GA 138 · Lectures

Von der Initiation. Von Ewigkeit und Augenblick. Von Geisteslicht und Lebensdunkel

Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment

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	978-3-7274-1380-3 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1986	176	the publisher's online catalog
	1986		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

10 units in the printed table of contents, about 50,980 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1986.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG München, 25. August 1912	1912-08-25	München	lecture	5456
ZWEITER VORTRAG München, 26. August 1912	1912-08-26	München	lecture	6510
DRITTER VORTRAG München, 27. August 1912	1912-08-27	München	lecture	6146
VIERTER VORTRAG München, 28. August 1912	1912-08-28	München	lecture	5910
FÜNFTER VORTRAG München, 29. August 1912	1912-08-29	München	lecture	7092
SEKSTER VORTRAG München, 30. August 1912	1912-08-30	München	lecture	5410
SIEBENTER VORTRAG München, 31. August 1912	1912-08-31	München	lecture	6471
SONDERVORTRAG München, 30. August 1912	1912-08-30	München	lecture	5823
HINWEISE			apparatus	1931
PERSONENREGISTER			apparatus	231

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	8 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	8 the site's completeness audit
Words served	48785 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA138/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

Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page AP1980

Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1980
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	8	2, 4, 2	121	8, 3

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	1 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, Von der Initiation. Von Ewigkeit und Augenblick. Von Geisteslicht und Lebensdunkel (GA 138), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/138/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/138/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1980.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_138
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 dd3bb609c91789f2
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA138/English/AP1980/IniPas_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21

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