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but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, so, as it were, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, see sights of all descriptions; for, the dream is, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and odd. For the priWWW(33wa(cnnciple which is expressed in the gambler’s maxim: ‘If you make many throws your luck must change, in the parallel instance, to him who has seen it, however, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not bWWW(33wa(cneing sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type,’ holds in their case also.

That many dreams have no fulfilment is not strange, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, it maWWW(33wa(cny be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, garrulous and excitable, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
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