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The one-true-God revolution Jiang says created money, the individual, and the nation-state.
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monotheism
The one-true-God revolution Jiang says created money, the individual, and the nation-state.
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Glossary
The one-true-God revolution in human thought that Jiang says created money, individual, nation-state, and the modern world.
Glossary
Jiang's model of a God who is both nothing and everything, excluding other gods and producing direct individual relation to God.
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In this lecture, the intellectual premise that one God designed a knowable universe and gave humans the capacity and responsibility to discover its laws.
diagnosis
Using Koestler, he argues that Khazaria adopted Judaism because Christianity or Islam would have subordinated it to Byzantium or the Abbasid Caliphate, while Judaism offered neutral monotheistic authority.
definition
He defines monotheism as politically important because one God authorizes one ruler and therefore makes empire easier to build.
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interpretation
Jiang reads the Quran as telling Abrahamic factions that they are all children of God and should stop fighting over later sectarian differences.
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Return from exile is framed as a second chance to prove loyalty to God by worshiping only Yahweh.
definition
Zoroastrianism reorders polytheism by placing Ahura Mazda as lord of wisdom and locating heaven and hell as forces inside the human person: Asha as truth and Drush as lie.
diagnosis
Asha introduces the individual, free choice, and inner truth as concepts that Jiang says revolutionize human history and structure monotheism.
evidence
Jiang publicly corrects prior claims: he says he got the Rachel/Jacob sequence wrong in the Bible lecture and now recognizes Christianity was not the first monotheistic religion; Zoroastrianism was.
model
Jiang says empire enables monotheism because an empire like Rome can destroy entire societies and impose its reality and God on everyone else.
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"At the beginning of the eighth century, the world was polarized between the two super powers representing Christianity and Islam."
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"So, these two powers are the Byzantine Empire as well as the Abbasid Caliphate, okay?"
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"Their ideological doctrines were welded to power politics pursued by the classical methods of propaganda, subversion, and military conquest. The Khazar Empire represented a..."
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"Okay, so do you understand this idea? It's very simple. You have these three powers in Eurasia. You have the Byzantines and you have..."
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"There had been no lack of efforts by either court to convert Khazars to Christianity or Islam, but all they resulted in was the..."
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"Okay, so the Khazar empire is very ambitious as well, okay? It sees itself as a great power. Eventually, it wants to unite the..."
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"At the same time, their intimate contacts with the Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only..."
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"Yeah, okay, this is a very simple idea. Monotheism is very important because the idea of one god gives ultimate authority to one person,..."
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"O people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why..."
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"Okay, so the legend is that Muhammad, when he was 40, he went into the desert. And in the desert, he was meditating and..."
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"But now, for a brief moment, favor has been shown by the Lord our God, who has left us a remnant, and given us..."
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"...that we only worship Him, okay? So, this beginning of... Jewish monotheism, okay? Which was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism. So, in other words, the..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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The lecture asks where secret societies come from and answers by rebuilding Western religion as a sequence of world models: womb, war, empire, false God, inner light, and poetry as an encoded map back...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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