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OF SELF-OVERCOMING

" ' Will unto truth ' ye call, ye wisest men, what inspireth you and maketh you ardent?

' Will unto the conceivableness of all that is ' thus I call your will !

All that is ye are going to make conceivable. For with good mistrust ye doubt whether it is conceiv- able.

But it hath to submit itself and bend before your- selves ! Thus your will willeth. Smooth it shall be- come and subject unto spirit as its mirror and reflected image.

That is your entire will, ye wisest men, as a will unto power; even when ye speak of good and evil and of valuations.

Ye will create the world before which to kneel down. Thus it is your last hope and drunkenness.

The unwise, it is true, the folk, they are like unto a river down which a boat glideth. And in the boat the valuations are sitting solemn and disguised.

Your will and your valuations ye placed on the river of becoming. What is believed by the folk as

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