Each question is on a very particular point, when Hermann Hesse talks about how the Castalians or Castalian Province has to be and how not.
The procedure is as follows: Copy the questionnaire on the hard disk, then write the answers next to the respective questions on the basis of a reading of the Glass Bead Game. Place your Biography (not more than 1 page) before the questionnaire and write your name, address and E-Mail address right at the beginning of the text. And finally, mail it in as a normal text file to the following address.
The numbers on the beginning of the questions are in correspondence with the page numbers of the soft cover book ISBN 0-8050-1246-X published by Henry Holt & Co Inc.
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12] How is the cult of personality in Castalia?
19] What did the intellect in the Feuillotonistic Epoch enjoy or was not able to find?
25] What is the second focus of resistance?
26] What was the discipline of the Journeyers to the East and what did they contribute?
30] How is the music in a well-ordered age?
44] How is the gesture of classical music and how should it sound in the Glass Bead Game and in our entire life?
63] What is the function of the Board of Educators?
64] What is the destiny of the bulk of former elite's pupils?
76] What is the ironical meaning of the term " free " professionals?
82] What is the difference between passion and spiritual force?
97] What does Plinio Designori criticize about the Castalian Province?
104] How are we dependent on meditation as the well-spring of energy?
107] What is it the function of Joseph Knecht to point out?
111] How is the freedom of the student much greater than in the universities of the earlier epochs?
112] What are the rules regarding love and marriage among the Castalians?
113] What is the degree of self-determination of Castalia?
112] What is the purpose of the Lives?
154] Why did Joesph Knecht realize the path drawn out for him so late and so reluctantly?
168] How does Father Jacobus describe Castalia's connection with world history?
169] What binds Father Jacobus to world history?
170] What was the real political function of Father Jacobus?
172] How does Father Jacobus' attitude towards Castalia change?
188] What is lacking, according to Father Jacobus, in the Castalians in comparison to the people?
192] What did Knecht learn from Father Jacobus?
221] What is that symbol of Castalia?
233] What are the two aims and ideals that each Castalian should know?
237] On which two principles is the spirit of the Order established?
237] What does the Castalian try to ward off with the help of the multi-staged yoga practice?
237] What is the relationship of Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa?
267] What is born from a cloudy torrent and what is this cloudy torrent made of?
271] What was Telegarus a fore-runner of?
274] What, according to Joseph Knecht, was the danger of the intellectual community whose strength and rationality he admired?
308] Why did Joseph Knecht reject Plinio instinctively?
309] What does Joseph Knecht mean with the old problem of synthesis?
311] What are the dangerous, daring and responsible things which one has left to others in a cowardly and well-protected way?
314] How is the simile of the landscape of cloud and sky to be understood?
317] What are the three principles which the Glass Bead Game combines?
348] What are the internal perils and what are the necessary meassures?
349] What kind of insight is lacking in the Castalian who does not lack in obedience to the laws of the Order? What does he not feel responsible for?
350] What is related to the arrogance and caste spirit?
358] What does it take to rule?
358] What is the first and most important function of the Castalians?
360] When does the Castalian become intensely diabolical?