The Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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GA 53 · Lectures
Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen (1904/05)
The Origin and Goal of the Human Being
translation not identifiedGerman source unrecorded
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
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| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1981 | 522 | the publisher's online catalog |
| 1981 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
29 units in the printed table of contents, about 129,209 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1981.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZUR EINFÜHRUNG Aus einem Vorwort von Marie Steiner, 1940 | apparatus | 113 | ||
| WAS FINDET DER MODERNE MENSCH IN DER THEOSOPHIE? Berlin, 29. September 1904 | 1904-09-29 | Berlin | lecture | 6972 |
| DIE MENSCHLICHE WESENHEIT Berlin, 13. Oktober 1904 | 1904-10-13 | Berlin | lecture | 5557 |
| REINKARNATION UND KARMA Berlin, 20. Oktober 1904 | 1904-10-20 | Berlin | lecture | 6544 |
| Fragenbeantwortung | text | 837 | ||
| THEOSOPHIE UND DARWIN Berlin, 27. Oktober 1904 | 1904-10-27 | Berlin | lecture | 4826 |
| THEOSOPHIE UND TOLSTOT Berlin, 3. November 1904 | 1904-11-03 | Berlin | lecture | 5643 |
| DIE SEELENWELT Berlin, 10. November 1904 | 1904-11-10 | Berlin | lecture | 4578 |
| DAS GEISTERLAND Berlin, 17. November 1904 | 1904-11-17 | Berlin | lecture | 5021 |
| FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 1. Dezember 1904 | 1904-12-01 | Berlin | lecture | 4970 |
| VOM INNEREN LEBEN Berlin, 15. Dezember 1904 | 1904-12-15 | Berlin | lecture | 5579 |
| URSPRUNG UND ZIEL DES MENSCHEN Berlin, 9. Februar 1905 | 1905-02-09 | Berlin | lecture | 6031 |
| Fragenbeantwortung | text | 1104 | ||
| DIE ENTSTEHUNG DER ERDE Berlin, 9. März 1905 | 1905-03-09 | Berlin | lecture | 6099 |
| DIE GROSSEN EINGEWEIHTEN Berlin, 16. März 1905 | 1905-03-16 | Berlin | lecture | 6449 |
| Fragenbeantwortung | text | 228 | ||
| IBSENS GEISTESART Berlin, 23. März 1905 | 1905-03-23 | Berlin | lecture | 3672 |
| DIE ZUKUNFT DES MENSCHEN Berlin, 30. März 1905 | 1905-03-30 | Berlin | lecture | 5535 |
| Fragenbeantwortung | text | 886 | ||
| II GOETHES EVANGELIUM Berlin, 26. Januar 1905 | 1905-01-26 | Berlin | lecture | 1773 |
| GOETHES GEHEIME OFFENBARUNG DAS MÄRCHEN VON DER GRÜNEN SCHLANGE UND DER SCHÖNEN LILIE I Berlin, 16. Februar 1905 | 1905-02-16 | Berlin | lecture | 5089 |
| GOETHES GEHEIME OFFENBARUNG DAS MÄRCHEN VON DER GRUNEN SCHLANGE UND DER SCHONEN LILIE II Berlin, 23. Februar 1905 | 1905-02-23 | Berlin | lecture | 5450 |
| GOETHES GEHEIME OFFENBARUNG «DIE NEUE MELUSINE» UND «DER NEUE PARIS« III Berlin, 2. März 1905 | 1905-03-02 | Berlin | lecture | 6391 |
| SCHILLER UND DIE GEGENWART Berlin, 4. Mai 1905 | 1905-05-04 | Berlin | lecture | 7035 |
| DIE THEOLOGISCHE FAKULTÄT UND DIE THEOSOPHIE Berlin, 11. Mai 1905 | 1905-05-11 | Berlin | lecture | 7028 |
| DIE JURISTISCHE FAKULTÄT UND DIE THEOSOPHIE Berlin, 18. Mai 1905 | 1905-05-18 | Berlin | lecture | 5520 |
| DIE MEDIZINISCHE FAKULTÄT UND DIE THEOSOPHIE Berlin, 25. Mai 1905 | 1905-05-25 | Berlin | lecture | 2330 |
| DIE PHILOSOPHISCHE FAKULTÄT UND DIE THEOSOPHIE Berlin, 8. Juni 1905 | 1905-06-08 | Berlin | lecture | 2797 |
| HINWEISE | apparatus | 5152 |
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 | 26 the site's completeness audit |
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| Printed units of text | 27 the site's completeness audit |
| Words served | 142398 the site's completeness audit |
| Served against the print | 1.15 (comparable) the site's completeness audit |
| Source | https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026 |
| Edition used | 1981 the source record of the served German |
English
Served on this site
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 26 | 21, 5, 0 | 911 | 11, 7 |
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 served English translation is not identified: no edition or translator is on record. 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, Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen (1904/05) (GA 53), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/53/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/53/, status as of 2026-11-04: German 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-2026-11-02a.db ·
sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json - AnthroWiki (German)
- https://anthrowiki.at/GA_53
AnthroWiki's 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 8aa0f6d033d7e107 - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
- the site's completeness audit
- research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
status as of · all volumes