Well in part 1 I covered a lot, but not all information that I feel important.  As what lead Cane to kill his brother Abel?  Jealousy; because God favored Abel’s offering of animal sacrifice over Cane’s vegetable and fruit offering.

  Jealousy; what we today sometimes refer to the green eyed monster. A monster like being that eradicates reasonable thinking and behavior. Jealousy is defined and rival resentment, success or advantage, mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness as in love or aims.

  When a person enters the mental street, there are many avenues to take or consider. They say many are one way streets which no end, just turn after turn leading into a vicious circle. It begins with losing sleep. One compounds also by self peer pressure, and subconsciously feelings of inferiority. One can substitute sound judgment with petty small animosities. These may all be small, but never underestimate small, small can multiply quickly. Ask anyone who has dealt with a large number of stupid.

  Fortunately most people can navigate on the mental street and realize that other opportunities are or will be available.

  No story on motivation would be complete without money. Money is not the root to all evil but the want of money is. Take a look at most people you know, with the economic situation like it is now most people aren’t that happy. Go online and check into making extra money, or part-time work, bill consolidation, you will quickly find yourself heavily bombarded with information. Most useless, scams, you may join Paid to Click, Paid to Read, free sites that make a lot of promises. But as short lived talk shows that ask a lot of questions, but don’t really offer sound advice. It won’t take you long to see that you are wasting your time. You may find a guru type claiming that you merely need to join X amount of sites as per recommended and joining under said guru of course. Then as you join you link them to each other and then surf or buy credits to advertise your sites.

   You stop most of your hobbies, no more wasting your precious time. You find yourself using most of your free time surfing, clicking, then auto surfing and after a few months has went by, you read and discover you have made $000.3. But then you read further and realize that free members do not get paid cash. In a heat of the moment, you delete about 75% of your list. So then you are up most of the night online again for information and this time you find an undiscovered goldmine! A pre-launch that if you are one of the first 5000 to “get in” you will be guaranteed a return of your investment within 2 months of going public!

  You quickly read over the highlighted areas and “It’s your day!” You make the decision to take it. Remember the mental street I mentioned before, well it is not likely that Good Sense joined you as you entered Opportunity Lane. Although Good Sense may have tried to get you to read the smaller writing about warnings. Remember the old adage, the bold print gives but the small print takes away?

  It will hit you when you get your credit card statement and now realize what you should have done. Quit trying to take shortcuts, think. Your grandparents and parents worked hard for many years to get what they have. They had to use an old crank type can-opener and maybe still do. They knew how to sacrifice, save and plan. Have you ever noticed that Grandma George Anna’s floors are so clean? You ask what she uses; guess what, an old corn straw broom and a mop manufactured by the blind. No electricity needed just elbow grease and time. No desire to keep up with the Jones. Just the desire to have her home clean, as cleanliness is next to Godliness! 

  Her motivation is God, family.      

Yes, we people. History has shown down through the years since Genesis days, of good Eve and Adams that maybe God had his doubts about placing us here. What might be a blessing to sometimes can be a hindrance to others?

As, we all know and confirm that people more than any creature that was made, by God seems to select ways to who they will show kindness too? Sure, there are some that have made wicked decisions that will haunt them forever while they are living on earth. So, who are we to judge? Well, we are the people.

Murders, pedophiles, rapist, embezzlers, crooked police, all race bigots that falls into this group call people. Plus, those I failed to mention somewhere within this group will be people that seeks to change. And, according to the word, of God can truly change. They only problem facing them will be the opinions, of the people. This judgemental creature that gets heated when you judge them accordingly.

But, then we are people. We speak highly about Apostle Paul being one great disciple in the scriptures. But, at one time his ways was totally against the ways God required, of his people. But, through divine intervention he made a change.

Adam and Eve, made bad decisions and Apostle Paul seems to made a good decision during their lifetime. But, we the people constantly judge according to the opinions, of the people. But sometimes the people can get things wrong about people. We all know it was the people that did what they did to him. That him being Jesus.

Sometimes there’s good in the people. And then.

