3 Also, the first Bible passage mentioned above records a very significant key word, specifically imagined. It sends us to the initial seduction of man by the serpent from the Garden of Eden and the first disobedience of men vis--vis his creator, the Almighty God, creator of Heaven and Earth. Because the writers of Scripture by the Spirit of God wrote the divine Word of God, transcribed accurately, reliably, and without error in the original manuscripts (2 Tim 3:16), we will consider that all stories from the Bible are true, some happened
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and some are waiting to be fulfilled. Further, The Tower of Babel chapter is preceded by the first encounter with the greatest enemy of man, Satan in the Garden of Eden. If the construction project of the tower was to exalt the devil above the clouds, which is the footstool of the Highest, this deceiver, has used an imagination-decoy already in The fall of man. All very well know the deception that occurred in the Garden of Eden, but what should be figured out was what actually happened there. First, we know very well that men were happy and complete in the garden of God. They had all respected the word of God, in fact the commandments of God and the first language that men spoke. Here, Satan does not just attack the primordial beliefs of men. However, he succeeded later to subvert, as we have seen, man's language too. In those times, human beings were entirely in the hand of God. Analogically all that pertained to men was of God, in Him and with Him. The only thing that was in the power of humans, as a created being was his free will which in this phase his self and sense of life was with God and with God until perverted by Gods rival, the Satan. Following this line, the biblical story relates that one day the serpent, the being that had the power to be where he wanted when he wanted, with the exception of God's throne, from where he was rejected once becoming addicted to self-pride, deceived men provoking them to disobey their Creator, the God Almighty. But how could Satan tempt the unsullied and happy men to abandon the guidance of God and to follow his teachings? First, this great deceiver saw that mans companion, woman was more approachable. Satan knew that God first created man and that man's reasoning abilities were higher than his affection capabilities. Nevertheless, sentiments and the affects were compensated in his companion, the woman, who was in fact endowed too generously with these. The shortage of mental abstract analyses, made woman to be inclined more to concrete features, in which man
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had the preeminence. Satan thus challenged the weak point of this couple which was built perfectly, they shall be one flesh (Gen 2:24), but imperfect in the two halves individually. One day humanitys Liar asked the woman if she did not want to enhance her knowledge, to be more than what she was built for, to be like her Creator. That day Satan's deceiving scheme was, in fact, the doctrine that in time will be named theosophy. The core knowledge of this philosophy is the suggestion that man will become a god: ye shall be like as gods (Gen. 3:5). Thus, the woman was persuaded by her imagination, an error that led her into the trap of her greatest enemy. She also dragged her companion into the curse of sin, because disobeying God's words, she gave heed to the words of Gods opponent, provoking the fall of humanity.

1.2. The Origin of Language: The Theosophical View Today and the future of all humanitys destiny will be a battle between whose advices we will take into consideration, whose philosophy would be more agreeable to our needs, a thin choice between life and death, between the traps of our own languages, terminology, notions, or definitions, as the past has shown us too often. From this section starts the second category of the arguments regarding the languages history and its origin. Once that Satan could cause the fall of human beings, he could also provoke uncertainty in the mind of doubters using his ultimate tools, science, technology, and false philosophies about the most important questions that man wants to know: his origin, what he is, why he is here and where he is going after his death. After this first stroke given to the human beings integrity to estrange them from their true God, Satan never ceased to devise theories, ideologies, doctrines, and nowadays super-technologies to obliterate mans origin, estrange him from his true Lord and his true purpose.
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Whatever we said about the Big Bang, or the origins of the universe, or of the cosmic constellations regarding the formation of galaxies with all the suns and heavenly bodies, with all the planets, whatever we talked about geology, cosmic dust, evolution of the first life forms in the Universe, all these are just insignificant questions which deviate the attention from the truth, from the proper reference, from God, the creator of all things. In this context, human appearance too, and human evolution represent a gap in the animal kingdom from all points of view, no matter how we talk about his physiology, his biological or psychological features, visible and invisible characteristics. Man is a paradox between the mammals and his so-called ascendency. For instance, if we talk about human abilities, intelligence, adaptability, or mans endowments for communication, all the studies have arrived at more than dazzling conclusions from researchers, scholars and scientists, who wanted to find imperfections or to oversimplify something that seemed remarkably rudimentary, but unfolded to become more complex. Man's language, for instance, has the same effects on those that tried to find physiological or mental explanations of the speaking apparatus. Darwinism and human evolution theory launch the same intermission in the sphere of man's emergence. In his book The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin's human intellect development theory posed some difficulties even if the origin of the moral language is seen as being due to the emergence of advanced moral sensibility. However, this theory also has its own pitfalls because Darwins empirical approach to mentality necessitated a materialist description of language development. For this, Darwin relied on the intellectual authority of the contemporary theorists in linguistic science, like that of Hensleigh Wedgwood and philologist Frederic W. Farrar:

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There is no more improbability in the continued use of the mental and vocal organs leading to inherited changes in their structure and functions, than in the case of the hand-writing, which depends partly on the form of the hand and partly on the disposition of the mind; and handwriting is certainly inherited. 4 If someone by chance never in his life encountered the evolution theory pointed out by Darwin like a red line in his entire opera, he would be shocked by the insistence with which this man of science hammered the coin of the human being emerging from the animal kingdom: This faculty (language) has justly been considered as one of the chief distinctions between man and lower animals. 5 The opposite theory is found in the Book of Genesis where the Bible believers are taught that man is made in the image of God (Gen.1:27), even if man is lower than the angels (Psalm 8:5-6), their Creator valuing him more than other celestial beings. So, we will always face two main antagonistic theories on our Planet until Judgment Day: one of logic and reason, coming from an earthly wisdom (James 3:15) , irradiated by all the theosophical ideologies and other doctrines promoting man as a god, his own creator, emanated by their obscure author and master through any possible channel; and the second which abides in heart and soul of every Bible believer, poured out from a heavenly wisdom (James 3:17), that man is only a servant of the Celestial Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Thus, there are many other theories, besides the Darwins interpretation, that try to describe a convincing interpretation of mans first sign, verbal or communication evolution. All the observations and the records on the issue somehow are limited to three main groups: humans discovered, received, or invented language. 6

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1.3. The Origin of Language: Main Interpretations Groups The group of The Animal Sound Theory like the majority interpretations relates to the evolution theory viewing life from this narrow perspective. P. Lieberman explains thus in his book Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution that speech possession is virtually equated with being human.7 An interesting definition, for the language latent incipient, gives Trask R. L. in his book Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics, Our language faculty, we now strongly suspect, is built into our genes, and learning a first language may not be so different from learning to see: at birth, our visual apparatus is not working properly, and it requires some exposure to the visible world before normal vision is acquired.8 Blackmores Meme Theory is based on the abilities of man to imitate and to reproduce a unit of information residing in a brain or ideas that are passed on9 from subject to subject arriving to such mutations that cannot be recognized from the initial original pattern. The Emergent Human Theory, does not want to recognize directly a creator but they say that the building blocks of the DNA shifted randomly as men evolved, gave him the ability to communicate. This group recognizes with subtlety that in the man himself is laid the self-creation seed, and not received ultimately from an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God. Can natural selection, operating on random arrangements of material building blocks (i.e., subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, and larger collections and structures of matter) produce the genomes of all living things, the human language capacity, and all of the worlds 6000 plus natural languages? There are two polar views on this question that are widely held by practicing scientists. At one extreme there is the neo16

Darwinian claim that chance aided by natural selection can arrange dynamic information systems as they are now. At the other end there is the view that a transcendent Intelligence not limited by matter, space, and time is required. Here an argument is presented from logico-mathematical proofs developed in theoretical semiotics to show unequivocally that the known symbol systems seen in genomes and in human languages cannot be produced by chance arrangements of any kind of material building blocks. The argument is generally. It applies to all possible symbol systems, though the emphasis here is on the genetic system evidently underlying all living organisms and the human language capacity, which is manifested in the multitude of natural languages. 10 The Sign Language Theory, even if it has hilarious characteristics pretends an academic approach.11 This theory known as the bow wow 12 theory was proposed by Max Miller in 1880, though even he did not consider it very likely.13

1.4 The Origin of Language and God The group of The creation theory is the most unbelievable, but the most probable. Because none of the evolutionist theories have been satisfactorily capable of solving the easiest task they assumed to find - namely any animal that was endowed with a transitional form of communication, and secondly, no evolutionist could find the origin of any language. Who understands the verse Genesis 1:27 will be able to comprehend not only why God gave language to people, but also why God uses languages with His people with whom He is separated. Thus, this makes sense, because language gives a picture of the nature of God. Language, like God, is

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incredibly complex. Entire lifetimes can be spent studying it, and yet even toddlers can understand and begin to use it. Now whether we look at Darwins theory about language or his followers, whether we look at the current literature, doctrines, ideologies, science and technologies which try to give from a high level of earthly wisdom a hint about where we originated, what we are, and where we go, it is just the terminology, the notions and definitions with whom the great Deceiver and the Liar of humanity fights against the heavenly wisdom and of those that search and keep the Word of God, written in the Book of Life: The Bible.

