"The great inventors of our race are incarnations of ‘seers’ of the Atlantean race.

In their brilliant ideas is something which has as a different basis, something that was in them during their Atlantean incarnation as life-giving force. Our logic, knowledge of nature, art and so on have their foundation in Atlantis “ (Rudolf Steiner)

Source: Rudolf Steiner – ”From the Akasha Chronicles“, complete works volume 11 (GA011, p.233)