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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 this site For an overview of forthcoming Section conferences and events, please visit this link Click here to view a PDF of a recent issue of STIL More Information / Subscribe to STIL “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would...
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...
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...
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...
“The Poet & the Painter” / by Albert Steffen
"The Youthful Poet Dreams" Artwork: William Blake Rainer Maria Rilke / Paul Cézanne Dear Friends, One of the unique aspects of our...
“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,...
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