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70b. Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul: The Eternal Forces of the Human Soul in the Light of Spiritual Science 29 Nov 1915, Munich

Otherwise, if we are not able to actively experience being by feeling ourselves in our eternal, it will disappear from us, even if we have already caught it, as easily as a dream slips away from us. For this dream life is basically no different from the life within the core of the being that passes through birth and death when this core of the being withdraws from the physical body; but this dream life is a delicate fabric that evokes images. The soul is not inwardly strong enough to see through completely what it experiences in dreams. Now, just as the soul is connected with the spiritual in a similar way to the body with the physical world, so once the inner, soul-related organs are developed at all, they can be developed into a spiritual science that presents the world as a spiritual organism, just as physical science presents the physical organism.
The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: Foreword
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Annie Besant was obliged to renounce her cherished dream and died at a very great age. It is rumoured that the question of the dissolution of the Adyar Society was considered but that this proved impossible owing to the extensive material possessions.
Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher: Introduction

Here, I am in particular thinking of Jung in Memories, Dreams, and Reflections or of Viktor Frankl's logo-therapy or Assagioli's work. It seems to me that while there is much in modern psychology that is trivial and dangerous, there is also much that is worthwhile and helpful.
32. Collected Essays on Literature 1884-1902: Modern Poetry I 07 Jan 1893,

A number of poems have sprung from the impressions that Tasso's traces left in the poet's mind: At your tomb all vain imaginings die, Here your glory sits enthroned in majestic peace, But where man suffered, I found tears, And I was allowed to sob and dream here like you! Under the title "Images and Figures", delle Grazie shares with us her feelings at the sight of great Italian works of art, such as Guercino's Sant' Agnese, Maderna's St.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 9
Translated by Harry Collison

No longer wilt thou now Weave only in thy pictures that which souls, Still pent within the body, live in dreams, For far from cosmic progress are those thoughts Which but as self-begotten show themselves.
17. The Threshold of the Spiritual World: Concerning Beings of the Spirit-Worlds
Translated by Harry Collison

In the world into which the human life of the soul is woven, the Ahrimanic element must exist as a necessary counterbalance to the Luciferic. Without the Luciferic element, the soul would dream away its life in observation of physical existence, and feel no impulse to rise above it. Without the counter-effect of the Ahrimanic element, the soul would fall a victim to the Luciferic influence; it would underrate the importance of the physical world, in spite of the fact that some of its necessary conditions of existence are in that world.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Unpretentious Aphorisms on the Book: Reformation or Anthroposophy?

Or: “Woe to the world if it were to abandon the God of the Bible for the God of Theosophy – it would sink into dream and death, lose God and man.” Page 34. – Anyone who acquires knowledge of the human soul through spiritual research does not find a soul like Ragaz's in her dark storms against Anthroposophy incomprehensible.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds I 11 Dec 1905, Berlin

Imaginative cognition – recognizing spiritual beings in images: the images of the dream world, surging up and down, are chaotic and disorderly, without meaning. However, the meaning can be developed in the soul.
89. Awareness—Life—Form: Planetary Evolution III 22 Oct 1904, Berlin
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

They appear vaguely in what are called 'nightmares', dreams where one thinks a spirit is sitting on one's chest. When you gain astral visions, you first of all see these spirits.
70b. Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul: A Forgotten Pursuit of Spiritual Science Within the Development of German Thought 17 Mar 1916, Munich

This view, even if it is only an explanation, was also held by most of the first great church fathers, such as Origen, Irenaeus, Lactantius, Tertullian, and Augustine. In more recent times, even Kant in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer seriously jokes about an entire, inward, spiritual man who wears all the limbs of the outward man on his spirit body.
They brought it from India; they did it by sinking and muffling everything that forms the basis of the human ego, the center of the human being, into a kind of dream life. And by muffling the ego, they created something within themselves that arose out of a dream life, which introduced them to the spiritual that permeates and lives through the whole world.
That is why Robert Hamerling lets the genius of Germanness speak these beautiful words to the blond Teut: "But however proudly you may strive, high above other swarms, you will still keep a blazing, ancient, sacred fire: the dream-filled drunkenness of God, the blissful warmth of the heart of Calm existence This holy ray, a temple fire, free of smoke, with pure flame, will glow in your chest and soul, remaining your pilot and your rudder!

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