{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These are the four lower members of human nature, only one of which is visible. The other three are something real, actual, indeed, the fundamental reasons for the real. Each member is the fundamental being and cause in its entire essence for the next lower body; the I-bearer for the astral body, the astral body for the etheric body, the etheric body for the physical body. Everything that is the actual I-experience, everything that human beings experience through being self-conscious beings, is expressed in the astral body. All ego experiences are imprinted here. This gives rise to everything that is temporary mental image, judgment, and feeling in human beings. What lives in the astral body is expressed and imprinted in the etheric or life body, and thus becomes something lasting, something that is not temporary but is preserved in a certain sense. Let us suppose we make a temporary judgment; we form a mental image of this or that. If we form a mental image again and again, it becomes a habitual mental image. By becoming a habitual mental image, it is imprinted in the etheric body. What lives in our memory, what we remember from day to day, lives in our etheric or life body. The fact that we play a piece of music on the piano lies in our astral body; the fact that we acquire the ability, the habit of playing, lies in the etheric body. All habits are in the etheric body or life body. When we make a moral judgment, this is again an act of the astral body. When a certain direction of judgment becomes ingrained in us through repeated judgment, the moral judgment becomes permanent, the conscience. Moral judgment is an experience of the astral body; conscience is an experience of the etheric or life body. Thus we see how, through the interaction of the higher members with the lower members, the whole of human life is built up from the inside out.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Invisible Elements of Human Nature and Practical Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-18","location":null,"word_count":330,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090218p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p009","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Was im astralischen Leibe lebt, drückt sich aus, prägt sich ab im ätherischen oder Lebensleib, und dadurch wird es zu einem Dauernden, zu einem solchen, das nicht vorübergehend ist, sondern das sich in einem gewissen Sinne erhält. Nehmen wir an, wir fällen ein vorübergehendes Urteil; über dieses oder jenes bilden wir eine Vorstellung. Bilden wir eine Vorstellung wieder und immer wieder, so wird sie einegewohnte Vorstellung. Dadurch, daß sie eine gewohnte Vorstellung wird, prägt sie sich in den ätherischen Leib hinein. Was im Gedächtnis lebt, was wir uns merken von Tag zu Tag, lebt in unserem Äther- oder Lebensleib. Daß wir einmal ein Klavierstück spielen, liegt in unserem astralischen Leibe; daß wir die Fähigkeit, die Gewohnheit des Spielens erwerben, liegt im Ätherleibe. Alle Gewohnheiten sind im Ätherleibe oder Lebensleibe. Wenn wir ein sittliches Urteil fällen, so ist das wieder eine Tat des astralischen Leibes. Wenn sich uns eine gewisse Richtung des Urteilens durch wiederholtes Urteilen einprägt, so wird das sittliche Urteil zu einem dauernden, zum Gewissen. Das sittliche Urteil ist ein Erlebnis des astralischen Leibes, das Gewissen ist ein Erlebnis des Äther- oder Lebensleibes. So sehen wir, wie durch die Wechselwirkung der höheren Glieder mit den niedern Gliedern das ganze Menschenleben sich von innen nach außen aufbaut.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p009"}],"english":["GA 57/1909-02-18/p009"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":310,"en_words":330,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4098,"original_word_count":3971,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090218p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 57/1909-02-18/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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