GA 238 · Lectures

Esoterische Betrachtungen karmischer Zusammenhänge. Vierter Band

Esoteric Considerations of Karmic Connections

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	3-7274-2380-3 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2380-2 the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-7140-7 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
6	1991	200	the publisher's online catalog
	1991		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

12 units in the printed table of contents, about 51,646 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1974.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. September 1924	1924-09-05	Dornach	lecture	4482
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 7. September 1924	1924-09-07	Dornach	lecture	4160
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. September 1924	1924-09-10	Dornach	lecture	5315
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. September 1924	1924-09-12	Dornach	lecture	5544
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. September 1924	1924-09-14	Dornach	lecture	4235
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. September 1924	1924-09-16	Dornach	lecture	5113
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 18. September 1924	1924-09-18	Dornach	lecture	4492
ACHTER VORTRAG Darnach, 19. September 1924	1924-09-19	Darnach	lecture	4245
NEUNTER VORTRAG Darnach, 21. September 1924	1924-09-21	Darnach	lecture	5230
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 23. September 1924	1924-09-23	Dornach	lecture	4715
ANSPRACHE Dornach, 28. September 1924	1924-09-28	Dornach	lecture	2478
Ergänzende Bemerkungen zur letzten Ansprache			text	1637

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	11 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	12 the site's completeness audit
Words served	50607 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.98 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA238/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1974 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Karmic Relationships IV the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1957

Translator	Charles Adams, D. S. Osmond and Charles Davy the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1957
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
Witnesses differ: Karmic Relationships 4 the SteinerBooks catalog Karmic Relationships. Esoteric Studies Vol. 4 AnthroWiki (English) CW 238 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	George Adams, C. Davy AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	2017	9781855845381	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	12	6, 4, 2	376	5, 3

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	2 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	1 plates the site's blackboard index

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.

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
Ergänzende Bemerkungen zum Inhalt der Ansprache vom 28. September 1924 (letzte Ansprache)	the editors' essay		2086

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Esoterische Betrachtungen karmischer Zusammenhänge. Vierter Band (GA 238), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/238/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/238/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions APC1957.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_238
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_238 · 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 8acd351c128ad9b5
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA238/English/APC1957/Karm04_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 · 2026-11-04
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

status as of 2026-11-04 · all volumes