Notes Chapter 1

1 2

The King James Study Bible (1988), Thomas Nelson Publishers House, Nashville. Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew Dictionary (1992), Simon and Schuster Macmillan

Company, New York, p. 659.

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The Interlinear Bible Hebrew-English (1976), Baker Book House Company, Grand

Rapids, Michigan p.37.

4 5

Charles Darwin (2007), The Descent of Man, Cossimo Classics, London, p. 68. Ibidem, p.69.
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http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_3/j18_3_24-27.pdf Lieberman, P. (1988), Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution, W.W.

Norton, New York, p.5.

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Trask, R.L. (1999), Key Concepts in Language and Linguistic, Routledge, New York,

p. 105.
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Blackmore, S.J. (1999), The Meme Machine, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.63. Oller, J.W. Jr. (2005), Languages and genes: can they be built up through random

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change and natural selection? Psychology and Theology, Published by Springer, Dordrecht, p. 6.
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www.essexstreetacademy.org Englefield, F.R.H. (1977), Language: Its Origin and Its Relation to Thought , Wells,

G.A. and Oppenheimer, D.R. (Eds.), Scribner, New York, p. 19.

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Corballis, M.C. (2002), From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language, Princeton

University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. 23.

CHAPTER II THE SELF BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE ENGLISH LITERATURE OVER THE AGES

2.1. The self between the legends, ancient stories and myths In the world of human beings, for unknown reasons, a great number of myths, ancient stories, and ancestral legends hidden in occult meanings and symbols, arrives to present times often without a clear correspondent to the real object. These valuations for human beings of the spiritual realms inherited and given to all them their so-called status, roles and representations in the real world many times were accepted without a deep discernment.

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In these stories, humans mirror themselves in the entire cycle of life, from their arrival to their departure from this world. Why men have accepted such elements of culture and spirituality as self-shaping sources, all these cultural patterns, as primo principio in their lives was not explained entirely or too convincingly for the majority. Why all this primordial elevation of sources containing self-contradictory character elements with opposing features had being accepted like a sine principio that require no logical explanation is still a mystery to all scholars and researchers. Whether it is about Greek and Roman mythology and philosophy, the Hindus Upanishads and Mahabharata writings, the Maya and Inca foretellers, the Chaldean, and Egyptian stories, the Coran prophecies, and not in the least Tanach - or Torah, Neviim and Ketuviim of the Mosaic culture, and today the last part added to it, the New Testament, comprising the Bible, all these writings are meeting a paradoxical, central geographical, and inspirational purpose, pointing to the inscrutable Orient. Therefore, all this writing concerns six disciplines commonly classified as metaphysics, logic, ethics, psychology, epistemology and aesthetics. Manly P. Hall, summarizing the situation more rigorously, says: To satisfy this common urge the unfolding human intellect has explored the extremities of imaginable space without and the extremities of imaginable self within, seeking to estimate the relationship between the one and the all; the effect and the cause; Nature and the groundwork of Nature; the mind and the source of the mind; the spirit and the substance of the spirit; the illusion and the reality.1 The vital questions like From where are we? Where are we going? Why are we here? What is our lifes purpose? are available even today for a great amount of people that are not content with the so-called ready-given answers.
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If someone would know how to figure out from thousands and thousands of stories the mainstream, and even more, to sense the first source that produced the narrative piece of a certain pattern of stories, no matter that the subject is about (love, war, morality, society, faith, destiny or spirituality), such a person will find prevailing two major domains. The first category of literature will be that which contains all the stories recorded by men reflecting themselves in a continuous struggle for life, for living conditions, and material aspirations beyond any other meanings, with some subdued rays of spirituality. The second group of writings contains also the experience of humanity but this time is in full accordance with the authority of the divine power of the heavenly God, creator of men and their home, the Earth.

2.2.1. The self between English literature and its hidden theosophical teachings The first collection is that of all literature that spans from the oldest time until today and contains some interference between the so-called laic, secular, and ecumenical or ecclesiastical sources. For instance, among the Old English literature, early written works, majority anonymous, spoke about the ancient effort of men that had to face the threats of nature, and about changing traits of destiny. Here in such remote times death is not so frightful than the vicissitudes of life that have faced men. Beowulfs ballade identifies the origin of the evil in the life of men in the oldest legends, where the biblical Cain seems to be the chief of all. Such a hero, even if he knows about the great power of evil seen also in the power of giants, boasts that he overcame it with his own courage and self-intrepid capacity, though that there are some gratefulness of a Christian spiritualitys reminiscence in the ballade.2 In Chaucers book The Tales of Canterbury, the grotesque and the buffoonery being well mixed in romance chivalry develops the same theme of the men of destiny
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but in comic circumstances. Layamons Brut, written early in the thirteenth century comes with a very similar approach, this time implying the destiny of a whole nation, an English one, and from which descends all humanity in a subtle intention of the author. The interest that the Brut possesses for modern readers arise in part from the fact that much of its material is closely bound up with the later English literature. However, the main interest centers round the Arthurian section, with its haunting story of a wondrous birth, heroic deeds and a mysterious end. 3 All the incipient and early English literature through the centuries has the same structure where men immersed under a veil of self-generation and self-fudges a view that is identical to the theosophical writings. The common point of these two selfgenerating sources is inducing the idea that probably mans appearance in the Universe was a consequence of random circumstances where his own further development depends on his own choices. The Holy Grail of the Arthurian Legend links to the same branch of mystery and mans initiation in the unseen powers and his own inner generation, somehow denied by the literature critics that consider that nor is there any reason for assuming that the primitive formas of the story had any religious motive.4 These subdued spiritual elements spread through the works of many writers transpire the theosophical dogmas. Such writings sustain that man is his own master and his own creation even if he has to overcome some enemies and threats of nature; these entire obstacles being only there because of inner created blocks in the spiritual realms that reflect in the real world like shadows of that man whose fears has not been subdued yet. This kind of philosophy teaches that the completion of the great work of social regeneration must be accomplished not in society but in man himself. Religion, science, and philosophy are the three parts of essential learning in all these texts. Religion is the spiritual part of learning, philosophy the mental
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part, and the sciences, including the arts and crafts, the physical part. As the man himself has a spiritual, mental, and physical nature, and all of this nature manifest in his daily living, he must become equally informed in all the parts of his nature if he is to be self-governing. "Unbalanced forces perish in the void," declared a prophet of old; and this is true beyond possibility of dispute.5 Some had studied these works just from an artistic view, of verse and prosodic aspects and so on but the spiritual aspects are of no less importance that they imply. At this turning point, enter the famous work of Shakespeare, in fact Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. 6 Nevertheless, even here the ideas are not as linear as all expects but again unfold in the innocent play of words, of signs, and with an appearance totally unaffected which meets the experience of two different characters. Now in this direction there is a theory of language's power, of the utterance of spells and formulas whispered in the ether but not clear to the profane. Thus, if language is ritualised, performed by initiating ones, some like witches, shamans, priests of all sorts and even literature writers, plain words become deadly weapons and with sure effect on intended subject, which is the innocuous human being. This phenomenon used on a large scale in literature under the form of innocent romance stories, of adventure, war is not only for entertainment or culture, but also for more serious purposes of an inoculation of certain self-realizations in humans. Today a similar manifestation takes place in the media. Nowadays the visual space that surrounds the human mind contains all kinds of messages. Whether within TV shows, movies, music, and the advertising industry or the farthest in its intention, the unconventional graffiti on the houses walls of the whole city has one purpose:
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inoculation of a program or a direction. All these are designed to strike the self with all subliminal bombardments of language and sign valences. About all these more detailed in the third chapter, that will study the connection between life and an artificial self-elaboration. Other important figures of the Elizabethan era like Christopher Marlowe with the story of Doctor Faustus (1592) or Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queene (1590) shapes these suspicions. The works and life of each of them disseminates more than the activity of an ordinary English poet, court affairs and soldiers of culture as is revelled in Four-Fold Vision See: Allegory in the Poetry of Edmund Spencer and William Black by Elisabeth Jane Darnill.7 The next English literature periods involves all the main elements that feature a clear esoteric path even if many times it has been covered under historical, economic or social issues. In this list, deserve to be mentioned Ben Johnsons The Alchemist. John Miltons Paradise Lost, the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, and Bunyans Pilgrim's Progress, completed by the metaphysical poets of 17th century John Donne and George Herbert with works transcending subtle torments of spiritual conflict and both of Christian mysticism and eroticism.

