Dreams & Visions
Gnostic students should learn to differentiate between dreams and visions. To dream is one thing and to have visions, another. No truly “awakened” Gnostic can dream. Only those who have the consciousness asleep live dreaming. The worst type of dreamer is the sexual dreamer. Those who live dreaming of carnal passions stupidly waste their creative energy in the satisfaction of their fantastic pleasures. Ordinarily, these people do not progress in their affairs. They fail in every sense. They end up in misery.
When we look at a pornographic image, it injures the senses and then passes to the mind. The psychological “I” intervenes in these things, stealing the erotic image for itself, in order to reproduce it in the mental plane. In the world of the mind that image is transformed into a living effigy. During sleep the dreamer fornicates with that living effigy which, like an erotic demon tempts him for the satisfaction of the lust. The result is wet dreams with all their horrible con sequences. No true devotee of the path should visit cinemas because they are dens of black magic. The erotic figures of the screen give rise to mental effigies and erotic dreams. In addition the cinemas are full of diabolic elementals created by the human mind. Those malign elementals damage the mind of the spectators.
The subconscious mind creates fantastic dreams in the realm of dream. The quality of dreams depends on the beliefs of the dreamer. When someone believes we are good, he dreams about us, seeing us as angels. When someone believes we are bad, he dreams about us, seeing us in the form of a devil.
Many things come to mind whilst writing these lines. In the past when we, the Brothers, worked in various countries, we were able to observe that whilst our Gnostic disciples believed in us they dreamed, seeing us as angels. It was sufficient for them to stop believing, in us for them to then dream about us as demons. Those who swore before the altar to follow and obey us, admired us with great enthusiasm and dreamed seeing us as angels. Many times it was enough that these students read some book or listened to some lecturer, for them to become affiliated with a new school. Then, having stopped believing in us, having changed their concept and opinions, they dreamed about us seeing us changed into devils. What was the clairvoyance of these people? What became of their clairvoyant dreams? What type of clairvoyant is it that today sees us as Gods, and tomorrow affirms that we are devils? Where is the clairvoyance of these dreamers? Why do these people contradict themselves? Why do they swear today that we are Gods and tomorrow swear that we are devils? What is this?
The subconscious is a screen upon which many internal films are projected.
The present day subconscious sometimes acts as a cameraman, other times as a director, and also as a projectionist who projects images onto the mental background.
It is clear that the subconscious projector usually commits many errors. No one Ignore that erroneous thoughts emerge on the screen of the mind, groundless suspicions and also false dreams.
We need to transform the subconscious into conscious, to stop dreaming, to awaken consciousness.
He who has awakened is incapable of dreaming. While his physical body sleeps in bed, he lives in the inner worlds in a state of intensified vigilance. Such people are authentic enlightened seers.
We frankly cannot accept clairvoyants who have not awakened consciousness. We cannot accept clairvoyants who have not engendered the Christ Astral, Christ Mind and Christ Will. Clairvoyants who have neither awakened consciousness nor possess their Christic vehicles only see their own beliefs and concepts in the internal worlds. In short they are of no use.
Only those awakened clairvoyants, only those clairvoyants who al ready possess their Christic vehicles are worthy of true credit. They are not dreamers. They do not make mistakes. They are true illuminates. Such people are in fact true Masters of the White Lodge. The visions of this class of sublime man are not simple dreams. These are the Masters of Perfection. This kind of Master cannot dream any more. This class of Master can investigate the memories of nature and read in the sealed archives of creation all the history of the Earth and its races.
Everyone who follows the Path of the Perfect Matrimony should live alert and vigilant like the sentry in wartime. During the hours of sleep, the Masters test their disciples. The tenebrous attack us during sleep when we are working in the Great Work. During sleep, in the internal worlds we have to pass through many trials. The Masters awaken the consciousness of the disciple when they are going to test him in something.
Samael Aun Weor