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so, that many such things should happen. As, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
Chapter 2
On the whole, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, such as in the case of a sea-fight, which implies that God does not send their dream, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, the dream is, one’s mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause ofn97 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, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foren97seeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no ‘fulfilment’, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, in the parallel instance, then, it may be concludn97ed that dreams are not sent by God, rather, indeed, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, however,nd those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, to him who has seen it, on mentioning somn97ething,