2.2.2. The self between English literature and symbols and ciphered codes in writings By unknown force, the plays and the works of the above named authors are probably either as a result of life experiences or their own imagination. But why there are often used codes and duplicated meaning of the text is not quite clear. Shakespearean opera, for instance, abounds in such doubled intention, one of the actions itself and one that does not pertain to the story itself but to elevated beliefs that can be traced to the ancient wisdom buried in forgotten times. Indeed, the whole
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canon of Shakespearean plays and poems embody both the philosophy and the degrees of initiation of a private club, expressed in various allegories that are akin to and hints at a kind of initiated ones.8 This could be the discourses goal also of The Spectator by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, under all its manner and polite style to bring out a philosophy provided principally in the interests of England's emerging middle classmerchants and traders large and small. Why the external values of Enlightenment philosophies that transpire from the authors of The Spectator promoted family, marriage, and courtesy that had to dwell in the selected clubs and private assemblies within their internal values?9 Jonathan Swift is a member of the above inner societies and in all his fabulous stories just wants to ferret out their intentions and their narrow minds toward ordinary people? The beautiful stories of Gullivers Travels and A Tale of a Tube only showed that Swift's satire was intended to provide a genuine service by painting the portrait of conspiracy minded and injudicious writers or a more sinister near future for mob rule?10

2.2.3. The self between English literature and the biblical theme of 'Man's fall' Likewise can be considered John Miltons Paradise Lost with its selfdetermination poetic message. Here the writer has just ascertained some facts in the light of the curse that has fallen on humanity for disobeying Gods commandments in the Garden of Eden or does he intend more regarding the certain final destiny of men in his Ptolemaic-system vision? 11 Great similarities have an Alexander Popes poem An Essay on Man (1732) developing a theory of mans struggle for a place above beasts but underneath the angels in Great Chain of Being. 12
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Such ideas were considered to be inspired from H. David Wengers essay A New look at Theosophy, The great Chain of Being Revisited, that presents an exploration of the evolution and multidimensional nature of the human consciousness.13 All these literature patterns find common features in the Book of Enoch. Here is mentioned by the ancient narrator societies founded by the entities called fallen angels that descended from watch posts they had and lay with female human beings who gave birth to giants through unknown and forbidden released spells that breed earthly flesh with heavenly spirits. Holy Bible also discloses this wickedness and the punishment that these rebels received in the sixth chapter of 'Genesis Book'. The hidden messages of average literature contain teachings similar if not identical to the leaders of these Watchers-sons of Heaven as Enoch names the two hundred rebels that abandoned their heavenly abode, mixed with humankind, and taught them the eternal secrets that are made in Heaven. 14 Thus seems that on Earth fights for supremacy two main teachings for the self of humanity: one of the fallen angels that wants to lead astray humankind once they have made impure their heavenly integrity and the second the sacred knowledge from the Holy Bible written by men inspired by the heavenly messengers of God, the Holy Ones of Heaven. The chief of all these mental theories seems to be Puritan author Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education in an outline on how to educate this mob mind, and once with it the human spirit: Care is to be had of the forming of Childrens Minds, and giving them that seasoning early, which shall influence their Lives always after: For when they do well or ill, the Praise and Blame will be laid there; and when any Thing is done awkwardly, the common saying will pass upon them, that is suitable to their
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Breeding.15 Furthermore no matter that the literary works bring into the discussion themes like love for money, souls sold to enchanted spirits, incest and sodomies, murders and horrible plots, royal impostors and necromancy, the core message of the text often is impermeable to neophytes. The majority of such literary products coincide with the one philosophy of an ancient occult sect. These seem to be an elite group that emanates their own prefabricated cultural and life values. These entitiess central interests are for the embodiment of a future horrendous human society. This mystic groups only purpose is to construct a false self in the mind of the male audience that were influenced to digest the issues given off, similar to superior cultural elements. Thus, through this entertainment channel with intellectual, instructional or spiritual allure, takes place soul/self nourishment. This process irradiated by these written texts, theater performances and nowadays by media technologies that arrive are the only things worth thought, felt, and also at a certain moment to be acted out by so-called 'elevated human beings' from the auditorium, that nourished themselves spiritually this way. Some would consider that these are just simply coincidences in the direction of a society and its culture or literature that consume huge resources to elaborate a human, odd-deviated society. But if this trend of culture subsides within all its elements some hundreds of years later, then there can be an intended design as can be seen today, on all media channels, and this cannot be an erroneous interpretation with so many similarities over the ages. All these institutions and teachings have remained the same to this day and have contributed to the stream of mystical, generally pantheistic religious teachings and practices that have flowed together to become the New Age movement.
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In this context a twentieth century philosopher, Ernest Cassier (1874-1945), synthesized Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, and Poppers ideas in his writings that man is a symbolic animal and the exploration of symbolic forms is the suitable method for giving to anthropology his philosophic dimension. Having defined man as an animal symbolicum, Cassier introduces one of the central questions of The Logic of the Cultural Sciences, the question that lies at the heart of the worldview of life philosophy: Does not this mediation of the symbolic function come at too high a price? Does it not bring with it a certain self-alienation and self-loss of human existence? Do the symbolic formations not separate and remove us from nature and engulf us in a myriad of artificial needs? Must we not rather overcome all symbolic formation and return to nature.16

2.2.4. The self between English literature and its esoteric teachings Even in the ensuring centuries, the literature abounds in similar hidden messages toward the human receptor that are buried in the encoded texts of the majority of writers. The culture of self-deception is met in The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), a poem by the English author Samuel Johnson that continues from this remote tradition. The pre-Romantic, Gothic, and Romantic literature abounds in the elements of immemorial occult origins. Robert Blairs The Grave (1743) and Edward Young, whose The Complaint, or Night Thoughts (1742-5) on Life, Death and Immortality, are examples of "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms", in the context of the graveyard. Horatio Walpoles (4th Earl of Oxford 1764) novel The Castle of Otranto, or Ann Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho (1795) combine notable elements of
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vampire, horror and romance genre reminding us of some heathen esoteric ceremonies. There is no mistake to add here Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818), novels written by Mary Shelley. If there are studied the sources that introduce these spirits, vampires, deaths, spells, incantations, curses, within the rites and the ceremonies performed, it will be found an astonishing resemblance to the Book of Enoch and other esoteric literary works. The ancient scribe reveals also what these spirits from above, or fallen angels that forsook their abode, taught women and men: war, astrology, portents, the path of the moon, cast spells and cut roots, the release of the spells 17 that is present in every angle of this literary genre. Enoch wrote in his book that even if Azazel and his oath comrades revealed the eternal secrets that are made in Heaven, 18 their wisdom was worthless and will lead only to bad consequences. William Blakes All Religions are One (1788), America a Prophecy (1793) a prophetic book and Jerusalem, The Emanation of the Giant Albion (18041820) were elaborated by the author even with a self-devised technique of "illuminated printing" and confirms undoubtedly theosophical allegiance as in the study of Shakespeares Heir: Black Door of Perception in Jerusalem and The Four Zoas by David Withmarsh-Knight.19 The cult of pantheism is another feature of the obscure teachings reuniting the second wave of Romantic poets: Lord Byrons The Corsair (1814), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1811), The Necessity of Atheism (1812), and The Devil's Walk, a ballad and well-known John Keats 1819 ode. The last two, connected through the same deep philosophical values, are, first, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men, and Self-Reliance that enter in this category with archetypes of transcendentalism beliefs. Throughout the Self-Reliance
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essay, Emerson gives a defense for his famous catchphrase "trust thyself". This argument follows three major points: the self-contained genius, the disapproval of the world, and the value of self-worth. The last one is Henry David Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Woods, which had the self-sufficiency to portray this philosophy. H. P. Blavatsky holds the authority in this field. She defines the connection between Thought Divine and self or reflective consciousnesses in the first volume of The Secret Doctrine that is the mysterious link between Mind and Matter, the animating principle electrifying every atom into life.20 The most important Victorian author that comprises the values emanated by occult teachings is Charles Dickens with the majority of his works: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club also known as The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol (1843), The Haunted Man, and Great Expectations. For instance, Dickens uses the Wheel of Dharma to show in A Christmas Carol that the knowledge of your past and present will allow you to predict your most likely future. This method of 'divination' where the character Scrooge took the Middle Way after he had been warned by the spirits is also of esoteric origin.21 In addition, Charles Dickens can be traced in James Mill's psychology for the utilitarian superstructure where his chief philosophical work was Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1829) that laid the foundation of such ideology. Predecessors like Hume and Hartley were Mill's lineage and William Wallace Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (1894) proves this affinity.22

