Books & Essays

“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 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...

“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...

“Dante and Giotto; A Conversation” An Essay by Albert Steffen

"Flight into Egypt" / Giotto   "Dante and Giotto; A Conversation" by Albert Steffen   The most wonderful example of how a poet and painter, complementing each other in word and picture, can learn from one another is perhaps that of Dante and Giotto. A...