{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 59/1910-02-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The subject of today's lecture[^1] is one on which widespread confusion prevails. Not long ago I heard a cultured scholar declare that Goethe should be numbered among the mystics, for he had admitted the existence of a dark, inscrutable element, beyond the range of knowledge. And many people would probably agree with that opinion. What indeed is not called mysticism or mystical nowadays? When a person is not clear about something, if his response to it hovers between not-knowing and a dim inkling, he will call it mystical or mysterious. When people are tempted by a certain lack of thought and psychological knowledge to assert that nothing reliable is known about something, and then go on to deny that anyone else may have knowledge of it, as is the wont today, they dismiss it as mystical.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. What is Mysticism?","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-10","location":null,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-10/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"C. Davy and C. von Arnim","identified_edition":"RSP1983","book_title":"Metamorphoses of the Soul II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA059/English/RSP1983/19100210p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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Wenn man von irgendeiner Sache nicht klar Bescheid weiß, wenn man so etwas hat von ihr, was da schwebt zwischen Nichtwissen und einer recht unklaren, dunklen Ahnung, sagt man: diese Sache sei mystisch oder mysteriös; wenn man versucht ist, aus einer gewissen Bequemlichkeit des Denkens und der seelischen Forschung heraus festzustellen, daß man über irgendeine Sache nichts Rechtes weiß, und dann, wie es für viele Menschen selbstverständlich ist, auch aller Welt verbietet, darüber etwas zu wissen, dann sagt man: das ist eben eine mystische Sache. Kurz, eigentlich wird dasjenige, worüber man höchstens erlaubt, eine Gefühlsahnung zu haben, sehr häufig als der Gegenstand der Mystik bezeichnet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/59/1910-02-10/p003"}],"english":["GA 59/1910-02-10/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":196,"en_words":136,"ratio":0.69,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.79,"band":"watch","note":"This witness is somewhat shorter than the original. Minor omissions or condensation are possible.","word_count":6705,"original_word_count":8463,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"C. 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