Without using any allegories it can be said that love, as the strongest of all emotions,
reveals in the soul of man all its manifest
and hidden qualities, and it can disclose those
new
qualities which now are the subject of occultism and mysticism and are so deeply
hidden that, in most cases, men even refuse to admit the possibility of their existence.
Voluptuousness -
to all hair-shined despisers of the body a thorn and a stake - cursed
as 'the world' by all other worldlings: for it mocketh and befooleth all teachers of
confusion and error.
Voluptuousness - to the rabble the slow fire whereon it roasteth;
to all worm-eaten
wood, to all stinking rags, an ever-ready oven of lust and lechery.
Voluptuousness - to free hearts, innocent and free, the garden-joy of the earth, the
overflowing gratefulness of the future to the present.
Voluptuousness - sweet poison only to the withered, but a grand cordial to the
lion-willed and a reverently stored king of wines.
Voluptuousness - the happy prototype of a higher happiness and of the highest
hope. For to
many
an one marriage is
promised, and more than marriage -
To many an one that is more strange to himself than are man and woman - and
who comprehendedeth wholly
how strange
are man and woman to one another?*
I have dwelt so long on the question of the understanding of love, because it is of the
most vital importance; for to the majority of people approaching
the threshold of the
mystery, it is precisely from this side that much becomes opened or closed and because
for many precisely this question constitutes the greatest obstacle.
The most important thing in love is
that which is not,
which is
completely
non
existent from an ordinary everyday materialistic point of view.
In this sensing of that which is not, and in the contact thus reached with the world of
the miraculous, i.e. the truly real, lies the principal meaning of love in human life.
It is a well-known psychological fact that at moments of very intense experience,
great joy or great suffering, everything happening
around seems to a man
unreal,
a
dream. This is the beginning of the awakening of the soul. When a man begins to be
aware, in a dream, that he is asleep and that what he sees is a dream, he awakes. In the
same way a soul, when it begins to realize that all visible life is but a
* F. W. Nietzsche,
Thus Spake Zarathustra, 'Of
The Three Evils', trs. A. Tille,
Everyman's Library, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1933 and
Modern Library, New
York, 1966.
dream, approaches awakening. And the stronger, the more vivid the experiences of a
man, the quicker may come the moment of consciousness of the unreality of life.
It is very interesting to examine love and men's attitude to love, using the same
method and the same analogies as those applied to the comparative study of different
dimensions.
We should again imagine a world of plane-beings, examining phenomena which
come to their plane from another unknown world (such as the change of the colour of
lines on the plane which are actually due to the rotation of a wheel with multi-coloured
spokes passing through the plane). The plane-beings suppose that these phenomena
originate on their plane from causes also lying on the plane, and
that they also end
there. And all similar phenomena are for them identical, such as the two circles which
actually belong to quite different objects.* On this basis they build their theories and
their ethics. And yet, if they were bold enough to abandon their 'two-dimensional'
psychology and to understand the true nature of these phenomena, then
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