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The Law is for All
simpering in his arms. But one must be a flaming harlot— 
one must let oneself go, whether one’s star be twin with that of 
Shelley, or of Blake, or of Titian, or of Beethoven. Beauty and 
strength come from doing one’s Will; you have only to look at 
anyone who is doing it to recognize the glory of it.
21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die 
in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of 
kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law 
of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think 
not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou 
shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body 
of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. 
Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, 
Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.
Commentary: There is a good deal of the Nietzschean stand­
point in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of 
what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such 
diseases, as we now do? Nature’s way is to weed out the weak. 
This is the most merciful way, too. At present all the strong are 
being damaged, and their progress hindered by the dead weight of 
the weak limbs and the missing limbs, the diseased limbs and the 
atrophied limbs. The Christians to the Lions!
Our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts 
on the basis of the lie that the King must die. The King is beyond 
death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment. We must 
therefore go back to Spartan ideas of education; and the worst 
enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of 
compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. The 
Christians to the Lions!
Let the weak and wry productions go back into the melting- 
pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. Death will purge, 
reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions. Nature 
herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. 
But what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with 
rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? For the third 
time I answer: The Christians to the Lions!