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---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Spiritual Hierarchies--- The activity of higher spiritual Beings within our Cosmos can be explored by considering their action and influence from another point of view. It is necessary to rise to very high regions of spiritual life. Spiritual Beings of the most d...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World--- The present, in particular the German philosophy and its epistemology makes it difficult to its supporters to find access to a spiritual world view. I have tried to outline this theory of knowledge, this pre...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- Our existence is both earthly and cosmic, and the path to understanding this duality can be initiated by picturing Christian Rosenkreutz at the center of the Twelve, dispatching Gautama Buddha as his emissary. This specific meditation acts as a question to one's own destiny, opening the do...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- Spirituality is present in everything around us, in nature, in the earth. The natural world is a creation of divine-spiritual activity from ancient times. Being close to nature is a privilege that connects us to the deepest sources of morality. This understanding brings with it a great res...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Gospel of St. Matthew--- We have seen that there is a significant difference between knowledge of the spiritual world such as has existed through all the ages and the particular form of knowledge of the Divine-Spiritual to which the organic constitution of the He...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Man in the Past, Present, and Future--- No world-conception which has had any influence upon Western civilization, or its American off-shoot, has been content to deal only with present-day man and to show how the individual fits into the pattern of world-population. ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Cosmosophy IIGA 208--- In recent weeks we have been considering the human being from all kinds of different points of view, with the aim of getting a better idea of complex human nature and the relationship of the human being to the world. Let us begin by recalling s...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The journey into the spiritual world unfolds in stages, much like the days of a week. It begins not by force of will, but when an opportunity presents itself to the soul as an imagination, an image that is not yet fully understood. This is not a sudden event for an unprepared mind; it's a ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The History of Art--- Today I will introduce some observations and the way in which these will be presented will appear to be more loosely connected than those of the previous discussions which I have been giving you during these past weeks. Despite the aphoristic fo...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Eternal Human Soul--- Somebody who tries to bring the will into his imagining so that it really proceeds under the influence of his will discovers something spiritual in the imagining. You have to say, the right method of meditation leads to the spirit in the usual i...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research--- The previous talk should provide the basic mood for the today's explanations. In that talk, I wanted to show in particular that in the basic mood of the spiritual person nothing of fanaticism should be contained. It has mayb...
###Article by: Terry Boardman, date:Jun 21, 2012, title:The American Plans for 21st Century Foreign Policy -- the next steps in the "Clash of Civilizations"?.### ...A resurgence of Islam, already being promoted from outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia, is very likely to provide the mobilizing impulse for...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science has Something to Add to Modern Sciences(continuation)--- have seen, and later we'll also see some other things--in a world of spirit. Our ordinary conscious awareness comes to an end when we sleep, but that connection with the world that remains at ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: An Occult Physiology--- It is possible for us to have a vision of the quickening life which weaves and works throughout the human organisation. Here our best procedure will be to start from the most common and everyday side, the reciprocal relationship between the hu...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- Spiritual capacities are meant to help people fulfill their mission on earth as free, self-aware beings; they are not for personal aggrandizement but to guide one to the right path. Secret societies are a necessary part of world evolution because they provide frameworks for self-developmen...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Principles of a Spiritual Education--- The school was founded during restless and disturbed times, when efforts were made to create new conditions in the social realm. It all began with the ideas of an industrialist, who wished to begin a school for the children of t...
