Glossary
Jiang's term for Jacob Frank's practical magic: vividly imagining the world one wants until taboo and reality are reorganized around that vision.
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visualization
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Jiang's pedagogy here is to reduce confusion by shrinking the scope of interpretation: fewer lines, more visualization, less thematic freelancing.
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The phoenix comparison is for visual explanation rather than value judgment: poetry can borrow an exalted image simply to show the mechanics of destruction and rebirth.
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Jiang says punishments are designed to visualize what sin has caused so that the sinner can recognize the divine spark still present within.
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Jiang frames Dante's hope as manifestation: you visualize an outcome with no evidence and trust that God hears the prayer.
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Jiang defines Frank's method as visualization: the leader shows followers what the world could be and teaches that if they vividly imagine the desired world, it can arrive.
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Jiang uses a story about Jacob Frank and two nuns to argue that taboo and sexual prohibition are sustained by imagination and can be dissolved if someone successfully visualizes a different moral world.
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"No, no, no, no, no, no. You're jumping ahead. I just want to focus on these three sentences, right? What's he seeing now? That..."
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"Guys visualize this. What is he seeing right now? What's he focused on right now?"
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"Let's just focus on these three lines. What three lines?"
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"Um, I noticed like in line one Oh eight, the resurrection of the sinners is compared to the Phoenix, but I thought the Phoenix..."
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"Um, so in poetry, um, we use a lot of metaphors and similes. It's not really about what's positive, what's negative. It's really about..."
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"Yes. Okay. So what's going on here is, if you just, analyze the text, what it's suggesting is that only we humans can be..."
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"important man from florence or something this is the idea of manifestation right where you have absolutely no evidence this is going to be..."
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"What he's doing is he's visualizing the world for you, right? He's telling you what the world could be. And what he teaches his..."
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"...off. And then they have sex. Okay. That's the power of visualization. So what he's telling us is that. Okay. Everything is really imagination...."
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"So, this is a visualization of their understanding of creation. As you can understand, it's very complicated, okay? Does that make sense? Why is..."
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