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1 Ten Thousand DreamsInterpretedBy Gustavus Hindman MillerTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - " Dreams are rudiments of the great state dream what is about to happen.''--BAILEY,The Bible, as well as other great books ofhistorical andrevealed religion, shows traces of ageneral and substantialbelief in Dreams . Plato,Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleonassigned tocertain Dreams prophetic value. Joseph sawelevenstars of the Zodiac bow to himself, the famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision offat and lean parents of Christ werewarned of the cruel edict of Herod,and fled with theDivine Child into 's wife, through the influence of adream, advised her husbandto have nothing to dowith the conviction of Christ. But thegrossmaterialism of the day laughed at Dreams , as itechoed the voice andverdict of the multitude,"Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh live.

2 ''Barabbas,the robber, was set at Thousand Dreams Interpreted - ultimatum of all human decrees andwisdom is to gratifythe passions of the flesh at theexpense of the prophets and those whohave stood nearest the fountainof universalknowledge used Dreams with more frequencythanany other mode of , as well as sacred, history isthreaded with incidentsof dream prophecy. Ancienthistory relates that Gennadiuswas convinced of theimmortality of his soul by conversingwith anapparition in his the dream of Cecilia Metella, thewife of a Consul, the Roman Senatewas induced toorder the temple of Juno Sospita Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw thebow of the Hunnish conquerorbreak on the samenight that Attila relates how Augustus, while ill,through the dreamof a friend, was persuaded toleave his tent, which a few hoursafter was capturedTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - the enemy, and the bed whereon he had lainwaspierced with the enemies' Julius Caesar had been less incredulousabout Dreams he wouldhave listened to the warningwhich Calpurnia, his wife,received in a dream.

3 Croesus saw his son killed in a saw his beloved Laura, in a dream,on the day she died,after which he wrote hisbeautiful poem, "The Triumph of Death.''Cicero relates the story of two travelingArcadians who went todifferent lodgings--one to aninn, and the other to a private thenight the latter dreamed that his friend was beggingfor dreamer awoke; but, thinking thematter unworthy of notice, went tosleep again. Thesecond time he dreamed his friend appeared, sayingit wouldbe too late, for he had already beenmurdered and his body hid in a cart,under cart was afterward sought for and the also wrote, "If the gods love men theyTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - certainly disclosetheir purposes to them insleep.'' Chrysippus wrote a volume on Dreams asdivine refers to the skilled interpretationsof Dreams as a true divination;but adds that, like allother arts in which men have to proceedonconjecture and on artificial rules, it is not concurred in the general ideaprevailing in his day,that there were divinemanifestations to the soul in and wrote with greater fluency in hisdreamsthan in waking , a distinguished violinist, composedhis "Devil's Sonata''under the inspiration of a , through dream influence,composed his"Kubla Khan.

4 ''The writers of Greek and Latin classics relatemany instancesof dream experiences. Homeraccorded to some Dreams divine thethird and fourth centuries, the supernatural originofdreams was so generally accepted that the fathers,Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted - uponthe classics and the Bible as authority,made this belief a doctrineof the Christian placed dreaming above all methodsof divining the future;he thought it the surest, andopen to the poor and rich alike. ArisTotle wrote: "There is a divinationconcerning some thingsin Dreams not incredible.''Camille Flammarion, in his great bookon"Premonitory Dreams and Divination of the Future,''says:"I do not hesitate to affirm at the outset thatoccurrence of dreamsforetelling future events withaccuracy must be accepted as certain.''Joan of Arc predicted her , the French philosopher andtranscendentalist, warned Condorcetagainst themanner of his dream now, the same as they did inmedieval and ancient following excerpt from "TheUnknown,''[1] a recent bookby Flammarion, theFrench astronomer, supplemented with a fewof myTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - thoughts and collections, will answer thepurposesintended for this book.

5 [1] "From `The Unknown.' Published byHarper & Brothers Copyright,1900, by CamilleFlammarion.''"We may see without eyes and hear withoutears, not by unnatural excitementof our sense ofvision or of hearing, for these accounts prove thecontrary,but by some interior sense, psychic andmental."The soul, by its interior vision, may see notonly what ispassing at a great distance, but it mayalso know in advancewhat is to happen in the future exists potentially,determined by causeswhich bring to pass successive events."POSITIVE OBSERVATION PROVES THEEXISTENCE OF A PSYCHIC WORLD,as real as theworld known to our physical senses."And now, because the soul acts at adistance by some power that belongsto it, are weauthorized to conclude that it exists as somethingTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - ,and that it is not the result of functions of thebrain?

