St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-25
IN DREAMLAND.
Theosophists Claim 1t Is but a
Link Connecting With Another

Theosophists Claim 1t Is but
Link Connecting With Another
Life.
Claud Wright, of London, addressed
the Theosophical society at their room
in the GLOBE building last night on the
subject of dreams. He believes there is
philosophy in dreams that if rightly
understood will form key to many of
the difficulties of existence. 1t is argued
that they teach no truths. Who knows
that we are not dreaming; that the
things around us Will hot fade away.
We talk of time, of seconds, hours,
but really we know nothing about
it. The clocks and watches do the
work, often few seconds seem like
hours to us, and hours, if spent with
one or whom we are fond, seem like
seconds. We spend a great part of our
time i'll sleep, and | am 10th 20 believe
that we lose all of that time. Prof.
James, professor of psychology, writing
of theosOphy in the Arena, said that
each life is but segment of the arch
of conscious life, segment OF the great
arch of time, and all is dream The
Egyptians taught that this life Is but
one in chain of consciousness, there
being three above this. You see this in
their hierOglyphics. About the heads of
these human figures there are four
figures like hats; that is to say, that
there are four conscious planes of
life, they also divide life into four states
waking, dreaming, sleep and trance.
The self does not retain memory of
one state on into another. 1t is like
four rooms, with swing doors between.
and some time the Ego stands, as it
were, with the door ajar and is conscious
of both states in dim way. There are
ways Of opening these doors. as by eat
ing opium or haSheesh, aud these are all
bad. You cannot learn the secrets OF
the different planes of life in that way.
We are of a two-fold nature--the spir-
itual, the Ego or self, and the instructive
or animal nature. In this duo the head
alone is of value to the Ego; the animal
is only the machine through which
the soul works. Our brains are
two-fold, the ceretrum in the front
of the head, the cerebellun in the back
of the head, the Ego stands back of and
controls the cerebrum, the cerebellum
is controlled by the animal part of our
nature. When the Ego or self sleeps,
the light In the intellectual part goes
out, and that part OF the brain collapses
as one may say, and the animal part has
control. Duprell, the writer on meta
physics, tells of dream in which he
was pursued across q field by a mad dog
which some one shot, and Oil awakening
found that part of the bed had fallen
Oh him and that the dream was caused
Ivy that. De Quincy also tells of some
wonderful dreams that he traced to this
cause. DR.. Abernethy tells of student
who dreamed that hewaS criminal, was
tried, sentenced to prison, and served
for sixty years, and that he heard bell
ring, when, in fact, the real time elaps-
ing was from the moment a bell was
pushed off from table and the second
in which it struck the floor. Mozart
claimed that he heard one of his glori-
Gus symphonies. that required years to
write, in an instant of time. 1t is this
that is meant by the expression in the
Bible, "a day is as a thousand years,
and thousand years but as a day in
His sight" IL we can teach our soul,
the Ego within us.to be so strong that it
will be able to keep the animal nature
under, it will be able to remember what
we have lived through in dreams, for
when it comes to take possession after
sleep it takes the thoughts that have
been impressed upon our cerebellums
and tries to make something of them,
but while we allow the animal to rule
our creams will be nonsense.