            In order to begin this research, I first formed a research question of, “How does the religious symbolism of different characters shape the two novels, The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein?” Before I started the research, I already had interest in religious aspects of novels so I decided on the religious symbolisms. To further investigate this research, I searched all over Questia for scholarly journal articles that pertained to my research. Unfortunately, there weren’t many journals that related to the religious symbolisms but still, I excavated much useful information out of some articles that did relate. After looking over some journal articles, I went on the novels to find out details that I could use. During this process, I also scanned through the Bible because many passages throughout the Bible helped me understand the various religious symbolisms like Christ figure. Through the uses of all three resources, Questia, novels, and the Bible, I was able to form various explanations on the aspect of religious symbolism upon those two novels. In conclusion, I figured out how both authors of the novels displayed several symbolisms through their characters. Hawthorne used all three of her major characters to represent Adam and Eve, Christ, and Satan; this added something more unique to the novel, showing that complex connection to the Bible. Moreover, Shelley also displayed two of her characters to represent similar figures of the Bible, revealing how both authors extensively connected their major characters to the various symbolisms of the Bible.

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Research Question: How does the religious symbolism of different characters shape the two novels, The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein?

            Writers incorporate many symbolisms in their literature to emphasize or point out certain aspects of their piece and relating it to works of others. Out of all the symbolisms, religious symbolism is one of the most commonly used among many authors because it originates from perhaps the oldest book in history, the Bible. Moreover, the two authors, Mary Shelley and Nathaniel Hawthorne, display religious symbolisms throughout their works to symbolize their characters throughout the stories. For example, Hawthorne uses different religious symbolisms like Adam and Eve, Christ, and Satan to create more unique characters that serve as different religious symbols throughout the Bible. Also, Shelley similarly uses these symbolisms but she directs them into different directions to display different characters like the monster that Victor creates, throughout her piece. Through religious symbolisms, both authors develop significant points in their characters throughout their novels by relating them to various details of the Bible, creating multiple depths in the passages.

            Bible, throughout history of ages, has been one of the most significant books within the writers because it provides so much depth that authors can search and relate to. And surprisingly, Americans today live in a Christian culture because of the big influence of the puritans and pilgrims over the ages (117 Foster). Because so many people are influenced by the culture, Bible became one of the crucial books in literature where it is required to understand all the variety in symbolisms and literary devices. There are 1189 chapters in the Bible with thousands of events taking place throughout the centuries. With so many events and stories embedded within the single book, authors can relate their work as various symbols involving different characters, settings, objects, and many others. Religious symbolism is a significant part in Bible because literature has so many connections to characters in Bible like Christ, Paul, John, and others. Also, writers don’t have to be so straight in utilizing the Bible; many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic to illustrate even disparity or disruption (52 Foster). Therefore, Bible has so many uses that literary writers can take and mix them into their work as turn them into connections like religious symbolism, as shown through Hawthorne and Shelley’s works.

            Hawthorne displays various symbolisms of Adam and Eve, representing her characters Dimmesdale and Hester to display the similar characteristics of the characters. First of all, both Adam and Eve took place in the very beginning book of the Bible, Genesis. Because they were the first human creations upon earth, they were also the first sinners. Quoted from the Bible, “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good … she took some and ate it.” She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” The fruit was forbidden by God but Adam and Eve went against God, resulting in the ultimate consequence of sin. This parallels to Dimmesdale and Hester because they have also sinned resulting in consequences. Hester has conceived of a baby with another man other than her husband and is openly criticized by the public: “A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators… Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment… she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her…” (Hawthorne 47). Whereas Dimmesdale who committed the same iniquity, is the one questioning Hester of her sins, hidden away from all the public criticism: “I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer! Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him…” (Hawthorne 57). Hawthorne changes the situation in her characters in this way: only Hester is banned from the society whereas both Adam and Even were banned from the garden of life. But this change is what drives the story because Dimmesdale faces the deepest guilt inside of him, torturing him in every second of his life until he finally reveals the truth by the end (Hawthorne 119). Moreover, Hester still faces the guilt deep inside of her because her intercourse with Dimmesdale resulted in creation of a human being, Pearl (Hawthorne 49). As both of the characters continue throughout the story, Hester creates different relations to Adam and Eve, relating their aspect of guilt inside each one of them.

            As for Shelley, she demonstrates complexity of relationship between the monster and Adam. For example, Adam was created by God similar to how the monster was created by victor, having that bond with their masters. However, the irony in here is that Adam was created by God in a perfect state; the monster wasn’t. The creation was described by Victor as a wretch having ugly features with horrifying feeling just by the glance of it: “Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous” (Shelley 52). Therefore, the creation goes back to symbolize the state of Adam after he ate the fruit of knowledge. Through the fruit, Adam received the dreadful sin which tortured him throughout his life and even until the end of his death. The monster similar to Adam is tortured throughout his life by the sin of being born into this world with such horrifying features and inhuman-like qualities: “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed” (Shelley 121)? This parallels to the feeling of Adam after his expulsion because now he has that burden of sin upon his back without the support of God (Goodall 13). For the monster, he has the burden of having a torturous life with terrible features without the support of Victor who ran away from his creation (Shelley 52). Even though Adam and the monster have many difference in their features, their

creation into the world of sin is closely related, especially by comparing Adam’s torture to that of the creation’s.

