Books & Essays

“The Poet & the Painter” / by Albert Steffen

"Practice Spirit Beholding!" Artwork: Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section)     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...

“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...

“The Fairy Tale” of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

". . . the germinal seed of the anthroposophical movement"  -- Rudolf Steiner     Click Cover Photo to Preview or Purchase   "For those whose acquaintance with Goethe’s "The Fairy Tale" of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily  is through the 1832...

“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...