A Journal & Newsletter for Friends & Members of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities in North America of the School for Spiritual Science.
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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“The Jealousy of the Gods” / “The Jealousy of Human Beings”
Artwork: "Die Feuerpredigt" by Marion Donehower Lecture Eight World History in the Light of Anthroposophy With a Brief Literary Critical Commentary A Presentation to the Faust Branch Of Work Arising from the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities December 31, 2023 “A year ago, on New Year's Eve [December 31, 1922], we beheld the destroying flames. The red glow rose to Heaven. Tongues of flame, dark blue and reddish yellow, curled their way up through the general sea of fire. They came from the metal instruments concealed in the Goetheanum; the gigantic sea of...
Percy MacKaye / Our American Drama
At the Section meeting on June 11, 2022 I gave a lecture presentation on American poet, playwright, biographer, and...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of “Novalis”
John the Baptist Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and...
New Owen Barfield Books / by Jeffrey Hipolito
“Jeffrey Hipolito has produced a meticulous analysis of the creative oeuvre of Owen Barfield, the man known as ‘the first and last Inkling.’ While I...
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...
Reflections on the Value and Work of Our Section / Three Essays by Vivien Law
"The Path of the Humanities Researcher" By Vivien Law This article is based on a talk given at the Michaelmas meeting of the School of Spiritual...
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