            Another religious symbolism that Hawthorne incorporates into his book is one of the most commonly used one, the Christ figure. Similar to the deeds of Jesus, where he sacrificed himself for the better of the people, Dimmesdale in Hawthorne’s book plays the similar role. The puritan society is corrupted at its base because many of the citizens are hypocrites, blaming others on sins that they also have done. This is present even by the beginning of the book where puritans are blaming Hester for the single sin she committed; the society ignores the fact that hundreds of others also committed the sins but chooses to use Hester as a scapegoat: “Had a roar of laughter burst from the multitude, – each man, each woman, each little shrill-voiced child, contributing their individual parts…” (Hawthorne 49). Her sin of adultery causes her to have an illegitimate baby named pearl and the tragedy behind this story is that Dimmesdale was the one who provided the seed (Hawthorne 174). Even though Jesus didn’t sin a single time in the world, Hawthorne still relates Dimmesdale as a Christ figure to show the flaws in humanity. Throughout the book, readers can observe the tortures that Dimmesdale went through, especially by the constant throbbing of his chest mentioned several times in many passages: “While thus suffering under bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul, and given over to the machinations of his deadliest enemy…” (Hawthorne 117). When relating Dimmesdale’s pain to that of Christ’s, they are very similar in the way that both of them are suffering from the harms of the world. Christ endured all the harsh treatments of the Romans and the Jews, whipped with flagrums which had shards attached to the ends of the whip, ripping off the skin of its victim every time it is unleashed. While Christ suffered the physical harms of the world, Dimmesdale suffered the internal suffering of the guilt inside: “It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him… that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity…” (Hawthorne 119). Even though he had the same responsibility as Hester for bearing that illegitimate child, he still stands in his prominent position as the preacher while watching Hester living outside of town as an outcast (Hawthorne 59). This feeling tortures Dimmesdale continuously throughout the book, as if it is burning up his chest every time he sees the mother and the child. Even though the sufferings were different as one suffered externally and other did internally, they both represent the sacrifice for the good, declaring themselves “the one sinner of the world,” for the benefit of others (Gartner 2).

            Similar to Dimmesdale, Shelley creates a character that resembles Christ in sacrificing his own life for the protection of others: Frankenstein. Frankenstein as explained throughout the story, is described as a adventurous and young youth wanting for the answer to the mystery of science, especially of reincarnation: “The astonishment which I had first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture… and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light” (Shelley 47). This aspect of him might not be the similarity to Christ but as Foster once quoted, “they don’t have to hit all the marks (Foster 121),” meaning that Christ figures don’t have to be the same as the real Christ. In fact Foster quotes again, saying, “Don’t even have to be good (Foster 121),” revealing how some Christ figures are even opposites in various cases. Therefore, when one looks at Frankenstein carefully in the details, he actually shares so many characteristics of a Christ figure. For example, his suffering is immense through the novel, both internally and externally. Because Frankenstein created that terrifying being into this world, he feels this heavy guilt inside of him; the consequences are murders of several close members. As Frankenstein cries, “From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth… And my father’s woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home – all was the work of my thrice-accursed hands” (Shelley 79)! While in the state of running and hiding from his own creation, his living conditions are horrible as well as his mental condition; he is always feeling unsafe of the danger of the monster approaching him in every second. Even when Frankenstein avoided the monster for several years while trying to get together with his fiancée, the danger comes back haunting him forever with the horrible murders: “I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs… The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips” (Shelley 173). The sufferings that Victor goes through reflect of the sufferings of Christ regardless of the difference of the causes. Moreover, both of the victims die by the end, symbolizing the ultimate sacrifice for the greater cause and the benefit of their society.

