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It is a typically sentimental 'truth' beloved of [unconscious] Christians and liberals, who all revel in the beatific notion that all and everything isfundamentally the 'same'.Nietzschedealt with it when he spoke of diamond and charcoal both being composed ofcarbon.
Yes, but one is HARD!
II
Q) "Hate and love themselves are relative?"
A) No, they are complex, mixed...adulterated.
Q) "Are they not merely emotions?”
A) To say they are emotions is to state the obvious, but emotions are hardly'mere' from the human perspective [i.e., the only perspective we have]
Q) "To the philosopher they exist in much purer forms than what mostpeople think them to be".
A) This is Platonism. The theory of Forms posited 'pure' emotions etc.Nietzsche destroys this kind of metaphysics and views the emotions ['affects']from the basis of physiology/psychology.
Q) "Of course, hate and love are always recognized asChristian sentiments: that is that they are directed towardanother".
A) No, only in the sense that Christianity inherited the Platonic Forms;“Christianity is Platonism for the People"
[Nietzsche BGE Preface]
Q) "But that is never the case:"
A) The following quotes you have given do not prove your Platonic case AT ALL.
Remember, you BEGAN by arguing for 'unadulterated hate', and 'unadulteratedlove'. You have merely parroted Plato's Forms without even knowing it, and nowstupidly offer Nietzsche out of context;
"One loves ultimately one's desires,not the thing desired."
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good andevil."
"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteemsequal or superior."
Q) "This is why much higher men hate very few. In such an age as we arein, it is no wonder they hate no one".
A) It is not the hate of the 'higher men' that we are worried about! In youregalitarian future there will be more and more hate confused with sentimentallove; so much so, that the politically correct will put to death thinkers whilesmiling that they are doing it out of love!
It follows that man must become more wicked and terrifying if you want toincrease love in the world.
But you will never achieve the ideal of 'pure love', that 'world without war'so beloved of sentimental liberals.
III
Philosophy as Biography
To return to the effect on a philosopher of his circumstances, mentioned inbred 25, we seethat Spinoza's (1632-1677) background offers credence to Nietzsche'scontention. Spinoza's parents were Marranos [i.e.,Jews obliged to convert-hypocritically-to Christianity in order to remain inSpain ], who fled to Amsterdam
GIORDANO BRUNO:
The other figure mentioned by Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), was aChristian heretic who was burnt alive at the stake inRome
All of this cuts no ice with Nietzsche; to die at the stake for one's Truth was considered by him to be astupidity, because;
"Ye know sufficiently well that it cannot be of any consequence if YE justcarry your point; ye know that hitherto no philosopher has carried his point,and that there might be a more laudable truthfulness in every question-markwhich you place after your special words and favourite doctrines [andoccasionally after yourselves]". [BGE 25]
His parents were persecuted for their faith, he was persecuted for questioningthat faith; Bruno was persecuted for questioning his faith, as was John Huss.
Nietzsche is pointing out that the will to victimhood [andhow the Jewish and Christian faiths revel in their persecution mania!] isinimical to free thinking, free spiriting!
Not to be martyr for 'The Truth', nor to be martyr for your own truth!
Nietzsche's 'Ecce Homo'['Behold the Man'] is biography as philosophy and philosophy as biography.
His basic perspective is 'bios'
!
Do you really think that Nietzsche would say 'this is the way I see the world’,but exclude himself from that!
The point is that hitherto, philosophers had UNCONSCIOUSLY [which is why heused the word!] made their biographies into philosophy, while pretending thatthey were dealing with Absolute Truths, God’s Truth, or 'the Thing in Itself'.
Nietzsche says;
this philosophy is my body!
BGE 24
As a thorough spirit [and probably too English by that count] , I attempted tocome to an over-view of the first chapter of BGE afterdrawing as much juice out of it as I could over a decent period of time. I thenfelt ready for the second chapter.
However, as you probably know, I decided on a different approach for the secondchapter; a section by section study. Taking each section as an aphorism whichcould be stood alone like a sculpture in an art gallery.
The idea is to walk around it, scrutinising it in detail.
As this is done in a serial fashion, almost miraculously, an over-view beginsto evolve in the mind's eye.
The point is that I want to experience that process as it happens, and think itwill yield different results to those gained from reading through the chapterwithout break and then reflecting upon it.
I admit this is an experiment, and I am impatient to go on to the chapter onReligion, but we must learn to ruminate and meditate.
To get out of Modern time and discover a Classical tempi.
My snail-like progress - I wanted my reflections to be more marmoreal!
Philosophy as Biography
To return to the effect on a philosopher of his circumstances, mentioned inbred 25, we seethat Spinoza's (1632-1677) background offers credence to Nietzsche'scontention. Spinoza's parents were Marranos [i.e.,Jews obliged to convert-hypocritically-to Christianity in order to remain in
GIORDANO BRUNO:
The other figure mentioned by Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), was aChristian heretic who was burnt alive at the stake in
All of this cuts no ice with Nietzsche; to die at the stake for one's Truth was considered by him to be astupidity, because;
"Ye know sufficiently well that it cannot be of any consequence if YE justcarry your point; ye know that hitherto no philosopher has carried his point,and that there might be a more laudable truthfulness in every question-markwhich you place after your special words and favourite doctrines [andoccasionally after yourselves]". [BGE 25]
His parents were persecuted for their faith, he was persecuted for questioningthat faith; Bruno was persecuted for questioning his faith, as was John Huss.
Nietzsche is pointing out that the will to victimhood [andhow the Jewish and Christian faiths revel in their persecution mania!] isinimical to free thinking, free spiriting!
Not to be martyr for 'The Truth', nor to be martyr for your own truth!
Nietzsche's 'Ecce Homo'['Behold the Man'] is biography as philosophy and philosophy as biography.
His basic perspective is 'bios'
!
Do you really think that Nietzsche would say 'this is the way I see the world’,but exclude himself from that!
The point is that hitherto, philosophers had UNCONSCIOUSLY [which is why heused the word!] made their biographies into philosophy, while pretending thatthey were dealing with Absolute Truths, God’s Truth, or 'the Thing in Itself'.
Nietzsche says;
this philosophy is my body!
BGE 24
As a thorough spirit [and probably too English by that count] , I attempted tocome to an over-view of the first chapter of BGE afterdrawing as much juice out of it as I could over a decent period of time. I thenfelt ready for the second chapter.
However, as you probably know, I decided on a different approach for the secondchapter; a section by section study. Taking each section as an aphorism whichcould be stood alone like a sculpture in an art gallery.
The idea is to walk around it, scrutinising it in detail.
As this is done in a serial fashion, almost miraculously, an over-view beginsto evolve in the mind's eye.
The point is that I want to experience that process as it happens, and think itwill yield different results to those gained from reading through the chapterwithout break and then reflecting upon it.
I admit this is an experiment, and I am impatient to go on to the chapter onReligion, but we must learn to ruminate and meditate.
To get out of Modern time and discover a Classical tempi.
My snail-like progress - I wanted my reflections to be more marmoreal!
BGE 26Exception vs. Rule
This section 26 is apposite to some recent thoughts of mine.
The question being, 'if Nietzsche believes in establishing distances, then fromwhere does he get his bearings from? -- What tells him that 'this' is higherthan 'that'? -- How does he know that he is not mistaken?
Section 26 goes towards answering this as he expands on the notion of the'exception vs. the rule'.
Given the common misunderstanding of Nietzsche's elitist philosophy, it hasbeen wrongly assumed that Nietzsche was purely an individualist who cared onlyfor life's exceptions. In point of fact, Nietzsche rejected this stance asbeing overly romantic/idealist, and thought that the cult of 'genius' [as inCarlyle's 'On Heroes and Hero-Worship' for example] lead to the sort offalsification and delusion that was the downfall of all idealism.
Nietzsche emphasised that the individual was a link in the long chain ofBecoming, and that great men could only come about through the maintenance ofthat chain. In other words, the exceptions DEPEND on the rule, and knowing whatthe rule IS, not being deceived about the nature of this rule is essential forthe success of the exception.
It is this which underlies Nietzsche's 'Aristocratic Radicalism' [as Brandes coinedit with Nietzsche's approbation].
Baron Evola,one of the more important followers of Nietzsche's ideas, explained thisperspective when discussing traditional hierarchical societies, where;
"It is not the higher that needs the lower, but the other way round. Theessence of hierarchy is that there is something living as a reality in certainpeople, which in the rest is only present in the condition of an ideal, apremonition, an unfocussed effort. Thus the latter are fatefullyattracted to the former, and their lower condition is one of subordination,less to something foreign, than to their own true 'self'. Herein lies thesecret, in the traditional world, of all readiness for sacrifice, all heroism,all loyalty; and on the other side, of a prestige, an authority and a calmpower which the most heavily-armed tyrant can never count upon".
To understand nobility, one must understand the Ignoble as well, and also theDISTANCE between the two. This is why Nietzsche says in an earlier book;
"The RULE. 'I always find the rule more interesting than the exception'--he who feels like that is far advanced in the realm of knowledge and is amongthe initiated".
[Nietzsche, ‘Daybreak' 442]
That last sentence should be mulled over. To have discovered the import of therule is the basis of INITIATION: we start there, not with some pallid misunderstandingof the superman as a 'mentality', or some such. Again;
"On the Spiritual Order of Rank. It ranks you far beneath him that youseek to establish the exceptions, while he seeks to establish the rule ".[Nietzsche,'AOM' 362]
"Everything profound loves the mask".
That last sentence should be mulled over. To have discovered the import of therule is the basis of INITIATION: we start there, not with some pallid misunderstandingof the superman as a 'mentality', or some such. Again;
"On the Spiritual Order of Rank. It ranks you far beneath him that youseek to establish the exceptions, while he seeks to establish the rule ".[Nietzsche,'AOM' 362]
"Everything profound loves the mask".
[Nietzsche,BGE 819]
We notice that after the first chapter's survey of Philosophy and Philosophers[BGE chapter1 'On the Prejudices of Philosophers'], Nietzsche is here in the 'Free Spirit'filling in the background contours for his vision of Future Philosophers.
So far we have seen that they will cheerfully love the lie because they lovelife, and will certainly not suffer for their 'truths' but rather even questionthemselves.
But lest we should think that the 'future philosopher' will always standironically aside, we see that an important part of his INITIATION is to goamong the herd; to examine the commonplace and the rabblement.
Only after completing such an apprenticeship will he be entitled to 'choose thegood wanton solitude'.
