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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 reframes the class as an invitation to spend a lifetime studying Divine Comedy, saying different students could pursue Italian, numerology, or symbology and arrive at radically different but serious interpretations.
Jiang says the Divine Comedy's beauty of structure, language, and economy of ideas makes it worth a lifetime of study, and he contrasts that with the Bible, which he calls a complete mess by comparison.
"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..."
"Each and every one of you would have a radically different interpretation of the Divine Comedy because some of you may learn Italian and..."
"Okay. I agree with that. Yeah. What I'll also say is that I really think divine comedy is the word of God. It's a..."
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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