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Living in the memories and imagination of others, with Jesus as the chief example.
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immortality
Living in the memories and imagination of others, with Jesus as the chief example.
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Glossary
Not living forever, but being remembered by loved people and preserved through beautiful memory.
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Calypso offers Odysseus immortal captivity, but Jiang reads Odysseus as needing to refuse immortality because home is necessary for repair.
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The continuing ability of readers to identify with Odysseus, understand Achilles, and predict Achilles' behavior is offered as evidence that the Iliad is eternal and immortal.
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Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.
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Jiang describes poets not as ordinary humans but as the flame itself: messengers of the divine flame whose words still burn after the person is gone.
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Homer remains alive through the burning life of his words despite the absence of a recoverable picture or stable biographical knowledge of the historical man.
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Jesus is immortal and present as a high vibration because people love, imagine, and believe in him.
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The secret of the universe is immortality, reincarnation, and godhood, powered by love and imagination; most people will fail, but consciousness is forever.
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Frankist eschatology is described as material pleasure and immortality rather than disembodied spirit.
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"Okay, so he's a broken man. He's a very different person from the Iliad. Okay? So, now the question then is why? What happened..."
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"alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into..."
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"So you have all these past lives in you that you don't remember. But a certain word, a certain poem will reignite, re -enaminate,..."
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"They'll just drown in their own misery. It is impossible to read the compositions nor celebrate writers of the present day while being startled..."
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"...a good secret of the universe. This is the secret to immortality, reincarnation, and godhood."
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"...a constant cycle where we're trying to achieve these three things. Immortality, reincarnation, and godhood. And the secret is love powering our imagination. Okay?..."
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"Okay? All right. Another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean. Think of an ocean. Right? And all these pebbles are..."
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"Okay? Alright? So he's a high vibration. Jesus. And the question is how do you resurrect Jesus? How do you bring him back? And..."
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"Okay, so something to understand about the religion is, the Messiah is actually, Jacob Frank's daughter, Eva, okay? So, the Messiah is a woman,..."
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"whoever finds an interpretation of these saying will not experience death okay all right so"
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"so okay listen this already makes sense right because in the universe death doesn't exist because after you die your soul goes up to..."
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"things together allows you to become God okay does that make sense because if you can live forever but you're always learning eventually you..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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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 lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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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 Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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