Just as Wotan in legend descended from Asgarth to thisMiddle-Earth in various disguises, so the 'select-man' must wear disguises whenhe too 'goes down'. He will recognise other souls like unto himself; some ofthem may not be 'just visiting', some may be trapped, or just grown used tolife 'down there'.
They will be hybrids of the exceptional man and the lower man, wearing heavydisguises. The select man will experience great joy when he finds suchcreatures;
"So-called cynics, those who simply recognise the animal, the common-placeand the 'rule' in themselves, and at the same time have so much spirituality [Geistigkeit] and ticklishness [kitzel]as to make them talk of themselves and their like BEFORE WITNESSES-- Sometimesthey wallow, even in books, as on their own dung-hill ".
We notice that after the first chapter's survey of Philosophy and Philosophers[BGE chapter1 'On the Prejudices of Philosophers'], Nietzsche is here in the 'Free Spirit'filling in the background contours for his vision of Future Philosophers.
So far we have seen that they will cheerfully love the lie because they lovelife, and will certainly not suffer for their 'truths' but rather even questionthemselves.
But lest we should think that the 'future philosopher' will always standironically aside, we see that an important part of his INITIATION is to goamong the herd; to examine the commonplace and the rabblement.
Only after completing such an apprenticeship will he be entitled to 'choose thegood wanton solitude'.
Just as Wotan in legend descended from Asgarth to thisMiddle-Earth in various disguises, so the 'select-man' must wear disguises whenhe too 'goes down'. He will recognise other souls like unto himself; some ofthem may not be 'just visiting', some may be trapped, or just grown used tolife 'down there'.
They will be hybrids of the exceptional man and the lower man, wearing heavydisguises. The select man will experience great joy when he finds suchcreatures;
"So-called cynics, those who simply recognise the animal, the common-placeand the 'rule' in themselves, and at the same time have so much spirituality [Geistigkeit] and ticklishness [kitzel]as to make them talk of themselves and their like BEFORE WITNESSES-- Sometimesthey wallow, even in books, as on their own dung-hill ".
[Nietzsche,BGE 26]
In this passage Nietzsche mentions the Abbe Galiani as anexample of such a type-- in fact Nietzsche mentions him five times in this bookalone, and we can see from examining some of Nietzsche's notebooks and lettersfrom around this period that 'the case of Galiani' exerted a strange magnetism on him.
In BGE 26 Nietzsche says that Galiani was far more profound than Voltaire,“and consequently also, a good deal more silent".
But such badinage is normal fare to philosophers of this calbre.
There is an entry in one of Nietzsche's notebooks which is a straight quotefrom Galiani;
In this passage Nietzsche mentions the Abbe Galiani as anexample of such a type-- in fact Nietzsche mentions him five times in this bookalone, and we can see from examining some of Nietzsche's notebooks and lettersfrom around this period that 'the case of Galiani' exerted a strange magnetism on him.
In BGE 26 Nietzsche says that Galiani was far more profound than Voltaire,“and consequently also, a good deal more silent".
But such badinage is normal fare to philosophers of this calbre.
There is an entry in one of Nietzsche's notebooks which is a straight quotefrom Galiani;
"Philosophers are not made to love one another. Eagles do not fly in company.One must leave that to partridges and starlings... Soaring on high and havingtalons, that is the lot of great geniuses".
[Nietzsche, WM 989, 1887]
Nietzsche situates Galiani andVoltaire in the musical controversy of Piccini/Gluck whichraged in the 18th century.
Again, we see how positions in art are given wider philosophicalramifications.
In some letters of 1887 to Gast, Nietzsche discusses the complexities of this musicalcontroversy: Galiani sides with Piccini,somewhat to Nietzsche's annoyance. However, Rousseau sides with Gluck, andthis brings us back to the romanticism vs. classicism conflict;
Nietzsche situates Galiani andVoltaire in the musical controversy of Piccini/Gluck whichraged in the 18th century.
Again, we see how positions in art are given wider philosophicalramifications.
In some letters of 1887 to Gast, Nietzsche discusses the complexities of this musicalcontroversy: Galiani sides with Piccini,somewhat to Nietzsche's annoyance. However, Rousseau sides with Gluck, andthis brings us back to the romanticism vs. classicism conflict;
"Notice how a person stands vis-a-vis Voltaire and Rousseau: it makes theprofoundest difference whether he agrees with the former or the latter. Voltaire'senemies, Victor Hugo, all the romantics... are all gracious toward the masked plebian Rousseau; I suspect that there arecertain amounts of plebian rancour at the basis ofromanticism".
[Nietzsche,letter,Nov.1887]
But whereas the 'more profound' Galiani can befound lurking disguised in this period of democratic uglification,"Voltaire is only possible and sufferable in an aristocratic culture which can affordprecisely the luxury of intellectual roguery". [ib.]
What makes a Galiani more profound than a Voltaire?
The fact that the former, with his scholarly head and ape's body, has sufferedmore;
"The intellectual haughtiness and loathing of every man who has suffereddeeply - it almost determines the Order of Rank HOW deeply men can suffer...
Profound suffering makes Noble: it separates..."
But whereas the 'more profound' Galiani can befound lurking disguised in this period of democratic uglification,"Voltaire is only possible and sufferable in an aristocratic culture which can affordprecisely the luxury of intellectual roguery". [ib.]
What makes a Galiani more profound than a Voltaire?
The fact that the former, with his scholarly head and ape's body, has sufferedmore;
"The intellectual haughtiness and loathing of every man who has suffereddeeply - it almost determines the Order of Rank HOW deeply men can suffer...
Profound suffering makes Noble: it separates..."
[Nietzsche BGE 270]
This is the key to Nietzsche's 'Pathos of Distance' ;
"The sufferer... finds all forms of disguise necessary to protecthimself...
There are free insolent minds which would fain conceal and deny that they arebroken, proud, incurable hearts [the cynicism of Hamlet - the case of Galiani]..." [ib.]
This is the key to Nietzsche's 'Pathos of Distance' ;
"The sufferer... finds all forms of disguise necessary to protecthimself...
There are free insolent minds which would fain conceal and deny that they arebroken, proud, incurable hearts [the cynicism of Hamlet - the case of Galiani]..." [ib.]
BGE 27/28The Element
These two sections 27/28 should be read together.
In the second tier of the 'Techno-Aristo-Nietzsche'thread below, 'a' comments on aphorism #27 .He emphasise the contradictorynature of Nietzsche's discourse, which is a generalised truism, but it doesn'tapproach what Nietzsche is actually saying in the aphorism concerned. The wholepoint here is to close-in on what Nietzsche is actually saying.
So, to take section 27 on its own first;
Remember in the previous section [26] that Nietzsche says that all is badexcept among equals.
As a thinker Nietzsche had few equals; knowing this he enjoyed making himselfmisunderstood, and mildly disdained the clumsy attempts at interpretationoffered of his work. He felt this especially among those lazy friends of his[who presumed a false equality with the philosopher], and ultimately he evenfound his mirth in getting rid of them.
What is it that separates excellent thinking like Nietzsche's from the average?
Good thinking flows fast - 'gangasroti' - like the
The average either jumps around, or plods-on ponderously.
Such thinking as Nietzsche's began to die out with the Pre-Socratics,a point Heidegger appreciated;
"Being, as the element of thinking, is abandoned by the technicalinterpretation. 'Logic', beginning with the Sophists and Plato, sanctions thisexplanation. Thinking is judged by a standard that does not measure up to it.
Such judgement may be compared to the procedure of trying to elevate the natureand powers of a fish by seeing how long it can live on dry land. For a longtime now, all too long, thinking has been stranded on dry land".
[Heidegger, 'Letter on Humanism']
Heidegger intuitively uses Nietzsche's Heraclitean flowingriver metaphor for excellence in thinking;
"Such names as 'logic', 'ethic', and 'physics' begin to flourish only whenoriginal thinking has come to an end. During the time of their greatness, theGreeks thought without such headings. They did not even call thinking'philosophy'. Thinking comes to an end when it slips out of its element".[ib.]
BGE 28Racial Character
"If Aristotle had spoken Chinese or Dacotan, he would have had to adopt an entirely differentLogic, or at any rate an entirely different theory of categories". [Mautner]
Language is a symptom of the basic "character of the race ['Charakter der Rasse'] " [BGE 28]. That Nietzsche takes Race to be aphysiological as well as a spiritual concept is shown when he stresses that aparticular language reflects;
"The average TEMPO ['Durchschnitts Tempo'] " of that Race's"metabolism", or "assimilation of nutriment ['Stoffwechsels']".
Heidegger intuitively uses Nietzsche's Heraclitean flowingriver metaphor for excellence in thinking;
"Such names as 'logic', 'ethic', and 'physics' begin to flourish only whenoriginal thinking has come to an end. During the time of their greatness, theGreeks thought without such headings. They did not even call thinking'philosophy'. Thinking comes to an end when it slips out of its element".[ib.]
BGE 28Racial Character
"If Aristotle had spoken Chinese or Dacotan, he would have had to adopt an entirely differentLogic, or at any rate an entirely different theory of categories". [Mautner]
Language is a symptom of the basic "character of the race ['Charakter der Rasse'] " [BGE 28]. That Nietzsche takes Race to be aphysiological as well as a spiritual concept is shown when he stresses that aparticular language reflects;
"The average TEMPO ['Durchschnitts Tempo'] " of that Race's"metabolism", or "assimilation of nutriment ['Stoffwechsels']".
[ib.]
Let us be certain of what is being said here. Nietzsche had put forward thephysiological perspective in the first chapter;
"Physiologists should think twice before deciding that an organic being'sprimary instinct is the instinct for self-preservation. A living being wantsabove all else to RELEASE its strength; life itself is the will to power, andself-preservation is only one of its indirect and most frequent CONSEQUENCES".
Let us be certain of what is being said here. Nietzsche had put forward thephysiological perspective in the first chapter;
"Physiologists should think twice before deciding that an organic being'sprimary instinct is the instinct for self-preservation. A living being wantsabove all else to RELEASE its strength; life itself is the will to power, andself-preservation is only one of its indirect and most frequent CONSEQUENCES".
[Nietzsche, BGE 13]
The physiology of Race is put bluntly later in the book;
"It is simply impossible that a person would NOT have his parents' andforefathers' qualities and preferences in his body - whatever appearances maysuggest to the contrary. This is the problem of race".
