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FMC00.511A shows additional versions of the concept drawing of Schema FMC00.511 that Rudolf Steiner used to illustrate how our experience of reality with waking consciousness in time and space is a projection of higher spiritual realities. For broader context, see also Lemniscatory time and space#physical reality as a projection.

On the left - in quite a different context - the drawing is used to illustrate how normal healthy contemporary waking consciousness acts as the bandpass filter for our reality experience, and that unbalances between Man's bodily principles may cause illness, or lead to clairvoyant spiritual experiences (as was the case with mystics such as Teresa of Avila). This is explained in the lectures of 9 to 18 September in 1924-GA318. Above in light gray is an addition to convey the idea of the lower subrealms and higher worlds (as explained on Schema FMC00.641A)

On the right - more esoterically - the drawing is used to explain the relation between the physical and the spiritual, with Pi representing a symbol for that relation in various ways, see text on the right (from 1906-09-21-GA091). Regarding the last sentence: creator and creation become one, this relates to IAO and the concept of Mahat (see Schema FMC00.568 .. the whole gives its essence to the parts).