i3^ Paracelsus 



dreams in regard to things which they desired to know. 

 Their imagination was then free, and began to work its 

 wonders. It attracted to it the Evestra of some philo- 

 sophers, and they communicated to them their knowledge. 

 Such things happen frequently, but it very often occurs 

 that on awakening to consciousness in the outer world 

 all or a pai-t of what has been learned during the dream 

 is forgotten. If this happens and we wish to remember 

 such dreams, we should not leave the room after rising, 

 and speak to nobody, but remain alone and undisturbed, 

 and eat nothing until after a while we remember that 

 dream." ^ 



" It is often the case that dreams have an important 

 meaning, but many dreams that are pleasant may signify 

 sorrow, and disagreeable dreams often signify joy ; and 

 we should, therefore, not put too much confidence in 

 dreams." ^ 



Men's astral bodies may more easily be influenced 

 during sleep than during the waking state. The power 

 to influence persons during their sleep is sometimes used 

 for evil purposes : " Some persons, being in love with 

 others, and finding their love unrequited, have sometimes 

 used this circumstance to influence those whose love they 

 desired by appearing to them in their dreams. They 

 wrote with their own blood their names upon pieces of 

 new paper, and put the slips under their pillows or beds, 

 so that these persons should see the intended lovers in 

 their dreams and fall in love with them. Girls used to 

 put their belts, ribbons, locks of hair, &c., under the 

 pillows of young men for whose love they craved ; but 

 very seldom they found the desired result in this manner, 



^ Dreams or visions of a true spiritual origin make usually a very 

 strong impression, and are then not easily forgotten. 



2 Thus, for instance, we may dream of a death and burial, and the cause 

 of that dream may be that one of the animal elementals in our own 

 constitution has died, or, in other words, that we have become free 

 from some degrading idea or element, an event which is surely a cause 

 for joy. 



