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332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Anthroposophy and the Social Question 27 Jun 1919, Stuttgart

They have been forgotten because they have passed before those to whom they were performed, like a dream that one forgets; one may enjoy it, but one forgets it. These things must be said one day, my dear friends, otherwise we will not get around to what I actually meant last Sunday.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Social Question as Determined by the Necessities of Contemporary Humanity 06 Feb 1919, Bern

There is a terribly revolutionary element in the view of spiritual life as an ideology, the consequences of which, one might say, people today still dare not dream of! There could be a very uncomfortable awakening from this oversleeping of what is revealed in this point in relation to the social question.
316. Course for Young Doctors: Easter Course I 21 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

In the present incarnation the intellect predominates and everything else is overshadowed by the ego, works upwards at the most like a dream, and is unconscious. In contrast with this, meditation means elimination of this intellectual striving and, to begin with, taking the content of the meditation just as it is given—purely according to the sounds of the words.
13. Occult Science - An Outline: Man and the Evolution of the World
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

We may describe it as a picture-consciousness. It may be conceived as of the nature of man's dream-consciousness; only we must imagine it far more vivid, far more animated than human dreaming. Nor is it a mere meaningless ebb and flow of pictures; the dream-pictures of the Fire Spirits and the warmth-bodies of Saturn, the seeds of the human sense-organs are first implanted in the stream of evolution.
The pictures of Moon consciousness, however, unlike our dream-pictures, are not arbitrary. Though they are not copies but symbols only of outer processes, nevertheless they correspond to them.
It is mobile and pliable, shaping itself so as to express and sustain the dream-like consciousness in which man lives. The two portions are however intimately bound up with one another.
65. The Spirit of Fichte Present in our Midst 16 Dec 1915, Berlin
Translated by Beresford Kemmis

The gist of Part I is to show how in this fashion one arrives only at a dream-reflection of life. The object of Part II is to show how the mind thus comes to regard the world as a chain of exterior necessities.
A man such as Fichte has many critics who say: “Oh these idealists, they dwell in a dream-world, they understand nothing of practical life!” But it may well be imagined that Fichte from the depth of his being, and especially in his lectures on Die Bestimmung des Gelehrten (The Vocation of the Scholar), had something to say which cannot be too often repeated in the face of those who point to the unpractical nature of idealism, of the spiritual world altogether.
123. The Gospel of St. Matthew (1946): The Initiation of the Ego 09 Sep 1910, Bern
Translator Unknown

All that the human soul then passed through was experienced with the ego-consciousness reduced to something half dream-like, and in this condition the inner soul nature gained certain experiences. Such a man experienced the awakening of egoism, the desire to be independent of the external world; but, as explained in the last lecture, so long as man is unable to create food magically, unable to dispense with what is acquired through his physical organism, he is dependent on the outer world.
115. Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit: At the Portals of the Senses 03 Nov 1910, Berlin
Translated by Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

Yet soon a sigh betrays their quarreling, and with it flees Away the dream of sweet imaginings. My eyes are lifted to the vault of the eternal heavens, To ye, ye radiant, starry host of height; And, every hope and every wish effacing, Forgetfulness rains down from your eternity.
129. Wonders of the World: The origin of dramatic art in European cultural life 18 Aug 1911, Munich
Translated by Dorothy Lenn, Owen Barfield

We are not called upon to compete with ordinary stage performances. We do not dream of such a thing, and it is a mistake even to make such comparisons. Let the dramatic critic say what he will about other stage performances, he is a mere amateur as regards what Spiritual Science is aiming at, what it must aim at, even in the realm of art.
151. Human and Cosmic Thought (1991): Lecture II 21 Jan 1914, Berlin
Translated by Charles Davy

If I had here a bell, there would be many monads in it—as in a swarm of midges—but they would be monads that had never come even so far as to have sleep-consciousness, monads that are almost unconscious, but which nevertheless develop the dimmest of concepts within themselves. There are monads that dream; there are monads that develop waking ideas within themselves; in short, there are monads of the most varied grades.”
118. True Nature of the Second Coming: The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World 06 Mar 1910, Stuttgart
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

After he has performed some deed, there will appear before his soul a kind of dream-picture which he will know to be connected in some way with what he has done. And from Spiritual Science he will realise: When an after-image of my deed appears in this way, although it is essentially different from the deed itself, it reveals to me what the karmic effect of my deed will be in the future.

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