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Novalis Conference
Dornach; Pentecost; May 22-25, 2026
Conference translation will be provided if enough English-speaking friends show up. Hymns to the Night will be performed in English.

“Friends, the soil is poor. We must scatter abundant seed to ensure even a middling harvest.”    — Novalis

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Section Presentation at the 2025 Harvard Conference: “100 Years Rudolf Steiner”

Section Presentation at the 2025 Harvard Conference: “100 Years Rudolf Steiner”

  Dear Friends: Here is a video recording of the presentation that I gave at the December 2025 "100 Years Rudolf Steiner" Conference at Harvard University.   This presentation arises directly from the ongoing work, meetings, conferences, and research of the North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science.   “Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.”   -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the Harvard Divinity...

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