The physiology of Race is put bluntly later in the book;
"It is simply impossible that a person would NOT have his parents' andforefathers' qualities and preferences in his body - whatever appearances maysuggest to the contrary. This is the problem of race".
[BGE 264]
The injudicious mixing of Races can produce a weak and thwarted Will;
"A person who lives in an age of disintegration that mixes all the Racestogether, will carry in his body the heritage of his multifarious origins, thatis to say, contradictory standards and instincts that struggle with one anotherand seldom come to rest".
The injudicious mixing of Races can produce a weak and thwarted Will;
"A person who lives in an age of disintegration that mixes all the Racestogether, will carry in his body the heritage of his multifarious origins, thatis to say, contradictory standards and instincts that struggle with one anotherand seldom come to rest".
[BGE 200]
Because language is an expression of Race, then to try to translate from onelanguage to another is likely to lead to self-defeating contradictions: A badtranslation, - Ubersetzungen;to translate, to CROSS over - is akin today’s dysgenic Race-crossing.
Because language is an expression of Race, then to try to translate from onelanguage to another is likely to lead to self-defeating contradictions: A badtranslation, - Ubersetzungen;to translate, to CROSS over - is akin today’s dysgenic Race-crossing.
BGE 28Europa
"And who knows whether this portion of antique nature will not at lastagain become master over the Nationalist Movement and have in an AFFIRMATIVEsense to make itself the heir and continuator ofNapoleon - who wanted ONE Europe, as is well known, and this as MISTRESS OF THEEARTH".
[Nietzsche JW 362]
It is in 'tempo' that the Germanic and the Latin Races differ. The Germans [andthe English] tend to 'lento', and 'largo', while the Italians for example,enjoy a 'presto' and an 'allegro'.
It follows then that to try and translate a piece of typical Latinate literature into a Germanic tongue willresult in a 'bastardisation'.
We may pause here to wonder at Nietzsche's espousal of a pan-European Racewhich will blend North and South;
" '
[Nietzsche BGE 256]
Clearly this will be a eugenic enterprise in the true sense of the word, thatwill attempt to mix the best of the Teutonic with that of the Latin;
"The nature of the French people offers a tolerably successful synthesisof the North and South, enabling them to comprehend much and to do much elsethat an Englishman will never comprehend. Their temperament, periodicallyinclining towards and away from the South, occasionally bubbling over withProvencal and Ligurian blood, protects them from the horriblenorthern grey-on-grey, sunless world of spiritual concepts and anaemia".
Clearly this will be a eugenic enterprise in the true sense of the word, thatwill attempt to mix the best of the Teutonic with that of the Latin;
"The nature of the French people offers a tolerably successful synthesisof the North and South, enabling them to comprehend much and to do much elsethat an Englishman will never comprehend. Their temperament, periodicallyinclining towards and away from the South, occasionally bubbling over withProvencal and Ligurian blood, protects them from the horriblenorthern grey-on-grey, sunless world of spiritual concepts and anaemia".
[BGE 254]
Nietzsche then wishes to Mediterraneanise theNorth rather than Nordicise the South. His preference is for light, quickfeet;
THAT is the goal of the 'good European' Race of the future.
Nietzsche then wishes to Mediterraneanise theNorth rather than Nordicise the South. His preference is for light, quickfeet;
THAT is the goal of the 'good European' Race of the future.
IVThe self as ultimate. Being complete in oneself.
The end and fulfillment of things.
Yes, this is nothing other than the mantra of the Last Man.
The end and fulfillment of things.
Yes, this is nothing other than the mantra of the Last Man.
V
The Aryan doesn't fall into the traps set by degenerate inverts.
He just turns away as their slave blood boils in impotent frustration!
No Agon!
VI
'Ariadne' means 'Purity' in Greek.
Hic
VII
Spoken like a true slave, a slave to love.
Your kind of Nihilist will never achieve supermanhood;
"He shall be the greatest who can be the most solitary, the mostconcealed, the most divergent, the man beyond good and evil, the master of hisvirtues, the superabundant of will ".
Spoken like a true slave, a slave to love.
Your kind of Nihilist will never achieve supermanhood;
"He shall be the greatest who can be the most solitary, the mostconcealed, the most divergent, the man beyond good and evil, the master of hisvirtues, the superabundant of will ".
[Nietzsche BGE 212]
No, it is merely laughable; why would you want to elevate such giggles andbelly-laughs to a pedestal of praise?
No, it is merely laughable; why would you want to elevate such giggles andbelly-laughs to a pedestal of praise?
VIII
All any martyr ever did was die for untruth.
As Nietzsche said, paraphrasing Voltaire's famous dictum;
"We should not let ourselves be burnt for our opinions--we are not socertain of them as all that. But we might let ourselves be burnt for the rightof possessing them".
All any martyr ever did was die for untruth.
As Nietzsche said, paraphrasing Voltaire's famous dictum;
"We should not let ourselves be burnt for our opinions--we are not socertain of them as all that. But we might let ourselves be burnt for the rightof possessing them".
[Nietzsche WS 333]
IX
Hitler was an example of the rare, but potentially explosive results ofmixed-breeding. As a young man, a fairly aimless drifter, thwarted by hisself-contradictions. Then experience in the First War disciplines his Will;from then on he will pursue his objectives relentlessly, instinctively; hisStrong Will had triumphed over his also inherited weak will.
But as I say, this is rare. For the most part weakness triumphs
Hitler was an example of the rare, but potentially explosive results ofmixed-breeding. As a young man, a fairly aimless drifter, thwarted by hisself-contradictions. Then experience in the First War disciplines his Will;from then on he will pursue his objectives relentlessly, instinctively; hisStrong Will had triumphed over his also inherited weak will.
But as I say, this is rare. For the most part weakness triumphs
X
Music
Bad musicians prefer the studio as they can 'cheat' easily there.
To a good musician, recording is just 'work'; a way to make 'product'. Only a'fool' would prefer to listen to a recording of a great artist, rather thanhear that artist in the flesh.
Who was it who wrote that 'we have gone from being a ,ecstatic being, dancingon a hillside, to a pair of disembodied eyes, staring impotently at ourtubes'?
[My apologies to JDM]
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Chromaticism, or the Eternal Recurrence as Music.
I have here a series of only eleven musical tones; at the twelfth they begin torepeat themselves in another octave, another cycle.
No matter how much I combine them, transposes them, stretch the gaps in betweenthe tones, the time will come when previous combinations and permutations willbe reduplicated...exactly.
In the player's unending quest for originality, he unconsciously mimics whathas gone before; time itself dictates that eventuality. The longer we play withthe tones, a likelihood of a 'recurrence of the same' becomes more certain.
2)
I have here a series of only eleven musical tones; at the twelfth they begin torepeat themselves in another octave, another cycle.
No matter how much I combine them, transposes them, stretch the gaps in betweenthe tones, the time will come when previous combinations and permutations willbe reduplicated...exactly.
In the player's unending quest for originality, he unconsciously mimics whathas gone before; time itself dictates that eventuality. The longer we play withthe tones, a likelihood of a 'recurrence of the same' becomes more certain.
2)
Immortal time is an eternal, tireless musician, and the world is composed oftones and chords made up of the chromatic scale of matter.
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We are magnetised to music because it teaches us the fruits of the EternalRecurrence.
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"Gobineau
[Nietzsche,letter; Levy edition of Complete Works]
Gobineau [1816-82]was a French Aristocrat and author of 'Essai sur l'inegalite des races humaines'(1853-55).
According to Gobineau,the Aryan Race first formed the elite ofIndia
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Gobineau [1816-82]was a French Aristocrat and author of 'Essai sur l'inegalite des races humaines'(1853-55).
According to Gobineau,the Aryan Race first formed the elite of
5)
The poet wrote to Mussolini;
"I insist on the identity of our American Revolution of 1776 with yourFascist Revolution. Two chapters in the same war against the Usurers, the samewho crushed Napoleon".
"I insist on the identity of our American Revolution of 1776 with yourFascist Revolution. Two chapters in the same war against the Usurers, the samewho crushed Napoleon".
[Ezra Pound, ‘A Visiting Card',1942]
Five tones -pentatonics; you must be a bluesman!
And isn't blues a case in point?: monotony with a good conscience!
Of course to the bluesers, every 12 bar is 'different’, but that is justperception-remember, the blues began, like Christianity, in slavery.
"I woke up this mornin'"...sings the slave...repeat ad finitum.
But the slave tells himself that this is not the same as yesterday; in that heaccepts his slavery.
He says;
Five tones -pentatonics; you must be a bluesman!
And isn't blues a case in point?: monotony with a good conscience!
Of course to the bluesers, every 12 bar is 'different’, but that is justperception-remember, the blues began, like Christianity, in slavery.
"I woke up this mornin'"...sings the slave...repeat ad finitum.
But the slave tells himself that this is not the same as yesterday; in that heaccepts his slavery.
He says;
“I love the monotony of what I am, but I hope for a betterfuture!". In that he is a good slave.
That is how the mass are brainwashed-the carrot of a better day (or a Messiah)is dangled in front of them, while the stick of Time batters their behinds!
And the Masters would not have it any other way!
That is how the mass are brainwashed-the carrot of a better day (or a Messiah)is dangled in front of them, while the stick of Time batters their behinds!
And the Masters would not have it any other way!
XI
1)
I would strongly disagree that the Herd is the same as the Camel!
DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT ZARATHUSTRA IS ADDRESSED TO THE HERD!
The piece is called the Three Metamorphoses of the SPIRIT!-do you think theHerd has...SPIRIT!?
In all Indo-Europeanpolities (including Plato's of course),the Masters are organised in a basictripartite hierarchy. The fourth category is always the Others, the Sudras, the Chandala, theHerd.
This category should not be allowed to read Zarathustra (see the chapter in TSZ 'On Readingand Writing’; where the point is made that if EVERYBODY is able to read then'spirit itself would stink'!). Amongst the Ancient Aryans, theSudras were not allowed to study the Vedas.
No, the Herd are not to be permitted to smear their muck over the SpiritedOnes-the Lions shall see to that!
2)
DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT ZARATHUSTRA IS ADDRESSED TO THE HERD!
The piece is called the Three Metamorphoses of the SPIRIT!-do you think theHerd has...SPIRIT!?
In all Indo-Europeanpolities (including Plato's of course),the Masters are organised in a basictripartite hierarchy. The fourth category is always the Others, the Sudras, the Chandala, theHerd.
