THE FINAL THEORY PART THREE

In parts One and Two, I have set forth the background information as the foundation of my final theory to the keys to the LOST story line. This is my personal opinion, if I was structuring the story to a mind-exploding conclusion.

The Lost Experience can be best summarized as human beings taking a long journey of good, evil, faith, science, redemption and final judgment. The Lost Souls (the 815ers, the Others, Dharma) are all caught in a layered spirit world. It is the merger of ancient religion and science which created the pyramids and Temples. The need to prepare in one's lifetime for the journey through the afterlife is a key component in the ancient texts. Speculate that the ancient civilizations actually found the technology portal(s) to the afterlife as a means of helping their rulers and gods journey through the afterlife. This puts the characters in a supernatural world, where our known concepts of science, physics and technology become immaterial.

There are various levels in the afterlife, according to a person's beliefs and final judgment. Many could toil in the pagan-secular world after death, which may be tilling ancient fields, or living in a parallel earth civilization. It could be real or an illusion to test one's free will or faith. Many could be found worthy of eternal paradise in heaven, or in reincarnation into a higher life form. Many of the unworthy, evil or damned could be found on the road to hell, chaos or non-existence. There is no right or wrong answer to how the road map of Death could play out.
But most literary civilizations have common touchstones for which morality creates the mortar to create a solid society.

I believe that the characters are dead. Dead before we even saw them in S1E1. But dying once on earth does not mean that you cannot die multiple times more during one's journey through the afterlife. Dead is Dead but the Dead could be Alive in another plane of existence. One could compare it to running through levels of an action video game. Each one of those levels is managed by angels or guardians, whose sole mission is to sort out the souls for judgment, rehabilitation or demise. It can be levels of existence: earth life, to a faux earth existence in another plane like earth, to a pagan paradise (toiling in the fields, working for the gods), to an underworld where souls are tested, to various levels or hell to various levels of spiritual enlightenment, to the final way station before final judgment. It would function as a pre-heaven Eden and a pre-hell Pit of Destruction. The Island is like an airport terminal, with various gates or portals to different dimensions, different times, different realms of existence. The Guardians bring souls to the Island in a collective manner, in order to retain their human beliefs, instincts, experiences, fears, weaknesses and strengths, in order to see if one's human instincts (destruction, deceit, corruption, deadly sins) have been reformed in order to pass on to the next level of the afterlife.

The island is controlled by supernatural beings (angels, lesser gods) whose sole job is to open and close the gates, guide souls through their journey, test them and wait for rulings from the higher authorities (archangels, higher gods). The concept of a heaven-hell dynamic comes to mind when Widmore was "banished" from the island for having relations with an outsider. Just as angels who went to earth to guide humans fell from grace when they had relations with mortals, they were banished from heaven and stripped of their positions in the eternal guild. If there is enough of those banished angels and rebellious counterparts who have snuck onto the island as soul hijackers (demons, Satan's minions). As one could imagine, banished angels and demons who have been left to toil in the materialistic groveling world of mortal human beings would be like be sentenced to live in a pig sty as a pig. How one comes to reconcile redemption with revenge is the key element of the stated War.

The island contains workers who have been sent to the way station to maintain the portals, and to be players in the passion plays of the deceased souls through their journey to final judgment. They may or may not know that they are merely small gears in a large cosmic machine. They may know the Rules and are content to play their roles. Their leaders may know the Truth of the existence. For in all states, knowledge is power. Workers seeking to change their lot in life (and in death) could conspire with fallen angels and demons to take paradise by force. This is a biblical aspect of the final battle between Satan and God for the throne of Heaven. The Island, as the nexus point between the worlds, will the the final battleground for the forces of good and evil. That is why the statement "this only ends once," is a preview of the struggle.

Jacob and MIB are equal gatekeepers. One continues to do his job and brings souls to the Island for final judgment. MIB has grown weary of the human beings, and that they are unworthy of everlasting grace or immortality. Initially, this is viewed as a political or philosophic debate between to the two gatekeepers. But over time, one or both become weary of this vocation and turns to the dark side (the sealed gates to forehell and hell) to gather forces. Since the "good" guys are in charge, the "bad" guys have been looking for ways to gain the high ground. Example, Ben's obsession (and possible instructions) to find a cure for the island infertility problem was an attempt to create new corruptable souls in a place that cannot give birth to souls (the underworld). It is like creating superbeings that should not exist as a means of overthrowing the existing order, as Germany tried to do with its genetic experiments in World War II.

At the same time, those higher beings may have grown weary of the lack of respect to the ancient gods and traditions. Think the Eye of Ra story, where mankind had fallen into their own materialistic, sinful self-absorbed lives. The gods sent a beast to destroy all mankind as the ultimate punishment. There may be a simple problem of strength in numbers: more and more human beings do not pass through the gates to heaven, thereby growing the ranks of the demonic realm. Jacob bringing more and more souls to the Island is a desperate mission to find more "good" people to off-set the growing forces of evil. So both Jacob and MIB could be playing the same "recruitment" game to find characters who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause they believe in (good or evil). Only great sacrifice can lead to great reward (higher powers).

Some one will open the gates to create the final battle. Free will of individuals caught in the cross fire will control their fate. Choices will have consequences. It will be shown that everyone we have seen (The Others, Dharma, 815ers, ect.) started at the same position, had the same choices to make, but cast their souls to good or dark side. If the dark side wins, there is no hope for humanity - - - the gates would be closed and mankind on earth would be treated like mortal animals. Chaos would reign on earth and throughout the universe. If the good side wins, with the help of the imperfect human souls, there is hope for mankind and there will be a place for those souls in the eternal paradise promised to them.

The climax prediction is that the forces of good and evil, whether represented by angels, demons, supernatural beings like Smokey, Egyptian gods with part human-part animal bodies, in a clash of the ages. Winner takes all.

In the end, there will be bodies littering the beaches and jungle clearings. A bird is startled from the brush as an exhausted Hurley stumbles forward to the clearing as night begins to fall. Standing in front of him is the leader of the evil forces. "You are the last," he will say. "Last what?" Hurley pants. Then with his final labored breath, Hurley asks the man to show "his true form." The man smiles with pointed teeth, and his body transforms into a devil. The devil shouts "I am the victor! I am the true - - -" when he is hit by a massive bolt of lightning, which sends Hurley hurling back into the brush. Then a heavy rain falls upon the Island. Bodies hit by the rain turn into black smoke that rise upward.

Next scene, there is a modern ship on the horizon off the island. A man in a suit and tie is walking down the beach and sees the craft. He yells to a person (off camera) "Did you bring more people here?" He gets no answer. He comes closer to the camera. He is frustrated. "Answer me this: why do you keep bringing people here?" The camera pans toward Hurley, sitting on the beach. He looks up at the man and says "Dude, to save them." Then the camera zooms into Hurley's right eye, and faintly superimposed thereon is quick flashes of all the 815ers . . . then dissolve into the LOST logo.