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Nietzsche rejected Judeo-Christianity as something more suitable for the weak-minded and thought it to be absolutely foreign to the original European spirit.
Works such as "The Anti-Christ" leave no stone unturned and cast not even a shadow of a doubt that he thought so.
Works such as "The Anti-Christ" leave no stone unturned and cast not even a shadow of a doubt that he thought so.
One could argue that he was not pagan though…
But what does it mean to be pagan? Having a T-shirt with Thor’s hammer on it? Get on your knees and pray to Odin?
But what does it mean to be pagan? Having a T-shirt with Thor’s hammer on it? Get on your knees and pray to Odin?
Maybe we could say that Nietzsche’s “paganism” was present in his attitudes and worldview.
E.g. The way he thought about this reality, time, and reincarnation in a completely opposed way than that of Judeo-Christianity…
That is, for him time was CIRCULAR.
E.g. The way he thought about this reality, time, and reincarnation in a completely opposed way than that of Judeo-Christianity…
That is, for him time was CIRCULAR.
THE ETERNAL RETURN.
The concept of an eternal return appears in a few of his works, such as “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and “Beyond Good and Evil”, as well on some notes.
Here goes one he wrote on the issue.
[Bear with me for this will not be a short thread].
The concept of an eternal return appears in a few of his works, such as “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and “Beyond Good and Evil”, as well on some notes.
Here goes one he wrote on the issue.
[Bear with me for this will not be a short thread].
"Whoever you may be, beloved stranger, whom I meet here for the first time, avail yourself of this happy hour and of the stillness around us, and above us, and let me tell you something of the thought which has suddenly risen before me...
...like a star which would fain shed down its rays upon you and every one, as befits the nature of light.
– Fellow man! Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again, – a long minute of time will elapse until all those conditions...
– Fellow man! Your whole life, like a sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again, – a long minute of time will elapse until all those conditions...
...out of which you were evolved return in the wheel of the cosmic process. And then you will find every pain and every pleasure, every friend and every enemy, every hope and every error, every blade of grass and every ray of sunshine once more,...
...and the whole fabric of things which make up your life. This ring in which you are but a grain will glitter afresh forever. And in every one of these cycles of human life there will be one hour where, for the first time one man,...
...and then many, will perceive the mighty thought of the eternal recurrence of all things - and for mankind this is always the hour of Noon".
Well, tell me if this is not much more close to a pagan view of reality rather than an Abrahamic one?
Well, tell me if this is not much more close to a pagan view of reality rather than an Abrahamic one?
In one his works earlier works, “Die fröhliche Wissenschaft”*, first published in 1882, he professes that the wish for the eternal return would mark the ultimate affirmation of life:
*“The Gay Science” (of course, ‘gay’ as in joyful happy) but translated as “The Joyful Wisdom”.
*“The Gay Science” (of course, ‘gay’ as in joyful happy) but translated as “The Joyful Wisdom”.
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;...
...and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence'...
...Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? …
OR have you once experienced a TREMENDOUS MOMENT when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and NEVER HAVE I HEARD ANYTHING MORE DIVINE.'”
OR have you once experienced a TREMENDOUS MOMENT when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and NEVER HAVE I HEARD ANYTHING MORE DIVINE.'”
Yes, dear Nietzsche, realizing that OUR LIFE and ACTS HERE is what makes us who we are FOR ETERNITY, is quite a moment!
We must embrace reincarnation and Hamingja!
We are not scared children who live an irresponsible life awaiting for forgiveness at the other side!
We must embrace reincarnation and Hamingja!
We are not scared children who live an irresponsible life awaiting for forgiveness at the other side!
Thank you for reading!
