The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- can lead a person through veneration and deification to unforgettable experiences no matter what kind of idol it is, but we must make sure that our idols are not earthly people (singers, actors, statesmen etc.), since a fall of the venerated (through mistakes, affairs, moral lapses) pulls down the venerating individual with him.
- of an animal: instincts related to the animal depicted by the idol are the leading principle.
