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FMC00.666 provides an overview of Man and the spiritual hierarchies, integrating descriptions from five lectures (see upper right).

Perspectives from different lectures are in different colours so they can easily be traced back and read in context of the full lecture as part of study.

The main view is laid out as a 4 by 3 matrix of four of Man's bodily principles and the three subsystems of Man as a threefold being, well realizing that there are no strict boundaries and the main components interpenetrate eachother.

These two dimensions have to be supplemented mentally with a non-depicted third dimension, which is the type of working, influence or impact of any spiritual hierarchy along the planes or worlds of consciousness. For this, consider:

• first, the Force substance representation for an appreciation of the distinction and gradient between spiritual force or influence and matter or substance (see outer left and below right on this Schema)
• the interwoven nature of the spiritual hierarchies, see eg Schema FMC00.661A
• and how the effects concatenate in what is described as the Golden Chain (of Homer), with zodiacal influences modulated by the planetary spheres, and the working together of various spiritual beings (such as described as the Elementary Kingdoms, elementals of nature).