from life, yet the act itself is always characterised by utmost energy of will … ; was it the look, the likeness or the mental picture of the Saviour suffering upon the cross, the influence of a pity overcoming all self-will was invariably united with the deepest horror at the attributes of this world-shaping Will, and to such a point that the will exerted all its strength in revolt against itself. From that point we see the saint outvie the hero in his endurance of suffering, his self-offering for others; almost more unshakable than the hero’s pride is [P. 280] the saint’s humility … .” [1089W-{6-8/81}Herodom and Christendom – 3rd Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI, p. 279-280]
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[P. 280] {FEUER} {anti-FEUER/NIET} {SCHOP} “The blood of the Saviour, theissue from his head, his wounds upon the cross, -- who impiously would ask its race, if white or other? Divine we call it, and its source might dimly be approached in what we termed the human species’ bond of union, its aptitude for Conscious Suffering. This faculty we can only regard as the last step reached by Nature in the ascending series of her fashionings; thenceforth she brings no new, no higher species to light, for in it she herself attains her unique freedom, the annulling of the internecine warfare of the Will. The hidden background [P. 281] of this Will, inscrutable in Time and Space, is nowhere manifest to us but in that abrogation; and there it shows itself divine, the willing of Redemption. Thus, if we found the faculty of conscious suffering peculiarly developed in the so-called white race, in the Saviour’s blood we now must recognise the quintessence of free-willed suffering itself (des bewusst wollenden Leiden’s selbst), that godlike Pity which streams through all the human species, its fount and origin.”
{FEUER} (…) How high the most advanced white race could raise itself inweightiest matters of the world through keenness of that faculty which we have called the human species’ bond of union, we see in its religions. The Brahminic religion we surely must rank as the most astounding evidence of the breadth of view and faultless mental accuracy of those earliest Aryan branches … . It had only one fault: it was a race religion.” [1090W-{6-8/81}Herodom and Christendom – 3rd Supplement to ‘Religion and Art’: PW Vol. VI, p. 280-281]
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[P. 282] {FEUER} “The blood [P. 283] of suffering Mankind, as sublimated in thatwondrous birth [of the saviour Jesus] , could never flow in the interest of howsoever favoured a single race; no, it shed itself on all the human family for noblest cleansing of Man’s blood from every stain. Hence the sublime simplicity of the pure Christian religion, whereas the Brahminic, for instance, applying its knowledge of the world to the ensurance of supremacy for one advantaged race, became lost in artificiality and sank to the extreme of the absurd. Thus, notwithstanding that we have seen the blood of noblest races vitiated by admixture, the partaking of the blood of Jesus, as symbolised in the only genuine sacrament of the Christian
