Mystical societies have been present all through the history and continue to dominate subjects of occultism, clairvoyance and divination. These societies have exclusive powers to know about the hidden secrets of the creation and people of all sorts visit them for consultations and for solutions of their problems.
The Gnostics, the Orphic Mysteries and the cult of the Isis were some popular mystical societies which practiced occult arts and served the common people as a source of spiritualism in interpreting any unfortunate events in life.
The reason that soothsayers remained popular in the ancient world was because they could interpret the future by studying the various expressions of nature. The people, in general, were always fascinated with their future or feared about the unknown happenings and hence, these soothsayers were often called on for advice. Even kings used to take consultations from soothsayers to ensure that their actions did not disturb the higher powers.
The consultations for conducting important tasks in life such as marriage are still carried out in eastern countries where priests are called in for the service. The priests have their set of ancient charts, comprising of mystical symbols, projecting the movements of the planets and their esoteric influence on human life. It is based on their interpretations that the right time for any particular activity is decided by the family.
Tarot card readings are also popular methods, initially used in the west to interpret the future. People who have beliefs in this form of divination regularly visit a tarot reader to seek advice from their tarot reading. Tarots are also becoming popular in the east and are increasingly used for carrying out tarot card readings or tarot reading to ensure that everything is normal before holding a marriage or starting a new business.
The science of tarot card reading is an ancient one and has been widely used by mystical gypsies traveling all across Europe and Asia and evoking strong spiritual sentiments of the unknown and the mysterious. Tarot reading specialists interpret the high symbolism in the tarot cards and associate them with the individual seeking the advice about his life. Tarot card readings not only warn about the arrival of any disaster or a misfortune, but also provide advice on how to avoid it.
Mystical societies have been promoting these secret sciences to ensure that human life remains connected to the other world and does not commit any acts that could provoke the mysterious forces of the universe. They practice certain acts of worship which have been used since early times as a tradition to keep the spiritual powers in control and not make the higher beings unhappy in any manner.
These mystical societies exist in every culture present on earth and insist that they are closer to God and have constant interaction with angels and other supernatural beings. Mystical groups remained underground and the spiritual practices are usually transmitted within the same family or group and no outsider is allowed to have access to them. Many claim their knowledge to be superior to science.
"We are unique in this country in the way we describe and define race and ascribe to it characteristics that other cultures view very differently", those are the words of Thomas C. Sawyer who is a chairman of House Sub-committee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel. Although the question of race and ethical belongingness could seem to be of a minor importance in other countries, it is a very debatable and controversial issue in the States. America is probably the only country in the world which holds so many nationalities and races on one piece of land. And although America is considered to be a very democratic entity, it has a rather autocratic approach to the race identification of its citizens. The whole concept of one-drop rule has its roots in the colonial America, when there were only few races inhabiting the States. There were whites, blacks, and Native Americans (Indians). The antebellum South promoted the rule as a way of enlarging the slave population with the children of slave holders. By the nineteen-twenties, in Jim Crow America the one-drop rule was well established as the law of the land. As one can see, the notion of one-drop rule was made out of the convenience of slave masters, who wished for the slave population to grow. It was for the purpose of having more working force, although a lot of times slaves had skin as fair as their masters’. That is where all the confusion with determining one’s racial belongingness started. Nowadays, although two centuries have elapsed, America is facing a problem of defining one’s race. The mixture of peoples living in the States is incredible, it is very hard for a person to identify to what extent he or she is black or white, Asian or Hispanic. Although this racial issue should concern all mixed “bloods" somehow one-drop rule considers black and white mixtures solely. This approach galvanizes a number of racist issues, which are mostly diminished in other inter-racial mixtures such as Asian and white or Indian and white. It is believed that person with just a little of black blood is not considered white even if his or her great-great-great-great grandfather was black and the rest were whites. On the other hand such person will be totally accepted by black population and partially or totally rejected as white by whites. The issue of black vs. white in case of blended blood is not only racial, but it is truly political now and consequently economical. There are great numbers of economic issues that are associated with distinguishing of the races. Such as affirmative-action programs for black population as for the minority group is an important aspect for most of its representatives. They receive certain privileges in a lot of aspects of life, such as education, work place, living arrangements, etc. Consequently one can view the one-drop rule as two sided, as it can have positive and negative effect. Politically it is not a constructive decision to let go off of all the privileges such minorities as black people receive, lobbying their interests in the government. I believe however, that the question is not in any political or economic benefits or damages that such groups can undergo. It is not a question of number of boxes in which one marks national integration, but a question of how one feels when he or she is unfairly prearranged to be something. An adult person should decide to which race and color he/she belongs and how one feels about it, and no one should indicate it. Even if there are two drops of black blood in a white or Asian person, the holder of those two drops has to decide to which race he/she belongs, especially because it’s an only a matter of social debates and not biological assessment. Canada has found an answer to this problem 50 years ago when it decided to drop the race question from its census and hasn’t return to it ever since. Now Canadians are only Canadians, with all the bloods they have in them being only their own and not a subject to governmental discussion. In conclusion to all being said above, I have to acknowledge that the elimination of ethical differences in legal papers will probably never happen in America, I do hope that any number of drops of different blood type will not result in racism or racial inequality.
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