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.

ONE morning in April in 1931 about nine o’clock I saw the following while in meditation.

I stood on a mountain top. As far as I could see the mountain tops stretched away, covered with grass, no trees. Just in front of me stood a great white Cathedral built all of two tall spires. It did not rest on the earth but on billows of white clouds. I watched and people came quietly, in fours and threes, dressed in colors and drapes of old Jewish days. They came from all directions as far as I could see, across long lines and all went into the Cathedral.

Suddenly a voice said to me, “You always contact the outside, why don’t you go in?” I had seen this Cathedral once before. Without stopping to think I answered. “All right, I will,” and at once found myself inside. Here all was purest white. Pews and kneeling benches were of white marble, and the people were kneeling quiet, not a sound, and all were now dressed in pure white. I stood and looked on.

Suddenly all arose and with uplifted arms sang, “Hosanna to God in the highest, Hosanna to our King!” It sounded as no earthly singing I have ever heard. Then I was standing outside and watched the people go as they had come, again in colors, on away across the mountains; but through it all I just seemed to look on.

Could you tell me the meaning of this?

Regarding the experience, the mountain top on which you were standing represented the higher consciousness you were in at the time and which enabled you to be aware of what seemed to be a cathedral consecrated to God, and you even seemed to witness your thoughts as they entered it, but which seemed to you to be people.

Your Higher Self permitted you this vision in order to show you that the time had come, instead of sending your thoughts into this inner church for you to enter it in consciousness—the temple of your own Soul, which provided yourself able to do. What you saw within was but the out-picturing of your experience in your Soul consciousness, and which was very beautiful. Naturally when you found yourself standing outside of in your mortal consciousness, your thoughts assumed their natural state and did not appear pure white as before.

Think this over and see if something within you does not confirm the truth of our words, and unfold to you their inner meaning.

I DREAMED I was sick in bed and that my little girl Carolyn was also sick in another house across the street from me. I dreamed she stood at the window and kept calling me, then a little boy and she went out to play together, each one with a little sheep they were leading by a string. There was lots of snow on the ground. I dreamed I tried to get different people in the house to go out and bring her back in, for I was afraid she would get lost, at the same time knowing she was not well, having a bad cold (the mental agony was terrible, for fear of her).

Finally I put on my bathrobe and slippers and went out into the snow to try and find her, and calling at the top of my voice, (Now here is the strange part) instead of calling her by her name, which is Carolyn, I was calling her by my own name. Finally I saw the little boy that had gone with her come slowly up the hill still leading his little lamb and crying as though his heart would break, saying he had gotten lost from CAROLYN. We started looking everywhere for her, and then I awoke numb with fear. Then I went to sleep again, asking my subconsciousness to bring forth to my mortal mind the meaning; and just as I awoke the second time it seemed as though a voice was telling me there was not much TIME LEFT.

Now I want to say that I have had the dream of losing my little girl Carolyn lots of times within the past year, sometimes I would find her in my dreams, but I never had called her by my name in my dreams before.

Regarding your dream, it was very significant, and we will try to make clear just what your Higher Self was endeavoring to unfold to you.

The outer of you was sick at heart, because of your seemingly slow spiritual progress. Your little girl Carolyn symbolizes your soul, or rather, the pure sweet inner nature that is trying to get out into expression and away from the mortal world which is so binding and limiting it. So with the more positive side of you, symbolized by the little boy it went out to “play” with the Lamb of God.

In other words, these higher parts of your nature loved to play with this little lamb, but you in your mortal consciousness dreaded their leaving you and getting out of sight. And so you went after them seeking your little girl—this higher part, only to find that she had gotten “lost” apparently.

Can you not now see why you called her by your own name, and that she was the Real You, the loving part of you that wants to remain always in your consciousness—your home where she as Selfless Love can always express? Think carefully over this explanation and get the good that it holds for you.

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