2.2.5. The self between English literature and private clubs societies It seems that with the passing of the centuries the core teachings and goals are beginning little by little to be revealed to the public but, of course, still not arrived at total transparency, in plain sight, but can be seen some graduations and some clear
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hints that shows a tendency of disclosure . Such can be mentioned - the works of H. G. Wells. In The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898). It is obvious that Wells either based his writings on the actual plans of the Fabian elitists, or used his knowledge of what they had already done in order to formulate a theory of what they were going to do in the future. Why was it so vital for the Fabian sect to influence public opinion especially with authors that were promoters of science themed literature and it would be more helpful to find?23 What direction wanted to drive Fabians using literary figures such as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells - ensuring that they would be indeed influential among British intellectuals and government officials? Such connections cannot be considered just an impromptu orientation for the whole human society of those years of history.24 Also, H.G. Wells wrote in 1928 The Open Conspiracy: Blueprints for a World Revolution which was an elaboration of ideas from his 1926 book The World of William Clissold, which gave a seven-point program for the development of the "new human community".25 These ideas had been fleshed out in his 1897 short story A Story of the Days to Come, and his 1901 book, Anticipations of the Reaction to Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought. Why is there so much concern for the life and mind of the human beings, and all society's levels from an obscure elitist group to lead this in a certain direction? It would be a fair question that waits fair answers.26 A peculiar opinion Albert Pike is regarding the action and reaction between leaders of humanity and the mob in his book about Morals and Dogma. Thus in the second chapter, Fellow-Craft Pike relates the following: To give a nation the franchise of the intellect is the only sure mode of perpetuating freedom. This will compel exertion and
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generous care for the people from those on the higher seats, and honorable and intelligent allegiance from those below.27 2.2.6. The self between English literature and occult themes Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories that have as the central character Sherlock Holmes is already famous for the mystery and the shadows that intrigue the readers until their last breath. The plot revolves around murders that are apparently connected with occult rituals. The Ordo ab Chao an esoteric motto is the center of all these cases and issues compressed in Doyle stories.28 In Lewis Carrolls books Alice In Wonderland (1865), Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) deal with the issues surrounding reality versus the dreamworld.
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2.2.7. The self between English literature and mind issues themes The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) has characters conceived and written by Robert Louis Stevenson and present the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a man with something within him that is his dark side as he tries to separate his two sides. He instead finds a way to switch back and forth between himself and his darker side Mr. Edward Hyde.31 The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called split personality, wherein within the same person there are at least two distinct personalities. In this case, the two personalities in Dr Jekyll are apparently good and evil, with opposite levels of morality. The novellas impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase Jekyll and Hyde coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.32
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Famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud has a theory that states there are three levels of self: the id, ego, and superego. According to cla.purdue.edu, the definition of the id is as follows, the id is the great reservoir of the libido, from which the ego seeks to distinguish itself through various mechanisms of repression. 32 Because of that repression, the id seeks alternative expression for those impulses that we consider evil or excessively sexual, impulses that we often felt as perfectly natural at an earlier or archaic stage and have since repressed.33 The id is governed by the pleasure principle and is oriented towards one's internal instincts and passions. Freud also argues on occasion that the id represents the inheritance of the species, which is passed on to us at birth; and yet for Freud the id is, at the same time, the dark, inaccessible part of our personality.34 Dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder (MPD) is an issue studied since ancient times under the forms of spiritualism,
parapsychology, and hypnosis

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2.2.8. The self between English literature and themes about mob destiny W.H. Auden, modernist poet, launches in his Musee des Beaux Arts, a poem influenced by Pieter Brueghels, The Fall of Icarus picture, a hidden message. The poem first discusses a 'miraculous birth' and at the end, the tragedy' of a death. The theme of the poem is about human suffering brought from mythological times. If these things are added together, there might even get some hints at religion, mainly at Christianity, but under old Masters 'knowledge' that knew 'about the suffering' and 'human position', most probably of the mob, of course.36

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Rudyard Kipling, in The Man Who Would Be King (1888), has the weirdest links between spirituality, myths, old legends, religions, magic initiations and superstitions37 that converge in the story with the following common points that can be found incidentally in Book of Enoch also: 'the signing of a contract before departure; the fallen beings given something that would make humans tremble; the teaching of weapons and war; the taking of wives; a sub-commander who's taken out to a desert and cast into a pit; cast into a pit 20,000 miles deep (bottomless pit, abyss); a leader who gets burned.'38 Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) published his famous dystopia Brave New World in 1932, which remains one of the most important books of the twentieth century. The phrase brave new world is rooted deeply in the human beings society culture. Huxley book's literary spheres are so ranging that it would need an entire library to compress it, from the entomology, economic innovations, development of genetics, information sciences, medical technologies or social sciences to the oldest bookshelves where one can find spiritism, Esoterism and magicism. But some of the critics even wondered 'if Huxley puts any original ideas into his book'.39 Huxleys ideas40 allegedly come from the works of J.B.S. Haldane and Bertrand Russell in terms of science and technology and Matthew Arnold, Eugene Zamiatin, H.G. Wells, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, and Einstein when it comes to literary form and his perception of metaphysics in the form of a new religious consciousness.41 Huxley novel even records an evolution of thought in the following manner: 'from dystopian passive vision of state-control society; to ideas of pure pessimism and mix of pessimism and optimism; from the satire of the drug-happy culture as the gateway to the ultimate reality; to the rejection of the possibility of change (individual, spiritual self-perfection and a somewhat pantheistic world-view); from

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harnessing science and technology to establish and determine the fate of humanity through a reflection on the destructive powers of technology; to the superiority of the quality of human life over some aspects of technological progress.42 The conclusion of this piece of literature is that the price for technological progress is the loss of individuality and human freedom43. The triumph of reason over passion and science over art leads to distortions of human nature.44 Twenty-first centuries repeat the same themes and motifs in literature, theater, film, and everything that is prepared for the human audience that has to be guided like the previous generations before them without full awareness of the spiritual values culture humankind absorbs mentally. Like H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley, George Orwell wrote a century later the similar ideas about the human mind tested to horrendous experiences and a shocking societal order. Orwell's satire of totalitarianism, 1984, was published in 1949. The significance in the title of Orwell's book is in fact that 1984 is the centenary year of the 'Fabian Society'. Like other writers mentioned before pertaining to occult societies, the author is considered disillusioned within the society and the novel was written not as a fiction but an expose of the knowledge of the 'Fabian agenda'.45 Paul Girard, a remnant guest columnist, notes on the Catholic remnantpaper.com site the following observations about books, movies, music, and the subjects that contain such occult culture of our times: We live in treacherous times, where more and more things are not at all (or simply not only) what they appear to be. Much is hidden, concealed and kept secret in about every sphere of modern life, from politics to culture, and when it comes out, it is usually in the form of a scandal. Do not judge a book by its cover is a word to the wise that could realistically be
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reinterpreted as blow its cover first and things will appear in an entirely different light.46 Diane Andrews Henningfeld reads three different allegories into William Goldings Lord of the Flies (1954), a political, a Freudian and a Christian. Yet such Christianity can feel justified doubts coming from an author whose main themes include rebellion, witches and magic and whose title Lord of the Flies is another name for Beelzebub (Bel=Baal=lord + zebub=flies)47 whose bloody statue is all covered with flies.48 Likewise, the French writer Nicolas Bonnal49 considers Johnathan Swift, who wrote his Gullivers Travels in such a way as to allow more than one reading of the same narrative (satire, allegory, esoteric initiation) as was seen above.50 To the same above category pertains Anthony Burgess who is especially remembered for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange (1962), set in the not-toodistant future. A Clockwork Orange points out that the title is supposed to symbolize the Sun, the Eye of Horus and by association the Eye of Providence.51 This book shadows, as in the earlier stories about mind, another theory of mental development. The Tabula rasa (Latin: blank slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. Generally, proponents of the Tabula rasa thesis favor the "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one's personality, social and emotional behavior and intelligence. Thus, the character of Anthony Burgess; Alex his main character records such trajectory. Lee Kounstantinou in 'Los Angeles Review of Books' site on A Clockwork Orange makes the following remark: 'one cannot help but wonder if Burgess is in sympathy not with God but with the devil'.52 Likewise, by the same author, The Wanting Seed gives the reader three or four
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dystopian future worlds for the price of one. This process of radical social transformation, from one dystopian world to another and then another, exposes the very essence of Burgesss vision of history. In the future historiography of The Wanting Seed, history is understood to be cyclical, moving in great repeating spirals through three distinct stages: the Pelephase, the Interphase, and the Gusphase. These phases represent, by Tristram Foxs description, the main character of The Wanting Seed , a 'subsumption of the two main opposing political ideologies under essentially theological-mythical concepts'. 53 A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed are minor masterpieces of the dystopian subgenre and are unusually clear in their anxieties, with its emphasis on plot, its obsession with world building, its suggestion that everything always changes not just innerly but also outwardly. Another aspect of these last books concerns is mind control issues. Whether it is about brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control or thought reform all refers to a process in which a group or individual 'systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated'.54 Like in the Ludovico technique, key words are used that belong to this mental manipulation arsenal. Such key terms have been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individuals sense of control over humans own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision-making. For instance, in the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, the protagonist undergoes a scientific re-education process called the Ludovico technique in an attempt to remove his violent tendencies. Likewise, in George Orwells novel 1984 the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania uses brainwashing-style techniques to
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erase nonconformist thought and rebellious personalities.55 Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (191168) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. His work was influenced by and adopted the style of the scientific romances and fantasies of 19th century by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells and others, some already mentioned in this essay. Mervyn Peake, like his predecessors, shapes in very influential ways, in terms of setting as character and the idea that a place can create certain fatalism in the people who live there. Like a conclusion to all the issues developed to this point, the author of Gomenghast trilogy confirms in his literature that the theory of human beings mental configuration or self constitution is not only defined but determined by the culture, place, time and all that surrounds them. He conveys that people are shaped, molded, and even overwhelmed by the location they have chosen in.

