New poem: "Nietzsche's Deception"

 

 

Nietzsche’s Deception

 

While reading Rudolph Steiner’s book

Friedrich Nietzshe, Fighter for Freedom,

I got a piercing insight into the philosopher’s

morbid soul that I scribbled into marginalia,

as I often do with books I read: “Nietzsche

refuses to deal with the karmic issue of his

own deception.” I knew what my muse was

saying, but I googled my insight all the same;

and AI instantly generated a fulsome context

of my insight into Nietzsche’s tortured life:

“In a spiritual or karmic context, a person who

refuses to deal with the karmic issue of their

own deception is choosing to remain in a cycle

of negativity, pain, and self-sabotage, delaying

spiritual growth and inviting the same challenges

to recur in their life or future lives,” as Rudolph

Steiner’s book had brought to light. Nietzsche

went mad, not because his uber ego Zarathustra

had declared God dead and we had killed Him,

which incurred a karmic debt that broke his

spirit; but because the eternal Nietzsche that he

willed himself to be could never be the Nietzsche

that God intended, and it did not matter that he

saw through the hypocrisy of man’s behavior,

Nietzsche adamantly refused to deal with

the karmic issue of his own deception

that silenced his angry soul

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Monday, November 24, 2025