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 admiration and self-adulation ("Among a hundred mirrors"—Nietzsche); a Narcissus state, a strange spectacle, perhaps, for profane eyes. The separation from the mother-imago, the birth out of one's self, reconciles all conflicts through the sufferings. This is probably meant by Nietzsche's verse:

"Why hast thou enticed thyself Into the Paradise of the old serpent? Why hast thou crept Into thyself, thyself?

"A sick man now Sick of a serpent's poison,[42] A captive now Whom the hardest destiny befell In thine own pit; Bowed down as thou workest Encaved within thyself, Burrowing into thyself, Helpless, Stiff, A corpse. Overwhelmed with a hundred burdens, Overburdened by thyself. A wise man, A self-knower, The wise Zarathustra; Thou soughtest the heaviest burden And foundest thou thyself"

The symbolism of this speech is of the greatest richness. He is buried in the depths of self, as if in the earth; really a dead man who has turned back to mother earth;[43] a Kaineus "piled with a hundred burdens" and pressed down to death; the one who groaning bears the