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The Poet Friedrich Hölderlin

Sketch of "mad poet" Hölderlin   “Night, the astonishing, there, the stranger to all that is human, Over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on.” — Friedrich Hölderlin, from Bread and Wine   Dear Friends, At our meeting on February 8, we spent the...

Section Conferences / 2024 & 2025

Save the Date! 2025 North American Section Conference May 9-12, 2025 / San Francisco In September 2024 the Literary Arts and Humanities Section in North America of the School for Spiritual Science sponsored an eight-day Section Conference that anchored itself in two...

“Owen Barfield & the ‘Meaning’ Crisis” / Jeffrey Hipolito

"Palimpsest" / photo bruce donehower Dear Friends, Part One / Jeffrey Hipolito gave a presentation with this title "Owen Barfield and the 'Meaning' Crisis" at  our Section meeting on December 7, 2024. Jeff is a member of the Section leadership team, and, as noted...

A Poem for Peace / by Wilbert Lambrechts (Belgium)

"Feuervogel" by Marc Chagall, 1945   "WERELDOORLOG 1917" "World War 1917"   Dear Friends, Belgian poet and Section representative Wilbert Lambrechts is one of the eleven Section poets who participated in an All Souls Poetry Night that originated in Dornach,...