[this document is not yet finished, as many of my writings have become lost]

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On Self-Overcoming, a long version.
On Self-Overcoming, an earlier, short version.
Of The Priests
Of The Virtuous
Of The Rabble
Of The Tarantulas
Of The Famous Philosophers
The Night Song
The Dance Song
The Funeral Song
Of The Sublime Men
Of The Land Of Culture
Of Immaculate Perception
Of Scholars
Of Poets
Of Great Events
The Prophet

On Self-Overcoming
He asks, is it the will to truth that urges the wise men? He says it is the believability or potentiality or possibility of being that urges the wise men on. Wise men first doubt what they know of being, then try to reinterpret the being that they know. Wise men reinterpret being, and do this their own way. They reinterpret their wisdom in their own way. They make their wisdom into their own way. This is the will to power. The wise men have the will to power. Wise men reinterpret their own sets of good, evil and the values of the things in their world. Wise men are not satisfied with the common world, it is not enough for them. They need to reinterpret all that they have. They need to make their own world, and only in that world can they be satisfied. The common people have one set of values that stay the same for each of them. The values do not change when only the common people are involved. Wise people bring their own values into the common world. People see these, and will follow them. Common people can't create values on their own, they only follow the values that wise men put forth. The wise men are the ones who create systems of values, and common people pick these systems up and follow them as rigid rule. New values are not always accepted by all people. People don't always like to change. (This is where the three stages come in. The people not changing are 'camels'. The people who change are the 'lions', the people who make up new sets of values are at 'child' or beyond). ---note: this interpretation is not quite what I mean, if you take it as read, either I was wrong then, or worded it badly. 'Camels' are indeed rigid, but 'lions' do not only follow the new rules, they see the rules and fight to get others to follow these new rules. The 'child' stage is when one is open to new possibilities, no set rules yet, only possessing simple interpretation, if any. --- People don't like the wiise mmen to not follow the values already in place. They don't like wise men to go and make new sets of values, but the wise men must do this anyway. The common people are not what is a danger to the wise person. The people will not change the wise person, only the wise man's will can change the wise man. Only the wise man's will can destroy his old concept of good and evil, and reinterpret his values anew. He relates good and evil, and their reinterpretation by the wise, to life. He has seen various forms of life. He has lived by various systems and studied them. He wanted to understand the systems. He did understand what went on, in and out of these various systems. He found that all the systems had followers. The followers all obeyed and adhered to their respective systems rigidly. People felt that their system was the only one, the true one. They refused all other interpretations (if they were at the 'camel' stage). They followed their system exactly and punished those who deviated, because they felt that everyone must follow and obey their systems. People were commanded and lead by the system because they did not know how to follow themselves. It's the nature of people to follow, so if they can not follow themselves, they follow and are lead by someone else. He also found that leading people is more difficult than following a leader. The leader has to look after, not only himself, but has to look after all the people following him. People cannot look after all the people following him. People cannot look after themselves, they need someone to take care of them and tell them what they need to do, and (in the camel stage) this falls to their leader. He has to tell them what to do. The leader takes onto himself a dangerous situation when he leads. (He is in danger because all these people are looking to him to tell them what to do. However, they can also blame him for all that goes wrong, because he takes responsibility for the situation by telling them what to do. If something goes wrong, they can blame it on him, and use him as an outlet for their anger.) When a person leads themself, it is also hard, because they must abide by their own laws, and carry out their own justice on themself when they stray. They have to have their own justice and law. He wonders why it is that a person would obey the laws of a system, lead others in that system, and still be subject to the laws of the system. He found the will to power in all sorts of people. Anyone has the will to power. All servants wish to be masters. The weak are ruled by the strong, because the strong dominate and intimidate the weak. The weak dream of the day when they can be strong and dominate those weaker than them. In the meantime, they willingly lay down and are dominated by the strong. The weak willingly surrender to the strong, so that the strong can have domination, so that when they are strong, the domination will still be there, and they can dominate the weak. The strong submit by putting themselves in a position of responsibility over the weak. The weak use guile to get to the state of strongness. They make their way carefully, and take the power from the strong when the strong are not watching. That is how they become strong. He learned that it is this cycle that must be overcome, again and again. This will is not one that reaches a certain goal or end. It reaches up, but there should be no point at which it stops. Life must stop for power to become manefest. You must destroy your current system to make a new one and rise higher. You can't keep your reinterpreted wisdom too long, you must reinterpret it again (or the eternal return catches you). All must continually be reinterpreted and revised, no matter how much it is loved (I disagree, if you love something, it might be kept). It must be revised, for this is the will to power. Wise men with the will to truth are actually following the will to power. Things that do not exist cannot want to exist. But when they do exist, and are alive, then they have the will to power. Always seeking higher, always willing higher, always revaluating, this is the will to power. There is no set good and evil. They must be constantly revaluated, they must be reinterpreted, they must overcome themselves, they must change. They must be always reinterpreted. Power is in the self-reinterpreting valueholders. People that make their own values for themselves, they have power. They overcome themselves. They break values then make new values. They must keep searching for the truth.

