1. Inner aspect of Saturn-Embodiment of Earth.

It is extremely important to take part in this sacrifice of the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim, and in the birth of time. For it is only now, when time is born, that something else appears—something that makes it possible for us to speak of the Saturn condition as having anything in the least similar to our environment. What we call the element of heat in Saturn is as it were the sacrificial smoke of the Thrones giving birth to time. Hence I have always said, in describing the condition, that it was one of beat. Of all the elements we have around us now, the only one we can speak of as being on ancient Saturn is heat. And this heat consists of the sacrificial heat offered by the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim. This should give us an indication of how we should really look upon fire. Wherever we see fire, wherever we are aware of heat, we should not think in so materialistic a fashion as is natural and usual to the man of to-day. But wherever heat is present we should feel that what is at the spiritual foundation of our life is present, though it is not yet visible, namely the sacrifice of the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim. The world only acquires its truth when we know that behind every development of heat, there is sacrifice.