GA 55 · Lectures

Die Erkenntnis des Übersinnlichen in unserer Zeit (1906/07)

Recognizing the Supernatural in our Time

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	3-7274-0550-3 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0550-1 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1983	290	the publisher's online catalog
	1983		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

15 units in the printed table of contents, about 69,959 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1955.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ZUR EINFÜHRUNG			apparatus	113
DIE ERKENNTNIS DES ÜBERSINNLICHEN IN UNSERER ZEIT UND DEREN BEDEUTUNG FÜR DAS HEUTIGE LEBEN Berlin, 11. Oktober 1906	1906-10-11	Berlin	lecture	7090
BLUT IST EIN GANZ BESONDERER SAFT Berlin, 25. Oktober 1906	1906-10-25	Berlin	lecture	8434
DER URSPRUNG DES LEIDES Berlin, 8. November 1906	1906-11-08	Berlin	lecture	6968
DER URSPRUNG DES BÖSEN Berlin, 22. November 1906	1906-11-22	Berlin	lecture	2276
WIE BEGREIFT MAN KRANKHEIT UND TOD? Berlin, 13. Dezember 1906	1906-12-13	Berlin	lecture	4905
DIE ERZIEHUNG DES KINDES VOM STANDPUNKT DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Köln, 1. Dezember 1906	1906-12-01	Köln	lecture	4133
SCHULFRAGEN VOM STANDPUNKT DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 24. Januar 1907	1907-01-24	Berlin	lecture	1675
DER IRRSINN VOM STANDPUNKTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 31. Januar 1907	1907-01-31	Berlin	lecture	1923
WEISHEIT UND GESUNDHEIT Berlin, 14. Februar 1907	1907-02-14	Berlin	lecture	2407
DER LEBENSLAUF DES MENSCHEN VOM GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN STANDPUNKTE Berlin, 28. Februar 1907	1907-02-28	Berlin	lecture	4805
WER SIND DIE ROSENKREUZER? Berlin, 14. März 1907	1907-03-14	Berlin	lecture	8595
RICHARD WAGNER UND DIE MYSTIK Berlin, 28. März 1907	1907-03-28	Berlin	lecture	8878
BIBEL UND WEISHEIT Berlin, 26. April 1907	1907-04-26	Berlin	lecture	6443
HINWEISE			apparatus	1314

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	16 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	13 the site's completeness audit
Words served	82966 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.21 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1955 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Origin of Suffering the Origin of Evil Illness and Death the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page SBC1980

Translator	M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1980
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
Supersensible Knowledge the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table AP1987	Rita Stebbing the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1987

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	16	7, 8, 1	447	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	1 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	2 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, Die Erkenntnis des Übersinnlichen in unserer Zeit (1906/07) (GA 55), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/55/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/55/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions SBC1980.

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Witnesses

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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_55
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 4e39263844021f51
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/SBC1980/OriSuf_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04

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