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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Inner aspect of Saturn-Embodiment of Earth.","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-10-31","location":null,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/132/1911-10-31/p019","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"GC1989","book_title":"Evolution in the Aspect of Realities","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA132/English/GC1989/19111031p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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