Afflatus: A Collection of Dreams and Their Gnostic Influence on Human Evolution

By Trudy Fox

Long before biblical times, dreams may have been a source of divine and creative impulses to push humanity to greater levels of awareness, to initiate discoveries, and to develop inventions. Dreams have offered protection and guidance on the spiritual path towards the souls divine purpose. Ancient tribal priests, medicine men, and shamans often used dreams to foretell fortunes and direct the travels of nomadic tribes to ensure their survival and safe journey.

In Afflatus: A Collection of Dreams and Their Gnostic Influence on Human Evolution, author Trudy Fox presents a collection of historical events demonstrating how, through spiritual intervention, dreams have shaped the events of history and will continue to do so in the future. Fox seeks to inspire you to pursue the insight, guidance, and ideas that may be transmitted during the sleep state. She prompts everyone to pursue their hearts passions. The stories shared are about ordinary people who achieved extraordinary things through their dreams.

There are those souls who at the right time in their personal evolution and the evolution of the world are open to receiving divine Gnostic inspiration. Afflatus: A Collection of Dreams and Their Gnostic Influence on Human Evolution aims to help you to become open to receiving divine guidance and, through this awareness, find your true meaning and purpose in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Oct 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452511887

Trudy Fox

TRUDY FOX is a psychic, medium, and clairsentient empath. She has studied spirituality for over twenty years, attending many training workshops and seminars. She is also a spiritual and meditation teacher, portrait artist, and writer. She currently lives in Australia.

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1  Biblical Dreams

Abraham (Abram)

Claudia Procula

Daniel

Gideon

Jacob (Israel), son of Isaac

Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob)

Joel

Joseph, Husband of Mary

Solomon—King of Israel

Chapter 2  Entertainment, Literature and Music

James Cameron—Film Director

Johnny Cash—Songwriter and Musician

Billy Joel—Pianist & Songwriter

Michael Murphey—Singer & Songwriter

Robert Louis Stevenson—Author

Danny Thomas—Comedian and Actor

Chapter 3  Science, Math and Medicine

Frederick Banting—Doctor and Scientific Researcher

Niels Bohr—Physicist

Albert Einstein—Theoretical Physicist

Augusto Odone—Lorenzo’s Oil

Otto Loewi—Pharmacologist

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev—Chemist & Inventor

Srinivasa Ramanujan—Mathematician

August Kekulé—Chemist

Chapter 4  Technical Inventions and Discoveries

Professor Hermann Volrath Hilprecht—Assyriologist and Archaeologist

Elias Howe—Machinist and Inventor

David Parkinson—Engineer

Madam C. J. Walker—Entrepreneur

Chapter 5  Dream Quotes

About the Author

Resources

Bibliography

To Humanity

Afflatus n. Communication of supernatural knowledge, divine impulse, poetic or other inspiration.

Preface

Saint Augustine’s conversion to Christianity is often pinpointed to a moment in a garden when a child’s voice said, Take and read. My Augustine moment (though it did not involve conversion) was when a spirit guide seemed to compel me to take up my Oxford English Dictionary and read it. On the page on which I opened it, the word afflatus leapt out at me. I immediately felt that I was being urged to research the connotations of this word and to write about them, with the goal of helping impress upon people the importance of being aware of the hidden spiritual influence active in our daily lives.

In the following pages I present a collection of historical events demonstrating how spiritual intervention, especially in the form of dreams, has shaped these events.

The intent of this book is to inspire the reader to pursue the insight, guidance and ideas that may be transmitted to them within their receptive sleep state, to prompt them to pursue their heart’s passion. The stories within the following pages are about ordinary people who achieved extraordinary things through insights revealed in their dreams.

This is not a book telling you how to interpret your dreams. As my spirit guide explained to me, the meaning of symbols in dreams is mostly subjective, and interpretations differ. For example, to one person a dog may represent a loyal and loving companion, whereas to another, it may represent fear and terrorism, as with the psychic Englishman, Chris Robinson, who in his dreams foresaw IRA terrorist attacks symbolized as dogs.

Thousands of years before the first books of the Bible were written, there are records of dreams having been a source of divine and creative impulses to urge humanity to greater levels of awareness, to initiate discoveries, to develop inventions, and to offer protection and guidance on one’s spiritual path toward the soul’s divine purpose and that of humanity. Ancient tribal priests, medicine men or shamans often used dreams in which to foretell the fortunes and direct the travels of nomadic tribes to ensure their survival and safe journey.

