GA 184 · Lectures

Die Polarität von Dauer und Entwickelung im Menschenleben

The Polarity of Duration and Development in Human Life

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	3-7274-1840-0 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-1841-9 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	2017	358	the publisher's online catalog
	2002		AnthroWiki (German)
	2017		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

16 units in the printed table of contents, about 103,222 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1968.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 6. September 1918	1918-09-06	Dornach	lecture	7129
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 7. September 1918	1918-09-07	Dornach	lecture	6305
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. September 1918	1918-09-08	Dornach	lecture	9465
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13. September 1918	1918-09-13	Dornach	lecture	7611
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. September 1918	1918-09-14	Dornach	lecture	6518
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, September 1918			text	7395
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. September 1918	1918-09-20	Dornach	lecture	4205
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. September 1918	1918-09-21	Dornach	lecture	5635
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. September 1918	1918-09-22	Dornach	lecture	7183
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 4. Oktober 1918	1918-10-04	Dornach	lecture	7286
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Oktober 1918	1918-10-05	Dornach	lecture	3955
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 6. Oktober 1918	1918-10-06	Dornach	lecture	7623
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 11.Oktober 1918	1918-10-11	Dornach	lecture	6127
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. Oktober 1918	1918-10-12	Dornach	lecture	7500
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13.Oktober 1918	1918-10-13	Dornach	lecture	7495
HINWEISE			apparatus	1790

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	15 the site's completeness audit
Words served	102024 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.01 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/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 Cosmic Prehistoric Ages of Mankind the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page UNK1965

Translator	M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1965
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 Bridge between the Ideal and the Real the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table UNK1964			1964
Three Streams in Human Evolution the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table RSP1985			1985
The Polarity of Duration and Development the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Eternal and Transient Elements in Human Life the SteinerBooks catalog CW 184 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Anna R. Meuss	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2016	9781855845237	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	15	11, 3, 1	482	11, 5

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	18 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	31 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, Die Polarität von Dauer und Entwickelung im Menschenleben (GA 184), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/184/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/184/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions UNK1965.

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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_184
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 b64d7c112b9ffcae
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/UNK1965/CosPre_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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