172 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, II
biers, unto you with your 'pure perception.' You / call lascivious !
Ye also love earth and things earthly. Truly I found you out! But shame and bad conscience are in your love ; ye are like the moon !
To despise things earthly your mind hath been per- suaded, but not your bowels which are the strongest thing within you !
And now your mind is ashamed to be under the will of your bowels, and goeth byways and lie-ways to escape its own shame.
' That would be the highest for me ' thus saith your deceitful mind unto itself ' to look at life with- out desire, and not like the dog with the tongue hanging out;
To be happy in gazing, with one's will dead, with- out the grasp or greediness of selfishness cold and ashen-grey all over the body, but with the eyes drunken like the moon !
That is what I should like best.' Thus the se- duced one seduceth himself to love earth, as the moon loveth it, and to touch its beauty solely with the eye.
And I call it the immaculate perception of all things, that I want nothing from things but to be allowed to lie before them, like a mirror with an hundred eyes.
Oh, ye sentimental dissemblers, ye lascivious ! Ye
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