When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.
“Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.
Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Scripture is filled with references to dreams directing their beneficiary to follow the advice provided for their well being.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.
Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration? ~ Carl Jung
Jung's understanding is perhaps the result of his willingness to believe that The Father also speaks to us through our dreams as if to say, that the remedy to our ongoing overwhelming difficulties need not remain a puzzle, when choosing to follow the guidance that our dreaming provides for our benefit.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ~ Leonardo da Vinci
It has been my experience that my mind's eye can see just as clearly during my wide awake, day time life as it appears to suggest during my nocturnal strolls into wonder land. Leonardo Da Vinci may well be painting a much more vivid illustration of his own experiences inspiring him to reveal his creativity with the imagination of one led by his dreaming sessions.
The modest artist will attribute their genius to those moments when it appears to them, that they are being inspired by that which is leading them to create the result that they know is designed by another reality beyond their understanding.
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read. ~ Talmud
One of the best known Biblical stories addressing dreaming is that of Joseph called before Pharaoh, who relates his dreams about seven fat cows that devour seven skinny cows, and seven healthy ears of corn that are swallowed by seven thin ears of corn.
Joseph interprets that seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of famine.
Joseph advises Pharaoh to plan ahead for the lean years by building granaries to store corn during the years of good harvests.
13 Why do you complain to him
that he responds to no one’s words ?
14 For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though no one perceives it.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they slumber in their beds,
~ Job 33
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