The Seven Groups of Dreamers of Mankind

All the dreamers of mankind are divided into seven groups, each having their own specific rate of vibration. These groups are known by many names, but in terms of the Toltec teachings, they are termed the Lions, the Elephants, the Tigers, the Bears, the Foxes, the Wolves, and the Dragons. The rate of vibration pertaining to each group is technically speaking not a single vibration, but rather a spectrum of allied frequencies grouped together into one overall band, which we loosely term the vibration of a group. This vibration, when seen by a seer, creates the visual impact of a specific colour, and hence we speak of the dreamer’s colour.

Depending upon the individual, the actual shade of this colour will be determined by which frequency he or she may be using within the greater band. If, for example, a certain group has that band which is expressed through the colour red, one member of that group could have the colour of light pink, another could have plain red, whilst yet another could have dark crimson, or even a red which is so dark as to appear almost black.  As expressed by the Toltec teachings, it is the rate of vibration, or the colour of the group, which determines both the intent and the purpose of a group of dreamers, and it is this intent and purpose that is responsible for the moulding of individual destiny.

Therefore apprentices on the Path of Freedom working under the guidance of a Toltec nagal all belong to the same group as the nagal, for it stands to reason that the nagal’s destiny must coincide with that of his apprentices. Therefore, generally speaking, a nagal is not permitted to have personal apprentices other than those which belong to his own group.

Here, a word of caution is urged for those readers who are versed in the esoteric and occult literature. Do not try to equate the Toltec rendition of the dreamer with the systems used in esoteric schools of thought. Toltecs have their own classification, which is unlike any other, in that it is based entirely upon their knowledge of the interrelationship of life, and not, as is so often the case in many schools of esoteric thought, upon the separation of the unit from the greater whole. Because of this fact, the classification of the Toltec teachings is in many respects extremely simple at face value but, on the other hand, also highly involved in a most profound sense. The reader is therefore advised to accept the information given here as merely the basis for a working hypothesis. In time, as you acquire proficiency in the art of dreaming, you will be in a position to discover for yourself the true nature of the deeper implications of this information.

The Dreaming Classes

The Colours of the Seven Dreaming Classes

People all too often make the mistake of guessing which Dreaming Class they belong to. Since this can cause the student concerned considerable difficulties, Toltecs believe that it is not wise to reveal which colour belongs to which Dreaming Class. Similarly, it is equally unwise to fixate upon any of the colours merely because of personal appeal. It is far safer and wiser for the student to find his or her own dreaming colour through the practice of Dreaming, and then to ascertain for him or herself to which Dreaming Class this colour belongs.

The Images and Descriptions below have been chosen to convey a feeling for each of the Dreaming Classes.

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LIONS: I Act

Plate II from the portfolio Creation and Death by Fritz Schwimbeck

"The wind of God, His breath divine, sweeps through the garden....... Low lie the flowers. Bending, the trees are devastated by the wind. Destruction of all beauty is followed by the rain. The sky is black. Ruin is seen. Then death.........

Later another garden! But the time seems far away. Call for a gardener. The gardener, the soul, responds. Call for the rain, the wind, the scorching sun. Call for the gardener. Then let the work go on. Ever destruction goes before the rule of beauty. Ruin precedes the real. The garden and the gardener must awake! The work proceeds."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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ELEPHANTS: I Love

The Penitent Magdalene by Donatello

"He stores the nuggets of the knowledge as a squirrel stores its nuts. The storehouse now is adequately full....... Suddenly a spade descends, for the thinker tends the garden of his thought, and thus destroys the passages of mind. Ruin arrives, destroying fast the storehouse of the mind, the safe security,
the darkness and the warmth of a satisfied enquiry. All is removed. The light of summer enters in and the darkened crannies of the mind see light....... Naught is left but light, and that cannot be used. The eyes are blinded and the one eye seeth not as yet.......

Slowly the eye of wisdom must be opened. Slowly the love of that which is true, the beautiful and good must enter the dark passages of worldly thought. Slowly the torch of light, the fire of right must burn the garnered treasures of the past, yet show their basic usefulness......

The seven ways of light must wean away the attention of the Scholar from all that has been found and stored and used. This he repulses and finds his way into the Hall of Wisdom which is built upon a hill, and not deep under ground. Only the opened eye can find the way."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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TIGERS: I Think

David by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

"Loud voices, and a movement from outside the darkened chamber where the Weaver sits; they grow in volume and in power. A window breaks and, though the Weaver cries aloud, blinded by the sudden light, the sun shines in upon his woven carpet. Its ugliness is thus revealed....

A voice proclaims: 'Look from out thy window, Weaver, and see the pattern in the skies, the model of the plan, the colour and the beauty of the whole. Destroy the carpet which you have for ages wrought. It does not meet your need........ Then weave again, Weaver. Weave in the light of day. Weave, as you see the plan.'"

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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BEARS: I Battle

Detail from The Agony in the Garden by El Greco

"But crashing came a note of music, a chord of sound which drove the Mixer of sweet sounds to quiet. His sounds died out within the Sound and only the great chord of God was heard. A flood of light poured in. His colours faded out. Around him naught but darkness could be seen, yet in the distance loomed the light of God. He stood between his nether darkness and the blinding light. His world in ruins lay around. His friends were gone. Instead of harmony, there was dissonance. Instead of beauty, there was found the darkness of the grave........

The voice then chanted forth these words: 'Create again, my child, and build and paint and blend the tones of beauty, but this time for the world and not thyself.' The Mixer started then his work anew and worked again."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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FOXES: I Plan

The Incantation by Francisco Goya

"Through the opening on the summit of the pyramid, dropped from the blue of heaven, a key came down. It landed at the feet of the discouraged worker. The key was of pure gold; the shaft of light; upon the key a label, and writ in blue, these words: 'Destroy that which thou has built and build anew. But only build when thou has climbed the upward way, traversed the gallery of tribulation and entered into light within the chamber of the king. Build from the heights, and thus show forth the value of the depths.'

The Worker then destroyed the objects of his previous toil, sparing only three treasures which he knew were good, and upon which the light could shine. He struggled towards the chamber of the king. And still he struggles."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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WOLVES: I Feel

The Awakening Captive by Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Another pilgrim in the dark came up, and groping, found the Follower. 'Lead me and others to the Light,' he cried. The Follower found no words, no indicated Leader, no formulas of truth, no forms or ceremonies. He found himself a leader, and drew others to the light - the light that shone on every hand. He worked and struggled forward. His hand held others, and for their sake he hid his shame, his fear, his hopelessness and his despair. He uttered words of surety and faith in life, and light and God, in love and understanding.......

His tunnel disappeared. He noticed not its loss. Upon the playground of the world he stood with many fellow-players, wide to the light of day. In the far distance stood a mountain blue, and from its summit issued forth a voice which said: 'Come forward to the mountain top and on its summit learn the invocation of a Saviour.' To this great task the Follower, now a leader, bent his energies. He still pursues this way......."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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DRAGONS: I Conjour

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun by William Blake

"Above the head of the Magician, and just behind his back, and yet within the room of ordered beauty, a magnet vast began to oscillate....... It caused the revolution of the man, within the arch, which tottered to a future fall. The magnet turned him round until he faced the scene and room, unseen before.......

Then through the centre of his heart the magnet poured its force attractive. The magnet poured its force repulsive. It reduced the chaos until its forms no longer could be seen. Some aspects of a beauty, unrevealed before, emerged. And from the room a light shone forth and, by its powers and life, forced the Magician to move forward into light, and leave the arch of peril."

Extract from 'Seven Stanzas' by Djwhal Khul

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