Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game — The Future of an Illusion

Famous for announcing in 1882 “God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!”<a href="https://medium.com/@dailyflashpan/h-hesse-the-glass-bead-game-the-future-of-an-illusion-4d9f25bb1985#_ftn1" rel="noopener">[1]</a> in 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche also famously lamented, “Almost two thousand years and not one new god!”<a href="https://medium.com/@dailyflashpan/h-hesse-the-glass-bead-game-the-future-of-an-illusion-4d9f25bb1985#_ftn2" rel="noopener">[2]</a> In order for a new god to emerge, the old god had to be dead and buried. Nietzsche spoke not to his own time but to “philosophers of the future.”<a href="https://medium.com/@dailyflashpan/h-hesse-the-glass-bead-game-the-future-of-an-illusion-4d9f25bb1985#_ftn3" rel="noopener">[3]</a> In the aftermath of the death of God — no, the murder of God — Nietzsche asks, “What festivals of atonement, what holy games will we have to invent for ourselves?”<a href="https://medium.com/@dailyflashpan/h-hesse-the-glass-bead-game-the-future-of-an-illusion-4d9f25bb1985#_ftn4" rel="noopener">[4]</a> In the “Preface” to Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, Harry Haller directs the attention of the young fictional author of the Preface to a work of Novalis. He reads: <a href="https://medium.com/@jgesq7/hermann-hesses-the-glass-bead-game-the-future-of-an-illusion-7c469f23b264">Visit Now</a>