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...
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....
“Eros and Fable” by Novalis
Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of Eros and Fable by Novalis. This important fairytale by a poet whom...
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...
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 These are the texts used at the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco. Each text presents a fresh translation of...
Section Meetings & Events / Fall & Winter 2025
"Dance of the Spirits" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Dear Friends, Once again . . . Welcome! . . . as we progress into the second quarter of our 21st century, more than 100 years after the death of Rudolf Steiner in March, 1925. Here is a "work in...
“The Poet & the Painter” / by Albert Steffen
"The Youthful Poet Dreams" Artwork: William Blake Rainer Maria Rilke / Paul Cézanne Dear Friends, One of the unique aspects of our Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities is its very close connection to the visual arts and to the Section...
