A Journal & Newsletter for Friends & Members of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America.
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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Poetry Night / February 10, 2024
"Tools of the Trade" / Photograph taken in Robinson Jeffers "Hawk Tower" / Big Sur / Northern California, North America / Photo: Bruce Donehower March 10, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of the Section read original poetry and in which poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems, if there is time. Original poetry has the spotlight and priority. We're lucky that we have several poets who participate regularly in the Section meetings. Poetry Nights occur on Zoom. Some of our poets reside in places far from...
“The Origin of Fairytales” by Almut Bockemühl
Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) “Is The Fairytale is Mightier Than...
Literature as a Path to Being Human
Woodcut by Arvia MacKaye Ege As a university department in the School for Spiritual Science, the Section for the...
Parzival’s Quest
A video made to celebrate the May 2023 Grail Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The video includes photos of the Arlesheim grottoes...
“The Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities” Essay by Christiane Haid
Detail from “The School of Athens” by Raphael “The connection to the spirit breaks when beauty does not hold it together. Beauty binds the ‘I’ to the body.”...
“The Literary Arts and Humanities Section in North America” by Marguerite Miller
Marguerite Miller was the North American representative to the Goetheanum for the Section of the Literary Arts and Humanities in the North American Collegium...
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