GA 93a · Lectures

Grundelemente der Esoterik

Basic Elements of Esotericism

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	3-7274-0935-5 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0936-3 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	2014	298	the publisher's online catalog
	1987		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

37 units in the printed table of contents, about 89,168 words the printed table of contents.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
00 Titelseite Inhalt Vorbemerkungen			apparatus	2710
01 I. Berlin, 26. September 1905	1905-09-26		lecture	1747
02 II. Berlin, 27. September 1905	1905-09-27	Berlin	lecture	2801
03 III. Berlin, 28. September 1905	1905-09-28	Berlin	lecture	2198
04 IV. Berlin, 29.September 1905	1905-09-29	Berlin	lecture	1905
05 V. Berlin, 30. September 1905	1905-09-30		lecture	1840
06 VI. Berlin, 1. Oktober 1905	1905-10-01	Berlin	lecture	2056
07 VII. Berlin, 2. Oktober 1905	1905-10-02	Berlin	lecture	1462
08 VIII. Berlin, 3. Oktober 1905	1905-10-03	Berlin	lecture	2032
09 IX. Berlin, 4. Oktober 1905	1905-10-04	Berlin	lecture	2169
10 X. Berlin, 5. Oktober 1905	1905-10-05		lecture	1925
11 XI. Berlin, 6. Oktober 1905	1905-10-06	Berlin	lecture	2711
12 XII. Berlin, 7. Oktober 1905	1905-10-07	Berlin	lecture	2833
13 XIII. Berlin, 8. Oktober 1905	1905-10-08	Berlin	lecture	2974
14 XIV. Berlin, 9. Oktober 1905	1905-10-09	Berlin	lecture	2736
15 XV. Berlin, 10. Oktober 1905	1905-10-10	Berlin	lecture	2468
16 XVI. Berlin, 11. Oktober 1905	1905-10-11	Berlin	lecture	2137
17 XVII. Berlin, 12. Oktober 1905	1905-10-12	Berlin	lecture	3048
18 XVIII. Berlin, 16. Oktober 1905	1905-10-16	Berlin	lecture	2435
19 XIX. Berlin, 17. Oktober 1905	1905-10-17	Berlin	lecture	2089
20 XX. Berlin, 18. Oktober 1905	1905-10-18	Berlin	lecture	2857
21 XXI. Berlin, 19. Oktober 1905	1905-10-19	Berlin	lecture	2855
22 XXII. Berlin, 24. Oktober 1905	1905-10-24	Berlin	lecture	3111
23 XXIII. Berlin, 25. Oktober 1905	1905-10-25	Berlin	lecture	3928
24 XXIV. Berlin, 26. Oktober 1905	1905-10-26	Berlin	lecture	1942
25 XXV. Berlin, 27. Oktober 1905	1905-10-27	Berlin	lecture	1825
26 XXVI. Berlin, 28. Oktober 1905	1905-10-28	Berlin	lecture	2813
27 XXVII. Berlin, 30. Oktober 1905	1905-10-30	Berlin	lecture	2958
28 XXVIII. Berlin, 31. Oktober 1905	1905-10-31	Berlin	lecture	2869
29 XXIX. Berlin, 3. Novembe 1905			text	2547
30 XXX. Berlin, 4. November 1905	1905-11-04	Berlin	lecture	3348
31 XXXI. Berlin, 5. November 1905	1905-11-05	Berlin	lecture	3636
ANHANG-1, Schematische Übersicht der Weltentwickelungsstufen			apparatus	396
ANHANG-2, Hinweise			apparatus	6028
ANHANG-3, Erklärung indisch-theosophischer Ausdrücke			apparatus	749
ANHANG-4, Personenregister			apparatus	360
ANHANG-5, Rudolf Steiner über die Vortragsnachschriften			apparatus	670

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	31 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	31 the site's completeness audit
Words served	76602 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.98 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026

English

Served on this site

Foundations of Esotericism the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSP1982

Translator	Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1982
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
Foundations of Esotericism the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 93a the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	Vera Compton-Burnett and J. Compton-Burnett AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	2019	9781855845619	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	31	23, 7, 1	725	43, 1

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	45 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, Grundelemente der Esoterik (GA 93a), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/93a/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/93a/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSP1982.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_93a
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_93a · 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 4fb6b1ca84f11fd3
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093a/English/RSP1982/
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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