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FMC00.648 Twelve worldviews, seven soul moods, three soul tones, one anthropomorphism.

The world discloses itself only to someone who knows that one must look at it from all sides. The schema is structured around the 1914-GA151 four lecture cycle, in which all possible worldviews are decomposed into the exhaustive 12+7+3 set of elementary conceptions, whose already existing combinations make up the history of Western philosophy, and yet unrealized combinations its future potentialities. While the matter is framed philosophically, the schema is valid for any human being capable of developing a worldview. The lecture cycle suggests the possibility of thinking about worldviews dynamically.

Despite the brevity with which the cycle addresses the right part of the schema — the so-called anthropomorphism — it is more difficult than the previous parts; and careful study of the references is recommended, as even the term itself could be misleading if understood habitually.

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Albertus and Thomas say: If you look back when your soul reflects what it has experienced in the outside world, then you have the universals living in your soul. You then have universals. You form the concept of humanity from all the people you have met. After all, if you remembered only individual things, you could live merely in earthly names. In that you do not at all live merely in earthly names, you must experience universals. There you have universalia post res, those that live in the soul after the things. While Man turns his soul towards things, he does not have the same in his soul as what he has afterwards when he remembers it, when it is reflected to him, as it were, from within, but he stands in a real relationship to things. He experiences the spiritual of the things; only he translates it into the form of universalia post rem.