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In order to be, there must be ‘the-power-to-be’; and how we understand this power determines who-we-are and how-we-live.

Power can be ‘originating power’ coming from within, or ‘manipulative power’ coming from without. The power that comes from within is spiritual, free and responsible, enabling us to transcend; the power that comes from without is mental power, controlling and coercive, conforming us to the commonplace and dull. Understanding power involves understanding the way in which we are situated in existence, how we are related to Being, or more forcefully said, how we are related to the Beyond.

Are we connected through Essence, which tells us who-we-are or how-to-be; or do we have a capacity to live deeper, prior to createdness, enabling us to give style to our existence. Beyond Power does not mean “no power’, rather it means living originally, much in the way that an artist is not stuck in technique.

Overcoming fallen power is the will to originating power, or ‘immediate power’ instead of ‘mediated power’. (cf. Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is not the works, it is the faith that is decisive here, that determines the order of rank…: some fundamental certainty that a noble soul has about itself, something that cannot be sought, nor found, nor perhaps lost. The noble soul has reverence [Ehrfurcht] for itself”)

To the noble one!

In order to be, there must be ‘the-power-to-be’; and how we understand this power determines who-we-are and how-we-live.

Power can be ‘originating power’ coming from within, or ‘manipulative power’ coming from without. The power that comes from within is spiritual, free and responsible, enabling us to transcend; the power that comes from without is mental power, controlling and coercive, conforming us to the commonplace and dull. Understanding power involves understanding the way in which we are situated in existence, how we are related to Being, or more forcefully said, how we are related to the Beyond.

Are we connected through Essence, which tells us who-we-are or how-to-be; or do we have a capacity to live deeper, prior to createdness, enabling us to give style to our existence. Beyond Power does not mean “no power’, rather it means living originally, much in the way that an artist is not stuck in technique.

Overcoming fallen power is the will to originating power, or ‘immediate power’ instead of ‘mediated power’. (cf. Friedrich Nietzsche: “It is not the works, it is the faith that is decisive here, that determines the order of rank…: some fundamental certainty that a noble soul has about itself, something that cannot be sought, nor found, nor perhaps lost. The noble soul has reverence [Ehrfurcht] for itself”)

To the noble one!