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Nerval, Gerard de - 01 La Reve et Vie

Identifier

013736

Type of Spiritual Experience

Background

My translation

A description of the experience

La Reve et Vie

Le Rêve est une seconde vie. Je n'ai pu percer sans frémir ces portes d'ivoire ou de corne qui nous séparent du monde invisible.
Les premiers instants du sommeil sont l'image de la mort ; un engourdissement nébuleux saisit notre pensée, et nous ne pouvons déterminer l'instant précis où le moi, sous une autre forme, continue l'oeuvre de l'existence. C'est un souterrain vague qui s'éclaire peu à peu, et où se dégagent de l'ombre et de la nuit les pâles figures gravement immobiles qui habitent le séjour des limbes.

Puis le tableau se forme, une clarté nouvelle illumine et fait jouer ces apparitions bizarres ; le monde des Esprits s'ouvre pour nous.
Swedenborg appelait ces visions Memorabilia ; il les devait à la rêverie plus souvent qu'au sommeil ; l'Âne d'or d'Apulée, la Divine Comédie du Dante, sont les modèles poétiques de ces études de l'âme humaine. Je vais essayer, à leur exemple, de transcrire les impressions d'une longue maladie qui s'est passée tout entière dans les mystères de mon esprit ; et je ne sais pourquoi je me sers de ce terme maladie, car jamais, quant à ce qui est de moi-même, je ne me suis senti mieux portant. Parfois, je croyais ma force et mon activité doublées ; il me semblait tout savoir, tout comprendre ; l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues ?...

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The Dream is a second life. I could not pierce these ivory or horn doors that separate us from the invisible world without shuddering.
The first moments of sleep are the image of death; a nebulous numbness captures our thoughts, and we can determine the precise moment when the self, in another form, continues the work of existence.
It is an underground wave that gradually lights and where emerge from the shadow of the pale night, serious, motionless figures that inhabit the stay of limbo.

Then the tableau forms, a new light plays on and animates these bizarre apparitions; the spirit world opens for us.

Memorabilia Swedenborg called these visions; he had to daydream more often than sleep.

The Golden Ass of Apuleius, Divine Comedy of Dante, are poetic models of these studies of
the human soul.

I'll try, using their example, to transcribe my impressions of a long illness that during its course revealed the mysteries of my mind; and I know not why I am using this term disease, for as to me, I have never felt in better health.

Sometimes I felt full of energy and my activity doubled; sometimes I seemed to know everything, to understand everything; imagination brought me endless delights.

In recovering that which men call reason, will he regret having ever lost it? ...

The source of the experience

Nerval, Gerard de

Concepts, symbols and science items

Concepts

Spirit

Symbols

Door
Twin horns

Science Items

Activities and commonsteps

Commonsteps

References