Editor’s note: The following words from Nietzsche’s Zarathustra epitomise what I meant the day before yesterday when I mentioned that Hitler believed that overmanhood could only arise on Earth, and that his love for painting was much deeper than the average racialist can imagine (e.g., ancient painters like Claude Lorrain or modern ones like Parrish motivated me to take my vows in the priesthood of the sacred words).
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Behold, I teach you the overman!
The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth!
I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of extraterrestrial hopes! They are mixers of poisons whether they know it or not.
They are despisers of life, dying off and self-poisoned, of whom the earth is weary: so let them fade away!
Once the sacrilege against God was the greatest sacrilege, but God died, and then all these desecrators died. Now to desecrate the earth is the most terrible thing, and to esteem the bowels of the unfathomable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Once the soul gazed contemptuously at the body, and then such contempt was the highest thing: it wanted the body gaunt, ghastly, starved. Thus it intended to escape the body and the earth.
Oh this soul was gaunt, ghastly and starved, and cruelty was the lust of this soul!
But you, too, my brothers, tell me: what does your body proclaim about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and filth and a pitiful contentment?
Truly, mankind is a polluted stream. One has to be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming unclean.
Behold, I teach you the overman: he is this sea, in him your great contempt can go under.
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Reading this, I thought back to some lines for Alain de Benoist’s On Being A Pagan, which I paraphrased into my diary, on the ideal of Paganism and Pagan man:
To me, this reflected the idea of our homeworld, earth, and how we have not yet conquered it, and why we must – by the instinctive drive in us for all that is pre-Christian, and thus noble – conquer it fully, and achieve our prudent dominance over it, and over all others, and not consider the unimaginable void as a realistic target, as if it were a bounteous field to be cultivated, remaining instead as obscene to us as any heaven, closer to time and Judaism than to tangible, rooted reality, ungraspable, and thus vacuous (Benoist gives the Old Testament example of Abel’s landless nomadism and Cain’s Neolithic revolution, and why that god favours Abel).
I hope this isn’t an unusual textual comparison to make.