6 "Does light really exist?"Does heat exist?"Does sound exist?"No."They are only manifestations produced bymovement."What we call light is a sensation producedupon our optic nerveby the vibrations of ether,comprising between 400 and 756 trillionsper second,undulations that are themselves very obscure."What we call heat is a sensation producedby vibrations between 350and and{sic} 600 trillions."The sun lights up space, as much atmidnight as at temperature is nearly 270degrees below zero."What we call sound is a sensation producedupon our auditory nerveby silent vibrations of theair, themselves comprising between 32,000and36,000 a Thousand Dreams Interpreted - .."Very many scientific terms represent onlyresults, not causes."The soul may be in the samecase."The observations given in this work, thesensations, the impressions,the visions, thingsheard, etc., may indicate physical effectsproducedwithout the brain.

7 "Yes, no doubt, but it does not seem so."Let us examine one instance."Turn back to page 156.@@@"A young woman, adored by her husband,dies at Moscow. Her father-in-law,at Pulkowo, nearSt. Petersburg, saw her that same hour by walked with him along the street; then , startled, and terrified, hetelegraphed to his son,and learned both the sicknessand the death of his daughter-in-law."We are absolutely obliged to admit thatSOMETHING emanatedfrom the dying woman andtouched her father-in-law. Thisthing unknown mayTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - been an ethereal movement,as in the case oflight, and may have been only an effect,a product, aresult; but this effect must have had a cause,andthis cause evidently proceeded from the woman whowas the constitution of the brain explainthis projection?I do not think that any anatomist orphysiologist will givethis question an affirmativeanswer.

8 One feels that there isa force unknown,proceeding, not from our physical organization,butfrom that in us which can think."Take another example (see page 57).@@@"A lady in her own house hears a is the voice of a friend now in a convent,and she faints,because she is sure it is the voice ofthe the same moment that friend doesreally die, twenty milesaway from her."Does not this give us the impression thatone soul holdscommunication with another?"Here is another example (page 163):@@@"The wife of a captain who has gone out tothe Indian mutiny sees one nighther husbandTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted - before her with his hands pressed to hisbreast,and a look of suffering on his face. Theagitation that she feels convincesher that he iseither killed or badly wounded. It was War Office subsequently publishes hisdeath as having taken placeon November 15th.

9 Sheendeavors to have the true date Office was wrong. He died on the 14th."A child six years old stops in the middle ofhis play andcries out, frightened: "Mamma, I haveseen Mamma.'' At thatmoment his mother wasdying far away from him (page 124).@@@"A young girl at a ball stops short in themiddle of a dance and cries,bursting into tears. `Myfather is dead; I have just seen him.'At that momenther father died. She did not even know he was ill."All these things present themselves to us asindicatingnot physiological operations of one brainacting on another,but psychic actions of spirit uponspirit. We feel that theyindicate to us some Thousand Dreams Interpreted - "No doubt it is difficult to apportion whatbelongs to the spirit,the soul, and what belongs tothe brain. We can only let ourselvesbe guided in ourjudgment and our appreciations by the samefeelingthat is created in us by the discussion is how all science has been , and does not everyone feel that we have hereto do with manifestations from beingscapable ofthought, and not with material physiological factsonly?

10 "This impression is superabundantlyconfirmed by investigation concerningthe unknownfaculties of the soul, when active in Dreams andsomnambulism."A brother learns the death of his youngsister by a terrible nightmare."A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream,the man whom she will marry."A mother sees her child lying in a road,covered with Thousand Dreams Interpreted - "A lady goes, in a dream, to visit herhusband on a distant steamer,and her husbandreally receives this visit, which is seen by a thirdperson."A magnetized lady sees and describes theinterior of the bodyof her dying mother; what shesaid is confirmed by the autopsy."A gentleman sees, in a dream, a lady whomhe knows arriving at nightin a railroad station, herjourney having been undertaken suddenly."A magistrate sees three years in advancethe commission of a crime,down to its smallestdetails.