Classic Series

Occult Meaning of Dreams

by Samael Aun Weor
Gnostic Library
A Samael Aun Weor book

Occult Meaning of Dreams

A treatise on dreams as messages of the inner Being. Samael distinguishes between mechanical dreams (residues of the ego) and true dreams (visions of the soul), and teaches how to remember them, interpret them, and apply what they reveal to the inner work.

About Occult Meaning of Dreams

A treatise on dreams as messages of the inner Being. Samael distinguishes between mechanical dreams (residues of the ego) and true dreams (visions of the soul), and teaches how to remember them, interpret them, and apply what they reveal to the inner work.

Occult Meaning of Dreams

PE: Initiation in the mysteries.

Samael Aun Weor

Chapter One: ARCANUM I, THE MAGICIAN

PE: Initiation in the mysteries.

PM: Volitive power.

PF: Dominion of forces in movement.

AT: “Be in your works as you are in your thoughts.”

AA: Mercury.

EG: Obstacles overcome, positive initiatives, variable influences.

D: Will, virtue, perseverance, triumph in the face of adversity; healthy ideals impose themselves.

R: Wisdom, talent, genius. Doubts and delays.

Chapter Two: ARCANUM II, THE PRIESTESS

PE: Fountain of life.

PM: Play of Opposites.

PF: Interchange, duplicity.

AT: “Wind and waves always go in favor of him who knows how to navigate.”

AA: Virgo.

EG: Truth imposes itself; intuition does not deceive; prudence in indiscriminate generosity.

D: Conceptual clarity, lucidity, analytical criterion, capacity of observation. Wit for arranging complicated businesses.

R: Overwhelming passion, spiritual exaltation, quarrels, anger, bitterness, dissensions.

Chapter Three: ARCANUM III, THE EMPRESS

PE: Knowledge of the occult.

PM: Ideation.

PF: Expansion of ideas and desires.

AT: “Your loom is weaving fabrics for your use and fabrics that you shall not use.”

AA: Libra.

EG: Possible marriage; doubt is the woodworm of the soul; take advantage of the opportunity.

D: Certain marriage; durable sentimental union; reciprocal attraction; chaste kisses.

R: Distancing; affective coldness; bewilderment; letter of farewell.

Chapter Four: ARCANUM IV, THE EMPEROR

PE: Manifestation of divine virtue.

PM: Final Solution.

PF: Realization of material things.

AT: “Bless the work of your hands, and put reason in the work of your thought.”

AA: Scorpio.

EG: Intense affective contacts; control of the material; Dominion of oneself.

D: Eroticism; children; spiritual elevation; God.

R: Distancing; affective coldness; bewilderment; letter of farewell.

Chapter Five: ARCANUM V, THE HIEROPHANT

PE: Manifestations of the Creator.

PM: Dominion of the passions.

PF: Control of the natural forces.

AT: “By the hearing of the ear I had heard of thee; but now my eye sees thee and my heart feels thee.”

AA: Jupiter.

EG: Unexpected cooperation; help of equals or superiors; healthily oriented criterion.

D: Friendly and lavish hand; excellent diversion; satisfactory exchange; emotion before an encounter.

R: Retraction; delay; persistent nostalgias; isolation.

Chapter Six: ARCANUM VI, THE LOVERS

PE: Instinctual knowledge.

PM: Abstinence and Gluttony, liberty and necessity, duty and right.

PF: Determination of state.

AT: “You give me works, Lord; but with them, fortitude.”

AA: Venus.

EG: Do not let yourself be tempted; fix your positions; guide yourself by the spiritual.

D: Constant cavilations, dead-end alley, dejection, discomforts.

R: Envies lying in wait; importunate traps; treacherous confidences, deceitful friends, intriguers.

Chapter Seven: ARCANUM VII, THE CHARIOT

PE: The spirit governs matter.

PM: Elimination of doubts and errors.

PF: Impulses and desires of overcoming.

AT: “When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, ask and it shall be given to you.”

AA: Sagittarius.

EG: Triumph in what one proposes; your effort finds reward; agreeable vacations.

D: Advantageous operation; secure contract; accepted writings; concrete project.

R: Loss of a valuable object; useless lamentations; words of consolation from unknowns; trap in chance.

AT: "When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, ask and it shall be given to you." AA: Sagittarius.

Chapter Eight: ARCANUM VIII, JUSTICE

PE: The absolute.

PM: The force of right.

PF: Evolution and involution, attraction and rejection.

AT: “Build an altar in your heart, but do not make of your heart an altar.”

AA: Capricorn.

EG: Moderate your impulses and desires; do not take decisions today; relax.

