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Used to describe how one act in the present can change fate and the larger world because levels of reality mirror one another.
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as above, so below
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Glossary
The principle that everything reflects everything else, allowing corruption of humans to become metaphysically significant.
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He says the metaphysical system has three exploitable principles: unity, symmetry or polarity, and as-above-so-below reflection.
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"...the world around him, okay? And the idea here is as above, so below, right? And this is a great secret of the universe...."
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"...you must have Satan okay and the third principle is as above so below and what this means is that everything is a reflection..."
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"...the first thought that came to my mind is about so below and i'm still thinking about it yeah yeah i just want to..."
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"...is cloaked by perversity some place the cause and heaven's on below but i beseech you to define the cause that seeing it i..."
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"...that cloud I came reaching the rays that on the shores below by now were spent. Oh, fantasy. That at times would snatch us..."
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"...angrily seeks out another's harm. This threefold love is expiated here below. Now, I would have you understand the love that seeks the good..."
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"...steps of which I spoke where Peter's vicar plants his feet. Below that point there may be small or ample tremors but here above..."
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"...learned that the eternal judgment remains unchanged, though a worthy prayer below makes what falls to you today take place tomorrow."
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"...outwardly as well, so radiantly visible. Who in the erring world below would hold that he who was the fifth among the lights that..."
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"...you come so quickly here? I thought to find you down below, where time must pay for time. And he to me, it is..."
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"...that high sun i was laid in recognizing there's a place below that only shadows not torments have"
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"...that high sun i was laid in recognizing there's a place below that only shadows not torments have a sign to sadness their lament..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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