GA 15 · Writings

Die geistige Führung des Menschen und der Menschheit (1911)

The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind

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

German units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
101987104the publisher's online catalog
112023116the publisher's online catalog
1987AnthroWiki (German)
2023AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

4 units in the printed table of contents, about 19,808 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1963.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
VORWORTtext273
Itext6106
IItext6585
IIItext6844

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 served4 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text4 the site's completeness audit
Words served20254 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.02 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA015/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1963 the source record of the served German

Printed units not served in German

UnitDateWhy
Appendix

English

Served on this site

The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page AP1992

TranslatorSamuel Desch the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherAnthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PlaceHudson NY the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1992
Pages89 the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the German edition of 1974 the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity, Anthroposophic Press, Hudson NY, 1992, 89pp plus notes, topical index, translated from the German edition of 1974 by Samuel Desch, ISBN 0-88010-364-7 the edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992)
  • Anthroposophic Press, Hudson NY, 1992, 89pp plus notes, topical index, translated from the German edition of 1974 by Samuel Desch, ISBN 0-88010-364-7 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind the edition's imprint line (GA015/ASGB1921); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page ASGB1921

PublisherWitnesses differ:
PlacePa. the edition's imprint line (GA015/ASGB1921); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1915, 1921
Edited byH. Collison the edition's imprint line (GA015/ASGB1921); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it

Other English translations known

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

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity AnthroWiki (English) CW 15 AnthroWiki (English) Samuel Desch AnthroWiki (English) Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) 1991 0-88010-364-7
The Spiritual Guidance of Man AnthroWiki (English) The Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) 1976
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity AnthroWiki (English) The Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) 1970
The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind AnthroWiki (English) Harry Collison AnthroWiki (English) Anthroposophic Society of Great Britain AnthroWiki (English) 1921

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
AP199261, 2, 3742, 2
ASGB192141, 2, 1911, 1

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 volume0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Die geistige Führung des Menschen und der Menschheit (1911) (GA 15), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/15/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/15/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1992, ASGB1921.

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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_15
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_15 · 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 · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
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 edition's imprint line (GA015/AP1992)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA015/AP1992/00_toc.md · sha256 869078922ef78dfe
the edition's imprint line (GA015/ASGB1921)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA015/ASGB1921/00_toc.md · sha256 5c15d0edcd324b2b
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 31af62756b93300f
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA015/ · sha256 2e5b6f00ea223c13
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

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