GA 7 · Writings

Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung (1901)

Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age

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	978-3-7274-0070-4 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-6230-6 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7728-2635-1 AnthroWiki (German)

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
6	1987	186	the publisher's online catalog
	1990		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

12 units in the printed table of contents, about 36,707 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1960.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
Inhalt	apparatus	175
VORWORT ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1923	text	655
VORWORT ZUR ERSTEN AUFLAGE	text	918
EINFÜHRUNG	text	6482
MEISTER ECKHART	text	3839
GOTTESFREUNDSCHAFT	text	6623
DER KARDINAL NICOLAUS VON KUES	text	6026
AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM UND THEOPHRASTUS PARAGELSUS	text	4917
VALENTIN WEIGEL UND JACOB BÖHME	text	2927
GIORDANO BRUNO UND ANGELUS SILESIUS	text	2641
AUSKLANG	text	1327
NACHTRÄGE ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1923	text	177

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	10 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	11 the site's completeness audit
Words served	36398 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA007/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1960 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Witnesses differ:
Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Eleven European Mystics AnthroWiki (English)
RSP1960

Translator	Karl E. Zimmer the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publications the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Place	Englewood, N. J. the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1960
Pages	242 the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the 2nd or 3rd German edition of 1923 or 1924 the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age, Rudolf Steiner Publications, Englewood, N. J., 1960, 242 pp. plus index, translated from the 2nd or 3rd German edition of 1923 or 1924 by Karl E. Zimmer the edition's imprint line (GA007/RSP1960)
Rudolf Steiner Publications, Englewood, N. J., 1960, 242 pp. plus index, translated from the 2nd or 3rd German edition of 1923 or 1924 by Karl E. Zimmer the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Eleven European Mystics*. Translated by Karl E. Zimmer. Rudolf Steiner Publications 1960 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0007/Mystics/GA007_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

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
Mystics after Modernism the SteinerBooks catalog CW 7 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Christopher Bamford, Karl E. Zimmer, Paul Marshall Allen	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2000	9780880104708	in copyright
Mystics at the Dawn of the Modern Age the SteinerBooks catalog CW 7 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Jon McAlice, Karl E. Zimmer, Thomas O'Keefe	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2018	9780996921145	in copyright
Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age AnthroWiki (English) CW 7 AnthroWiki (English)	Karl E. Zimmer AnthroWiki (English)	SteinerBooks AnthroWiki (English)	1980	0-8334-0758-8

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
RSP1960	11	4, 4, 3	60	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

This witness is longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. Verify quotations against the original. the site's completeness audit
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 Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung (1901) (GA 7), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/7/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/7/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions RSP1960.

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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_7
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_7 · 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 (GA007/RSP1960): data/steiner-ga/data/GA007/RSP1960/00_toc.md · sha256 5c4baed1c1646760
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 f5379bc9e08cc829
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA007/ · sha256 17045fa99070bae9
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
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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