A Journal of the North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science.
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Eventually.
Only the impossible
Survives . . .”
— Percy MacKaye
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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“The Red Thread”
Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953) Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an audience friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society in America. The lecture occurred on April 10, 2025, as part of the American Society’s Easter Festival: “Anthroposophy Ever Anew.” The lecture was an offering to the Society from the North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual...
Goethe’s Fairy Tale
Green Snake Discovered in the Bushes at the Goetheanum; November 2024 "In my end is my beginning . . ." The...
“Art Opens Our Eyes to the Spiritual World”
"Temple Veil" by Marion Donehower An Interview with Artist Marion Donehower from Stil Magazine Dear Friends,...
“Hymns to the Night” / 2025 Conference Texts
Canadian virtuoso, Emmanuel Vukovich Hymns to the Night The Fairytale of Eros and Fable Celebrating the Mountain / 2025 Edition Hymns to...
Section Meetings & Events / Autumn 2025
"Dance of the Spirits" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Dear Friends, Once again . . . Welcome! . . . as we progress into the second quarter...
2025 Section Conference / Keynote Lectures
"Enso" by Paul Reps Lectures By Bruce Donehower & Christiane Haid Keynote Lecture One "The Unmapped Land" by Bruce Donehower ...
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