FRAGMENTS (5): ARYAN CHRIST

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

 
“This is a technique that was frequently used by my old friend, Adolf Hitler.”
Takuji Mamiya, Subahibi; It's my Own Invention

FRAGMENTS (4): PHYSIS UNVERBORGENHEIT

Ἡ φύσις ἤδη καθ’ αὑτὴν ἐστὶν ἀλήθεια· κρύπτεσθαι γὰρ φιλεῖ.

“The physis is already aletheia in itself, because it loves to conceal itself.”

Cf. Heraclitus, fr. B123: φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ.

ἀ-λήθεια: privative a- + λήθη, “forgetfulness,” “concealment”: non-concealment / unconcealment.

φύσις is related to φύειν (phýein), “to grow,” “to spring forth,” “to emerge,” “to come into presence”: the unfolding of that which arises and appears of itself.

Translation mine.

FRAGMENTS (3): BROKEN MIRROR

 

“The subject does not belong to the world, but is a limit of the world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 5.632

FRAGMENTS (2): DIONYSIAN ECSTASY

“Now, in the gospel of universal harmony, each person feels not only united, reconciled, fused with his neighbor, but one with him, as though the veil of Maya had been torn apart and now merely fluttered, in tatters, before the mysterious Primordial One. Singing and dancing, the human being manifests himself as a member of a higher community: he has unlearned how to walk and speak and is on the way to taking flight through the air as he dances. Through his gestures speaks the magical transformation. Just as now the animals speak and the earth yields milk and honey, something supernatural resounds within him as well: he feels himself to be a god, he himself now walks as ecstatically and uprightly as, in dreams, he saw the gods walk. The human being is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: to the supreme, blissful delight of the Primordial One, the artistic power of all of nature reveals itself here amid the tremors of intoxication.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music

Translation mine.

FRAGMENTS (1): ARTIST-GOD/STRONG GOD/WEAK GOD

 

“Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the existence of the world justified. Indeed, behind all becoming one recognizes nothing but an artistic sense and an artistic over-sense, a ‘god,’ if one wishes, but certainly only an entirely amoral and unscrupulous artist-god, who, in building as in destroying, in good as in evil, desires only to become conscious of his pleasure and sovereignty, identical in both; an artist-god who, creating worlds, frees himself from the necessity implied in fullness and over-fullness, from the suffering of the antitheses accumulated within him. The world, in each instant, the attained redemption of god, as the eternally changing, eternally new vision of the most suffering, most antithetical, most contradictory being, which knows how to redeem itself only in appearance: this entire artist-metaphysics may be called arbitrary, idle, phantasmagorical; what is essential in it is that it already betrays a spirit that will one day, despite all dangers, defend itself against the moral interpretation and significance of existence.”

“Let these serious men learn from this that I am convinced that art is the supreme task and the properly metaphysical activity of this life [...]”

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music

Translation mine.