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As we have stressed a number of times, occult training is not a matter of theory but of directing evolution to the structures in the ether body, which otherwise tend to be unchanging. A disciple has done more if he has changed one of these temperamental characteristics, his basic inclination, and thus made the hour hand move a little faster than would otherwise have been the case. All the things that evolve so slowly—our lasting habits and basic temperament—are embodied in the ether or life body. Everything that changes relatively more quickly, like the minute hand on the clock, is embodied in the astral body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. The Lord's Prayer: An Esoteric Study, Prayer and Meditation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-01-28","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1907-01-28_02/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna Meuss","identified_edition":"CMP2001","book_title":"Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA096/English/CMP2001/19070128p01.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/96/1907-01-28_02/p032"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1907-01-28_02/p032","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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Aber vergleicht ihr jetzt das damit, was euer Temperament, euer Charakter, eure bleibenden Neigungen sind, dann werdet ihr darauf kommen, daß, wenn ihr mit acht Jahren ein jähzorniges Kind wart, ihr es wahrscheinlich im jetzigen Lebensalter noch sein werdet. Die meisten Menschen behalten so ihr ganzes Leben lang das, was als Grundlage ihres Wesens in ihnen liegt. Es ist hier schon öfter betont worden, daß die Geheimschulung nicht in theoretischem Lernen besteht, sondern darin, daß man auf die sonst so stationären Gebilde des Ätherleibes die Evolution richtet. Mehr hat der Schüler getan, wenn er eine von diesen Eigenschaften seines Temperaments, seiner Grundneigung umgeändert und dadurch den Stundenzeiger der Uhr etwas schneller vorwärtsgerückt hat, als es sonst geschehen wäre. Alles dasjenige, was sich so langsam entwikkelt — die bleibenden Neigungen, die bleibenden Temperamentseigenschaften, die bleibenden Gewohnheiten -—, ist im Äther- oder Lebensleib verankert. 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