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Jiang's name for God as the origin toward which the soul longs to return. The divine origin the listener is drawn toward when resonating with the universe through language.

The originating divine or metaphysical principle to which individuals can connect and from which imagination and light flow.

God or the monad, the origin to which the spark tries to return through love.

Jiang distinguishes God as the source toward which one longs to return from a soulmate, which he defines as a bond between two sparks that draw each other closer to God together.

Jiang says reading the Italian matters because its construction can draw the reader closer to the source by making the body and soul vibrate with the universe.

Jiang says Dante could only have written the Divine Comedy if God exists and Dante was able to channel God, the monad, or the source through the poem.

For Jiang's Homer, love and imagination are the universe's unifying force, and the individual's connection to the source is what lights the world.

Dante's historical task, as Jiang defines it, is to defeat Virgil, reconnect humanity to the source, and restore imagination as the animating force of the universe.

Jiang radicalizes the mirror experiment into a cosmology: light at the end of the universe would still burn as brightly as the original source because all brightness comes from one emanating divine principle.

Jiang interprets the universe as having one source that emanates divine light and serves as the underlying fundamental principle of reality.

Hermetic philosophy begins from the premise that everything is mind, energy, and vibration emanating from a source, with higher and lower frequencies generating different levels of reality.