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Jiang's students present possession, curses, and magical attack as normal possibilities in Malaysia, Africa, Hong Kong, China, and biblical tradition.
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Magic
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Jiang suggests that to understand Dante fully one may need more research into occult symbolism, ritual, and magic as they were understood in Dante's era.
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Jiang claims Jewish Kabbalah is basically inspired by the Divine Comedy, presenting the poem as a major source for esoteric and magical inquiry.
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Jiang interprets the tower's darkness ritual as magic that collapsed the distance between space and the village and thereby proved the religious leader's access to God.
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Jiang defines real magic not as numerology or astrology but as storytelling, because stories project into consciousness, capture attention, and reshape how people perceive themselves and the world.
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Jiang compares Jacob Frank to Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard because Frank's charisma, hypnosis, seduction, and logic make followers experience his persuasive storytelling as a kind of magic.
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"but okay so um because i think it's because of the religion of the local people this kind of magical practices is a lot..."
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"From Catholic worldview, Lydia in the Bible, or whoever, I forgot the lady's name, but like there are people who are possessed by demons..."
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"Actually, speaking of, my husband and I have recently watched a Tucker Carlson podcast with a priest who is an exorcist. And actually, you..."
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"...I don't have the knowledge of the occult, of rituals, of magic to fully appreciate why this matters, okay. Clearly, if you visualize this,..."
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"So if you really want to understand Dante, then you need to do a lot more research into the occult. That's point one. Point..."
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"Each and every one of you would have a radically different interpretation of the Divine Comedy because some of you may learn Italian and..."
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"...person, you're really interested in the esoteric, in the occult, in magic. God, then the Divine Comedy is the best source material that you..."
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"...if it doesn't make any sense. When people think about black magic, they think about astrology or numerology, but I would argue that real..."
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"And not only that, starts to sing the song to himself or herself. And this song becomes a virus almost. It seeps into your..."
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"...has magical properties. And in many ways, what he does is magic. Because think about what he's doing."
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"...anyway. And if you're able to make your village dark, that's magic, right? Do you understand? Okay? Because if you're able to make your..."
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"...how do you know your religion is correct? Only by performing magic can you show that this charismatic leader, okay, who came up with..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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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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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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