This category should not be allowed to read Zarathustra (see the chapter in TSZ 'On Readingand Writing’; where the point is made that if EVERYBODY is able to read then'spirit itself would stink'!). Amongst the Ancient Aryans, theSudras were not allowed to study the Vedas.
No, the Herd are not to be permitted to smear their muck over the SpiritedOnes-the Lions shall see to that!
2)
The Lion does not say 'Thou Shalt'; that latter commend is on the scales ofthe Dragon that the Lion fights!
The Dragon got those commands from the ancient lore which is carried by theCamel.
The Dragon hoards, but the Camel carries tradition through the Desert, ready tobe used by the Lion and the Child.
The Dragon got those commands from the ancient lore which is carried by theCamel.
The Dragon hoards, but the Camel carries tradition through the Desert, ready tobe used by the Lion and the Child.
XII
Thankfully he is tasteful enough not to burden us with texts, but his titlesare enough to condemn him.
XIII
like one too stupid to know fear, and therefore to be pronounced by therabble as 'brave'.
XIV
Superman
The word 'Superman' has the advantage of reflecting the antithetical term'Superfluous man' which was current in Nietzsche's time.
The Superfluous man was the anti-hero of the Russian Nihilists, and so wouldhave informed Nietzsche's own study of anti-Nihilism.
'Superfluous man' [Russian 'Lishnichelovek' ] : typerecurrent in 19thcentury Russian literature; first usedby Pushkin and popularised by Turgenev.
'Nihilism', Doctrine denying validity to any positive alternative - coined byTurgenev ['Fathers and Sons' 1862] to apply to movement which pressed forchange and at its height assassinated numbers of Russian officials, incl. theTsar Alexander II [1881]
Superman
The word 'Superman' has the advantage of reflecting the antithetical term'Superfluous man' which was current in Nietzsche's time.
The Superfluous man was the anti-hero of the Russian Nihilists, and so wouldhave informed Nietzsche's own study of anti-Nihilism.
'Superfluous man' [Russian 'Lishnichelovek' ] : typerecurrent in 19thcentury Russian literature; first usedby Pushkin and popularised by Turgenev.
'Nihilism', Doctrine denying validity to any positive alternative - coined byTurgenev ['Fathers and Sons' 1862] to apply to movement which pressed forchange and at its height assassinated numbers of Russian officials, incl. theTsar Alexander II [1881]
XV
My own work is not about ME...what do I matter?
My own work is not about ME...what do I matter?
XVI
The ability to select the apposite quote is a mark of Nobility. A 'becoming ofwhat one is'.
poeta nascitur, non fit.
XVII
Power
"...I want to be just to the Germans: I would not like to be untrue tomyself in this--so I must also tell them what I object to. Coming to power is acostly business: power makes stupid..."
Power
"...I want to be just to the Germans: I would not like to be untrue tomyself in this--so I must also tell them what I object to. Coming to power is acostly business: power makes stupid..."
[Nietzsche]
'German' is the operative word here.
Nietzsche is talking about 'German power', not power itself.
Art only comes about through power, so he cannot be denigrating the sort ofpower that made possible the ancient Greeks or the Renaissance.
The above quote must be viewed with in the context of what is German.
So that Nietzsche's comments on political power within the context of ancientGreece
Why does Nietzsche exalt political power when it occurs under the Imperium Romanum,but not when it appears under the Germans?
That is the real question.
How is it that Nietzsche regards the Greek polis asnecessary for bringing forth the highest culture? Take the following quote;
"War is just as much a necessity for the State as the slave is forsociety. The division of the chaotic mass into military castes, out of whicharises, pyramid shaped, an exceedingly broad base of slaves, the edifice of themartial society...
In order to make the production of the world of art possible to a small numberof Olympian men".
'German' is the operative word here.
Nietzsche is talking about 'German power', not power itself.
Art only comes about through power, so he cannot be denigrating the sort ofpower that made possible the ancient Greeks or the Renaissance.
The above quote must be viewed with in the context of what is German.
So that Nietzsche's comments on political power within the context of ancient
Why does Nietzsche exalt political power when it occurs under the Imperium Romanum,but not when it appears under the Germans?
That is the real question.
How is it that Nietzsche regards the Greek polis asnecessary for bringing forth the highest culture? Take the following quote;
"War is just as much a necessity for the State as the slave is forsociety. The division of the chaotic mass into military castes, out of whicharises, pyramid shaped, an exceedingly broad base of slaves, the edifice of themartial society...
In order to make the production of the world of art possible to a small numberof Olympian men".
[Nietzsche, ‘The Greek State
Nietzsche's vision of a 'Grand politics' pervades his work, and it does notwork to take out of context those comments which are anti-German politics andanti-democratic/parliamentary politics, and pretend that he is anti-politicalper se.
But we still haven't answered the question.
How can Nietzsche, an admirer of purely political supermen Pericles, JuliusCaesar, Cesare Borgia, Napoleon, et al, denigrate the German power politics of his own time ?
The answer is fairly simple. In all the former cases, political power was theservant of high culture.
Power was a means to an end [and that is the will to power as BECOMING].
ToBismarck
The anti-French tendencies of German nationalism exemplified the pettynationalism which he [rightly] saw as being destructive of European culture.
It is that type of politics that makes stupid, just as democracy brings in therule of the mob.
Again, Nietzsche must be appreciated in context.
Rome as a political entity actually CREATED Europe . Rome
Nietzsche is not political in a Bismarckian, democratic way; he IS an anti-political Germanin that sense.
But he is a political Roman, an admirer of Caesar and Napoleon; i.e., politicsin the Grand Style.
XVIII
de Sade
It is superficial to emulate de Sade on thelevel of obscenity; the philosophy of de Sade must be found beneath all thefilth which is there to trap and detain the brainless.
XIX
Nihilists can only see the negatives.
They have slave souls and therefore slave's blood.
The Noble, on the other hand, take on all that life has to offer and affirm theascending;
They let the dross...
Nietzsche's vision of a 'Grand politics' pervades his work, and it does notwork to take out of context those comments which are anti-German politics andanti-democratic/parliamentary politics, and pretend that he is anti-politicalper se.
But we still haven't answered the question.
How can Nietzsche, an admirer of purely political supermen Pericles, JuliusCaesar, Cesare Borgia, Napoleon, et al, denigrate the German power politics of his own time ?
The answer is fairly simple. In all the former cases, political power was theservant of high culture.
Power was a means to an end [and that is the will to power as BECOMING].
To
The anti-French tendencies of German nationalism exemplified the pettynationalism which he [rightly] saw as being destructive of European culture.
It is that type of politics that makes stupid, just as democracy brings in therule of the mob.
Again, Nietzsche must be appreciated in context.
Nietzsche is not political in a Bismarckian, democratic way; he IS an anti-political Germanin that sense.
But he is a political Roman, an admirer of Caesar and Napoleon; i.e., politicsin the Grand Style.
XVIII
de Sade
It is superficial to emulate de Sade on thelevel of obscenity; the philosophy of de Sade must be found beneath all thefilth which is there to trap and detain the brainless.
XIX
Nihilists can only see the negatives.
They have slave souls and therefore slave's blood.
The Noble, on the other hand, take on all that life has to offer and affirm theascending;
They let the dross...
fall.
XX
Those who think the world evil, will eventually make it evil.
[Nietzsche]
Those who think the world evil, will eventually make it evil.
[Nietzsche]
XXI
... you say "man's will is outside cause and effect". Why is 'man'special in this regard?
Explain THAT and you may have a right to the premise; otherwise we will have toconclude that man is like every other being, sentient or otherwise, on thisfair planet...and not just THIS planet.
If your argument is that God gave man alone 'freewill' because it says so inthe Bible, then this is an empty circular argument; what Nietzsche might call'God as a vicious circle'.-
... you say "man's will is outside cause and effect". Why is 'man'special in this regard?
Explain THAT and you may have a right to the premise; otherwise we will have toconclude that man is like every other being, sentient or otherwise, on thisfair planet...and not just THIS planet.
If your argument is that God gave man alone 'freewill' because it says so inthe Bible, then this is an empty circular argument; what Nietzsche might call'God as a vicious circle'.-
XXII
On BGE 19
Yes, the common feeling that we have 'freewill' is just that, a subjectivefeeling.
Because of time's irreversibility, it is impossible to prove that the actionyou have taken was a matter of free-willed choice; you cannot wind back the tapeof reality, go back to where you have started, and do something different.
This is why Nietzsche insists that life is eternal Becoming.
This is the essence of the word Fate, meaning 'what has been spoken', i.e.,this cannot be undone. And because all things are linked in a wheel ofbecoming, what is, and what will be, are just modes of what is on the samecontinuum.
It is this, what Nietzsche calls 'time and its "it was”‘, that leads us toposit stratagems like 'freewill'.
Of course freewill is self-defeating as it allows us to blame ourselves andothers for things that are really beyond our control.
There is no goal to this existence; to final destination, no final climax towhich all things are leading up to.
The is to be no future 'deliverance’, no 'promised land' to be yielded up onceand for all.
There is no beginning in a perfect Eden
All things that could have been have been, and their course is circular andrepetitive.
All things are interlinked and there is nothing outside of all things.
We are all blameless for what we are and have been; there is nothing morewasteful as regret, revenge and [self] punishment.
'So, live as you want to live again'; this is the Nietzschean alternative to Nihilism.
It is far from abstract as it underwrites Strong Will.
That is why Nihilists like to discard ER, and pretend that the Superman isanother name for the 'coming Messiah'.
It is more than a circumcision, it is a castration, no worse than that made on Chronus byZeus!
The Liberal (mis-)interpretation of Nietzsche sees himonly as a critical philosopher and completely traduces his positive doctrines.The liberals scream about 'the 's misappropriation of Nietzsche' while theythemselves carry out the worst of bowdlerisations.
This life has already recurred infinitely in the past; all the so-called'differences' to which it is allied have already recurred [so they are notunique therefore, and make a recurring pattern--moreover, they are 'different'from what?].
This life, this moment, is poised between the infinitely recurring identicallives of the past, and the infinitely occurring identical lives of thefuture.
This moment is supreme!
There is no goal to this existence; to final destination, no final climax towhich all things are leading up to.
The is to be no future 'deliverance’, no 'promised land' to be yielded up onceand for all.
There is no beginning in a perfect
All things that could have been have been, and their course is circular andrepetitive.
All things are interlinked and there is nothing outside of all things.
