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“Spring has returned!” / Sonnets to Orpheus

“Wildly Dancing Children” by Emil Nolde   "Frühling ist wiedergekommen" "Spring has returned!" Sonnets to Orpheus / Part 1, Sonnet 21 / by Rainer Maria Rilke   Performance at a Section salon in Ventura, CA   English Translation by Bruce Donehower....

Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of “Novalis”

John the Baptist   Dear Friends, This is Lecture One and Lecture Two of a lecture series that I gave for friends and members of the Anthroposophical Society of America in April 2024. I revised these lectures for distribution to a wider public, especially for the...

Anthroposophy? Buddhism? Worlds Apart?

"Stone Soup" / photo bruce donehower Dear Friends, This is an edited abridgment of the commentary on Lecture Nine from the lecture cycle "According to Luke" that I gave during the Faust Branch Holy Night celebrations on January 4, 2025 on Zoom. This night was also a...

The Castle Siebeneichen / Where Novalis Wrote “Hymns to the Night,” “Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” & Other Works

  Easter, 2024 Dear Friends, On May 2, 2021, Section friends and members celebrated the 249th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Hardenberg, the poet Novalis, by taking a virtual tour of the Castle Siebeneichen.      A Journey to Dresden The...