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Nietzsche – a mouse in labour, a ridiculous mountain will be born.
Jünger said that he had an "instinctual aversion" to the eternal return. He quotes Augustine, 'Passing and becoming are not eternal.' Then says, 'Nietzsche wanted to bite the head off of the snake,' which shows an absolute fear of pain.
A naive question, if there is no truth can there be a true Nietzsche? Or does he become for us only a perspective? Jünger, despite being the only true heir to Nietzsche, was cursed with observation, with a search for truth, what is actual – the possible, the will, is something that we must give shape to. There must be a morality of the will. In the end he sided with Nietzsche's greatest opponents, including the Christians.
Nietzsche wanted the possible to be imprinted upon the actual, and to such an extent that there is no actual. This is the source of the will to power, a destructive will which must be made eternal. The eternal return is, rather than a morality of the will, a boundlessness of the will. And it is also an end, the death of the will. This is because there can be no boundlessness without limits, just as there can be no becoming without being. Such contradictions can only build up, like a ridiculous mountain, and what is found is only what was already there in the beginning – nothing.
Nietzsche, in his wandering, became lost in the Greek world, a dead world. This was his hatred for life, experienced as instinct, fate – not as reason and law, which he hated in so many of the Greeks. What he could not see was that reasoning and law were bound together in the Greek world, impossibly like the Titans and Olympians, like a Gordian Knot. The lesson of Alexander: one can unbind the knot as instinct, but it must be bound again as law.

This is one of Hölderlin's ideas, that there is a Gordian Knot between ages, and also within the individual, who is absolute. One cannot cut "the eternal knot, the contradiction between art and genius, between freedom and organic necessity." One must freely choose, in the very phrase we see that the determined is bound to freedom, one cannot escape the eternal law. "Everything depends on the fact that the I does not just remain in a reciprocal relation with its subjective nature, from which it cannot abstract without cancelling itself out."

Nietzsche insists this is possible, that it is imperative to the I. "I am I" and nothing else. The individual cuts the eternal knot and becomes eternal. But this is impossible, because there can be no eternity without limitation, there can be no being without passing. Becoming, as eternity, amounts to imprinting itself upon nothing.
This is perhaps what Jünger sensed in the eternal return, and why he sided with Hölderlin and the Christians.
"Eternal return we signify the cyclic nature of time..
So junger said time is linear, singular progressionm..??
So cyclic time which indeed is true, is false?"

Jünger says there is no eternal return, that there is return of the eternal – it occurs only once, time is captured, hunted down. In his usual style, following Hamann, there is little elaboration.
The eternal return is the greatest weight, the justification of absolute becoming. 'If there is an end state it has already occurred, long ago.' We are the sun and its destruction. We replace Hyperion who will never escape Tartarus. The defeat of the titans is already the Death of God. This is something other than linear or circular time, and perhaps its greatest strength.

For an alternative image, in which Hyperion is still with us, and he must be if there really is titanic power (being is only confirmed by its absolute opposite), I would suggest Goethe's Wanderer's Nightsong II and Primal Words: Orphic. Not only is this absolute peace in the face of the greatest weight, it may be the opposite image of eternal return. Metamorphosis resolves the question of being and becoming even in separate worlds, - does this apply also to the death of the sun?

There is limitless wealth in Goethe. Striving, becoming is not a weight for him, it is a natural result of being. I think Jünger would agree with him, and Orphic may be the source for his thinking on Zeitmauer, the wall of time. The return of the eternal is our being carried over the wall, weightless. Wealth pervades all worlds, all time.
Only a primordial god may stand against Nietzsche and his titans.
Plato: the epic is for men who have come to a mature age. It is law returned to the aesthetic.
Technology replaces art in our time. It stands outside both age and sense. Only the unborn and the dead know it.
Nietzsche's contradictions – art must be ground away by the wheelwork.
"The vital chain between fathers and sons is broken when sons do not know their grandfathers, and this is increasingly the case. I wonder how much this has contributed to the weakening of men, the collapse of society, and making “fatherland” a quaint concept when it is not mocked."

A good thought. Russians seemed to confront this more than any Western nation, particular Platonov: "Among Plants and Animals", "The River Potudan", and "The Return".
It is less a question of ideology, or even technology. We see an image of the family in the new spatial order.
The father was separated from life by the railroads, the grandfather, much earlier, by sirens.

https://youtu.be/CjauwKb42d4
I have returned to my schizo nature.
A man can run from anything but himself.
Instinctual difference with Nietzsche: I hate Wagner because he was not Christian enough.
At the very moment Nietzsche appears as victor, at the very moment it appears as if one stands alone in uttering a word against Him, this is the moment he must be torn away from time. To be a true Nietzschean, to give him eternity, is decided here.
Be tragic men, and be wise.
The will to power - A gadfly from the safest distance.
A good sign.
We will drive a wedge between the amateurs and fallen bourgeoisie, force ourselves upon the world like that moment when Christian and Heathen aligned!
Do not let the interim capture your instincts. We are in the final moments.

https://youtu.be/xyDKezDLGTM
Only Russians and children of wolves can respond to Spengler.
Man is the child of wolf to another man. The myth of our age.
Pan was based. You're cringe.

"Pan avoids wide areas of human life, the cities and the working world of man. He is unsociable and loves loneliness. His days are bright, golden and unclouded, because they never begin and never end."
- Friedrich Georg Jünger
Nietzsche had the intuitive sense to attack ruthlessly what was becoming of the world. Bloy gave this direction by declaring the private man as total enemy.
Rosary and sword.
Like Nemesis, we will have to tear ourselves away from the earth, we will not drag it behind us, and do not want it to know its own weight – only to be freed of it.
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