We are all blameless for what we are and have been; there is nothing morewasteful as regret, revenge and [self] punishment.
XXIV
There is nothing more idiotic than thinking that life is explicable!
Or that life is comprehensible!
Or that life has a purpose, and a 'meaning'!
The nearest we can get to avoiding such stupidity is the Eternal Recurrence ofthe Same!
'So, live as you want to live again'; this is the Nietzschean alternative to Nihilism.
It is far from abstract as it underwrites Strong Will.
That is why Nihilists like to discard it [ER] , and pretend that the Supermanis another name for the 'coming Messiah'.
It is more than a circumcision, it is a castration, no worse than that made on Chronus byZeus!
The Liberal (mis-)interpretation of Nietzsche sees himonly as a critical philosopher and completely traduces his positive doctrines.The liberals scream about 'the 's misappropriation of Nietzsche' while theythemselves carry out the worst of bowdlerisations.
XXV
The logic of 'The Eternal Recurrence of the Same' implies that everything that can happen has already happened.If the superman is a possibility, then it has already happened;
"If all the possible combinations and relations of forces had not alreadybeen exhausted, then an infinity would not yet be behind us. But since aninfinite past must be assumed, no fresh possibility can exist and everythingmust have appeared already-- indeed, an infinite number of times".
[Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, a fragment, 7]
Now, it was at a certain point in time when Zarathustra descended from his caveto preach the superman. At such times, when the cycle is at a low ebb, supermenare few and far between. It is at such times of degeneration that teachers ofthe superman arise to proclaim their message;
"The problem I raise here is not what ought to succeed mankind in thesequence of species [- the human being is an END -] : but what type of humanbeing one ought to BREED, ought to WILL, as more valuable, more worthy of life,more certain of the future.
"This more valuable type has existed enough already: but as a luckyaccident, as an exception, never as WILLED. HE has rather been the most feared,he has hitherto been virtually THE thing to be feared - and out of fear thereverse type has been willed, bred, ACHIEVED: the domestic animal, the herdanimal, the sick animal man - the Christian..."
[Nietzsche, A, 3]
So, the superman is only forgotten, particularly in times of decadence. Thesuperman is not some kind of Messiah who will come one day in 'never neverland': he is a part of the eternal circle of time's Becoming.
So, the superman is only forgotten, particularly in times of decadence. Thesuperman is not some kind of Messiah who will come one day in 'never neverland': he is a part of the eternal circle of time's Becoming.
XXVI
The problem is with the inconsistency of; reality, empiricalevidence (quantum physics), and experience.
Not only are all these things inconsistent, you are not able to
To start with;
"How does the results of Quantum Physics affirm our perceptions of reality
That expression ignorance - 'how can I know?' - of yours, as well as the finalprofanity show the complete vapidity of your position.
You have no argument, merely [as you here admit ], a subjective'feeling'.
The sort of subjective feeling that makes us wonder if our dream was real whenwe wake up...
The sort of feeling that thinks it sees a face in an ink-blot...
That creating, dissembling, projecting and inventing mechanism of a mind thatcannot understand, and therefore has to invent something easy to comprehend;‘Why did he do that'?-because he is evil. 'Why does God allow evil'?-because hegave men 'freewill'!--easy answers...foolish answers; foolish questions!
...'How did the world get here'? ...I don't know, God must have made it...justlike a man can make things...just like a man..
Human, all too human.
For a Clown, laughter is Praise enough.
For a philosopher, praise is worthless.
Martyrs want the praise of sainted victimhood, don't they!
Why, I even see you wearing your crown of thorns at every turn.
But then YOU have to look UP to be exalted...I can only look down.
This talk of language as a 'tool of control' strikes me as rather 'slave-ressentiment' in tone.
It is true that we may often unknowingly speak the language of themisrulers, but it is up to us as free spirits to strike outand create our own linguistic Supermanhood.
Tools are to be used according to our WILL!
XXVII
A brief history of Western civilisation, and as such, a history of our idea ofhistory.
The concept of viewing the world from 'outside', from a disinterestedperspective [a God's eye view] is obviously flawed. All viewers, Nietzscheincluded, have to accept that they too, are part of the whole, and that likethe observer in a quantum experiment, they too influence the outcome.
Also, the search for origins in this context can only be approximate; not onlythat, we must be aware of the fallacy of always assuming that an origin is acause, and not sometimes merely a correlation.
So we approach these questions with trepidation as we are all handicapped to alesser or greater extent.
Obviously there is an added difficulty in this discourse because what is'European','Aryan','Islamic' etc.,is here only vaguely understood. Also thereis a suspicion that 'European' is used where Christian/Christendom should havebeen used instead. The suspicion is that this is a deliberate omission.
The Aryan culture can be recognised in shared traits in the Indian Vedic culture,the Greek Hellenic culture, the Roman culture and the Teutonic-Keltic cultureto name a few. The sharings aredefinitely continuative,shown by linguistics, religious rites and beliefs as well as social structure[a hierarchical Order of Rank is always affirmed, whether in Vedic Caste, Spartan Helots, Roman Classis, orthe Eddaic [Teutonic] Lay of Rig.
Now in what we geographically call 'Europe ',such Aryan traits DID SURVIVE the dominance of Christianity. WesternChristianity itself contains many Aryan-Semitic hybridations.The pagan [Aryan] ethos did live on, sometimes underground in the blood ofAryans, but also in subsequent historical movements.
The Renaissance WAS a return to paganism, and therefore Aryanism. Thisre-birth could not have happened without some form of continuity, whethermaterial or in blood [do not forget that genes do not 'blend’, they actuallycombine--hence 'recessive genes'-Aryan genes do not die, and a process of'discipline and breeding' will always re-combine those genes].
So I say that there is evidence of both continuity and life; Aryanism lives in India and in Europe and to all other parts of the world where Aryan genes and memes [Dawkins-ideas as evolving spores] have taken hold [there isevidence that Aryan culture was in the Americas and in China
It is very 'of the moment' to over-emphasise the influence of Islam on Europe [just as at other periods it was neglected];However it must be remembered that Islam was something of a reaction toChristianity. An Arabian heresy on Christianity, which believes that Jesus wasa prophet, but not the son of God etc., it is Semitic through andthrough.
A good comparison of the Muslim and 'European' [and I mean still Aryan ]culture of the Middle Ages is seen in the description of a Viking funeral ofthe Kiev Rus [the Aryans that gave their name to Russia
The mutual respect between Aryan and Semite is pronounced; like all respect itis manifest in DISTANCE. A distance gradually eroded by the encroachment of the Semiticised Christianity [the Scandinavians wereof course the last Europeans to convert, again showing continuity between Aryanand 'European'].
It was Rome which gave the concept of unified Europe life; this was before Mohammed was even born. The Holy Roman Empiresof a Charlemagne, or the Napoleonic Empires, or Fascist Imperiums were all driven by the avatar of theRoman Eagle, which is the Aquiline bird of prey of the Aryas.
As Nietzsche says, 'Europe wants to becomeone'.
Because Aryanism has not died and still continues, andbecause genes are irreducible and not 'blended-out', and because Order of Rankis natural [as you admit] and not a factitious invention like Christianequality, then the resurgence of Aryanism isinevitable. Nietzsche will be the philosopher of this recurrence.
The decadence we witness is the death throes of Christianity and its Liberaloffspring, and perhaps militant Islam will aid the speed of this decline.
Whatever, the future is Nietzschean.
By that view matter would become ever thinner until it is like a thinmist...and then Nothingness...that which Nihilists yearn for!
Nietzsche tended to work THROUGH his enthusiasms and come out the other side,for good or ill--that's because he never stopped thinking.
The quest for 'originality' is of course delusional, a necessary lie like'freewill'.
Few are able to do anything without carrying within themselves the promise ofmaking something 'new’; of course their originality is always aRE-discovery.
The limitations of matter (including brain cells) means that all that could bethought has already been thought, infinitely many times.
Of course, man has forgotten much of his own pre-history of this one cycle we are now in, let alone eventhe very existence of previous cycles.
It is the limitation of human consciousness and memory that makes what hasalways been seem fresh and 'original'.
By the same token, memory can be inhibiting, a block on moving on to the nextcycle. The Superman must be able, ultimately--and I stress ULTIMATELY, toforget.
The increase of consciousness and memory is a painful thing for man, who mustbe a Superman to overcome it...as he has been, is, and will be again.
The eternal recurrence is part of this knowledge; the beginning of acomprehension of the sheer enormity of time; the average mind rebels againstit, but the Superman knows that it is the closest his mental equipment can getto comprehending the ineffable nature of becoming.
He must assume the burden of this increasing knowledge, and then overcome itthrough the assertion of his will to achieve the innocence of becoming.
Of course this philosophy is part of the cycle, as is everything else--including the Nay sayers and Nihilists.
XXVIII
Free-will
Free-will
If everything is an 'indeterminist soup', then we reach the same outcomeas Nietzsche; how can we be held responsible for anything?
We cannot be to blame for the random, indeterminist,and thoroughly UNFATHOMABLE activities at the quantum level...can we!
This is the 'Innocence of becoming' via another route.
The observer in a 'Quantum experiment' does NOT DETERMINE the result! Thatwould make the result predictable. The observer SOMEHOW has an EFFECT on theresult;i.e. the observer is PART of the experiment; he most definitely does notdetermine it as it is UNPREDICTABLE.
There is a big difference between 'having a bearing on' something, and'determining' it.
At any rate, what this 'bearing' is, is still unclear.
Therefore it cannot be considered a WILLED bearing.
It is certainly not DEFINITIVE to the outcome.
It is the sort of contingent influence allowed for in Fate and Chance; it ismost certainly NOT an example of 'freewill'.
The very un-directednature of this 'bearing on' makes it random at best, and therefore the'observer' cannot be held culpable for whatever influence he SEEMS to have.
The argument is not between indeterminacy and determinism, but rather between'freewill' and determinism/indeterminism.
Determinism/indeterminism have 'scientific' backing in genetics,psychology, and Quantum physics, as well as philosophy.
Freewill is maintained by certain theologies and popular prejudice.
XXIX
Islam"The great cultivator...the Roman Caesar with Christ's Soul".
[Nietzsche WM Bk.IV 983]
ROMANORUM ULTIMI
"Dionysos versus the Crucified" [WM 1052]
"We believe in
New Worlds beckon.
Sir Oswald Mosley,’ Christ, Nietzsche, and Caesar';
"In the 19th century, the major intellectual struggle arose from thetremendous impact of Nietzschean thought on the Christian civilisation of 2,000years.
