X out of every U (You), a true, correct X, i.e., the ante-penultimate letter (XYZ) VW X(U) YZ
THE GONDELA SONG
On the bridge I stood
Not long ago in the brown night.
From far away came song:
In golden drops it poured
Away across quivering water.
Gondolas, music, lights-
Drunkenly swam into the gloom fadingโฆ
And my soul, a stringed instrument,
Sang, touched by invisible hands,
To itself a secret gondola sang,
Trembling with all the colours of bliss.
- Can someone have been listening?
โI see N crouching and reading in the corner of a sofa โ the last proof of n contra Wagner, as I later found out โ looking horribly worn out; he sees me and rushes up to me, violently embraces me, recognizing me, and breaks into floods of tears, then sinks back on the sofa, twitching and quivering; I am so shaken I cannot sit upright. [Leaving Turin] he would sing loud songs, among them, during the night, the wonderfully beautiful gondola song (n contra Wagner), the origin of which I discovered later; it was a complete enigma to me, as I listened, how the singer could invent such words with such wholly peculiar melody:[1]
[1] Letter Overbeck to Gast, [description of Turin incident] January 7, 1889
MAN is a ROPE stretched between the ANIMAL and the God SUPERMANโa rope over an abyss.
Once did people say God, when they looked out upon distant seas; now, however, have I taught you to say, Superman.
My line is superior to his in strength and [SUPER]MANliness (โฆ) my style is dance โ a play of symmetries of every kind, and an overlapping and mockery of these symmetries.
This enters the very vowels.*
*Forgive me! I shall take care not to confess this to anyone else, but you did once (I think you are alone in this) express delight in my language. [3]
[3] Letter to Erwin Rohde, Nice feb 22, 1884.
It is great pain only which is the ultimate emancipator of the spirit; for it is the teacher of the strong suspicion[Strong's Numbers: exhaustive concordance] which makes an:
6635 | Their Host
X out of every U (You: Gilad), a true, correct X, i.e., the ante-penultimate letter (XYZ) It is great pain only, the long slow pain which takes time, by which we are burned as it were with green wood, that compels us philosophers to descend into our ultimate depths, and divest ourselves of all trust, all good-nature, veiling, gentleness, and averageness, wherein we have perhaps formerly installed our humanity. I doubt whether such pain "improves" us; but I know that it deepens us. [Phrasing]
One emerges from such long, dangerous exercises in self-mastery as another being, with several additional notes of interrogation, and above all, with the will to question more than ever, more profoundly, more strictly, more sternly, more wickedly, more quietly than has ever been questioned hitherto.[1]
A triumphant gratitude, which must inscribe itself ultimately in cosmic capitals on the heaven of ideas. But that โother worldโ is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man. [1]
[1] Preface, joyous wisdom
Read, I ask you, a book that few people know, St Augustineโs De musica โ to see how people in those days understood and enjoyed Horaceโs metres, how they heard them โbeat time,โ where they put the pauses, and so on (arsis and thesis are mere signs of the beats) [1]
[1] Letter to Carl Fuchs | Nice, Winter 1884-85 [Final paragraph, and request to the reader];
(Voice in Wilderness) VW - X(U) - YZ (Yod Zayin)
A Voice in the Wilderness is an English idiom for someone who expresses an idea or opinion that is not popular, with the suggestion been that the opinion is ignored. An unheeded advocate of reform. In Christian terminology the phrase was originally used with reference to the words of John the Baptist, proclaiming the coming of the Messiah and is made famous by its inclusion in all four Gospels (Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4-6; John 1:23).
In the Bible VW abridgment stands for Voice in The Wilderness.[1]
A voice in the wilderness John the Baptist, who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah: โI am the voice of one crying in the wildernessโ (John 1:23). It can mean a land without water, a wasteland, or an area of wild fields where animals graze, not used for farming or living. An uninhabited area where we spend time alone and encounter God.
In the Bible X abridgment. stands for Transcendence.
X as a sign of the cross where Christ was crucified, or for Christ himself. But this symbol, or marker, can also be understood as a โcrossing overโ to another dimension: a transcendence, transformation, or transmigration.
In Hebrew ZY abridgment is 17 which also means victory.
A symbol of spiritual weaponry. This weaponry ultimately leads to the conquering and overcoming of the spiritual world, resulting in victory from all the sadness of materialism and other evil world ruling powers. On the 17th day of the first Hebrew month, Nisan, Jesus Christ was resurrected from the grave, death defeated.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory! One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory![Thus Spake Zarathustra | Chapter โX.โ WAR AND WARRIORS]
[1] See Letter to Peter gastโฆ sils Maria, July 23rd, 1885 | I could have taken a bet on it, that you yourself would reply to your own โcry of distres letter in this way,
351(343)
YZ (Yod Zayin) = 17
X(U) = 9
VW = CRY OF DISTRESS (Higher Man)
U = USE IT IN APPLICATION
THE ROPE
351 (161)
A350 | The Disavowe[L]d Ideal [I-deal]. โIt happens sometimes by an exception that a man only reaches the highest when he disclaims his ideal. For this ideal previously drove him onward too violently, so that in the middle of the track [1-9-17] he regularly got out of breath and had to rest. [1]
[1] Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human, Miscellaneous Maxims And Opinions - Aphorism # 350
IN TODAYโS WILDERNESS
The Sunburn of the Populus has its Own Distinct Heat
Finished two weeks before his death, and published posthumously, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of aphorisms from the American author and environmental activist, Edward Abbey (1927-89). Abbeyโs last wish was to be buried somewhere in that vast desert he loved, his last work an enduring cry from that desert wilderness, the words of one of the singular American thinkers of our times:
Philosophy, Religion, and So Forthโฆ
A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
If the world is irrational, we can never know it - either it or its irrationality.
The world is full of burled gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
The more fantastic in ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
The missionaries go forth to Christianise the savages, as if the savages won't dangerous enough already.
If the end does not justify the means; What can? Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry Unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; This saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
Jesus doesn't walk on water no more; his feet leak.
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock; This apodictic rock beneath my feet.[1]
[1] Abbey, Edward. A Voice Crying in the Wilderness =: Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Notes from a Secret Journal. St. Martinโs Press, 1990. Chapter 1; Philosophy, Religion, and So Forth.
ZARATHUSTRA | How remote may such โremotenessโ be? What doth it concern me? But on that account it is none the less sure unto meโ, with both feet stand I secure on this ground; โOn an eternal ground, on hard primary rock, on this highest, hardest, primary mountain-ridge, unto which all winds come, as unto the storm-parting, asking Where? and Whence? and Whither?
