(or God:⁠—the demand for a unio mystica with God is the demand of the Buddhist for nothingness, Nirvana⁠—and nothing else!). In sacerdotal societies every element is on a more dangerous scale, not merely cures and remedies, but also pride, revenge, cunning, exaltation, love, ambition, virtue, morbidity:⁠—further, it can fairly be stated that it is on the soil of this essentially dangerous form of human society, the sacerdotal form, that man really becomes for the first time an interesting animal , that it is in this form that the soul of man has in a higher sense attained depths and become evil ⁠—and those are the two fundamental forms of the superiority which up to the present man has exhibited over every other animal.