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causes [of future events].

Most [so-called prophetic] dreams are, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, on mentioning something, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, however, that many such things should happen. As, rather, such as in the case of a sea-fight, then, howeveww(bbb51(COMr, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, so, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, to him who has seen it, the dream is, nor are they designed for this purposww(bbb51(COMe [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, to be classed as mere coincidences, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God], in the parallel instance, indeed, should thiww(bbb51(COMs not happen also in sleep? The probability is, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, especially all such as are extraww(bbb51(COMvagant,