around us seems lifeless, whereas previously our existence was concerned with living things, with plants, animals; Wotan carved his spear from the growing ash tree.’ When I say that it is perhaps this life within life that has given later generations a feeling for divinity, and that Siegfried and Bruennhilde give the appearance of sacred, living Nature, whereas the Gibichungs are already among the dead, he agrees with me.” [1114W-{1/8/82} CD Vol. II, p. 786]
[1115W-{1/14/82} CD Vol. II, p. 790]
[P. 790] “Recently, though I do not remember in what connection, we agreed that it is only people with a limited outlook who, by not knowing or by ignoring many things, can set up a system.” [1115W-{1/14/82} CD Vol. II, p. 790]
[1116W-{1/26/82}BB, p. 202]
[P. 202] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “The first form of Christianity did not worry about the improvement of society as the philosophically instructed jurists of Roman rule did, and as nowadays seems incumbent on wise rulers: it believed in the complete destruction of this whole civilization as founded on unkindness and injustice, which, on the other hand, every law-giver, however wise, must leave intact in its original stock. Anyone to whom it suddenly occurs how all that came about, can also have nothing more to do with this which has come about: he is obliged wholly to abandon seeking out on the way of improvement that which may lead to a new genesis.” [1116W-{1/26/82}BB, p. 202]
[1117W-{2/9/82} CD Vol. II, p. 805]
[P. 805] “Then an article by Herr Hiller about my father’s remarks on the Jews brings us to this subject, and R. says it is becoming more and more clear to him what damage they represent, rather than cause: ‘In a wound on a poor horse or some other animal one at once sees a swarm of flies.’ “ [1117W-{2/9/82} CD Vol. II, p. 805]
[1118W-{2/9/82}CD Vol. II, p. 805]
[P. 805] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “ ‘The character of our present society,’ he says, ‘is easily discernible in the fact that it assumes there is no life after death … .’ “ [1118W-{2/9/82}CD Vol. II, p. 805]
[1119W-{2/27/82} CD Vol. II, p. 815]
[P. 815] [Wagner told Cosima that:] “ ‘… to have any sense of himself, a man must be loved – the life-giving power is female. – And things began to work again when you were with me – people had been saying that I would never do anything more, and then it all started again. One can live for a while on one’s inner resources, but then one must be shown a picture of oneself in a mirror to know what one really is.’ “ [1119W-{2/27/82} CD Vol. II, p. 815]