A fourth century writer, Synesius of Cyrene, emphasized the value of dreams, declaring: We do not sleep merely to live, but to learn to live well.

There is a Buddhist proverb that when the student is ready the teacher appears. And so it appears that divine gnostic inspiration comes to those who are at the right point in their soul’s evolution and when the evolution of the world favors reception of such inspiration. Such people will fertilize the seed that is planted within their minds in the receptive dream state. It should also be noted that when such timing is right, there is usually more than one receptive person ready to receive such input.

Early Greek philosophers acknowledged that the order and harmony of the universe offered meaning, yet required explanation. In the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas postulated an intention—that natural bodies act as if directed in an orderly plan so as to obtain the best result. However, as natural bodies lack consciousness, they cannot be the source of that intention. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God. (Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas, pt. I, ques. II, art. 3.)

Seventeenth century physicist and mathematician, Isaac Newton, similarly believed that the solar system appeared too considered to be the result of random forces:

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (1687), bk. III, General Scholium.)

A similar view was shared by the eighteenth century English scientist, Robert Boyle, who articulated:

The excellent contrivance of that great system of the world, and especially the curious fabric of the bodies of the animals and the uses of their senses and other parts, have been made the great motives that in all ages and nations induced philosophers to acknowledge a Deity as the author of these admirable structures. (A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things, in Works by Robert Boyle (London, 1744), vol. 4, p. 522.)

There is also the tenet that we are all interconnected and that our purpose and plan exist on the astral level. This is expressed in what nineteenth century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung describes as the Collective Unconscious, from which we obtain archetypal images that we can all symbolically relate to. Earlier, the term Collective Consciousness was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his Division of Labour in Society in 1893, which defined shared beliefs functioning as a unifying force within society.

Throughout history, many scientific discoveries occurred as the result of data being timely released from the spiritual consciousness, much like an ovum from the ovaries ready for conception, into the awareness of those whose minds were fertile—at a stage of personal development ripened to receive such information. An example of this can be seen in the English physicist and mathematician, Isaac Newton, and the German mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who independently developed a complex system of mathematical calculation called infinitesimal calculus—the mathematical study of change.

Leibniz first applied his method of integral calculus on November 11, 1675 to determine the area under the graph of a function y = f(x), but did not publish his calculus until 1684.

Meanwhile, Newton had discovered his theory of fluxional calculus (his term for differential calculus) in 1665. Newton’s Method of Fluxions was completed in 1671 and published posthumously in 1736.

Newton soon alleged that Leibniz had stolen ideas from his unpublished notes, which Newton had shared with members of the Royal Society. Leibniz, however, had developed his infinitesimal calculus independently, using distinctly different notations to those of Newton.

In 1699, members of the Royal Society formally accused Leibniz of plagiarism; and in 1711 announced that, from a study, Newton was the true discoverer of calculus, and labeled Leibniz a fraud.

Whether this was accepted or not, Leibniz’s notation was widely used, and his method came to be preferred over that of Newton’s.

Another example can be found in the invention and development of the blast furnace. In 1847, an American metallurgist and inventor, William Kelly, experimented with his air-boiling process. By 1851, he had produced steel by blasting air through molten pig iron (product of smelting iron ore with carbon).

Shortly after Kelly had announced his invention, British Engineer Henry Bessemer also declared that he had developed an economic method of producing steel, using a pre-heated blast of oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron, creating steel which could be transferred onto giant rollers. On August 24, 1856, Bessemer explained his process, which he titled The Manufacture of Iron without Fuel, at a meeting of the British Association in Cheltenham, England. This became known as the Bessemer process and Henry Bessemer was credited with its discovery.

Scottish engineer and inventor, James Nasmyth, had also been independently developing a similar method for the conversion of iron prior to the release of Bessemer’s process, but delayed patenting his work as he was still refining his method. After Nasmyth heard Bessemer’s presentation at the meeting of the British Association, he decided to abandon his work and retire.

Publication is the usual method of establishing priority, i.e. who got there first. Scottish chemist, Archibald Scott Couper, published his "New Chemical Theory" in detailed form, in French and English, in August 1858.

He had earlier entrusted his paper to Charles Adolphe Wurtz for presentation at the French Academy. However, Wurtz procrastinated in delivering the paper, so it was not presented to the Academy until three weeks after German chemist, August Kekulé, had presented a similar account in May 1858 and was, therefore, credited with discovering the chemical structure of benzene.

Serbian inventor and electrical engineer, Nikola Tesla, had been conducting experiments in telephony and electrical fields prior to immigrating to the United States in 1884. Tesla is best known for inventing alternating current (AC) power, the main source of transmissible energy today.

