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the heart of the good and just and said : ' They are the Pharisees.' But he was not understood.

The good and just themselves were not allowed to understand him. Their mind was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably clever.

But this is the truth : the good must be Pharisees. They have no choice !

The good must crucify him who inventeth his own virtue ! That is the truth !

But the second one who discovered their land, the land, heart, and soil of the good and just he it was who asked : ' Whom do they hate most ? '

The creator they hate most, him who breaketh tables and old values, the breaker. They call him a criminal.

For the good cannot create. They are always the beginning of the end.

They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables ; they sacrifice unto themselves the future ; they crucify the whole human future !

The good they have always been the beginning of the end.

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O my brethren, understood ye this word ? And what once I said of the last man ?

With whom is the greatest danger for the whole human future ? Is it not with the good and just ?

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