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228. The Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System: Lecture III 29 Jul 1923, Dornach

Things only tell us about themselves when we are with them in our souls during sleep. The dream state is different. As I explained to you in the short series during the delegates' meeting, the dream is related to memory, to the inner life of the soul, to that which lives primarily in memory. When the dream is a free-floating world of sound and color, we are still half outside of our body. When we completely submerge, the same forces that we unfold in the dream, weaving and living, become forces of memory.
Our inner life coincides with the outer world, we live so intensely in the outer world with our sympathies and antipathies that we do not perceive things as sympathetic or antipathetic, but the sympathies and antipathies themselves show themselves pictorially. If we did not have the ability to dream and the continuation of this dream power within us, we would have no beauty. The fact that we have any predispositions for beauty at all is based on our ability to dream.
193. Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture III 09 Mar 1919, Zurich
Translated by Charles Davy

Just think of it—in his efforts to understand the present time, this man was driven to make use of the concept of a dream, and to ask himself the question: Is not the reality which surrounds us to-day much better called a bad dream, than true reality?
Both together make up true reality, while the life of senses alone is nothing more than a dream. Economic life has a quite different character. In economic life the single man works for others.
Those who speak about the super-sensible have certainly always said: the reality we perceive here with our senses is only a half-reality; it is like a dream! But I am bound to scrutinise the form which this sense-perceptible reality has assumed in the social life of the present—and then it does look to me very like a dream!
174a. The Mission of the Archangel Michael: Michael's Battle and Its Reflection On Earth I 14 Feb 1918, Munich
Translated by Lisa D. Monges

The degree, the intensity of consciousness we have while feeling equals the degree and intensity of consciousness we have while dreaming. And just as dreams arise as pictures out of the unconscious recesses of our souls, so do feelings arise as forces in us.
Feeling is not within the conceptions, but we look from conceptions upon feeling just as we look back, after awakening, upon the dream. And since we do this, simultaneously in the case of feeling, we are not aware of the fact that we have only the conception of feeling in actual consciousness, while feeling itself remains in the dream region, like any dream.
Anyone who is really able to observe history knows that we are governed by impulses in historical life which, for ordinary consciousness, are only accessible to the dream state. Just as mankind dreams away the life of feeling, so it dreams away the impulses of history.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: “Schluck and Jau” 18 Feb 1899,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

And since it is from the same witness Like dreams - his as good as ours, Jon! And we are no closer to the things that surround us here Are no closer than dreams, and No closer than the stranger Jau - So he rescues from our junk heaven Much less than we into his realm Of lowliness.
The ancient wisdom that the differences between people are based only on appearances, that something completely new is revealed to us as the essence of man when we awaken from the dream of life for a while, something that is in every man, be he prince or beggar - this not exactly profound but nevertheless true wisdom is presented here as it fits into the brain of a man like Karl.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 10
Translated by Harry Collison

I know how pictures such as these are made Out of the thirst and longing of the soul. As if awaking from my craving's dream From out the spirit-ocean I have come And memory; dread and shuddering shape, appears To bring to mind these longings of my soul.
‘And then the cosmic words went on to say: So long as in the circle of thy life Thou canst not feel this being close entwined, Thou art a dream, and dost but dream thy life.’ I could not think in figures clear and plain; I did but see bewildering forces press From nothingness to life, and back to nothingness— But if my spirit seeks yet further back And recollects what I beheld before, A living picture stands before my soul, Which is not blurred, as was all else that I In later moments could experience, But which more plainly sets before my soul Men's lives and actions with each detail clear.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Planetary Chains 30 Jun 1904, Berlin

The third level of consciousness is the animal level, which the Pitris go through until they are delivered to us in earthly evolution. Dream trance is the animal consciousness. The animal has a similar one, artificially achieved through / gap in the transcript] So we have now gone through three levels of consciousness.
So must Seven rounds with seven races to develop mineral consciousness, seven rounds with seven races to develop plant consciousness, seven rounds with seven races to develop animal dream consciousness, seven rounds with seven races to develop intellectual consciousness. Now come the future stages: 7 rounds with 7 races to psychic consciousness - a repetition of the animalistic at a higher level. The medium is transferred back, the clairvoyant is brought out. Clair consciousness with dream perception. This is why Theosophy frowns upon mediumship. 7 rounds with 7 races in hyperpsychic consciousness, where the human perceives all life directly, but with an alert consciousness.
68c. Goethe and the Present: Goethe's Gospel 31 Jan 1906, Leipzig

The purpose was to seek the true inner core of the world religions. Three worlds: first, the dream world; second, the astral or soul world; third, the mental or spiritual world. The awakening of the spiritual eye first brings about tremendous changes in the dream life.
The disciple or chela must learn to bring the consciousness of the second, the astral world, into their daily consciousness through the dream. Later, in dreamless sleep, he experiences the spiritual and mental worlds. The consciousness of the astral world expresses itself in images.
298. Rudolf Steiner in the Waldorf School: Address at a monthly assembly 03 May 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

Listen to what that child had to tell: Once I went out walking on Sunday, and I fell asleep outside and dreamed a dream. And what did I dream? I was lying in a meadow, and all the big and little animals came and were talking with each other.
The other child had already learned the right thing from her dream. The child with the sweet flowers now understood that sweet flowers cannot be the only ones, that there have to be all different kinds of flowers that work together, and so now he learned to love the bouquet with all the different plants in it.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Free Literary Society in Berlin 1897 27 Nov 1897,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

- Wilhelm Hegeler read two atmospheric works: "Des Pfarrers Traum" is an artistically intimate performance. The stone-deaf pastor, to whom a dream announces in the evening of life that his blind old wife will give him another baby, and to whom his young candidate, in league with the lady of the house, realizes this dream - he is a delicious character.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Imagination, Memory, Dream

Analytical psychology does not have a sufficient theory of memory and works with dreams based on inadequate ideas. The contents of the imaginative world live in memory. What comes from this world enters the soul life in the same way as impulses from the sensory world.
It remains misunderstood if the human being does not rise to conscious knowledge of the spiritual world. In dreams, the content is the unimportant. The impulses at work in it are the important thing. Its course.

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