Tenure • More tasks than hours • A network of tightening duties • A wild craving for the world. The Glass Bead Game is represented as an artistic, philosophical or cosmological manipulation of the symbolic forms which express human systems of knowledge. The symbolic forms, called Glass Beads stand as representations of a system of language known only to a few who have searched for or been initiated into this rare and most valuable wisdom. Schwaller de Lubicz called this form of expression "symbolique", or the "Language of the Gods", or the "Language of the Birds", expressing that when one is able to read this language, one can read Egyptian hieroglyphics, Medieval alchemical texts or Gothic cathedrals, and realize that they all say the same thing. He also informs us that there is no way to study "symbolique", but at the same time recommends sacred geometry as the best place to start.