{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us take for example the builder of the Gotthard Tunnel and then a man who describes it. The builder, who actually constructed the Gotthard Tunnel did not need perhaps to possess such a high degree of engineering science in his conscious self, but he actually brought a thought into reality. Such is the relationship between the wise men of ancient times and those of today. At that time they possessed a creative wisdom. Now we have a wisdom based on observation. The creative wisdom is that wisdom which once made man, building up one after another those parts which today the anatomist takes out and describes. The creative wisdom is exactly the same as the wisdom which can be discovered today; it has been placed into the world. In the primeval wisdom man was concerned with the plan of the world. Now you can understand why the mystic has to withdraw into himself. The true mystic must be an investigator of the inner. He attempts to seek out those stages of evolution through which he has been created.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVIII","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Senses and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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In der uralten Weisheit hat man es mit dem Plane der Welt zu tun. Nun können Sie verstehen, warum der Mystiker sich in sich selbst zurückziehen muß. Der eigentliche Mystiker muß ein Erforscher des Inneren sein. 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