On Being Nietzschean, IV

Dear unwanted reader,

Only a fool thinks that what he cannot see must be non-existent;a vain arrant knave of a fool, at that.

So,let your ephemeral shadow waft across my blog once more if you must;
You have not many lives left before you will be so wafer thin that even the eagle will not be able to see you...

...Ah,but you WILL be there, ghost - you will be there - haunting the Noble spires of my lofty thought.

Begone shade!


The Christianised world-view has become so used to accomodating other opinions that it has become an amorphous haze of decadence that seeks to clutch at any straw to survive.
Completely lacking in principle; the liberal 'anything goes' taken to the Nth degree.
Anything goes is the ultimate Nihilistic ethic.

How strange that Nietzsche,like Schopenhauer, was so RIGHT about women.

Just perhaps there is a flaw in the ideology of political correctness/feminism/equality.

Perhaps biology IS destiny,as Freud said.

She sees philosophy as a shopping substitute,where she can purchase opinions.

She who fills her head with pop trash will never make a philosopher.

I feel that the fault is with the doctrine of Liberalism.

The Western world has gradually succumbed to this sickness over the last couple of centuries, and has now reached the stage where the Liberal consensus of opinion is 'I don't care who lives here,as long as they pay their taxes'.

Such a policy is SUICIDAL in the age of Global Terrorism.

In fact Liberalism helped to CREATE Globalised terror.

The Liberal handicaps his Intelligence Services [which rely on infiltration when it comes to terrorism],as a predominantly indigenous force will stand out like a sore-thumb among the alien cells that it harbours.
Liberalism invites the strong will to power of the barbarian.

Criminals can sense the typical victim.

Only a Superfascist society built on Nietzschean Will to Power can survive in the Age of Terror.

An analogy will be the suit of armour;
In the Middle Ages it served as protection against arrow and blade - but with the development of cannon-shot it became useless; not only that,it became a hindrance.

Liberalism,multiculturalism are now impediments, more, they are deadly self-poisonings; they not only cannot defeat Terrorism, they are perfectly tailored to further it.

Perhaps that is the intention?

Liberals...make way for the Zarathustra Reich-it is COMING!



Death


From the two Indo-European roots,*BHEU [to be/to grow],and *DHEU [not to be/to die] is derived 'the question' on which Hamlet soliloquised,i.e., being and death [or as some would interpret doing and not-doing].

Reminding us again of Existentialism,Schopenhauer writes;

"For a thinking being it is a precarious position to stand upon one of those numerous planets moving freely in boundless space without knowing whence or whither,and to be only one of innumerable quickly arising and passing away in time,which has no beginning and no end;moreover,nothing permanent but matter alone and the recurrence of the same varied organised forms".
[Schopenhauer,'World as Will']

Here we can see that Schopenhauer and Nietzsche agree that the universe has no beginning or end,a position NOT rejected by modern scientists;

"The mathematical concept of imagininary time suggests that the universe may not have any beginning or end:The three space directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on itself,without boundaries or edges.It wouldn't have any point that could be called a beginning or end,any more than the surface of the earth has a beginning or end". [S.Hawking,'My Position']

Also,in that quote from Schopenhauer, we notice the phrase 'recurrence of the same', a doctrine as central to Nietzsche as it was to Pythagoras.


The Mask
Nietzsche says that 'everything profound LOVES the mask';this is very much a paradoxical statement.
Its air of ambiguity is spoilt when you say 'must' wear a mask.
The profound spirit 'loves' the mask ... at that point our thinking begins; we begin to pause and realise that there is much to be done.

Of course the statement comes from 'Beyond Good and Evil',and those of us undertaking a study of that book have plenty of time to dwell on the concept - we start thinking now, knowing that when we reach the sections in the same, on the free spirit, we will be up and running.

Initially I think of the term 'persona',and I also think of how in the first chapter of BGE, Nietzsche regards the 'I',the 'ego', as a synthetic concept, which is a 'unity only as a word'[and we might look at Foucault's work on the self as subject as a side-note].

