Dritter Theil (3rd
part)
You look upward when
you seek Enlightenment. And I look down, because I’m enlightened.
Who can together laugh
and be enlightened?” When you’ve reached the highest mountain, you can only
laugh about all tragecomedies and fake seriousness.
Der Wanderer (The
hiker)
Zarathustra admits that
he is a hiker and mountain climber. High on his mountain on his paradise like
island he looks down to see only black sea and realizes that he wants to go
down again. His mission is teaching and he is not somebody who flies for
trouble. He takes the ship.
Vom Gesicht und
Räthsel (about face and puzzle)
While sailing
Zarathustra tells a riddle. The essence is: who goes up, must go down. And
secondly: going up is a lonely way. Going up is no fun but for some inevitable,
as well as the inherent going down..
Von der Seligkeit
wider Willen
Zarathustra recognizes
that that his difficult mission is part of his way of becoming happy. This
mission may seem only elend, but without it he would feel lost. He compares it
with the way men can’t live with women, AND at the same time not without. It’s
their way to find luck.
Vor Sonnen-Aufgang
(about sunset)
Zarathustra feels like
a sun. That’s why he feels close to the sky. But one day these two have to
leave each other.
Von der
verkleinernden Tugend (from shrinking virtue)
Back on he mainland
Zarathustra first travels around. It seems to him that everything got smaller,
including thought. He can only say: “the great moment is coming nearer”
Auf dem Oelberge (On
the Oilmountain)
Zarathustra flees the
cold of winter to visit a warm guesthouse. Being cold has its virtue, but no
reason to suffer unnessary. There he needs no pity, in this sunlike environment
he jokes about it.
Vom Vorübergehen
(in passing)
On entering the big
city Zarathustra meets the town-joker. He is warned not to enter this place
where everything and everyone degrades.
Zarathustra says: “A place where one cannot
spend love anymore, one should pass” and passes both city and joker.
Von den Abtrünnigen
(about those who chose for 1 truth)
Zarathustra observes in
the big city that creativity has disappeared. It has been replaced by following
gods. What was once a colorful place to be, changed in a grey and dead town.
Young hearts already
became old.
But people here say “we
became godfearing”
(mind that Zarathustra
attacks religion (ceremony) and not belief.
Die Heimkehr
(Coming home)
Zarathustra feels
lonely, but at the same time knows this is what he wants.
His stay on the
paradiselike island emptied his nose from human smell. Now he feels free.
Von den drei Bösen
(From 3 evils)
Zarathustra distinguishes 3 evils that caused free creativity to
disappear: Desire, Will
to Dominate and Egoism
Vom Geist der
Schwere (About the ghost of the heavy (serious) ones)
Zarathustra states that
it needs loving oneself without conditions to be light like a bird and able to
fly.
He answers: ``That is
my way, where is yours?” to those who ask where to go. Because there is ni THE
way
Von alten und neuen
Tafeln (About old and new laws)
1
Zarathustra waits for
his moment to reveal HIS truth.
2
Zarathustra stait that
claiming to know what is ‘god’ and ‘bad’ is a myth. You can only know what your
god thinks that is good or bad.
3
Zarathustra states to
believe in the notion Superman, that humankind is a means and not a goal.
But he ends up with old
smashed rules, and only beginnings of new ones.
4
Zarathustra realizes
that having rules without followers is no use. And he knows that the conditions
for change are not yet there.
5
Zarathustra realizes
that noble and proud people want nothing for free, not even his new laws. He
meets a lot of guilt and pain that mut be removed.
6
Zarathustra realizes
that old gods (priest) need young flesh. Nevertheless he loves human
traditions, because they are vanishing.
7
Zarathustra realizes
that being true to oneself is difficult, especially for ‘the good’. They
respect laws, instead of own feelings.
That’s why he knows it
is necessary to smash old laws.
8
Zarathustra compares bridges
to old laws and the river to ever changing knowledge. For a while the old
bridges will do, but the elements always after some time inevitably ask for new
ones.
9
Zarathustra states that
‘good’ and ‘bad’ are just ideas. Based on different definitions of those ideas
you can believe almost anything. But there is no absolute good or bad.
