1. Inner aspect of Saturn-Embodiment of Earth.

In Occult Science, in order not to rack people's brains too much, I have begun by describing the more external condition of ancient Saturn. Their brains are quite puzzled enough by this, and people who can only think in accordance with modern science look upon the book as nonsense. Just think what it would mean if we were to say, ‘Ancient Saturn has in its innermost being—in its very foundation—this fact, that the beings belonging to the Spirits of Will offered sacrifice to the Cherubim, that in the smoke of their sacrifice time came to birth as the sacrifice they brought to the Cherubim, and that from this proceeded the Archai, the Time-Spirits, and that external heat is nothing but maya as compared with the sacrifice of the Spirits of Will!’ But so it is. Externally heat is really only maya. And if we wish to speak truly we must say that wherever there is heat we have in reality sacrifice, sacrifice of the Thrones to the Cherubim.