“Eros and Fable” by Novalis

“Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.” Decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael and his workshop.   Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of...

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Section Meeting / September 21, 2025

"Cloud HIdden, Whereabouts Unknown" / photo b donehower   Dear Friends: The Section’s Northern California group met for a New Moon Salon on September 21. This was a hybrid event: in-person and on Zoom for those far away. We discussed recent events in the Section,...

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“The Poet and the Dead” by Albert Steffen

Artwork: "Monolith X" by Marion Donehower   At the Section meeting on February 24, 2024, we discussed the topic of Literary Modernism in respect to Threshold Experiences and Soul Loss. A variety of twentieth-century modernist poets and novelists were mentioned....

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“The Red Thread”

 Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953)     Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century   Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom to an...

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Goethe’s Fairy Tale

Green Snake Discovered in the Bushes at the Goetheanum; November 2024     "In my end is my beginning . . ." The Fairytale that Inspired Anthroposophy   Dear Friends, This is an unabridged version of a lecture that I gave on Zoom at the Front Range...

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“Art Opens Our Eyes to the Spiritual World”

"Temple Veil" by Marion Donehower   An Interview with Artist Marion Donehower from Stil Magazine   Dear Friends, Marion Donehower is a member of the leadership group of the North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for...

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“Hymns to the Night” / 2025 Conference Texts

Canadian virtuoso, Emmanuel Vukovich   Hymns to the Night The Fairytale of Eros and Fable Celebrating the Mountain / 2025 Edition     Hymns to the Night by Novalis is "the most important poem of early [German] romanticism and a work that finds its rank...

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