Why Bombing Iran Only Makes It Stronger – Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]What is Donniey's role in Imperium?

[00:00:02]Donniey's role is to meet God. Why does Donnie want to meet God? Because God wants to meet him. Why does God want to meet him? Because there's a fundamental problem in the universe. And the and the problem is this. No one knows what God is. God doesn't know. The angels don't know. No one knows. Only Dante can know what God is. So Donnie has embarked on this long journey through the cosmos, through inferno, for purgatory, for paradise in order to meet God to figure out what God is. And you're like, "Wait a minute here. This makes no sense. God knows everything." No, God is perfect.

[00:00:45]God is everything. And therefore, God cannot know itself. You understand? If you are perfect, you lack an imagination because you know everything. Therefore, there's no limit to your knowledge. But imagination means breaking through the boundaries of knowledge. So, this is a really strange situation in that God created humanity to know itself there and then through the course of time God picked an individual and this person is Dante to come to God to let God know what it is fundamentally to know itself to complete itself. That's the great secret of divine comedy. Okay. But for Donna to figure this out, he wants to spend the rest of his life using his imagination to try to unpack, unravel what God is. Because when you first see God, God is like this an infinite beam of light. You're like, "What is this?"

[00:01:42]Okay? He doesn't know. So, he has to constantly imagine what God is before he can finally come to the answer. And even though the Roman Empire and Catholic Church are two fundamental pillars of Western civilization, the Iliad will lead to a thousand years at over a thousand years of the dark ages when Europe stops being creative. Okay.

[00:02:04]Donnie will end the dark ages with the divine comedy and the divine comedy will become the blueprint for the renaissance the prom reformation the son of revolution and modernity itself okay basically d would create the world that we live in today so the question then is how this happened how is that would create great civilization then Virgil would then erode civilization only be restored by Dante.

[00:02:36]The difference is in how they perceive the role of humans or what does it mean to be human in this world. So for Homer what he taught us is that love is the unifying force of the universe. So remember that Odysius he spends 20 years trying to return to his family Penelpi and Tamakus and that imagination is the unifying force of the universe. Okay.

[00:03:05]And what matters is the individual the individual's connection to the source or the monad. And if the individual is able to connect to the source then that lights the universe. Okay. But what Virgil will do because he serves empire is he will cut us off from the source.

[00:03:26]Okay. And say no what matters is piety, obedience to authority. And be and by doing that we cease to be individuals.

[00:03:36]We cease to be imaginative. Civilization stops. So what Dante has to do is reconnect us back to the source. And if he does that okay then that will restore the imagination as the fundamental unanimating force of the universe. We can now be creative and this will set a new path for humanity. All right. So throughout human history there have been two competing counterveailing forces.

[00:04:06]the force of empire that wants us to that wants us to obey it and therefore cut us off from the source and the force of civilization of democracy of love that wants us to connect back to the source and that's animate the universe with our imagination. Okay. All right.

[00:04:25]So the divine comedy in in other words it's fundamentally a conflict between Virgil and Dante. So Dante must defeat Virgil in order to restore our humanity.

[00:04:39]So if Dante is to see God, if Dante is to know God, he can't do with his eyes.

[00:04:44]The vision doesn't matter. Everyone has eyes. The higher vision is the imagination. Okay. But how do you activate the imagination? Through virtue, through love. Okay? It is the love that will give you the imagination to see the ultimate salvation which is God. And this is how the universe works.

[00:05:01]Okay. Donnie has been selected because of his imagination and because of his virtue. What is his virtue? His virtue is his eternal love for Beatatrice.

[00:05:12]Okay. What is his imagination? His poetry. That is what will enable him to know God and allow God to know itself.

[00:05:19]And I who never burnt for my own vision more than I burnt from for his do offer you all my prayers and pray that they may not. I can't see God. I don't know God. I'm next to God. I live with God.

[00:05:32]I'm part of God. But I don't I can't see God. Only Donnie can see God. Fall short that with your prayers you may disperse all the clouds of his mortality. So the highest joy be his to see. This too, oh queen, you can do do what you would. I ask of you that after such a vision, his preserve their perseverance. Okay. Yes.

[00:05:53]So Darn will see God. But God is so powerful. The vision will be so powerful that it will blow his mind. Okay? It will literally blow his mind. So Dante must use his virtue, his love, his first soul to maintain the shadow of this image. Okay? To remember a shocking memory. Okay? That is the goal here. May your protection curb his mortal passions. See Beatric, how many saints with her? They join my prayers. They clasp their hands to you. Okay, this mortal passions is basically fear and the ego. To truly understand God, you must abandon your mortal passions. Your ego and your fear. You must be completely virtuous. You must be complete imagination. You must be complete love. Okay, there's a problem.

