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Jiang says Dante's journey is ordered toward meeting God, but before that encounter he must resolve the ego of wanting recognition and the fear created by exile, poverty, and political collapse.
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Meeting God
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Jiang emphasizes that the exile prophecy comes in paradise, as the last prophecy before Dante meets God, and asks what the whole journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise taught him that makes the prophecy bearable.
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"And so Dante has a series of questions that he must resolve before he can meet God, okay? He is going to meet God...."
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"I have kids. I have no property. What am I going to do now? Also, I look around the world, I look around the..."
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"This prophecy doesn't happen in hell. It doesn't happen in purgatory. It happens in paradise. And it is the last prophecy before he goes..."
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"...as he goes on this journey, he concludes his journey by meeting God, okay? But the problem with God is, no one knows what..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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