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FMC00.237A provides a selection of various illustrations by George and Gisela O'Neil from the book 'The Human Life' compiled by Florin Lowndes (1990), based on the work by O'Neil published in quarterly Newsletter contributions in the period 1977 to 1981.

The book brings to life the Life Chart diagram and connects with the various aspects described by Rudolf Steiner in the lectures describing Man's life development from manifold perspectives. It is centered on the seven year periods (see also Schema FMC00.236) with on the left focus on the first three septennia (see also Schema FMC00.649), on the right the importance of the age thirty five, and above the three phases of twenty one years each (see also right on Schema FMC00.236).

The age 35 is pivotal, as "on the one hand, we have a path of evolution where the various bodies - the physical, the etheric, and the astral bodies develop; and on the other hand, we have a path where these bodies recede: an ascending and a descending path. But it is on the latter path, as the sheaths decrease, that the eternal in Man unfolds and grows." (1908-03-10)