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shows various drawings by Andrei Bely (1880-1953, born Boris Bugaev) who was greatly influenced by Rudolf Steiner's ideas, including various statements about nodal or kink points in history due to the rhythms of various cosmic influences. For examples lecture references, see Schema FMC00.615

For example the year 1250, eg in 1911-01-29-GA130 "things have changed since the year 1250. In the thirteenth century an important, significant transformation of earthly relationships took place ... a change of direction since the Renaissance .. [due to] the change of direction of the Earth's axis at the time when the archai withdrew] (see more info on Transition between 4th and 14th century and Macroscopic rhythms).

The drawings on the upper right show Bely's main idea that the first four cultural ages are a gradual more continuous evolution, but that afterwards there are certain kink points with crises. The drawing upper right is a more worked out version, but not easy to parse without an understanding of Bely's book. Colours correspond to Man's bodily principles, smaller coloured waves represent different cultural streams (Greece, Arabs, France, etc.), and further historical references and keywords added (antiquity, renaissance, etc.). Below are two more detailed drawings showing exceptional detail.

Reference: Andrei Bely: 'The History of the Formation of the Self-Conscious Soul' (1926–1931)

Note and possibly relevant context for these drawings: in her memoirs Assia Turgenieff ('Erinnerungen an Rudolf Steiner und die Arbeit am ersten Goetheanum' - as mentioned also in 'The Green Snake' by Woloschin) a note states that Bely had rich imagination stimulated by exercises, and Steiner said Bely's dream-like creations had a life of their own and used the term "subjective Imagination".

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