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in ourselves, to grant them to us, we may be enabled to 

 see the Hysteria Dei, and to understand them as well as 

 Moses, Jesaiah, and John." 



''It sometimes happens that the Evestra of persons who 

 have died perhaps fifty or a hundred years ago appear to 

 us in a dream, and if such an Evestrum comes to us in 

 our dream and speaks with us, we should pay especial 

 attention to what it says ; for such a vision is not a hal- 

 lucination or delusion, and it is possible that a man is as 

 much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body 

 as when the latter is awake, and if in such a case such 

 an Evestrum appears to him, and he asks questions, he 

 will then hear that which is true. A great deal could 

 be said about such Evestra, but it is not proper to say 

 more about them." "^ 



"Through the Evestra we may obtain a great deal of 

 knowledge in regard to good or to evil things, if we ask 

 them to reveal them to us. Many persons have had such 

 prayers granted to them. Some people that were sick 

 have been informed during their sleep what remedies 

 they should use, and after using such remedies they be- 

 came cured. And such things have happened not only 

 to Christians, but also to the heathens, to Jews, Sara- 

 cenes, Mamelukes, Persians, and Egyptians ; to good 

 and to bad persons ; and I cannot, therefore, believe that 

 such revelations come directly from the Deity, because, 

 there being only one God, all those peoples cannot have 

 separate gods ; but I believe that the universal light of 

 Nature illuminated such disciples, and as that light has 

 no organs of speech, it causes Evestra in the astral spheres 

 of men during their sleep " {De Caducis). 



" When men are asleep their bodies are like those of 

 animals or plants, for animals and plants have also their 

 elementary and their sidereal bodies ; but the divine 

 spirit can only become active in man. During sleep the 



^ The thoughts of great minds remain for ages like stars on the mental 

 Ijorizon of the world, 



