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Milton's epic poem, treated by Jiang as a foundational secret-society text that encodes hidden cosmology.
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Paradise Lost
Milton's epic poem, treated by Jiang as a foundational secret-society text that encodes hidden cosmology.
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model
Jiang says Paradise Lost encodes secret-society truth and that proper poetic analysis can reveal what members embedded in literature.
interpretation
Milton is presented as a blind prophetic free thinker and Paradise Lost as the foundational text of many secret societies.
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The plot of Paradise Lost is introduced as Milton's reimagining of the fall, with Satan turning from defeated rebel to the one who volunteers to go to Eden.
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Satan's first speech is interpreted as heroic leadership: because he reigns, he alone must accept the greatest hazard and seek deliverance for all.
normative
Jiang judges Anglo-American culture, despite global dominance, as practical, narrow-minded, and less artistically or philosophically impressive than Russian, German, Homeric, Virgilian, and Dantean traditions.
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"...we will study today the greatest poem in English language called Paradise Lost by John Milton who was who actually was a member of..."
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"...passionate advocate of free speech. He was a man who wrote Paradise Lost. And he wrote it when he was blind. He could not..."
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"that is only taught in secret societies the other thing about social societies that's really important is they believe that most of us cannot..."
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"...does that make sense all right all right so we're doing Paradise Lost all right this is um the National epic of the British..."
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"...is we will read two speeches by Satan. The plot of Paradise Lost is really, really simple. It's trying to reimagine the fall of..."
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"But Satan is the devil. determined to seek vengeance against God. And so what he wants to do is go to the Garden of..."
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"Our prison strong, this huge context of fire, outrageous to devour. Immerse us round ninefold, and gates of burning adamant barred over us prohibit..."
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"just of public moment, in the shape of difficulty or danger, could deter me from attempting, wherefore do I assume these frailties, and not..."
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"This enterprise, none shall partake with me. I am your leader. I will go by myself. You guys can just sit here and like,..."
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"-American culture, even though it dominates the world, it's pretty lackluster. It's very narrow -minded. It's very practical. It's pretty mediocre. Okay? And if..."
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"...of integrity, Homer and Virgil. And there are some parts of Paradise Lost which are beautiful, okay? I mean, I love Paradise Lost. I've..."
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"...to understand occult ideas embedded in the great books such as paradise lost. Okay. But again, this is a very fair criticism in that..."
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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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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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