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1. 1. Morgenlandfahrt

   

   A reflective first-person narrator recounts his years as a member of a mystical brotherhood on a ritual pilgrimage to the East, a journey defined by music, fellowship, and the calm presence of a lowly servant named Leo; when Leo mysteriously vanishes the group collapses and the narrator is cast out, only to later learn that Leo was the League’s quiet guardian and that the narrator himself failed them. The short novel meditates on memory, loyalty, the fragility of spiritual communities, and the painful reconciliation of idealized journeys with the moral consequences of ordinary actions.

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2. 2. Sidhartha

   Eine indische Dichtung

   

   A young Brahmin's son abandons home to seek spiritual truth, first embracing austere asceticism and later encountering an enlightened teacher but refusing to accept doctrine that cannot be personally experienced; he then sinks into worldly pleasures and material success, only to be driven to despair and return to a simple life by a river, where a humble ferryman teaches him to listen to the flow of life and, through patience and direct experience, to realize the unity of all things and find inner peace.

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