> "paul, the chandala hatred of rome, of the world, in the flesh and inspired by geniusthe jew, the eternal jew par excellence.... what he saw was how, with the aid of the small sectarian christian movement that stood apart from judaism, a world conflagration might be kindled; how, with the symbol of god on the cross, all secret seditions, all the fruits of anarchistic intrigues in the empire, might be amalgamated into one immense power. salvation is of the jews.christianity is the formula for exceeding and summing up the subterranean cults of all varieties, that of osiris, that of the great mother, that of mithras, for instance: in his discernment of this fact the genius of paul showed itself. his instinct was here so sure that, with reckless violence to the truth, he put the ideas which lent fascination to every sort of chandala religion into the mouth of the saviour as his own inventions, and not only into the mouthhe made out of him something that even a priest of mithras could understand.... this was his revelation at damascus: he grasped the fact that he needed the belief in immortality in order to rob the world of its value, that the concept of hell would master romethat the notion of a beyond is the death of life.... nihilist and christian: they rhyme in german, and they do more than rhyme...."
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