Nietzsche and Gnosticism - Secret Cousins

Nietzsche and Gnosticism - Secret Cousins.

The Will To Power - Belief in Afterlife as Will To Power.

Ubermensch - The Generation without a Kingdom.

The full purport of the range of Nietzschean emotions - reactions to tragic events that wouls appear evil and disgusting to others. Tragic enjoyment of 9-11 and thousands of coalition troops cut down in Iraq (a rather pointless war) in their prime. Enjoyment of the "Heroic Bleed".

The Nietzschean Way is the Wedding of Darkness and Light. But Even my Dark Side is a Good Guy. Point is, I don't just repress my thoughts on things, I listen to what I really think and feel, from multiple perspectives.

No less than Carl Gustav Jung advocated a similar approach. Listen to your shadow, acknowledge it's existence. Lose your shame that you are not one, but many. The Important thing is that the Good One is the Master, and Tames the little Devil on your shoulder >:) It can come out to play sometimes, like walking your doggie

Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal
from the Gospel of Philip

It isn't a way for all, that is for certain. Better to take the less abrasive Jungian approach, for most. Few of us could say with glee that they got purposefully stoned on 9-11 to maximise the Wagnerian Grandeur of it all, despite their abhorrence of the terrorist act itself (and I did abhor it. I Loathe Islamic Terrorism) This is the unfortunate duality of the Homo Sapien Mind. Most of us simply repress the Dark Side and it comes out in fits and bursts.

This next part is from some of my scribblings a few weeks back...basically consider the Hermit to be like the Gnostic concept of Allogenes (The Stranger) They who walk among the masses but are not one of them...

The Hermit as Most Free, but only the Hypocrite the Most Powerful. The Hypocrite derives their worth from outside manifestations of their exertion of their Power, and feels these outside successes as increase in Power. The Hermit's feeling of increase is derived solely from the battle within themselves, outside phenomena by comparison are next to meaningless. The Hypocrite longs for the conquest of the world by their Ideal. The Hermit longs for the conquest of themselves by their own Ideal.

Who is capable of the Greatest Happiness? Ah, but as Nietzsche pointed out, one must have the Greatest Happiness wedded to the Greatest Pain. The Ultimate instance of this - Eternal Life as the Greatest Happiness and Greatest Pain.

Although the Hermit is potentially capable of the Greatest quanta of Happiness, few seldom attain it, and return to the muck and imperfection and compromise of society once more. The Wisdom is so ancient who knows it's origin - to be in this world but not of it.

Our modern life is eliminating our capacity to withstand boredom- the toll on the production of quality human beings is incalculable. Computer games are false fulfillment of our Will To Power, and simultaneously the training of our minds to seek manifestations of our Will To Power outside ourselves rather than within. Beware of computer games!

The Herd instinctually seek outside Beauty and are for the most part unable to appreciate the beauty of a finely honed philosophical mind, the fruit of the Hermit's inner drive for Beauty.

Only in the artistic productions of the Higher Soul is the strangely beautiful world of their mind revealed. The point being that a Beautiful Mind, without even trying, is capable of producing artistic works that are like enchanting enigmas to the herd, even if this artistry is only displayed at the level of social banter. The trick is for the Higher Man to only reveal so much of themselves, and to merely enchant (without even seeking to enchant - for to reveal even a mere fraction of themselves is to enchant) and at the most gaining grudging respect and/or envy. Even in the company of assumed equals, the risks of truly revealing the depths of one's self are High - that which you regard as one of your crowning acheivements can seem to others utterly Diabolical.

Or even "Heretical", I might add. Look what happened to Jesus.