Glossary
Jiang's name for the love-bearing divine element in humans that wants to return to God.
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divine spark
Jiang's name for the love-bearing divine element in humans that wants to return to God.
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Glossary
The inner divine force Jiang says the church tries to redefine as demonic and imprison under orthodoxy.
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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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The soul or consciousness that comes from the source and returns toward it through cycles of life.
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definition
Jiang defines the divine spark in humans as love, and says that loving another person awakens the spark's desire to return to God.
model
The Catholic Church responds to inner divine-spark movements by defining the spark as demonic, sending crusaders against believers, and creating the Inquisition to educate or punish dissent.
diagnosis
Cathars threaten the Church because they insist the divine spark is within them and cannot be educated out of that knowledge.
diagnosis
Jesus threatened Rome because slaves who no longer feared death could stop behaving as property.
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Paul's core trick is to move attention from Jesus' words and inner spark to belief in Jesus as the object of salvation.
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diagnosis
Jiang presents Christianity as Paul's synthesis of Jewish eschatology, Greek mystery religion, and Roman patriarchal structure.
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model
Jesus is placed in a lineage of poet-prophets who teach that body is material but soul or consciousness is a divine spark cycling back toward the source.
interpretation
Jiang reads Thomas as teaching that death loses power once a person recognizes the divine spark.
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"...that's what it says in the bible therefore there is a spark in us that is divine okay so we're humans and there's a..."
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"...to be someone else because only in someone else is another spark okay so we're drawn to the spark and this is really important..."
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"...The Catholic Church is going to tell us that there's a divine spark in us. And as long as we try to glow this..."
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"believe in the divine spark, you're not an evil person, you're a stupid person, because you don't know better. So the idea of the..."
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"...and Crusades. So there are still individuals who believe in the divine spark, okay?"
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"And these people are called the Cathars. And the church sees them as a threat. And that's why they launch a crusade against these..."
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"Okay, so again, the Catholic Church is, if you disagree with us, it doesn't mean you're a heretic."
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"...what is right, okay? The Cathars believe that, no, no, the divine spark is in me. I know the truth for myself. You can..."
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"Ultimately, only three women recanted. The 140 who refused were burned at the stake. Some entered the flames voluntarily, not awaiting their executioners."
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"...a messenger from the monad who reminded us that there's a divine spark in us. And how you activate the divine spark is by..."
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"He was very wealthy. And so we say he's a Hellenized Jew. And he's probably working for the Roman Empire as a spy or..."
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"And how the people worship Dionysus is they have a ritual meal where they actually believe they're eating the body of Dionysus and they're..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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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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