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nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, e.g. those of train , inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, as it were, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and odd. For the principle which is expressed in the gambler’s maxim: ‘If you make many throws your luck must change, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or gener160job(COMal law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, however, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, see sights of all descriptions; for, 160job(COMthough 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,e fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, garrulous and ex160job(COMcitable, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is,’ holds in their case also.

That many dreams have no fulfilment is not strange, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weathe160job(COMr-signs,