Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research
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GA 69a · Lectures
Wahrheiten und Irrtümer der Geistesforschung
Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research
German units missingtranslation not identifiedunits protected
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
|---|---|
| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
| First edition | 2007 the site's completeness audit |
| Protected until | 2032 the site's completeness audit |
| ISBN |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2007 | 340 | the publisher's online catalog |
| 2007 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
18 units in the printed table of contents the printed table of contents.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geisteswissenschaft und Menschenzukunft | 1911-02-24 | Zürich | lecture | |
| Wie widerlegt man Theosophie? | 1911-03-19 | Prag | lecture | |
| Wie verteidigt man Theosophie? | 1911-03-25 | Prag | lecture | |
| Wahrheiten der Geistesforschung | 1912-11-25 | München | lecture | |
| Irrtümer der Geistesforschung | 1912-11-27 | München | lecture | |
| Irrtümer der Geistesforschung | 1913-02-19 | Stuttgart | lecture | |
| Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung für Lebensfragen und das Todesrätsel | 1913-02-16 | Tübingen | lecture | |
| Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung für Lebensfragen und das Todesrätsel | 1913-05-17 | Stuttgart | lecture | |
| Lebensrätseln | 1913-03-01 | Karlsruhe | lecture | |
| Lebensrätseln | 1913-03-03 | Frankfurt | lecture | |
| 2« dieser Ausgabe | text | |||
| Textgrundlagen | apparatus | |||
| Hinweise zum Text | apparatus | |||
| Namenregister | apparatus | |||
| Literatur zum Thema | apparatus | |||
| Bibliographischer Nachweis | text | |||
| und Irrtümer der Geistesforschung» | text | |||
| Zum Werk Rudolf Steiners | 1911-02-24 | Zürich | lecture |
German text
Partly served: 2 units first published in 2007, protected until 2032. Extracted by this site from a scan or digital edition of the printed volume, recorded below with its address and checksum.
Printed units not served in German
| Unit | Date | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 2« dieser Ausgabe | editorial apparatus, not Steiner's text | |
| Bibliographischer Nachweis | editorial apparatus, not Steiner's text | |
| VI. Errors of Spiritual Research II | 1913-02-19 | protected: the volume was first printed less than 25 years ago |
| VIII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death II | 1913-05-17 | protected: the volume was first printed less than 25 years ago |
First printing of each unit (9)
| Unit | First printed | Where | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-02-24 | 1935 | «Die Menschenschule.» 1935, 9. Jg., Heft 1 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1911-03-19 | 1968 | «Mensch und Welt. Blätter für Anthroposophie» 1968, 20. Jg., Nr. 1-4, nach der unkorrigierten Nachschrift von Walter Vegelahn. | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1911-03-25 | 1968 | «Mensch und Welt. Blätter für Anthroposophie» 1968, 20. Jg., Nr. 1-4, nach der unkorrigierten Nachschrift von Walter Vegelahn. | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1912-11-25 | 1968 | «Mensch und Welt. Blätter für Anthroposophie» 1968, 20. Jg., Nr. 5 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1912-11-27 | 1968 | «Mensch und Welt. Blätter für Anthroposophie» 1968, 20. Jg., Nr. 6-8 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1913-02-16 | 1955 | «Gegenwart» 1955/56, 17. Jg., Nr. 8/9 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 (printed 1912-02-16, corrected to the volume's 1913-02-16) |
| 1913-03-01 | 1944 | Einzelausgabe Dornach 1944: Geisteswissenschaft und Naturwissenschaft in ihrem Verhältnis zu den Lebensrätseln | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1913-03-03 | 1946 | «Das Goetheanum» 1946, 25. Jg., Nr. 2-7 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
| 1913-03-09 | 1944 | «Nachrichtenblatt» 1944, 21. Jg., Nr. 45, 48-49 | GA 69a, Bibliographischer Nachweis früherer Veröffentlichungen, PDF p. 328 |
English
Served on this site
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table eLib2017 | Stuart Atkins, Princeton University Press, paperback printing 1994 the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table | 2017 |
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 11 | 0, 1, 10 | 0 | 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
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Quality marks
- 4 printed units are not served in German. the site's completeness audit
- The served English translation is not identified: no edition or translator is on record. the site's completeness audit
- 2 printed units are inside the 25-year window of their first printing and are not served. the site's completeness audit
Gaps
- VI. Errors of Spiritual Research II (1913-02-19): protected: the volume was first printed less than 25 years ago the site's completeness audit
- VIII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death II (1913-05-17): protected: the volume was first printed less than 25 years ago the site's completeness audit
Held back
Sections of the printed volume this site knows of and does not serve, because they are still protected. Each can be published from the year given (data/steiner/held_not_served.yaml).
| Section | What it is | Words | Can be published |
|---|---|---|---|
| German of: VI. Errors of Spiritual Research II (1913-02-19); VIII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death II (1913-05-17) | first printed recently; protected as a first edition | 2033 |
How to cite this witness
Rudolf Steiner, Wahrheiten und Irrtümer der Geistesforschung (GA 69a), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/69a/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/69a/, status as of 2026-10-21: German partly served; English editions English.
Witnesses
Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.
- the site's alignment tables
- ~/data/build/search-2026-10-18h.db ·
sha256 b32a02ab83081598
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json - AnthroWiki (German)
- https://anthrowiki.at/GA_69a
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 first-printing record
- data/steiner/witnesses/first_publication.json
- 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 4bbd7a9cacf846d7 - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.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
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