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But once again, human knowledge is limited when it comes to looking within man. Assuming that man were capable of looking into himself without limit, to the point where the deepest essence of human nature is manifest, where man is in touch with the eternal springs of existence and links his personal existence with that of the cosmos: what would he then have to do without?—Those who gain great inner satisfaction from mysticism often summon up the most varied things from within themselves. I have already indicated that what is brought up in this way ultimately turns out, on closer examination by a true student of the soul, to rest on some external observation. This observation sinks into subconscious depths, is permeated by feeling and will and organic process, and then appears again in an altered form. Anything observed can undergo a transformation or metamorphosis so great that the mystic will believe he is drawing from the depths of his soul something that must demonstrate the eternal foundations of the soul itself. Even such outstanding mystics as Meister Eckhart or Johannes Tauler are not completely free from the error that creeps in when we mistake altered concepts of ordinary consciousness for independent revelations of the human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Anthroposophy and Cosmology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-05","location":null,"word_count":346,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-05/p010","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Das kann aber gegenüber den anderen Erkenntnisanforderungen, die der Mensch heute haben muß, durchaus nicht der rechte Weg sein. Denn Mystik will durch Hineinschauen in das menschliche Innere zu den eigentlichen Untergründen des Daseins kommen. Aber gerade in bezug auf dieses Hineinschauen in das menschliche Innere sind nun wiederum der menschlichen Erkenntnis Grenzen gezogen. Nehmen wir an, der Mensch wäre in der Lage, in sein Inneres ohne Grenze einfach hineinzuschauen, hineinzuschauen bis dahin, wo sich das tiefste Wesen der menschlichen Natur offenbart, wo der Mensch in Verbindung steht mit den ewigen Quellen des Daseins, wo er sein eigenes individuelles Dasein an das kosmische angliedert. Was könnte dann der Mensch wiederum nicht haben? Nun, diejenigen, die gerade eine oftmals große innere Befriedigung an der Mystik haben, holen ja aus ihrem Innern das Mannigfaltigste heraus. Ich habe schon darauf aufmerksam gemacht, daß dasjenige, was so aus dem menschlichen Innern herausgeholt wird, sich bei einem genaueren Zusehen für den wirklichen Seelenkenner doch zuletzt entpuppt als etwas, was auf irgendeiner Außenbeobachtung beruht, dann in unterbewußte Untergründe untergetaucht ist, von Gefühl und Wille und organischem Geschehen durchsetzt worden ist und dann in veränderter Gestalt wieder heraufkommt. Irgend etwas, was wir beobachten, kann eine solche Umwandlung, eine solche Metamorphose erfahren, daß der Mystiker glaubt, er hole aus den Tiefen seiner Seele etwas herauf, was zeigen muß, wie die ewigen Gründe der Seele selber sind. 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