Books & Essays

The Fairy Tale “The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily” By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A New Translation for the 21st Century! Click to preview or purchase "The Fairy Tale" Click here to purchase or preview The Fairy Tale Photograph: The Lamp and the Woman Survey the Bridge” photo by Bruce Donehower "For those whose acquaintance with Goethe’s The Fairy...

“Goethe in Paradise”

Artwork: “Das Paradies” (Jena Stadtmuseum) This essay appears as the Afterword to the recently published new translation of The Fairy Tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Anthroposophical Movement came into existence through Goethe . . . “ -- Rudolf Steiner, from a...

“Hearing Rilke”

The Tower of Muzot, where Rilke completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus in 1922 An Essay on the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke This essay appeared in the Easter 2021 issue of Zeitschrift Stil, a publication of the Sections for Beautiful Sciences...

The Fairies by Ludwig Tieck: A New Translation and Edition from Sage Cabin Publishers

“Tieck shows us how the philosopher can inspire the artist.” -- Rudolf Steiner “Ludwig Tieck reveals how the Goetheanism of the first half of the nineteenth century was mirrored in a receptive personality; how something like a memory of the great ancient periods...