D: Productive finding; your number: 6; spare yourself fatigues by asking; obstinacy overcome in your favor.

R: Hasty resolution; tomorrow is too late; do not ramble; exhumed memories that torment. Rupture; dissensions; altercations; separation.

Chapter Nine: ARCANUM IX, THE HERMIT

PE: The divine light in human works.

PM: Discretion, charity, and knowledge.

PF: Concretization, culmination, and elevation of yearnings.

AT: “Climb the mountain and behold the promised land; but I do not say that you shall enter into it.”

AA: Aquarius.

EG: Affirm your discretion; do not comment your plans of purchase; meditate on the opportunity of your longing.

D: A word too many that discredits you; conflicting versions; absence of interior equilibrium; murmurings.

R: Priest, pastor, rabbi. Confidence in a secret that is not revealed; beneficial silence.

Chapter Ten: ARCANUM X, THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

PE: Time and circumstances, artificers of perfection.

PM: The diverse processes of thought.

PF: Action and reaction.

AT: “Costly is the knowledge that you buy with experience, and more costly that which you have yet to buy.”

AA: Uranus.

EG: The unusual faces fortune; farewell to an old friendship; bad mood and affliction. Do not despair.

D: A friend of the soul departs; old comrades knock at the door; letter announcing a gift; knowledge of a longed-for secret.

R: You lost the opportunity for now; do not attend that appointment; recognize the truth even if it pains you; anguishes.

Chapter Eleven: ARCANUM XI, STRENGTH

PE: The spiritual is the precursor principle.

PM: Dominion through the intellect.

PF: Government of the low passions.

AT: “Joyful in hope, patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.”

AA: Neptune.

EG: Your intuition does not fail; magnify your faith; the period of confusion will be brief; there is a wait time.

D: Hasten the procedure, confirm your suspicions, do not enlarge capricious illusions.

R: Disillusion through forgetting; bury the ambition; your ambiguities do not benefit you.

Chapter Twelve: ARCANUM XII, THE HANGED MAN

PE: Complacency in the good realized.

PM: Circumspection in painful decisions.

PF: Abnegation as expansive force.

AT: “Though the sun fatigue you by day and the moon afflict you by night, do not lead your foot to the slippery place nor sleep when you stand guard.”

AA: Pisces.

EG: Ancient bitterness dissipates; detours do not fit when the heart must speak. Delight yourself in the beautiful, and you will perfect your soul.

D: Gather friendship and you will collect smiles; do not threaten flight; face the facts; kindness must be part of your own complacency.

R: Diminish your irritation; admonition near; perturbing friend harms the evening.

Chapter Thirteen: ARCANUM XIII, DEATH

PE: Renovation of life.

PM: Inertia as function of movement.

PF: Lethargic, drowsiness, sleepwalking.

AT: “The night has passed and the new day has come. Clothe yourself, then, with the arms of the light.”

AA: Aries.

EG: Yearnings favored by distance; do not abandon yourself; care for your bearing; renew your points of view and you will rejuvenate.

D: Pompousness does not suit you; do not condemn by analogy; love does not know of bombastic phrases, but of simple surrender.

R: Quarrel over matter of interests, clash; extreme laziness that complicates everything.

Chapter Fourteen: ARCANUM XIV, TEMPERANCE

PE: Union of the interior with the exterior.

PM: Reciprocal affections, association of ideas.

PF: Regulation of the relations of the sexes, equilibrium of the vital force.

AT: “Do not be like straw before the wind nor like wind before straw.”

AA: Taurus.

EG: It is fitting to accord to things their just proportion; exaggeration destroys virtue; equilibrium is base of spiritual peace.

D: Help yourself by softening misunderstandings; concretize your purpose decidedly, but without harming your neighbor; hostility will yield.

R: Excesses of foods and drinks; the doctor calls; do not live in the extremes; extract from the apparently incoherent its fund of truth.

EG: It is fitting to accord to things their just proportion; exaggeration destroys virtue; equilibrium is base of spiritual peace.

Chapter Fifteen: ARCANUM XV, THE DEVIL

PE: Manifestation of individual will.

PM: The force of desire, the impulse toward the opposite.

PF: Generative processes, intense desires.

AT: “They made me guardian of vineyards, but my own vineyard, which was mine, I did not guard.”

AA: Saturn.

EG: Individual will is determining factor; the attraction of mystery seduces, but destroys without a guide; creation is burning fire that must not let itself be extinguished.

D: Prosperity through legal ways and through fatality; vehement yearnings; violent passions.

R: Harmful affections, situations of violence; discords; malices.

