GA 158 · Lectures

Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit der elementarischen Welt

The Connection Between Humans and the Elemental World

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	978-3-7274-1580-7 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1993	272	the publisher's online catalog
	1993		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

14 units in the printed table of contents, about 66,396 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1968.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
KALEWALA DAS WESEN NATIONALER EPEN MIT SPEZIELLEM HINWEIS AUF KALEWALA Öffentlicher Vortrag, Helsingfors, 9. April 1912	1912-04-09	Helsingfors	lecture	9405
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. November 1914	1914-11-09	Dornach	lecture	5661
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. November 1914	1914-11-14	Dornach	lecture	4862
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. November 1914	1914-11-15	Dornach	lecture	6818
DIE WELT ALS ERGEBNIS VON GLEICHGEWICHTSWIRKUNGEN VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. November 1914	1914-11-20	Dornach	lecture	5187
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. November 1914	1914-11-21	Dornach	lecture	5227
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. November 1914	1914-11-22	Dornach	lecture	5500
OLAF ASTESON SIEBENTER VORTRAG Hannover, 1. Januar 1912, Neujahrsfeier	1912-01-01	Hannover	lecture	2542
ACHTER VORTRAG Berlin, 7. Januar 1913	1913-01-07	Berlin	lecture	2061
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 31. Dezember 1914	1914-12-31	Dornach	lecture	5348
ANSPRACHE zu einer Vorlesung des Traumliedes von Olaf Ästeson			text	850
ANSPRACHE für die russischen Zuhörer des Vortragszyklus «Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen» Helsingfors, 11. April 1912	1912-04-11		lecture	5134
ANSPRACHE für die russischen Zuhörer des Vortragszyklus «Die okkulten Grundlagen der Bhagavad Gita» Helsingfors, 5. Juni 1913	1913-06-05		lecture	4363
HINWEISE			apparatus	3438

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	13 the site's completeness audit
Words served	81507 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.29 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA158/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1968 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSPC1948

Translator	Dorothy S. Osmond the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1948
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 Kalevala the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2023			2023		in copyright; machine translation
Olaf Asteson the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Addresses for the Russian Attendees the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2025			2025		in copyright; machine translation
Our Connection with the Elemental World the SteinerBooks catalog CW 158 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Simon Blaxland-de Lange	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2017	9781855844889	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	17	9, 6, 2	398	2, 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	22 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	32 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	2 plates the site's blackboard index

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, Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit der elementarischen Welt (GA 158), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/158/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/158/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSPC1948.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

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_158
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 3016977eb87b859a
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA158/English/RSPC1948/BalWld_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 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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