"He hovered. like a cloud . . . like an element of nature, active in rain and sunshine." -- Rudolf Steiner, describing the Prophet Elijah; September 17, 1912 Easter - Pentecost 2024 Dear Friends, This page began as a resource page for students in the...
"Basel Fastnacht" / Photo by Bertram Mouton "Along with the feeling of dread for the advent of modernity . . . another important aspect of the modernist attitude -- perhaps the most important aspect for our purposes – is a turn to mythology and the deep past...
History of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science by Christiane Haid, Ph.D. (Goetheanum; Dornach, Switzerland) Dr. Haid is the present leader of the Section at the Goetheanum. Her biography is discussed in this...
Staircase Inside Hawk Tower, built by poet Robinson Jeffers by hand stone by stone for his wife Una Dear Friends, As part of the 2024 eight-day North American Section Conference, an intrepid band of literary explorers trekked to Big Sur to visit the...
Easter, 2024 Dear Friends, On May 2, 2021, Section friends and members celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the poet Novalis, by taking a virtual tour of the Castle Siebeneichen. A Journey to Dresden The...
Artwork: "The Three Feathers" by Marion Donehower “The Fairytale is Mightier Than Philosophy"? "Once upon a time there was a king who had three sons, two of whom were clever and intelligent, but the third one did not talk very much. He was slow...
"Still Warm but Rain" / Artwork by Diane Lockett March 22, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of the Section read original poetry and in which poetry lovers in the Section read favorite poems,...
"Tools of the Trade" / Photograph taken in Robinson Jeffers "Hawk Tower" / Big Sur / Northern California, North America / Photo: Bruce Donehower March 10, 2024 Dear Friends, Several times each year, the Section has a Poetry Night in which friends and members of...
"Persona" / photo by Bruce Donehower "The Mystery of Plato & Aristotle" " . . .the importance of the friendship . . . cannot be overestimated . . . " -- Christoph Lindenberg, from Rudolf Steiner, Eine Biographie, vol. 1, chapter 3 Easter, 2024 Dear...
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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