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“Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing” / Part Two
The Baby Maybe Needs Something? Rudolf Steiner's "First Address" / & Steps Toward a Poetry of Knowing Dear Friends, Although I wrote this meeting summary post four years ago in 2022 after a Section meeting where we celebrated Shakespeare's birthday, the information is timely for our Section work recently as we turn our attention in 2026 to the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Humanism, the secular humanist literary tradition, and Rudolf Steiner's Art History Lectures (GA 292) that were give 1916-1917. Our Section has a special relationship to the theme of Beauty . . ....
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...
“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...
Section Presentation at the 2025 Harvard Conference: “100 Years Rudolf Steiner”
Dear Friends: Here is a video recording of the presentation that I gave at the December 2025 "100 Years Rudolf Steiner" Conference at Harvard...
The Community Begins: Rudolf Steiner’s “Theosophical” Years, 1900-1914
Dear Friends, In November 2025 the Anthroposophical Society in America hosted three one-hour sessions on the topic The Community Begins: Rudolf...
STIL: Goetheanism in Art and Science
A Publication of the Sections for Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Literary Arts & Humanities (Section for Beautiful Sciences) To subscribe, please visit...
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