###Article by: Terry Boardman, date:Oct 10, 2014, title:Rhodes, Russia and the "Islamic State".### To understand history and current events from a spiritual scientific perspective, one must understand the fundamentals of the evolution of human consciousness. Key historical phenomena are 'symptoms' which illuminate the...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Ancient Wisdom Teachings, Christology and Mythology--- Last time I took the liberty of saying a few words about the task or the significance of a spiritual branch. What I said then is really something that cannot be emphasized eno...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The entire cosmos, the Macrocosm, and the individual human being, the Microcosm, are not separate; they exist in a breathing relationship with each other. A person contains the concentrated forces of the universe, just as a seed contains the entire plant. This dynamic is visible everywhere...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Light Course--- We shall have to go into the phenomena of light and colour rather more fully. They will provide a good foundation. A special kind of interplay of light and dark is the unimpaired brightness on the one hand, and on the other hand the dimming or cl...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone--- Certain human functions appearing in early childhood are transformations of functions that man carries out in pre-earthly existence between death and a new birth. We see how, after birth, the child not fully ada...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Faculty Meetings with a Spiritual Teacher--- The teacher: Today, we want to have our agreed-upon discussion with the school doctor on health in the school. I will not go into the details of treating students because there are a number of principle things we need to p...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- To understand the world, one must look in two opposite directions. Natural science looks outward at reality and distills it into thin, abstract thoughts and laws. Spiritual science begins with these inner thoughts, intensifies them through concentration, and travels inward until they lead ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism--- That aspect of events which is generally accepted as the history of mankind is, in many respects, a superficial one. For an understanding of the present condition of affairs, it is peculiarly necessary that we should not be led into an...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Kingdom of Childhood--- The first question is as follows: What is the real difference between multiplication and division in this method of teaching? Or should there be no difference at all in the first school year? The question probably arises from my statemen...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for a Social Reorganization--- When it comes to ideas that are intended to be realized in practical life, complete fallacies are basically less harmful than half-truths and three-quarters truths. For complete fallacies c...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The acquisition of super-sensible knowledge begins with distinctly separating the two sides of our nature. Our feeling and will, which we consider our inner being, can be separated from our physical and etheric bodies. In this state, our inner world becomes an external observer, and what w...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Background to the Gospel of St. Mark--- In the mid-nineteenth century, a feeling arose among some spiritually inclined thinkers that the old wisdom traditions, while struggling to establish themselves as a formal science, were part of a never-dying stream, held toget...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Cosmic Forces in Man--- We have heard how the being of man must be viewed in relation to the whole universe. We considered the human form and figure and its relation to the fixed stars, or rather to the representative of the fixed stars--the Zodiac. We heard how cert...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Necessity for New Ways of Spiritual Knowledge--- This evening I want to speak to you about the cultural life of our present time; and especially about the basis of the work we are doing here and of our aims. I shall possibly have nothing specially new to say to y...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Results of Spiritual Research--- The greatest mysteries of life, which have universal human significance, are not presented to us through special scientific research, but we encounter them at every turn in life. And the greatest questioner is surely life itself, whic...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Younger Generation--- The way in which a human being confronts his fellow men at present was different before the year 333 A.D. According to spiritual science, we must differentiate in the soul between what was active in human nature up to the fifteenth century--...