The Latin 'persona' means literally to 'sound' [-sona],'through' [per-].
It was the name for the masks worn in Classical Drama which had a hole through which the actor spoke.
I am a 'person',i.e.,an actor.
Nietzsche's connection with Tragedy in particular make this an important aspect;it also puts into relief the so-called truth claims of philosophers - they too speak through masks.

What keeps nagging at me here is the question, are philosophers anything other than a particular type of poet?
Zarathustra says that 'the poets lie too much',but rejoins quickly that Zarathustra is also a poet.

One of the seminal collections of 20th century poetry is Ezra Pound's 'Personae';That poet,like our philosopher, could only speak of his deeper feelings 'through' the mask.

Nietzsche certainly believes in 'per-sona-l' depths; he likes to say that our 'souls' are multiple,multiplexities [literally,'many-folded'].
He likes to compare,not the State with the body, as the common metaphor has it,but the body with the State.
Whether one is a walking Aristocracy or an Anarchy or what-not has much to do with one's Order of Rank.
But we can only speak of those depths in metaphors because;
LANGUAGE IS A MASK.

Nietzsche,as much as he talks of the 'ineducable down deep', knows that 'consciousness is a surface'.
A thin,flimsy surface that requires a prophylactic,a persona,a mask.
It speaks of the instincts as the tip of an ice-berg.
So philosophy is only a speaking through a mask-that must never be forgotten.

The self is a multiplicity.
The term 'mask' is a metaphor from ancient drama.
The profound man is able,like the actor,to give rein to his multiple personas.
In other words,the mask indicates the multifarious nature of the self,which as Nietzsche says,is 'only a unity as a word'.

As always,we must be aware of the metaphorical nature of language.

Nietzsche is not advocating that we all dress up in masks,nor is he even advocating that we all give ourselves silly pseudonyms.
He is rather suggesting that we become aware of the inner complexities of our 'souls'.

A solipsist believes only IN himself.
What you believe ABOUT yourself is something else.
A solipsistic nihilist believes in only himself,and thinks of that self as being nada, zilch, nix.
He uses 'i' instead of 'I'.

Of course,such a creature could also be a gross hypocrite!

The whole point is that the WTP is a perspective.
MODERN science [not the 'wissenschaft' of Nietzsche's time] has a more perspectival out-look.

I am my own truth.

"Improving our style means improving our ideas and nothing else". [Nietzsche,'Wanderer and his Shadow',131]

Nietzschean Doctrines Stated in the first chapter of BGE include;

Perspectivism
Multiple Soul
Will To Power
Order of Rank
Nihilism
Masks
Masters
Values


I am giving to you the starting lines, my brethren; Time for you to start running to prove yourselves; please show me that your interests go beyond yourselves and into philosophy - Nietzschean philosophy!

"The greatest thoughts are the greatest events". [Nietzsche,BGE,285]

So all in all I am loath to leave this first chapter of BGE ... YET.
The next chapter on the 'Free Spirits' DEMANDS that this amount of care and caution is taken.
In order to even have an inclin of what being a free spirit entails we must be thoroughly prepared in philosophy.


Those who follow Nietzsche's lead will be overwhelmingly rich; they will shower the book with abundant meaning.

Come,friends of Dionysos; join me...you have only to fear being torn limb from limb by my joyous Maenads .... what ,you lag behind? ...think of your fatedness in being able to partake in this event O my Fotunate Ones...
...Molten gold gobbets of wisdom are about to fall on your shoulders...
O my Richness!....

You will thank my Spirit into all of Eternity!


"The temptations to traverse forbidden paths and have a say in science as well is forgivable in the artist.Even the ablest craftsman at times finds his workshop unendurable". [Nietzsche,'Wanderer and his Shadow',123]

'Non-Philosophical' Themes in BGE include;

Science
Philology
Grammar
Instincts/Drives
Psychology
Physics
Physiology
Religion [Islam, Jesuits, Xtianity, God, gods, mystcism, etc.]
Nature
Politics [Democracy, Tyranny, Aristocracy,etc.]
Culture [Europe, India, Indo-Germans, Geeks,etc.]

