etzsche's overman that he prescribes as the camel, the lion, and the child befit the artistic and rhetorical stages of each man's respective life with an uncanny resemblance. With regards to popular comparison's made between Nietzsche and Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler, Hitler and Wagner, Napoleon and Hitler, Napoleon and Beethoven, I developed an unprovable, yet intriguing, theory of how these men were all connected through a reincarnation of ideas and personalities. This theory, upon further research, has manifested itself as an integral part of Karmic New Age esoteric philosophy. In short, an ongoing practice and belief in this philosophy predicts the dawning of a new era for mankind, and I believe that the men I will discuss play an integral part in the coming of this alleged era. I."The problem I thus pose is not what shall succeed mankind in the sequence of living beings (man is an end), but what type of man shall be bred, shall be willed, for being higher in value, worthier of life, more certain of a future. Even in the past this higher type has appeared often-but as a fortunate accident, as an exception, never as something willed. . . success in individual cases is constantly encountered in the most widely different places and culture: here we really do find a higher type, which is, in relation to mankind as a whole, a kind of overman."-Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, sections 3 and 4, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 570-1"Of three metamorphoses of the spirit I tell you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child."--Ibid., Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 137 In demonstrating the path of information that led me to the comparison of Ludwig van Beethoven and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (from here on out referred to as LvB and FN, and Richard Wagner as RW), I must describe the initial research that revealed to me why FN rejected RW as a true overman. While exploring Thus Spoke Zarathustra - the criti...
