文档介绍：WHAT’S IN A DREAM 1
What's in a Dream
A Scientific and Practical
Interpretation of Dreams
BY
GUSTAVUS HINDMAN MILLER
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WHAT’S IN A DREAM 2
PREFACE.
"Dreams are rudiments of the great state e. We dream what is about to happen." -
- BAILEY.
The Bible, as well as other great books of historical and revealed religion, shows traces
of a general and substantial belief in dreams. Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare and Napoleon
assigned to certain dreams prophetic value. Joseph saw eleven stars of the Zodiac bow to
himself, the twelfth star. The famine of Egypt was revealed by a vision of fat and lean
cattle. The parents of Christ were warned of the cruel edict of Herod, and fled with the
Divine Child into Egypt.
Pilate's wife, through the influence of a dream, advised her husband to have nothing to
do with the conviction of Christ. But the gross materialism of the day laughed at dreams,
as it echoed the voice and verdict of the multitude, "Crucify the Spirit, but let the flesh
live." Barabbas, the robber, was set at liberty.
The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh
at the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountain
of universal knowledge used dreams with more frequency than any other mode of
divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidents of dream prophecy.
Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the immortality of his soul by
conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the dream of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senate was
induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror break on the
same night that Attila died.
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Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the dream of a friend, was persuaded
to leav