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First, the dream. Ruburt saw you and he standing in the middle of an infinite plain of sand. The sands were marked with names and messages. To the left and to the right there were mountains of sand. To the left he saw people approaching the sands upon which he stood. To the right people were leaving the plains of sand, yet the plain itself was empty, filled only with the messages that were written there.
All was silence. You and he were about to step out upon the plain, and he held back because he did not want to disturb the messages.
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Now the plain was empty. The people coming in from the left represented later generations, in your terms, who had not yet arrived at the plain. The people to the right were those who had already passed beyond it. The plain was empty because it was the repository of ideas. The ideas had been put there by those who had already left.
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Now. There is also a symbolism here with the parting of the waters, a silence and abeyance, a hush. He sees you standing in the middle. See now the empty plain, as a scooped-out and hollow place from which the water has fled. The sand mountains to the left and right.
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There are others behind you that Ruburt never saw, for you are not alone, nor the only ones involved. The dream was a statement of the situation and of his position. The next one will begin as he is bold enough to walk out upon the plain with you.
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The people represent those who still have past and future lives in your terms. Your development now will be different. Your challenge and responsibility is also different. For you must go across that plain of ideas, you see, transposing others, and you must go together. And while there are others, you will not be aware of them. You will not have them, in your time, for comfort, and so it will seem to you that you are alone, and that you are set apart from those both coming and going.
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(To me.) You will experience your own version in your own way, and your own statement of your situation, Joseph. The whole sand of the plain also represented then a page that must be entirely rewritten.
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