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In “The Soothsayer,” Zarathustra relates a mysterious dream to his disciples. In it, a black coffin bursts open and spews forth “a thousand caricatures of children, angels, owls, fools, and child‐sized butterflies.”

The dream reveals an underlying psychic tension and a gnawing ambivalence. Whereas he first descended to humankind in the role of self‐assured prophet, he must now acknowledge the graves of his past that impede his way to the goal of affirmation of life as it is.

In the closing section of Part Two, entitled “The Stillest Hour,” Zarathustra relates how a night time voice whispers to him to confront what he already knows. In prior sections, he had revealed greater vulnerability and signs of emotional turmoil. But he had not garnered the strength or courage to excavate the deeper meanings of his moods.