"That impact was only very slowly realised. Its full implications are onlytoday working themselves out. But turn where you will in modern thought, youfind the results of that struggle for mastery of the mind and spirit of man...
"I am not myself stating the case against Christianity, because I am goingto show you how I believe the Nietzschean and the Christian doctrines arecapable of synthesis".
AUT CAESAR AUT NIHIL
XXXI
The best course for 'depression' (another name for 'weak will') is Nietzsche'sphilosophy.
One must be honest with it and use it to banish all the common attitudes ofmodernity, resentment, negativity, and philistinism.
Of course, it may in the end be down to bad blood.
Perhaps he who is a 'regular citizen' from the very heart could never conquerhis 'Christ Soul'.
In which case, reading Nietzsche may be a waste of one's time.
XXXII
The Lion does not 'negate', he says "I Will".
The Child is above the field of battle and says "I Am" !
XXXIII
It may be an 'essence', but philosophy itself begins when we ask 'what is anessence'?, 'are essences possible'? Or, 'why is "the moment"'better'?
'What makes one thing/being/event better than another'?
'What is the difference between a thing, a being, and an event'?
In other words, philosophy begins with a thorough questioning; with attempts tosay why we think that such and such is so etc.
Mysticism, which is no mean thing in itself, and is akin to philosophy, but itis not philosophy per se. As the logical positivists show, it is possible to bethoroughly unmystical and philosophical at the same time.
It may be an 'essence', but philosophy itself begins when we ask 'what is anessence'?, 'are essences possible'? Or, 'why is "the moment"'better'?
'What makes one thing/being/event better than another'?
'What is the difference between a thing, a being, and an event'?
In other words, philosophy begins with a thorough questioning; with attempts tosay why we think that such and such is so etc.
Mysticism, which is no mean thing in itself, and is akin to philosophy, but itis not philosophy per se. As the logical positivists show, it is possible to bethoroughly unmystical and philosophical at the same time.
XXXIV
I fail to see anything suicidal in Nietzsche, nor do I see anything 'insane' inthe doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same.
The latter can be found in ancient Eastern religions, in Pythagoras, in Heraclitusand in the Stoics.
It is a world view which Nietzsche partakes in and thinks through. He hands hisachievements on to his heirs and successors (e.g., Heidegger), and thereforecreates an OPENING OUT of thought.
This is not pessimistic or suicidal, and the fact that he was able to affirmsuffering etc., is a sign of his constantly affirming Strong Will.
I fail to see anything suicidal in Nietzsche, nor do I see anything 'insane' inthe doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same.
The latter can be found in ancient Eastern religions, in Pythagoras, in Heraclitusand in the Stoics.
It is a world view which Nietzsche partakes in and thinks through. He hands hisachievements on to his heirs and successors (e.g., Heidegger), and thereforecreates an OPENING OUT of thought.
This is not pessimistic or suicidal, and the fact that he was able to affirmsuffering etc., is a sign of his constantly affirming Strong Will.
XXXV
The Aryan Woman
She represents the
The Aryan Woman
She represents the
striving towards Purity.
She symbolises the
Distance between the
Noble caste and the rest.
She is the Muse,
She is Sophia.
She is a rare
thoroughbred.
She is the
womb of
Aryan-nations.
Cross-breeding is a form of 'sexual collectivism', a type of Communism.
It results in the anarchy of conflicting, irreconcilable instincts.
"About 1400 B.C. the Hindus make their first appearance as a separatetribe, calling themselves 'Hari' ;- that is, 'the Blonds' ". [Gunther]
XXXVI
For Those Sight-Seers at the Edge of the Abyss
For Those Sight-Seers at the Edge of the Abyss
The Great Spiritual Insights are, in the main, taught, and sung, by those whoknow them only by second-hand; and mostly to people who will never know thoseinsights in any way.
They may get an approximation of such things when they are intoxicated, whetherby music, poetry, or other narcotica, but this is all a substitute (and a greatsource of Kitsch).
Only a very Few throughout the ages have been able to achieve those insights,and then only by extreme ascetic practice, suffering, and privation.
It is the discoveries of those Few which are taken up by the all too average asphilosophies and paraded by them as spiritual insights, as religion. But it isall a sham, fancy dress, play-acting (again, Kitsch is the best indicatorhere).
No REAL effort has been, or can be, made to achieve those insights that onlyheroic suffering can bring to the Few.
Those Few who go DOWN into the abyss and may send back reports of what they'veexperienced. They must be listened to and admired, of course, but if theconsumers of such reports from the abyss (or Hyperborea) think that theythemselves are anything more than mere on-lookers, morbid spectators and rubber-neckers,then they are doubly ridiculous.
XXXVII
Techno-Aristocracy
Techno-Aristocracy
Technology is the invention, and therefore, the legacy of, Aristocracy.
Aristocracy by its very nature is creative/inventive and always has the 'edge'of subject populations.
So, technology does not 'drive' Aristocracy, technics are the tools ofAristocratic rule. Of course, in history we see the fall of Aristocracies andthe appropriation of technics [often crudely understood] by non-Aristocrats. Inthose cases we can speak of being 'driven' by technology, as such rulers cannotgrasp the import of technics.
Greek;'technikos',of art, skillful, from 'techne', art, craft, skill; akin toGreek 'tekton', builder, carpenter. cf. Latin 'texere', to weave, and Old HighGerman 'dahs', badger.
Nietzsche was a constant and unwavering advocate of social hierarchy and abitter enemy of all egalitarian ideals. Breeding itself is an earlyAristocratic technic.
The will to form is an aristocratic principle which is manifest in the need tocreate 'distances'.
Nietzsche's philosophy can be almost summed up by that word 'distances'.
The distance between caste and caste, class and class, man and woman.
Indeed the modern technologies that you advert [genetics etc.] are merelydevelopments of the Aristocratic principle of discipline and breeding.
Nietzsche desires the WHOLE so that he can create distances WITHIN the whole.
So the one-sided evolution you fear is not a danger under the genuine NobleRule.
The goal is to create something wider and ever more stratified andarticulated;
Life as a great work of art [techne].
Of course there are also inner technics, those seen in the best spiritualityand philosophy. Aristocracies create space for the few to go aside and work onthese inner-technics. Such beings then enrich the whole. In a non-Aristocraticsociety, inner-technics are often obliterated [e.g., in the accelerated hasteof today].
To reiterate, the modern problem is that a non-Aristocratic class does not knowwhat such technics are FOR.
Obviously, an Overman Caste would know how to use such technics to createRangordnung [Order of Rank], which is the only creative objective for technicswhen driven by the Noble.
Technics used by non-Aristocratic types results in the perversion of 'preservingthe weak' etc., rather than enhancing the rule of the best and creating everwider social distances between castes. New species would be created, new worldsconquered.
XXXVIII
"The Emperor-- this World-Soul-- I saw riding through the city toreview his troops. It is indeed a wonderful feeling to see such an individualwho, here concentrated into a single-point, reaches out over the world and dominatesit ".
[Hegel, writing of Napoleon's victory inJena
Further to Nietzsche identifying himself as a 'Hyperborean', let us look at theprimordial Hyperborean spiritual centre, Ultima Thule.
"Ultima Thule is the furthest North of the known world. It is also,figuratively, anything which is almost beyond the bounds of human reason andimagination". [B.King,'Ultima Thule' ]
The phrase is found in Virgil's The Georgics I, 30: 'Tibi serviat UltimaThule'.
"The first recorded sighting ofThule wasby a merchant named Pytheas, sailing out of a Greek colony in Marseilles
"The Emperor-- this World-Soul-- I saw riding through the city toreview his troops. It is indeed a wonderful feeling to see such an individualwho, here concentrated into a single-point, reaches out over the world and dominatesit ".
[Hegel, writing of Napoleon's victory in
Further to Nietzsche identifying himself as a 'Hyperborean', let us look at theprimordial Hyperborean spiritual centre, Ultima Thule.
"Ultima Thule is the furthest North of the known world. It is also,figuratively, anything which is almost beyond the bounds of human reason andimagination". [B.King,'Ultima Thule' ]
The phrase is found in Virgil's The Georgics I, 30: 'Tibi serviat UltimaThule'.
"The first recorded sighting of
The account of this voyage is given in Polybius, c. 150 B.C.
Godfrey Higgins, in 'The Celtic Druids' 1829, " suggested that Pytheasactually reachedThule
Higgins also hinted that Thulean doctrines were amongst the corpus of knowledgein the possession of the Pythagoreans". [ib.]
This gives another more particular reason why Nietzsche would identify himselfas a Hyperborean. In his early 'Unfashionable Observation' on history, heacknowledged the Pythagorean nature of the doctrine of the 'Eternal recurrenceof the Same'. Zarathustra became the teacher of that Thulean doctrine.
The following is from Horace [Odes Bk IV; 4:29-32]:
Godfrey Higgins, in 'The Celtic Druids' 1829, " suggested that Pytheasactually reached
Higgins also hinted that Thulean doctrines were amongst the corpus of knowledgein the possession of the Pythagoreans". [ib.]
This gives another more particular reason why Nietzsche would identify himselfas a Hyperborean. In his early 'Unfashionable Observation' on history, heacknowledged the Pythagorean nature of the doctrine of the 'Eternal recurrenceof the Same'. Zarathustra became the teacher of that Thulean doctrine.
The following is from Horace [Odes Bk IV; 4:29-32]:
'When sires are good and brave, the child
Is brave: in cattle and in steeds
Blood proves itself: the eagle wild
The timorous ring-dove never breeds'.
'Ossian' was the favourite book of Napoleon.
"I speak here as the Artist, and though all artists labour and most arepoor, all are loyal, all are the worshippers of Royalty.
If there is a thing in the world that I love, it is a symbol.
We artists see Royalty as more splendid and Noble than any others can ever seeit. And if my King wanted to chop off my head, I think I would submitcheerfully and dance to the block for the sake of preserving my ideal ofkingship.
But now our ears seem to be deaf; we begin not to hear the song of Paradise , we fail to pick up the chorus which follows inthe wake of Royalty. Our touch too, is growing coarse; Now we have becomemob--afraid any longer to serve like Noblemen, we must Slave like thieves,having robbed ourselves of our greatest possession, our five senses. We are becomingveritable slaves chained together by circumstances, refusing to be released byour imagination, that only power which achieves true freedom. But for me, I ama free man, by the grace of Royalty. Long Live the King! ". [Craig, 'Onthe Art of the Theatre' ]
XXXIX
Noble Aryan!
