The passions which _say yea._ I ride, happiness, health, the love of the sexes, hostility and war, reverence, beautiful attitudes, manners, strong will, the discipline of lofty spirituality, the will to power, and gratitude to the Earth and to Life: all that is rich, that would fain bestow, and that refreshes, gilds, immortalises, and deifies Life--the whole power of the virtues that _glorify_--all declaring things good, saying yea, and doing yea. 1034. We, many or few, who once more dare to live in a world _purged of morality_, we _pagans_ in faith, we are probably also the first who understand what a _pagan faith_ is: to be obliged to imagine higher creatures than man, but to imagine them _beyond_ good and evil; to be compelled to value all higher existence as _immoral_ existence. We believe in Olympus, and _not_ in the "man on the cross." 1035. The more modern man has exercised his idealising power in regard to a _God_ mostly by _moralising the latter_ ever more and more--what does that mean?--nothing good, a diminution in man's strength. As a matter of fact, the reverse would be possible: and indications of this are not wanting. God imagined as emancipation from morality, comprising the whole of the abundant assembly of Life's contrasts, and _saving_ and _justifying_ them in a divine agony. God as the beyond, the superior elevation, to the wretched _cul-de-sac_ morality of "Good and Evil." 1036. A humanitarian God cannot be _demonstrated_ from the world that is known to us: so much are ye driven and forced to conclude to-day. But what conclusion do ye draw from this? "He cannot be demonstrated to _us_": the scepticism of knowledge. You all _fear_ the conclusion: "From the world that is known to us quite a different God would be _demonstrable,_ such a one as would certainly not be humanitarian"--and, in a word, you cling fast to your God, and invent a world for Him which _is unknown to us._ 1037. Let us banish the highest good from our concept of God: it is unworthy of a God. Let us likewise banish the highest wisdom: it is the vanity of philosophers who have perpetrated the absurdity of a God who is a monster of wisdom: the idea was to make Him as like them as possible. No! God _as the highest power_--that is sufficient!--Everything follows from that, even--"the world"! 1038