In 1891 Tesla began research into radio communication. By July the same year, he had invented the Tesla coil, a resonant transformer producing high voltage, low current, high frequency AC electricity, which proved ideal for wireless telegraphy. The following year, Tesla presented a lecture called Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency at the Institution of Electrical Engineers of London, in which he announced messages could be wirelessly transmitted.

Concurrently, Oliver Lodge, a British physicist, inventor and spiritualist, had also been conducting independent research in wireless telegraphy. Lodge delivered a lecture on the work of Hertz in transmitting and receiving radio pulses at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on August 14, 1894 at Oxford University—and transmitted radio signals as a demonstration of their potential for communication. In 1898, Lodge was granted British patent number 11,575, "Improvement in Syntonized Telegraphy without Line Wires, for a device he called a syntonic tuner", a wireless transmitter and receiver system.

On March 13, 1895, Tesla was readying to transmit a radio signal over a distance of approximately 50 miles to West Point, NY, when a fire broke out in his laboratory, destroying all of his work.

New Zealander Ernest Rutherford—first Baron Rutherford of Nelson—also contributed to the development of radio. In 1895 he was awarded an Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Scholarship to Cambridge and began researching wireless radio waves as a method for signaling. He briefly held the record (half a mile) for distance over which radio waves could be detected. He lost the record to an Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi.

Marconi had been conducting his own communication experiments for some time. At the age of 21 he carried out his first successful trial by sending wireless signals between rooms in the attic of his father’s Villa Griffone in Pontecchio, Italy. Unable to locally source financial backing for his discovery to further his work, Marconi then traveled to England—encouraged by Annibale Ferrero, the Italian Ambassador in London—in the hope of seeking greater opportunity.

In 1896, Marconi sent and received Morse code-based radio signals reaching up to four miles in England. Later that year, he publicly revealed a device in London, asserting it was his invention. However, the apparatus resembled Tesla’s own research and patent descriptions. Marconi filed a patent of his model with the British Patent Office on June 2, 1896, and was granted a patent for radio with British patent No. 12,039, Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals and in Apparatus There-for.

In July 1897, Marconi carried out a series of tests at La Spezia for the Italian government. On September 2 the same year, Tesla applied for two United States radio patents. Then in 1898, Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio controlled boat, which provided closed communication between transmitter and receiver, at Madison Square Garden.

In 1900, the US Patent Office granted Tesla US patent number 645,576 for a System of Transmission of Electrical Energy on March 20; and US patent number 649,621, for an Apparatus for Transmission of Electrical Energy on May 15—the fundamental design of the Tesla coil.

On April 26, 1900, Marconi filed British patent No. 7777 for "Improvements in Apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy." Initially the Patent Office denied Marconi’s application on the basis that his work relied upon using Tesla coils. Marconi later used this system for transmitting and receiving wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time on December 12, 1901, between Poldhu, Cornwall, and St. John’s, Newfoundland—a distance of 2,100 miles. Upon hearing of this achievement, Tesla promptly protested that Marconi had done so by using many of his own patents. This event then instigated many years of patent battles over who had actually invented radio.

American physicist, mathematician and inventor, John Stone Stone (John S. Stone), was also influential in developing wireless communication around this period. Circa 1902-1903, Stone was granted a number of patents for a system of wireless telegraphy that was free from interference.

Then in 1915, Tesla unsuccessfully sued the Marconi Company for its earlier patent infringement.

In a strange twist of fate, many years later, Marconi’s company litigated against the US government for infringement of his US patent number 763,772 during World War I (Marconi Wireless Tel. Co. v. United States—320 U.S. 1).

On June 21, 1943, the US Supreme Court upheld patent number 645,576, meritoriously reinstating Tesla as the inventor of the radio. Tesla, however, did not live to see this victory, having died a few months earlier.

Similarly, in 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev (aka Mendeleyev) discovered the structure of the Periodic Table of the Elements. A year later, a similar vertical table was published by German chemist, Julius Lothar von Meyer. This was a revised version of his horizontal tables of 1862 and 1864. However, the fact that Mendeleev was able to use his table to forecast the existence of unknown elements and to correct erroneous atomic weights led to him being usually credited as the inventor of the periodic table.

Mendeleev had earlier investigated the expansion of liquids with heat and devised a formula for it similar to Gay-Lussac’s law of the uniformity of the expansion of gases. Mendeleev discovered that every gas has a critical temperature above which no quantity of pressure can convert it into liquid. Unfortunately, in 1869 this discovery was credited to Irish chemist Thomas Andrews, who had discovered critical temperature two years after Mendeleev’s findings.

