from and opposite to matter, you enter a fourth dimension of consciousness, where it is impossible to convey to the human mind (which knows of life and things only in terms of form, or of three dimensions—length, breadth and thickness) facts and conditions that have no translatable terms in which to describe them. Therefore, through a peculiar process which we will later explain, ideas and thoughts are illustrated to the human mind in the form of pictures, and it is these pictures that are remembered when back in normal consciousness.

If you will study your mind when a new idea or thought comes to you, you will note that immediately a picture forms in your consciousness illustrating that idea. And it is usually that picture that is impressed on the memory and enables you to recall the idea when needed. In exactly the same way does memory serve you when you recall a dream or vision. For in the higher realms of the fourth dimension—where awakened souls live, language and speech are not used; one soul communes with another entirely by means of thought. But every thought automatically forms for itself a picture or thought-form in consciousness, and so it is these thought-forms, illustrations of the incidents and experiences through which you passed, that you see and remember when coming back into full physical consciousness.

Understanding this, you can see the necessity of not being unduly interested in the pictures or combination of thought-forms of themselves, no matter how beautiful or wonderful they are, but of going back and studying each detail of the pictures in an effort to recall the ideas and thoughts that gave them birth. This you must do, if you would get the real meaning and purpose for you of the dreams and visions.