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sidereal body, by which man is connected with the inner 

 nature of the Macrocosm, becomes free in its movements, 

 and it can then rise up to the sphere of his ancestors, 

 and converse with the stars (thoughts) ; that is to say, 

 the processes taking place in the intellectual sphere of 

 the Macrocosm will throw their reflections into his soul 

 and come to his inner perception. Dreams, visions, and 

 omens are gifts given to the sidereal man, and not to the 

 elementary body." 



" The day of the corpora is the night for the spiritus. 

 When the bodies cease their labour, the spirits (in man) 

 begin their work. When the body of man rests, his 

 spirit begins to become active ; and when the spirit rests, 

 the body resumes its work. Therefore is the waking of 

 the body the sleep of the spirit, and the spirit's sleep 

 a waking for the body. They will not sleep or operate to- 

 gether ; one acts, while the other reposes " (Philosoph., v.). 



" But dreams will be pure or impure, wise or foolish, 

 rational or irrational, according to the position which 

 man occupies in his relation to the light of Nature. 

 Prophetic sights are caused by the circumstance that 

 man has a sidereal body, related to the substance of the 

 Universal Mind, and the former confabulates with the 

 latter whenever the attention of the sidereal body is not 

 needed by the requirements of the physical body. That 

 is to say, all that takes place in the outer world is mir- 

 rored forth in the inner world, and appears as a dream. 

 The elementary body has no spiritual gifts, but the side- 

 real body possesses them all. Whenever the elementary 

 body is at rest, asleep or unconscious, the sidereal body 

 is awake and active, because the latter needs neither 

 rest nor sleep ; but whenever the elementary body is 

 fully awake and active, the activity of the sidereal body 

 will then be restrained, and its free movements be 

 impeded or prevented, like those of a man who is 

 buried alive in a tomb."^ 



^ "The spirit educates the body (the internal the external man), and 

 may seduce it to commit sins, for which the body has to suffer ; but 



