Videos

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...

“Atlantis” by Novalis

"Atlantis" / Artwork by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section)   Purchase or Preview     On May 21, 2022, friends and members of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science in North America continued their...

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...