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“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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All Souls Poetry Night / Nov. 2, 2024
"Writing on the Wall; Dornach Hill, 2024" / photo Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, On November 2, 2024 friends and members of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities celebrated a very special All Souls with a poetry night. Ten Section poets read original poetry for almost an hour on the theme of All Souls. The meeting originated in Arlesheim/Dornach. Section leader Christiane Haid joined us for the event. I did not make a recording. In order of reading, the poets were: Wilbert Lambrechts (Belgium) Nicholas Morrow (Washington) Peter Rennick (Arizona) Dan Davis (California)...
“The Dawn of the Beautiful” / Morning Lectures from Day One of the 2024 North American Section Conference
Dear Friends, While a full report and a "Proceedings of the Conference" lie yet ahead, here are recordings of the two...
Literature as a Path to Being Human
Woodcut by Arvia MacKaye Ege As a university department in the School for Spiritual Science, the Section for the...
Spiritual Friendship
Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Goethe's Fairytale "The Green Snake and Beautiful Lily." An introductory video made for the Anthroposophical...
Memory, Transcendence, Clairvoyant Insight
"Fog on the Elbe" / photo by Bruce Donehower “Forget” / A Moon Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke Forget Forget, forget . . . and...
Book Review: “The Birth of Novalis”
Preview or Purchase The Birth of Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents by Bruce...
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