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FMC00.648A provides a tabular overview with descriptions of the twelve worldviews and seven soul moods given by Rudolf Steiner, along with examples on the right.

All twelve perspectives or conceptions of the world are equally and fully justifiable .. and each may act illuminating in its own field. It is possible for the human soul to pass through a mental circle which embraces twelve world-pictures. Also for each worldview different soul moods are possible.

The four highlighted worldviews provide an X-Y axis materialism-spirit(ual)ism (Y) and idealism-realism (X), see Schema FMC00.648, whereby people with perspectives above the X-axis are typically more rigid or stubborn and those below the X-axis more flexible to switch or adopt another view.

Rudolf Steiner gives the example of Nietzsche to show one should use this framework rigidly to 'box in' philosophers or scientists, as one's soul evolves throughout life also (as in his example from A to C).