2.2.9. The self between English literature and absurd play's genre In the 1950s, the absurd genre was represented by the play Waiting for Godot (1955) (originally En attendant Godot, 1952), by the French resident Irishman Samuel Beckett. As the artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the writer Samuel Beckett (19061989) transmits in his work a sense of prophetical and dim ritualistic spaces. Such a play identifies many similarities between the spaces, activities which Beckett evokes, and the initiatory practices of fraternal orders and secret societies. Waiting for Godot absurd play is in fact a message of spiritual fulfilling in a so-called waited 'god' divinity. In the same way, Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) is an absurd, existentialist and a tragicomedy play. Here the existential

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philosophy creates for the individuals, like two main characters Rosencrants and Guildenstern, meaning and essence in their lives, as opposed to deities or authorities creating it for them. Walter Kaufmann described existentialism as 'The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life'.56 Thus the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead imply existential themes such as 'dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, and nothingness'. These ideas similarly in the ultimate order of metaphysical principles direct human brains to the conviction that human existence has nothing at the core of the existence itself. The philosophers, critics, theologians and cultural movements that used these conceptions in literature, cinematography and theatre promoted this vacuum of self-alienation in the following order. First emphasis was in existence and materialism. Then it was considered that existence precedes consciousness. The third phase was defined as that existence preceded essence. Reason was considered due these conceptions a defense against anxiety. From here, the next step was the absurd concept that gave birth to dystopian visions with a Nietzschen perspective of an obsolete God. Critic Martin Esslin in his book Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, and
Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existential belief that man is an absurd

creature loose in a universe empty of real meaning. Esslin noted that many of these playwrights demonstrated the philosophy better than did the plays by Sartre and Camus.57 Being in-itself, being-for itself, non-positional consciousness, positional consciousness, and identity constructed from an explicit awareness of consciousness

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and the like vocabulary terminology was well coined for this late state of mind evolution. Thus the plays and certain texts above mentioned in this essay exposed to the public various cultural products that shadowed the under conceptions in absurd and non-logical dialogs or monologues hard to be read by non-initiated.

2.2.10. The self between English literature and multi-religious issues Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses 1988 novel is the last literature piece representative for the essay that cumulates in the inner composition all the connections with the esoteric and theosophical realism genre. Esoteric schools of thought are schools, currents or movements that have an occult system of thought based on esoteric knowledge. They aid to prepare the individual for
spiritual evolution. It almost always deals with some system of esoteric cosmology and

writings especially being a magic

contain some common themes as rebirth, occult history of human evolution, planes of
existence, and initiation into those same planes or inner worlds that all the literature

above contain in less or high degree. The same happens in the most controversial Indian novel ever produced in this decade. Thus, for instance, in the Salman Rushdie novel characters are evolving around these cycles upward and downward. The Satanic Verses contain karma, Gnosticism, reincarnation, obscurantism, hermeticism, mysticism to archeosophy, clairvoyance and spiritual evolution teachings. Many modern Esoteric movements admit reincarnation among their beliefs, as well as a complex energetic structure of the human being (such as etheric body, astral body, mental body and causal body). The critics considered that it is a subtle allusion regarding the Muslim's religious truthfulness in the novel of Salman Rushdie. The Prophet Muhammad before the revelation of verses to Quraysh that represents the base of monotheistism in Quran
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writings religion had to distinguish between the voice of God and of Satan. Karen Armstrong wrote in Muhammad: A biography of the Prophet, that Islam was accepted within a foot of disaster. However, on the other side apocrypha records the entire story about the satanic verses of the 'exalted birds' that were considered by Muslims inventions of infidels or disbelievers.58 The literature works, of remote and contemporary times, final battle is not only on the absolutist system of beliefs such as the Christians, Muslims, Hinduism, Buddhists disavowed but is also preparing to enter the new era of Aquarius which is, in fact, the New Age Movement. Events that appear to be very exploited by prophetical literary sources and the like that launch the following pattern of messages: One Self or Mental for all humans, One Language for all people, One Religion for all nations, One Government for the entire Planet, One Army, One Monetary system and, of course, a One Leader that seems to not be a Human or less from this dimension. Like a confirmation esoteric Christians today also incorporate New Age and traditional "magical" practices in their beliefs, such as Qabalah, theurgy, goetia, alchemy, astrology, and hermetism things that have nothing to do with the biblical teachings that forbid clearly such dark rituals (Deut. 18:9-14). Such borrowings also seem to be a trend in all the system beliefs around the globe. Interpreting and the reinterpreted text and literary sources give headaches to all who try to find a connection through all the text from the beginning of the world and human civilization and until those arrived of our time. For these reasons, the vision on interpretation and reinterpretation of Ernest Cassirer in The Logic of the Cultural Sciences (1942) would bring some well-received justifications: The Logic of the Cultural Sciences [Cassirer 1942] presents Cassirer's most developed and systematic articulation of how it is possible to achieve objective and universal validity in both the
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domain of the natural and mathematical sciences and the domain of practical, cultural, moral, and aesthetic phenomenon. Thus, whereas the natural sciences take their evidential base from the sphere of thing perception, the cultural sciences take theirs from the sphere of expressive perception, and, more specifically, from the fundamental experience of other human beings as fellow selves sharing a common intersubjective world of cultural meanings. In the second place, moreover, whereas

intersubjective or objective validity in the natural sciences rests ultimately on universal laws of nature ranging over all (physical) places and times, an analogous type of intersubjective or objective validity arises in the cultural sciences quite independent of such universal laws. In particular, although every cultural object (a text, a work of art, a monument, and so on) has its own individual place in (historical) time and (geographical-cultural) space, it nevertheless has a trans-historical and trans-local cultural meaning that emerges precisely as it is continually and successively interpreted and reinterpreted at other such times and places. The truly universal cultural meaning of such an object only emerges asymptotically, as it were, as the never to be fully completed limit of such a sequence. In the end, it is only such a never to be fully completed process of historicalphilosophical interpretation of symbolic meanings that confers objectivity on both the Naturwissenschaften and the

