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“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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“The Dawn of the Beautiful” / Morning Lectures from Day One of the 2024 North American Section Conference
Dear Friends, While a full report and a "Proceedings of the Conference" lie yet ahead, here are recordings of the two lectures that began our eight-day 2024 North American Section Conference. I was fortunate to have pushed all the buttons correctly, and I was able to get good recordings. I was less successful after that. Due to the complications of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while keeping up conversations and tracking other details, I messed up with the video and ran out of space on the SD memory in the afternoon, and then I forgot to push "record" on the H6 Zoom recorder -- so I...
“Celebrating the Mountain”
A book prepared especially for the 2024 North American Section Conference Dear Friends, Here is the book prepared...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of “Novalis”
"The Evangelist St. Matthew Inspired by the Angel" / Rembrandt, 1661 Dear Friends, This is lecture one of a...
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...
“Ghost Modernism” / Initiation, Shamanism, & Soul Recovery
"Basel Fastnacht" / Photo by Bertram Mouton "Along with the feeling of dread for the advent of modernity . . . another important aspect of the...
“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...
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