-Clearly,we need to go much further to do justice to these cultural/scientific issues.


"I praise leaders and forerunners:that is to say,those who leave themselves behind and do not care in the least whether anyone is following them or not".[Nietzsche,'Daybreak',554]

Philosophers and Scientists specifically mentioned in BGE include;

Socrates
Copernicus
Boscovich
Descartes
Kant
Epicurus
Plato
Stoics
Spinoza
Darwin
Locke
Schopenhauer
Schelling

There is much to be harvested here.

Come on you philosophical labourers!


Mentors

Does no one today dare to do a philosophical apprenticeship?

All philsophers need to find a Master - only by following that Master can one LEARN to do Philosophy.

The current trend to follow 'movements' and interpretations of other interpretations means that students never come into contact with what philosophy IS.

To demonstrate this, look at Nietzsche's essay 'Schopenhauer as Educator' - this is a model example of what I am talking about.
Nietzsche expresses his utter devotion to this master.

Philosophy arises upon the shoulder's of giants-just as Plato followed Socrates and Aristotle Plato,so Nietzsche followed Schopenhauer.
It is the only way to do it.

FIND your Master,then follow him to the ends of the earth - only then will you become your own man.
The phrase that sums up the love of wisdom as a project,is;
'On the shoulders of giants'.

The philosophic journey is built upon,as philosopher follows philosopher.
Kant builds from Hume, Schopenhauer builds from Kant, Nietzsche builds from Schopenhauer and Heidegger builds from Nietzsche...and you?...and me?...

There is much in Nietzsche that can be found in Schopenhauer, in Stirner, in Heraclitus, in Emerson etc...
Ultimately it is knowledge that matters, not individuals; and the individuals only matter in the greatness [degreee of will] they can bring to knowledge.

There is no 'originality'.None of us are isolated atoms; our culture,like our D.N.A. is linked over generations, and the part cannot be without the whole.
It requires great strength of will to create distances between ourselves; that initself is a form of creating.

Nietzsche was first and foremost a philosopher of culture;it was from out of his Schopenhauerian phase that he blossomed into THE philosopher of culture;

"Only he who has attached his heart to some great man is by that act CONSECRATED TO CULTURE: Culture demands of him,not only inward experience,not only an assessment of the outward world that streams all around him,but finally and above all an act,that is to say a struggle on behalf of culture". [Nietzsche,'Schopenhauer as Educator']

There is a strong streak of neoromantic idealism that Nietzsche sought to renounce during the 'Human all too Human' period;but in truth he only toned it down and toughened it up;

"The supreme goal:the production of genius;the belief in a metaphysical significance of culture". [ib.]

Metaphysics aside,we can see in this 'production of genius' a fore-taste of the Superman.The evolutionary nature of this idea is prefigured in Schopenhauer's philosophy.
This was pointed out clearly by Spengler;

"Schopenhauer's system is ANTICIPATED DARWINISM:In Schopenhauer we find already the struggle for self-preservation in nature;the human intellect as master weapon in that struggle and ual love as unconscious selection according to biological interest.
"From Schopenhauer to G.B.Shaw,everyone has been,without being aware of it,bringing the same principle into form.Everyone is a derivation of the evolution idea". [Spengler,'Decline of the West']

The playwright Shaw talked of "Nietzsche's post-Darwin,post-Schopenhauerian philosophy". [Shaw,'Man and Superman' 1903]
He hit the nail firmly on the head when he wrote;

"In 1819 Schopenhauer published his treatise on the 'World as Will',which is the metaphysical complement to Lamarck's natural history,as it demonstrates that the driving force behind Evolution is a will to live".[Shaw,'Back to Methuselah']

Evolutionary thinking is apparent in Nietzsche's pro-Schopenhauerian epoch;
"When a species has arrived at its limits and is about to go ever into a higher species,the goal of its evolution lies in those apparently scattered and chance existences which favourable conditions have here and there produced;because it can arrive at a conscious awareness of its goal,mankind ought to seek out and create the favourable conditions under which those great redemptive men can come into existence". [Nietzsche,'Schop.Edu.']

