GA 22 · Writings

Goethes Geistesart in ihrer Offenbarung durch seinen «Faust» und durch das Märchen von der Schlange und der Lilie (1918)

Goethe's Standard of the Soul

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

German units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0130-3 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6700-4 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-0223-4 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0222-7 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Witness
7		the publisher's online catalog
8		the publisher's online catalog
	1979	AnthroWiki (German)
	2024	AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

3 units in the printed table of contents, about 17,324 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1956.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
I GOETHES FAUST ALS BILD SEINER ESOTERISCHEN WELTANSCHAUUNG	text	8182
II GOETHES GEISTESART IN IHRER OFFENBARUNG DURCH SEINEN FAUST	text	4217
III GOETHES GEISTESART IN IHRER OFFENBARUNG DURCH SEIN MÄRCHEN ...	text	4925

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	3 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	3 the site's completeness audit
Words served	17217 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.99 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA022/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1956 the source record of the served German

Printed units not served in German

Unit	Date	Why
The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

English

Served on this site

Goethe's Standard of the Soul (1925) the edition's imprint line (GA022/APC1925) APC1925

Translator	D. S. Osmond the edition's imprint line (GA022/APC1925)
Publisher (from the code)	Anthroposophical Publishing Co. the edition code
Years	1925
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA022/APC1925)

As the witnesses print it

Goethe's Standard of the Soul (1925), This treatment of Goethe's mystic/esoteric philosophical the edition's imprint line (GA022/APC1925)

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
Goethe's Standard of the Soul. As Illustrated in Faust and in the Fairy Story of "The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily." AnthroWiki (English)	D. S. Osmond AnthroWiki (English)	Anthroposophical Press AnthroWiki (English)	1925

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
APC1925	5	0, 3, 2	133	2, 3

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 longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. Verify quotations against the original. the site's completeness audit
1 printed unit is not served in German. 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

The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily: not served the site's completeness audit

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Goethes Geistesart in ihrer Offenbarung durch seinen «Faust» und durch das Märchen von der Schlange und der Lilie (1918) (GA 22), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/22/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/22/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1925.

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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_22
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_22 · 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 · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
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 edition's imprint line (GA022/APC1925): data/steiner-ga/data/GA022/APC1925/00_toc.md · sha256 d5690a5c5d554771
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 d1d718e206a8996f
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA022/ · sha256 9929b9373fa8c0ee
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

status as of 2026-10-21 · all volumes