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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Introduction to Novalis
Artwork: "Blue Flower 1" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) "Dude! Why Should I Care About Novalis?" A (very) Brief Introduction To the Poet Hailed Repeatedly by Rudolf Steiner As the "Herald of Anthroposophy" Novalis is the only true poet of the Romantic school. In him alone the whole soul of Romanticism turned to song, and only he expressed nothing but that soul. The others, if they were poets at all, were merely Romantic poets: Romanticism supplied them with new motifs, it altered the direction of their development or enriched it, but they were poets...
2024 North American Section Conference
Artwork by Etel Adnan The Genius of Language * A Conference for Friends and Members of the Section for the Literary Arts...
Poetry Night / March 16, 2024
"Still Warm but Rain" / Artwork by Diane Lockett March 22, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section...
“The Origin of Fairytales” by Almut Bockemühl
Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) “Is The Fairytale is Mightier Than Philosophy?” "Once upon a time...
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 Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne...
“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.”...
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