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192. Spiritual-Scientific Consideration of Social and Pedagogic Questions: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question I 23 Apr 1919, Stuttgart
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And so to him, inner mystic experience is only a dream. As soon as one gets out of speech one is inwardly dreaming. But according to Mauthner there is a third stage: one can believe that one is thinking but one is only speaking inwardly.
I have elaborated that in my book "Riddles of Humanity". Because we dream in mysticism and sleep in science the necessity is before us today of waking up. Therefore I have described the phenomenon of present day knowledge in this book as an "awakening". We must put in the place of mystic dreams a wide-awake Imagination; in the place of Docta ignorantia, Inspiration; in the sense in which I have talked of it in my book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment.
159. Effects of the Christ-Impulse Upon the Historical Course of Human Evolution 07 May 1915, Vienna
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Also, in Constantine's army, the victory was not gained by the generals, but Constantine had a dream in which he saw the symbol of Christ, and in obedience to this dream he ordered that the Cross, the symbol of Christ, should be carried in front of his armies. He made his subsequent deeds depend on the revelations of that dream. This battle, which gave a decisive aspect to the whole map of Europe of that time, was not waged by generals, nor determined by human cleverness, but by dreams and prophecies.
70b. Reincarnation and Immortality: The Supersensible Being of Man 12 Jan 1916, Basel
Translated by Michael Tapp, Elizabeth Tapp, Adam Bittleston

And because they leave no memory behind, they remain as processes of our experience, constantly in movement, in a way real dreams, but dreams that have great power over our inner soul life. And so in this kind of “empty” consciousness that is unable to preserve any memory of what it has thought, we very soon become aware how our own experiences come to us as if from outside us, in the way that sense perceptions come to us.
With the thoughts we have in ordinary life and that result in memories, we have in our inner experience the impression that these thoughts have to be passive copies that imitate the outer world, that they do not have their own inner life and that if they were to lead their own lives, then our soul life would, through this inner life of our thoughts, lead its existence in pure phantasy, in dreams, hallucinations and even more serious states. In our ordinary soul life our thoughts really do have something that can be compared with the forms of a statue.
There is no logical proof that can be advanced; only in life itself can we learn to distinguish the real from dreams and hallucinations. Thus, too, in the spiritual world we learn to distinguish what is dreamed from what really is.
94. Popular Occultism: Eleventh Lecture 08 Jul 1906, Leipzig

This primeval Indian culture antedates the time when the Vedas originated by a long way. It was still somewhat dream-like and purely inward-looking. The state of mind of the ancient Indian was quite the opposite of our own today.
94. Popular Occultism: Lemurian Development 06 Jul 1906, Leipzig
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An ancient civilisation arose: This ancient Indian civilisation arose long before the time of the Vedas. It still had a dream-like, altogether inner character. The soul-constitution of the ancient Hindoo was the very opposite of our modern one.
30. Nature and Our Ideals: Nature and Our Ideals 01 Jan 1886,

[ 3 ] This freedom—one might say—is but a mere dream! While we deem ourselves free, we are heeding the iron necessity of nature. The most exalted thoughts are nothing other than the result of nature acting blindly within us.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 236. Letter to Rudolf Steiner 23 Mar 1925, Dornach

It is striking how well things went in the end, and how much everyone has learned through the repetitions. The 'Urträume' (dreams of the origin of the soul),18 We were supposed to present them at the pedagogical conference, but they have of course been somewhat forgotten.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Notes From a Private Lesson 31 Dec 1903, Berlin
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Great initiates could make the task easier for themselves and men if they would elaborate the astral body when it's free at night, so that they imprinted astral organs into them, worked on them from outside. But that would be a working within the dream consciousness of a man, an intervention into his sphere of freedom. Man's highest principle, the will, would never develop.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 31 Dec 1903, Berlin
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Great initiates could make the task easier for themselves and men if they would elaborate the astral body when it's free at night, so that they imprinted astral organs into them, worked on them from outside. But that would be a working within the dream consciousness of a man, an intervention into his sphere of freedom. Man's highest principle, the will, would never develop.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 12 Feb 1911, Munich
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Since November, 1879, a few men have become mature enough to take in theosophical teachings, but it's only a small host, whereas other moderns are till unable to acquire the teachings, consider them to be fantastic ideas and dreams or even get angry about them. When people who prove to be receptive for theosophical teachings let the latter work upon them, their etheric body begins to oscillate slightly.

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