This tension between unconscious and conscious evolution remained with Nietzsche until the end;the following passage reminds us of the arrow metaphor used in the preface of BGE;
"Nature seems bent on squandering.Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow;it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere,but countless times it misses". [ib.]

The desire to remove all 'chance' from such an enterprise dominates Nietzsche's philosophy from here on in;
"The proposition:'Mankind must work continually at the production of individual great men-that and nothing else is its task". [ib.]

This is a prelude to the philosophers of the future.
Spengler again;

"Nietzsche observes that the Darwinian idea of the Superman evokes the notion of breeding:the breeding of the Superman follows from the notion of 'SELECTION' ".[Spengler,ib.]

To Nietzsche the Schopenhauerian man must assemble some questions before taking up his particular tasks;

"He will have to descend into the depths of existence with a string of curious questions on his lips:

" 'Why do I live?'

" 'What lesson have I to learn from life?'

" 'How have I become what I am and why do I suffer from being what I am?'

"-To the question:'to what end do you live?', -his fellow citizens would all quickly reply with pride;'To BECOME a good citizen, or scholar,or statesman' - and yet they ARE something that can never become something else". [Nietzsche,'Schopenhauer as Educator']

Here,Nietzsche's life-long motto, discovered in Pindar, sounds out as a liet-motif;

"Become what thou art! ".

In the following we see a presage of Nietzsche's 'hammer',which seeks to stamp being on becoming;

"The enigma which man is he can resolve only in being,in being thus and not otherwise,in the imperishable. Now he starts to test how deeply he is entwined with becoming,how deeply with being - a tremendous task rises before his soul:to destroy all that is becoming,to bring light to all that is false in things.
"He too wants know everything: to take delight in the multiplicity of things;he himself is his first sacrifice to himself-his strength lies in forgetting himself". [ib.]

Armed with the questions of being and becoming he can approach his tasks.
To begin with;

"The task will be to make the 'free spirits' and those who suffer profoundly from our age acquainted with Schopenhauer,assemble them together and through them to engender a current capable of overcoming the ineptitude with which nature employs the philosopher". [ib.]

The 19th century was an ominous period for Western culture,heavy with the storm-clouds of coming self-destruction;

"From out of their own exhausted age the modern philosophers long for a culture,for a transfigured physis.But this longing also constitutes their DANGER:there is a struggle within them between the reformer of life,and the philosopher,the judge of life". [ib.]

Nietzsche places the onus firmly;

"It has been the proper task of all great thinkers to be law-givers as to the measure,stamp and weight of things". [ib.]

Here in this short essay is outlined the life-task for the coming philosophers.

That strain of Nietzschean influence which extends into the philosophy of Existentialism, also goes back to Schopenhauer;

"Systematic philosophy closes with the end of the 18th century.Kant puts its utmost possibilities in forms both grand in themselves and -as a rule-final for the Western soul.He is followed by a philosophy that was not speculative but practical which begins in the West with Schopenhauer,who is the first to make the WILL TO LIFE ['creative life force'] the centre of gravity for his thought,although obscured by his having maintained the obsolete Kantian distinctions of phenomena and 'things in themselves',and such-like".
[Spengler,'The Decline of the West']

In 'Human All Too Human', Nietzsche implored philosophers to re-engage with the 'closest things';this is behind Zarathustra's constant evocation of the 'body',and of the importance of 'remaining true to the earth'.
"G.B.Shaw observes that one may quite well accept Schopenhauer's philosophy of Will, and reject his metaphysics-therein quite accurately discriminating between that which makes him the first thinker of the new age,and that which is included because an obsolete tradition held it to be indispensable in a complete philosophy.With Nietzsche his philosophy was through and through an inner and very early experience:strict metaphysics has exhausted its possibilities". [ib.]
Of course Nietzsche extended his philosophy out in all directions,but as he says in BGE,all philosophising is an 'unconscious autobiography'.

