GA 17 · Writings

Die Schwelle der geistigen Welt (1913)

The Threshold of the Spiritual World

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

English units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0170-2 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6021-0 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-0171-8 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
8	2009	134	the publisher's online catalog
9	2020	134	the publisher's online catalog
	1987		AnthroWiki (German)
	2020		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

16 units in the printed table of contents, about 21,466 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1972.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
EINLEITENDE BEMERKUNGEN	text	340
VON DEM VERTRAUEN, DAS MAN ZU DEM DENKEN HABEN KANN, ...	text	1447
VON DEM ERKENNEN DER GEISTIGEN WELT	text	1657
VON DEM ÄTHERISCHEN LEIB DES MENSCHEN UND VON DER ELEMENTARISCHEN WELT	text	1717
VON DEN WIEDERHOLTEN ERDENLEBEN UND VOM KARMA ...	text	1721
VON DEM ASTRALISCHEN LEIBE UND VON LUZIFERISCHEN ...	text	1746
VON DEM «HÜTER DER SCHWELLE» UND EINIGEN EIGENHEITEN DES ÜBERSINNLICHEN BEWUSSTSEINS	text	1744
VON DEM ICH-GEFÜHL UND VON DER LIEBEFÄHIGKEIT ...	text	2251
VON DER GRENZE ZWISCHEN DER SINNESWELT UND DEN ÜBERSINNLICHEN WELTEN	text	1061
VON WESEN DER GEISTESWELTEN	text	1513
VON GEISTIGEN WELTWESENHEITEN	text	1457
VON DER ERSTEN ANLAGE DES PHYSISCHEN MENSCHENLEIBES	text	1069
VON DEM «WAHREN ICH» DES MENSCHEN	text	1417
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG EINIGES VORANGEHENDEN	text	362
BEMERKUNGEN ÜBER DAS VERHÄLTNIS DES IN DIESER SCHRIFT GESCHILDERTEN ...	text	580
NACHWORT ZUR NEUAUSGABE	text	1384

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	18 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	16 the site's completeness audit
Words served	21337 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.99 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA017/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1972 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Witnesses differ:
Theosophy the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
The Threshold of the Spiritual World AnthroWiki (English)
GPP1922

Publisher	G. P. Putnam's Sons AnthroWiki (English)
Years	1922
Collected Works	17 AnthroWiki (English)
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Threshold of the Spiritual World*, **CW 17**, G. P. Putnam's Sons, London & New York 1922 [rsarchive](https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA017/English/GPP1922/) AnthroWiki (English)

1 German unit of this volume has no English on this site: Bemerkungen über das Verhältnis des in dieser Schrift geschilderten zu der Darstellung in meiner „Theosophie“ und „Geheimwissenschaft“.

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 Threshold of the Spiritual World the SteinerBooks catalog CW 17 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Thomas O'Keefe	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2019	9781732461314	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
GPP1922	17	4, 4, 9	4	0, 0

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

1 German unit has no English. 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, Die Schwelle der geistigen Welt (1913) (GA 17), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/17/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/17/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions GPP1922.

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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-2026-10-18h.db · sha256 b32a02ab83081598
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_17
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_17 · 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 · 2026-10-21T03:04:24Z
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 (GA017/GPP1922): data/steiner-ga/data/GA017/GPP1922/00_toc.md · sha256 c56677fa7ac5cd1c
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 1768d0a31502684d
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA017/ · sha256 2dd5b8bb6d0e4a11
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
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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