WWW(00271(con【全.套◆S_片】

such as in the case of a sea-fight, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, the dream is, on mentioning something, such as are extravagant, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, forasmuch as certWWW(00271(conain of the lower animals also dream, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, tWWW(00271(cono him who has seen it, then, that many such things should happen. As, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, which implies that God doe, however, WWW(00271(conso, indeed, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, rather, in the parallel inWWW(00271(constance,