"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...
Woodcut by Arvia MacKaye Ege As a university department in the School for Spiritual Science, the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities (Schöne Wissenschaften, as the name appears in German) sponsors a variety of research initiatives that focus on core...
“Winter Scene in the Seaside Village Kambara, Japan” / private collection February 3, 2024 Dear Friends: Here is a summary of the recent Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities meeting of the School for Spiritual Science in North America that occurred on...
Advice from Novalis Demonstration by violinist Emmanuel Vukovich and Saxophonist Michael Hernandez; Harvard Divinity School; December 16, 2025 1.27.26
Dear Friends, Happy New Year 2024. May the Phoenix bring you blessings! Here is a video of a presentation arising from our Section work together. This presentation occurred during the Holy Nights at a Zoom meeting organized by "Anthroposophy in the Bay Area"...
At our Section meeting on December 2, 2023, I gave a presentation on Arvia MacKaye Ege. This presentation is part of our ongoing Section study of the MacKaye family. For a related video, watch the previously posted Section video introduction to Arvia's father Percy...
Author McMcGivern from British Columbia joined our Section meeting on November 18, 2023 to present and discuss his book Tolkien’s Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment of Middle-earth (SteinerBooks). Here is a recording of Mark's presentation....
Video recording of the presentation given by poet Philip Thatcher at a meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities on November 11, 2023. Philip had prepared this talk for the Festival of Initiative that occurred in Manitoba Canada in August...
In Search of Ars Poetica. Does the work of our Section really matter? What do we do? Why do we do it? 470. ARS LITTERARIA. The Literary Arts. Everything that a scholar does, says, speaks, suffers, and hears, etc. must be an artistic,...
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