A Journal of the North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science.
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Eventually.
Only the impossible
Survives . . .”
— Percy MacKaye
“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.” — Novalis
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The Community Begins: Rudolf Steiner’s “Theosophical” Years, 1900-1914
Dear Friends, In November 2025 the Anthroposophical Society in America hosted three one-hour sessions on the topic The Community Begins: Rudolf Steiner's "Theosophical" Years, 1900-1914. These presentations were an offering to the ASA from the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science. The offering was meant as a lead-in to the Harvard Divinity School "100 Year Rudolf Steiner" Conference that will occur in early December 2025. Our Section will be well represented at the conference. Bruce Donehower, Daniel Polikoff, Jeff Hipolito, and the former...
An Exciting New Literary Initiative from the North American Youth Section
Dear Friends, I am happy to share news from the North American Youth Section of an exciting new literary initiative:...
Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st Century
Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953) Dear Friends, This is an edited and revised version of a...
“The Poet and the Dead” by Albert Steffen
Artwork: "Monolith X" by Marion Donehower At the Section meeting on February 24, 2024, we discussed the topic of Literary Modernism in respect to...
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