10,000 Dreams Interpreted | Page 9

It is an
infinitesimal atom, and is related in substance to the spiritual or infinite mind of the
universe. Just as the great physical sun, the center of visible light, life and heat, is striving
to purify the foul miasma of the marsh and send its luminous messages of love into the
dark crevices of the earth, so the Great Spiritual Sun, of which the former is a visible
prototype or reflection, is striving to illuminate with Divine Wisdom the personal soul
and mind of man, thus enabling him to become cognizant of the spiritual or Christ
presence within.
The heresy and Herod of wanton flesh, degenerate victim of the sensuous filth and
fermentation of self-indulgence, is ever striving to exile and suppress, from the
wilderness of sin, the warning cry of the Nazarite voice by intriguing with the cunning,
incestuous daughters of unholy thoughts and desires.
The objective mind is most active when the body is awake. The subjective influences are
most active, and often fill the mind with impressions, while the physical body is asleep.
The spiritual intelligence can only intrude itself when the human will is suspended, or
passive to external states. A man who lives only on the sensual plane will receive his
knowledge through the senses, and will not, while in that state, receive spiritual

impressions or warning dreams.
Men and women rarely ever degrade themselves so low that the small voice of the desert
does not bring them a message. Sodom and Gomorrah, vile with the debauchery of a
nameless crime, were not deserted by the angel of love until the fire which they had
lighted in their souls had consumed them. The walls of Jericho did not fall until Rahab,
the harlot, had been saved and the inmates had heard for several days the ram's-horn and
the tramp of Joshua's infantry.
The evangelist Jonah, the Sam Jones of Hebrew theology, exhorted the adulterous
Nineveh many times to repentance before it fell.
David, while intoxicated with the wine of love, from languishing in the seductive
embrace of the beautiful bathing nymph, Bathsheba, heard the voice of Nathan. Surely
God is no respecter of persons, and will speak to all classes if the people will not stiffen
their necks or harden their hearts.
Women dream more often and more vividly than men, because their dream composition
is less influenced and allied to external environments.
All dreams possess an element of warning or prescience; some more than others. This is
unknown to the many, but is known to the observing few. There are many people who
have no natural taste for music, and who do not know one note from another. There are
also those who cannot distinguish one color from another. To the former there is no
harmony of sound, and to the latter there is no blending of colors.
They are heard and seen, but there is no artistic recognition of the same. Still it would be
absurd to say to either the musician or the artist: your art is false and is only an illusion of
the senses.
One man apparently never dreams; another dreams occasionally, and still another more
frequently; none atttempt{sic} to interpret their dream, or to observe what follows;
therefore, the verdict is, ``There is nothing in dreams.'' (Schopenhauer aptly says: ``No
man can see over his own height.... Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.'') The
first is like the blind man who denies the existence of light, because he does not perceive
it. The second and third resemble the color-blind man, who sees but who persists in
calling green blue, and vice versa.
A fourth man sees in a dream a friend walking in his room; the vision is so vivid he
instantly gets up and strikes a match. After making sure there is no intruder about the
room he looks at his watch and goes back to bed. The next day he receives the
unwelcome tidings that his friend died at the exact moment of the vision.
At another time he hears in his dream a familiar voice cry out in agony. Soon he hears of
a shocking accident or distressing illness befalling the one whose voice he recognized in
the dream.[2]
[2] For authentic records, see Flammarion's ``Unknown.''

The third man, already referred to, has about the same dream experiences, but calls them
strange coincidences or unconscious cerebration, etc.
Again, the fourth man dreams of walking through green fields of corn, grass or wheat. He
notes after such dreams prosperous conditions follow for at least a few days. He also
notes, if the area over which he passes is interspersed with rocks or other adverse signs,
good and bad follow in the wake of the dream. If he succeeds in climbing a mountain and
finds the