GA 26 · Writings

Anthroposophische Leitsätze (1924/1925)

The Michael Mystery

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

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
112013282the publisher's online catalog
122024482the publisher's online catalog
122024482the publisher's online catalog
1998AnthroWiki (German)
2024AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

36 units in the printed table of contents, about 55,482 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1972.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
ANTRROPOSOPHISCHE LEITSÄTZEtext5625
ZU DEN VORANGEGANGENEN LEITSÄTZEN ÜBER DIE BILDNATUR DES MENSCHENtext2671
ETWAS VOM GEIST-VERSTEHEN UND SCHICKSALS-ERLEBENtext1335
GEISTIGE WELTBEREICHE UND MENSCHLICHE SELBSTERKENNTNIStext1326
WIE DIE LEITSÄTZE ANZUWENDEN SINDtext1133
IM ANBRUCH DES MICHAEL-ZEITALTERStext1264
DIE MENSCHLICHE SEELENVERFASSUNG VOR DEM ANBRUCH DES MICHAEL-ZEITALTERStext919
APHORISMEN AUS EINEM AM 24. AUGUST IN LONDON GEHALTENEN MITGLIEDERVORTRAGtext1452
DER VOR-MICHAELISCHE UND DER MICHAELS-WEGtext1251
MICHAELS AUFGABE IN DER AHRIMAN-SPHÄREtext1188
MICHAELS ERFAHRUNGEN UND ERLEBNISSE WÄHREND DER ERFÜLLUNG SEINER KOSMISCHEN MISSIONtext1320
MENSCHHEITSZUKUNFT UND MICHAEL-TÄTIGKEITtext1371
DAS MICHAEL-CHRISTUS-ERLEBNIS DES MENSCHENtext1331
MICHAELS MISSION IM WELTENALTER DER MENSCHEN-FREIHEITtext1523
DIE WELTGEDANKEN IM WIRKEN MICHAELS UND IM WIRKEN AHRIMANStext1616
ERSTE BETRACHTUNG: VOR DEN TOREN DER BEWUSSTSEINSSEELE WIE MICHAEL SEINE ERDENMISSION DURCH BESIEGUNG LUZIFERS ÜBERIRDISCH VORBEREITETtext2646
ZWEITE BETRACHTUNG: WIE DIE MICHAEL - KRÄFTE IN DIE ERSTE ENTFALTUNG DER BEWUSSTSEINSSEELE WIRKENtext1707
FORTSETZUNG DER ZWEITEN BETRACHTUNG: HEMMUNGEN UND FÖRDERUNGEN DER MICHAEL-KRÄFTE IM AUFKOMMENDEN ZEITALTER DER BEWUSSTSEINSSEELEtext1763
DRITTE BETRACHTUNG: MICHAELS LEID ÜBER DIE MENSCHHEITSENTWICKELUNG VOR DER ZEIT SEINER ERDENWIRKSAMKEITtext1811
WEIHNACHTSBETRACHTUNG: DAS LOGOS-MYSTERIUMtext2262
HIMMELSGESCHICHTE MYTHOLOGISCHE GESCHICHTE ERDGESCHICHTE MYSTERIUM VON GOLGATHAtext2060
WAS SICH OFFENBART, WENN MAN IN DIE WIEDERHOLTEN ERDENLEBEN ZURÜCKSCHAUTtext1342
ERSTER TEIL DER BETRACHTUNG: WAS OFFENBART SICH, WENN MAN IN DIE VORIGEN LEBEN ZWISCHEN TOD UND NEUER GEBURT ZURÜCKSCHAUT?text1238
ZWEITER TEIL DER BETRACHTUNG: WAS OFFENBART SICH, WENN MAN IN DIE VORIGEN LEBEN ZWISCHEN TOD UND NEUER GEBURT ZURÜCKSCHAUT?text1796
WAS IST DIE ERDE IN WIRKLICHKEIT IM MAKROKOSMOS?text1048
SCHLAF UND WACHEN IM LICHTE DER VORANGEGANGENEN BETRACHTUNGENtext1134
GNOSIS UND ANTHROPOSOPHIEtext1378
DIE FREIHEIT DES MENSCHEN UND DAS MICHAEL-ZEITALTERtext1271
DER MENSCH IN SEINER MAKROKOSMISCHEN WESENHEITtext1402
DES MENSCHEN SINNES- UND DENK-ORGANISATION IM VERHÄLTNIS ZUR WELTtext1324
GEDÄCHTNIS UND GEWISSENtext1218
DAS SCHEINBARE ERLÖSCHEN DER GEIST-ERKENNTNIS IN DER NEUZEITtext1258
DIE GESCHICHTLICHEN ERSCHÜTTERUNGEN BEIM HERAUFKOMMEN DER BEWUSST SEINSSEELEtext1177
VON DER NATUR ZUR UNTER-NATURtext1041
HINWEISEapparatus488
CHRONOLOGISCHE UBERSICHTapparatus793

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 served35 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text34 the site's completeness audit
Words served52417 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print0.97 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1972 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Michael Mystery (1956) the edition's imprint line (GA026/APC1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page APC1956

TranslatorE. Bowen-Wedgwood and George Adams the edition's imprint line (GA026/APC1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherAnthroposophical Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PlaceLondon the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1924, 1930, 1933, 1956
Pages186 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the German the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Revised byGeorge Adams the edition's imprint line (GA026/APC1956)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • The Michael Mystery (1956), These letters and guidelines were among the edition's imprint line (GA026/APC1956)
  • Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London, 1930, 1933, 1956, 186 pp., translated from the German by E. Bowen-Wedgwood and George Adams. This collection is limited to the newsletters that discuss the workings of the archangel Michael beginning on 17 August 1924 (leading thoughts 79-84). the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge - The Michael Mystery the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) RSP1973

TranslatorGeorge and Mary Adams the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherRudolf Steiner Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)
PlaceLondon the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1973, 1985, 1998
Pages219 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the German the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Collected Works26 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)
ISBN9781855840966 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge, The Michael Mystery, Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1973, 1985, 219 pp., translated from the German by George and Mary Adams the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
  • “Leading thoughts” and letters for members of the Anthroposophical Society (CW 26) the SteinerBooks catalog
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge - The Michael Mystery*, **CW 26**, 3rd Edition, Rudolf Steiner Press 1998, ISBN 978-1855840966 [rsarchive.org](https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/) AnthroWiki (English)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
The Life, Nature and Cultivation of Anthroposophy the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page ASGB1963 George Adams the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page 1963, 1975
Anthroposophical Guiding Principles the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page SOL in copyright; machine translation
The Michael Mystery the SteinerBooks catalog CW 26 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Marjorie Spock SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 1984 9781621481225 in copyright

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
APC1956301, 4, 2500, 0
RSP1973360, 2, 3400, 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 volume0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophische Leitsätze (1924/1925) (GA 26), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/26/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/26/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1956, RSP1973.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables
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extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_26
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_26 · 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 · 2026-10-21T03:04:24Z
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 (GA026/APC1956)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA026/APC1956/00_toc.md · sha256 af0b3367f33ca850
the edition's imprint line (GA026/RSP1973)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA026/RSP1973/00_toc.md · sha256 10d46e97849b39bb
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 07bfb846ff1576a9
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/ · sha256 5c3c4dc15623da02
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
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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