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 OF SALVATION 2OI

And now one cloud after another hath rolled over the spirit, until at last madness preached : ' Everything perisheth, therefore all is worthy to perish!'

'And this law of time is justice, that time must devour its own children.' Thus madness preached.

'Morally things are arranged according to right and punishment. Oh ! where is the salvation from the current of things and the " existence " of punishment ? ' Thus madness preached.

' Can there be salvation if there is an eternal right ? Alas, unturnable is the stone " It was ! " Eternal mfist be all punishments ! ' Thus madness preached.

'No action can be annihilated. How could it be undone by punishment ! This, this, is what is eternal in the punishment of "existence," that existence itself must eternally be again action and guilt !

Unless it should be, that at last will would save itself, and willing would become not-willing.' But ye know, my brethren, this fabulous song of madness !

I led you away from those fabulous songs, when I taught you: 'All will is a creator.'

All ' It was ' is a fragment, a riddle, a dismal accident until a creating will saith unto it : ' Thus I would have it ! '

Until a creating will saith unto it : ' Thus I will ! Thus I shall will ! *

But did it ever speak thus? And when doth that happen ? Hath will been unharnessed yet from its own folly?

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