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.

IN 1920, when lying ill after a certain harrowing experience, I “saw” this when awake. It seemed as though I were on the battlements of heaven. The Father in robes and crowned was walking back and forwards. Angels in varying degrees of splendor stood by. The Father paused and leaned over the parapet, looking down towards the earth. Calling His angels over, He showed them the clouds and darkness below. Turning, He looked at them for some moments. Then He said, “Things are not going well down there. Sorrow, sin and much suffering attend humanity’s progress on the earth. And the end is not yet. It is time some of you go down again. Who will go?”

There was silence at first, then I said, “I would like to go.” The Father looked at me quizzically. “Are you sure? If you go you will forget altogether that you have ever been here. You will be submerged, and lost in the confusion, sorrow and wrongdoing, and you will wonder what it is all about. Do you still wish to go?”

I said, “Yes.” He turned to a cherub, and said, “Unhook her wings; hang them up in the armory, and keep them dusted. Come, let us throw her over.”

As they lifted me on to the parapet, He looked into my eyes. I still remember the warmth of His smile. “Some day, you will remember.” I fell over, down through the air, and was quickly lost in the darkness below.

We are glad that our suggestions helped to put all those thoughts of heart trouble out of your mind, so that your body will be freed from them forever. There is no question but what such will result when you no longer feed them with interest and attention. Be faithful and persistent, and the results wanted will surely manifest. We are happy that it has helped you to get Margaret back into your Real Consciousness, where You talked to her and showed her just what she needs to do. Get her back there often—many times a day, and try to establish her in Your Consciousness so that she will always wait upon You. That way she will not have a chance to get down in those negative states any more.

As for your dream, it in a way is really a confirmation of what we have just said. You are the Father, and You showed Margaret’s soul the clouds and darkness below from the high altitude she was in when in Your Consciousness, and asked if she would like to go down there, telling her that she would become submerged and lost in the confusion, sorrow and wrongdoing she has since experienced. Can you not see that it was but a prophecy of what you have gone through since that time? She is but now beginning clearly to remember in her outer consciousness what You then told her soul, and is getting ready to come back fully into Your Consciousness again HOW THE MIND REBELS AGAINST THE TRUTH

I HAVE had a strange experience like a dream, yet I was not in a full sleep. I found myself in a bedroom on just a bed and no furniture in the room and alone. I said, “What does this mean. I went to bed in a nice room and not in one like this. Have I been so selfish to deserve no better room than this?”

Even the blind was off the roller and hanging half across the window. I prayed, “Oh, God, help me to see my error! Oh, God, put me right!” and immediately the room became fully furnished, with all the comforts, with texts on the wall and a crucifix on the table. And two nurses, one a sister, came to me, while I lay on a lovely bed seemingly ill. I knew I had not been well for a long period, but have been steadily improving and settling down beautifully and getting quite calm now.

Well this nurse said, “I have to clean this place that has been troubling you. It is badly ulcerated.” And I replied, “Oh no, you don’t tamper with me. I have suffered too much to have a nurse touch it, especially one who does not know anything about it.” She replied, “This one who is quite capable will see it is done properly; she understands it thoroughly.”

I rebelled and said, “Who told you to bring me here and what has happened to me. I have been all right for some time now, and was really well last night when I came to bed.”

They both stood silent and would not say a word. Then I seemed to lose my senses and I could feel them doing something to my side, where an old operation had been performed some years ago. But that trouble came against me about a year ago, and is getting better now. I could feel the pain a long way off, and then I woke up, and the strange part, there was a strange feeling in the place I speak of. There is no pain there now and only a slight condition is left, and it is clearing away gradually. I treat it mentally every night when I go to bed. But I have not been to a doctor now for a year or more.

With regard to your dream, try to realize that the room you were in is the consciousness in which you were dwelling at the time, and if you were in such an empty room it is only because of the state of mind that you were then in. After praying you saw how it lifted you into a new consciousness or room, which was filled with all the lovely things you could possibly want.

This is but a proof to you that God is helping you to rise into a consciousness of health and strength and where every good thing awaits you. But as the nurse said, you have to clean the place or the wrong and negative thoughts out of your mind before all those blessings can come.

All that followed was but to prove this to you. Seemingly you rebelled and argued, but eventually you were shown the truth. From your past experience you have learned many wonderful things, and it should help you to avoid the mistakes of the past.

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