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Subject: [K-list] Nietzsche
From: cmystic

"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.

"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. 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. 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. 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. . . . 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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Kroners Taschenbuchausgabe

quoted in Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, Lama Anagarika Govinda

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