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The process of allowing Jesus or great authors to enter and transform consciousness.
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possession
The process of allowing Jesus or great authors to enter and transform consciousness.
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Reading the great books is compared to Christian possession by Jesus: students should welcome Homer, Plato, Dante, Kant, and other prophets of humanity into consciousness so they can become fully human.
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Secret society members can act against their ordinary psychology because they believe themselves possessed by or serving a higher power.
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Jiang contrasts Virgil's treatment of Dido with Dante's treatment of Beatrice: Virgil punishes the woman he could not possess, while Dante places Beatrice in paradise.
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Virgil's love model begins with beauty provoking animal response, then imagination turns the beloved into a fantasy that can be controlled and possessed.
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Dante's answer, in Jiang's framing, is that true love wants what is best for the beloved and refuses to degrade the beloved into a price or object.
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"But it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all..."
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"Okay? It's your choice who you want to come and possess you, who want to come and enter you. Okay? Now I will teach..."
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"order, in order, to maintain order and control in the world for the good of others, okay? Not for the good of me, but..."
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"And as such, you are now, because you are part of the six society, you now have the power to take a gun, go..."
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"Dido the way that she behaves her love for Aeneas it's actually it actually makes her a sympathetic character but it's her love for..."
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"to what Dante did right Don T lovely actress but he could not he could not possess Beatrice so what he does is he..."
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"that we love the more imaginative we will be okay so so you have to direct this love at someone but it doesn't really..."
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"turn this woman into a fantasy woman that you can now control okay so let's go back to the example from last class where..."
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"we can resist we can say no we can deny our love there's no more power is what Beatrice means by free will therefore..."
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"...million it doesn't make sense okay so love is not about possession it's about respecting the person for who she is okay that doesn't..."
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"...today is highly materialistic, with many and the pursuit of material possessions become the main private forces in society. And innovation of the future..."
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"...Jesus is entering into you and taking you over, okay? It's possession by Jesus."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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