GA 9 · Writings

Theosophie. Einführung in übersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung (1904)

Theosophy

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

English units missingGerman 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
332013258the publisher's online catalog
2003AnthroWiki (German)
2021AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

11 units in the printed table of contents, about 49,363 words the printed table of contents.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
Inhaltapparatus256
ZUR NEU-AUSGABE DIESER SCHRIFTtext192
VORREDE ZUR SECHSTEN AUFLAGEtext415
VORREDE ZUR DRITTEN AUFLAGEtext1227
EINLEITUNGtext1610
DAS WESEN DES MENSCHENtext9075
WIEDERVERKÖRPERUNG DES GEISTES UND SCHICKSALtext7121
DIE DREI WELTENtext20150
DER PFAD DER ERKENNTNIStext5816
EINZELNE BEMERKUNGEN UND ERGÄNZUNGENtext3144
HINWEISE DES HERAUSGEBERSapparatus357

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 served17 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text9 the site's completeness audit
Words served62686 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.29 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA009/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026

English

Served on this site

Witnesses differ: AP1971

TranslatorH. Monges and G. Church the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
PublisherAnthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
PlaceNew York the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1985
Pages195 the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the 19th German edition of 1922 the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Revised byGilbert Church AnthroWiki (English)
Collected Works9 AnthroWiki (English)
ISBN78-135997 AnthroWiki (English)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • Theopsophy, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 195 pp., translated from the 19th German edition of 1922 by H. Monges and G. Church the edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971)
  • Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1985, 195 pp., translated from the 19th German edition of 1922 by H. Monges and G. Church the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Theosophy. An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man*, **CW 9**, translated by Henry B. Monges and revised by Gilbert Church, Ph.D., Anthroposophic Press 1971, ISBN 78-135997 AnthroWiki (English)

Theosophy the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page RSP1965

TranslatorM. Cotterell and A. P. Shepherd the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherRudolf Steiner Press the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PlaceLondon the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1965
Pages151 the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the 28th German edition of 1961 the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it

1 German unit of this volume has no English on this site: Vorrede zur 3. Auflage (1910).

Other English translations known

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

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
Theosophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 9 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Catherine E. Creeger, Henry B. Monges, Michael Holdrege SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 1994 9780880101790
9780880103732
in copyright
According to Luke the SteinerBooks catalog CW 9 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Catherine E. Creeger, Robert A. McDermott SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2001 9780880108386 in copyright
Theosophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 9 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Clifford Venho, David Ecklund, Henry B. Monges, Thomas O'Keefe SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2019 9781732461338 in copyright
Theosophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 9 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: A.P. Shepherd Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog 1994 9781855841314 in copyright
Theosophy the SteinerBooks catalog CW 9 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: A.P. Shepherd Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog 2011 9781855842540 in copyright

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
AP1971160, 4, 12420, 0
RSP1965161, 6, 9601, 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, Theosophie. Einführung in übersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung (1904) (GA 9), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/9/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/9/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1971, RSP1965.

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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-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_9
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_9 · 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 edition's imprint line (GA009/AP1971)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA009/AP1971/00_toc.md · sha256 33d42efd6e8ed8c3
the edition's imprint line (GA009/RSP1965)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA009/RSP1965/00_toc.md · sha256 e6fb66006be31d53
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 7dea7d0f0f725d90
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA009/ · sha256 346d6497495c88f9
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 SteinerBooks catalog
SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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