The Star in the West

THE CUP 171 in one of his unpublished letters wrote , “ The riddle of the sphinx has two answers which are true only in a third . “ The first is God , the second is man , and the third Man - God .' ” This is but the overman of the Egoistical philosophy of Nietzsche . Hermes struck a higher chord when he said : “ To create God , is to accomplish our own creation , to make ourselves inde pendent , impassible , and immortal .” Blake demon strated the at - oneness of Good and Evil very clearly in " The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ." " I tell you no virtue can exist without breaking these ten com mandments , ” he says , referring to the Decalogue . Further back in his “ Proverbs of Hell ,” he writes : You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough . The pride of the peacock is the glory of God . The lust of the goat is the bounty of God . The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God . The nakedness of woman is the work of God . For everything that lives is Holy . 9 In Samuel Butler's “ Erewhon we find much the same idea in the following couplet . He who sins aught sins more than he ought , But he who sins naught , has much to be taught . Blake further writes in “ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ” : A man carried a monkey about for a show , and because he was a little wiser than the monkey , grew vain , and conceived himself as much wiser than seven men . It is so with Swedenborg : he shows the folly of churches and exposes hypocrites , till he imagines that all are religious and himself the single one on earth that ever broke a net . Now hear a plain fact : Swedenborg has not written one new truth .