Zweiter Theil (second part)

First you have to deny the god in me,  then I’ll come back. Zarathustra about generous virtue.

But he comes back earlier; to save his teachings.

 

Das Kind mit dem Spiegel (the child with the mirror)

Zarathustra returns to the mountains. First when he dreams about a child that shows him a mirror he decides to go down again. In the mirror he sees a laughing devil

He knows that his teachings are in danger

 

 

Auf den glückseligen Inseln (on paradise-like islands)

Zarahustra want to give his knowledge like ripe dadles

He states that gods are only a fantasy, he would like human fantasy to be only their creative mind

 

Von den Mitleidigen (about those who pity)

Zarathustra claims that shame is a feeling of those who worship gods.

He prefers loving oneself and being creative. To feel pity for others is admitting to weakness.

But in his view creators are hard.

 

Von den Priestern (about the priests)

Zarathustra hates and loves at the same time priests.

He recognizes a lot of himself in them, only they chose to waste their talents. Their devotion is a stealthy weapon full of hatred, they want others to suffer as they did.

 

Von den Tugendhaften (about the virtuous ones)

Zarathustra claims punishment and reward are only concepts invented by the virtuous ones.

He claims there is no reward for those who create, exept the creation itself.

The virtuous one are in the same way only payed by the virtue they themselves picture to be godlike.

 

Vom Gesindel

Zarathustra meets rotting and stinking. That means that on the paradise-like island (life) most wells became poisoned.

He wants to be like a strong wind, and clean what became muddy.

 

Von den Taranteln (about poisonous snakes)

Zarathustra states that preachers of Compromise are like poisonous snakes to him.

He denies compromise (dualism), as killer of creativity.

 

Von den berühmten Weisen (about fashionable prophets)

Zarathustra states that famous fashionable prophets only serve prejudice and not truth. And they are paid for serving truth

 

Das Nachtlied (the night song)

Zarathustra celebrates night, because continuous being Light is not easy. For a while he himself would like to suck the breast of light.

 

Das Tanzlied (the song of dancing)

In the evening Zarathustra walks with through the forest, with the young people that listen to his teachings. One evening they meet a dancing girl.

Zarathustra is touched by the faerie-like dancing, and sad when they have to leave.

 

Das Grablied (the burial song)

Zarathustra honors the dead. He states that willpower is stronger than death. But death is needed to continue life.

 

Von der Selbst-Ueberwindung (about self-victory)

Zarathustra states that the driving force in life is Will to Power. Not knowledge is the goal of life but power.

And this secret told life to him. Look, it said, I’m that which always has to conquer itself.

 

Von den Erhabenen

Zarathustra states that to feel Erhaben is quite different from to be Erhaben. You have to leave the hero in yourself to be a ‘superhero’.

 

Vom Lande der Bildung

Zarathustra pleads for staying in the present, instead of flying in past or future. Honor the past and let yourself be drawn by future. But accept yourself. 

 

Von der unbefleckten Erkenntniss

Zarathustra loves life like the sun.

And he admits: I want to bring everything (everybody) to my level.

 

Von den Gelehrten (about scientists)

Zarathustra loves children but doesn’t want to be only a wise scientist to them. He doesn’t ambiate to be a preacher of science.

Their kind of wisdom is seen by him as only vanity. He prefers the uncertainty of freedom instead instead of the safety of being a god of knowledge.

 

Von den Dichtern (about poets)

Zarathustra states that poets worship anything but themselves. That way they become the defenders of gods.

 

Von grossen Ereignissen (about big events)

“The earth”, says Zarathustra, has a skin; and is skin illnesses. One such ilness is the human being.

Humans created myths, instead of true stories. Zarathustra states that he couldn’t find one true myth.

 

The most recent myths became the states.

 

 

Der Wahrsager (about fortune speakers)

Fortune speakers seems to Zarathustra only pessimistic. He says: “the Fortune speaker must eat and drink at my side. I’ll show him an ocean in which he may drown himself.

 

Von der Erlösung

Zarathustra states that being disabled becomes a new destiny, and not something to try to escape. So don’t expect him to show pity, because creative disabled minds deserve better than pity.

But of course disabled people create their own language, and have to be communicated with in that language.

 

Von der Menschen-Klugheit (about human smartness)

Zarathustra states that the last human smartness makes him fight between the hights of his creative mind and the depth of human weaknesses.

His final weakness is being curious after humanity.

 

Die stillste Stunde (the quietest moment)

Zarathustra is struck by sadness to have to say goodbye too his human friends. He cries openly and loudly. Nobody can help him. But at night he goes alone and departs his friends.

 

 

 

 

 



(c) Henk Tuten, March 2003.

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