Your Dreams Revealed
The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed
religion, show traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams.
Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon assigned to certain dreams
prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself,
the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat
and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of
Herod, and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt. Pilate's wife, through
the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do
with the conviction of Christ.
But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed
the voice and verdict of the multitude, Crucify the Spirit, but let the
flesh live. Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty. The ultimatum of
all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at
the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood
nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with more
frequency than any other mode of divination. Profane, as well as
sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy.
Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the
immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman
Senate was induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt. The
Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror
break on the same night that Attila died. Plutarch relates how
Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded to
leave his tent, which a few hours after was captured by the enemy,
and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the enemies'
swords. If Julius Csar had been less incredulous about dreams he
would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife, received
in a dream. Croesus saw his son killed in a dream. Petrarch saw his
beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died, after which he wrote
his beautiful poem, The Triumph of Death.Cicero relates the story of
two traveling Arcadians who went to different lodgings one to an inn,
and the other to a private house. During the night the latter dreamed
that his friend was begging for help. The dreamer awoke but, thinking
the matter unworthy of notice, went to sleep again. The second time
he dreamed his friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he
had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart, under manure.
religion, show traces of a general and substantial belief in dreams.
Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon assigned to certain dreams
prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to himself,
the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat
and lean cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of
Herod, and fled with the Divine Child into Egypt. Pilate's wife, through
the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to do
with the conviction of Christ.
But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams, as it echoed
the voice and verdict of the multitude, Crucify the Spirit, but let the
flesh live. Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty. The ultimatum of
all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at
the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood
nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with more
frequency than any other mode of divination. Profane, as well as
sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy.
Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the
immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman
Senate was induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt. The
Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror
break on the same night that Attila died. Plutarch relates how
Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded to
leave his tent, which a few hours after was captured by the enemy,
and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the enemies'
swords. If Julius Csar had been less incredulous about dreams he
would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife, received
in a dream. Croesus saw his son killed in a dream. Petrarch saw his
beloved Laura, in a dream, on the day she died, after which he wrote
his beautiful poem, The Triumph of Death.Cicero relates the story of
two traveling Arcadians who went to different lodgings one to an inn,
and the other to a private house. During the night the latter dreamed
that his friend was begging for help. The dreamer awoke but, thinking
the matter unworthy of notice, went to sleep again. The second time
he dreamed his friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he
had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart, under manure.
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