            Just like how Dimmesdale sacrificed himself for the better of the puritan society, Victor Frankenstein also sacrifices for similar motives, serving as the religious symbol for Christ figure. The monster the Victor creates wants only one thing from this master: to create a partner to interact with. However, Victor, afraid of the result of making another monster, refuses that deal and remains in avoidance of his creation. Therefore, only thing that Victor faces is tragedy: innocent people dying around him without any ways to prevent it from occurring. Therefore, Frankenstein chooses the disheartening way of suicide: “Oh! When will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the daemon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die and he yet live” (Shelley 184). Because Victor suicides, Frankenstein has no more reason to kill innocent people – it was only for the revenge of Victor’s abandoned promise. As a result, the society becomes peaceful again without the agitations of the monster roaming around town. This symbolizes Frankenstein as a Christ figure because through his sacrifice, he was able to save the society from potential dangers. Even though Victor wasn’t the most Christ-like person to begin with, many of his acts make the connection to Christ, making him the Christ figure of the novel.

            As there are several Christ figures in both novels, there also exist the antagonists of Christ – Satan. From the very beginning, Satan was originally an angle serving God as his master; however, his greediness and desire for power went out of control, trying to obtain the divine power of God (Isaiah 14:12-15). Therefore, Satan was sent down from heaven as a form of punishment and descended into the depths of hell, suffering in the darkest and fiercest of all places (Luke 10:17-20). Established in this kind of background, Satan works to interfere in all of God’s good deeds including the roaming of Jesus Christ (Matthew 4:1-11). One of Satan’s main act in Bible was his struggle in trying to destroy Christ out of existence; however, that was known to be impossible (Colossians 1:15-17). Even though Christ died on the cross, his divine power was beyond the understanding of the devil, resurrecting after three days (John 11:25-26).

            Coming from this setting, Satan is quite correlative to a character in The Scarlet Letter: Chillingworth. Chillingworth reveals many characters of Satan throughout the story, working to disrupt the Christ figure, Dimmesdale. Even from the beginning of the story, Chillingworth makes a hideous entrance: As Hester stands in the scaffold, Chillingworth is glaring through, giving her the Satan-like look with such hatred (Hawthorne 52). In the story, Chillingworth hates Hester for having an affair with Dimmesdale, making a baby; however symbolically, this represents the tension between Satan and Christ, Satan trying to destroy the existence of Christ. As Chillingworth tries to destroy Dimmesdale in various methods, he feels as if he is succeeding: “A sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit, hath immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame. Would you, therefore, that your physician heal the bodily evil” (Hawthorne 113)? However, even though Dimmesdale is weakened every single day by the poisonous medicine of Chillingworth, he is symbolically becoming stronger. As mentioned before, as Jesus Christ suffered through the cross and died, his sacrifice for the world was so great that Satan’s efforts in killing Christ was worthless if not helpful towards God’s ultimate plan. Therefore, going back to The Scarlet Letter, Chillingworth indeed kills Dimmesdale through his medications but in the end, he feels empty: He seek for revenge and now he killed him – nothing more worthwhile was left to do. Again, this parallels to the biblical perspective of the result of Christ’s sacrifice, showing the connection through the Chillingworth and Satan.

            Similar to Chillingworth’s connection to Satan, Victor’s creation serves in that same relationship. For example, Victor creates the monster through his knowledge just like how God created Satan from the beginning. At first, Satan was supposed to be an obedient angel, following God’s orders and commands but as time passed, Satan shows his disobedience, separating from God (Luke 10:18). In Frankenstein, Victor creates the monster in trying to achieve the never before tried experiment in reincarnating a creature through non-living objects (Shelley 51). However, Victor’s success in creating the creature becomes a danger to him because of its threats in wanting more from the master (Shelley 90). This parallels to the Bible because Satan wanted the God’s power to control all beings just like how the monster desired the power to make another living creature from Victor. Even though Victor is not a God literally, his power to reincarnate a creature symbolically represent the features of God. Moreover, Satan constantly harasses Jesus throughout his time on earth, using vicious temptations to destroy the Christ (Matt 4:1-11). In the novel, Frankenstein, the creation constantly haunts his own master with demands for another creation like himself, which Victor refuses to: “I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable” (Shelley 149). The creation lives to revenge his own master, struggling to increase the entropy of Victor’s life and make him as frightened as possible. As the demon speaks, “It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night” (Shelley 149). This is another connection that can be made because just like Satan’s desire to destroy God’s plan of sending Jesus to save the world, Frankenstein desires to destroy master’s happiness to get what he wants.  In Satan’s case, he failed to destroy God’s plan to save the earth, resulting in nothing but emptiness (Hebrews 2:14). Similar in the novel, the demon fails to get his desire of a partner and only leads his master into suicide, resembling the emptiness of Satan in the result. The creation of Frankenstein shares similar characters of Satan, attempting to kill the Christ figure of the story but fails by the end, showing the connection to the aftermath of Satan’s acts.

