1. Inner aspect of Saturn-Embodiment of Earth.

And now an excellent ‘imagination’ is the following: In Knowledge of Higher Worlds and elsewhere it is frequently said that the second stage of Rosicrucian initiation is the forming of imagination. The theosophist must build up these imaginations from the right conceptions of the world. Thus we can think of what we have discussed to-day as transformed into an ‘imagination’: we can imagine the Thrones, the Spirits of Will, kneeling in absolute devotion before the Cherubim, but so that their devotion does not proceed from a feeling of littleness but from a consciousness that they have something to offer. Imagine the Thrones, with this desire of sacrifice underlying their strength and courage, kneeling before the Cherubim and sending up their sacrifice to them. ... And they send up this sacrifice as foaming heat, so that the sacrificial smoke ascends to the winged Cherubim. So might we picture it. And proceeding from this sacrifice (just as though a word of ours spoken into the air became time—in this case it is time-beings) and emerging from this sacrifice the Spirits of Time—Archai. This sending forth of the Archai gives a grand and powerful picture.—And this picture placed before our souls is extremely impressive in certain imaginations, for it can lead us further and further into the realm of occult knowledge.