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253. Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher: The Protagonists

This kind of thing happens every day, in that disappointed young women fall into all sorts of hysterical conditions, which give rise to all sorts of fantastical dreams. In this case the most holy things have been mixed with false illusions arising from much vanity, self-pride, and the desire for greatness!
254. Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle of the 19th Century: Lecture I 31 Oct 1915, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Actually the ideal to which he aspired was the Order of the Peacock's Feather. But while this Chinese Envoy is dreaming his dreams, the most daring of which is to be made a member of the high Order of the Peacock's Feather, the new Dalai-Lama has been installed in his glory.
237. Karmic Relationships III: The New Age of Michael 28 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

We know that in ancient times of human evolution it was a common condition of mankind to see into the spiritual world, albeit in a dream-like and more or less instinctive way. To doubt the reality of the spiritual world was utterly impossible in olden times of human evolution.
243. True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation: Form and Substantiality of the Mineral Kingdom in Relation to the Levels of Consciousness in Man 13 Aug 1924, Torquay
Translated by A. H. Parker

At the same time I indicated that the chaotic, uncoordinated experiences of dream life during sleep, typical of normal consciousness, can be transformed into the fully conscious, concrete experiences of waking life.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Tenth Lesson 25 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

This was certainly not the case, but rather just the opposite, for in ancient times, the shepherds on the moors were not simply gazing out upon the star-beset heavens with physical eyes, but rather, they were also deeply immersed in dream-awareness or in sleep-awareness while out there with their herds, and they were wandering eyes-closed in soul out in the depths of space.
156. How Does One Enter the World of Ideas?: Third Lecture 19 Dec 1914, Dornach

And the first experience that a person has when he is, as it were, at the starting point of the initiation, is such that the person experiences moments when the spiritual world enters his consciousness in a dream-like, shimmering, flickering way. He only realizes this afterwards, when he says to himself: Now you have experienced something of the spiritual world.
21. The Riddles of the Soul: Where Natural Science and Spiritual Science Meet
Translated by William Lindemann

Their power to picture mentally is then dampened down, even below the level of dreams, into dreamless sleep, where it is no longer conscious. One could say that such people, in their consciousness, are filled with the aftereffects or the direct effects of sense impressions, and that, alongside this fullness, a sleep is occurring that blocks out what would be recognized as being of a soul nature if it could be grasped.
15. The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity: Lecture One 06 Jun 1911, Copenhagen
Translated by Samuel Desch

This conscious relationship to the outer world does not yet exist in early childhood. In childhood, a dream world still seems to hover about us. We work on ourselves with a wisdom that is not in us, a wisdom that is more powerful and comprehensive than all the conscious wisdom we acquire later.
54. The Situation of the World 12 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translator Unknown

That is why we see in the East the land where people dream and sleep. But who knows what is going on in the souls of those whom we call dreamers or sleepers, when they rise up to worlds which are quite unknown to the peoples of the West?
52. What Does Mankind of Today Find in Theosophy? 08 Mar 1904, Berlin

We see that he forms the idea—on account of his different experiences of the super-sensible world, of his dreams, of his spiritual experiences which the primitive human being has to a greater extent than the civilised one—that the forefather, the deceased ancestor, is still there, actually, that he is effective as a soul, holding his hand protectively over his descendants and the like.

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