Photo "Stone & Chronicle" by Bruce Donehower Dear Friends, Robert McDermott and Bruce Donehower collaborated to present an evening of conversation and commentary on the topic "Anthroposophy & Buddhism" for the Faust Branch of the Anthroposophical...
An Interview with Christiane Haid & Ariane Eichenberg / Publisher & Editor of STIL Magazine
Section Leader Christiane Haid & STIL Editor Ariane Eichenberg Dear Friends: STIL magazine is a German-language quarterly publication of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities and the Section for the Visual Arts. Both Sections are under the leadership...
“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...
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,...
“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....
“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...
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...
“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...
The Destiny Groupings Around Rudolf Steiner; Vienna, 1879-1889 / by Emil Bock
Rudolf von Alt; Michaelertor der Hofburg und altes Burgtheater; 1888 Emil Bock presented this lecture to the members of the Anthroposophical Society on September 29, 1953. The lecture was later published in the book Rudolf Steiner by Emil Bock, Verlag Freies...
“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...