            Both novels, The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein, utilize religious symbolisms as one of their key qualities in revealing different attributes within the main characters.  For example, Hawthorne displays various symbolisms in three of her main characters: Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Each character symbolically represent various figures in Bible like Adam and Eve, Christ, and Satan. Through their connections to each figures, their role in the story become more than just simple characters in a plot; they also represent parts of Bible that symbolizes the significance for the characters. Moreover, Shelley displays various religious symbolisms in her work Frankenstein as well. She uses two of her major characters, Frankenstein and his demon-like creation and connects them to various figures in the Bible, very similar to Hawthorne’s uses of symbolisms. Through the relationships that both authors create, using the religious symbolisms of the Bible, they display complex understandings of their main characters that readers can comprehend by incorporating different symbols throughout their work.

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Work Cited

-  Foster , Thomas. How to Read Literature like a Professor. 1st. London: Harper, 2003.    Print.

- Gartner, Matthew. “‘The Scarlet Letter’ and the book of Esther: scriptural letter and         narrative life.” Questia (1995): n. pag. Web. 11 April 2011.

-  Goodall, Jane. “Frankenstein and the Reprobate’s Conscience.” (1999): n. pag. Web. 14 April 2011.

-  Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Barnes&Noble Classic, 1850.       Print.

-  Shelley , Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Barnes&Noble Classic, 1818. Print.

-  The New Student Bible. Michigan: The Zondervan Corporation, 1986. Print.

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Masonry does not subscribe to any one religion, membership however cannot be attained without a verbal assertion that the candidate has a belief in God. Belief in God does is not necessarily interconnected with any culture or standard religious doctrine and can be wholly subjective, based upon an individual’s personal thoughts and experiences.

Philosophically, God can and does mean many things to many people….whether that be a large bearded being, sitting in the clouds over-seeing and directing humanity, creator of earth and all its life, or perhaps a conscious “goodness” that can be displayed in a person’s thoughts and deeds.

God could purely be considered as creator of life, an alien entity perhaps who once reaping the seeds of humanity in a series of DNA experiments. Controversial The possibilities of individual belief in God are endless….which leaves the agenda behind the symbol of the “all seeing eye” very open to interpretation.

In Masonic regalia, the eye is a common symbol, often portrayed with rays emanating from within, similar in appearance to depictions of sun rays, occasionally, stars and the moon are depicted within the rays.

Although, without being a high level mason, it is impossible to attain knowledge of the whole nature of Masonic symbols and understanding, however, it is widely available knowledge that to lower level masons, the “all seeing eye” symbol is a reminder that all are under the ever watchful eye of God, the great architect of the universe, who sees both the external actions and internal intentions (the heart) of all, the image of relentless scrutiny should then guide and remind all to behave in a benevolent and responsible manner.

The Eye of Providence

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The eye on the capstone hovering over a pyramid, as seen on the American Dollar bill, is often referred to as “The Eye of Providence” (a symbol also associated with some branches of masonry) – this is a very powerful image which gives rise to many interesting and controversial interpretations.

“Annuit Coneptis” was a motto added to the note by secretary of Congress Charles Thompson in 1782. Without providing a clear translation of the motto, he is quoted to say that the eye and the words “allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favour of the American cause.” “Annuit” means agree or favour and “Conteptis” means undertakings or endeavours – therefore the motto can be translated as “Providence has favoured our undertakings”

“Novus Ordo Seclorum” means “Mighty Order of Ages is Born Anew” – maybe the phrase “New World Order” coined by many world leaders may ring a bell with many of you.

Prior to the media hyped sound-bites, many conspiracy theorists had been discussing the concept of planned globalisation, a New World Order led by “Illuminate” – (those illuminated with secret knowledge wisdom and power).

Headed by a small group of shadowy elite, occult, super-rich and powerful individuals with big plans to take global governance of the planet (or as much of the planet as possible) by immoral means. Connections, control and corruption at the highest levels, politicians, sovereignty, economists, bank leaders, business leaders, media moguls, military leaders, top scientific minds (including control of what information is funded for study, what information can be released into the public domain and what is to remain hidden).

Many believe that maps and plans for a new world order were drawn up at the end of the second world-war and the plan is now only a short way from fruition.

A secret, silent plan of seemingly benevolent (for our own good) possession and enslavement of the main population……cattle in a pen (just comfortable enough not to make the cattle want to jump the fence)who can be worked, manipulated, watched, brainwashed, controlled, experimented on, drugged or culled on a whim.