Geisteswissenschaften and thereby reunites the two distinct sides

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2.3. The self between Bible and its ancient teachings The second collection brought into study is that literature written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and containing only ecumenical sources. These literary sources are contained only in one book, the Bible that contains a whole literature that spans least 1600 years from approximately A. D. 40 to A. D. 90.60 It was written by over 40 different authors from all walks of life: shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers and kings. Despite these differences in occupation and the span of years, it took to write it, the Bible is an extremely cohesive and unified book. The Bible also covers a variety of subjects. These include the existence and nature of God, the creation of the universe, the meaning of human existence, the purpose of human beings, and the final destiny of humankind and the planet earth. In fact, the Bible contains an entire library and has survived all tests of time, having a unique continuity, a unique circulation around the world, being unique in its translation,- over 1400 languages, and being unique in withstanding all attacks. Thus, the Bible even if it was fifteen hundred undreamed years in the making, written by many authors with many occupations, written in different literary forms, upon three continents, composed in different circumstances, where three different languages were employed in Holy Scriptures, most authors did not know one another, some would expect chaos to result from these diverse circumstances but there is only one unfolding story in the Bible that a human mind could not project and preserve such mega heavenly designs. Therefore God is the source of the Holy Scriptures with one clear message 'that men follow all the words of this law' (Deut. 29:29) and the Holy Spirit is the Divine author of Scripture (2 Pet. 1:20, 21).
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From this point can be seen that also this literature, like the previous one, has a spiritual message but direct and revealed to all human beings that allow to enter into their hearts the Word of Salvation. Likewise, the elevation of human beings into a higher spiritual entity ask like in the esoteric literature a dedication of apostle-ship and deep understanding of the precepts of the Holy One. There is an old story, lost in the shelves of many books, or worse often premeditatedly distorted that will make clearer the difference between the two kinds of literature mentioned above, and the characteristic features that make one to be opposed to the other. To understand the elements that construct the inner part of humanity, of each individual that assumes such and such values influenced by one of the two cultural emulators mentioned above, it is a necessity to know that the main authors form today through these cultural tools the self of humankind. The story begins in immemorial times when God made the first generation of angels, his first contingent of servants, beings used to govern the universe. First, here might need some answers to the following questions: Why were the angels created?, How were angels created?, and When were they created? The only reliable sources regarding this domain are the Bible; other fountains are both inverted being, unsure and with language not quite accessible to everyone, often open only to initiated or private literature clubs novices like Theosophical Society writings or other similar occult branches, documents that mystified the truth for personal interests by their trustful disciples than to expose the original version. Thus, question one receives the answer that angels are the agents through whom the Most High keeps the balance of evil and good in the Universe. Second question refers to methodology of production of such celestial beings. In all the Bible references about angels, God created them through the power of language. He spoke,
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He commanded, He ordered and they come into being, all His heavenly creatures (Psa. 148:2-5). The time when all this happened, it would be quite clear to consider that they were already present at the creation of man and Earth (Job 38:4-7). As in all things on earth and heaven, the angels also have a hierarchy. Some of them are only angels, others archangels and there was even the mightiest of them all, the chief of all angels, who could sit near Gods throne and receive from His creator the commandments for the entire celestial beings (Ezekiel 28:12-15). This last privileged angel mentioned also in the previous chapter, was the one who changed the state of man in the Garden of Eden, and he was known under the name Angel of Light. Today, this fallen angel is known as Lucifer who became the most ferocious enemy of man. There is no one else so dedicated to the deprivation and to the total destruction of man than this ruthless foe of humanity in the entire Universe. Such an angel provoked, in the story of the Babel tower, by intending to put his own throne above the clouds with the help of humans, which in fact is the abode of God (Isa. 14:12-15) - the confusion of mans language. All this happened, already recorded, in the first chapter of the essay, to the detriment of the most beloved creation of God - Man. Man did not lose only his place from the presence of God, his Heavenly Father, but also his self and integrity. Later instigated by Satan, man lost even his own heavenly language, the last reminiscent of what he was once. When the men had to part from his cradle, which was the Garden of Eden, he lost not only the communion he had with God but also his rights he had in the garden of God. Man here was sovereign over all things and he had in the Garden; the only condition was to obey this precept and commandments that he received there. All this had been given for maintaining harmony with all the things that had been created for
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man: The Tree of Life, The Tree of Good and Evil and so forth. Once man had been led into error, he was doomed and separated from his initial self that was within His heavenly Father. Man lost thus his state of total harmony he had in God. The infringement of heavenly precepts divided him from his state of being One with his Creator - to a mere mortal being. Today men have through Christ a mediator toward their Creator. If sin entered into the world through one man, Adam, then the plan of God was to propitiate humanitys sin through One Man, His only Son, Christ (Rom.5:1-21). But like in the past, today Antichrist is trying by any means to cause to fail this Heavenly plan. Now because the enemy of men was present at the creation of man, the devil knew that God made him from two fundamental elements, one from Earth, perishable, the flesh body, named also in biblical terminology 'tent' or 'vessel' (2Cor 5:1, 1Thess.4:4) , and the second from Heaven, named 'soul' or 'the spirit from God' (Gen.2:7). Thus there was a weak part and a strong one. For this can be seen everywhere very convincingly in modern human culture of the external things: 1) lust of the flesh, with adjacent checkpoint cloths snobbish as seen in exacerbating fashion trends; meals as seen in the Junk Food Industry and food advertising around the world); 2) the lust of the eye, developed ceaselessly by visual media; 3) the pride of life (self-interests), and other disguise traps that are aimed to neglect the inner part very well recorded by the folkloric wisdom: 'An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet'.61 The Bible self-culture projects an inner realization regarding the self of man. Take the cross and deny yourself is the central aspect of these teachings emphasized by the following New Testament verses: 'we know that our self was crucified' (Rom.6:6), 'to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self,

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created after the likeness of God' (Eph. 4:23-24), 'seeing that you put off the old self', 'and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator' (Col. 3:9-10). The conclusion of such philosophy is that those who choose to live with God and learn to be blessed by His Kingdom of Heaven even from these days on Earth, have become the citizens of Heavenly Jerusalem and Sons of Light, but those who did not give attention or departed from the body of the Church of Christ are doomed to eternal damnation like the Sons of Darkness already bound for the great Day of Judgement (Jude 6). The Sodom and Gomorrah story is the symbol of the life and habits that will be considered the sign of the ends of the ages as is written in the Gospel of Matthew: 'As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man (Matt. 24:27). Paul Harvey, a journalist, elaborated in 1999 for man, in the so-called Satan's Agenda: Words of Wisdom: 'If I Were the Devil' I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world; I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings; I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around; I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue; I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership; I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies; I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient; I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings; I
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would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit; I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them; I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda; I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation; I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation; I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art; I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marvelled; I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct; I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive; I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional; I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.61

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1. Manlly P. Hall (2007), Secret Teachings of All Ages,Wilder Publication, Ratfford, p.

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10. 2. http://www.bartleby.com/211/0303.html 3. http://www.bartleby.com/211/1112.html 4. http://www.bartleby.com/211/1215.html 5. Manly P. Hall (1944), Secret Destiny of America, The Philosophical Research Society INC., Los Angeles, p.33. 6. Manlly P. Hall (2007), Secret Teachings of All Ages,Wilder Publication, Ratfford, p.165. 7. https://eric.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3156/DarnillE.pdf 8. Manlly P. Hall (2007), Secret Teachings of All Ages,Wilder Publication, Ratfford, p.169. 9. http://www.bartleby.com/224/0411.html. 10. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jonathan_Swift 11. John Milton (2007), Paradise Lost, by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, p. xxx. 12.http://www.ccc.edu/colleges/wright/departments/Documents/Wright%20Great %20Books%20Symposium%20Journal%20Issue%201.pdf 13.http://www.transpersonalstudies.org/ImagesRepository/ijts/Downloads/Wenger %20New%20Look%20at%20Theosophy.pdf 14. Book of Enoch (1978), The Ethiopic Book of Enoch translated by Michael A. Knibb, Oxford University Press, London, 9:6, p.16. 15. John Locke (1889), Some Thoughts Concerning Education. C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, London, p. 21. 16. http://www.yale.edu/yup/pdf/081146_front_1.pdf 17. Book of Enoch (1978), The Ethiopic Book of Enoch translated by Michael A. Knibb, Oxford University Press, London, 8:1-4, p.16 18. Ibidem, 9:6, p.25 19.http://www.thefourzoas.com/pdf/Shakespeare%27s%20Heir%20extract%20for
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%20web.pdf 20. H. P. Blavatsky (1888), The Secret Doctrine Vol. 1, Cosmogenesis. The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited, New York, p. 16 21. Rodney St. Michael (2002), Healing and Developing the Mind, Writers Club Press, New York Lincoln Shanghai, p. 187 22. http://www.bartleby.com/224/ 23. http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=FinalWarning&C=5.1#Wells 24. http://www.restoring-america.com/Documents/Fabian%20Society.pdf 25. http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=FinalWarning&C=5.1#Wells 26. http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=FinalWarning&C=5.1#Wells 27. Albert Pike (1888), Morals and Dogma, The Theosophical Publishing Company, Limited, New York, p. 23. 28.http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-occult-symbolism-of-the-moviesherlock-holmes/ 29. http://adventofdeception.com/movie-review-alice-in-wonderland/ 30. http://www.apfn.org/apfn/oz.htm 31. http://thearrowsoftruth.com/tag/robert-louis-stevenson/page/2/ 32. https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/victoraviles/my_assignment3/published 33. Bendis, Brian Michael, (2007) Illuminati New Avengers. The Road to Civil War. Marvel, New York, p.39. 34. Stevenson, Robert Louis (1885). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Longmans, Green and Co, London. 35. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder#History 36. http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/musee/museebeauxarts.htm 37. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread815785/pg 38. http://www.biblio.com/rudyard-kipling~96895~author 39. Thody, Philip (1973) Aldous Huxley, London: Studio Vista; quoted in Firchow,
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CHAPTER III THE SENSE OF LIFE BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE NEW AGE

