The Secrets Of Dreams

The external or physical man, is no more the man than the coat
he wears. The physical man is only an instrument of which the real inner
man or soul expresses itself in the physical universe. Various materialistic
theories have been given in the past, trying to explain the mighty phenomena
of dreams, but these theories have always been more or less unsatisfactory.
Why? Because the-materialist tries to explain the riddle of human existence
without an individual human spirit his explanation will always be
unsatisfactory.
Dreams afford a separation of soul and body. As soon as the senses become
torpid, the inner man withdraws from the outer. There are three different
ways which afford this separation. First, natural sleep. Second, induced
sleep, such as hypnotism, mesmerism or trance. Third, death. In the above
two cases the man has only left his physical body temporarily, whereas in
death he has left it forever. In the case of death, the link which unites soul
and body, as seen by clairvoyant vision, is broken, but in trance or sleep it is
released. The real man is then in the astral world. He now functions in his
astral body, which becomes a vehicle for expressing consciousness, just as
the physical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the
waking state.