Hesse argued that men must seek a new morality that, transcending the conventional dichotomy of good and evil, will embrace all extremes of life in one unified vision.

Hermann Hesse (foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston), The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Hesse Glass Bead Game seek a new morality transcending good and evil embrace all

Consider also:

  1. “You’re getting worse. More fanatical every day. Where’s it going to lead?”
  2. “In ancient times, it seems to me that Blake, who for all his protest was glad to be alive, and ever spoke of his gladness, would have worshipped in some chapel of the Sun, and that Keats, who accepted life gladly though ‘with a delicious diligent indolence,’ would have worshipped in some chapel of the Moon, but that Shelley, who hated life because he sought ‘more in life than any understood,’ would have wandered, lost in a ceaseless reverie, in some chapel of the Star of infinite desire.”
  3. “In being given the formal symbolic secrets the Candidate should reflect that he is receiving a first lesson in a long course of instruction of a private and occult nature; i.e., one not taught outside the Lodge, but hidden from public knowledge and intended to help him upon the path of his personal inner life. For having but just entered upon that path, it is proper that he should now be instructed how to tread it.”
  4. With the Adepts
  5. “I’m completely focused on the present moment, for that is where all signs, parallel worlds, and miracles are to be found. Time really doesn’t exist.”