GA 351 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Mensch und Welt. Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur. Über das Wesen der Bienen

How Spirit Works in Nature

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

English units missing

Publication

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

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
5the publisher's online catalog
6the publisher's online catalog
1988AnthroWiki (German)
2020AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

18 units in the printed table of contents, about 85,940 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1966.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
GELEITWORT August 1922 bis September 1924apparatus454
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. Oktober 19231923-10-08Dornachlecture5815
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Oktober 19231923-10-10Dornachlecture6410
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13. Oktober 19231923-10-13Dornachlecture5826
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. Oktober 19231923-10-20Dornachlecture5535
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. Oktober 19231923-10-24Dornachlecture5691
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 27. Oktober 19231923-10-27Dornachlecture5031
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 31. Oktober 19231923-10-31Dornachlecture5579
BEMERKUNGEN zum Bienenvortrag von Herrn Müller Dornach, 10. November 19231923-11-10lecture393
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 26. November 19231923-11-26Dornachlecture5850
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 28. November 19231923-11-28Dornachlecture4444
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. Dezember 19231923-12-01Dornachlecture6890
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Dezember 19231923-12-05Dornachlecture5389
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Dezember 19231923-12-10Dornachlecture5618
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. Dezember 19231923-12-12Dornachlecture5139
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. Dezember 19231923-12-15Dornachlecture5774
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. Dezember 19231923-12-22Dornachlecture5741
HINWEISEapparatus361

German text

Served. Taken from the Rudolf Steiner Archive's German pages, with units added by this site from a scan or digital edition of the print, recorded below.

Units served16 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text16 the site's completeness audit
Words served85602 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.01 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1966 the source record of the served German
Methoddigital edition (EPUB)
Added2026-10-18
Checksumsha256 e6e457b8618920c2

English

Served on this site

1 German unit of this volume has no English on this site: Bemerkungen zum Bienenvortrag von Herrn Müller (Dornach, 10. November 1923).

Other English translations known

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

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
How Spirit Works in Nature the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024 2024 in copyright; machine translation
Bees the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 351 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) Thomas Braatz AnthroWiki (English) SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) 1998 9780880104579
9780880108591
in copyright
The Fourth Dimension the SteinerBooks catalog CW 351 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Catherine E. Creeger, David Booth SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2001 9780880109499 in copyright
Butterflies: Beings of Light AnthroWiki (English) Matthew Barton AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Press AnthroWiki (English) 2013 978-1855843752
The World of Bees: From the Work of Rudolf Steiner AnthroWiki (English) Matthew Barton AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Press AnthroWiki (English) 2018 978-1855845404
Nine Lectures on Bees AnthroWiki (English) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform AnthroWiki (English) 1923 978-1502717689
Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man AnthroWiki (English) CW 351 AnthroWiki (English) M. Cotterell, D. S. Osmond AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Publishing Company AnthroWiki (English) 1952

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
English152, 9, 43372, 2

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 volume31 the site's completeness audit
Image files served42 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings23 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Mensch und Welt. Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur. Über das Wesen der Bienen (GA 351), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/351/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/351/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions SGP1975.

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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_351
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_351 · 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 printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 e6e457b8618920c2
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA351/English/SGP1975/NinBee_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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