Christian Rosenkreuz's Rosicrucianism: A Philosophical Secret Society

The Lorax is a very universale book because it can relate to children and also adults. Its teaches us that production is not good for everyone and greed is a vile factor in distruction. Karl Marx believe that social classes cause coflict and that there should be no classes. This can easliy lead to positive or negative outcomes and in the Lorax it was negative for one person to controll all of the power. In The Lorax all means of prodution was own by the Once-ler, he did not let anyone else have a say in what goes on in producting Thneeds. Thneeds are 'something that everyone needs' an whil the Once-ler was making Thneeds he lost himself in it. The once-ler beame blind to the effects of his own monopoly.

The passage “The Undercurrent” written by Kellie Young, was penned to display the effects of influences in a person’s life. In the reading, Young imparts a tale about her overprotective mother. In the onset of the story, Young is paddling through a grand ocean on a surfboard but her mother’s voice will not leave her head. The voice relentlessly spiels on about the dangers of the ocean, poisonous sea creatures, and how surfing is such a life threatening activity as Young paddles further out into the waters. Young then begins to explain all of the ways her mother has kept her sheltered from the outside world and how the mother seems to always envision the worst possible case scenario. As the story progresses, Young begins to illustrate the ways she herself has started to become worried about any situation. For

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, human beings have been engineered and conditioned to have detailed traits and castes in society; however, the birthing methods of the world state seem virtually full proof, some characters in the novel deviate from this standard. Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson both alpha plus males; share a dislike for the world state. Bernard abhors it because of his physical defect, Helmholtz because of his psychological surplus.

A major similarity between Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and life in 2016 is how we are influenced. In Brave New World, Bernard Marx is heavily influenced by his peers and what society tells him to do. This is similar to 2016 because we are influenced by what our peers say and do to us as well as on social media. Social media was designed for peers to influence each other's ideas but over time has limited our ability to pursue other activities. As we mature we also become heavily influenced by trends set by our peers and it becomes less important to be ourselves and more important to follow our peers.

Human nature drives individuals to define the most perplexing concepts; however, understanding the true meaning refers to more than its denotation. The definition of justice proves to be a conflicting view point, dating back to Socrates’s attempted explanation in Plato’s The Republic. Within the first book, Socrates finds himself exposing the flaws behind three definitions of justice proposed by the traditionalists of Athens. Through Socrates’s ridicule of physical attributes equating to justice, he disproves these perceived virtues and conveys the necessity for a lack of physicality.

The 1960’s were a time of exponential transformations in the political and social structure, procuring texts composed with the intention of enlightening audiences of the shift in values and recent events, and undercurrent emotions such as frustration and pessimism. J. Miller believes that due to the requirement of blind faith in words, the 1960’s society ultimately raised “political questions about the limits of freedom and cultural questions too about the authority of the past”. Kubrick’s 1964 satirical film Dr Strangelove reflects upon these questions, exploring notions of the frustration at the equivocal nature of authority, and the fear of the unknown. Additionally, Stoppard’s absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1966) delves deeper

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the reader is introduced to a distant future in which most humans in the world have submitted free will in exchange for stability. In this world, people are mass produced in labs and are programmed as early as possible to be satisfied by their social standing and their jobs. Though this process of human production is perfect there is still a chance of an error. One of the errors in this process resulted in the character known as Bernard Marx.

Ordinarily, religion is one of the rationales of social orientations, that in one way or another influences the society’s social stability. This is because religion is the impelling force for regulations in the society as well as a destabilizing drive for transformation. Marx Weber together with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were very influential personalities in the course of the 19th century, and even now. In one way or another, these persons attempted to make plain as well as comprehensible social change, particularly in the aspect of religion in the society. Their perspectives on religion differ on some aspects. Even though their views on religion are diverse, they all seem to be in accord that

Aldous Huxley, the writer of Brave New World, gives an amazing look at where the world could end up with the lack of a moral compass and shows what happens when decisions are made by a select few. The novel shows how easily the government can take control and turn the common public into whatever robots they want them to be. It can turn civilized countries into places like North Korea, where the people have been lied to and have no insight to the rest of the world. The book gives the account of the protagonists’, Bernard Marx, journey to find the truth. It’s scary how insightful and how this could quickly become a reality in today’s society.

Throughout life there will be ups and downs and you cannot always be prepared for what’s to come. You are going to have friends that betray you like in Hamlet or you’ll be completely lost and confused as was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Or with coming to the end of your journey you begin to wonder what exactly you have accomplished or start to wish you had done more just as Beowulf had wished. Things don’t always seem like they will be going in a good direction but there are things in your life that need to be faced and defeated.

A Brave New World expresses three important concepts, Aldous Huxley uses literary devices to vocalize these three concepts through three main characters. Bernard Marx expresses pride, Helmholtz Watson expresses the desire for beautiful literature and John expresses his desire for freedom. These three men’s ideals symbolize something much larger than themselves, they symbolize the fundamental infrastructure of society.

Seligman, L., and Reichenberg, L.W. (2014). Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Systems, Strategies and Skills. 4th Edition. Pearson, Boston, MA.

Merriam-Webster defines the word gematria as, “a cryptograph in the form of a word whose letters have the numerical values of a word taken as a hidden meaning” and as “the cabalistic method of explaining the Hebrew Scriptures by means of the cryptographic significance of the words”. Simply put – gematria is one technique used for understanding sacred texts. This technique was derived from Greek influences and created by the practitioners of Jewish mysticism. As an essential piece to the Kabbalistic cosmological system, the belief is that God created the universe through the power of the numerical values of the Hebrew letters.

Transcendentalism was the philosophical movement that emphasized the break from increasing formalized religion in the 19th century. The leading figure of Transcendentalism was the writer and speaker Ralph Waldo Emerson. However, there were many other figures associated with Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden; Amos Bronson Alcott, father of Louisa May Alcott; and Margaret Fuller, an early feminist writer and editor. The 19th century Transcendentalists, in their purest sense, were supposed to believe that all people were joined together in their equality with nature. And, like most philosophy in 19th century America, it did not apply to women as much as it did to men; transcendentalists acknowledged women as sharing that same soul, but women still had to fight for their equality in a patriarchal society. Emerson gives the open definition of Transcendentalism as, “a whole connection of spiritual doctrine” (“Defining Transcendentalism”). Emerson, however, fails to wholly connect all; because of Emerson’s exclusion of women, “he did not fully endorse the aspirations of the women in his milieu” (Cole 413). Walt Whitman, on the other hand, was an exceptional transcendentalist in that his philosophy did not only apply to land-owning white men, but to women. Whitman argues for women’s equality by analyzing them under the scope of transcendentalism; he deconstructs gender boundaries, redefines women as sexual beings, and defends their respectability as such.

Google is a gateway to many things. You can look up pictures, videos, and articles. Just about anything can be found just in a few clicks and a few words typed up. We depend on Google to give us all the information and answers we need everyday but, it shouldn’t be that way. It’s nice to be able to get info very quickly but it’s also good to just think about things for yourself. People of Transcendentalism believe that individuals are capable of generating completely original insights with as little attention and defence to masters as possible. To them being independent and self reliant is everything. You can’t depend on Google for all your answers in life. Some things you can look up and it’ll be there for you but in life that’s just now how