Strength of will is paramount;

"We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence:consequently we want to be the true helmsmen of this existence,and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance". [Nietzsche,'Schopenhauer as Educator']

The theme of 'authenticity',so often heard in Existentialism,is prefigured here;
"The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily:let him follow his conscience,which calls to him-'Be yourself! All you are now doing,thinking,desiring,is not for yourself' ". [ib.]

The idea of the 'unconscious' is also touched upon, again derived from Schopenhauer.
This was recognised by S.Freud;

"Probably but very few people have realised the momentous significance for science and life of the recognition of unconscious mental processes.It was not psycho-analysis,let us hasten to add,which took this first step.There are renowned names among the philosophers who may be cited as its predecessors,above all the great thinker Schopenhauer,whose unconscious 'Will' is equivalent to the instincts in the mind as seen by psychoanalysis.It was this same thinker,moreover,who in words of unforgettable impressiveness admonished mankind of the importance of their ual craving". [Freud,'On the Difficulties of Psychoanalysis']

Nietzsche,following Schopenhauer says;
"The true basic material of your being is something in itself ineducable,difficult of access,bound and paralysed:your educators can only be your liberators-culture is liberation". [Nietzsche,'Schop. Edu.]

Here is the root of Nietzsche's project to translate man back into nature;

"Where does the animal cease,where does man begin?".[ib.]


WILL

Let us look now at the 'Will' itself.

"This WILL,as 'thing-in-itself',is known to us only in and through the act of VOLITION". [Schopenhauer,'Parerga']

Schopenhauer's identification of the 'will' with the Kantian 'thing-in-itself' may be looked upon as a happy misunderstanding of Kant's metaphysics on Schopenhauer's part,leading as it did to the Nietzschean Will to Power on the one hand and the Freudian 'unconscious' on the other.
Spengler says that "the actual and effective philosophy of the 19th century has as its one genuine theme the Will to Power". [Spengler.'The Decline of the West']

Of course the 'will' has been so far accepted with out question;in the first chapter of 'Beyond Good and Evil' Nietzsche makes a critique of the very notion this Schopenhaureian 'Will',which helps us to see the transition from the latter's 'will to life' towards the Nietzschean 'will to power'.

The root of the word 'will' can be traced to the Indo-European,where a flood of words spring from the stem *'wel-',with the general sense of 'move around'.
'Will' is cognate with 'well'....will is 'wellness' as becoming,e-volv-ing;'Evolve'-'volute' etc.,from roll;i.e.,'rota',wheel.

The Wheel of Becoming;and 'wheel','will','well',brings us back to the fundamental sense;to move-that is what it is to be well,and to will.

We have lost the sense of 'becoming';it only glimmers in 'word like wend',to 'wind';
A glance at Old English cognates throws up 'wax',i.e.,to grow;'weorthan',to become [cf. 'wierd' ];'weorth',worth;...and 'wer',i.e.,'man' [cf. the Latin root of 'virile'].
And the word 'well' is used from Old English in the sense to 'well up',to surge [OE 'weallen',surge].

Words as condensed poems which try to represent thoughts,ideas; which ARE those thoughts and ideas.

Among the complex of 'over-wills' and 'under-wills', Nietzsche describes;

1)Sensations;
A plurality including muscular habits,and suggesting variations on the drive/aversion model.

2)Thinking;
There is a 'ruling thought' in every willing.

3)Emotion;
The duality of commanding/obeying is included here.

Nietzsche thinks that;

"Schopenhauer's basic misunderstanding of the will is to think that craving,instinct,drive were the ESSENCE of will ".[Nietzsche,WM 84]
But to Nietzsche;
" It is the will itself which precisely treats cravings as their master and appoints to them their way and measure ". [ib.]


"Among civilised nations we find throughout two different kinds of metaphysics which are distinguished by the fact that one has its evidence IN ITSELF,the other OUTSIDE ITSELF.Since the metaphysical systems of the first kind require reflection,culture and leisure for the recognition of their evidence,they can be accessible only to a very small number of men;and,moreover,they can only arise and maintain their existence in the case of advanced civilisation.
"On the other hand,the systems of the second kind exclusively are for the great majority of men who are not capable of thinking,but only of believing,and who are not accessible to reason,but only to authority.These systems may therefore be called metaphysics of the people.These systems,however,are known under the name of religions,and are found among all nations,not excepting the most savage". [Schopenhauer,'World as Will']

It was from this sort of vantage point that Nietzsche called Christianity,'Platonism for the people' in the Preface of BGE, and referred to his own uncompleted 'The Will To Power' as a book for 'thinking and nothing else'.

