Judith A. Eckelmeyer: Mozart’s Magic Flute: Overview and an Interpretation

  • Ignaz von Born’s essay on the Egyptian mysteries of Isis and Osiris in Journal für Freymaurer, 1783
  • Freemasonry’s symbols and rituals, including the day/night or light/darkness dichotomy
  • Fairy tales collected and edited by Christoph Martin Wieland in Dschinnistan, 1786
  • Orpheus legend and other classical myths
  • Shakespeare’s The Tempest
  • Abbé Jean Terrasson’s Sethos, 1732, about a fictional Egyptian prince
  • Viennese Singspiel tradition and the “magic opera” tradition
  • The deep cultural memory of initiation into mystery religion
  • Spiritual/psychological wholeness
  • Mining and mineralogy
  • Numbers
  • Alchemy

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