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69e. The Humanities and the Future of Humanity: The Task and Goal of Spiritual Science and Spiritual Seeking in the Present Day 04 Mar 1914, Stuttgart

This is carried into the ordinary consciousness like a memory, and in a sense only becomes conscious in thinking. Otherwise it would be like dreams that a person does not remember. Beginners often say: I do not experience anything in the spiritual worlds, even though I do exercises.
178. Geographic Medicine: Knowledge of the Supersensible and Riddles of the Human Soul 15 Nov 1917, St. Gallen
Translated by Alice Wuslin

Regarding the feelings and emotions it could at least be said that the human being dreams within the human being. This is the reason that the question of freedom is so difficult, because the will is sleeping in relation to the higher consciousness.
Such an individual goes on to say that ordinary consciousness only dreams through its destiny; ordinary consciousness endures its destiny without understanding it, just as one endures a dream. Clairvoyant consciousness to which one awakes, just as we awake from a dream to ordinary consciousness, acquires a new relationship to destiny. Destiny is recognized as taking part in all that our life embraces, in the life that goes through all our births and deaths.
31. Collected Essays on Cultural and Contemporary History 1887–1901: Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxony 08 Apr 1897,

It is nice to see the past come alive in front of you from time to time, as if in a dream. The fact that Weimar is such a place today, which many people like to visit again and again to celebrate the great dead, and that they take good impressions home with them from their visits, is something to which the late Grand Duchess contributed a great deal.
94. Theosophy Based on the Gospel of John: Third Lecture 31 Oct 1906, Munich

Thus, with the help of the sympathetic nervous system, a dream-like clairvoyance was developed. Manas descended into the sympathetic nervous system and thus into the sentient body. In this way the whole wonderful dream world of ancient India becomes understandable, the great and wide, but dim and dull grasping of Brahman, the being beside oneself of the ancient yoga system.
100. The Gospel of St. John (Basle): Lecture IV 19 Nov 1907, Basel
Translator Unknown

The animals of the present day, which have preserved this dim clairvoyance, distinguish in a similar way between the plants in the meadows in respect of their value as food or their harmful nature. The kind of vision man now possesses in dreams is a decadent remnant of the clairvoyance of the old Atlanteans. Among the Atlanteans there was not such a clear separation between the consciousness of waking and sleeping as there is in the man of the present day.
During the early part of the Atlantean Epoch there were also times of complete unconsciousness, which were filled with mighty dream-pictures. In those very early times, too, the Atlanteans were unconscious of the act of reproduction.
26. The Michael Mystery: Heavenly History, Mythological History, Earthly History. The Mystery of Golgotha
Translated by Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood, George Adams

The divine Beings spoke, and Man heard their speech in dream-like Inspiration; they revealed their forms, and Man beheld them in dream-like Imagination. [ 21 ] This Heavenly History, which for a long while filled men's souls, was followed by Mythical History, now for the most part regarded as old poetic fiction.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Portal of Initiation: Scene 7
Translated by Harry Collison

Capesius, whom with the eyes of sense In his old age I saw—this man The spirit placed before my soul a youth; As first he entered on life's thorny path Full of those dreams of hope, which ofttimes brought A group of faithful hearers to his feet. And Strader, also could I see e'en thus As he appeared in earthly life when young, E'er he had full outgrown his cloistered youth: And I could see what he might once have been, If he had followed out in that same way The goal he set before himself of old.
And judgment's all-illuminating light Irradiated this new world of mine. But whether I lived in some shadowy dream, Or whether spirit-truth surrounded me Already, I could not as yet decide. Whether my spirit-sight was really stirred By other things, or whether mine own self Expanded into some world of its own, I knew not.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 7
Translated by Harry Collison

Such effort truly binds the soul more firm To sense-existence than a daily life, Dull human dream existence following. And when Thomasius could view all this Before his soul as being his own state He gave himself with vigour to that power Which could not lie to him although as yet 'Twas but revealed in picture, for he knew That Lucifer himself is really there E'en if he can but show his pictured form.
His thinking scans the very source of life; As once mankind in olden times on Earth Might stand quite near and view the spirit-scenes, Although their soul-life was but like a dream; The old man's soul doth trace that line of thought Which from his honoured teacher he hath learned.
26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Heavenly History - Mythological History - Earthly History. The Mystery of Golgotha
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

[ 20 ] There was an epoch when humanity was conscious of beholding the history of the heavens in mighty and impressive revelations, wherein the Divine-Spiritual Beings themselves stood before the soul of man. They spoke, and man in Dream Inspiration hearkened to their speech; they revealed their forms, and in Dream-Imagination man saw them.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XX 18 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

These man finds when in the morning he slips again into his etheric body. There are two kinds of dreams. The one kind arises directly from the experiences of the astral world: from echoes of day experiences and certain things from the astral world.
What is found there is taken up by the astral body and then manifests itself to us as dreams. What however has taken place during the night in regard to the etheric body is another kind of experience.

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