DB> Campbell too talks about the masks of God; if you look at *all* of these
 DB> masks do you learn what is behind them?  I sympathize with a Neitzsche
 DB> who would simply strip them away and confront the face
 DB> of God directly, accept the guilt for the violence, and submit to the
 DB> judgement willingly just to have the knowledge.
   But, doesn't Nietzsche also "beat against the wall of being" and yell, "if
there IS a God, how could I afford not to BE God?"  I think Nietzsche's
"masks" are different from those Campbell legitimately finds in the myths.
Nietzsche is consciously dancing with different philosophical masks, isn't 
e?
He is not yet the Sartre who is "condemned to be free" but he does DEMAND a
position like a god outside of and on top of reality where HE can encompass 
t
or he will take his marbles and go home.  This does not deny his genius and
sensitivity as a psychologist (Freud probably learned from him) or the
shrewdness of his eye for the ancient culture.  
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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