All this is recuperative: who could in the end divine what kind of recuperation is needed after such an expenditure of goodness as Zarathustra is? … Speaking theologically – pay heed, for I rarely speak as a theologian – it was God himself who at the end of his labour lay down as a serpent under the Tree of Knowledge: it was thus he recuperated from being God … He had made everything too beautiful … The Devil is merely the idleness of God on that seventh day …
