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Jiang defines unity as the belief that all beings are the same and therefore owe love and protection to each other and to nature.
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Jiang defines unity as the belief that all beings are the same and therefore owe love and protection to each other and to nature.
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Glossary
One condition of religious authority: the system needs a beginning and an end that make it a unified whole.
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An empire must prove unity, capacity, and determination to serve the needs of the global elite.
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David's three political problems are legitimacy, unity, and differentiation; Jiang says Yahweh, Jerusalem temple centralization, and biblical mythology answer those problems.
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Writing does three things for early Israel: legitimacy, unity, and differentiation.
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He says the metaphysical system has three exploitable principles: unity, symmetry or polarity, and as-above-so-below reflection.
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Jiang contrasts violent suppression elsewhere in 1848 with Prussian concessions, arguing Prussian rulers respected citizens because unity was necessary for survival amid enemies.
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Germany is not treated as a liberal democracy: Bismarck suppresses Catholics and multiple political movements because they threaten German unity.
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Charlemagne's cathedral-building was not just architecture; it was a technology of awe and unity that tried to bring heaven onto earth.
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Charlemagne's three reasons for accepting the Holy Roman Empire are legitimacy, unity, and differentiation, which Jiang compares to King David and Augustus using sacred or epic texts.
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"...empire must prove three things. First of all, it must prove unity. It must prove it has the resources and the capacity. Basically, the..."
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"...they themselves die. Okay? So, you need these things. You need unity, capacity and determination. Do you understand? And so, what the issue is..."
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"the people of the Levant and they are the people of the Levant and so they are the mercenaries they should please the hill..."
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"...David faces is one of legitimacy second is the problem of unity because remember Israel at this time it's a diverse coalition so how..."
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"is okay if Yahweh is our God and he's the best God we need a house for him so what we're going to do..."
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"...be the king, because that's the will of God. Second is unity. We are one family, guys. We have the same values. The third..."
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"...over the three main characteristics of the system the first is unity okay so this entire system is complete and unified second is symmetry..."
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"And they were very successful at that until 1848, when the middle class, when the workers rebelled in 17 different places. You will notice..."
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"And now people are really, really angry. So they erect barricades. They're getting ready for civil war. This is another French Revolution. And at..."
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"And they war. He and his ministers war the revolutionary tricolor of black, red, and gold, which is, by the way, the flag of..."
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"...groups that are discontent. And they pose a problem to German unity. And these groups are obviously the Catholics. A third of Germany now..."
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"You now have to swear loyalty to Germany. And so the priests all went to prison. And this was a disaster for Bismarck and..."
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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