And thinking, like willing is something 'complicated';

"There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are 'immediate certainties';for instance,'I think',or as the superstition of Schopenhauer puts it,'I will';as though cognition here got hold of its object purely and simply as 'the thing in itself',without any falsification taking place either in the part of the subject or the object". [Nietzsche BGE 16]

Nietzsche is to pursue more rigorously not only thinking about willing,but thinking about thinking;

"Supposing that nothing else is 'given' as real but our world of desires and passions,that we cannot sink or rise to any other 'reality' but just that of our impulses;I do not mean as an illusion,a 'semblance',a 'representation' [in the Berkeleyan and Schopenhauerian sense],but as possessing the same degree of reality as our emotions themselves".[ib. 36]

To Nietzsche thinking must be accounted among the instinctive activities,and is therefore part of that complex 'will';

"The question is ultimately whether we really recognise the will as OPERATING,whether we believe in the causality of the will: Granted,finally,that we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive life as the development and ramification of one fundamental form of will-namely, the will to power, as MY thesis puts it; to define ALL active force unequivocally as will to power. The world seen from within, the world defined and designated according to its 'intelligible character' - it would simply be will to power,and nothing else". [ib.]

It is worth noting that Schopenhauer thought he was a Kantian at first just as Nietzsche thought he was a Schopenhauerian at first.

Neither of them really understood their mentors,because as Nietzsche said, all Philosophy is unconscious autobiography.

Schopenhauer thought that his Will was the same as Kant's 'thing in itself'; That is a misunderstanding... some misunderstandings are HAPPY ones.


"In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant,Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,the greatest of our thinkers,in comparison with whom the British,the French and the Americans have nothing to offer.It is on the foundation of Kant's theory of knowledge that Schopenhauer built the edifice of his philosophy,and it is Schopenhauer who annihilated the pragmatism of Hegel.I carried Schopenhauer's works with me throughout the whole of the first war.From him I learned a great deal although Schopenhauer's pessimism has been far surpassed by Nietzsche".[Hitler,Table Talk,May 1944]

Nietzsche achieved the paradox of a non-transcendent metaphysics.

How to give meaning to a seemingly meaningless world [i.e.,a world without God]?

Schopenhauer,like all Nihilists chose will denial;
Nietzsche willed the Will to Power.

The Superman stamps his will on the whole of existence;he faces up to the tragic reality of the eternal return,he even glories in it.

Dionysian philosophy, tragic philosophy;

It is how one RESPONDS to the impossibility of an other-worldly metaphysics.
Life IS Will to Power.


The WTP is a 'lie'?..
...well then;
"what is truth?,said jesting Pilate,and wouldn't stay for an answer".

You've washed your hands of this one!

And your infinite regression is non-transcendental? - so God is dead for you too!
So,allow me to turn the tables,and say that your infinite regression IS the WTP.... well,it is certainly not God - God is nothing if not transcendent.

A rose by any other name.

Blood
I think there was a Blood link between Nietzsche and Aristotle.
Noble Blood will always out.


Caste in Sanskrit is 'Varna';the word literally means 'colour'.

"VARNA:The brightness of the light of truth is the 'arya varna',the hue of these Aryans who are 'jyotiragrah';
The darkness of the night of their ignorance is the hue of Panis ['destroyers'],the 'dasa varna'.
In this way 'varna' would come to mean almost the nature or else all those of that particular nature;and that this idea was a current notion among the ancient Aryans seems to me to be shown by the later use of different colours to distinguish the four castes [in descending order]-
White,Red,Yellow and Black".
[Sri Aurobindo,'Keys to Vedic Symbolism',1967]

GOD

God denies that He is a conjecture, the Will to Power doesn't.

