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The Iliad is both created by inspiration from the universe and functions as a portal into the universe itself.
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Inspiration
The Iliad is both created by inspiration from the universe and functions as a portal into the universe itself.
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Jiang rejects a purely intentionalist account of Homeric technique: Homer is not consciously analyzing Odysseus' reality-making, imagery, or diction; he is inspired and channeling God.
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He describes inspiration as arriving when people share who they are; if the motive is only money, God leaves and the ideas stop coming.
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Jiang proposes Geist as the answer to why distant religions converge: ideas are inspired through communication with the Geist, rather than simply produced by brain synapses.
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Jiang contrasts beliefs that God wrote every biblical word or inspired prophets with his own stated literary interpretation of the Bible.
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Jiang defines literature as the shaping of memory so beautifully that it is implanted in others' minds for centuries and inspires achievement.
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"...okay? So in other words, the Iliad was created because of inspiration from the universe, but it's also a portal into the universe itself...."
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"...perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations. Okay? It's all inspiration. When Homer is speaking, he doesn't know he's speaking. He doesn't. Are..."
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"...the universe, with us. Poets are the hierophants of an apprehended inspiration, okay? The mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurely cast upon the..."
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"Look, that's a great question, okay? And this is hard for us to understand, but there's no sense of individual propriety, okay? It's like......"
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"Why is that a lot of other religions and Plato or Dante, they came to the same realization of Monad? Why is that? It's..."
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"Yeah. So that's a really good question. And the answer is the Geist, right? The answer is, where do our thoughts come from? And..."
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"...same conception of the universe. Because they're getting this conception through inspiration, right, through communication with the Geist. Right? Does that make sense? Okay...."
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"We didn't really struggle against each other. We really didn't struggle against nature. We were one with nature and with each other. Okay? Any..."
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"But this is only my note of Christians. Most Christians believe that whoever wrote the Bible was inspired by God. That these are prophets..."
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"He sees the people happy in Uruk, and he realizes this is what immortality is. Immortality is not living forever. Immortality is to be..."
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"becomes so beautiful that it becomes implanted in the minds of others for centuries, which will inspire them to greater heights of achievement, okay?..."
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