quoderat

Updated: June 1, 2025

The ego had a beginning, the persona, the temporal mask that unfolds itself in this life, but not the Self that wears the mask. When therefore my Horseherd says, “After death we are just as much a nullity as before our birth,” I say, quoderat demonstrandum is still to be proved. What does he mean by we?

F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller - The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour