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Long slept Zarathustra, not only the dawn passing over his face, but the morning also. At last, however, his eye opened : astonished Zarathustra looked into the forest and the stillness, astonished he looked into himself. Then quickly rising, like a mariner who sud- denly seeth land, he exulted : for he saw a new truth. And thus he then spake unto his heart :

" A light hath arisen for me : companions I need, and living ones, not dead companions or corpses which I carry with me wherever I go.

But living companions I need who follow me be- cause they wish to follow themselves and to the place whither I wish to go.

A light hath arisen for me : Zarathustra is not to speak unto the folk, but unto companions ! Zarathus- tra is not to be the herdsman and dog of a herd!

To entice many from the herd that is why I have come. Folk and herd will be angry with me : a robber Zarathustra wisheth to be called by herdsmen.

Herdsmen I call them, but they call themselves the good and just. Herdsmen I call them, but they call themselves the faithful of the right belief.

Lo, the good and just! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh to pieces their tables of values, the breaker, the criminal : but he is the creator.

Lo, the faithful of all beliefs ! Whom do they hate

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