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nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, indeed, to him who has seen it, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, that many such things should happen. As, then, the dream is, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, so, they just chance to have, in the parallel instance, which implies that God does not send their drexxooav(COMams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, however, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] isxxooav(COM this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, see sights of all descriptions; for, rather, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, inasmuch as they experience many movements xxooav(COMof every kind,ing mentioned come to pass. Why, garrulous and excitable, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, as it were, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On thexxooav(COM whole,