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Goethe play Jiang reads as Frankish: wisdom through sin and final rescue.
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Goethe play Jiang reads as Frankish: wisdom through sin and final rescue.
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Jiang speculates that Frankist philosophy influenced the Illuminati, Faust, Jesuits, Freemasons, Mormonism, Scientology, Brandeis, Yeats, and modern Western culture.
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Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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In Jiang's reading of Faust, Mephistopheles' wager is to make Faust complacent and lose curiosity, not merely to tempt him with ordinary sin.
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In Jiang's reading of Faust, curiosity is how humans show faith in God; God leads the curious into clarity.
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Faust loses the wager when he wants to stay forever in the moment of civic fulfillment, but angels take his soul because God values striving and mercy over contractual damnation.
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"...is Goethe. Okay? And Goethe wrote a very famous play called Faust. And let's think about the plot of Faust. The plot is this...."
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"...eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And Faust says, sure. Okay? And Faust does a lot of things. He sins...."
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"All right. Again, the Frankish infiltrate the Jesuits and so a lot of people believe that the Frankish now control the Catholic Church or..."
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"So if you think that, so if you know that this guy is a Frankish, think about how many other very powerful Americans are..."
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"Okay. And so Faust the book of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible...."
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"You take away his children. And he will curse you. And God says fine. I make you this bet. You can do anything you..."
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"Do not ever believe you can question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's..."
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"God you know what the worst thing you ever did was allow humans the capacity to reason. Because you're idiots. You're stupid. If you're..."
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"This is Mephistopheles saying to God their lives will be a little easier if you not let them glimpse the light of heaven. They..."
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"earthly food or drink some ferment makes him want what is exotic yet he's half conscious of his father. Okay? Phos wants to understand..."
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"Okay, so he is an architect, and he is an urban planner working for the government. He's a civil servant, basically. And his job..."
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