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353. The History of Humanity and the World Views of Civilized Nations: About the Sephirot Tree 10 May 1924, Dornach

When a Jewish sage wrote or said: Geburah, Netsah, Hod, one would have to translate today as follows in German: the life-force hatches the dreams in the kidneys. But when one says today: the life-force hatches the dreams in the kidneys, one means physical forces, physical effects. But when the ancient Jew said Geburah, Netsah, Hod, he meant that what is in man as a spiritual being brings about what appears in dreams. Everywhere it was a spiritual assertion that was expressed by what arose from the random throwing together of the letters.
First of all, it is used when a person has special dreams. When a spiritual person presses him, then this is called the nightmare, the nightmare. One says that something comes over the person that possesses him.
203. The Responsibility of Man for World Evolution: Lecture III 11 Mar 1921, Dornach
Translator Unknown

If we approach human soul life with an open mind, we cannot help but say that emotional life has no greater clarity of consciousness than dream life. Dream life, which takes place in images, and emotional life are equally conscious and equally unconscious. They only appear different because emotional life is not experienced in images, but in something spiritual and essential that does not take shape as an image. Dreams are lived out in images. This is what distinguishes emotional life from dream life. But in terms of the intensity of consciousness, the two do not differ.
98. The Mysteries 25 Dec 1907, Cologne
Translator Unknown

Another legend relates that a Danish king had once come to Cologne, bringing with him three crowns for the Three Holy Kings. After he had returned home he had a dream; in his dream the three kings appeared to him and offered him three chalices: the first chalice contained gold, the second frankincense, and the third one myrrh. When the Danish king awoke the three kings had vanished, but the chalices remained; they stood before him; the three gifts which he had retained from his dream. In this legend there is profound meaning. We are to understand that the king in his dream attained a certain insight into the spiritual world by which he learnt the symbolic meaning of these three kings, these three wise men of the East who brought offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh at the birth of Christ Jesus.
It is the star which opens the mind for the gifts which the Danish king received from the vision in his dream, the star which appears at the birth of anyone ripe enough to absorb the Christ-principle. And there were other signs.
33. Biographies and Biographical Sketches: Ludwig Jacobowski's Life and Character

The secrets of nature's workings and his own world of emotions intertwine. Poems such as the delicate "Forest Dreams" in "From Day and Dream" stem from this kind of interaction: The sun spreads its blessing Like a golden carpet.
Now he has fallen silent in the sultriness, I dream sleepily to myself And dream that in the fragrant puddle I myself am stalk and blossom...
And this work constantly gives him new hope, lifts him above moods, as expressed in the poignant "Why?" in "Out of Day and Dream": ... When I awoke to the first day of summer, The dark night was already waiting outside.
60. Turning Points Spiritual History: Zarathustra 19 Jan 1911, Berlin
Translated by Walter F. Knox

We can best picture the impressions made by the world upon the consciousness of the ancients, if we turn our thoughts to that last enduring remnant of the old clairvoyant state, namely, dream consciousness. We all know those fluctuating dream pictures that come to us at times, the most of which carry no meaning, and are so often merely suggestive of the outer world, although there may now and then intrude some higher level of conscious thought; dream visions, which in these days we find so difficult to interpret and to understand.
For instance, many of us have had the experience that events connected with some impressive happening—say, a conflagration—have been after a time once more figuratively manifested to us in a dream. Let us now consider for a moment this other horizon of our sleeping state, where clings in truth that last remnant of a conscious condition belonging to a by-gone age in the grey and distant past.
It was while in this intermediate condition that man became aware of visions which resembled to some extent dream pictures, but were definite in their manifestation of a spirit life and of spiritual achievement existing beyond the perceptual world.
171. Goethe and the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century: Seventh Lecture 30 Sep 1916, Dornach

It is not clarified. It is not bright knowledge; it is dream-like knowledge. We are shown how the dream spirits, which are actually group souls of all those beings that accompany Mephistopheles, beguile Faust, and how he finally awakens.
Does the ghostly urge thus vanish, That a dream lied to me about the devil, And that a poodle sprang from me? Goethe repeatedly uses the method of hinting at the truth again and again.
What happens in history happens, even if often through destructive forces, but in such a way that there is a meaning to historical development, even if it is often not the meaning that people dream up, and even if people have to suffer a lot as a result of the paths that the meaning of history often takes.
214. Planetary Spheres and Their Influence on Mans Life on Earth and in the Spiritual Worlds: Man's Life in Sleep and After Death 30 Aug 1922, London
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

Present-day man is so constituted that as soon as ever he wakes up, he immediately forgets the dim consciousness that he had in the night by means of his heart-eye. There are however, dreams in which we can catch, as it were, an echo of it. Such dreams are astir with an inner movement that is reminiscent of the planetary movements. Then into these dreams come pictures from real life; but that is only when the astral body has begun to dive down into the ether-body, which latter carries and preserves for us the memory of our life.
As you will see, therefore, the pictures that are given us in dreams have a certain significance, yet are not the essential part of the dream; they are like a garment that weaves itself around the cosmic experiences.
108. The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales 26 Dec 1908, Berlin
Translated by Ruth Pusch

The king cannot find, through any outward contrivance, what can be determined only by his archetypes in the spiritual world. Therefore he dreams first of all that a little golden bird comes to him and then he remains in a sort of waking-dream state.
On the first day the old woman made him a soup that sent people to sleep, a dream-soup, and then she sent him away with three horses. Having taken the soup he soon fell asleep, and when he awoke the three horses were gone.
The next day the old woman again made him a dream-soup, and sent him away with the horses. The soup sent him to sleep, and when he awoke the horses had disappeared.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: A Girl's Dream 11 Dec 1897,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

Such a girl is also the subject of Max Bernstein's "Girl's Dream". In both plays, the natural instincts within the girl's soul triumph over the notions of virtue caused by a false education, which are conceived as coldness in the face of the passion of love.
263. Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924: Letter from Edith Maryon 10 Aug 1923,

Please let me know how you are. Today I had a strange dream, I have written it down and will show it to you when you return. With my very best thoughts and wishes, Edith Maryon Has The Snow finally arrived?

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