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Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten? (1904/05)

The Way of Initiation

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-0101-5 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 3-7274-0100-1 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6001-2 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
25	2018	250	the publisher's online catalog
26	2022	244	the publisher's online catalog
	2022		AnthroWiki (German)
	1993		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

14 units in the printed table of contents, about 53,038 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1961.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
Inhalt	apparatus	360
VORREDE ZUM ACHTEN BIS ELFTEN TAUSEND	text	1957
Bedingungen	text	6420
DIE STUFEN DER EINWEIHUNG	text	8114
DIE EINWEIHUNG	text	3698
PRAKTISCHE GESICHTSPUNKTE	text	2870
DIE BEDINGUNGEN ZUR GEHEIMSCHULUNG	text	3278
ÜBER EINIGE WIRKUNGEN DER EINWEIHUNG	text	10766
VERÄNDERUNGEN IM TRAUMLEBEN DES GEHEIMSCHÜLERS	text	2455
DIE ERLANGUNG DER KONTINUITÄT DES BEWUSSTSEINS	text	2386
DIE SPALTUNG DER PERSÖNLICHKEIT WÄHREND DER GEISTESSCHULUNG	text	2969
DER HÜTER DER SCHWELLE	text	2720
LEBEN UND TOD. DER GROSSE HÜTER DER SCHWELLE	text	2874
NACHWORT ZUM ACHTEN BIS ELFTEN TAUSEND	text	2171

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	15 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	13 the site's completeness audit
Words served	52734 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA010/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1961 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Way of Initiation the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) HR1960

Translator	Max Gysi the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960); AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Health Research the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Place	Mokelumne Hill, California the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1923, 1960, 1970
Pages	70 the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

The Way of Initiation, Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, California, 70 pp.; 1970 reprint of the 1923 translation by Max Gysi the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960)
Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, California, 70 pp. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Way of Initiation*, Translated by Max Gysi, Health Research 1960 (Typescript) [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0010/English/HR1960/GA010a_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Initiation and Its Results the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909) MAC1909

Translator	Clifford Bax the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Publisher	Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Place	New York the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1909
Pages	134 the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Initiation and Its Results Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., New York, 134 pp., translated from the German by Clifford Bax. 1909 the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909)
Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., New York, 134 pp., translated from the German by Clifford Bax. 1909 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) RSPC1947

Translator	Witnesses differ: H. Monges the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page George Metaxa AnthroWiki (English); AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Witnesses differ: Anthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Publishing Company AnthroWiki (English)
Place	New York the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1947
Pages	268 the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the 11th German edition of 1922 the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Revised by	Henry B. and Lisa D. Monges AnthroWiki (English)
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1947, 268 pp., translated from the 11th German edition of 1922 by H. Monges the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947)
Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1947, 268 pp., translated from the 11th German edition of 1922 by H. Monges the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment*, Translation by George Metaxa, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Company 1947 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0010/English/RSPC1947/GA010_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment*, Translation by George Metaxa; revisions by Henry B. and Lisa D. Monges, Anthroposophic Press 1947 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0010/English/AP1947/GA010_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: George Metaxa	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1947	9780880100465	in copyright
How to Know Higher Worlds the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Arthur Zajonc, Christopher Bamford	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1994	9780880103725 9780880109918	in copyright
Anthroposophy (A Fragment) the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Catherine E. Creeger, Detlef Hardorp, James A. Dyson, Robert Sardello	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1996	9780880109567	in copyright
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Clifford Venho, Julia Selg, Thomas O'Keefe	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2020	9781732461390	in copyright
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2004	9781855841437	in copyright
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds the SteinerBooks catalog CW 10 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2011	9781855842557	in copyright
The Way of Initiation AnthroWiki (English)	Max Gysi AnthroWiki (English)	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform AnthroWiki (English)	2014	978-1499288919

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Gaps (German, English)
HR1960	11	0, 0, 11	0, 0
MAC1909	8	1, 1, 6	0, 0
RSPC1947	17	0, 1, 16	0, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The German and English units use different keys; gaps between them are not asserted. the site's completeness audit
The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten? (1904/05) (GA 10), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/10/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/10/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions HR1960, MAC1909, RSPC1947.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_10
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_10 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T03:04:24Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA010/HR1960): data/steiner-ga/data/GA010/HR1960/00_toc.md · sha256 e8115f7e55a46c26
the edition's imprint line (GA010/MAC1909): data/steiner-ga/data/GA010/MAC1909/00_toc.md · sha256 c08dddcc2af90fff
the edition's imprint line (GA010/RSPC1947): data/steiner-ga/data/GA010/RSPC1947/00_toc.md · sha256 c9bc94b4a8d4a41b
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 fa67959d91148ab7
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA010/ · sha256 6d48add3d4efafdb
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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