Nietzsche chose the name Zarathustra with good reason.
Noble Aryan!
Nietzsche chose the name Zarathustra with good reason.
We Nietzscheans must find out more about Iran
We know the basics, of the Aryans reaching the region in the 2nd millenniumB.C., of the creation of the vast Persian Empire by the 6th century B.C. -- And we should not gloss over this. From an Aryanbase was ruled all the civilisations of the East;” King Cyrus captured Babylon Egypt sea of Aral ; he invaded Europe by theBosporus, and crossed the Danube ".[Muir's 'Atlas of Ancient and Classical History']
As mentioned above, the Jews were subjects of this Aryan ruled Empire [Dariusdescribed himself as being of 'Aryan stock'], and it seems that Persian ideasinfluenced Jewish religious thought greatly;
"It seems probable that on such subjects as the number and personality ofangels, and the existence of demons, Jewish beliefs were indirectly indebted toPersia; it is possible that the doctrine of future retribution may have receivedan impulse from the Iranian religion. It also seems certain that one of thelater Jewish festivals [Purim] has a Persian origin". ['Helps To Study ofthe Bible']There is also the tender question of monotheism!
This Persian Empire was brought to an end byAlexander the Great in 330 B.C.
It seems that the Empire arose again under the Sassanids in the late Romanperiod but was then conquered by the Moslems with the catastrophic results youdetail.
But what of the Parsees, the Zarathustrians who fled Muslim persecution to livein India
Let us find out more about this neglected heritage!
The Dravidians were never culturally Aryan [i.e., they spoke a NON- Aryanlanguage, had no shred of Aryan technology, and were racially Un-Aryan!].
Lest anyone should think I am 'out-dated' in my view, I will refer to the bestrecent [and therefore politically correct] general monograph on the Aryans. Referringto the pre-Aryan Indus valley civilisation;
"The non-Indo-European [i.e., Aryan] Dravidian languages once occupiednearly all of the Indian subcontinent, and it is the intrusion of Indo-Aryansthat engulfed them in Northern India , leavinga few isolated enclaves".
[Mallory,’ In Search of the Indo Europeans' p.44]
That some foreign Dravidian loan words become early embedded into Indo-Aryanbears this out. Mallory shows that the non-Aryan languages of Elamite andDravidian are related and must go back to a common source.
"This makes a good case for associating the early village farmingeconomies that formed the foundation of the [pre-Aryan invasion] Indus valleycivilisation with Elamo/Dravidian [i.e., non-Indo European/Aryan] languages--an hypothesis more probable than Colin Renfrew's recent (1987) suggestion thatthe Indus valley civilisation was Indo-Aryan and that it was the Indo-Europeanswho introduced the farming economy to this region.
[Renfrew ignores the close linguistic relationship between Indo-Iranian andGreek (Renfrew an archeologist, not a philologist). In Renfrew's model, if theIndo-Iranians moved off to the end of what would become Anatolian, and thelinguistic ancestors of the Greeks moved to the west, there can be nointelligible explanation for how these different subgroups share so manyisoglosses not found in Anatolian] ". [ib. p.45]
For race to be understood, it must be viewed within the total culturalcontinuum. The idea that racial/cultural differences are due to people being'browned-off' by exposure to the sun is rather superficial. It is more a caseof races in pre-history seeking out [or staying put in] homelands which,according to natural selection, are most compatible with their physiotype etc.
"The very character of Indian society reflected in the earliest Vedicliterature renders it highly unlikely that the [pre-Aryan] Indus civilisationof the Dravidians was the product of [pre-Aryan Invasion] Indo-Aryans [ratherthan non-Indo European Dravidians];
"Moreover, the Vedas recognise a dichotomy between the Aryans and theirdark-skinned enemies the 'dasa', who are on one occasion described as'noseless', which has generally been interpreted as a pejorative reference toDravidian physical features". [Mallory,ib. p.25]
So one ignores language, social structure, technology and religious culture inthis study at one's peril;
"Vedic hymns commemorate or invoke divine support for the destruction oftheir enemies and the storming of their citadels. This is to be accomplishedwith the assistance of their horses and chariots, a technique of warfareapparently unknown to the [pre-Aryan] Indus civilisation". [ib.]
As Mallory says, the theory that says the Dravidians were 'Aryan' involves ahuge amount of special pleading. The view that the Aryans were invaders,intrusive to the Indus civilisation prevails;
"All of our earliest evidence for the Indo-Aryans in India
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"Pythagoras [born c.582 B.C.] is the archetypal magician of ancient times...a precursor ofFaust...He became a disciple of Zarathustra before returning to Greece
[B.King, 'Ultima Thule']
"Abaris was a Scythian who received a flying arrow from Apollo, with whichhe gave oracles, and transported himself wherever he pleased. He is said tohave visited the Hyperborean countries from
"The Hyperboreans worshipped Apollo, and the god was supposed to visit theHyperboreans at the end of every Great Year. This was when the stars hadreturned in their courses to the point from which they had begun.
"In Greek legend a happy and contented race lived lives a thousand yearslong beneath a cloudless sky. They knew neither strife nor violence and their homelay beyond the Boreas, the North Wind. Boreas was one of the Four Winds born toAstraeus and Aurora. He was worshipped as a deity and, amongst his accreditedfeats, was that of changing himself into a horse in order to sire mares. Thusthe people of this land were named Hyperboreans, and their home was calledHyperborea. Ancient traditions place Hyperborea in that part of the globe whichalso embraces
Your wisdom overfloweth; the Camel will take this burthen.
Flow on Aryan One, Flow On.
XLI
Q) "Without any way to ground the ethnographic concept of Aryan-culturalcontinuity, from ancient Crete to modernAmerica
Q) "Without any way to ground the ethnographic concept of Aryan-culturalcontinuity, from ancient Crete to modern
A) The concept is grounded in the emergence of the Indo-Europeans in the 2ndmillennium B.C. This is demonstrated by the concurrence of archeological,genetic and cultural evidence. The language spoken by the majority of Americanstoday is a well-attested Indo-European tongue derived from the ancient Aryans.
Because life is the sum-total of complex interactions, there is no absolute'exclusivity', racial or otherwise [although groups like the Jews will claim toracial purity]; however, this does not mean that there is 'no such thing' ascultural differentiation. Clearly there is.
Q) "A broader approach to the creation of human cultures seems morerealistic. Universally all human culture develops through the same formsFamily, clan, tribe. Even the differentiation into (King, warrior, priest,lumpen) is the same rank of order organization, no matter if its Aryan,Egyptian, Aztec, Japanese, Etruscan, Dravidian etc.
Q) "A broader approach to the creation of human cultures seems morerealistic. Universally all human culture develops through the same formsFamily, clan, tribe. Even the differentiation into (King, warrior, priest,lumpen) is the same rank of order organization, no matter if its Aryan,Egyptian, Aztec, Japanese, Etruscan, Dravidian etc.
A)This is blatantly untrue. The Aboriginals of Australasia for example were atthe level of Stone Age hunter-gatherers up until at least the 19th century whentheir 'idyll' was spoiled by Europeans. Similar is true in regions of SouthAmerica and
Q) "Maybe the West would have been stagnant like many other cultures ifnot for the cross-fertilization of the Greeks with the east and the emergingWestern world with the near-east?"
A) Of course, this is the Faustian aspect of Aryan culture, and it contrastswith those static cultures [e.g., ancient
Q) "The idea of blood-race traits continuing materially throughinstitutions as epiphenomena to be rejoined later by (Pseudo -Aryans?) that canbreed (in or out)self organizing memes seems just a little too mystical.
A) No, you are confusing the biological gene with the cultural meme.
There is nothing 'mystical' about it [although 'mysticism' is a typically Aryanmeme]. After all, we are talking of quite a short period in historical terms,and of eras when the movement of peoples was far more difficult than it istoday. There are examples of ancient Persian, Hittite, Minoan and Scythianiconography which show how the European or 'Caucasian' type remains unchanged.
Q) "Is there race continuity in the west? Sure the same race that left theforests of
A) It is far easier to track the development of Aryan culture from 1500 B.C. tothe present, than to demonstrate the evolutionary hypothesis that Europeansoriginated in
Q) "How far back in evolution does the conceptual "meme" of theAryan race date historically? "
A) The term 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins [author of the 'The SelfishGene'] in the 1970's as a cultural counter-part to the biological 'gene'.
The 'scientific' study of culture is still very much a Holy Grail.
The Rig-Veda is the earliest extant Aryan 'meme cache' [it is in fact theearliest extent religious book per se].
Q) "Was their birth before or after the promethean instinctual act ofabandoning their fellow apes in the trees on their quest towards theUberman?"
A) The Prometheus myth is of course Aryan. His connection with the control offire is instructive. The Aryan Zarathustra is associated with fire worship; theconcept of an 'ever-living fire' is common to Heraclitus and pagan
As far as I know the theory of evolution [ expounded in a basic form by thePre-Socratic philosophers], put forward by the Darwins [Erasmus and Charles]and developed by moderns like Dawkins, suggests that hominids [in pre-historythere were different species of hominids] share a 'common ancestor' with apes.So they never were 'apes' as such.
Q) "Did they drag with them the ignoble homunculus that sprang fromthemselves to poison their culture?".
A) Slavery is probably as old as culture itself. So yes, the potential ofNietzsche's 'slave-revolt' has always been present.
Q) "Maybe the "memes" of this select blood-race was born out ofthe spirit of mere scavengers that timidly waited for the lions and hyenas tofinish their meals, which through increased protein intake, unwittinglyincreased their brain capacity.
A) That is a common hypothesis among some of those who support evolutionarytheory. Of course it is a retrospective attitude to suggest that suchactivities were 'timid'. I would have thought that such a scenario is dangerousand desperate. It was no doubt due to a level of Promethean fore-sight that manwas able to extirpate or control predatory beasts of prey.
The question of how and why brain capacity increased in evolution remainsunanswered; this in itself should encourage a scepticism towards a wholesaleacceptance of the theory of evolution.
Q) " And through this reversal they heroically set out to expiate thattimid aspect from their being?"
A) Again, this assumes that scavenging in such conditions is 'timid', which Idoubt.
Q) "Or maybe the concept of race is an outmoded human construct of socialorginization that resides in the undemonstrable "spirit of the blood"and other idealistic things-in-themselves such as self-organizing immutable"memes"?.
