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FMC00.681A shows the Lyre of Apollo and the human nerve-sense subsystem with balance of breathing and blood circulation underlying human consciousness.

Lower left: Building on Schema FMC00.681, this Schema serves as an illustration to the references quotes in the lower right corner that are on the topic pages of the different inter-related elements to bring together various aspects: a) how the breathing causes or pushes against the blood circulation b) the 4:1 ratio between the two rhythms (see also The heart's two blood circuits) c) how the breathing process causes the rhythmic undulation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) - shown here with the dark blue vertical arros d) the whole considered along the spectrum of elements and ethers, so air processes related to the astral, the etheric working on the watery, the human I mediating warmth.

• 1918-06-01-GA271 and 1919-12-30-GA320 are on Nerve-sense subsystem#lyre of Apollo
• 1921-06-26-GA205 and 1923-03-29-GA281 are on Rhythmic subsystem#Hexameter
• 1921-12-28-GA303 and 1922-05-15-GA212 are on Human breathing#Conscious thinking and rhythm of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

The six references are given to initialize one's study of these subtopics (with other references on these pages) that have to be integrated in one's mind. Furthermore see also: The heart's two blood circuits (shown here in red) and Between heart and brain.

On the left: In breathing, the human being is entirely conjoined with the cosmos. The air which I have just breathed in was formerly an ingredient in the cosmos, and it will afterwards become an ingredient in the cosmos once more - and here not just coarse but also fine breathing is meant.

In our in-breathing the external world pulsates: we receive the moving waves of cosmic life into ourselves, and adjust them to our inner being. In our out-breathing our own blood pulsates: we impart to the rhythm of the breath something of the vibration of the pulse in the circulating blood (1922-09-22-GA216).

This interchange between Man and the world finds its inner formation in the rhythm of blood-circulation, closely bound up with the breathing-rhythm through a harmony expressed in the ratio one to four between respiration and pulse.

Upper right: The idea is that the Schema comes to life as an image and foundation to understand the process of human consciousness and what we call the human 'I' and threefold soul: the process of perception with the human senses, and thinking.

The image on the upper right (from 1919-12-30-GA320) points to the fact that with this lyre of Apollo, with the nerve-sense subsystem (nerves, senses) thus 'riding' on the rhythmic subsystem (breathing, blood circulation ..), Man is able to experience inner differentiations that relate to what enters the human senses as an air wavefront, or light .. and thus becomes a conscious soul experience of tone, music, speech, vision. See also the short description on the Music topic page.

In summary, from Schema FMC00.431, the human 'I' "plays on the instrument of the soul and the different strings of human soul life".