When Nietzsche stated the WTP he quickly said,'and you will say that that too is only an interpretation - so much the better!
Of course the WTP is 'merely' a conjecture; we gladly admit it! - would that the God-lovers were so honest!

But let us weigh the two doctrines;

On the one hand, God is your creator, your master and your final judger. On the other, in the WTP one creates yourself, one masters oneself and others, one judges oneself according to the law ONESELF HAS WILLED FOR ONESELF!

God is a doctrine that accords with ... shall we say,'certain' natures, certain genes .. Slavish types.

The WTP is for Masters,warriors..all in all for Superior natures...superior genes.


The JudaeoChristian God is a Patriarch, whereas our pagan gods and godessess range from the most masculine to the most feminine,with all shades in between.


Let's see...Nietzsche's general area of origin was Saxony...Ah yes,the 8th century; Charlemagne massacres thousands of Saxons for refusing to convert to Christianity...He cuts down the Irminsul..
EVERYWHERE FORCED CONVERSIONS!
No, Christianity is not in the Saxon blood.

As Jung wrote,the God of the Germans is not Jehovah,it is that god of frenzy,Woutan....

Nietzsche was a product of generation after generation of religious men who strained against the alien religion...
The bow string was pulled ever tighter until...Nietzsche's arrow was unleashed...
Aryan man returned to his nature!

"Write with the blood my brothers,and you will find that blood itself is Spirit!"
[Nietzsche,TSZ]


There is no objective thing in itself that is the will to power.
To think so is to fall in to the trap of language.
God is a convention of language.
This is one reason why the WTP cannot be identified with 'God'.


television

The television viewer is put into a trance so that his critical faculty goes and his mind retains a jumbled assortment of misinformation!
Avoid television [and the movies] like the plague my brethren.

New Germania
It was Nietzsche's beloved sister Elisabeth,who with her husband Bernard Forster,set up a colony in South America called 'New Germany',which was to be built on Saxon farming families.
Forster was quite fore-sighted in seeing that the Jewish influence in Germany would lead to disaster, however his solution was far too ambitious, and fell into financial dificulties. Forster commited suicide, and Elisabeth eventually returned to old Germany to nurse her sick brother and set up the Nietzsche Archive.

In Nietzsche's own writings though [Thus Spake Zarathustra for example], there is the imploration for free spirits to seek out virgin lands and set up colonies.
Apparently,'New Germany' can still be recognised in South America,with a small community of blond Prostestant farmers.
Blood will out!

The fasces were axes bound with scourging sticks carried by the Lictors in ancient Rome.
They symbolised the power of the State to punish and execute.
The symbol was adopted by Mussolini.

Nietzsche use the words 'breeding' and 'willing'
Nietzsche (being a philologist) used words VERY carefully.

He also spoke of the 'world historical' significance of the 'Masters of the Earth', for example.

He constantly mentions Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Cesar Borgia, as types of the Superman.A ll of them men of deeds.

Why are they so afraid of the world historical side of Nietzsche?



Blond Beast
Nietzsche was well aware of the importance of race, saying that, "the profound,icy mistrust which the German provokes as soon as he arrives at power - even at the present time-is always still an aftermath of that inextinguishable horror with which for whole centuries Europe has regarded the wrath of the blond Teuton beast".

Those 'interpreters' who claim that Nietzsche coined the term 'blond beast' only figuratively, are liars who hope that the spoon-fed politically correct liberal morons they indoctrinate will not actually READ Nietzsche's works in their enterity.

To put the argument beyond doubt, let me quote the following from Nietzsche;

"The only Nobility is that of birth and blood [I do not refer here to the prefix 'Lord' and 'Burke's Peerage'- a parenthesis for donkeys]. Wherever people speak of the 'aristocracy of the intellect', reasons are generally not lacking for concealing something; it is known to be a pass-word among ambitious Jews. Intellect alone does not ennoble - on the contrary, something is always neede to ENNOBLE INTELLECT - What then is needed?-Blood ". [Nietzsche,WM 942]


Cultural drift over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution in PRE-HISTORY (and Nietzsche thought that much of what we call our 'nature'was established THEN) has created the spiritual,intellectual differences that are obvious between the main races of mankind.
Liberals think these differences can easily be wiped out,just as they think that the differences between the genders can be easily wiped out.
Naive fools.

