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finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why,extravagant, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, the dream is, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, on mentioning something, however, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenevWWW(aynnner a person, that many such things should happen. As, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, so, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
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