###Book by: Karl Heise, about freemasonry, written right after world war 1.### In Brazil, there is the "Fonseca" lodge in Alagöas and its "Ferreira" lodge in Rio Grande do Sul. Additionally, there are 5 or more Brazilian and French "Hiram" lodges within the Grand Lodge Pod. Centr. in Minas and in Rio de Janeiro and Ri...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The moral and religious aspect of teaching is an all-embracing spirit that must pervade every part of education. Physical education and spiritual education are not separate branches; they must flow together into a unity. This unity is practiced through expressive movement, a kind of spirit...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research--- This evening I would like to speak about important questions of life from the viewpoint of the so-called spiritual science, that is from a viewpoint which is not popular today and which has exceptionally many prejudices agai...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Esoteric Instructions--- of esoteric striving, a person must gaze at least a little at what works on him and guides his way. Out of this comes true insight of spiritual things. Of course, how far someone progresses along this path depends entirely on karma, on one's ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Metamorphoses of the Soul--- It is of some interest to observe from a spiritual-scientific point of view the various ways by which the human being expresses himself. By approaching human life from different sides and observing its different aspects, a comprehensive v...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Advent of Christ in the Ethereal World--- We know that the development here on earth takes place in such a way that man can undergo new experiences and gain new insights in each of his embodiments on earth. Therefore, the events of our earthly development are arr...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Old and New Methods of Initiation--- A tremendous change, which entered into the whole soul constitution of civilized mankind with the fifteenth century--that is, with the transition from the fourth to the fifth post-Atlantean period--continued to have an effect on o...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Soul Instructions and Observation of the World--- Today I have to speak to you about a chapter of the newer cultural history which, indeed, repeats an ancient history in a certain form, but in such a peculiar, typical way that perhaps nothing is more suited...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Occult Reading and Occult Hearing--- The essential findings of Spiritual Science are acquired through occult reading and occult hearing. We hear something about the methods by which the spiritual investigator reaches his experiences, when he speaks of the actual proc...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Arts and Their Mission--- Today I would like to examine certain other aspects of our subject. We refer to real spiritual entities when we speak of spiritual beings in a spiritual context. Thus, the "genius of language" designates the spiritual entity behind any s...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man--- We know indeed that man has only reached his present condition in the course of a long evolution, that he has developed to his present heights through different planetary stages. We know too that he will lift himself to h...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols--- An attempt has been made to characterize the occult basis of Germanic myths, and an expansion of the entire mythical material has been begun, as it extends in a broad spiritual belt from Persia through the East of Europe...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Supersensible Influences in the History of Mankind--- I should like to describe certain historical happenings and their connections with spiritual worlds. In our materialistic age, study of the history of the human race is limited to its external aspect; attempts are...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- There are ways of initiation that seek to enslave the human will, setting it on a predetermined course, and there are ways that treasure the independence of the will above all else. The Christian-Rosicrucian path is a continuation of Christian initiation, but it has had to evolve because t...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Templars--- When we inquire into the forces that are at work in modern souls, we are compelled to recognize the importance and significance of this event in history. I refer to the whole destiny and development of the Order of the Knights Templar. I should like, ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Macrocosm and Microcosm--- We have tried to present items of knowledge which for reasons connected with the evolution of humanity should now be communicated, and this from a standpoint rather different from that of books which may be accessible to you. The desire has...
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:November 24, 2024, topic:Philosophy, Anthroposophy, History, Society, Transhumanism, title:In Search of Justice.### ...framework of a pan-European academy, set out in search of the truth. The concession that truth could and must be sought--the heresy of Abaelard--first set the univ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil--- Through a certain process, man comes to the point of merely seeing images of something external in what he receives as concepts and ideas, and does not notice that at the same time as he is conceiving...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms--- I would like to sum up what has been said concerning the differences of the soul constitutions among the various nations and of human beings generally all over the world. I have indicated that various predispositi...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism--- When the human being is able to look into the spiritual world, he will, to a certain extent have that experience which we designate as the "crossing of the threshold". This crossing of the threshold involves th...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: From Jesus to Christ--- Two questions arise. One relates to the objective event connected with the name, Christ Jesus; to the nature of that impulse which as the Christ-Impulse entered into human evolution. The other question is: how can an individual establish his c...