times – what I mean by God, who runs parallel with Nature up to the point where the parallels meet.” [1005W-{1/15/80}CD Vol. II, p. 426]
[1006W-{1/17/80}-Letter to Hans von Wolzogen (SLRW; P. 898-899]
[P. 898] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} “I am almost afraid that we shall have difficulty in reaching an understanding with our friends and patrons on the future meaning and significance of the incomparably and sublimely simple and true redeemer who appears to us in the historically intelligible figure of Jesus of Nazareth, but who must first be cleansed and redeemed of the distortion that has been caused by Alexandrine, Judaic and Roman despotism. Nevertheless, although we are merciless in abandoning the Church and the [P. 899] priesthood and, indeed, the whole historical phenomenon of Christianity, our friends must always know that we do so for the sake of that same Christ whom -- -- because of His utter incomparability and recognizability – we wish to preserve in His total purity, so that – like all the other sublime products of man’s artistic and scientific spirit – we can take Him with us into those terrible times which may very well follow the necessary destruction of all that at present exists.” [1006W-{1/17/80}-Letter to Hans von Wolzogen (SLRW; P. 898-899]
[1007W-{2/21/80} CD Vol. II, p. 441]
[P. 441] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “(Yesterday R. spoke of the Empress’s curious habit ofpersecuting people about whom she once raved, just like Nietzsche. He said, ‘One can give up mistaken allegiances, as, for example, mine with Feuerbach, but one should not then abuse them.’)” [1007W-{2/21/80} CD Vol. II, p. 441]
[1008W-{3/10/80}CD Vol. II, p. 448]
[P. 448] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “… we once more attempt to reconcile Gleizes’soptimism with Schopenhauer’s view of the world; R. thinks that degeneracy set in during a period of change on earth, but it is not absolutely necessary for the Will just to consume itself; Nature is injudicious, he says, but it has no wish to be sheerly destructive; how otherwise to explain the Will’s delight in genius, in which it sees itself reflected? The possibility exists for a gentler kind of tolerance, for desire not utterly uncontrolled; in India, for example, human beings during a period of adversity could calmly starve along with their domestic animals, without ever thinking of consuming them.” [1008W-{3/10/80}CD Vol. II, p. 448]
[1009W-{3/22/80} CD Vol. II; P. 456]
[P. 456] “He goes into the next room and plays something from the 3rd act of‘Parsifal’! – When he sees how moved our friends are, he observes that this is not possible unless one sees the action and follows every word. ‘It is different when I am telling you everything at once – then we are working together.’ ” [1009W-{3/22/80} CD Vol. II; P. 456]
