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on mentioning something,as mere coincidences, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person’s presenting himself, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, then, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of WWW(81caoforeseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, to him who has seen it, the dream is, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, especially all such as are extravagant, so, however, in the parallel instance, foWWW(81caor coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, indeed, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, such as in thWWW(81caoe case of a sea-fight, that many such things should happen. As, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, rather, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulWWW(81caofilment,