08-10-2008, 12:00 AM
From "The Kabbalah, the Untold Story of the Mystic Tradition" by Kenneth Hanson
""The Zohar speaks of Joseph the dreamer and also of Gabriel who is appointed over dreams.
"Everything is contained in a dream", declares the Zohar.
But it also warns:
"You cannot have a dream without false imaginings intermingling....
Therefore, parts are true and parts are false."
This is why it is important upon climbing into bed, first to "accept the kingdom of heaven":
"For when a person sleeps in his bed
his soul leaves him and soars up above....
For nothing is revealed
while the person is still under spell of the body....
Rather, an angel tells the soul,
and the soul the person,
and the dream is from beyond.""
""The Zohar speaks of Joseph the dreamer and also of Gabriel who is appointed over dreams.
"Everything is contained in a dream", declares the Zohar.
But it also warns:
"You cannot have a dream without false imaginings intermingling....
Therefore, parts are true and parts are false."
This is why it is important upon climbing into bed, first to "accept the kingdom of heaven":
"For when a person sleeps in his bed
his soul leaves him and soars up above....
For nothing is revealed
while the person is still under spell of the body....
Rather, an angel tells the soul,
and the soul the person,
and the dream is from beyond.""