I've noticed something in Deus Ex no one mentionsThematically the game is taking you (the player, through Denton who is named after Jesus) into a world of conspiracy through at first hard to swallow stuff (taxes) then forcing you into itThe ending is you choosing if you trust the old guard, Kazinsky, or yourself (through JC) to rule. That part of the ending is important because JCDenton doesn't really have particularly specific philosophical worldviews himself in the game, even as it progresses he's a mid-toeing skeptic whose questions exist to create better arguments.So what actually happens by the end? JC (Jesus Christ) gets told by Helios (who is the God of the Sun) to merge with him.The Sun/Sol/Gold in Alchemy represents the final step of the process, that happens after Rubedo. Helios drags Denton symbolically to create an Alchemical merger that eternalizes JC as a literal God through esoteric subtext
>JC it's a bomb!
>>735013580Have you heard of questions?
>>735013580JC also ends up being 'the son or manifest form' of Helios (Sun/Sol/God as a Singular) who is a more abstract idea. While JC represents a more curios innocent and diverging 'Christian' position, Daedalus/Icarus/Helios is the more classical 'all knowing' one which parallels Christianity's relation with Hellenism across history, like the Renaissance and advancement in Science only happening with the Christians translating and gaining access to Greek writing.
