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This idea was like a white-hot goad to him . After such an experience there would be several months of toil and penance , and of savage self-immolation . It was hard to punish a man who had so little ; but Thyrsis managed to find ways . For several months at a time he would go without those kinds of food that he liked ; and instead of going to bed at one o'clock he would read the New Testament in Greek for an hour . He would leap out of bed in the morning and plunge into cold water ; and at night , when he felt a longing upon him , he would go out and run for hours . He took to keeping diaries and writing exhortations to himself . Because he could no longer use the theological prayers he had been taught , he fashioned new invocations for himself : prayers to the unknown sources of his vision , to the new powers of his own soul -- `` the undiscovered gods , '' as he called them .