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121. The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: The Mission of Individual Peoples and Cultures in the Past, Present and Future. 16 Jun 1910, Oslo
Translated by A. H. Parker

There is perhaps no greater contrast than that eminently Christian conception of the State which hovers as a great ideal before Solovieff as a dream of the future, that Christian conception of the social State which takes everything implicit in that conception in order to present it as an offering to the in-streaming Spirit Self, in order to hold it up as an ideal of the future to be Christianized by the powers of the future—there is indeed no greater contrast than this idea of Solovieff's of a Christian community in which the Christ conception lies wholly in the future and the Divine State of St.
105. Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII 12 Aug 1908, Stuttgart
Translated by Harry Collison

He could not at that time see outer objects as he does today, but when anything approached him an astral vision rose before him like a vivid dream picture, but it was related in a particular way to the object he perceived. Man's consciousness was then a picture consciousness, not an objective consciousness.
105. Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture IX 13 Aug 1908, Stuttgart
Translated by Harry Collison

It was He who in the time of the old dim clairvoyant consciousness entered into man at initiation, and it was He who appeared to man in dreams and prepared him slowly to receive the “I“ which he could obtain fully only through the coming of Christ.
100. Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Progressive Development Through the Different Cycles of Culture 26 Jun 1907, Kassel
Translator Unknown

He had no interest in the world which is accessible to the ordinary senses. He asked the dream-like world of the Spirit to rise up before him. The progress from this Indian culture to the next cultural epoch, i.e. the Persian one preceding the time of Zarathustra, consisted in the fact of humanity learning to appreciate external reality.
101. Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols: Norse and Persian Myths 14 Oct 1907, Berlin

Through the twenty-eight nerve cords, people do not perceive the astral on the outside, but in certain states of emergency they do perceive it, for example in a dream-like state of sleep. Those who were particularly predisposed to perceive this then said according to popular belief: “I am being pressed by Thrud” – and this is none other than the daughter of Thor.
138. Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: Lecture IV 28 Aug 1912, Munich
Translated by Gilbert Church

During sleep the soul does not know what it is because sleep runs its course either in a state of unconsciousness, or dreams play into it, which, to be rightly understood must be interpreted by the occultist. So, in considering the questions, “What is man?
250. The History of the German Section of the Theosophical Society 1902-1913: Theosophy in Germany a Hundred Years Ago 04 Jun 1906, Paris

Steffens could be cited, who sought reflections of a cosmic spiritual life in the processes of earth development; Eckartshausen (1752–1803) could be referred to, who sought to explain the abnormal phenomena of nature and soul life in a theosophical-mystical way ; Ennemoser (1787–1854) with his “History of Magic”, Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert with his works on dream phenomena and the hidden facts in nature; and the brilliant works of Justinus Kerner and Karl Gustav Carus are rooted in the same school of thought.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture VI 16 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

As a young man with the most primitive instruments with which other people would not dream of trying to accomplish anything, he feels impelled one day to seek the exact places of Saturn and Jupiter in the heavens.
223. Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man: Lecture II 28 Sep 1923, Vienna
Translated by Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

When we observe a plant in the usual way we do not in the least sense the presence of an elemental being dwelling in it, of something spiritual; we do not dream that every such plant harbors something which is not satisfied by having us look at it and form such abstract mental pictures as we commonly do of plants today.
228. The Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System: Lecture II 28 Jul 1923, Dornach

But it was once, I would like to say, the custom to speak about the stars in the way that I began to speak about them yesterday, based on the old clairvoyance, on this dream-like old clairvoyance. Only that has been completely lost to humanity, and European humanity today considers all of this to be absurd, which was once considered the highest human wisdom.

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