The God-seeking part of the person or nation; Jiang says Jerusalem religious actors map Jerusalem to it.
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divine soul
The God-seeking part of the person or nation; Jiang says Jerusalem religious actors map Jerusalem to it.
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In Jiang's account of the Jerusalem religious vision, Tel Aviv represents Israel's animal soul and Jerusalem represents its divine soul.
The animal-soul/divine-soul model can be generalized from Israel to the individual: people struggle between material comfort and the part of them that seeks God or meaning.
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"...They believe that. They believe that in every person, there's a divine soul, okay, that comes from God. But it is trapped in the..."
"And this is the divine soul. All right? So, what the animal soul is, you seek material comfort. You want to have sex. You..."
"...and one represents the animal soul, and the other represents the divine soul. Like I can substitute this logic to a single person. Like......"
"...in Israel, okay? A conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The......"
"...this world is fake anyway who cares what matters is the divine soul okay all right yeah you have"
"...that's what gives rise to humans. So we are these pure, divine souls in these corrupt, ugly, painful bodies, okay?"
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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