Alexander Miller:  

nt and pre-modern societies, such as Greece and Japan, fostered erotic love bonds between experienced warriors and their apprentices. It was believed that a man and youth who were in love with each other would fight harder and with greater morale. A classic example of a military force built upon this belief is the Sacred Band of Thebes. zarathustra eye had observed that a youth avoided him. and as he walked alone one evening over the hills surrounding the town called "The Motley Cow": behold, there he found the youth sitting leaning against a tree and gazing wearily into the valley. Zarathustra laid hold of the tree under which the your was sitting and spoke thus: "if i wished to shake this tree with my hands i should not be able to do so. "But the wind, which does not see, tortures and bends it in what ever direction it pleases. We are bent and tortured worst by invisible hands." At that the youth arose in consternation and said: " I hear Zarathustra, and just now I was thinking of him." Zarathustra answerd: "Why should that frighten you?- but it is the same with man as with the tree. "The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, in the dark, the deep--into evil." "Yes, into evil!" cried the youth."How is it possible that you discovered my soul?" Zarathustra smiled and said: "Some souls one will never discover, unless one invents them first." thus spoke: Zarathustra".