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Advent of Christ in the Ethereal World--- In the development of the individual human being as well as of the whole of humanity, we must always look for something that is not too simple, not too straightforward, otherwise we cannot really understand the complicate...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Mystery of Death--- Our spiritual science has the task to remove for our consciousness, for our whole soul-life, that abyss which arises for the external human consciousness between the physical world in which the human being spends the interval between birth and...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Essence of Spiritual Science--- When man speaks of spirit and spiritual knowledge, it must be said that he is actually pointing to something that is constantly present to him, at least insofar as he is awake. Man cannot doubt that both his cognitive and volitiona...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Freedom, Immortality, and Social Life--- If religious feeling and experience wanted to understand its task properly towards the requirements of modern time and faced that with full understanding what spiritual science intends, the religious feeling and confessing wou...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Foundations for a Renewed Christian Spiritual Activity(continuation)--- ordained by the Powers That Be that what is the transition of the soul into the immortal appears in the image of the butterfly crawling out. So, if you look at the picture as if it were a reality...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Metamorphoses of the Soul--- In all sorts of popular books you will find this or that said about the moon from the standpoint of science today. But all you can learn from these sources or from the scientific literature will leave you quite unsatisfied as regards the ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Supersensible Influences in the History of Mankind--- The secrets of antiquity before the Mystery of Golgotha were connected with the mummy, whereas cult and ceremonial rites in their more modern forms enshrine secrets whose full significance will be revealed only in...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Work of Secret Societies in the World: The Atom as Coagulated Electricity--- The question might be asked: What is the deeper significance of secret societies and of their aims in world-evolution? To such a question my answer would be that they have a real connect...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- Life operates according to a cyclic law, an alternation of processes. This is observable in the simple cycle of sleeping and waking. The activity of the soul during our waking hours, every thought and impulse, involves a continuous destruction of delicate structures within our nervous syst...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Lectures to the First Class--- Let us be reminded of the admonition which directs human beings to the ancient holy words of knowledge: O man, know thyself! So resounds the cosmic-word. You hear it strong in soul, You feel it vast in spirit. Who speaks so vastly ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Chapter of Occult History--- Today we shall be concerned with a chapter of spiritual science which links on to many things previously studied but in a certain respect is quite independent. Today we shall be considering matters for those who are more advanced--I do...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- We are living at a significant turning point in time, a shift from a Dark Age, the Kali Yuga, into an Age of Light. This is not an abstract concept but a spiritual reality that affects the depths of the human soul. The inertia of the old darkness continues to roll on, which is why the ligh...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The reality of language is found not in the individual sounds, which are its physical body, but in the living transition between them. Just as the soul of music exists in the movement from one tone to the next, the spirit of speech is revealed in the progression from sound to sound. This i...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Evolution of the Earth and Man and The Influence of the Stars--- Has someone thought of a question during the last weeks? Question : Sir, I would like to ask about various foods--beans and carrots, for instance: what effect they have on the body. You have alrea...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science--- Among the many different currents of thought in our time is the one known as "spiritual thought". Anyone who tries to form an opinion about it from books, articles and so on can easily come to one of the many pre...
###Article by: blog redaktion, date:April 24, 2021, topic:Biofascism, Biopolitics, Corona, Mass Hysteria, title:State Power and Mass Hysteria in Corona Times.### There is a clear relationship between state power and mass hysteria. The more powerful a state is, the greater its access to public and private life, and the...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Original Impulses for the Science of the Spirit--- Let us talk about karma and details of karmic laws. You know that by karma we mean the great law of cause and effect in the life of the spirit. In spiritual science this law of karma applies primarily to repeated liv...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and the Big Questions of Contemporary Civilization(continuation)--- the thought, to raise the arm. Now we look into our organism through loving imagination. What we otherwise have only when we look into ourselves, thoughts, we now have as living for...