3.1. Life meaning and some definitions through time Today, like in the past, the most important questions for men were and will be probably the issues of life and the meaning of it. There were from the ancient times attempts to explain or to give a reasonable interpretation relative to the matter of life: from where it descended, from where it sparkled the very first time, its purpose and, in the end, what is the finality of it? Many scribes, researchers, scholars throughout time have poured their spirits out and strived with their own weaknesses to find such subtle issues that had not only the physical aspect but also a metaphysical one. Philosophers and men of letters of all times have meditated and recorded their thoughts about lifes meaning. Thus, today these studies on the meaning of life are more important than in any other field of human kind. However, many definitions have been given to satisfy these intrinsic needs of man. The Epic of Gilgamesh reveals that life meanings has been hidden from man and immortality is inaccessible and all must face inevitable death. Albert Camus considers that Sisyphus Myth had another symbolic message besides many of lifes specific tasks and certainly feels futile which he called 'the absurdity of life'.1 The Bible story of Job presumes that the meaning of life is suffering to be purified before God. It seems that Epicureanism, Stoicism, skepticism or cynicism of Greek philosophers' concepts is too simplified life-meaning solutions.
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in the year 1884 defines in the sixteenth chapter of A Confession that the meaning of life for him is limited and can be comprehended by his intellect and that the 'unnecessary absurdities' of the theology is concealed in the inexplicable and in the infinity2. Contemporary scholars like Roy F. Baumeister incline to consider that nowadays people are facing a paradox, thus, some have to accept what they are told and have to conform like everybody else or others are creating their own meaning for life3. However, psychiatrist Victor Frankl has the most comprehensible definition of all in his book Men's search for meaning: 'We can discover this meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering. The first, by way of achievement or accomplishment, is quite obvious. The second and third need further elaboration'4.

3.2. The sense of life and the New Age culture Today, like never before, the beliefs of human society have been shaped not only by religious movements but also by economic and political forces. If the religious institutions recognize that their aim is a spiritual discipline of every individual, the business or the governmental parties lobbies seem to intersect the same dimension emphasizing the development of the inner power of man whether that is mental, intellectual or soul configuration from a materialistic perspective. Thus, the defunct Soviet-Union, the still-Communist China, the former European communist lager, or today the capitalist wind spread in the Near and Far East countries that struggle for so-called freedom, design a complex structure of beliefs. The best known is atheism, that promise that liberty comes only from man's
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determination. The second is pantheism, which also comes from ancient times but revived more than ever in this global social turmoil. A third branch of this veiled spiritual emanation is the turning of Dark Ages to occult, witchcraft and magic rituals. All these patterns constitute only a structural New Age movement view. This spiritual phenomenon has a deep impact and is more profound at a first look that links between social, political, economic, or conflagrations aspects are involved many times without their awareness in this wave of occult spirituality that encompasses life in all domains and compartments. Here must be counted and accumulated also the Mass-media contribution, the advertisements of a certain type of lifestyle world-wide broadcast on all the channels, the food industry or nutritional programs, the entertaining and stressrelieving relaxation techniques, and everything that refers to the self of man how to become an accomplished super-being. The 'New Age' movement is rooted in the Western European philosophy and paganism, Asian and Native American religions, tribal spirituality of Africa, the mystical traditions of medieval origin. Thus, in this context can be mentioned 'Kabala' in Judaism, 'Sufis' in Islam, Catholic mysticism. Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emersons writings and metaphysical cults, using Christian terminology could be the main features of the 'New Age' movement. The closest 19th century group for the movement is the 'Theosophical Society', considered the parent of it, funded by B.P. Blavatsky in 1875. For instance, the song 'My Sweet Lord' of the Beatles music band proclaims a devotion to a so-called Hindu god Krisna, which connects to gurus and swan is teaching activities in America where the central message was 'our oneness with the divine All.' From this, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is not being an outsider of such issues in the postmodern pop culture, which in fact is

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3.3 The sense of life and the Mass-media culture Today there is an overwhelming amount of studies that try to give a clear perspective on youth education, music, drugs, libertinism, and the new values of human society of tomorrow. The Aquarius Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson points out that the main purposes of such perverted economical, cultural and social manifestations are the destruction of morality and life values in future human generations for the mob's mind total control of the Earth's occult elite 6. In this sense, the Ken Keseley novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest spread the idea that human society is an invisible cage and the truly 'free' people are the madmen7. The industry of music, cinematography, shows of various sort and TV castings, prepare thus an odd style of life that is being inoculated to every exposed infant brought into the world from the very first day. Such generations learn only what has been shown in the above sources; the majority of these arrive at the adult age without reading a book on their completely scholastic period. The life's values of such generations have been shaped by Hollywood industry and by Woodstock festivals and others alike. The theory of rock music was elaborated by Theodor Adorno who explained in his notes that in an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden domain, the listener who remembers a hit song will turn into the song's ideal subject 8 and the result is an inescapable addiction to a certain ritual of socialization considered by sociologists with very negative adaptation consequences to a normal life which requires a family, a job, sedentary life, and a home. Therefore the roots of flower power people is considered due to New Age
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3.4. The Sense of Life and The Conspiracy Theories What is life? Lifes definition is something that needs a long meditation before has given an answer regardless whether the question has been raised by an adult or child. There are so many theories about it that create dizziness for those who try to find a good explanation for this. In addition, there are many theories about who controls life or who perverts the natural course of it. The conspiracy theories contain many interpretations about life and an elitist group who gives the main social, political, warfare, economical, cultural and lifestyle trend, interfering directly. Thus, Wikipedia11 is listing the most famous facts of such occult organizations that have only one purpose: mass control by any means. First, most important, and very fashionable that exists even in the lyrics of music, presidents speech, and the press is New World Order theory. Supported by the Federal Reserve System, a private international bank, it is considered to be involved in the last main world and local conflagrations. Second in the list is False flag operations which explain the provocation of wars in zones with peace, bringing death and suffering to the involved belligerents and huge profit to the outside manipulators. The Third theory develops the idea that the main operations are being made by the U.S. presidents and the C.I.A. The fourth theory - Ethnicity, races, and religion - exposes how nations being manipulated on these differences, a third occult part takes the advantages from their bloodshed. The fifth theory Technology and Weapons reveal the patents and the concessions laws that are invented or misused especially to protect those who are against a natural development, materialistic and spiritualistic, of the humanity. The other main theories of conspiracy like Media, Medicine, Real groups to be said to be involved in conspiracies, Paranormal activity and the like presents the
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horrendous methods used on the human beings regardless of race, sex, religion, social state, ethnic origin, often without their awareness. Therefore, the second question, which is often connected to such devious schemes against life and human existence, is if there are notes, planes or documents over the time to prove these allegations12. First, the most notorious is the document for which the Russian tsar lost his kingdom and life. Before Bolshevism there has been found a document named The protocol of the elders of Zion13 published for the first time in 1903. This document claims to know by whom, why, where, and how were all the revolutions and the revolts over the nations of the world provoked and with what finality. In the literature along the time can be found authors and in their writing elements that contain intersected common points with this world submininative document. For instance, Theodor Herzi Der Judenstaat (1896), Herman Goetshe Biarritz (1868) novel, or even a political satire Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) by Maurice Joly. The second conspiracy document is considered a 25 goals of Adam Weishaupt in his book 'Apologien der Illuminaten' 14 (1786) very similar to the The protocol of the elders of Zion. The following lines expose the illuminated Weishaupt's ideas: All men are more easily inclined towards evil than good. Preach Liberalism. Use the idea of freedom to bring about class wars. Any and all means should be used to reach the Illuminati Goals as they are justified. The right to lie in force. The power of our resources must remain invisible until the very moment it has gained the strength that no cunning or force can
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undermine it. Avocation of mob psychology to control the masses. Use alcohol, drugs, corruption and all forms of vice to systematically corrupt the youth of the nation. Seize property by any means. Use of slogans such as equity, liberty, fraternity delivered into the mouths of the masses in psychological warfare. War should be directed so that the nations on both sides are placed further in debt and peace conferences conducted so that neither combatant obtains territory rights. Members must use their wealth to have candidates chosen and placed in public office who will be obedient to their demands and will be used as pawns in the game by those behind the scenes. Their advisors will have been reared and trained from childhood to rule the affairs of the world. Control the press. Agents will come forward after fomenting traumatic situations and appear to be the saviours of the masses. Create industrial depression and financial panic, unemployment, hunger, shortage of food and use this to control the masses or mob and then use the mob to wipe out all those who stand in the way. Infiltrate into the secret Freemasons to use them for Illuminati purposes. Expound the value of systematic deception, use high sounding slogans and phrases and advocate lavish promises to the masses even though they cannot be kept.

