Friedrich Nietzsche

Greater Feast of Friedrich Nietzsche, died August 25, 1900, at Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire in Hermeneuticon at Hermetic Library

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the O.T.O. included such men as: … And recently: Friedrich Nietzsche”—Liber LII Manifesto of the O.T.O.

“Nietzsche may be regarded as one of our prophets”—Chapter XLVIII: Morals of AL—Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur

“Yet this I charge thee with my Might: Live Dangerously. Was not this the Word of thine Uncle Friedrich Nietzsche?”—Ασ De Virtute Audendi

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Saint of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica

Friedrich Nietzsche appears in all versions of the Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica in Liber XV, published during Aleister Crowley's lifetime. Friedrich Nietzsche is not on the short list of any version, and is therefore a name celebrated only at performances when the complete Saints Collect is read.

Gnostic Saint International Equinox Magick in Theory and Practice
Friedrich Nietzsche F … N … Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche

Comments

Philosopher; Apollonian and Dionysian conflict; The Übermensch (“Superman” or “Overman”); The Will to Power; “God is Dead” or “God's murder” (The Gay Science, section 125); mental illness on 3 January 1889; Amor Fati; eternal recurrence; existentialism; postmodernism (The 1873 unpublished essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” or “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn”, is considered by some as a peripheral, conflicted and non-representative fragment in his writings, however, others find it to be a keystone to Nietzsche and Postmodern thought. In this essay Nietzsche rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims, presumably as a truth, that what we call “truth” is only “a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.” His view at this time is that arbitrariness prevails within human experience: concepts originate via the transformation of nerve stimuli into images, and “truth” is nothing more than the invention of fixed conventions for practical purposes, especially those of repose, security and consistency.); cyclic model of the universe, Big Bang, Big Crunch, rinse and repeat; like Edgar Allan Poe, believed in cyclic ages in the world;

Connections

Teachers

Richard Wagner; David Strauss; Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl; Friedrich Albert Lange; influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky; influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer (in 1865, Friedrich Nietzsche accidentally discovered Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (1818)

Students

Ken Robinson; A. R. Orage AKA Alfred Richard Orage; Peter Gast (AKA Heinrich Köselitz); Rudolf Steiner; Georges Bataille; René Girard; David B. Allison; Walter Kaufmann; Michel Foucault; Jean Baudrillard; Dorothea Brande,author of “Wake Up and Live!”, 1936; Barbara Ehrenreich; Paul Steinhardt

Friends

Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, sister and caretaker; her husband Bernhard Förster, Nazi; Gustav Krug; Rudolf Wagner; Wilhelm Pinder; Paul Deussen; Carl von Gersdorff; Franz Overbeck; Afrikan Spir; Malwida von Meysenbug; Hans von Bülow; Paul Rée; Carl Fuchs; Lou Andreas Salomé; Helene von Druskowitz; Ernst Schmeitzner; August Strindberg; Cosima Wagner; Jacob Burckhardt

Enemies

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Organizations

Author

'The Genesis of the Tragic Idea'; The Birth of Tragedy (1872); unpublished essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” (“Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn”) (1873); “David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer” (1873); “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life” (1874); “Schopenhauer as Educator” (1874); “Richard Wagner in Bayreuth” (1876) (previous 4 essays are collected in Untimely Meditations); Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks; Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits) (1878); Assorted Opinions and Maxims (1879) & The Wanderer and his Shadow (1880) were a 2nd & 3rd part of Human, All Too Human that were all published together in 1886; Daybreak: Reflections on Moral Prejudices (1881); The Gay Science (1882/1887); Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883-1885); Beyond Good and Evil (1886); On the Genealogy of Morals (1887); The Will to Power: Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values (fragments of writings, posthumously published); The Case of Wagner (May-Aug 1888); Twilight of the Idols, Or How One Philosophizes with a Hammer (Aug-Sept 1888); The Antichrist, a Curse on Christianity (Sept 1888); autobiography Ecce Homo (Oct-Nov 1888); Nietzsche Contra Wagner (Dec 1888); the Wahnbriefe (“Madness Letters”); On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, 1873; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; My Sister and I (may be a forgery);

Quotes

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that Faith does not prove anything”

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