/lit/ - Literature

>>9343282

introduction to Richard Woods, "Understanding Mysticism" (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1980):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6qcr4olpu57jb23/AAC0y4C53IcBMPISfu2bsyoRa?dl=0

>>9041114
>>9041833

but that isnt to say that one can't be a nietzschean capitalist, for instance, or even a nietschean liberal (though this is harder to achieve). one can accept and dawn these "lies" and still become an overman only insofar as one 1. recognize the ideology as a lie, among others; 2. weighs this lie through consideration and struggle with its implications; 3. commits to this lie fully and wholly, e.g. "passionately" and with "sincerity" that i mentioned above

lies are unavoidable and ubiqutuous. the way to see if you are "predestined" to be an overman (and here, i think nietzsche ironically toys with a broad implication of calivinism that the legaccy of the german reformation movement had to confront in the 19th century) is only if you are able to basically dominate the world effectively through your capacity to self-build or self-commit to an illusion, and then compete with the illusions of other overmen in all out battle (intellectual and even physical, but in the sense of greek gymnastics and wrestling) while they rule over a blind and ignorant and unthinking crowd/mass (the final men/hollow men)