GA 228 · Lectures

Initiationswissenschaft und Sternenerkenntnis

The Development of Human Consciousness in the Past, 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	3-7274-2280-7 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2280-5 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	2002	200	the publisher's online catalog
	2002		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

11 units in the printed table of contents, about 49,810 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1985.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
DIE GEISTIGEN INDIVIDUALITÄTEN UNSERES PLANETENSYSTEMS SCHICKSALBESTIMMENDE UND MENSCHENBEFREIENDE PLANETEN Dornach, 27. Juli 1923 Erster Vortrag	1923-07-27	Dornach	lecture	4452
DIE GEISTIGEN INDIVIDUALITÄTEN UNSERES PLANETENSYSTEMS SCHICKSALBESTIMMENDE UND MENSCHENBEFREIENDE PLANETEN Dornach, 28. Juli 1923 Zweiter Vortrag	1923-07-28	Dornach	lecture	5667
DIE GEISTIGEN INDIVIDUALITÄTEN UNSERES PLANETENSYSTEMS SCHICKSALBESTIMMENDE UND MENSCHENBEFREIENDE PLANETEN Dornach, 29. Juli 1923 Dritter Vortrag	1923-07-29	Dornach	lecture	6886
DER MENSCH ALS BILD GEISTIGER WESEN UND GEISTIGER WIRKSAMKEITEN London, 2. September 1923	1923-09-02	London	lecture	5313
DIE SONNENINITIATION DES DRUIDENPRIESTERS UND SEINE MONDENWESENERKENNTNIS Dornach, 10. September 1923	1923-09-10	Dornach	lecture	4802
DER MENSCH IN VERGANGENHEIT, GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT VOM GESICHTSPUNKT DER BEWUSSTSEINSENTWICKELUNG Stuttgart, 14. September 1923 Erster Vortrag	1923-09-14	Stuttgart	lecture	6262
DER MENSCH IN VERGANGENHEIT, GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT VOM GESICHTSPUNKT DER BEWUSSTSEINSENTWICKELUNG Stuttgart, 15. September 1923 Zweiter Vortrag	1923-09-15	Stuttgart	lecture	6879
DER MENSCH IN VERGANGENHEIT, GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT VOM GESICHTSPUNKT DER BEWUSSTSEINSENTWICKELUNG Stuttgart, 16. September 1923 Dritter Vortrag	1923-09-16	Stuttgart	lecture	6969
HINWEISE			apparatus	878
PERSONENREGISTER			apparatus	179
INHALTSANGABEN erstellt von Konrad Donat			apparatus	1523

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	9 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	8 the site's completeness audit
Words served	52584 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.11 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA228/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1985 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Man in the Past, Present, and Future; The Evolution of Consciousness the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSP1966

Translator	E. H. Goddard the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1966
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 Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Initiation Science: And the Development of the Human Mind the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 228 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	Anna R. Meuss AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	2017	9781855845312	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	9	6, 2, 1	302	4, 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	7 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	27 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	7 plates the site's blackboard index

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, Initiationswissenschaft und Sternenerkenntnis (GA 228), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/228/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/228/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSP1966.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_228
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_228 · 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)
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the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 775213ff94b6986b
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA228/English/RSP1966/ManPas_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
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