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Hotema about his writings and sleep.

We shall try to reveal the peculiar manner in wich this knowledge comes to us. And it is not ours; it belongs to the world, as it were.

It is difficult to put into words the strange form in wich we receive this knowledge. It occurs when we are deep in the land of dreams, and our body is unconscious in sleep. This may be called dreaming. What is dreaming?

The knowledge we desire about a certain subject on wich we have thought and stidied during several days, comes to us when we are in dreamland. And the way in wich it comes is also strange. It comes in books, in books written by unknown hands, in books written by the Ancient Magi.

The books appear before us as if by magic, as if given to us by an unseen spirit. And we read them while our body is unconscious in sleep.

As soon as we awaken, we get up and write down the messages while they are fresh in our mind, otherwise we would lose them and be unable to recall them.

Hotema The Magic World p 24/25 Tweet