[00:06:45]Okay, he's seen the Holy Trinity. It's three concentric circles. That's fine.

[00:06:50]Okay, and they're all reflecting each other. There's a fire inside them. But there's a problem with all this. He said like the the longer I look the more I concentrate I discover there's a problem in the Holy Trinity which is like where in the stupid thing there's an effigy there's a human likeness inside the Holy Trinity that makes no sense because God is beyond us. Okay that's why we must obey God because God is a mystery. It's because God is so distant from us.

[00:07:21]Therefore we must bow to it. be humbled before it. But what Donn is saying is like I looked into the soul of God and we are inside it and it's very hard.

[00:07:32]This makes absolutely no sense. As the geometry sorry as the geometer intently seeks to square the circle but he cannot reach through fought on thought the principle he needs. So I search a strange site. I wish to see the way in which our human effigy suit the circle and found place in it. He can't figure it out. This is the greatest paradox in the universe. Why are we inside God?

[00:07:54]Why? My own wings are far too weak for that. But then my mind was struck by light that flash and with this light received what had asked. Here force felt my high fantasy. But my desire, my will were moved already like a wheel revolving uniformly by the love that moves the sun and the other stars. Okay, I can't figure it out, but I want to figure it out. And I feel as though I'm changed by this process of trying to figure this out. Okay. So that's it.

[00:08:24]Divine comedy. This is how it ends.

[00:08:26]Doesn't end with the answer. It ends with a question. Why are we inside God?

[00:08:32]What's the meaning of all this? Okay.

[00:08:35]And this is all very confusing because this is how it ends. And he doesn't give us the answer. And so the thing to understand about divine comedy is that it's not meant to be the Bible. It's meant to inspire you to to embark on your own journey into the depths of the universe. Okay? And so you need to reread the divine comedy many many times throughout your life. And with each reading, you'll have a deeper understanding of the divine comedy. And with each reading, it will change how you live. It will change how you see see yourself. What is the secret here?

[00:09:12]What's the answer? What is God? Okay.

[00:09:16]Well, the first thing is what does this remind us of? Have we seen this before?

[00:09:20]Three circles with a human inside of it.

[00:09:24]Actually, we have. Okay. We've seen this before in this class. Okay. So, and I'll show you where it is. But here it is.

[00:09:31]This is God because Beatatric was telling us to do the experiment. He says, "Take three mirrors, okay? And then shine a mirror. shine a candle so that the candle is reflected in three mirrors and she's telling us hold that candle. Okay, you're holding the candle and as a result, not only is the candle reflected inside the mirrors, but you yourself is reflected in the mirrors as well to all of eternity. What is this?

[00:09:58]It's a godhead that Donnie saw in his vision. All right. So what's happening is that Donn is reminding us of this experiment and he's also reminding us that if you continue to extend this experiment, it extends into infinity.

[00:10:15]All right? And so this is what God is.

[00:10:18]God is the candle that burns in us. We all have a candle inside of us and it burns and it remind me of God. It is God in us. Then the question then is okay what's this candle thing called? What is it that burns in us? And the more good we do the the more intense it burns. And what is this candle that's able to reflect throughout the universe that's mirrored in each other. Well, it's love.

[00:10:52]So this is a great secret of the universe. God is love. You you want to know what God is? love someone and you will feel God because it's a candle burning inside of you. And how do you know you're truly in love? Because your imagination will expand. You will see the world in a new way. You will see the world through the mind of God. You will you will reunite with God. Okay? And that's a great secret of the universe.

[00:11:21]And once you understand this, the way you see the world will be completely different. The way you see red Dante will be completely different. Okay. So, what we're going to do now is we're going to take this knowledge that that we have that God is love, that God is the light, the spark in us that burns and never extinguishes inside of us. And we're going to reread the ending and you will see how now we have the higher vision. Now, the universe has been revealed to us. here force felt my high fantasy but my design wheel were moved already like a wheel revolving uniformly by the love that moves the sun and the other stars okay so what's happened is I figured out what God is and I realized it's that reason that matters okay it's desire and will I feel my whole soul moving by the love that moves the sun and the other stars okay he understands God is love. And love is the fundamental fundamental power that unifies the entire universe.