![]() ![]() He thinks it to be an impotent, isolated body existing only for its own proud satisfaction. ![]() ![]() Something like chess but far more intricate, the game of Magister Ludi known as the Glass Bead Game is. The child masters several instruments and strikes up a friendship with Disignori, another boy his age who is cynical from the start of Castalia's position in the world. It is the key to a full understanding of Hesses thought. ![]() As a little boy, Knecht is placed under the tutelage of the Music Master, an older man who mentors the boy and has a more profound impact on him than any other person in his life. The boys study a diversity of intellectual, philosophical, and artistic topics in the hope that they would one day master the glass bead game, a mysterious practice by which the players may demonstrate to the world a kind of transcendent truth at a traditional ceremony broadcast to all corners of the globe. All members of the order are boys and are brought in as young children. At some time in, centuries in a future, a young boy named Joseph Knecht is recruited to study within the austere order of the Castalians. Joseph Knecht grows from an unassuming child to the leader of an esoteric order that exists to demonstrate the true nature of reality to the world. ![]()
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