IN THIS Department will be given interpretations of dreams and visions of those needing to know their inner meaning. We reserve for it only those of special interest and helpfulness.

I DREAMED the other night that the only way for me to get help was to amputate my toes. Not being able to finance it by having it done by a surgeon, I sharpened the butcher-knife and proceeded to cut off the toes at the middle joint. It was torture, but I accomplished the job with the assistance of my step-daughter. They did not bleed much. Then with a sigh of relief I felt better. Now my feet are perfect physically, so the meaning is beyond me, although I feel feet symbolize spiritual understanding. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

In your dream about amputating your toes, it looks as if you are beginning to take yourself definitely in hand and to remove anything and everything—no matter how much it hurts—that is hindering your ongoing and the proper understanding of God’s purpose for you. Your toes might symbolize that part of your understanding that is hindering and limiting you at the present time; but you did not hesitate to remove the part of them that was causing the trouble.

The fact that you found after doing so your feet—or understanding—were perfect, proves that it was a necessary operation and that you were blessed as a result. Try now to learn what is this part of your understanding that is causing you trouble at the present time, and no matter how much it hurts, cut it out.

A FEW days ago I had the following vision or dream: I was walking along a beautiful lake to the left of me, when sliding down from the righthand side came a young woman all in white, rejoicingly plunging into the lake; while in front of me a mountain crumbled down into dust. It stays so clearly in my mind I would be obliged if you would give me an explanation.

In your vision, the young woman in white rejoicingly plunging into the lake may symbolize your soul thus plunging into the pure water of life, outpictured to you by these truths you are studying, causing you to be wholly undisturbed by the mountains of materiality that crumble to dust before your eyes.

This means that you must be learning many of these truths and are building them into your consciousness, thus making you free, so that what appears here in the outer is no longer of importance and does not concern you.

FOR SOME time I have been conscious of being taught in the Temple of my Soul, sometimes as I slept and sometimes in the Silence while meditating.

A few mornings ago while lying thus meditating I became conscious of being in a lovely Temple with many friends. The Temple was high up in the mountains, above a deep gorge.

We were staying there for some days for the purpose of spiritual study and worship. I was standing near the chasm’s edge, when a loud crash of thunder caused me to look up in the sky, where I saw a decided disturbance among the stars—they were shooting about like rockets, and presently I noticed they were traveling across the heavens from right to left or from East to West in a wide path. As I gazed with heart full of joy and awe, signs and symbols of the zodiac slowly followed each other across the sky. These stood out as distinctly as Neon signs against the gray sky. I was conscious that each one had a personal symbolic meaning for me, but I did not know what it was.

Then I looked about me and all the world was white, and I had on a flowing white robe. I turned and went back to the Temple, where I had left my friends, and found them too in long white robes, and our leader’s robe was covered with bright shining jewels. She said, as I came in, “Oh, here you are, Evelyn (calling me by name), we have been waiting for you. We must go now.” And as I came near she held up a white leather pouch she had fastened to her girdle and smilingly continued, “I have one for you too.”

I was very happy then as I knew the one she mentioned was a capsule filled with the “Bread of Life,” and that all those who ate of it would never hunger or thirst again.

She said, “Come,” and turned and led us up the path to the mountain top. We did not walk but floated as on wings, our long white robes floating about us. I was conscious that we were near the journey’s end, and I have no words to tell of the joy I felt.

As I came back into my body consciousness again I was singing these words: “My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

Dear friends, should I seek to find the meaning of these signs and symbols in the outer, or will I be taught their meaning on the inner planes, when the time comes for me to know?

Your experience was a blessed one and shows that you were indeed being taught in the Temple of your Soul, which is high up the mountains of consciousness. If you will be patient and allow these signs and symbols will be made clear to you, perhaps in your next lesson in the Temple, especially if you go to sleep with a strong desire and request that they be explained. Undoubtedly you are ready and worthy to know their meaning, or they would not have been shown you.

The fact that you were given your portion of the “Bread of Life”—these spiritual truths we are sending you, and that you were on your way to the mountain-top in your vision, shows where these truths are leading you.