>>10986476Nietzsche rejected the faith and belief based superstitions common in his time and which had developed from Christianity after the "Enlightenment", which rejected, without grounds to do so, the metaphysical truths established by Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas (which themselves were not perfect but closer to truth than post-"Enlightenment" philosophy) with nothing rational to put in their place (just beliefs, faith, superstition, which inevitably devolved into nihilism with time). These superstitions entailed the rejection of true spirituality/godhood and the replacing of it with faith/belief. Anyhow, Nietzsche came up with the "will to power" and especially the embracing of this will with the rejection of the inferior wills subordinate to the prime will as a form of spiritual realization. Of course, Nietzsche's philosophy touched on things which were actually already long since established by the ancient philosophies such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen, but without even realizing it. The will to power as a concept is present in these philosophies but without a singular name, and as Nietzsche didn't seem to to recognize explicitly, were present in different forms in individuals of different metaphysical backgrounds so to speak - different natures or true forms in Aristotelian/Platonic philosophy.
In these ancient philosophies, the will to power and the true embracing of it (which entails the rejection of the ego) was in fact that essence which elevates man to the state of godhood, just like the Buddha, who was an Aryan of warrior nobility stock. Each man in the caste hierarchy has his own true nature, whose life's work ought to be to realize this nature with the casting aside of all egotism and "material" or "demonic" (inferior) aspects of being. This was the original and, according to Nietzsche even without admitting it directly, true path to God and transcendent reality. [cont]