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Detail plans for resolutions, discuss the art of street fighting which is necessary to bring the population into speedy subjection. Use agents as advisors behind the scenes after wars and use secret diplomacy to gain control. Establish huge monopolies that lean toward world government control. Use high taxes and unfair competition to bring about economic ruin by control of raw materials. Organize agitation among the workers and subsidize their competitors. Build up armaments with Police forces and Soldiers sufficient to protect our needs. Members and leaders of the one world government would be appointed by the directors. Infiltrate into all classes and levels of society and government for the purpose of fooling, bemusing and corrupting the youthful members of society by teaching them theories and principles that we know to be false. National and International laws should be used to destroy civilization and enslave and control the people. Today lifes direction is considered to have strange coincidences to mere uncounted events that changed the lot of many nations by an invisible enemy. Many researchers and scholars arrived at a mutual conclusion that everything is no more secret or occulted but official and published. For example the problem of overpopulation in: Greening by Larry H. Abraham, World Evolutionary Humanism, Eugenics and UNESCO by Brent Jessop, Osborn Faierfield, Our Plunderd Planet (1948). The issues of mind control in Nadine Scolla 'Keepers of the keys' (1976), and
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The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave by Fritz Springmeier & Cisco Wheeler. Mass-media manipulation stratagems in Tower of deception by Barrie Wicker (2012), Noam Chomsky and Government Duplicity in 911 by Bob Feldman (2012) and Public Opinion by Walter Lippman (1922). Food and modified nutritional programs for humanity or warfare are already advertised on all the channels to be given further bibliography. All these themes listed before can be found in the dystopias and utopic literature like Jonathan Swift, H. G. Wells, Aldoux Huxley, George Orwell and Athony Burgess that somehow presented the destiny of odd-deviated societies that have fallen to abominations.

3.5. The Sense of Life and the Bible message There is also a literature of ancient visions, foretelling the future, text of various predestinations, and religious revelations regarding the past, the present and the future of human destiny. This literature has been compressed into books like: Nostradamus, Coran, Bible, the Hindu text Divya Maha Kala Jnana (The Divine Knowledge of Time); the 'Mayan Stones Prophecies' explicated in the book of Calleman, Carl Johan, The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (2004); Buddhist text of The Haedong Kosung-Jon (Biographies of High Monks), the Chinese prophetic text Chen, The Book of Hopi, and Joseph Smiths Book of Mormons. In these virtuous texts, some are clear while some are not on the message sent from the forefathers to humanity, but there is a coincidence in all present entangled features of symbolism and terminology where the Bible gains the pre-eminence from all these odd ancient texts. Thus, The Bible is advantaged also in the Mass-media message similarities. The economists or the financial disruptions have very similar explanations in the Book of
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Revelation. The warfare and the population reduction agenda are recorded with very great accuracy. The 'New World Order' idea can be found in various passages with clear indications who, why, when, where, and who will bring such change, too. Who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist. In the Bible, most prophetic books that contain the signs of the times are: the 'Book of Ezekiel', the 'Book of Daniel', the 'Book of Joel', the 'Book of Zachariah' and the 'Book of Revelation'15. All these books are foretelling the things that coincide with the effects and end of the period that the conspiracy theories claim to be ordered or planned by scrupulous groups. The Bibles central message is one. God is the creator of humanity. He created the Earth, humankinds first cradle. He created man with one purpose: to serve God like for a 'spiritual father' until 'The second coming of the son of Man', who will carry to the 'Heavenly Father' those who were loyal and steady in their faith and destroy all those who went astray. After the rapture, the Earth and all in it will be consumed by fire. To the 'children of God' loyal human beings, according to the 'Word of God' will be given a 'New Heaven', a 'New Jerusalem', and a 'New Earth'16. Now as a conclusion, it would be better to invite the readers to meditate on these things than to make a hasty decision. What is life? Can someone prove what it is? The highest and the most precise technology and science could not help humanity to find peace and harmony with all the conventional and unconventional resources at hand. None of the social-politic ideology could answer to human beings necessities whether material or spiritual until today. Even the idea that man was on the Moon is considered a hoax17. How can this be proven? Through 'Holly Woodoo' industries, anything can be distorted. Thus, a lie can become over night a general truth just because someone said or broadcast it on TVs. But the average person who did not see

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at the exact moment - how they can believe? Such or other serious life discoveries or truths remain mysteries for the non-initiated. Some claim that such issues must be believed only because they must have faith that what they have seen through 'a glass box' is true. Yes, very true. Therefore, until it is not proven to every human being on the planet, it is just a matter of believing or not. A recent new experiment proposed in this regard is the population of the planet Mars with human beings which has no right to return to Earth any more after they signed a contract. All such clients have only one ticket for departure. Then, it would be fair to question 'is this not another brainwave just for the Earths population reduction by any means like in the Soylent Green movie (1973) directed by Richard Fleischer'18 or could it be too exaggerated an interpretation of a very useful and grateful planetary/international social program?

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1. Albert Camus (1955), Sisyphus Myth and other essays. Published by Random House, New York, p. 39. 2. http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/conf16.html 3. Roy F. Baumeister (1991), Meanings of life, The Guilford Press, New York, 1991 p.6. 4. Victor Frankl (1980), Men's search for meaning, Random House, New York 1980, p. 111.
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5. Marilyn Ferguson (1980), Aquarius Conspiracy. Weister Books, Boston, p.19. 6. Ibidem. p.43. 7. Ken Keseley One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Samuel French Inc. 2010 8. Marilyn Ferguson (1980), Aquarius Conspiracy. Weister Books, Boston, p.27. 9. P. H. Blavatsky Isis Unveiled (1877), Theosophical University Press, New York. 10. http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-illuminati-satanism-drugs-the-music-industry 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory 12. Ibidem. 13. The protocol of the elders of Zion (1999). Published by The Book Tree, Escondido CA, p.18. 14. Weishaupt Adam (1786), Apology der illuminaten. Grattenauerischen

Buchhandlung, Frankfurth, p. 244. 15. The King James Study Bible (1988), Thomas Nelson Publishers House, Nashville. 16. Ibidem. 17. David Fllyn (2008), Temple of the Center of Time. A division of Anomalos House Publishing Crane, S.U.A. p. 47. 18. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soylent_green/ 19. http://adventofdeception.com/movie-review-avatar-deception/

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CONCLUSION

Language from the oldest times was considered the blueprint of humanity. Whoever could understand the essence of it could also have the answers to all the questions of life. Nevertheless, even here the things were considered to be complicated when, into the scene entered the enemy of humanity, the Devil, who perverted the Word of God, replacing it with a deception. Once in the Garden man departed from the word of truth and gave heed to a new philosophy different from the word of life named over the ages, theosophy, thus he plunged deep and ever deeper into the illusion of his own fake imagination. Today, man is able to walk through the stars but he is unable to restrain over the littlest member of the body: the language.

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Because all the researchers, scholars, philosophers of all-forgotten ages know that the truth was in it from where could come the total freedom. The word of truth can and will realize or the word of deception can entrap in a bottomless pit. Humanity had or has to decide to whom to give head, to God who has given the word of truth for salvation or to Satan who brought the word of deception what brings only utter destruction. There is a tiny line but a huge difference, like between life and death; life gives to all - to choose. Everything is a matter of choice. Self in the beginning was with God following the text of the Bible. Like language, both were there from the very beginning with man, the first day of creation. However, once the Devil deceived with a false promise to man that 'you shall be like god' everything has been apart of humanity in that very instance. Mans self-identity was in his Creator, in his Maker, and in his Heavenly Father. For the moment, man had fallen, he ventures daily between the two sources of literature he has at hand. First, literature perverted by the Liar of humanity in all kinds of stories. Second, the category of literature that presents clearly who is man, from where is he coming, and why is here, which are his tasks which waits to be performed and where he is to go. In addition, like in the first studied aspect of the language, man has free choice to nourish his soul and spirit with food that will bring liberation or the final entrapment. Everything says all the books of success concern with choice, our own choice. Sense of life is viewed by many scholars, researchers and philosophers from what kind of group man stands, for the one who decides for themselves, or from the one that lets another to decide in their name. Whether it is about having an opinion, a will, an attitude or open mind, no one can consider that he or she is not affected by the big boys played on TV screens, or by the ideologies tested in certain geographical zones,

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or music rhythms launched like ultra wave radiation. Life is connected, interrelated - maybe more than reveling in Avatar (2009) directed by James Cameron19.

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