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FMC00.647 shows variants of normal waking consciousness based on balance between four bodily principles, their mutual alignment and evolution throughout life, with links to illness and seven year periods. For the narrative, see lectures of 9 to 12 September 1924 in GA318. The blackboard drawing (BBD) of the first lecture is available as Schema FMC00.647A.

In these lectures, Rudolf Steiner shows how different psychopathological conditions can develop based on an individual's karma, but also due to the typical consequences of modern education (going into the seven year phases in 1924-09-11-GA318). A link can be made with statements predicting future epidemics of mental illnesses.

The upper Case A is the pattern typical for mystics such as Teresa of Avila, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and many others.

Note: Also building on this picture, additionally in 1924-09-13-GA318 the example of Ferdinand Raimund is given as someone who developed both the upper and lower patterns (A and B), with a karmically predisposed breathing system as a carrier for anxiety elementals (demons), that pushed karma in a certain direction (Raimund committed suicide).

See also Schema FMC00.338 and Man: an integrated view#Unbalances in the human bodily constitution and between Man's bodily principles.