Theurigism in the works of William Golding
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‘Theurgism’ in the Fictional World of William Golding
Dr. Prakash Bhadury
Lecturer (English), NIT, Hamirpur, H.P., India
ABSTRACT: Theurgy usually is the practice of trying to gain the knowledge and conversation of one 's
Higher Self, or Inner God. Two inter related stages of development i.e. progression of the Self and progression of the World occur successively but until self is not purified one cannot do any good to the society as the individual is the unit of any given society and the fictional world of William Golding while showing the regression in the present day Godless world, ushers in the way to the transformation of the world via the individual souls to God’s timeless presence. Theurgist contribution has been unconscious percolation of the original purity of man and non-duality against essential human depravity. This paper explores how a religious mythopoeia is constructed in the background of spiritual void and moral relativism of the post–war era while showing, as a true evolutionist, that the secret of evolution is the manifestation of perfection which is already in every being. A pantheistic belief is insisted on attaining the mythic powers of perception for uniting the trinity of head, heart, and soul so that the whole man is born, who alone could be capable of right faculty of judgment and could avoid any distortions common to limited beings. The characters in Golding fiction prove the dignity and importance of human action through which they find a pattern that neither man
Research in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Available online at http://www.iasir.net
ISSN (Print): 2328-3734, ISSN (Online): 2328-3696, ISSN (CD-ROM): 2328-3688
AIJRHASS is a refereed, indexed, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and open access journal published by
International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR), USA
(An Association Unifying the Sciences, Engineering, and Applied Research)
‘Theurgism’ in the Fictional World of William Golding
Dr. Prakash Bhadury
Lecturer (English), NIT, Hamirpur, H.P., India
ABSTRACT: Theurgy usually is the practice of trying to gain the knowledge and conversation of one 's
Higher Self, or Inner God. Two inter related stages of development i.e. progression of the Self and progression of the World occur successively but until self is not purified one cannot do any good to the society as the individual is the unit of any given society and the fictional world of William Golding while showing the regression in the present day Godless world, ushers in the way to the transformation of the world via the individual souls to God’s timeless presence. Theurgist contribution has been unconscious percolation of the original purity of man and non-duality against essential human depravity. This paper explores how a religious mythopoeia is constructed in the background of spiritual void and moral relativism of the post–war era while showing, as a true evolutionist, that the secret of evolution is the manifestation of perfection which is already in every being. A pantheistic belief is insisted on attaining the mythic powers of perception for uniting the trinity of head, heart, and soul so that the whole man is born, who alone could be capable of right faculty of judgment and could avoid any distortions common to limited beings. The characters in Golding fiction prove the dignity and importance of human action through which they find a pattern that neither man
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