A) Of course all 'concepts' are 'human constructs'; indeed it was Nietzsche whodid much to alert us to this. However, man lives by concepts as much as helives by food. Even the Nihilist has to believe in his 'meaninglessness'.
No one would claim the 'meme' to be anything more than a useful hypothesis[just as the Pre-Socratics viewed the 'atom'].
Scientists though, are able to demonstrate what they call that unit of heredity,the 'gene' ; and the recent work of the geneticist Cavilli-Sfortza includes'gene maps' showing the movements of different racial groups across Europe forexample, which concur largely with the work of ancient historians and olderracial theorists.
Even back in the 19th century it was archeological excavations by Schliemannwhich showed that
I am well aware that 'race theory' is politically incorrect today, just as'atomism' was once considered religiously incorrect. But that is no guide torelative 'truth'.
XLII
The fact that you agree with Nietzsche and see Socratism, Lutheranism, andRousseauism as counter-movements to Nobility, should lead you to realise thatthese contermovements were separated from one to another by centuries uponcenturies.
This means that cultural evolution is cyclic. Each cycle has its supermen justas it has its herds.
It is characteristic for the short-sighted herdlike contemporaries of everycycle not to recognise the supermen of that era [or else they resentthem].
Recognition is often posthumous; indeed, as Nietzsche said, 'some are BORNposthumously'.
XLIII
To say that because something is considered degenerate NOW, it therefore must have always have been degenerate is foolish as it ignores the sense of the word de-generation. Things BECOME degenerate.
"To value history beyond a certain point mutilates and degrades life".
[Nietzsche,'Uses and Abuses of History' Preface]
2071
The fact that Moslems call Christians fellow 'people of thebook' shows the identity of their Abrahamic religion;
"Mohammed preached and insisted upon a whole group of ideas which were peculiar to the Catholic Church and distinguished it from the paganism which it had conquered in the Greek and Roman civilisation.
"Thus the very foundation of his teaching was that prime catholic doctrine, THE UNITY AND OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD. The attributes of God he also took over in the main from catholic doctrine: the PERSONAL NATURE, the ALL-GOODNESS,the TIMELESSNESS, the PROVIDENCE OF GOD, HIS CREATIVE POWER as the ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS, and HIS SUSTENANCE OF ALL THINGS BY HIS POWER ALONE.
"The world of good spirits and angels and the evil spirits in rebellion against God was part of the teaching, with a chief evil part, such as Christendom had recognised.
"Mohammed preached with insistence on that prime catholic doctrine, on the human side--THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL and its responsibility for actions in this life,coupled with the consequent doctrine of PUNISHMENT and REWARD after death.
"If anyone sets down those points that orthodox Catholicism has in common with Mohammedanism, and those points only, one might imagine if one went no further that there should have been no cause of quarrel.
"MOHAMMED GAVE JESUS THE HIGHEST REVERENCE, AND TO MARY ALSO, for that matter. On the Day of Judgment [another catholic doctrine which he taught] it was JESUS ACCORDING TO MOHAMMED WHO WOULD BE THE JUDGE OF MANKIND, NOT HE, MOHAMMED.
"The mother of Christ, ‘Our Lady', 'The Lady Miriam' was ever for him the first of womankind". [Belloc, ‘The GreatHeresies']
"But the central point where this new HERESY struck home with a mortal blow against catholic tradition was a full denial of the Incarnation.....Mohammed taught that JESUS WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL PROPHETS, but still only a prophet; a man like other men". [ib.]
Islam's unity is down to the simplicity of its message;
"Mohammed, like so many other lesser heresiarchs,founded his heresy on SIMPLIFICATION" [ib.]
It is Europe 's inherent Aryan COMPLEXITY that has lead to its dynamism.
Christ predated Mohammed by some SIX centuries.
"Mohammedanism [i.e. Islam] was a HERESY: that is the essential point to grasp before going any further. It began as a heresy, not as a new religion. It was not a Pagan contrast with the Church; it was not an alien enemy. It was a perversion of Christian doctrine".
[Belloc, 'The Great Heresies']
The degenerates in our culture have always been the Nihilists who will seek all means [and indeed any ally, no matter how nefarious] to destroy us, and yet offer no constructive, positive, alternative. They will, for example, ride in with the Islamic hordes as they finally annihilate Western culture, leave it waste, and build nothing on the wilderness.
Islam can always rely on a steady flow of Turkic and Mongolian barbarians from the East to fill its anti-Western ranks as it has done for the last 1400 years. With or without the Mohammedan heresy the Mongolian has always tried to overwhelm the West;
"Twice we, in the Christian/European West, have barely escaped final destruction at their hands; once when we defeated the vast Asiatic army of Attila near Chalons France [A.D. 451]...and again in the13th century,800 years later. Then the advancing Asiatic Mongol power was checked, not by our armies but by the death of the man who had united it in his one hand[Genghis Khan-died A.D.1227]. But it was not checked till it reached north Italy and was approaching Venice
Let me make it as clear as possible; I, like Nietzsche, believe in the culture of Europe which begins in Greece [Europa] and is universalised by Rome
Those books translated into Arabic were the writings of the Greeks; of Aristotle, Euclid
During the period of turmoil, in which the Roman Empire in the WEST collapsed politically [it remained standing in the East until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the barbaric Turks who had by then become the dominant power in Islam - the Mongols had destroyed the more cultured Caliphate of Baghdad in 1258], it is true that the works of high European culture were preserved in the East.However, the Roman Church in the West remained intact. It itself was the product of Roman organisation and so survives to this day; it not only preserved European culture but it also predates Islam by 600 years!
By 800 A.D. Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope and Western Culture had begun its long ascent to wards world-domination, despite the constant attacks of Eastern barbarians whether Turks or Communists.
Anyone who has seen the fanaticism in the Muslim world of today where fatwas are handed down on books which are deemed disrespectful to the prophet will find the childish references to Western book-burning a bit rich!
The Superman always rules over a slavish mass, whether they be slaves to consumerism, or to a slavish religion [Islam means 'submission']. So we have today IDEAL SOIL for the Superman to grow, both in East and West.
The Western culture is disparate, complex and diverse by its very nature. It is the work of great commanders and thinkers to give it a phase of synthesis;
Life is Becoming; that is Heraclitean flux.
So yes, Nietzsche will always spin in his grave.
Nietzsche himself makes the point that the Catholic Church was the creation of the Roman Empire [what else could have articulated such hierarchies?].
That is not to say that it is the 'same' [it is a phase of evolution] as 'Rome
"Isn't the testimony of a woman worth only half the testimony of a man?That is because of her inferior intelligence".
['The Sayings of Mohammed' ;Bukhari, 'Sahih', ed.Muhammed Shakir; 3.326, AbuSa'id al-Khudri]
"Better a belly full of puss than a belly full of poetry".
['The Sayings of Mohammed', Bukhari,'Sahih' ed. Ahmad Muhammed Shakir, Ibn'Umar]
Links between antiquity and Europe ;
Western Art for example. Look at the work of one of Napoleon's favourite painters,J.L. David [e.g., 'The Oath of the Horatii']. Who can fail to see in David's portrayal of Napoleon both the product and progenitor of Latinate, Roman/European Imperial, Caesarean culture?
Or else something called the Roman Catholic Church. The Church of the Roman Empire, which became the Church of Europe during the so-called 'dark ages', and even today, the Vatican, in Rome, is the spiritual centre for millions of Catholics world wide. Fact; there are more Roman Catholics today than there were in the Middle Ages.
Discontinuity in culture must be marked by a severance in language and religion. The fact that the Church of Rome continues and that Latin is the language of the Mass, as well as being the source of Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese [languages spoken in Europe and in the Americas etc.] is a standing refutation of the absurd contention that there is no cultural continuity between Rome and Europe .
European culture not only unifies Europeans and Americans, but the World itself. It is Islam's discomfort towards this state of affairs that has lead to the flourishing of Muslim Extremism and Terrorism. THAT is where the 'reaction' lies.
It is the very non-reactionary nature of Europe which allows it to evolve quickly in Protean phases, in a Heraclitean manner.
This is why Nietzsche says that Prometheus is our primary myth.
In the early 920's A.D., the Caliph sent a mission to the king of the Bulghars. Among that mission was the linguist and Islamic lawyer Ibn Fadlan. He has left us an invaluable eye-witness account of the Vikings called the Rus, who colonised Russia
That the Rus were noble Aryans is apparent from Fadlan's descriptions;
"If a son is born to one of the Rus he throws a sword before the child and says: 'Yours will only be that which you can obtain by means of this sword'".
Ibn Fadlan says of the Rus;
"Never had I seen people of greater physical stature, they are as tall aspalm-trees, blond and of ruddy complexion...each man has an axe, a dagger, anda sword with him. They are never seen without these weapons. Each of them has figures of trees and other things tattooed in a dark green colour from the rim of their fingernails up to their necks".
At a Viking ceremony [Fadlan describes the boat-burning etc.] a conversation between one of the Rus and a Muslim onlooker is recorded;
" The man of the Rus said,’ You, the Arabic community are stupid because you take the people you hold most dear and honour most of all among men andthrow them in the ground. Then the earth, crawling creatures and worms devour them. But we have him burned in an instant and so he enters into paradise immediately in the same hour', and then he broke into excessive laughter".
The splendour of [eastern] Viking culture is described here;
"It is a custom of the Kings of the Rus to have with him in his palace 400 men from among the heroes of his retinue and his trusted people; they die when he dies [together with him] and will die for him. Each of them has a girl who serves him, washes his head, prepares what he eats and drinks, and another girl whom he keeps as a concubine. These 400 men sit beneath his throne which is large and decorated with beautiful jewels".
We can see that the term 'dark ages' betrays a prejudice on those that use it.
A William Blake will tell you that what can be thought will one day be possible [this is the Eternal Recurrence].
This is the very Promethean, Faustian nature of Europa.
The reality of today is that European culture [the world Superpower America is a youthful off-shoot of Europa] has mastered the globe, and even turns its attention to outer Space. Thus, through technology, the West now exhibits the most extreme will to power.
XXX
Aryanism was preserved in the Aristocracies of Europe; even in the French revolution we see a return to the aristocratic type in its resultant Napoleon. In Napoleon we see, says Nietzsche, the return of antiquity, and therefore Aryanism.
Belloc goes on to discuss the similarities between the Protestant movement and Islam.