Chapter Sixteen: ARCANUM XVI, THE TOWER

PE: Affliction awakens virtue.

PM: The nullity of material values.

PF: Affliction, rigors, severity.

AT: “Light of dawn, light of midday, light of dusk: what matters is that it be light.”

AA: Mars.

EG: The value of the temporal is exalted in function of the eternal; the perishable has vital importance in the becoming of things.

D: Reciprocity in love and in hatred, in indifference and in zeal, in betrayal and in loyalty.

R: Unforeseen accident; death; necessity; tempests.

Chapter Seventeen: ARCANUM XVII, THE STAR

PE: Abnegation as fountain of life.

PM: Experience is light.

PF: Optimism, expectations, and charity.

AT: “Some men ask for signs to believe, and others ask for wisdom to act; but the hopeful heart has everything in its hope.”

AA: Gemini.

EG: To await the future confidently is to pre-taste the immortality of existence. The magic of faith creates everything.

D: Intuition, illumination, births, gains.

R: Brief afflictions and brief satisfactions; vexations and reconciliations, privations, abandonments.

AT: "Some men ask for signs to believe, and others ask for wisdom to act; but the hopeful heart has everything in its hope." AA: Gemini.

Chapter Eighteen: ARCANUM XVIII, THE MOON

PE: The mystery of life.

PM: The negative is exponent of the positive.

PF: Manifestation of occult powers.

AT: “Let your charity be an inexhaustible granary.”

AA: Cancer.

EG: Contrariety and deceit lurk; your hostility fosters enmities; care with treacherous flatteries.

D: Apparent triumphs and failures.

R: Inconstancy, ambushes, confusion, changes, long deliberations, unexpected impediments, tardy results.

Chapter Nineteen: ARCANUM XIX, THE SUN

PE: The divine light is principle of knowledge.

PM: Motor intelligence.

PF: Materialization of ideas into acts.

AT: “Take the shield of your faith and advance with decided step, whether in favor of the wind or against all the winds.”

AA: Leo.

EG: Joy is lodged with your temperance; consecrate yourself to your own and you shall not regret it; pure love is your armor.

D: Increase of power, benefits through one’s own efforts, inheritances, clarity in what is desired.

R: Danger in employment, disputes over writings, misunderstanding through results.

Chapter Twenty: ARCANUM XX, JUDGMENT

PE: Interior illumination.

PM: Revelation of genius.

PF: Harmonic correspondence between the moral and the material.

AT: “Flower in the apple tree, fruit in the vineyard, sowing in maturity.”

AA: Moon.

EG: Old postponed aspirations concretize themselves; awaken to reality; laziness does not help to rise again.

D: Harmonic elections; fortunate initiatives, compensations, faithful friends.

R: Gains that are postponed; treacherous friends undermine success.

Chapter 21: ARCANUM XXI, THE WORLD

PE: The power to manifest life in infinite forms.

PM: Supreme knowledge is blessedness.

PF: Inspiration, work, fitting reward.

AT: “The sun rises and the sun sets, and again returns to its place where it returns to be born.”

AA: Sun.

EG: Success is within reach of your hand; in friendship is your greatest support; use the imagination; do not submit yourself to it.

D: Long life: inheritance, victories, aptitude to overcome obstacles.

R: Rivals who dispute affections, uncertain situation. Despot, tyrant, dominating relative.

Chapter 22: ARCANUM XXII, THE FOOL

PE: Inscrutability of divine laws.

PM: Credulity, daring, and temerity are cause of ignorance, error, and danger.

PF: Imprudence, extravagance, delirium, vanity.

AT: “My soul does not enter into his secret, nor my ship into his port.”

AA: Pluto.

EG: Do not take false steps through indiscretion; nor doubt much; you will self-limit; help your neighbor.

D: Peasant, end of some things and beginning of others.

R: Danger of isolation; obfuscation; perfidious gift; deceptive promise: disillusion.

The International Gnostic Movement

This is an organization that represents the synthesis of all the sciences, of all the arts, of all the philosophies, of all the religions; whose purpose is the rescue of the divine values that are found in every human being.

Through the Gnostic Teaching one manages to attain spiritual perfection, embracing all the knowledge of humanity.

In each human being, in the deepest of his being, is the Truth of which the philosophers, esoterists, and religious ones speak.

The Gnostic Teaching is the same as that which Jesus Christ shared with his disciples and which is also in the Bible in parables, since the people were not prepared to receive it directly.

Any person who takes this Path decidedly and firmly may come to be worthy that the same Master Jesus may guide him personally in his work of self-realization.

M.A.M.

Inverential Peace.

SAMAEL AUN WEOR

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