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The quoted Dante question frames the visible cosmos as a model-copy paradox because material spheres appear more divine the farther they are from the center.
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Spheres
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And I to her, if earth and the nine spheres were ordered like those rings, then I would be content with what you have..."
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Beatrice's answer says the size of material spheres depends on the power spread through their parts, with greater excellence yielding greater blessedness and therefore larger embodiment when the parts are equally complete.
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Jiang glosses Dante's spheres as organs of the universe, each with a distinct role and purpose within a designed whole.
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Jiang tells the class they will visit the spheres one by one, turning the organ metaphor into the structural map for later parts of the course.
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Jiang identifies God as the brain of the cosmic body while the spheres function as differentiated organs.
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Jiang says the moon and the other spheres shine differently because God manifests differently in different places, and that this difference belongs to a single intentional design.
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"And I to her, if earth and the nine spheres were ordered like those rings, then I would be content with what you have..."
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"And I to her, if the world were set up with the order that I see in those rings, I would be content with..."
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"...let your mind be sharp as i explain the size of spheres of matter large and small large or small depends upon the power..."
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"sphere which sweeps along with it the rest of all the universe must match the circle that loves most and knows the most so..."
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"...that's a problem okay so there's an intentionality uh in each sphere has a certain purpose and it's all to a design right okay..."
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"stamp of which it then becomes the seal so God is the brain and all the Spears or different organs"
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"...interconnectedness and the reason why the moon shines differently from other spheres is that God manifests differently in different places okay and it's all..."
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