10
``Don’t steel, don’t
kill” used to be holy commands. But one can claim that such absolute commands
did nothing else than kill dynamic truth.
It didn’t prevent living
from becoming about steeling and killing.
Again Zarathustra begs
to smash the old laws.
11
Zarathustra honours
nobility. He says “nobility is needed, but not aristocracy” (or God is not to
blame, but gods).
12
Zarathustra states that
parents ow it their offspring to create a new nobility.
13
Zarathustra states that
living is not vain. He says “smash the laws of the never-happy ones.
14
Zarathustra states that
only the best is enough. He shows to disgust the common belief that everything
in essence is bad. This thought kills action.
15
Zarathustra around him
hears people say fatalistic things like: “Let the world be the world,
everything has a reason”.
He sais “smash the laws
of the virtuous ones, don’t become fatalistic”.
16
People started saying
thing like: ``He who learns much loses desire” and “Wisdom makes tired, and
serves no goal”
He says: “The mind is
like a stomach, your mind has become a poisoned one and leads to death”.
He teaches: “Willing is
Shaping” (creativity).
17
Zarathustra meets
world-tiredness.
He says: “It takes
courage to make a fresh start, like all doctors and poets know.
18
Zarathustra shows that
he hates what he calls ‘the laws of tiredness’ and the laws of ‘laziness’.
For him it is
parasiting on the actions of others.
19
Zarathustra confesses
to aim at high goals. But he warns for heyna’s who feed themselves with such
noble ones, in moments of tiredness.
20
Zarathustra advises to
aim to do everything the best way. “If you can’t fly, learn to fall fast”.
21
Zarathustra states that
he loves the brave, but that it’s not enough to be only brave.
He says: “The best must
rule, the best wants to rule. And when teachings say different, then aiming for
the best is failing.
22
Zarathustra compares
human with predators, always hunting. Only because he can’t fly birds remain
free (Remark: at leat in Nietzsches time)
23
Zarathustra tells that
he wat his men and women to be: warriorlike,
aimed had having offspring and ready to dance.
There should not be a
day without dancing, and no truth without laughter
24
Zarathustra states
marriage is not for having sex and continuing life, but to improve.
25
Zarathusra states that
life is ever continuing series of trials. And in all trials there will be
followers and rulers.
26
Zarathustra states that
the greatest threat for humanity is in those who claim that they are the Good
(Remark: as if being good is absolute).
The bad ones can not
make as much damage as those virtuous ones.
27
Zarathustra repeats to
the humans: “brothers and sisters, the real danger for humanity is in the Good.
Get rid of such ‘good’ and ‘rightful’ ones. Do you understand?”
28
Zarathustra compares
getting rid of ‘Good’ with sailing unknown seas. He challenges their
sailor-instinct not to sail to their native country but further even to their
birthcountry.
29
Zarathustra compares
giving in to the easiest way with being soft, and worships being hard. He says
that being creative is being hard for yourself. He challenges humans to become hard.
30
Zarathustra worships
Will to Power, that is readiness to do everything to reach your own goals.
Der Genesende (The
healing one)
1
One day Zarathustra
after much screaming to himself gets ill, and falls to earth like staying in
coma.
Seven days he stays in
coma, then he awakes.
He has realized that
his own worrying for humanity is the problem. He should not make trying to save humanity his personal goal.
Von der grossen
Sehnsucht
Zarathustra honours in
many words his ‘soul’, says he gave everything to hear it sing.
And now he’s the one
who is thankful.
Das andere Tanzlied
(The other dancing song)
1
Zarathustra not very
flatteringly compares ‘life’ with a female dancing partner.
He doesn’t want to be lead, and says he needs a
whip to make her dance in his rithm.
2
Life anshers that he
shouldn’t talk bullshit, and that noise kills thoughts
Life continues that
they are bound to love each other.
They both end crying and Zarathustra knows now that he love Life more than
anything else
Die sieben Siegel
(The yes and amen song)
Zarathustra cries out
in seven different ways that he loves Eternity as the wife to carry his
children.
