In pursuing Dreams as a Spiritual Quest, it is not necessary to go into this Strange Land entirely without a map. As Carl Jung, the great Pioneer in Metaphysical Psychology discovered, the Ancient Mythologies seem to bear much resemblance to the intricacies of our Subconscious Minds. Even if we are of a Modern Religious bent, while we may have our Bible in the day, for our dreams, maybe it would be more useful to canonize Edith Hamilton and use her “Mythology” as our Second Bible as we dream.

There is one section I would like to point out – the Story of Jason and the Golden Fleece and the Lovely Young Sorceress Medea. Jason was quite out of resources and so his Divine Sponsor, Hera, the Spouse of the Highest God Zeus, implored Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, to help him, and so Aphrodite arranged for Cupid to shoot Medea, the daughter of a Mortal King, with an arrow to make her love Jason and thus serve him with all of her Magic. What we see here is 3 Levels of Spiritual Action all represented in the Feminine Aspect. It indicates that for one’s Spiritual Success there needs to be some coordination, from Higher to Lower, in the Sponsorship of one’s spirituality. Then it is quite astounding what Medea was able to do for Jason – first to make him invulnerable in Battle, then to sooth the Serpent Guardian of the Golden Fleece, and then even to assert power over life and death, youth and old age. She exercised this power by scrubbing all the flesh off of a person’s bones and placing them in a boiling cauldron, out of which would emerge a new Being in the Prime of Life. The unfortunate denouement of the story resulted from the sad lapse that Jason was not also shot with an arrow of love so that he quite used Medea and abandoned her when they arrived back to Greece at journey’s end. She subsequently killed her two sons by Jason and left him and Greece to the slow rot which History would hold in store for that once great Civilization.

Then we have the Story of Demeter, the First Goddess of Civilization – the Goddess of Corn, that is, of surplus food supply without which there can be no Civilization. She had the gift of Divine Fire into which she could immerse one in order to establish him or her in Immortality, but the terror of the experience would frighten those away from partaking of the advantage.

Do we notice a trend here which we should keep in mind during our Dreaming? Certainly, and it is that most Divine Assistance comes from the Feminine Aspects. Male Archetypes make fine Heroes but seem to be best at serving themselves. If one needs Help then it is most likely to come from a Goddess or a King’s Sorceress Daughter. A word to Christians. You can probably expect no help from Jesus, who was Murdered quite like Medea’s Sons for exactly the same kind of treachery that was played upon Medea by Jason as the Hebrew Nation that ill regarded the Blessed Virgin Mary for whom Christ was just a faithful spokesman for His Mother. It is not the Son that has the Potency in this World, but the Daughter/Spouse/Mother Archetype.

The second lesson is that our Body Image must undergo a complete renovation. The Flesh must come off our bones. We must pass through the Fire. None of our Lucid Dream parlour tricks of meaningless and trivial control will come to naught if we disregard these Priorities.