t make for peace and harmony.

A friend who is known the world over through his work along humane lines,
has told me that many times in the middle of the night he is awakened
suddenly and there comes to his mind, as a flash of inspiration, a
certain plan in connection with his work. And as he lays there quietly
and opens himself to it, the methods for its successful carrying out all
reveal themselves to him clearly. In this way many plans are entered
upon and brought to a successful culmination that otherwise would never
be thought of, plans that seem, indeed, marvelous to the world at large.
He is a man with a sensitive organism, his life in thorough harmony with
the higher laws, and given wholly and unreservedly to the work to which
he has dedicated it. Just how and from what source these inspirations
come he does not fully know. Possibly no one does, though each may have
his theory. But this we do know, and it is all we need to know now, at
least,--that to the one who lives in harmony with the higher laws of his
being, and who opens himself to them, they come.

Visions and inspirations of the highest order will come in the degree
that we make for them the right conditions. One who has studied deeply
into the subject in hand has said: "To receive education spiritually
while the body is resting in sleep is a perfectly normal and orderly
experience, and would occur definitely and satisfactorily in the lives of
all of us, if we paid more attention to internal and consequently less to
external states with their supposed but unreal necessities. . . . Our
thoughts make us what we are here and hereafter, and our thoughts are
often busier by night than by day, for when we are asleep to the exterior
we can be wide awake to the interior world; and the unseen world is a
substantial place, the conditions of which are entirely regulated by
mental and moral attainments. When we are not deriving information
through outward avenues of sensation, we are receiving instruction
through interior channels of perception, and when this fact is understood
for what it is worth, it will become a universal custom for persons to
take to sleep with them the special subject on which they most earnestly
desire particular instruction. The Pharaoh type of person dreams, and so
does his butler and baker; but the Joseph type, which is that of the
truly gifted seer, both dreams and interprets."

But why had not Pharaoh the power of interpreting