GA 181 · Lectures

Erdensterben und Weltenleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewußtseins-Notwendigkeiten für Gegenwart und Zukunft

The Earth's Death and World-Life Anthroposophical Life-Gifts Consciousness-Necessities for the Present and Future

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	978-3-7274-1810-5 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1991	488	the publisher's online catalog
	1991		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

22 units in the printed table of contents, about 139,851 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1967.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 22. Januar 1918	1918-01-22	Berlin	lecture	5626
ZWEITER VORTRAG Berlin, 29. Januar 1918	1918-01-29	Berlin	lecture	7251
DRITTER VORTRAG Berlin, 5.Februar 1918	1918-02-05	Berlin	lecture	5920
VIERTER VORTRAG Berlin, 5. März 1918	1918-03-05	Berlin	lecture	6613
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 12. März 1918	1918-03-12	Berlin	lecture	6281
SECHSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 19. März 1918	1918-03-19	Berlin	lecture	6566
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Berlin, 26. März 1918	1918-03-26	Berlin	lecture	6037
ACHTER VORTRAG Berlin, 30. März 1918	1918-03-30	Berlin	lecture	5411
NEUNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 1.April 1918	1918-04-01	Berlin	lecture	5902
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 2.April 1918	1918-04-02	Berlin	lecture	6788
ELFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 9. April 1918	1918-04-09	Berlin	lecture	4759
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 16.April 1918	1918-04-16	Berlin	lecture	5798
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 14. Mai 1918	1918-05-14	Berlin	lecture	6574
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 21.Mai 1918	1918-05-21	Berlin	lecture	6984
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 25. Juni 1918	1918-06-25	Berlin	lecture	5666
SECHZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 3.Juli 1918	1918-07-03	Berlin	lecture	8089
SIEBZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 9. Juli 1918	1918-07-09	Berlin	lecture	6203
ACHTZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 16. Juli 1918	1918-07-16	Berlin	lecture	6794
NEUNZEHNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 23. Juli 1918	1918-07-23	Berlin	lecture	7949
ZWANZIGSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 30. Juli 1918	1918-07-30	Berlin	lecture	7963
EINUNDZWANZIGSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 6.August 1918	1918-08-06	Berlin	lecture	7705
HINWEISE			apparatus	2972

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	21 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	21 the site's completeness audit
Words served	138346 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.01 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1967 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Earthly Death and Cosmic Life the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1927

Translator	Harry Collison the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1927
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
Anthroposophical Life Gifts the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table LRC0049			49
A Sound Outlook for Today and a Genuine Hope for the Future the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table UNK1954			1954
Dying Earth and Living Cosmos the SteinerBooks catalog CW 181 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Matthew Barton	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2015	9781855844193	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	21	15, 3, 3	441	3, 1

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	2 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	4 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, Erdensterben und Weltenleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewußtseins-Notwendigkeiten für Gegenwart und Zukunft (GA 181), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/181/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/181/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1927.

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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_181
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 a3a4d6f373cb4125
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/APC1927/EarDea_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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