manifestation

Jiang's word for hoping so vividly and prayerfully toward an outcome that its fulfillment can arrive later and in a transformed form.

Jiang's popular-language label for willing an imagined reality into being.

The idea that sufficiently focused will or meditation can make events happen because reality is interconnected.

For Jiang, imagining a possible future and maneuvering himself into position for it.

For Jiang, the endless rain on the glutton is not arbitrary torment but an outward manifestation of gluttony itself: a desire structure that cannot stop.

Jiang frames Dante's hope as manifestation: you visualize an outcome with no evidence and trust that God hears the prayer.

He says God did grant Dante's return to Florence, just not while Dante was alive, because posthumous honor and remembrance still count as fulfillment.

Jiang concludes that intuition, faith, and will are the best guides because events will manifest beyond what deliberate strategizing can foresee.

Jiang says the moon and the other spheres shine differently because God manifests differently in different places, and that this difference belongs to a single intentional design.

Jiang says the deepest secret behind Apollo, Beatrice, and inspiration is that God is love, and love can manifest itself through different figures without ceasing to be one force.

The class defines 'where there is a will there is a way' as a process in which genuine will first imagines a route and then reality or the universe bends enough to let that route be enacted.

Jiang translates the model into the popular term 'manifestation' and then radicalizes it by saying the universe contains no good and evil, only will and the choices made with it.