“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness.”
~ Matthew 23:27.

We are redeemed by what we are, not by what we do. To sense the permeation of spiritual and material as opposed to a hard line between sacred and profane.
“May the outward and inward man be at one,” prays Socrates.

As Ananda Coomaraswamy puts it, the ideal of Nietzsche’s Superman is expressed in a host of places:
“He is the Arhat (adept), Buddha (enlightened), Jina (conqueror), Tirthakara (finder of the ford), the Bodhisattva (incarnation of the bestowing virtue), and above all Jivan-mukta (freed in this life), whose actions are no longer good or bad, but proceed from his freed nature.”

And also:
“Our supreme and only duty is to become what we are (That art thou).”

Nietzsche exclaims “Physician, heal thyself! Then wilt thou heal thy patient.”
That is, also from a Christian point of view, to be made ‘in the likeness of God,’ not just in the image. In other words Theosis, and through one’s will to manifest these divine ideas into the world – just as the world was brought about through a Will’s power.

Nietzsche’s ’Will to Power’ demands that our lives should not be swayed by pleasure and pain, but onwards to the goal of this freedom. Unattached to results and inferior motives.

“He who cannot command himself shall obey” he says, and this will be true whether to life’s externals (worry, anxiety, what others think of us and their negative moods, vengeance, incessant plans, yearning after others, riches, fame, envy, fear, vanity, pride, etc) or necessity’s supple chain to the plan of universal order.

Salvation doesn’t come from the simple following of moral norms, nor from ‘imputed righteousness’ empty of inner change. Effort and dedication is required to this life commanded from deep within.

We are called out from a conformist, asleep existence, away from the typical mechanical autopilot of our thoughts and acts, from boredom, nihilism, and desolation.

The Desert approaches! Woe to the one whose desert is within!
~ Friedrich Nietzeche