All the torments of the human heart lie open to him: he feels them all and knows the only way of ending them.” [716W-{8/30/65}BB, p. 56-58]
[717W-{9/4/65}BB, p. 67]
[P. 67] {FEUER} “And so – I must turn all of life into a dream for myself! It can be done, and I shall write all my works provided I am never dragged out of my dream concerning the world. I must not truly see its reality: I cannot any more. But – in the dream it looks bearable, and the dream state itself is fine precisely because it is a dream. (…) And in this dream, let us create what shall rock the world into a dream.” [717W-{9/4/65}BB, p. 67]
[718W-{9/7/65}Letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria: SLRW, p. 664]
[P. 664] {FEUER} “ ‘What is the significance of Kundry’s kiss?’ – That, my beloved, is a terrible secret! You know, of course, the serpent of Paradise and its tempting promise: ‘eritis sicut Deus, scientes bonum et malum.’ [* Editors’ Footnote: Genesis 3:5, ‘Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil’.] Adam and Eve became ‘knowing’. They became ‘conscious of sin’. The human race had to atone for that consciousness by suffering shame and misery until redeemed by Christ who took upon himself the sin of mankind. My dearest friend, how can I speak of such profound matters except in a simile, by means of a comparison. But only the clairvoyant can say what its inner meaning may be. Adam – Eve: Christ. – How would it be if we were now to add to them: -- ‘Anfortas – Kundry: Parzival?’ But with considerable caution!” [718W-{9/7/65}Letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria: SLRW, p. 664]
[719W-{9/7/65}Letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria: SLRW, p. 664]
[P. 664] “… he [Parsifal] knows more than all the others, more, especially, than the assembled Knights of the Grail who continued to think that Anfortas was complaining merely of the spear-wound! Parzival now sees deeper. – Thus he, too, sees deeper who does not believe what the whole world believes, that I, for ex., have suffered as a result of the failure of my Tannhaeuser in Paris, that I have suffered through the newspapers’ attempts to detract from my fame, or through lack of recognition: Oh no! my suffering goes deeper; he who would know of it must hear in my works themselves what superficial listeners cannot hear. Happily, it is an awareness not of sin but solely of redemption from the sin of the world. But who has divined this redemption in my works?” [719W-{9/7/65}Letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria: SLRW, p. 664]
[720W-{9-12/65} What is German?: PW Vol. IV, p. 155]
[P. 155] {anti-FEUER} “The Christian religion belongs to no specific national stock: the Christian dogma addresses purely-human nature. Only in so far as it has seized in all its purity this content common to all men, can a people call itself Christian in truth. However, a people can make nothing fully its own but what becomes possible for it to grasp with its inborn feeling, and to grasp in such a fashion that in the New it finds its own familiar self again. Upon the realm of Aesthetics and philosophic Criticism it may be demonstrated, almost palpably, that it was predestined for the German spirit to seize and assimilate the Foreign, the primarily remote from it, in utmost purity and objectivity of intuition (in hoechster objektiver Reinheit der Anschauung). (…) … The German was
