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Whatever symbol is used to impress the dreamer is the
one which is likely to warn him more definitely than any
other.
No two persons being ever in the same state at the
same time, the same symbols would hardly convey
identical impressions, neither will the same dream be as
effective in all cases of business or love with the same
dreamer.
A person's
dream perception wavers, much as it does
in waking hours. You fail to find the same fragrance in
the rose at all times, though the same influences
seemingly surround you and thus it is that different
dreams must be used for different persons to convey the
same meaning.
Creation, confident of her power to perfect her
designs, does not resort to that monotony in her work,
which might result were the perception of man, or the
petals and fragrance of flowers cast from one
stereotyped mold of intelligence, beauty or sweetness. This variety of scheme runs through all creation.
You think you have identical dreams, but there is
always some variation, even if it be something dreamed
immediately over. Nature is no sluggard and is forever
changing her compounds, so that there is bound to be
change in the details even of dreams. This change would
not materially affect the approach of happiness or
sorrow in different people, and hence the same dreams
are reliable for all.
Persons of the same or similar temperament will be
more deeply impressed by a certain dream than would
people their opposite and though the dream cannot be the
same in detail yet it is apparently the same, just as
two like flowers are called roses, though they are not
identical. If a young woman twenty-five and a girl of
fifteen should each have a dream of marriage, the same
definition would apply to each, just the same as if they
would each approach a flower and smell of it
differently. Different influences will possess them
unconsciously, though the outward appearance be the
same.
A young woman of a certain age is warned in a dream
of trouble likely to befall her, while another of
similar age and threatened trouble is warned also, but
in different symbols, which she fails to grasp and bring
back to waking existence, and she thus believes she has
had no warning dream.
There are those in the world who lack subjective
strength, material or spiritual, and hence they fail to
receive dreams, however symbolic, because there is no
power within them to retain these impressions. There are many reasons for this loss, utter material
grossness, want of memory, physical weakness uncoupled
from extreme nervousness, and total lack of faith in any
warning or revelation purporting or coming from the
dream consciousness.
To dream at night and the following day have the
thing dreamed of actually take place, or come before
your notice, is not allegorical. It is the higher or
spiritual sense living or grasping the immediate future
ahead of the physical mind.
The spiritual body is always first to come into
contact with the approaching future it is present with
it, while still future to the physical body. There is no
reason why man should not grasp coming events earlier,
only he does not cultivate inner sight as he does his
outer senses. The allegorical is used because man
weakens his spiritual force by catering to the material
senses. He clings to the pleasures and woes of the
material world to the exclusion of spirituality.
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