Evolution has spoken;it will take a similarly vast epoch to make such changes again.

BUT...can technology and Breeding,and Discipline be used to create a Master race?

This is the question mankind must apply itself to.


How I love the screechings of the politically correct!

No doubt they would describe the work of scientists like Lorenz, Eysenck, Darwin and Galton as mere opinion, and books like 'The Bell Jar', as 'preference'.

In that they would be quite Nietzschean, as all human wisdom is 'perspective'- even that wonderfully unscientific Xtianity !

Even science is influenced by the political prejudices of the day!
It is no coincidence that the 'out of Africa' hypothesis of human origins, for example, is given far more emphasis today than other equally valid hypotheses,which point to scattered parallel evolution.

'Racism'is a meaningless term invented by liberals to stifle debate and research.
The Jews are properly Semites, and therefore not White. However,many different races have converted to Judaism over the years (White Jews are descendents of the Caucasian Khazars who converted to Judaism in the 8th century).

Nietzsche put the case very well for what Semitic values are in contradistinction to Aryan values.
It's actually a matter of DIFFERENCE. Or as Nietzsche preferred,distance.

Jews were actually the FIRST to popularise Nietzsche's work;
For example;G.Brandes,O.Levy,H.Zimmern and even Kaufmann!
Freud made many complimentary remarks about Nietzsche also.

So,as always,it is the liberals who are obsessed with this figment of their imaginations which they call 'racism'.

Liberal=mediocre.


If?....

...You dare aproach me with an ..'if'?

Amor Fati



My Sister and I

This book has no original manuscript source, has no connection with Elisabeth,and has been shown to be a fairly obvious forgery.
The edition by Amok [U.S.A.] publications contains in the introduction material from those who claim the book is genuine, and those who claim it is a fake [Kaufman is in the latter camp]. This edition also includes some of the later 'insane' letters of Nietzsche in its appendix, as well as photos of Nietzsche in the asylum and of his death-mask. It is straight forward exploitation stuff. Any Nietzschean looking at this book will need to wash themselves afterwards.
As in all these things the proof of the pudding is in the eating and the book reads nothing like Nietzsche, sounding more like a deliberate impersonation by someone who had admittedly immersed himself in Nietzsche's works [in English translation]. Unfortunately it betrays idioms peculiar to the Anglophone,as well as a few Hollywood style anachronisms.

Metaphysics

The term 'Metaphysics' refers purely to a form of Library classification,where the book of Aristotle's filed after his 'Physics' was known as the book 'after [meta] the Physics'.
Henceforth,out of pure [happy?] accident,it became known as the 'metaphysics',and many [wrongly] suppose it deals with things somehow 'beyond' [beyond is another possible translation of 'meta'] the physical.
In fact Aristotle called the book now known confusingly as 'The Metaphysics',his 'First Philosophy'.
In other words it looks at the most basic questions.

To show that this isn't any bizarre interpretation of mine,to quote from the 'Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy';
"When Andronicus of Rhodes [1st century B.C.] edited Aristotle's works,the 14 books dealing with 'The First Philosophy' were placed AFTER the books on PHYSICS ['meta ta physika'] and were accordingly called metaphysics.They deal with the most fundamental concepts: reality, existence, substance, causality,etc."....and further;"...rejection of TRANSCENDENT metaphysics does not rule out philosophical inquiry into the concepts of reality,existence,substance,etc."

The higher dimensions you postulate are speculative;they are also a transcendental supposition.
Evidence for them is subjective,so it follows that their supposed 'connection' with human emotions,such as faith is nothing other than subjective.
Indeed,they are a matter of faith.

Nietzsche deliberately eschewed technical terminology, to make us pay close attention to his CONTEXT in order to find out if he is talking about absolute or perspectival ideas.

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