GA 56 · Lectures

Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes (1907/08)

Knowledge of Soul and Spirit

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	3-7274-0560-0 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0560-0 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1985	382	the publisher's online catalog
	1985		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

17 units in the printed table of contents, about 91,559 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1961.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ZUR EINFÜHRUNG			apparatus	113
DIE MISSION DER GEHEIMWISSENSCHAFT IN UNSERER ZEIT Berlin, 10. Oktober 1907	1907-10-10	Berlin	lecture	7552
DIE NATURWISSENSCHAFT AM SCHEIDEWEGE Berlin, 17. Oktober 1907	1907-10-17	Berlin	lecture	7156
DIE ERKENNTNIS DER SEELE UND DES GEISTES Berlin, 24. Oktober 1907	1907-10-24	Berlin	lecture	6847
MANN UND WEIB IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT München, 18. März 1908	1908-03-18	München	lecture	3413
INITIATION ODER EINWEIHUNG Berlin, 28. November 1907	1907-11-28	Berlin	lecture	7987
DIE SOGENANNTEN GEFAHREN DER EINWEIHUNG Berlin, 12. Dezember 1907	1907-12-12	Berlin	lecture	7397
MANN, WEIB UND KIND IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT (Notizen eines Teilnehmers) Berlin, 9. Januar 1908	1908-01-09		lecture	1897
DIE SEELE DER TIERE IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 23. Januar 1908	1908-01-23	Berlin	lecture	6740
DER KRANKHEITSWAHN IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT München, 3. Dezember 1907	1907-12-03	München	lecture	5039
DAS GESUNDHEITSFIEBER IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT München, 5. Dezember 1907	1907-12-05	München	lecture	4511
BERUF UND ERWERB Berlin, 12. März 1908	1908-03-12	Berlin	lecture	7032
SONNE, MOND UND STERNE Berlin, 26. März 1908	1908-03-26	Berlin	lecture	2627
ERDENANFANG UND ERDENENDE Berlin, 9. April 1908	1908-04-09	Berlin	lecture	6136
DIE HÖLLE Berlin, 16. April 1908	1908-04-16	Berlin	lecture	7088
DER HIMMEL Berlin, 14. Mai 1908	1908-05-14	Berlin	lecture	8405
HINWEISE			apparatus	1619

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	15 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	15 the site's completeness audit
Words served	90233 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1961 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Illusory Illness and the Feverish Pursuit of Health the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page AP1969

Translator	Sarah Kurland the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1969
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
Natural Science at the Crossroads the SteinerBooks catalog CW 56 the SteinerBooks catalog		Mercury Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2020	9781935136293	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	15	12, 0, 3	66	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

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, Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes (1907/08) (GA 56), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/56/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/56/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1969.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_56
AnthroWiki's 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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 acce6251bb76b348
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/AP1969/IllIll_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
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 SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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