The great noontide is the time of the brightest brightness: namely, the com;ciousness that has become unconditionally and in every respect conscious of itself as that knowledge which consists of lrnowingly willing the will to power as the being of beings; and, as such will, rebelliously to withstand each necessary phase of the objectification of the world, and in this way to secure the enduring duration bestiindigen Bestandj for a willing as uniform and regular as possible.