Prescient Dreams
The cessation of the
organs to perform healthful functions converts a man
into a different person, and dreams while in this state
would have no prophetic meaning, unless to warn the
dreamer of this disorganization of his physical system.
Dreams are symbols used by subjectivity to impress the
objective or material mind with a sense of coming good
or evil. Subjectivity is the spiritual part of man. The
soul is that circle of man lying just outside the gross
materiality and partaking largely of it. All thoughts
and desires enter first the soul or material mind and
then cast themselves on the spirit. Frequently the soul
becomes so filled with material or present ideas, that
the spiritual symbols are crowded out, and then it is
that dreams seen to be contrary.
Material subjectivity, that is, all thoughts and ideas
emanating from material sources, go to make up this
circle then the mind catches up the better thoughts of
this section and weaves them into a broader and more
comprehensive power, sustaining the owner in his own
judgment. And still another circle is formed of the
finer compound of this, which is spiritual subjectivity,
or the highest element of intelligence reached by man.
This circle is the spiritual man and relates in
substance to the spiritual soul of the macrocosm or
universe. It becomes strong or weak as we recognize or
fail to recognize it as a factor of being. The process
of spiritual development is similar to that of the
vegetable and animal kingdoms.
The trees on the outer rim of the forest are more
capable of resisting the wind than those more to the
center, by reason of their exposure to storms the roots
have penetrated with double strength far into the earth,
and the branches are braced with toughened bark and
closely knitted ligaments. The same may be said of the
animal kingdom. The mind is developed by vigorous
exercise just as are likewise the muscles of the body.
The more these are cultivated by drawing from their
parental affinities in the macrocosm, the more knowledge
or power they take on. Thus as a man simulates in
thought and action an ape, a tiger, a goat, a snake or a
lamb he takes on their characteristics and is swayed by
like influences to enmity, meekness, covetousness and
avariciousness.
To illustrate further. If he is cunning he draws on the
fox of the microcosm and becomes, in action and thought,
like that animal. If selfishness survives, the hog
principle is aroused from its latent cells in the
microcosm and he is dominated by material appetites. In
a similar way he may perceive the spiritual in himself.
Nature's laws, with all their numberless and intricate
ramifications are simple in their harmony of process and
uniformity of purpose when applied to the physical and
ethical developments of man. Possibilities for inner
improvements or expansions rest with material man. If he
entertains gross desires to the exclusion of spiritual
germs, he will dwarf and degrade higher aspirations, and
thus deprive subjective spirituality of her rightful
possessions.
Nature, in compounding the materials for the creation of
the deaf man, inadvertently dropped the ingredient
sound, hence making an imperfect being and sound, being
thus foreign to his nature, he can only be approached by
signs even in dreams. Subjectivity uses nature's forces,
while a normal person uses dreams to work on his waking
consciousness. As it is impossible to use with effect a
factor which a man does not naturally possess, a deaf
man rarely ever dreams of sound, or a blind man of light.
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