thinking about how my favorite composer only has 20k listeners monthly… so many are unaware of his talent and his beautiful work…. brings me to tears

Castle (Castle Fairy Tale), Morning & Rex I by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis

Symbolised by the brain lying within the skull, our human nature on the earth appears as a being under enchantment living in a castle. We see this humanity of ours as a being imprisoned and enclosed by stone walls. The symbol of this, the shrunken symbol, as it were, is our skull. We see it externally as a little skull. But when we look at the etheric forces which lie at its foundation, the earthly man actually appears to us as if he were within the skull, and imprisoned in this castle. And then from the other parts of the organism there stream up the forces which support this human being who is really within the skull as if in a mighty castle; the forces stream upwards; first the force which comes from that in the organism which is the outspread instrument of the human astral body; there streams up all that makes the human being ardent and mighty through his nerve fibres. All this streams together in the earthly brain-man; this appears as a mighty sword which the human being has forged on the earth.

Then stream up the forces of the blood. These, as we gradually learn to feel and recognise, appear as that which really wounds the brain-man lying in the enchanted castle of the skull. The forces which in the etheric body stream up to the earthly human being lying in the enchanted castle of the brain are like the bloody lance. And then we arrive at a unique perception. This is, that we are able to observe all that may stream up to the noblest parts of the brain.

—Rudolf Steiner, The Effect of Occult Development Upon the Self and the Sheaths of Man

[Tristan] told a tale of how he was a seer that had taken passage on a merchant ship and sailed to Spain to learn the art of reading all the stars—

—Joseph Bédier, Tristan & Iseult

See also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views