The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Scarcely any of it was put into concepts; virtually all of it had to be grasped, learned, tested with the senses. The basis and heart of this science was knowledge of the moon, of its phases and effects as it waxed and waned, peopled by the souls of the dead whom it sent forth into new births in order to make room for the newly dead.

Castalia is clearly another attempt, this time projected into the future, to represent this same ideal: a symbolic realm where all spiritual values are kept alive and present, specifically through the practice of the Glass Bead Game.

In this sense, then, we have endeavored to obtain information on the life of Joseph Knecht, Master of the Glass Bead Game, and especially to collect everything written by himself.

although it would then not have been done in theoretical formulas, but in practice on the cembalo, lute, or flute, or with the voice.

Lü Bu We’s Spring and Autumn:

You people of the Province have your Order and your hierarchy, but you do not have a family, you do not know what family, blood, and descent are, and you have no notion of the powers, the hidden and mighty magic of what is called ‘family.’ I fear that this is also true for most of the words and concepts which express the meaning of our lives. The t

This mathematical and astronomical game of formulas required great attentiveness, keenness, and concentration.

it was played both in England and Germany before it was “invented” here in the Musical Academy of Cologne, and was given the name it bears to this day,

was taken over by mathematicians.