Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Knight of Wands in Nietzsche


Came across this interesting passage in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. I must say, it matches up pretty exactly with the description for the Knight of Wands in the Book of Thoth. Remember that the Knight is 1/3 Scorpio and 2/3's Sagittarius.

"He who can command, he who is by nature 'master,' he who is violent in act and bearing - what has he to do with contracts! One does not reckon with such natures; they come like fate, without reason, consideration, or pretext; they appear as lightning appears, too terrible, too sudden, too convincing, too 'different' even to be hated. Their work is an instinctive creation and imposition of forms; they are the most involuntary, unconscious artists there are - wherever they appear something new soon arises, a ruling structure that lives, in which parts and functions are delimited and coordinated, in which nothing whatever finds a place that has not first been assigned a 'meaning' in relation to the whole. They do not know what guilt, responsibility, or consideration are, these born organizers; they exemplify that terrible artists' egoism that has the look of bronze and knows itself justified to all eternity in its 'work,' like a mother in her child..."
-Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
trans. Walter Kaufmann and RJ Hollingdale, Vintage Books Edition, pg. 86-87.

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