ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the Zarathustra appears in the moment when something has happened which made his presence necessary, and Nietzsche calls that the death of God; when God dies, man needs a new orientation. This is the way Nietzsche experienced the coming of Zarathustra, and it shows very clearly the symptomatology of the wise old man. Dr. Jung: It would mean in the case, not quite realized. Therefore, he is coming down into the world of ordinary people, to the former quasi-normal consciousness, it is said that Zarathustra wants to become just the ordinary man again. It has to do with the condition of the functions in the days, but we are not concerned with that question here. In this chapter, then, we have watched the way in which the spirit of a whole historical epoch recedes, disappears into nature, and how at the same time it is renewed in a new figure with a new message.