GA 157 · Lectures

Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale

Human Destinies and the Destinies of Nations

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

German shortGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-1571-5 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1981	328	the publisher's online catalog
	1981		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

22 units in the printed table of contents, about 136,220 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1960.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale			text	182
ERSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 1. September 1914 Um Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale	1914-09-01	Berlin	lecture	3294
ZWEITER VORTRAG Berlin, 31. Oktober 1914 Nationalitäten und Nationales im Lichte der Geisteswissenschaft	1914-10-31	Berlin	lecture	7661
DRITTER VORTRAG Berlin, 28. November 1914 Vom Wesen der euro päischen Volksseelen	1914-11-28	Berlin	lecture	6657
VIERTER VORTRAG Berlin, 17. Januar 1915 Das Wesen des Christus4mpulses und seines dienenden michaelischen Geistes	1915-01-17	Berlin	lecture	6338
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 19. Januar 1915 Das Wesen des Christus-Impulses und seines dienenden michaelischen Geistes	1915-01-19	Berlin	lecture	6969
SECHSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 26. Januar 1915 Einige Eigentümlichkeiten der geistigen Erkenntnis	1915-01-26	Berlin	lecture	8281
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Berlin, 22. Februar 1915 Persönlich - Übersinnliches	1915-02-22	Berlin	lecture	7435
ACHTER VORTRAG Berlin, 2. März 1915 Die drei Entscheidungen des imaginativen Erkenntnisweges	1915-03-02	Berlin	lecture	7709
NEUNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 9. März 1915 Der Rhythmus von Schlafen und Wachen im großen Entwickelungsgange des Weltenwesens	1915-03-09	Berlin	lecture	6911
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 16. März 1915 Die Schwierigkeiten des Geistesweges Die Ausprägung des Nationalcharakters der verschiedenen europäischen Völker durch ihre Volks geister	1915-03-16	Berlin	lecture	5629
ELFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 20. April 1915 Der ätherische Mensch im physischen Menschen	1915-04-20	Berlin	lecture	4838
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 10. Juni 1915 Über die plastische Gruppe für den Bau in Dornach	1915-06-10	Berlin	lecture	5411
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 22. Juni 1915 Über die prophetische Natur der Träume und den Träumer oder Mondenmenschen Über den Sonnen- und Saturnmenschen	1915-06-22	Berlin	lecture	7568
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 6. Juli 1915 Über die kosmische Bedeutung unserer Sinneswahrnehmungen, unseres Denkens, Fühlens und Wollens	1915-07-06	Berlin	lecture	4557
Schicksalsbildung und Leben nach dem Tode			text	6948
ZWEITER VORTRAG Berlin, 18. November 1915 Über Schicksalsbildung	1915-11-18	Berlin	lecture	6643
DRITTER VORTRAG Berlin, 20. November 1915 Die Untergründe des Seelenlebens und das Geistleben nach vorzeitigem Tode	1915-11-20	Berlin	lecture	6751
VIERTER VORTRAG Berlin, 7. Dezember 1915 Der Zusammenhang der geistigen und physischen Welt und sein Erleben nach dem Tode	1915-12-07	Berlin	lecture	6811
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 14. Dezember 1915 Von unterbewußten Seelenimpulsen	1915-12-14	Berlin	lecture	8391
SECHSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 21.Dezember 1915 Die Finsternis des heutigen Geisteslebens und das verwahrloste Denken unserer Zeit	1915-12-21	Berlin	lecture	10146
HINWEISE			apparatus	1090

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	21 the site's completeness audit
Words served	98393 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.73 (short) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA157/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

The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSP1987

Translator	Anna R. Meuss the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1987
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
The Destinies of Individuals and Nations the SteinerBooks catalog CW 157 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Anna R. Meuss	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2026	9781855846791	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	16	8, 5, 3	467	10, 4

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 short against the printed word count (0.73). 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, Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale (GA 157), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/157/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/157/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSP1987.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_157
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