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29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: The Joy of Youth 30 Oct 1897,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

And since he has obviously made a luckier catch than the three companions, he is not at all inclined to grant his companions, blessed by fate with troublesome marital halves, a rendezvous through which they can happily dream themselves back to their bachelor days again and again. Fulda lets the opposites collide in an amusing way.
265. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two: Three Esoteric Lessons for the Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld Group

Note sheet archive number 5852 J A O U E (preparation) Catch the butterfly Send it to the icy heights (3 1/2 years) Where the world dreams (memory) It becomes a bird for you Then you have done half the work (-I now) (Forgetting) Dip the bird In the depths of the sea Where the will of the world is at work The bird drowns Then you still have to do To burn the bird's corpse Purifying in the fire Then consume the ashes And you are The light in the darkness of the world. - (Tragedy) (Above the vowels:) J still within, A one opens to the world that says a lot O the angels come, give hands U the second hierarchy comes, flows around one with light E the first hierarchy comes and burns one in fire.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: Esoteric Hour for the “Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld Group” II 23 Oct 1923, Dornach

Catch the moth Send it to icy heights Where the world's dreams prevail. It becomes a bird Then you have done half the work Halfway there. Dip the bird In the depths of the sea J A O U E Where the will of the world works.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 17 Dec 1912, Zurich
Translator Unknown

After that, soul quiet must set in, emptiness must begin, and then wait to see whether something flows in from the spiritual world, wait with patience and perseverance. Then one may have an experience that's like a dream that flits by. Then one has the feeling: “Something is thinking in me,” “An angel touched me,” “I raise myself into his kingdom.”
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Probation: Scene 1
Translated by Harry Collison

Long hath my life been, but its web displays Nothing but pictures shadowy and dim Which haunt my dreaming soul and fondly strive To mirror truths of nature and of mind. With this dream-fabric hath my thought essayed To solve the riddles of the universe. Down many a path my restless soul I turned.
That I am not this moment on the ground Prostrate before thy feet, after such pain As even now hath racked my soul, I owe To thy kind glance alone which sought mine own, So soon as thou didst with thy gentle touch Arouse me from the horrors of my dream. Benedictus: I am aware that I have found thee now Fighting a battle for thy very life.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 8
Translated by Harry Collison

And if mine eyes are not allowed to see How he loth tear himself away from earth, Perchance 'twill be now granted in a dream To linger disembodied by his side. Part II Inside the temple.
Semblance1 is good, when from existence viewed; Thou didst but dream it in thy sembled life; And semblance known by semblance disappears. Learn, semblance of a semblance, what thou art.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Albert Steffen: The Quadruped

It is against this background that the “four-legged creature” appears. The being into which ancient dream-knowledge has placed the origin of man. The bull, which in its organization is close to the forces of the earth.
This “Quadruped”, magnificent, as a sphinx, created by the unerring ancient dream-knowledge; it stands again as a truth before the scientific demands of today's researcher of the spiritual world.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture III 28 Sep 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Idiots, for instance, see the world in pictures; their soul life is analogous to dream life. They can only say that they know nothing of what is going on around them. Other beings in the world have a similar consciousness. When someone develops astral consciousness, so that he experiences dreams consciously, he can undertake the following: Let us assume that we are in a position to develop this consciousness and imagine ourselves standing before the flower called Venus Fly Trap.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVIII 16 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

In his astral body he had a dull twilight consciousness similar to that of our dreams. His consciousness was however unlike the reminiscences inherent in our dreams, for he dreamt of realities.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On the Significance of the Oldest Parts of the Old Testament 28 May 1904, Berlin

It was a real event that those initiated at the fifth degree bowed to those initiated at the sixth degree on a certain day. Joseph told his brothers about his dream in which the sheaves bowed down to him, whereupon the brothers said to him: “Should you become our king and rule over us?”
Now he spoke even more clearly by telling his brothers another dream: “Behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.” Here Joseph spoke of the fact that he wants to be initiated in the sixth degree. - Let us throw him into a pit, said the brothers.

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