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Great books contain universes and are constructed so that readers can access the secrets of the universe, enter a new universe, and create their own universe.
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Creation
Great books contain universes and are constructed so that readers can access the secrets of the universe, enter a new universe, and create their own universe.
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God creates perfect laws rather than static immortal bodies; created life inside the game needs cycles of corruption and death.
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Proto-Indo-European mythology is framed as a mythology of violence, struggle, dominance, and conquest, beginning with Man sacrificing Twin to create the world.
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Ancient sacred geometry is presented as an intuitive and imaginative science in which geometry, vibration, breath, and meditation allow practitioners to mimic creation and access divine energy.
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The corruption of plants, animals, and bodies is explained by a distinction between God's perfect laws or holy light and the mortal forms that arise from those laws.
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Imagination is an extension of memory: memorable stories excite imagination and allow creation.
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Virgil's refusal to acknowledge Dido is read as an attempt to block his own creation from his mind because he is embarrassed by what he made.
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Jiang argues against Augustine that humans are created out of God rather than out of nothing, so God is in and with us.
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"This is what's true. Okay? Okay. So, now that we understand all of this we can also understand the great books. Because what I..."
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"What's the purpose of the universe? Okay, can you read, Alan?"
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"You say, I see that water, see that fire and air and earth, and all that they compose come to the corruption and endure..."
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"Okay, so the idea is like, God is perfect, everything he creates is perfect. So if that's the case, then why do we die?..."
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"Okay? He had to kill his own brother, the person he loved, in order to create the world. And the gods thanked him for..."
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"And what's in the Roman mythology? Romulus kills his twin brother to found Rome. Okay? All right? So that shows you that the Mongols..."
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"That's very fundamental to the idea of science. And last idea is we can master these laws to better our reality, okay? So these..."
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"And from these geometric shapes you can give rise to every possible reality, alright? So this is called the Egg of Life and from..."
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"But there's another way you can understand sacred geometry, and it's as vibrations, as energy, as a force, okay? And this is the way..."
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"...meditation in order to try to mimic, okay? The act of creation. And if you are able to succeed, then what will happen is,..."
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"major problem is if god created us and god loves us why are we making mistakes why are we dying why are we in..."
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"...laws are perfect the holy light is perfect but not the creation from the holy light and this creation was meant to die so..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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