Readers Jiang says treat the Divine Comedy as literal visionary testimony and use it to think about possession and the afterlife.
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occultists
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People who try to uncover the hidden structure of the universe through domains like astrology, alchemy, and related esoteric study.
Religious or imaginative pattern-readers who create historical eschatologies.
Jiang says occultists often read Dante literally as a visionary of the afterlife and use him to think about demonic and angelic possession.
Jiang's literal replacement model begins by distinguishing occultists or mystics, who seek the universe's hidden principles, from the conspiracy story's literal demonology; the earlier story is metaphorical, not literal.
Jiang's literal model says occultists pursue hidden truths such as eschatology and sacred geometry, while those seeking power, wealth, and fame form secret societies to access and operationalize those truths in the world.
Occultists, including poets and prophets, drive geopolitics because they imagine the world inside which rich and powerful people act.
Jiang says power is layered: occult or secret-society figures devise the plans, operatives such as Epstein or Kushner implement them, and public billionaires function mainly as attention-capturing frontmen.
Jiang says the way to infer occult planners is to keep asking who empowered figures like Epstein and why, tracing the chain backward until the hidden layer becomes visible.
Jiang says occult actors do not need to script mass immigration directly because they understand that empires often die through that channel and can position themselves to profit from it.
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"...themselves, right? So it's really interesting. And I'll point out that occultists do read Divine Comedy literally. Like they really believe that Donnie had..."
"...is that there are people in this world, they're mystics, they're occultists, and they spend all their time trying to figure out how the..."
"...physics, which is the underlying essence of the universe, okay? So occultists, and these can be poets, philosophers, mystics, they spend all their time..."
"...what happens is that there's certain individuals, we can call them occultists, who try to read the river or try to read historical patterns..."
"...which you can participate in. All right. Okay. Then from these occultists are formed secret societies in order to understand this eschatology and also..."
"...again, this is a really important theory to understand. Where the occultists are the main drivers. Why? Because the occultists, whether they be poets..."
"So, we just live in the world imagined by occultists. Who they are, what they want, how they work is something that we'll discuss..."
"...real power. I think that the real powerful people are the occultists, the heads of secret societies who spend their time doing up these..."
"...working backwards. OK, working backwards. And eventually you hit into the occultists. And so if you just I think Kurt Metzger knows much more..."
"...I don't think things are that easy. What I think these occultists do is it's like astrology. Were they able to anticipate the movement..."
"...sense okay and again if you read many paul in the occultist he does go into this okay okay great yeah okay let's let's"
"...sense? The thing to understand is that there are many different occultists, many different secret societies, and this all creates very different combinations, okay?..."
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