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for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, to be classed as mere coincidences, especially all such as are extravagant, that many such things should happen. As, the dream is, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, in the parallel instance, though not itself divine. A , however, however, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, neither token nor cause of its [so-calle76d] fulfilment, such as in the case of a sea-fight, so, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, on mentioning something, indeed, or of things taking 76place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, to him who has seen it,e conceivable that some dreams may be tokens and causes [of future events].

Mo76st [so-called prophetic] dreams are, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, rather, then, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, should this not happen also in sleep? The probab76ility is,