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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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Rudolf Steiner’s “First Address” / Vienna, 1888
Artwork: "The Green Snake" by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section) Dear Friends: Here is a video of a Section meeting that occurred on March 6, 2021. This 2021 meeting and the meeting April 22, 2022 were seed events intended to prepare the garden ground for the 2024 and 2025 North American Section Conferences. "Beauty:" Guiding Spirit for the Literary Arts & Humanities More about this Topic . . . Rudolf Steiner’s First Address: Goethe as the Founder of a New Science of Aesthetics (Vienna, 1888). This title "First Address" refers to a statement by Rudolf Steiner's...
ASA Conversation Community / Resource Page / Nov. 2025
Dear Friends, In our first session I mentioned that I would create a web page where you easily can find previous...
An Interview with Christiane Haid & Ariane Eichenberg / Publisher & Editor of STIL Magazine
Section Leader Christiane Haid & STIL Editor Ariane Eichenberg Dear Friends: STIL magazine is a German-language...
“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...
“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"...
“Where are the Youth?” / Joan Caldarera
Dear Friends, At our recent Section meeting on March 29, 2025, San Francisco High School humanities teacher Joan Caldarera shared essays and poems from...
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