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“Why Should I Care About Novalis!?”
"He hovered. like a cloud . . . like an element of nature, active in rain and sunshine." -- Rudolf Steiner, describing the Prophet Elijah; September 17, 1912 Easter - Pentecost 2024 Dear Friends, This page began as a resource page for students in the April, 2024 Chrysalis Course: "Why Should I Care About Novalis?" The course began on April 9, 2024, and it finished on April 30, 2024. It was sponsored by the American Anthroposophical Society and was an offering arising from the work of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North...
“Atlantis” by Novalis
"Atlantis" / Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Purchase or Preview On May 21, 2022,...
Annual Section Report (2025)
Often Used as our Section Verse & Motto Annual North American Section Report Written for the Goetheanum...
“Mystery of the Two Jesus Children”
This Interpretive Commentary on a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on September 5, 1910 in Bern, Switzerland was given at a Holy Night Celebration of the Faust...
“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...
The Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities / by Christiane Haid
History of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science by Christiane Haid, Ph.D. (Goetheanum; Dornach, Switzerland)...
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