Create the Hell of your dreams: Flex your creative muscles to design, build and furnish 9 infamous levels of Hell in the single player campaign mode, or spend a hellish eternity designing your own chaotic masterpiece from scratch in sandbox mode.To climb down the corporate ladder, you must gain the approval of the greatest and most feared devils in Hell, including the head honcho, Lucifer himself, as they evaluate your hard work as well as your sense of aesthetics and thriftiness! Just like all good (or bad) big corporations, Hell is a tightly run ship and under the watchful eye of Lilith from the HR department, you must devise the most creative ways to squeeze as much suffering as you can out of the sinners who will be spending eternity in this hot spot. Your task here is to craft new prisons for the lost souls and sinners who have found themselves ‘downstairs’. On the contrary, the path of acceptance, love and joy lifts them towards the clouds of Heaven, and might even open the gates of immortality.In Hell Architect you’re playing as, you guessed it, an architect of Hell. The mere slightest drop downwards-to anger, fear, apathy, guilt-and a person’s already on the road to Hell.
Ordinary people require a level of 200 to get up each morning and face the day even when they don’t feel like it. Hawkins created a consciousness scale with shame registering 40 and 1,000 reserved for the likes of Jesus and the Buddha. Force, endorsed by no less than Mother Theresa. Hawkins, a successful doctor who experienced an intense spiritual awakening, withdrew from the world to live in a state of mystical ecstasy. The Hell direction, on the other hand, naturally brings about the opposite: a regression to chaotic and pre-personal levels of being in which one does not even have a soul, only a mugshot with a crazed look in the eyes.ĭavid R.
The Heaven orientation makes one holy: radiant, calm, detached and capable of pure action for its own sake-such as creation, the most divine endeavor-without concern over outcome. Expanding upwards brings the light of spiritual truth and increasing identification with the realm of Being, while egressing in the Hell direction brings a state of lessened consciousness in which one is prone to a kind of demonic possession by emotion or ideology. Think of everyday consciousness as spanning a certain range required for a normal life. The Abrahamic religions-Judaism, Christianity and Islam-have their concept of Heaven and Hell, which in the wisdom tradition might stand for states of being viewed either as suffering or nirvana, or what psychology would call contentment versus misery. The following lines from the poem are used in the opening credits of the 1945 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray:įor some letter of the afterlife to spellĪnd said, ‘I myself am Heaven and Hell.’” The 11th-century Persian poem is not a tract on spiritual asceticism, but rather a celebration of wine, women and song.
You can often find a beautiful edition at a used bookstore for modest cost. One of them, translated in 1859 under the title The Rubai’yat of Omar Khayyam, was widely published well into the 20th century. The peak years of the British Empire saw the introduction of many ancient texts from the East, introduced by such scholar-adventurers as Sir Richard Francis Burton.
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