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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...up when it needs to. So, I think Dante's magic, Dante's esotericism is closer to soft magic than hard magic. But it's already showing..."
A student proposes that Dante's magic is closer to 'soft magic' than 'hard magic,' but already hints at the ritualized expectation structures that later esoteric systems would formalize.
"...up when it needs to. So, I think Dante's magic, Dante's esotericism is closer to soft magic than hard magic. But it's already showing..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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