There are also numerous examples where the spirits of famous people have used the living as mediums to complete or continue their creative works. Such was the case with Rosemary Brown, Coral Polge, and Jocopo Alighieri.

Rosemary Brown, a British medium born in 1916, declared that, when she was seven, a spirit appeared to her with long white hair and wearing a full-length black cassock. He told young Rosemary he was a composer who would one day make her a famous musician. Then, at the age of ten, Rosemary came across a picture of Hungarian composer Hans Liszt and recognized him immediately as the ghost who had earlier appeared to her. Many years passed. Then, in 1948, Rosemary began the study of piano.

Eventually, in 1964, Liszt appeared again to Rosemary, and she began channeling music from not only Liszt but also other famous composers and musicians who wanted to work through her.

English medium and psychic artist, Coral Polge, born in 1924, had trained as a commercial artist at a time when most advertisements appearing in newspapers were still hand-drawn. Polge later joined a spiritualist church and began developing latent medium abilities. Soon she was motivated to draw a picture of the man who presented himself to her as her artistic guide. This spirit was a famous French portrait artist named Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788). Coral soon began drawing pictures of those people she felt in spirit. Comparing later her drawings with photographs, the likeness was extraordinary. Her book Living Images demonstrated her remarkable ability to provide proof of survival as she sketched the likeness in spirit of those whom she had channeled.

The epic poem Divine Comedy was reportedly given to Dante Alighieri in a dream on Good Friday in AD 1300. Originally titled just Comedy, it was christened Divine by Giovanni Boccaccio, but the appellation was not used on published versions until a 1555 printed version. After Alighieri’s death, circa AD 1321, a section of the allegory manuscript was lost. His son, Jocopo, later found the missing section after his father came to him in a dream providing him instruction on where to search for it.

In the following pages is a collection of stories about people who have been influenced and inspired by the divine gnostic guidance, knowledge and creative ideas transmitted and received within their dreams.

An elemental influence known as—Afflatus.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my spirit guides and Archangel Michael for helping me on my journey, often fraught with sabotage and strife, which has formed part of the divine plan of my life, bringing me to where I am today. I also extend my gratitude to my exceptional editor, Phil Petersen.

Chapter 1

Biblical Dreams

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

—Acts 15:18

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

—Acts 2:17, Joel 2:28-30

The Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant Bibles are collections of what were originally a number of independent books written by various authors in different languages. They were referred to as The Holy Scriptures, which are the inspired Word of God, also known as The Holy Bible.

The Holy Bible is a canonical collection of texts considered sacred in Judaism or Christianity. Different religious groups included different books within their canons, in varying order, dividing or combining books or incorporating additional material. Christian Bibles range from the 66 books of the Protestant canon to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon.

The English word bible is derived through Latin from the Greek word bi.bli’a, meaning little books. This is further derived from bi’blos, a word describing the inner portion of the papyrus plant from which the early form of paper was created. Gebal, an ancient Phoenician seaport famous for making and exporting papyrus paper, was called Byblos by the Greeks.

The Bible is divided into two sections. The Old Testament, which details events from the beginning of creation until just prior to the birth of Jesus, was written in Hebrew and Aramaic from 1513 BC to 443 BC, and contains 39 books. It was written by numerous scribes, or authors, beginning with Moses in 1513 BC and ending with Nehemiah and Malachi in 443 BC. The Protestant Old Testament is identical with the Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh, which includes the Five Books of Moses (the Torah = teaching or law), as well as the Nevi’im (books of the prophets) and the Ketuvim (writings). This was followed by a large gap of around five hundred years, until the apostle Matthew recorded his historic account—along with Paul, Luke, James, Mark, Peter, Jude, and John.

The second half of the Christian Bible is the New Testament, containing 27 books: the four canonical gospels describing the life and teachings of Jesus; Acts of the Apostles telling of the early times of the Christian Church under the apostles; 21 epistles or letters, mainly written by Paul but also by James, Peter, John and Jude; and the book of Revelation, largely a prophetic description of the end times. This was written in Greek some 500-600 years after the Old Testament, in the first and second centuries AD.

Therefore, the Bible was written over a period of 1600 to 1700 years. No other book in history has taken so long to complete.

All Scripture is inspired of God. This expression is translated from the Greek phrase theópneustos, meaning God breathed or God inspired. By breathing on faithful men, God caused his spirit, or force, to become operative within them and directed what he wanted recorded. God