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The gateway 'This Moment'

On the mountain path Zarathustra poses the riddle of the two eternal lanes to the dwarf.

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The gateway 'This Moment' and recurrenceXLVI. The Vision and the Enigma
“Halt, dwarf!” said I. “Either I—or thou! I, however, am the stronger of the two:—thou knowest not mine abysmal thought! IT—couldst thou not endure!” Then happened that which made me lighter: for the dwarf sprang from…

Zarathustra throws down the dwarf and shows him a gateway called 'This Moment', where two eternal lanes meet. He reasons that all things, including the spider, the moonlight, and the two of them, must eternally return.

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