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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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“Encountering Novalis” / 2026 Pentecost Conference / Dornach
The 2026 Pentecost Novalis Conference in Dornach is over. Watch for future updates. 5.20.26
Annual Section Report (2025)
Often Used as our Section Verse & Motto Annual North American Section Report Written for the Goetheanum...
“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...
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 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...
Percy MacKaye / & Our American Drama
At the Section meeting on June 11, 2022 I gave a lecture presentation on American poet, playwright, biographer, and impresario Percy MacKaye, along with a...
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