In terms of the symbol on the dollar, it is mooted that the pyramid represents the world, with the capstone representing the Illuminate, the few with the ultimate power presiding over the whole. The eye represents the knowledge, power and secret wisdom of the elite. The capstone is hovering above, but is not quite in place, as their final game plan…globalisation, is not yet complete.

It is a human eye depicted in the symbol, it could be argued that God created man in his image, therefore the eye of God is the same of the eye of man…..or it could be argued that the eye represents man as God, men having the power of Gods over the lives of the majority of the population.

World Trade Centre “Oculus” Art Project 1998

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In “light” of the illuminating interpretations of the eye (particularly in respect of new world order), it is interesting to note that in 1998, artists Jones and Ginzel were commissioned to install an artwork project – entitled “Oculus” in the Chambers Street / World Trade Centre stations.

301 mosaic eyes were installed, on floors and walls – including a large glass and stone ultra-marine coloured vortex with an eye in the centre as the centrepiece.

The Third Eye

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The third eye, inner eye or mind’s eye a spiritual notion, often honoured in Hinduism and Buddhism by wearing a decoration on the forehead, between the eyes. This area corresponds to an energy point, or chakra on the body which when stimulated, can allow an individual to reach a higher level of consciousness, greater imagination, intuition….enlightenment.

Many believe that this location of the third eye is due to the corresponding position of the Pineal Gland (shaped like a tiny pine cone, the size of a pea) within the brain and that this gland, apart from its base physiological functions of regulation of thirst, hunger, circadian rhythms and sexual desire, it is also a direct link between the physical and spiritual worlds.

BIBLICAL REFERENCE

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GENESIS 3 –

4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.

5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

7 “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”

The serpent told Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree of knowledge – their EYE would be opened – Many argue that the original Hebrew should be translated as EYE – singular – not Eyes plural. This relates to not the eyes, the organs of sight ………but the eye of the mind, the third eye.

The opening of the eye……symbolising the birth of human spirituality and the beginning of the eternal life choice for all humans to do good or evil.

Surveillance

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“Knowledge is power “ – Sir Francis Bacon

It is virtually impossible to have missed the dramatic increase of use of surveillance technology in all aspects of society……. particularly for inhabitants of the UK.Whatever your personal view is regarding the level of surveillance in society, it is difficult to disassociate the image of the eye from the dystopian society so prophetically described in the George Orwell’s novel 1984, with “Big Brother” following every member of society to ensure that the system did not fail….disloyalty or dissent to in thought or deed was dangerous to the system and had to be dealt with immediately and harshly. This could only be achieved by surveillance.

The twenty first century was a technological turning point, the diversity and accuracy of surveillance equipment available would make even George Orwell’s blood run cold…the big question is, how far will the intrusion go before people say enough is enough?

 The Evil Eye

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The evil eye is the name given to a facial expression, given by a person (either intentionally or unintentionally) which has the ability to inflict bad luck or injury upon the receiver.

Virtually all cultures have texts or illustrations pertaining to “the evil eye” – texts including both the Old and New Testaments.

Many countries still have strong beliefs in the power of the evil eye and a large number of the population carry talismans to protect them from the potential curses of receiving “the look” – modern civilisations including Turkey, Mexico, Italy and Greece subscribe to this belief.

Not everyone possesses the ability to give the evil eye, and many may not be aware of their ability to afflict this curse – interestingly, those of us with green eyes were reputed to have the ability.

The Eye of Horus

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Sometimes known as the eye of Ra or Wadjet or Ujat – meaning “whole one”

The eye design was often seen on decorative items and amulets as it was thought to have healing and protective powers.

The eye was more than a simple design, as it was sacred geometry which contained mathematical information which enabled those with the knowledge to use it, to calculate fractions.

The eye was split into its component shapes – each shape is assigned with a set fraction of the whole, along with one of the six senses

1. ½ – smell
2. ¼ – sight
3. 1/8 – thought
4. 1/16 – hearing
5. 1/32 – taste
6. 1/64 – touch

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Interestingly, when these fractions are added up, they equal 63/64ths – not quite a whole 1 – Something is missing, a secret – perhaps a magical or spiritual ingredient which makes us whole.

The Eye of God

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Ok, not a symbol – but this incredible photograph was taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope and featured on their website in 2003.Viewers of the image dubbed it “The Eye of God”.The “eye” is the Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as “a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases” ejected by dying star.

Corporate Logos

Below, are just a few corporate logos / identities where the powerful image of the eye has been used as part of the external image.

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