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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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2025 Section Conference / Keynote Lectures
"Enso" by Paul Reps Lectures By Bruce Donehower & Christiane Haid Keynote Lecture One "The Unmapped Land" by Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, Good morning! Welcome! I won’t do my conference announcements now. I’ll do those at the end of my short talk. But before I begin, I invite everyone who is here this morning in the Swedenborgian Church Sanctuary to take a few minutes to breathe and settle. These are troubling times, and the trail to this Section conference has been fraught with challenges. Nevertheless, here we are! We made it. So, take a moment to...
“Who is Rudolf Steiner . . . for our 21st Century?”
"Build it! But will they come?" / Photo from Rudolf Steiner: Eine Bildbiografie (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2021) Dear...
An Exciting New Literary Initiative from the North American Youth Section
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Group of an exciting new literary initiative: Futuring...
“Dante and Giotto; A Conversation” An Essay by Albert Steffen
"Flight into Egypt" / Giotto "Dante and Giotto; A Conversation" by Albert Steffen The most wonderful example of how a poet and painter,...
“The Poet and the Dead” by Albert Steffen
Artwork: "Monolith X" by Marion Donehower At the Section meeting on February 24, 2024, we discussed the topic of Literary Modernism in respect to...
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 Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne...
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