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Jiang restates the pedagogical puzzle as a question about why God would rely on a messenger who forgets most of what he was taught.
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Messenger
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Jiang describes poets not as ordinary humans but as the flame itself: messengers of the divine flame whose words still burn after the person is gone.
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Jiang’s messenger model says prophets do not ask to be worshiped as God; they announce that the divine spark is in people and free them from slavery, tyranny, and poverty, before later figures organize the message into empire.
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"Basically everything. Okay? This is, like, really weird to, like, for God to deliver a message to people. Like, let's pick a guy who..."
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"...are the flame itself. Poets are not human. They are the messengers of the divine flame. Okay? They just burn. And when you read..."
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"...this is an important idea you guys need to understand. The messenger of God, okay? The leader, the Messiah. He's never like, I'm God,..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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