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Posted by Thomas on 3/5/2007, 4:54 pm Of course Nietzsche is doing this deliberately, because the old wineskin is now Christianity and the new wine is the I add a few thoughts in the text marked *** µµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµµ Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and
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It's an impressive speech, with 14 "I love..." statements
(This of course recalls Jesus "Blessed are..." statements of the Sermon on the Mount.
Nietzsche's key statement to me seems to be the first one:
"I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for
they are the over-goers."
Down-going to be able to be an over-goer, to me echoes massively with the New Testament too:
***Jesus said to them, "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does,
the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will
be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins."
***"Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3)
***""Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings and have put on the new man,
that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him" (Saint-Paul; Letter to the Collossians 3:10)
"over-going" beyond previous visions of man.
Thomas
spake thus:
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a
rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous
looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what
is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.
I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for
they are the over-goers.
I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers,
and arrows of longing for the other shore.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for
going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the
earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order
that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own
down-going.
I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the
house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and
plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to
down-going, and an arrow of longing.
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth
to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit
over the bridge.
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny:
thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no
more.
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more
of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny
to cling to.
***I specially like this one, I think that virtue that is one, united
into a single purpose gives a strength to one's action, and you then have
the strength of a feeling of destiny. ***
not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for
himself.
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and
who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?"- for he is willing to
succumb.
I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds,
and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own
down-going.
I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past
ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he
must succumb through the wrath of his God.
***Presumably this has to do with the death of God?***
succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the
bridge.
***I like this one too, because Nietzsche acknowledges our strength and frailty,
and yet we have the courage to go on and beyond.***
all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his
head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his
down-going.
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the
dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the
lightning, and succumb as heralds.
Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the
cloud: the lightning, however, is the Superman.-
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