GA 117 · Lectures

Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien

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	3-7274-1170-8 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-1171-7 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-1170-0 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	2017	242	the publisher's online catalog
	1986		AnthroWiki (German)
	2017		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

14 units in the printed table of contents, about 72,127 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1986.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
Zu den Veröffentlichungen aus dem Vortragswerk von Rudolf Steiner			apparatus	370
BUDDHA UND DIE ZWEI JESUSKNABEN Berlin, 11. Oktober 1909 (Notizen)	1909-10-11	Berlin	lecture	2225
DIE EVANGELIEN, BUDDHA UND DIE ZWEI JESUSKNABEN Berlin, 18. Oktober 1909 (Notizen)	1909-10-18	Berlin	lecture	2979
DIE VIER VERSCHIEDENEN ASPEKTE IN DER CHRISTUS-DARSTELLUNG DER VIER EVANGELIEN Berlin, 2. November 1909 Erster Vortrag	1909-11-02	Berlin	lecture	3985
DIE MISSION DES ALTHEBRÄISCHEN VOLKES Berlin, 9. November 1909 Zweiter Vortrag	1909-11-09	Berlin	lecture	5965
DIE VORBEREITUNG FÜR DAS VERSTÄNDNIS DES CHRISTUS-EREIGNISSES DIE SENDUNG DES ALTHEBRÄISCHEN VOLKES Berlin, 23. November 1909 Dritter Vortrag	1909-11-23	Berlin	lecture	5099
ÜBER DAS RECHTE VERHÄLTNIS ZUR ANTHROPOSOPHIE Stuttgart, 13. November 1909	1909-11-13	Stuttgart	lecture	8761
DIE EVANGELIEN Stuttgart, 14. November 1909	1909-11-14	Stuttgart	lecture	9327
DAS MATTHÄUS-EVANGELIUM UND DAS CHRISTUS-PROBLEM Züriih, 19. November 1909	1909-11-19	Züriih	lecture	7073
DAS ICH, DER GOTT IM INNERN UND DER GOTT DER ÄUSSEREN OFFENBARUNG München, 4. Dezember 1909 Erster Vortrag	1909-12-04	München	lecture	7056
DAS ICH, DER GOTT IM INNERN UND DER GOTT DER ÄUSSEREN OFFENBARUNG München, 7. Dezember 1909 Zweiter Vortrag	1909-12-07	München	lecture	6824
DER WEIHNACHTS BAUM - EIN SYMBOLUM Berlin, 21. December 1909			text	5470
WEIHNACHTSSTIMMUNG Berlin, 26. Dezember 1909	1909-12-26	Berlin	lecture	5920
HINWEISE			apparatus	1073

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	14 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	12 the site's completeness audit
Words served	84531 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.2 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA117/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1986 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Deeper Secrets of Human History the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1957

Translator	D. S. Osmond and A. P. Shepherd the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1957
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

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
Deeper Secrets of Human Development in the Light of the Gospels the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL					in copyright; machine translation
The Universal Human the SteinerBooks catalog CW 117 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Gilbert Church	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1990	9780880102896	in copyright
Deeper Secrets of Human Evolution in Light of the Gospels the SteinerBooks catalog CW 117 the SteinerBooks catalog	Christiana Bryan the SteinerBooks catalog	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2022	9781855845923	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	14	11, 0, 3	371	3, 2

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	1 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

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, Die tieferen Geheimnisse des Menschheitswerdens im Lichte der Evangelien (GA 117), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/117/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/117/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1957.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_117
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 2bb4a2d0b96566c6
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA117/English/APC1957/
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations: https://rsarchive.org/blog/Translation2024.html · 2024-08-01, clarification 2025-03-18
the library's own account of its translation process
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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