Nihilism and the Burial of the Gods - Hölderlin, and Carmina Burana 228

[mandalietmandaliet]

"The god who wishes all other gods to be rejected so that
he alone be worshipped is rightly judged to be greedy."
 - Carmina Burana 228

Edit: moved original post here so that it has context:
https://derschattigewald.org/litforum/sh...d=35#pid35

[mandalietmandaliet]

"Now a breeze rises too and ruffles the crests of the coppice,
Look, and in secret our globe’s shadowy image, the moon,
Slowly is rising too; and Night, the fantastical, comes now
Full of stars and, I think, little concerned about us,
Night, the astonishing, there, the stranger to all that is human,
Over the mountain- tops mournful and gleaming draws on."
- Hölderlin

[mandalietmandaliet]

"So she works on the world and works on our souls ever hoping,
Not even wise men can tell what is her purpose, for so
God, the Highest, has willed, who very much loves you, and therefore
Dearer even than Night reasoning Day is to you.
Nonetheless there are times when clear eyes too love the shadows,
Tasting sleep uncompelled, trying the pleasure it gives,
Or a loyal man too will gaze into Night and enjoy it,
Yes, and rightly to her garlands we dedicate, hymns,"

[mandalietmandaliet]

"Holy drunkenness she must grant and frenzied oblivion,
Grant the on- rushing word, sleepless as lovers are too,
And a wine- cup more full, a life more intense and more daring,
Holy remembrance too, keeping us wakeful at night."
- Hölderlin

[mandalietmandaliet]

"And in vain we conceal our hearts deep within us, in vain we,
Master and novice alike, still keep our courage in check.
For who now would stop us, who would forbid us rejoicing?
Day- long, night- long we’re urged on by a fire that’s divine."
- Hölderlin, Bread and Wine

I very much like this idea of master and novice. It is an old idea, and reminder of how much we have forgotten.
Even in the tales of the heroes there remains a force of the novice. Achilles comes to strive for slavery in the end. Mastery has to be pursued in the transition of dominion. We are all Janus-figures. Becoming is only a moment of nihilism in the metamorphosis of character.
The highest figures are without a second face. They are an on-rushing of the totality of being. that wealth which Heine misses in Goethe, and Nietzsche becomes blind to.

[mandalietmandaliet]

The janus-faced thus appears as a type of exile.

[mandalietmandaliet]

"Delphi’s asleep, and where now is great fate to be heard?"

[mandalietmandaliet]

"Idle and bungled work never for Aether was fit."

[mandalietmandaliet]

"Such is man; when the wealth is there, and no less than a god in
Person tends him with gifts, blind he remains, unaware.
First he must suffer; but now he names his most treasured possession,
Now for it words like flowers leaping alive he must find."

[mandalietmandaliet]

"So, to be worthy and stand unashamed in the heavenly presence,
Nations rise up and soon, gloriously ordered, compete
One with the other in building beautiful temples and cities,
Noble and firm they tower high above river and sea –"