GA 155 · Lectures

Christus und die menschliche Seele

Christ and the Human Soul; On the Meaning of Life; Theosophical Morality; Anthroposophy and Christianity

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	978-3-7274-1550-0 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1994	264	the publisher's online catalog
	1994		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

11 units in the printed table of contents, about 75,847 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1960.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Kind	Words
ÜBER DEN SINN DES LEBENS ERSTER VORTRAG 23. Mai 1912	1912-05-23	lecture	8335
ZWEITER VORTRAG 24. Mai 1912	1912-05-24	lecture	9419
THEOSOPHISCHE MORAL ERSTER VORTRAG 28. Mai 1912	1912-05-28	lecture	6828
ZWEITER VORTRAG 29. Mai 1912	1912-05-29	lecture	7139
DRITTER VORTRAG 30. Mai 1912	1912-05-30	lecture	10322
CHRISTUS UND DIE MENSCHLICHE SEELE ERSTER VORTRAG 12. Juli1914	1914-07-12	lecture	6820
ZWEITER VORTRAG 14. Juli 1914	1914-07-14	lecture	5064
DRITTER VORTRAG 15. Juli1914	1914-07-15	lecture	6412
VIERTER VORTRAG 16. Juli 1914	1914-07-16	lecture	6183
HINWEISE		apparatus	206
ANTHROPOSOPHIE UND CHRISTENTUM Öffentlicher Vortrag gehalten in Norrköping am 13. Juli 1914	1914-07-13	lecture	9119

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	17 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	10 the site's completeness audit
Words served	124645 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.65 (fuller_than_original) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1960 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Anthroposophical Ethics the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1928

Translator	H. Collison the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1928
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
Christ and the Human Soul the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table RSP1972	Charles Davy the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1972
On the Meaning of Life the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table RSPC1946			1946
The Spiritual Foundation of Morality the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SBC1970	M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1970
Christ and the Human Soul the SteinerBooks catalog CW 155 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Agnes Schneeberg-de Steur, Bastiaan Baan	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2023	9781621483199 9781621483205	in copyright
Christ And The Human Soul AnthroWiki (English) CW 155 AnthroWiki (English)		Literary Licensing AnthroWiki (English)		978-1258115760

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	17	12, 4, 1	579	5, 10

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 served German is fuller_than_original against the printed word count (1.65). 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, Christus und die menschliche Seele (GA 155), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/155/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/155/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1928.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_155
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_155 · 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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 3a027e2e03cd7dd2
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/English/APC1928/AnEthi_index.html
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 SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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