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Recieved: 2002/10/11 00:14
Subject: Re: [K-list] Nietzsche
From: jlb
On 2002/10/11 00:14, jlb posted thus to the K-list:
Subject: [K-list] Nietzsche> "Has anybody, at the end of the nineteenth century, an idea of what poets
in
> stronger ages called inspiration? If not, let me describe it.
Stronger Ages.. wtf is that?> "With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would
indeed
> hardly escape the idea of being the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the
medium
> of super-human powers.
Sometimes the words just flow... and they/we figure what it meant a few
centuries later.
>The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly
> with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and
> audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is
> merely a description of facts.
Catharsis.
>One listens, one does not search; one
> accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; like lightning a thought flashes
> up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form - I never
> have had a choice.
Yeah.. the choice would be to ignore it all .. and not ever be renown.. it
happens !
> An ecstasy of joy, whose immense tension sometimes
> dissolves into a stream of tears, and whose pace is sometimes like a storm
> and sometimes becomes slow; a state of being completely beside oneself,
yet
> with the clearest consciousness of an infinite number of fine tremors and
> wave-like vibrations running down to the very toes; a depth of happiness,
in
> which all that is painful and dark, does not act as a contradiction but as
a
> necessary condition, a challenge, as a necessary color within such an
> abundance of light; an instinct for rhythmic proportions, which spans
> extensive realms of form - the extension, the need for an all-encompassing
> rhythm is almost a criterion for the power of inspiration, a kind of
> compensating counter-force against its pressure and tension. . . .
.. or a just need for recognition.. Thats my personal theory.
> All this
> happens involuntarily in the highest degree, and yet like a storm of
> freedom, of unconditionality, of power, of godliness. . . . The
involuntary
> character of the inner image, the simile, is the most remarkable part; one
> has no more the slightest idea what is image or simile, everything offers
> itself as the nearest, the most adequate, the simplest expression."
..and it comes out in incomprehensible paragraphs like this.> Friedrich Nietzsche, Kroners Taschenbuchausgabe
>
> quoted in Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, Lama Anagarika Govinda
But then.. how would I know.. I lived in the the Weaker Ages.
~~jlb~~
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