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A poet who must speak truth under divine compulsion and whose words carry future, past, and present together into the world.
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Poet-prophet
A poet who must speak truth under divine compulsion and whose words carry future, past, and present together into the world.
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Glossary
Jiang’s term for figures who express the same source in different ages and idioms.
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Glossary
Jiang’s highest category of historical greatness: figures whose ideas create civilizations. Here applied to Jesus as a redemptive figure emerging after Roman degradation.
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Jesus is placed in a lineage of poet-prophets who teach that body is material but soul or consciousness is a divine spark cycling back toward the source.
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Jiang says Jesus was not Christian and that Thomas aligns with other poet-prophets because they all express the same source to different audiences.
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chronology
Jesus is introduced as the next poet-prophet who emerges to redeem people under the Roman Empire.
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"...of their own soul. Okay? So poets don't actually know their prophet. Poets don't know they're connected to the monad or the divine. They..."
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"...the gigantic shadows which futurely cast upon the present. They are prophets because the future is speaking to us today, okay? God is past,..."
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"...as well as nietzsche okay you see how all these poor prophets they all think alike they're expressing things differently they're talking to a..."
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"...to make you today is, what Jesus taught is what every poet prophet we've studied this semester taught as well. Okay? So you look..."
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"...then is, if he is teaching what every person, every poor prophet taught, why is he special?"
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"...which is which? Okay, so in my understanding of things, poor prophets are the greatest men, okay? People like Zarathustra, Homer, Jesus. These are..."
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"And then you have people like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, who you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great..."
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"...massive debt, there's massive corruption. And so, now will emerge another poet prophet named Jesus to try to redeem people. You know, okay? So..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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