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for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, to him who has seen it, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, such as in the case of a sea-fight, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, then, rather, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, in the parallel instance,xtravagant, or of things taking227226(COM place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, indeed, 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: th227226(COMe power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons, however, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, so, that many such things should happen. As, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, one’s m227226(COMentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, the dream is, on mentioning something, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] ful227226(COMfilment,