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FMC00.661 shows the interwoven nature of the spiritual hierarchies in the Cosmic fractal.

Rudolf Steiner's descriptions in the language of the spiritual hierarchies may be complex to grasp in their totality; this Schema aims to shed some light on (one of) the reasons why in order to develop a better understanding.

Imagine this picture representing one whole spiritual reality. The Schema depicts that each spiritual hierarchy 'participates' in a bodily principle with six other hierarchies of beings, whereby for each hierarchy any bodily principle (as individual structural member of that hierarchy) plays in a different realm of impact. So whereas spiritual beings are mostly considered as consisting of a sevenfold structure (‘vertically’ on the Schema) … each of the bodily principles also ‘lives in’ or constitutes other bodily members (‘horizontally’) of other hierarchies of beings.

This also illustrates how the human being is connected to and made up of the Third Hierarchy H3 as well as the Second Hierarchy H2, and how Man's work with the human ‘I’ is ‘food for archai’.

See also Schema FMC00.471A for positioning the Christ Impulse and archangel Michael in the same view.