GA 12 · Writings

Die Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis (1905 – 1908)

The Stages of Higher Knowledge

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	3-7274-0120-6 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6410-2 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-0120-6 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
7	1993	106	the publisher's online catalog
	1993		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

9 units in the printed table of contents, about 18,293 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1959.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
Inhalt	apparatus	154
Vorwort von Marie Steiner	apparatus	1387
AUS DER VORREDE ZUR FÜNFTEN AUFLAGE DES BUCHES «WIE ERLANGT MAN ERKENNTNISSE DER HÖHEREN WELTEN?»	apparatus	400
DIE STUFEN DER HÖHEREN ERKENNTNIS	text	5169
DIE IMAGINATION	text	3706
DIE INSPIRATION	text	3886
INSPIRATION UND INTUITION	text	3171
AUS DEM NACHWORT VON MARIE STEINER	apparatus	246
ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1959	text	174

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	7 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	5 the site's completeness audit
Words served	17857 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.11 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA012/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1959 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Stages of Higher Knowledge the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) AP1967

Translator	Witnesses differ: Lisa D. Monges and Floyd McKnight the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page Lisa Monges and Floyd McKnight AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Place	New York the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1967
Pages	58 the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Collected Works	12 AnthroWiki (English)
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

The Stages of Higher Knowledge, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1967, 58 pp., translated from the German by Lisa D. Monges and Floyd McKnight the edition's imprint line (GA012/AP1967)
Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1967, 58 pp., translated from the German by Lisa D. Monges and Floyd McKnight the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Stages of Higher Knowledge*, translated by Lisa Monges and Floyd McKnight, **CW 12**, Anthroposophic Press 1967 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0012/English/AP1967/GA012_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
AP1967	7	0, 4, 3	55	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 German and English units use different keys; gaps between them are not asserted. the site's completeness audit
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 Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis (1905 – 1908) (GA 12), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/12/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/12/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions AP1967.

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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-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_12
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_12 · 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 (GA012/AP1967): data/steiner-ga/data/GA012/AP1967/00_toc.md · sha256 e7d8638ecab5c891
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 31fde9abace662a7
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA012/ · sha256 325d17da58e88f30
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04

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