On 12-22-97 Frank Masingill wrote to DAY BROWN... 
 FM>  
 FM>    I have read a little Nietzsche, Day, and I sense that you truly 
 FM> believe 
 FM> that the murder of God is possible without at the same time murdering 
 FM> man. 
 FM> Voegelin points out that Nietzsche has mutilated  the symbolism of 
 FM> Diogenes 
 FM> who is in search of [honest] man to produce a "madman" in search of 
 FM> GOD [in 
 FM> the marketplace where one would expect only to find men].  Don't 
 FM> forget that 
 FM> Nietzsche by his own admission can assume a "variety of masks." 
Well, I guess I have run into some of his more useful ones. 
 
Back in the 60's, shrinks in Haight-Ashbury noted a peculiar form 
of thinking among the hippie acid heads, where they saw the world 
as a conspiracy- organized for their *benefit*, kind of an anti- 
paranoia. 
 
I have serendipitously run into so much shit that fits, that it 
makes me wonder about the holodeck I am living on.  Neitzsche and 
Campbell and Wasson have given me such a new slant on the ancient 
greek classics that it is like seeing in color what has only been 
in black & white before.  It is all so sernedipitous that it makes 
me look for a conspiracy. 
 
Campbell too talks about the masks of God; if you look at *all* of 
these masks do you learn what is behind them?  I sympathize with 
a Neitzsche who would simply strip them away and confront the face
of God directly, accept the guilt for the violence, and submit to 
the judgement willingly just to have the knowledge. 
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