###Article by: Terry Boardman, date:Jun 21, 2012, title:The American Plans for 21st Century Foreign Policy -- the next steps in the "Clash of Civilizations"?.### ...A resurgence of Islam, already being promoted from outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia, is very likely to provide the mobilizing impulse for...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman--- We have heard that the human soul was once endowed with a kind of primeval wisdom, that this wisdom gradually faded away and is now no longer accessible. Consequently with respect to their knowledge, people feel thrown back mo...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Things in Past and Present in the Spirit of Man--- Consider the story of a powerful king of England, centuries ago. He had six wives, two of which he executed because they no longer appealed to him; the others he divorced. He had difficulty in getting a divorce from ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Karmic Relationships IV--- If we wish our human thought and action to be permeated once more by spiritual life, it will be necessary to receive again in full earnestness such conceptions of the spiritual world as have passed through our souls. For many centuries thes...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Understanding Art--- What humanity needs to take in, with an eye to developmental necessities, is an expansion of consciousness in all areas of life. Humanity lives today in such a way that what it does, what it engages in, is actually only linked to the events betwe...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- To understand the world, one must find a place for the self-conscious ego within the picture of nature. The aim is to reconnect the ego with the natural ground from which it feels separated. This is not about seeing the world as an illusion, but about conceiving of nature as so comprehensi...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Human Soul, Fate and Death--- Apart from the general interest that questions such as the one that is the subject of today's reflection have, there is a very special reason for human souls to engage in such reflection in our time. As was suggested previously, and ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Esoteric Lessons--- In ordinary day consciousness we know nothing about what's behind what we sense, imagine, think, feel and will. In our dream life we're in this living weaving that's the background of our day consciousness. One part of this world of which we can o...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Stimulating Effect of Spiritual Science on the Individual Sciences--- Allow me today to take up some of the material that I could only hint at yesterday and which will then lead us to our reflection today. Yesterday I had to take up a sentence that emerged from t...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- To truly grasp concepts like the 'Father and Mother of Jesus' as understood in the Gospel of St. John, one must realize these are not symbols but descriptions of spiritual realities. Gaining this understanding is a process of preparing oneself to receive and experience higher spiritual wor...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Philosophy of Spiritual Activity--- From the foregoing considerations it follows that it is impossible to prove, by analysis of the content of our observation, that our percepts are representations. This is supposed to be proved by showing that, if the process of per...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Principle of Spiritual Economy--- Goethe, one of the most inspired spirits in modern times, knew how to depict in a touching way the strength and the power of sounds at Easter--the sound of the Easter bells. When his character Faust, the representative of strivin...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita--- The human soul will feel increasingly that certain spiritual things belong to its requirements, to its deepest longings. This time it will be our task to stay more in the regions of earthly evolution. Our thoughts, howe...
-WHAT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW- The very first step toward any real understanding is to investigate knowing itself. All other fields of inquiry build on the process of knowing, yet they do not examine it. To do this, we must begin without presuppositions, which means the way we initially frame our questions is of utmost ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and Medicine--- of pathological conditions. Of late there has been a cumulative tendency to disregard the origins proper, and to fix attention on superficial appearances and events. And with this superficiality is bound up the habit in current medic...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: A Turning-Point in Modern History--- The nineteenth century represents a very significant turning-point in the history of mankind, particularly in relation to the social life of our own time. The middle of the century brought a much greater change in ways of thinking...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Human Being as Body, Soul and Spirit--- When people on earth come together, the life of the human being as a physical human life cannot really be considered in isolation; rather, one must also consider the earth. When you visit a natural history museum, you somet...
###Article by: Lorenzo Ravagli, date:January 6, 2015, Anthroposophy, Esotericism, Theosophy, The Path of Discipleship -- I -- First Steps -- Purification.### ...lower food cycle. First he received it as a religious doctrine; then came the time when he regarded it as superstition, not understanding the inner connection...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Bible and Wisdom(continuation)--- of the Bible is a man who, independently of the Bible, is able to reach the same truths as are there contained. Let us take for sake of example an old book--Euclid's Geometry. Anyone who understands something of Geometry to-day w...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Development of Inner Life--- In a series of talks, I have spoken of the ideas about the supersensible world and its connection with the sensuous world. It is only a matter of course that the question appears repeatedly, where from does the knowledge of the supers...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Spiritual Science and the Big Questions of Contemporary Civilization--- It is indeed possible to gain knowledge about the spiritual essence of the world. These insights cannot be gained by the methods currently used in scientific research. For this scientific method ...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: Collected Essays on Cultural and Contemporary History 1887--1901GA 31(continuation)--- that is why I did not choose this most convenient hour. From now on, I myself will be attending my colleagues' church, and perhaps some of my listeners with me. 3) The Physical Soc...
---Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Teachings: The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone--- Recently, I have called attention repeatedly to the fact that, just as one can give a biographical description of man's waking life, so one could offer one of the time spent during sleep. Everything the human be...