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Grace & The Beautiful Sciences
Grail Moon at Eastertide 2026 Grail Moon The dark host sleeps in the cradle of the moon. Augury of what is to come, the sight comforts restless eyes grown weary of night that will not end. Morning, or high noon make little difference—the mind knows soon vision will fade utterly. The light of the world’s a candle losing its fight against stiff wind. Yet this sky reveals a boon hidden in our midst: a silver cup bearing a sun that knows darkness as its own true color. A ship without a sail used to spell trouble, but there’s been a rup- ture in the canvas of...
Petrarch: an introduction . . .
Petrarch as Singing Tree Dear Friends, At our February 21, 2026 Section meeting, we began an exploration of the...
“Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing” / Part Two
The Baby Maybe Needs Something? Rudolf Steiner's "First Address" / & Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing ...
Under the Sign of the Mother: “Raphael-Novalis”
Dear Friends, Here is the author-edited video of the Zoom lecture that I delivered to the American Anthroposophical Society on January 5, 2026 as a...
Rudolf Steiner’s “First Address” / Vienna, 1888
Dear Friends: Here is a video of a Section meeting that occurred on March 6, 2021. This 2021 meeting and the meeting April 22, 2022 were seed events intended...
The Dark Forest: A Fairytale
In Search of Ars Poetica. Does the work of our Section really matter? What do we do? Why do we do it? 470. ARS LITTERARIA. The...
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