GA 178 · Lectures

Individuelle Geistwesen und ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen

Individual Spirit Beings and Their Work in the Human Soul

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	3-7274-1780-3 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-1781-8 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
5	2015	274	the publisher's online catalog
6	2022	274	the publisher's online catalog
	1992		AnthroWiki (German)
	2022		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

12 units in the printed table of contents, about 83,232 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1992.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
DIE ERKENNTNIS DES ÜBERSINNLICHEN UND DIE MENSCHLICHEN SEELENRÄTSFL Öffentlicher Vortrag, St. Gallen, 15. November 1917	1917-11-15	St. Gallen	lecture	12574
DAS GEHEIMNIS DES DOPPELGÄNGERS GEOGRAPHISCHE MEDIZIN St. Gallen, 16. November 1917	1917-11-16	St. Gallen	lecture	10123
HINTER DEN KULISSEN DES ÄUSSEREN GESCHEHENS Zürich, 6. November 1917 Erster Vortrag	1917-11-06	Zürich	lecture	7143
HINTER DEN KULIS SEN DES ÄUSSEREN GESCHEHENS Zürich, 13. November 1917 Zweiter Vortrag	1917-11-13	Zürich	lecture	8143
ÜBER DIE PSYCHOANALYSE Dornacb, 10. November 1917 Erster Vortrag	1917-11-10	Dornacb	lecture	8653
ÜBER DIE PSYCHOANALYSE Dornach, 11. November 1917 Zweiter Vortrag	1917-11-11	Dornach	lecture	6733
INDIVIDUELLE GEISTWESEN UND EINHEITLICHER WELTENGRUND Dornach, !8. November 1917 Erster Vortrag	1917-11-08		lecture	7743
INDIVIDUELLE GEI5TWESEN UND EINHEITLICHER WELTENGRUND Dorrscb, 19. November 1917 Zweiter Vortrag	1917-11-19	Dorrscb	lecture	6398
INDIVIDUELLE GEISTWESEN UND EINHEITLICHER WELTENGRUND Dornach 25. November 1917 Dritter Vortrag	1917-11-25	Dornach	lecture	6977
HINWEISE			apparatus	7580
NAMENREGISTER			apparatus	356
AUSFÜHRLICHE INHALTSANGABEN			apparatus	809

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	12 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	9 the site's completeness audit
Words served	94616 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.27 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1992 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Behind the Scenes of External Happenings the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSPC1947

Translator	Dorothy S. Osmond and Owen Barfield the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1947
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
Geographic Medicine the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table MP1986	Alice Wulsin the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1986
The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table RSP1966	Charles Davy Lecture 1 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1966
Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Human Double the SteinerBooks catalog CW 178 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Johanna Collis, Terry M. Boardman	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2004	9781855841628	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	12	9, 3, 0	531	4, 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	11 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	17 the site's completeness audit

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, Individuelle Geistwesen und ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen (GA 178), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/178/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/178/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSPC1947.

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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_178
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 d8df060381334736
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/RSPC1947/BeScen_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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