A Journal of the North American Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science. 

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     “The actual must die
       Eventually.
       Only the impossible
       Survives . . .”
                    — Percy MacKaye

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

Featured Topics

“100 Years Rudolf Steiner” Conference / Harvard

“100 Years Rudolf Steiner” Conference / Harvard

Goetheanum   Dear Friends, Several Section friends and members have asked me for information on the Harvard Divinity School "100 Years Rudolf Steiner" Conference in December 2025. To answer some questions, I made this very brief video (5 minutes).     Our Section will be well represented at the event. In addition to myself, Section members Daniel Polikoff and Jeff Hipolito will present papers. Our former Section leader, Martina Maria Sam, will give a keynote address at the Conference.  I will share more information about the Conference prior to it and then during and after the...

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Goethe’s Fairy Tale

Goethe’s Fairy Tale

Green Snake Discovered in the Bushes at the Goetheanum; November 2024     "In my end is my beginning . . ." The...

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“The Red Thread”

“The Red Thread”

 Marie Steiner-von Sivers; from her Memoirs (1953)     Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Karmic Biography of Novalis: Its Significance for our 21st...

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