daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
Horus snatched from his mother her head adornment,
the power. Just as Adam struggled with Lilith, so he
struggles for power. Nietzsche, in "Human, All Too
Human," expressed the same in very beautiful words:
"One may suppose that a mind, in which the 'type of free
mind' is to ripen and sweeten at maturity, has had its decisive
crisis in a great detachment, so that before this time it was just
so much the more a fettered spirit and appeared chained forever
to its corner and its pillar.[2] What binds it most firmly?
What cords are almost untearable? Among human beings of a
high and exquisite type, it would be duties: that reverence, which
is suitable for youth, that modesty and tenderness for all the old
honored and valued things, that thankfulness for the earth from
which they grew, for the hand which guided them, for the shrine
where they learnt to pray:—their loftiest moments themselves
come to bind them the firmest, to obligate them the most permanently.
The great detachment comes suddenly for people so
bound.
"'Better to die than to live here,'—thus rings the imperative voice of seduction: and this here, this 'at home' is all, that it (the soul) has loved until now! A sudden terror and suspicion against that which it has loved, a lightning flash of scorn towards that which is called 'duty,' a rebellious, arbitrary, volcanic, impelling desire for travelling, for strange countries, estrangements, coolness, frigidity, disillusionments, a hatred of love, perhaps a sacrilegious touch and glance backwards[3] there where just now it adored and loved, perhaps a blush of shame over what it has just done, and at the same time an exultation over having done it, an intoxicating internal joyous thrill, in which a victory reveals itself—a victory? Over what? Over whom? An enigmatic, doubtful, questioning victory, but the first triumph. Of such woe and pain is formed the history of the great detachment. It is like a disease which can destroy men,—this first eruption of strength and will towards self-assertion."[4]
