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The ascent from hell is also read as birth imagery: life and death mirror each other, and to be born one must die.
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Birth
The lecture proposes a symmetry between birth and burial: souls enter from darkness through the mother's womb and return to the original world through burial in darkness.
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The lecture proposes a symmetry between birth and burial: souls enter from darkness through the mother's womb and return to the original world through burial in darkness.
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"Also, if you study this poetry very closely, you study the imagery, what he's describing almost is a baby leaving the womb, right? Because..."
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"animals the trees the vastness of nature now these are things that surprise us and they force us to ask the question why so..."
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"and then for us to return the soul back into the original world we bury this person in darkness and that carries that person..."
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"...need to understand about him is that he is of noble birth, and therefore he's a participant in this conflict. So the northern Italian..."
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"...The problem is that Beatrice's family is of more noble, aristocratic birth than Dante. Now, at this time in history, all marriages are arranged,..."
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"...need to understand about him is that he is of noble birth, and therefore he's a participant in this conflict. So the northern Italian..."
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"...The problem is that Beatrice's family is of more noble aristocratic birth than Dante. Now, at this time in history, all marriages are arranged...."
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"...and so whereas Homer will give us Greek civilization and the birth of Western civilization the Iliad will create the Dark Ages about a..."
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"...comes in conflict with the old order and capitalism will give birth to social democracy all right which is a natural response to capitalism..."
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"...then it became much more mainstream and that led to the birth of bolshevism which became which was really crazy at that time but..."
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"...game in which we all play today okay so Britain basically birth this game but there were limitations to how far this game could..."
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"...is, how is it possible that one epic poem can give birth to a civilization? So, the thing to understand about Greek civilization is..."
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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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