Tuesday 9 October 2007

Freedom is a Two-edged Sword

Essay by Jack Parsons, available here:

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_001/freedomsword.htm

"Free, do you call yourself? Then I would hear your ruling thought, and not merely that you have escaped from a yoke.

Are you one of those who had the right to escape from a yoke? Many a one has cast away his last worth when he has cast away his servitude.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! But your fiery eyes should tell me: free for what?

Can you give yourself your own evil and good, and set up your own will as a law over you? Can you be judge for yourself, and avenger of your law?

Terrible is it to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star thrown into the void, and into the icy breath of solitude."

-Nietzsche; Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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