Setting the Stage for The Will to Power 277these ideas, particulady the association of his three doctrines of eternal
recurrence, the Ubermensch, and the will to power, painfully aware that he
had yet to locate and articulate everything that needed to be considered.
During the summer of 1881, the period of his inspiration at the
Surlej boulder, Nietzsche noted down the following organizational
principle he would use to frame his doctrine of the recurrence of the
same: 'The doctrine of the repetition of everything prior will be pre-
sented only at the end, after the general idea has taken root to create
something that can flourish a hundred times more powerfully under the
sunshine of this doctrine!" (9,505). His original organizational plan for
Zarathustra was to outline the contours of an art of living and highlight
everything that makes life worth living and loving. His Zarathustra
wishes to be like the sun, radiating light and pleasure. He comes across
as a benevolent man. A doctrine of joie de vivre might sound effordess
in the abstract, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve in reality.
It would entail restoring childlike spontaneity or, to put it in philosoph-
ical terms, mediated immediacy. Zarathustra uses graphic imagery to
convey this idea in the speech "On the Three Metamorphoses" (4,29; Ζ
First Part). The initial stage of this process takes the form of a "camel,"
burdened with a plethora of "Thou shalts." The camel turns into a
"lion," who fights the whole wodd of "Thou shalts" once he has dis-
covered his "I want," but, because he fights, he is bound to the "Thou
shalt" in a negative sense. His ability to exist is consumed in an urgent
need to rebel. There is too much spite and tension in this "I want," and
the true leisure of creative volition is still lacking. A sense of self and
the fullness of life have yet to be achieved. These attributes are possible
only when one becomes a child again and regains one's initial childlike
spontaneity toward life on a new level: "The child is innocence and for-
getting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel that moves on its own, a first
movement, a holy pronouncement of 'yes' " (4,31; 2ΓFirst Part, "On the
Three Metamorphoses").
The themes of the "game of creation" (4,31; Ζ First Part, "On the
Three Metamorphoses") and the "holy pronouncement of 'yes' " recur