The Meaning Of Dreams

The Meaning Of Dreams

"Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is
about to happen." BAILEY.

The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed
religion, show traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams.
Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon assigned to certain dreams
prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself,
the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat
and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of
Herod, and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt. Pilate's wife, through
the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do
with the conviction of Christ.

But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed
the voice and verdict of the multitude, Crucify the Spirit, but let the
flesh live. Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty. The ultimatum of
all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at
the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood
nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with more
frequency than any other mode of divination. Profane, as well as
sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy and
dream interpretation.

Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the
immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman
Senate was induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt. The
Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror
break on the same night that Attila died. Plutarch relates how
Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded to
leave his tent, which a few hours after was captured by the enemy,
and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the enemies'
swords.

If Julius Cesar had been less incredulous about the meaning of dreams he
would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife, received
in a dream. Croesus saw his son killed in a dream. Petrarch saw his
beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died, after which he wrote
his beautiful poem, The Triumph of Death.Cicero relates the story of
two traveling Arcadians who went to different lodgings one to an inn,
and the other to a private house. During the night the latter dreamed
that his friend was begging for help. The dreamer awoke but, thinking
the matter unworthy of notice, went to sleep again. The second time
he dreamed his friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he
had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart, under manure.
The cart was afterward sought for and the body found. Cicero also
wrote, If the gods love men they will certainly disclose their purposes
to them in sleep.

Chrysippus wrote a volume on the meaning of dreams as divine portent.
He refers to the skilled interpretations of dreams as a true divination but adds that,
like all other arts in which men have to proceed on conjecture and on
artificial rules, it is not infallible. Plato concurred in the general idea
prevailing in his day, that there were divine manifestations to the soul
in sleep. Condorcet thought and wrote with greater fluency in his
dreams than in waking life.

Tartini, a distinguished violinist, composed
his Devil's Sonataunder the inspiration of a dream. Coleridge, through
dream influence, composed his Kubla Khan.The writers of Greek and
Latin classics relate many instances of dream experiences. Homer
accorded to some dreams divine origin. During the third and fourth
centuries, the supernatural origin of dreams was so generally accepted
that the fathers, relying upon the classics and the Bible as authority,
made this belief a doctrine of the Christian Church. Synesius placed
dreaming above all methods of divining the future he thought it the
surest, and open to the poor and rich alike.

Aristotle wrote: There is a divination concerning some things in
dreams not incredible. Camille Flammarion, in his great book on
Premonitory Dreams and Divination of the Future,says: I do not
hesitate to affirm at the outset that occurrence of dreams foretelling
future events with accuracy must be accepted as certain.Joan of Arc
predicted her death. Cazotte, the French philosopher and
transcendentalist, warned Condorcet against the manner of his death.
People dream now, the same as they did in medieval and ancient
times. The following excerpt from The Unknown,a book by
Flammarion, the French astronomer, supplemented with a few of my
own thoughts and collections, will answer the purposes intended for
this ebook the Meaning of Dreams. We may see without eyes and hear
without ears, not by unnatural excitement of our sense of vision or of hearing,
for these accounts prove the contrary, but by some interior sense, psychic and
mental. The soul, by its interior vision, may see not only what is
passing at a great distance, but it may also know in advance what is to
happen in the future.

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