Greetings h and listers-all....
Since you specify
Comments, amplifications and clarifications requested.
I will jump in with both feet:))
In a message dated 97-12-30, you write:
I would like to suggest that there is a Glass Bead Game played day and night within our field of vision, in astronomical space. It is a very simple game indeed, having only two moves -- and yet it is also extremely subtle, even reticent. What I aim to do here is to begin to discuss the links between the two moves, as though they had been played in a HipBone-style game by a player or players unknown who left no record of the order in which they were played, nor commentary on the links between them.
WELLLLLL, if it's celestial mechanics we are a-discussin then....
Celestial Mechanics
Systems of two or more satellites (including planets) that orbit the same primary and whose orbital mean motions are in a ratio of small whole numbers.
Then those **only two moves** are rather an **equation** 
to be found at http://members.tripod.com/~cdeagle/gravity.gif
The hieroglyphic used to represent the sun in alchemy is identical to that used to represent gold, while that used to represent the moon is identical to that for silver. This in itself is not so strange, and would not in my opinion constitute a valid link, since each of the planets is held to correspond with a metal, in such a way that the metal is viewed as a condensation at the level of earthly matter of a principle whose celestial embodiment is the planet in question (snip).
The link is the energy (or spirit or chi for those so-inclined). The gold of the sun is not a metal but the *golden energy* of the sun -- sunshine. As is the silver of the moon -- a *silver energy* -- moonshine. Therefore, the symbol already holds the double meaning which you seek.
Hence a natural answer to your observation of:
This fourth link is of particular interest from the perspective of the Glass Bead Game since it indicates the pre-existence of a suitable hieroglyphic language of the sort Hesse envisions -- although for the transcription of this link into such a language, additional signs to distinguish the celestial bodies from *their* metals would be required.
Use any variant of the energy/matter translation equation you wish. (The most famous being E=mc2) and you have the connection!
Use *E* for the sunshine and *m* for the metal.
Sprinkle liberally with the speed of light squared and presto
a *hieroglyphic language* par excellence!
Look forward to more moves ...
Enjoy + Play
