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  Thus spake Zarathustra by Frederic Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Part one,
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  Chapter one, The Three Metamorphoses Three metamorphoses of the Spirit. Do I designate
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  to you how the Spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and
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  the lion alast a child. Many heavy things are there for the spirit,
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  the strong, load bearing spirit, in which reverence dwelleth for the heavy and
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  the heaviest. Longeth is strength. What is heavy? So asketh the load
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  bearing Spirit? Then kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be
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  well laden? What is the heaviest thing? Ye heroes, asketh the load
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  bearing Spirit, that I might take it upon me and rejoice in my strength.
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  Is it not this to humiliate one's self in order more rorify one's pride,
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  to exhibit one's folly, in order to mock at one's wisdom. Or
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  is it this to desert our cause when it celebrateth its triumph, to ascend
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  high mountains to tempt the tempter? Or is it this to feed on the
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  acorns and grass of knowledge and for the sake of truth, to suffer hunger
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  of soul? Or is it this to be sick and dismiss comforters, and
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  make friends of the death who never hear thy requests. Or is it this
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  to go into foul water when it is the water of truth, not disclaim
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  cold frogs and hot toads? Or is it this to love those who despise
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  us and give one's hand to the phantom when it is going to frighten us?
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  All these heaviest things, the load bearing spirit taketh upon itself. And
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  like the camel, which, when laden hasteneth into the wilderness, so hasteneth
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  the Spirit into it wilderness. But in the loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis.
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  Here the spirit becometh a lion. Freedom will capture it, and lordship
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  and its own wilderness its last lord. It here seeketh hostile. Will it
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  be to him and to last God for victory will struggle with the great Dragon.
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  What is the great dragon? Which is spirit? Is no longer inclined
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  to call Lord and God? Thou shalt is the great dragon called, But
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  the spirit of the lion saith I will thou shalt lieth in its path,
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  sparkling with gold, a scale covered beast, and on every scale glittereth golden,
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  Thou shalt the values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, And
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  thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons. All the values of things glitter on
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  me. All values have already been created, And all created values do I
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  represent? Verily, Thou shall be no my will anymore us speaketh to dragon,
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  my brethren. Wherefore is the need of the lion in the spirit?
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  Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent to create
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  new values that even the lion cannot yet accomplish, But to create it self
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  freedom for new creating, that can the might of the lion do, to
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  create it self freedom and give a holy nay even unto duty. For that,
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  my brethren, there is need of a lion to assume the right to
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  new values. That is the most formidable assumption for load bearing and reverent spirit.
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  Verily into such a spirit as praying and the work of a beast of
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  prey as its holiest at once loved thou shalt, and now it is forced
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  to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things that may capture freedom from
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  its love. The lion is needeth for this capture. But tell me,
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  my brother, what the child can do, which even the lion could not
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  do. Why hath the praying lions still to become a child? Innocence is
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  the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self
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  rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy ya aye for the game of
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  creating, My brethren, there is needed, a holy yay unto life its
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  own will willeth. Now the spirit his own world winneth the world's outcast.
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  Three metamorphoses of the Spirit have I designated to you How the Spirit became a
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  camel, the camel a lion, and the lion a last a child.
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  Thus spake Zarathustra. And at the time he abode in a town which is
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  called the Pied Cow. End of Chapter one.