Riddles of the Soul MP1996
| Publisher (from the code) | Mercury Press the edition code |
|---|---|
| Years | 1996 |
GA 21 · Writings
Von Seelenrätseln (1917)
Riddles of the Soul
English abridgedGerman source unrecorded
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
|---|---|
| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
| ISBN |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | the publisher's online catalog | ||
| 6 | the publisher's online catalog | ||
| 1983 | AnthroWiki (German) | ||
| 2023 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
13 units in the printed table of contents, about 40,095 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1960.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VORWORT | text | 1005 | ||
| I ANTHROPOLOGIE UND ANTHROPOSOPHIE | text | 5193 | ||
| II MAX DESSOIR ÜBER ANTHROPOSOPHIE | text | 10956 | ||
| III FRANZ BRENTANO | text | 12385 | ||
| SKIZZENHAFTE ERWEITERUNGEN DESINHALTES DIESER SCHRIFT | text | 1632 | ||
| 2. Das Auftreten der «Erkenntnisgrenzen» | text | 855 | ||
| 3. Von der Abstraktheit der Begriffe | text | 841 | ||
| 4. Ein wichtiges Merkmal der Geist-Wahrnebmung | text | 385 | ||
| 5. Über die wirkliche Grundlage der intenlionalen Beziehung | text | 1520 | ||
| 6. Die physischen und die geistigen Abhängigkeiten der Menschen-Wesenheit | text | 3331 | ||
| 7. Die Sonderung des Seelischen von dem Außer-Seelischen durch Franz Brentano | text | 1292 | ||
| 8. Ein oft erhobener Einwand gegen die Anthroposophie | text | 626 | ||
| 9. Schlußbemerkung | text | 74 |
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 | 13 the site's completeness audit |
|---|---|
| Printed units of text | 13 the site's completeness audit |
| Words served | 41080 the site's completeness audit |
| Served against the print | 1.02 (comparable) the site's completeness audit |
| Source | https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA021/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026 |
| Edition used | 1960 the source record of the served German |
English
Served on this site
The Case for Anthroposophy (1970) the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970) RSP1970
| Translator | Owen Barfield the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Rudolf Steiner Press the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970) |
| Place | London, England the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970) |
| Years | 1970 |
As the witnesses print it
- The Case for Anthroposophy (1970), This version of Von Seelenrätseln , an abbreviated version, the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970)
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 Case for Anthroposophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 21 the SteinerBooks catalog | contributors: Owen Barfield | SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog | 2018 | 9780996921107 | in copyright |
| Riddles of the Soul the SteinerBooks catalog CW 21 the SteinerBooks catalog | contributors: William Lindeman | Mercury Press the SteinerBooks catalog | 2025 | 9781957569482 | in copyright |
| The Case for Anthroposophy AnthroWiki (English) CW 21 AnthroWiki (English) | The Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) | 1978 |
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP1996 | 15 | 3, 2, 10 | 32 | 1, 1 |
| RSP1970 | 9 | 0, 0, 9 | 0 | 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
- This witness is materially shorter than the original (below 75%). Passages may be omitted without any visible gap. A phrase absent here is NOT evidence it is absent from the original; search the original language before concluding. the site's completeness audit
- The German and English units use different keys; gaps between them are not asserted. 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, Von Seelenrätseln (1917) (GA 21), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/21/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/21/, status as of 2026-10-20: German served; English editions MP1996, RSP1970.
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_21
AnthroWiki's page for the volume - AnthroWiki (English)
- https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_21 · 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 · 2026-10-19T21:45:23Z
- 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 (GA021/MP1996)
- data/steiner-ga/data/GA021/MP1996/00_toc.md ·
sha256 a85f107c94b3148f - the edition's imprint line (GA021/RSP1970)
- data/steiner-ga/data/GA021/RSP1970/00_toc.md ·
sha256 cef4a731c7f802c0 - the printed table of contents
- data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json ·
sha256 3480019f9d6a130f - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
- the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
- https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA021/ ·
sha256 5502c7710c75403d
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026) - the site's completeness audit
- research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-19
- the SteinerBooks catalog
- SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json
status as of · all volumes