Of the Priests
priests had essentially the right idea, but they went about it the wrong way, and can't find the right way, having been in the wrong way so long priests went in for a dogma, in the image of a god that was nothing but a bully. This is the wrong path they took. they put God wherever they found false knowledge, and this took them further along the wrong path. they have potential to realize vast knowledge, but they are too trapped on the wrong path to find their way to knowledge.

Of the Virtuous
people don't want to find out that they are wrong. They don't want to be told the truth, if they are wrong, they would rather be content in their false belief that they are right. people do what is considered good, often in the hopes that they will get recognition and glory for it. people want to be recognised by others as something which is good and powerful, often through other people. They try and prove that they are better to themselves by constantly trying to prove it to others. they want to believe that whatever it is that they are, that is what is good.

Of the Rabble
rabble causes the seeker of knowledge to falter. The rabble is the antithesis of searching for knowledge. some people turned away from the search for knowledge entirely to avoid rabble, and others tried to destroy the rabble to get past them to knowledge it is possible for rabble to gain power and to pretend to have knowledge. People searching for knowledge see this as cheapening to their search. but once people gain enough wisdom, rabble won't be able to follow, because they can't recognise knowledge as something worth having. It's too far above them.

Of the Tarantulas
there are people that are apart from others who have deep hatred. They want rabble and wise people to have equal status. They want the rabble to have power, and the wise to not be so much better than them. these people have much hatred and feelings of revenge, because they are jealous of the wise. They are better than the rabble, but they are not as good as the wise. Instead of taking that extra step, they try to be better by taking down the wise.

Of the Famous Philosophers
past philosophers have not completely brought about wisdom. They have gone partway, but either fell short or diverged onto an untrue path. also, the philosophers before have not completely given up the world of the common people, so have not truly or fully been in search of wisdom. Their wisdom that they do have is faulty or inaddiquet. They are catering to the common people, rather than for themselves. they have tried for wisdom, but they haven't bothered to try hard enough, they still need people.

The Night Song
about hesitation, desire, temptation and want he feels that he gives and gives, but gets nothing back. love is a regenerating force. With other things, like giving, you only need to give once, and you don't feel like giving again, but love is always there, and is not used up by loving.

The Dance Song
he tells the girls that their god is a petty god of dancing and frivolity. He insists that they dance and make passive fun at the bullying god of the common people. wisdom is changable and elusive. People search for it, but rarely find it, and then it's mostly only traces of it.

The Funeral Song
he feels that the people killed his disciples (figuratively), because they could not get at him. The people turned the disciples against him to wound him mentally, as he was too wise to be hurt. he used to be happy and to teach his wisdom as, and in, happiness, but is now bitter with the wound. But his strong will keeps him going, despite the harm done. the people did not take well to his knowledge, and threw all back in his face, because they do not want to believe that they could have been wrong or petty.

On Self-Overcoming
the will is the most powerful thing you have to gain knowledge with, so you must be able to use it well. the wise man is one who has a strong creative will. each will has the power or potential to be the master or the slave. To have power, your will must always create truths.

Of the Sublime Men
there are people who have gone to find wisdom, but they are withdrawn and suspicious. They are angry, and do not let any beauty show. They are not happy, and they are tense and leary. when these people realize their beauty and power, then they will be wise and happy. (note: this isn't to tell all you disgruntled kids out there to be vain, rude and arrogant, but instead, to respect yourself, and to realize that you may indeed have value, while remembering that others may also have value. Don't be a pompous twit.)

Of the Land of Culture
people are hidden. They wear false selves to hide, to keep secrets. often, the people who have false selves are hiding the fact that there is not much of a real self. these people call themselves realists, who show that there is nothing under their false selves, and they think this is good. he will focus his teaching on the receptive people.

Of Immaculate Perception
he doesn't like sneaking and skulking. Things should be obvious. earthy people are lying to themselves, and hiding from wisdom. you should want to create life, not watch it mindlessly. shallow things do not lead to wisdom.

Of Scholars
it is the will or the spirit that causes you to be a thing, not physical representations of that thing. You get power through yourself, not through objects. common people believe in power through objects. scholars sit and ponder on things, but they are not often meaningful things. When they do think of something that has meaning, they like to show it off to people to make themselves look important. scholars can do things, but you must direct them in doing so. they, too, do not like for people to be better than them.

Of Poets
after a thing has been experienced, it is hard to see it again. because many people believe something, that does not necessarily make it true. Lies often cover up for unlearned things. people often deify things that are petty. he feels poets are often shallow and vain.

Of Great Events
when something odd happens, people tend to make strange stories to explain it as something more understandable to them, even if that is not what happened at all. people feel that whenever something important happens, they will recognize it, because it will be big, loud and obvious. dogmatic religions and beliefs are hypocritical in that they look like they are doing something important, but are really not.

The Prophet
a prophet went and told the people that everything was useless and worthless. People believed him, and so felt that all was bad. the disciples interpreted his dream as being that he should laugh and be merry, even when people tell him that all is lost.