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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah. Right. The occult just means what's hidden from us. Right. Or what is esoteric. Okay? Yes. But most people refer to it as..."
Jiang argues that language limits and knowledge limits let the seminar touch only a small fragment of the Divine Comedy, whose full world exceeds what the class can presently access.
Dante's final vision presents a perfect, immutable, eternal totality that cannot be adequately captured in ordinary language.
"Yeah. Right. The occult just means what's hidden from us. Right. Or what is esoteric. Okay? Yes. But most people refer to it as..."
"Whoever sees that light is soon made such that it would be impossible for him to set that light aside for other sight, because..."
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.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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