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Come, thou cold and stiff companion! I carry thee to the place where I shall bury thee with mine own hands. When Zarathustra had said this to his heart, he put the corpse upon his shoulders and set out on his way. Yet had he not gone a hundred steps, when there stole a man up to him and whispered in his ear and lo! he that spake was the buffoon from the tower.
It was the Christ, before his appearance on earth, whom Zarathustra proclaimed as the Spirit of Light. This power is none other than the one previously described, which had acquired special dominion over the earth since the betrayal of the Vulcan Mysteries.
It is not your sympathy, but your bravery, which has hitherto saved the shipwrecked of existence. “‘What is good?’ you ask. ‘To be braced is good.’” Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” First Part, 10th Speech. Quite apart from any elements of truth contained in Nietzsche’s ethics, the first reason for his popularity is, no doubt, the perfection of his form and style.
With these words, the holy Ahura Mazda rejoiced the holy Zarathustra: "Purity is for man, next to life, the greatest good, that purity, O Zarathustra, that is in the Religion of Mazda for him who cleanses his own self with good thoughts, words, and deeds." O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
"Ye may, verily, all of you be higher men," continued Zarathustra; "but for me ye are neither high enough, nor strong enough. For me, that is to say, for the inexorable which is now silent in me, but will not always be silent. And if ye appertain to me, still it is not as my right arm.
A testing and a questioning hath been all my travelling: and verily, one must also LEARN to answer such questioning! That, however, is my taste: Neither a good nor a bad taste, but MY taste, of which I have no longer either shame or secrecy. "This is now MY way, where is yours?" Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way." Thus spake Zarathustra.
The saint laughed at Zarathustra, and spake thus: "Then see to it that they accept thy treasures! They are distrustful of anchorites, and do not believe that we come with gifts. The fall of our footsteps ringeth too hollow through their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where goeth the thief?
The purely romantic appeal may be dispensed with, I think, in this case. Zarathustra has entered the blood of the German people like a virus from a hypodermic needle. I do not hesitate to accept its lesson. Where I desire to cite instances of illustrative human lives they will be strictly biographical but anonymous." "You hope to succeed where Maeterlinck failed."
He announced that the Sun-spirit was at first to be found only in the spiritual world, but that later He would descend to earth. He was revealed to Zarathustra and his followers as the Spirit who, for the time being, was turning the light of His countenance on man from the spiritual world, and that it was He Who might be expected to appear in a human body amongst men in the future.
Zarathustra, however, remained standing, and just beside him fell the body, badly injured and disfigured, but not yet dead. After a while consciousness returned to the shattered man, and he saw Zarathustra kneeling beside him. "What art thou doing there?" said he at last, "I knew long ago that the devil would trip me up. Now he draggeth me to hell: wilt thou prevent him?"
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