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Nicholas Hagger's Collected Poems contained 30 volumes of his poems
that reflect his quest for the One. Life Cycle and Other New Poems
contains volumes 31-34 and presents the vision of unity to which
his quest has led. 'Life Cycle' is a reflection on the path and
pattern in our lives, and on twelve seven-year ages from infancy to
advanced old age. 'In Harmony with the Universe' presents poems on
the soul's harmony and oneness with Nature. 'An Unsung Laureate'
focuses on public events and the conflicts within Western society.
'Adventures in Paradise' recounts journeys to remote places that
have echoes of Paradise, including the Galapagos Islands and
Antarctica - and reflections on evolution and global warming.
Hagger derives his inspiration from the 17th-century Metaphysical
poets and seeks to unite the later Augustan and Romantic
traditions. These poems reconcile the soul's harmony with the
universe and the conflicts in public life, and are within the
poetic tradition of Wordsworth and Tennyson. They add significantly
to Collected Poems, Classical Odes and Hagger's two poetic epics,
Overlord and Armageddon, also published by O-Books (the manuscripts
and papers for which are held in the Albert Sloman Library at the
University of Essex). They carry forward his Universalist approach
to poetry which unveils an ordered universe behind the apparent
chaos of world events.
Nicholas Hagger's Collected Stories covered five volumes containing
1,001 very short stories detailing five decades (from the 1960s to
the 2000s) in the life of Philip Rawley, whose demise was
misleadingly announced at the end of the fifth volume. This sixth
volume contains 201 stories and deals with the chill of winter,
impending old age. These mini-stores present a wide range of
characters, and their follies and flaws. They offer a complete
literary experience in a page or two, and their combination of
opposites derives its inspiration from the 17th century: Dr
Johnson's description in his 'Life of Cowley' of the wit of the
Metaphysical poets as "a combination of dissimilar images" in which
"the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together". They
are verbal paintings that present an image in action and reveal a
poet's eye for significant detail. Hagger's stories are innovatory
in their brevity. They are imagistic, economical and vivid, and
cumulatively reflect the Age. They are ideal for short
concentration spans: reading on journeys or in bed. Individual
stories drop into the consciousness like a stone into a well,
leaving the mind to reflect on the ripples. These imaginative
stories in clean prose make excellent reading and contain memorable
images and studies of character.
These stories serve as an introduction to Nicholas Hagger's five
volumes totalling 1,001 stories (an echo of The Thousand and One
Nights, or Arabian Nights). They are grouped in two parts which
reflect the two aspects of the fundamental theme of world
literature outlined in his A New Philosophy of Literature: 'Follies
and Vices' and 'Quest for the One'. These stories condemn follies
and vices in relation to an implied virtue - more than 150 vices
are listed in a Preface - and present moments of heightened
consciousness in which the universe is perceived as a unity.
In King Charles the Wise, Nicholas Hagger celebrated Prince
Charles's humanitarian vision and foresaw the birth of a united
world. In The Coronation of King Charles he celebrates the coming
Carolingian Age. The hope is that all the divisions within the UK
and problems of humankind will be resolved under a new democratic
World State working to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat
famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world's environmental
and ecological problems of climate change and global warming; and
that King Charles, Head of a Commonwealth of 53 nation-states, will
work to bring his humanitarian vision to all the world's nations.
Following the tradition of Ben Jonson's 17th-century court masques
in verse and of his own masques The Dream of Europa and King
Charles the Wise, which incorporate the blend of mythology and
history and five sections (prologue, antimasque, masque, revels and
epilogue) found in all masques. Hagger sets the third masque in his
trilogy in London's Banqueting House, where masques were performed
before James I. This coronation masque contains three pageant
entertainments that are viewed by King Charles before his
coronation and contrast the disorder and political chaos before his
reign with the order and harmony of his new Carolingian Age. His
philosopher-King's concern to benefit the lot of all humankind is
applauded by the Universalist God of the One who assumes protean
forms - the gods of all faiths including Biblical Israel's Yahweh
and Olympian Zeus - and cares for all creation, and watches over
him. King Charles, co-author of Harmony, is shown as presiding over
what promises to be an Age of Universal Harmony.
Since 1945 the UN has failed to prevent 162 wars and the
proliferation of nuclear weapons, and there is talk of a Third
World War involving the Middle East, the Baltic states and North
Korea. Competing nation-states seem powerless to achieve world
peace under the UN. Continuing a tradition that began with the 1945
atomic bombs, Nicholas Hagger follows Truman, Einstein, Churchill,
Eisenhower, Gandhi, Russell, J.F. Kennedy and Gorbachev in calling
for a democratic, partly-federal World State with sufficient
authority to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine,
disease and poverty, and solve the world's financial and
environmental problems. In World State Hagger sets out the
historical background and the failure of the current political
order of nation-states. He presents the ideal World State - its
seven federal goals, its structure and the benefits it would bring
- and sets out a manifesto that would turn the UN General Assembly
into an elected lower house of a democratic World State.
In The Fall of the West Nicholas Hagger examined the evidence
for the origin of Covid and whether it has been used as a
bio-weapon between West and East. He saw the US, worried by
China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative in 140 countries, as
collaborating with the Western Syndicate’s New World Order based
on the Great Reset advocated by Schwab’s World Economic Forum and
the UN’s Agenda 2030. He saw an authoritarian New World Order
that could accommodate Russia and China as being established before
a democratic World State. In The Golden Phoenix (which
completes a quartet that includes The Syndicate, The Secret History
of the West and The Fall of the West and is also a
sequel to Peace for our Time), Hagger carries the story forward
from Ukraine’s being a corridor between the Black Sea and Europe
for Russian natural gas to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2019
Hagger was invited to Russia to give a lecture in Moscow on a
supranational World State to an audience which included men in
military uniform, and he received several awards, including the
Russian Ecological Foundation’s Golden Phoenix lapel badge. He
was asked to write two letters to Putin and was in contact with
Putin’s advisers. The phoenix rises from ashes, and Hagger
considers whether the West is rising from the ashes of its
withdrawal from Afghanistan to advance its technocratic New World
Order by supplying arms to Ukraine and blocking Russian gas; or
whether a Russian authoritarian New World Order is rising from the
ashes of the defunct Soviet Union to dominate southern Ukraine, and
eventually some former Soviet territories, in alliance with
China’s Belt-and-Road New World Order in 140 countries; or
whether the supranational democratic global New World Order he
outlined in World State and World Constitution is
rising from the ashes of the Second World War like a golden
phoenix. The Russian Foreign Minister has said that NATO is in
effect in a war with Russia, and that there is a real danger of a
Third World War, and Hagger assesses the likely outcome of the
current conflict.
"The Rise and Fall of Civilizations" is a sequel to "The Light of
Civilization", the most monumental study of the history of
civilizations for several generations, where Nicholas Hagger
describes religion as the basis for civilization rather than one
element in its cultural expression. Saints, mystics, gurus,
prophets, religious founders - it is these that drive history
rather than kings and politicians. Here, he outlines the patterns
of the civilizations themselves, providing a unique interpretation
of the dynamics of their origin, rise and collapse, and how one
civilization leads into the next. Essential reading for students of
history, it will interest all seeking to understand historical
patterns and where our civilization is headed today.
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