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…principle. This is the principle of regeneration. According to Cotton Mather in The Wonders of the Invisible World one can regenerate. Mather says "Before the trial of this prisoner several of her own children had frankly and fully confessed not only…

…lost the struggle against the angry current as Poseidon lifted his body, in an invisible form, and carried him to shore safely. Theseus had been looking for a sign from a god. He had been looking for one all his life. When he was old enough his mother told…

…everyone's lives depending on what they deserve. Bad people have to learn they lesson and good ones get what they have earned. She always hides behind a veil of a mystery and anonymity, until she meets a man just as eccentric as she is. Though she has helped so…

…, formed by the infallible sculptor, in contrast, "the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out" with the help of a "singularly appropriate education" by a man who embodied the "savage violence of the frontier brothel". Regardless of the fact that this "ideal…

…, in Edinburgh. While there, he began giving public speeches. At the age of twelve he had already began his studies at Edinburgh and was very successful at school; he became the leading man of English letters in his time. Writers were the great "money agents…

…circulates, and the nature of the air we breath. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world of its own shadows"(47). Frankenstein sees…

…, found a cave one day which he entered and found in it (according to Plato's account) a hollow cast-brass horse with a dead man's body inside. He discovered that the ring which he pulled off the dead man's finger made him invisible when he put it on his finger…

…their old ways and were pulled into the new “civilized” ways. Today only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named Tayo, did not know himself…

…the imagination to think of Freemasonry, fraternal organizations and even Witchcraft. This is a ritual steeped in the esoteric world of mysteries, but yet it is seemingly Christian! This is the world of Spyros Sathi, the Magus of Strovolos. A man of great…

…, I too closed up to the world because I felt so much hurt in my little invisible heart that I wanted no more feeling and no more pain. So I went to sleep, to end a very long day. I have no idea how long I slept for, my kind can sleep for eons without even…