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265. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two: The Initiation of the Hiram Abiff Individuality by Christ Jesus

According to Origen, the Egyptians used a similar symbol to represent the descent of heavenly souls in the Milky Way through the seven planetary spheres, namely a ladder that reached from heaven to earth and was divided into seven steps, each with a gate. (...) The ladder that Jacob saw in the famous dream and that also reached from earth to heaven was probably this Egyptian ladder that led the souls of men from heaven to earth and from there back to heaven again, which thus had not just three steps, as is generally the case.
240. Karmic Relationships VI: Lecture IX 20 Jul 1924, Arnheim
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, E. H. Goddard, Mildred Kirkcaldy

It was something that lies implanted deep down in the hearts of the majority of Anthroposophists to-day, although in the unconscious, wrapt in sleep or dream. And the Anthroposophist speaks truly when he says to himself: Within my heart there lies a secret although I am yet unconscious of it.
243. True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation: Nature is the Great Illusion. ‘Know Thou Thyself’ 11 Aug 1924, Torquay
Translated by A. H. Parker

And again, if we harbour vague anticipations, nebulous enthusiasms, unaccountable presentiments from dark corners of the soul, dream-fantasies about the spiritual, it will remain forever unknown to us. We remain in the world of conjecture; we share a belief, but have no real knowledge.
221. Earthly Knowledge and Heavenly Insight: Man as a Citizen of the Universe and Man as an Earthly Hermit I 09 Feb 1923, Dornach

What an older mankind once knew about the heavens and their inhabitants, the divine spiritual beings, was indeed the inspiration, the imagination of an ancient dream-like clairvoyance, which was something that as such clairvoyance had descended from the universe into man.
224. The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities: A Perspicuous View of the Mood at St. John's Tide 24 Jun 1923, Dornach

— That doesn't occur to me at all. It doesn't occur to me in my dreams. Everything that is done should be done, but you have to have the counterweight to it. And in an age in which we have emancipated ourselves from cosmic perception regarding the growth of beech trees, there must also be a perception on the other hand, in a civilization that absorbs such things, of how spiritual progress occurs in the evolution of humanity.
227. The Evolution of Consciousness: Experiences between Death and Rebirth 27 Aug 1923, Penmaenmawr
Translated by Violet E. Watkin, Charles Davy

Their waking life took a more dreamlike course, and in its dream-pictures revealed more of the spiritual world. I should like now to draw attention to something you will see more clearly during the next few days.
214. The Mystery of Golgotha 27 Aug 1922, Oxford
Translator Unknown

They were the descendants of primæval humanity, which was by no means animal-like as modern Science conceives; for within the outer form, however like the animal, primæval man had borne a soul, in the ancient dream-clairvoyance of which he knew full well: “We have come down from the Divine-spiritual world, and have assumed a human body.
215. Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: How to Acquire Imaginative, Inspired and Intuitive Knowledge 08 Sep 1922, Dornach
Translated by Lisa D. Monges, Doris M. Bugbey, Maria St. Goar, Stewart C. Easton

He actually perceived in the outer world what those beings were accomplishing in the etheric and astral cosmos, who, in creating, maintain the activity of the cosmos. This he perceived, even as though in dreams, in quite a dull way. But he did perceive it, and this perceiving was at the same time the content of his religious consciousness.
217. The Younger Generation: Lecture X 12 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by René M. Querido

He really has no will, for he is given up to instincts connected with his organic development. He often dreams that he does this or that out of an impulse of the soul, but he really does it because of the good or bad condition of his stomach.
217. The Younger Generation: Lecture XI 13 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by René M. Querido

The fingers and the limbs will not only get less skillful but they will also get smaller, they will wither away and heads will get larger and larger. That is how he described his poet's dream and then he said he thought the time would come when only balls, balls which are heads, would be rolling about over the surface of the earth.

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