Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2701

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2701. About philosophic and natural truths-to whom they are of service in supporting spiritual ones

In a dream I saw a field that was full of thick and fertile grass used as fodder for animals, such as cows and horses. And at the same time in the same field appeared ripe grain, very thick, which was together with that thick grass. And this was on the other side of a river, and I understood that the river was called Euphrates (as if in Russia). Now while in the vision of the dream I was in that field so planted beyond the Euphrates, the thought occurred to me that it would be useful if all the fields also in our land were sown with the same grass together with the standing wheat or barley. But in the dream I received the reply that if this were done in our land-on this side of the Euphrates-the land would be destroyed, while it would not in that land across the Euphrates. I saw still more things in the dream that I do not remember. When I woke up, I was thinking, what was the meaning of these things.


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